Drunk Dial by Penelope Ward 

3 hours 52 minutes. That’s how long it took me to breeze through this book. I could not read fast enough and yet, I’m annoyed I read it so fast! 

Drunk Dial by Penelope Ward is incredible. I feel as though every time I review a Penelope Ward book I sit in a state of blissful bookworm heaven and wonder how I’m going to say something I haven’t said before. I’ve been reading Penelope’s books for years now and I’ve literally ran out of good things to say about this woman and her books. 

Drunk Dial once again proves that Penelope Ward knows how to write a story. It proves she knows how to captivate a reader and take them away to another world. In all honesty, when I started this book I wasn’t feeling it, something wasn’t connecting correctly but then I hit the 27% mark and I got the well known “Penelope punches” these are those feelings that you feel deep in your core, the feelings that drag you so deep into a story and start the rise of the eagles as they flap like crazy deep in your stomach. I ALWAYS experience these feelings from a book by Penelope, I’ve come to expect them, and I love to feel them and Penelope did not disappoint in delivering these.

Landon & Rana are something so special. They are two heavily broken souls who are so, so perfect for one another. I couldn’t get over their connection to each other and my connection to them. I smiled until my cheeks ached. I laughed so hard. I swooned like a pathetic teenager with an embarrassing crush. I cried at the pain of their pasts. I burnt up, I lusted, I LOVED. 

Every second of Drunk Dial is exquisite. Once again Penelope has written a solid romance that is not only addicting and passionate but raw and beautiful. I loved it. 

5 Drunk on you stars!

From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new, sexy standalone novel.

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Look up Landon Roderick, that boy from childhood whom I’d never been able to forget—even though he so easily forgot about me—and call him. 

Then again, anything sounds like a good idea when you’ve had a little too much wine before bed, right? It was supposed to be just a quick, meaningless, prank call. Instead, I went off on him—unloading thirteen years of pent-up emotions. 

I didn’t think he’d call me back. 

I certainly could never have anticipated the weeks of sexually tense phone conversations that followed as I got to know the man he’d become. 

Turned out, Landon had never really forgotten me, either. That special connection we had was still there. I opened up to him, but there were also things about me he didn’t know. And he had his own secrets. 

Over the countless hours we talked on the phone, I wondered what would happen if we actually saw each other. One night, I did something impulsive again. Only this time, I went to the airport and booked a ticket to California. We were about to find out if one phone call could bring two lost souls together or if my drunk dial really was all just a big mistake.

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SHIFT by Staci Hart 

I’m not sure how to write this review. Like I’m not sure how to full explain SHIFT to you at all. I have SO MANY good words swimming around in my head that could describe it but I feel that none of them are enough to actually make you understand what SHIFT is. 

SHIFT takes us back to the ever magical and mythical world of greek Gods and their wars of love. Now I’m not a reader of the magical, mythical, fantasy type romances they just don’t do it for me. BUT these books do, you see, Staci blends all that magical, mythical stuff with modern, contemporary romance. These gods are soooo cool and up to date. It’s a compelling twist and mix of history, gods and humans, that just WORKS. So, so well. It also helps that these gods & humans are HOT!!!!!

I feel I should also make it clear that I am not a lover of 3rd person stories at all *gasp*. It’s true, I generally try and avoid them. Again they just don’t do it for me, I never fully feel connected to the characters or the story. BUT in SHIFT I honestly couldn’t have been more connected. The whole time I was reading I was so utterly captivated by the characters, invested in the games of love, in awe at the way this story was so passionately written. From beginning to end Staci literally sits you in the damn novel and everything around you disappears bar what is playing out on the pages…

You feel the blood, the sweat, the tears. You feel the heartbreak and pain. You feel the heat and the passion. You feel the love.

NOTHING is left unsaid in this story. 

SHIFT is addicting. It’s pure magic delivered in a raw, compelling way. And this proves that every once in awhile you should step outside of your comfort zone and take a chance on something a little different. I have and I don’t regret a single second of it.

Bestselling author Staci Hart brings you the second installment of an addictive romantic mythology series where love is the ultimate game, and Aphrodite always wins.

Even the gods cannot betray the will of the stars.

It’s been a hundred years since she’s warmed my bed, a hundred years spent waiting for her. Now we’ll compete again in a game that matters little to me. But my prize is far greater than a token to be paid for a favor — I want her. 

And for the first time in a very long time, I have the chance to keep her.

Because now the ground has shifted, tilted in my favor, and with her footing unsteady, she will fall. 

I will catch her.

This time, I won’t let go.

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Life Plus One by Rachel Robinson!

I am SO LUCKY to read the books I read! Some I get to read early. Some I buy. But when I read a book like Life Plus One by Rachel Robinson it solidifies my love for the adult romance genre. I’ve read some pretty incredible books this year and I’m sure I’ll read more before it ends but I can safely say that Life Plus One will sit in my top three of 2017 EASILY! 

This is not a book that can be read really quickly, for a fun sexy hit. No, this a book where you have to take your time. It’s a book that hits you SO DEEP in your soul that sometimes you feel there is no way out. Rachel stole a HUGE part of me and it’s left somewhere between the pages of Life Plus One with Ben & Harper. 

One thing I LOVE in my books is ANGST and Life Plus One had it in SPADES. I was on the edge of my seat, gasping and sighing and swooning and hurting in equal measure. My smile hurt my face, my pounding heart hurt in my chest, my tears hurt my eyes, my body burnt and ached with SO MUCH sexual tension and connection that was brutally battered by LIFE and missed opportunity. My emotions were everywhere, still are EVERYWHERE. 

To me, Rachel Robinson writes the best SEAL ROMANCES out there. They are littered with strong, sinful, sexy alphas that make you all dreamy eyed. Life Plus One had an alpha that was strong and sinful and super, super sexy, but he was also so sweet, so raw, so BEAUTIFUL. This man stole away with me. Don’t get me wrong there was a couple of times I wanted to slap him but it was his whole persona that just ended up making me love him more despite his “moments”. Ben was one in a million! 

This book also delivers an amazing friends to lovers trope! Honestly Rachel DELIVERS it so freaking good. I felt everything. All their love, all their jealousy, all their lust, regret, pain, anger, sadness, happiness. ALL OF IT. I connected to them both so easily, so quickly that I actually felt as though I was breathing their air, living side by side with them. And that’s all down to Rachel and how she DELIVERS this story and these characters. 

Cover to cover….Beginning to end… Rachel Robinson destroyed me, ripped me apart, splattered my soul and left me broken, but she also raised me up, filled me with love, breathed beautiful life back into me and left me so happy that it was all sooo worth it. 

I could go on forever. I could literally speak about this book for days and not her bored. There is SO MUCH to it, that just when you think you know what’s coming or going to happen, the rug is dragged from under your feet and you’re freefalling. But in the end, it’s an experience I’m SO GLAD I took and it’s one I will NEVER forget. 

6, but that’s not nearly enough, beautiful, stars!

Ben Brahms shed his glasses, gangly body, and a life long pact to attend an Ivy League college with his best friend the day the world took on a sinister hue. With his outward appearance matching his new career as a Navy SEAL, Ben is saving the world…literally, at the expense of everything he gave up. A whole life. 

Her.

Harper Rosehall honors the pact. She takes on, and then dominates college on the opposite coast. Always the geek, and always behind socially—especially with men, she blossