Jaded Hearts by Harper Sloan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Jaded heart how you will see. Once the fog rolls away, it was all just a fantasy. This heart jaded, never had to be. ~Jamie Ellen Christian

The best love is often the one that is unexpected, a firestorm of feels you never saw coming but one that steals your heart…your body…your soul. Books are like love; we get lost in them. We feel them. We live in them. Harper Sloan threw a curveball my way in a love story that rocked my world, one I did not see coming, but one where I INSTANTLY FELL HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE. Jaded Hearts stole my heart in a romantic rocker story full of smolder, swoon, and soul!

I plunged myself into Jaded Hearts with an itch that only a rock star story could scratch. This book buzzed with excitement, Jaded Hearts an enticing and edgy tale that I devoured with the hunger of a groupie at a concert. Pulse pounding like a drum. Body buzzing like a guitar. Emotions flowing like a moving melody. Soul singing to the music of this masterpiece.

Jaded Hearts buzzed with brilliance and hummed with heart. The words seduced me, lyrics of love that danced on my heart and sent my soul soaring to heaven, as I felt the music and magic of Jaded Hearts move through every part of me. I WAS ALL IN AND I WANTED TO STAY.

Wrenlee Davenport, the beautiful singer of Loaded Replay, is jaded. The fiery redhead with piercing blue eyes is done with people using her, those who only see the voice and not the person.

No man has been worthy of a piece of Wren’s heart…no man until tall and muscular, dark-haired, blue-green-eyed, all-alpha god, Chance Nash, stormed into her life as her security guard. What Wren may need guarding the most is her heart as it beat for Chance from the start, an attraction beyond physical desire.

“You don’t want to go down that road, Wren. I’ll protect you from the world, but you need to protect yourself from me.”

Despite the intense attraction to the beautiful singing goddess Chance was hired to protect, he must keep his head in the game and fight the force of combustible chemistry that ignites like fire between them. Wren wants Chance, the first man who sees Wren along with Wrenlee.

“Oh, Chance, you won’t win. You might think you will, but mark my words, I will have you, and you’re going to love it. Every. Single. Second.”

Oh now I wanted to be besties with Wren, one of the most badass heroines I could not help but love! This bold woman with brass balls is simply brilliant! Wren is determined to have this man who is slowly picking up the pieces of her jaded heart and making it whole.

“His mouth opens, and his tongue meets mine, no hesitation whatsoever, as he deepens the kiss.”

That kiss is the turning point. That passion permeates through them…through me…one so physically strong and heartfelt that it can’t be denied. Wren finally sees a man who wants her for Wren, the woman, not Wrenlee the singer…and she needs to convince Chance to take a chance on her…on love…and cure each other’s jaded hearts.

“Both of us wear the jaded scars of our past.”

Chance’s resolve is crumbling, Wren is breaking down his walls. Chance is woven in Wren’s web, and there is no going back. Oh did this book burn with passion and bleed with angst!

“The second I feel your body ripple against my c**k, you will be mine, Wrenlee…If we’re taking a gamble together, it’s all in, or we fold before the call.”

I. WAS. ON. FIRE and Chance was the heat!!! Oh did Chance, this amazing all-alpha, melt me from head to toe. The heat set me ablaze, as I burned along with this sweet, sensual and seductive story.

“You’re going to destroy me.”

“We’re going to destroy each other and then put the pieces back together, so there aren’t any more cracks.”

Wren knows what…who…she wants and that’s Chance. Her jaded heart is ready to become whole. Wren is ready to take a chance on Chance and not let the one man who sees the woman and not just the rock star go.

“You’re going to be my undoing, Wren.”

I fell fast and hard for all-alpha, Chance, and beautiful and badass, Wren. I fell fast and hard for the secondary characters, the bandmates that included Wren’s brother and childhood friends. I fell fast and hard for Jaded Hearts, a fairy tale of a rocker romance where Cinderella grabs her Prince, and they rescue each other. I fell fast for Harper Sloan’s wondrous words as this author’s books only get better and better. I FELL FAST AND HARD…JADED HEARTS AND ALL!

Jaded Hearts is one enticing, edgy, emotionally-entwined tale of unexpected love. Oh did I LOVE EVERY MINUTE! Harper Sloan thrust me into the thrilling music scene, painting a vivid picture where I went on a virtual tour with the band, feeling the rush in a music world that became my world too. Jaded Hearts was PURE MAGIC—penned and painted to perfection—in a movie that played in my head while reading.

I smoldered. I sweated. I swooned. I felt this love story too. Jaded Hearts melted my heart with magic in a book that is UTTER BRILLIANCE. The perfect fusion of heat and heart in a hit of a rocker romance, Jaded Hearts ROCKED MY WORLD. My heart is now a bit jaded in that I have to say goodbye to this spellbinding rock star romance.

★★★★★ magically ‘must take a chance’ loaded stars

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Signing with Brighthouse Records was supposed to be everything we ever wanted—our better life. Our chance at everything we never had but always wanted. All our dreams would finally come true and we were on top of the world. It was our chance at the happiness we never had in life.

Our every desire was at our fingertips and the power of that feeling was all consuming. But then it took every dream we thought would come true and it slapped us in the face with the cold hard reality.

Dreams were just that…something that floated on the cusp of untouchable, taunting you with every graze of your fingertips before slipping even further away.

Happiness…that feeling is a joke.

In the end it became painfully obvious that each of us would always have each other, but we would forever be alone.

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Endurance by Georgia Cates

I absolutely ADORED the Sin trilogy and all its raw power and intensity. With Endurance, Georgia has matched it ALL and delivered WAY more than I could have imagined in Jamie and Ellison’s story..

From the very first page to the last Georgia wove a tale of angst, sex, sin, danger and forbidden love. 

Jamie and Ellison are like dynamite. A first initial strike was all it took for me to light up and burn with them. I sizzled as their wicked hot connection oozed from the pages. Everything went BANG! as Jamie and Ellison came together and refused to deny their feelings. The forbidden lust could be felt through the whole book, as it developed into an all consuming love that I would love! I mean Endurance. Proving his love. Give me a Jamie. RIGHT FREAKING NOW!

Jamie is raw, powerful, skilled and OH. SO. HOT. A protective alpha through and through. My love for him only grew with each page turned. I felt his love, I understood his concern over Ellison, no matter how sharp, sassy and sexy she was. 

Throw in the danger and suspense and of course, more Sin and Sophie was a very happy bunny! 

Endurance is simply not only good. Its, splendid. Spectacular. Sensational.

And worth ALL THE STARS!

I’m a doctor. Mobster. Killer.

My hands are covered in filth. I don’t have the right to touch anything as clean and pure as Ellison MacAllister.

I distance myself … always remaining obscure, composed, restrained.

Careful to never allow my eyes to linger too long.

Careful to hide my interest.

Careful to keep my burning desire buried beneath the surface.

I do it for her–suffer in silence–because it’s what is best for the woman I love.

And she has no idea.

She’ll be initiated as a Fellowship member soon. One of my mafia brothers will go through endurance so he’ll earn the right to claim her.

Make her his wife.

Kill. Me. Slowly.

I’m running out of time. Only a month remains before she’s beyond my reach forever.

I want to taste her. Share sleepless nights. Ride out her storm.

I want to give her the kind of nights she will still feel between her legs the next morning.

I want us to share the kind of passion that forms on our skin and drips down to saturate the sheets.

Between the sweat and the moans and the messy hair, I want her to know how hard she’s been loved.

To have her is to taint her.

I should stay away. But I won’t. I can’t.

I’m a selfish bastard.

A selfish bastard in love.

***Intended for readers ages 18+ due to sexual content, adult situations, and language.

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Endurance is a STANDALONE novel. It is the first spinoff of The Fellowship world introduced in The Sin Trilogy: A Necessary Sin, The Next Sin, One Last Sin.

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★★★ EXCERPT ★★★

Ellison’s POV

“I’m not as strong as you.” I don’t have an ounce of willpower when it comes to this beautiful man. Even now, I want to plead with him to have me. To claim me. To take me into the bedroom and make me scream his name over and over.

“I’m not as strong as you think.”

“You were strong enough to tell me no.” I ache in my chest as I recall him pushing me away. No man has ever hurt my heart the way Jamie did that day.

“You’re wrong. I’m so damn weak when it comes to you, Ellison.”

We’d be together if that were so. “We’ll have to agree to disagree on that one.”

“The Order takeover is scheduled to happen in three weeks. You’re going to belong to another soon after. And it’s making me lose my fucking mind.”

Is it wrong to be happy to hear him admit he’s going crazy? “You made your decision.”

“What if I don’t want to live the rest of my life not knowing how you look when you wake next to me in the mornings, or how you feel in my arms at night when we fall asleep, or how you smile in your sleep when you’re dreaming of happy things?”

He didn’t mention a word about claiming or marrying me. That means I fall into the third category of females in his precious Fellowship. Fuck-worthy. “You said you wouldn’t taint me.”

“You won’t be considered tainted in the eyes of the brothers if they don’t know we’ve been together. It would have to be our secret.”

We’d be hush-hush, keeping everything we share in the dark . . . like it’s dirty. Like it’s wrong. Like it’s depraved.

So, what? When we’re over, I have to watch him hop from one Fellowship whore to the next because he can never have a wife? I have to pick up my broken heart and simply move on with my husband? I don’t work like that. It’s not in my makeup.

“I deserve better.”

“You deserve the best.” My chest tightens when Jamie repeats the words my father spent years instilling in me.

“You think sneaking around with you behind the backs of the brothers is what I deserve?” I want Jamie but not that way.

“It’s all I’m able to give you right now.”

“But I want more.”

I want his body, but more than that I want his love. I want his forever. My feelings are stronger than ever so what happens when our time together ends and I can’t give him up?

A month with the man I love versus never knowing what it feels like to have him inside me. Never knowing what it feels like to wake with him beside me. Never knowing what it feels like to have him hold me while I fall asleep. It should be a no-brainer . . . except I know me. I’ll fall so deeply in love with him that letting go will wreck me.

“A month together and then we part ways? It’s just not that simple.” It would be excruciating to mourn the loss of him in my life.

“You won’t question how hard you’ve been loved when I’m done.”

When I’m done. I hate those words so much. “Don’t you see? That’s the thing. I don’t want to be done and a month together is only going to solidify that for me.”

“I don’t want to be done either. If I could give you the kind of protection you’ll need, I would claim you today and give you my forever. But I can’t do that, Ellison. It isn’t what’s best for you. And I’d rather not have you than place you in danger because I’m selfish and want you for myself.”

Pucked Under by Helena Hunting

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

That moment when you’re reading a book and the world around you doesn’t exist anymore. Some stories…series…are shut-the-door, shut-off-the-world, do-not-bother me books, ones you know you’ll devour in one sitting. We lose ourselves in these brilliant books; we find ourselves too. I lost myself in Pucked Under by Helena Hunting and did not want to be found. This hockey story, like the series, was…is…my addiction…my ache…my ALL. I. CAN’T. GET. ENOUGH. I’ll never get enough.

Helena Hunting is one of my favorite writers and among my go-to authors FOR LIFE. Her words do so many things to me, melting me from the inside out. I love Helena’s writing so much I would put a ring on it if I could. I’ll just have to settle for dating her brilliant and blissful books, with Pucked Under the latest of crack in my Hunting expedition.

When I need a good laugh, the kind that makes me contemplate slapping on a Depends adult diaper due to the thorough laugh-to-bladder work-out, I’ll grab a Helena Hunting book. I’ll stalk these stories so hard that I could teach those wanna-be Hollywood stalkers outside celebrities’ homes a thing or ten. Once a story from Helena Hunting’s hot and hilarious Pucked series appears on my e-reader, I drop off of the earth or go missing for hours. I may be physically present, but my mind is stuck in a sensational sports series that is my delicious drug.

From the beginning to end, I WAS ALL IN. I was SPELLBOUND…SUNK…as I swiftly succumbed to Pucked Under that stole every piece of me. A big grin quickly formed, spreading across my face. I don’t know if I’ve ever loved a set of characters with charisma in spades—the perfect culmination of humor, heat and heart—as much as I do in this Pucked series. I was elated to be wrapped up in this witty and wonderful writing, a deep sea dive into Pucked Under, part of a hockey series that are not just stories but SO MUCH MORE.

There is no other series that makes me drunk girl giggle like Helena Hunting’s Pucked series and characters. Characters who not just make me laugh but make me LOVE…oh so hard. Characters with charisma in spades. Characters who have burrowed themselves in my heart where they will likely remain forever. Characters so raw and so real they feel like family; they are my family.

Ever since devouring Pucked Over with the hot bearded alpha, Randy ‘Balls’ Ballistic, and his now-girlfriend, the beautiful Lily Le Blanc, I’ve panted for more. Lily is a trip to the amusement park as she channel’s her inner Violet; both are spirit animals. I loved that Lily’s confidence has skyrocketed throughout this series and it’s due to her Balls or Randy worshipping her like the princess she is as she deserves his devotion.

Even after a year, Randy and Lily’s chemistry is still SMOKIN’ HOT and their relationship grows by leaps and bounds. My favorite Pucked heroine, the spitfire, Violet, sums up Randy and Lily’s chemistry perfectly, which has not waned and, if anything, has grown stronger.

“For the love of broken beavers, do you two ever take a break? Seriously. Is your vagina lined with leather? I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if one day your vagina fell right off.”

I can’t help but roll in laughter with nearly every word that wanders out of Violet’s mouth. Her humor knows no bounds…and I love every funny-filled moment!

I loved that the spark that still shoots through Lily and Randy, that passion permeating throughout the pages.

“Randy may be right; he has the incredible ability to get me off with very little physical contact. He’s rather cocky about it…He can make me come just by rubbing up on me. Our chemistry is ridiculous.”

A bit cocky, fun, and blunt like Lily, Randy too is quite the fire cracker with lines laced in lust and laughter. Tall, muscular, bearded and gifted with a magic tongue, Randy is a woman’s wet dream and knight in shining armor rolled into one. I loved his dirty mouth…A LOT.

“You can tell me exactly what you liked best about my eating your pussy in the changing room and if there’s anything you’d want me to do differently next time.”

HOLY. HOT. Barely into the story and I am melting like molten lava. Holy mounds! I’m crowning Balls both King Clit and Magic Button Magician. From being a Chicago baller, Randy definitely knows his way around the Canadian beaver. Lily is one lucky recipient.

As dirty and delicious as Randy’s mouth is on Lily, what pours out of it made me melt in a sugary sweet way.

“Her touch is gentle, soothing. It’s what I need. She’s what I need. Sometimes it makes me nervous how much.”

The softer Randy swathed me in sweetness. I SWOONED HARD. This man is a HOT hockey GOD with a huge HEART that’s unleashed even more in Pucked Under, and I FELL EVEN HARDER FOR RANDY…my Balls for life.

Hot, hilarious, and heartfelt, I thoroughly loved getting Pucked Under. I CRIED HAPPY TEARS. I CRIED SAPPY TEARS. I CRIED A FEW SAD TEARS. The feels flowed through the lust and laughter.

Deliciously dirty, fabulously flirty, laced with laughter, and filled with feels, Pucked Under fully satisfies while seducing the senses. A hot and hilarious hockey story with huge heart, Pucked Under is PURE PUCKING PERFECTION. These Pucked stories make my soul sing, my gut giggle, and my heart happy. I can’t get enough of this achingly-addictive Pucked series, stories that will remain in my hockey-loving heart forever.

★★★★★ Pucking Perfect Stars

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Randy Ballistic and Lily LeBlanc are head-over-heels, bed-breakingly, screaming orgasmically in love. But even they have their challenges, mostly outside of the bedroom.

With the off-season coming to a close and the boys gearing up for training camp, one more weekend of fun is the perfect way to welcome the new season.

The entire crew piles into vehicles and drives to Alex and Violet’s Chicago cottage for a few days of relaxation—and hopefully a chance for Randy to shake the anxiety that’s been plaguing him.

Accidental wardrobe malfunctions, typical Violet inspired overshares, and a whole lot of private time round out the perfect weekend getaway.

But the moment they return to the city all of Randy’s angst resurfaces with the arrival of a surprise houseguest.

Get your hands on some BALLS!

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Holy mother Hubbard in her cupboard. I just finished Call Me by Gillian Jones and it was SENSATIONAL. Without doubt one of the best student/teacher books I’ve read. Everything about this book is PERFECTION! From the likeable characters, to the all consuming connection that SIZZLES through this book, to the kick ass storyline that is written brilliantly. Call Me is a TOP, TOP September read for me. 

I absolutely loved everything about this book so I honestly don’t know where to start with my review. I probably could talk about it all day and not get bored, Gillian lit up this book with so many good points that electrified this bookworm all the way through. 

Call Me is seriously sexy, SUPER DUPER HOT! Ellie our lead female, who, may I add is absolutely amazing, works as a sex line call worker. Gillian played out Ellie’s role perfectly throughout this whole book, the initial uncertainty was written so well that I felt exactly like Ellie did. But Ellie’s development into her role was what I loved most and the calls were some of the hottest moments of the book. But here is where I must discuss Ace! Firstly, why didn’t I have a teacher like him to ogle at, at school? Everything about Ace is HOT! The initial description we get will give you the best visuals, his POV will make you fall deep in love with him and the sexy parts will leave you breathless, the man is pure, seductive SIN. The connection written between Ellie and Ace is electrifying, you feel it grow and burn with each and every chapter, add in the alter ego phone calls and WOW! Seriously a gym has never sounded so appealing!

What is also great about Call Me though is the underlying message Gillian writes in. All of Gillian’s books have touched on real issues that aren’t always talked about on a wide scale. While Ellie’s job a times in Call Me appears quite fun, Gillian manages to balance the good and bad throughout, keeping things real.

As I said Call Me is now one of my fave student teacher books. It’s light, it’s fun, it’s ridiculously hot and super sexy. There is no big drama but do you know what? It didn’t need it, Call Me is captivating and a huge 5 star read for me!

Some know me as Chanel69. 

But to my friends and family, I’m simply Ellie Hughes. 

A university student who’s in desperate need of money. A lot of money, and fast. 

I’m about to start a new job. 

Three nights a week I’ll be the star in your late night fantasies, bringing your fetishes and fucked up scenarios to life. 

Men will listen to my voice while they get off on their dirtiest desires. 

Truth be told…this job makes me nervous. Regardless of the money, I don’t think I can do it. 

But when he calls I feel an instant connection. 

Over time, he becomes my regular, my friend, and my confidant. 

The problem is…he seems familiar…I think I know who he is.

If I’m right, how will he react when he discovers that I’m Chanel69?

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Get Inked: A Pucked Series and Clipped Wings Crossover Novella by Helena Hunting

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing.” ~Unknown

I love to laugh as laughter is life. Life is just better when you’re laughing. A gut-wrenching giggle fest feels good and is therapeutic. Some may even say laughing is the cheapest medicine you can buy.

When I need good laugh, the kind that makes me contemplate slapping on a Depends adult diaper due to the thorough laugh-to-bladder work-out, I’ll grab a Helena Hunting book. I’ll stalk these stories so hard that I could teach those wanna-be Hollywood stalkers outside celebrities’ homes a thing or 10. Once a story from Helena Hunting’s hot and hilarious Pucked series appears on my e-reader, I will drop off of the earth or go missing for hours. I may be physically present, but my mind is off on one great giggle fest and involuntary-thigh-clenching quest.

Helena Hunting decided to gift me or readers with a new naughty but oh-so-nice novella, Get Inked, which centers on a tattoo shop. Oh YES!!! Giddy like a first date, oh did it feel FAN-FREAKIN-TASTIC to be reunited with Violet, Alex, Randy/Balls, Lily, Darren, Charlotte, Lance, and even the Beaver and Super MC! Get Clipped was the best family reunion ever. It was so exciting to meet new family members too: Hayden, Tenley, and Chris from the Clipped Wing books I now need to devour.

The first line sent a spark of scorching heat to my body and lit me up in laughter.

“Randy’s on the couch stroking Wiener.”

I LOVED the peek into the love life of Lily and Randy, AKA Balls. Even after a year, their chemistry is still SMOKIN’ HOT.

“Sometimes Randy and I have plank-offs. Whoever wins gets oral. I’m up to six minutes now. I’m pretty sure I can hold this position at least that long. But it really depends on what’s at stake.”

When my favorite couple, Violet and Alex, came back to play, my BOOKGASM blasted with approval!!! Alex is so sweet and sexy, the perfect alpha and hero. Violet, my favorite humorous and heated heroine is so many things: beautiful, curvy, sexy, klutzy, cute, hilarious, and uncensored. My soul sister. Spirit animal.

“He liked it when I blinged out my beaver, maybe he’d be into blinged-out boobs, too.”

I’M DYING OF LAUGHTER LIKE A LOON!

Secondary characters, MC and Beaver, had to join this riveting and racy reunion too:

“You’ll rub Super MC all over my sexy, naked Beaver?”

“You read my mind.”

There is no other book series that makes me drunk girl laugh like Helena Hunting’s Pucked series and characters. Violet has nearly made me purchase some Depends from the serious snort-laughing I do every time she speaks through these hot and hilarious stories.

Lance, whose character I’m dying to meet, and Lily sum up the powerful Pucked series and this story perfectly:

“…I recognize that these guys have become my family…Sometimes it’s about the people who come into your life, and embed themselves in your heart until you can’t imagine you’d be without them.”

Get Inked felt like coming home, a giddy and great feeling. These Pucked characters are my family, and feel so raw and real. Alex, Violet, Miller, Sunny, Randy, Lily, and more have burrowed themselves in my heart where they will likely remain.

A hot and hilarious hybrid of Clipped Wings and Pucked, Get Inked satisfied my ache to laugh while sending my body into a blaze of burning bliss. The banter, bounce, and brilliance of this book wrapped itself around me so tightly where I was swept into this sinfully spellbinding saga. I CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF THE PUCKED SERIES.

Get Inked and the Pucked series are my laughing gas, my lust, and my love. I LOVED THIS TASTY TREAT AND I’M HUNGRY FOR MORE. Helena Hunting tickled my funny bone to where I was screaming for mercy. These Pucked stories make my soul sing, my gut giggle, and my heart happy. PURE PUCKING PERFECTION.

5 pucking perfect stars

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When the itch for new ink takes over, NHL star Randy Ballistic commissions his trusted tattoo artist to design a new sleeve, and the rest of the PUCKED boys decide it’s time to commemorate their love of hockey with a team tattoo.

But it can’t just be about the boys—the PUCKED girls want in on the action, too. Ink cherries will be popped, cupcakes will be consumed, and the hazards and enhancements of boob bling will be pondered.

Worlds collide when the hockey boys pay a visit to Inked Armor, the renowned Chicago tattoo studio where master artists Hayden Stryker and Chris Zelter ply their trade. Don’t miss the resulting action and insights in this Pucked series and Clipped Wings crossover novella.

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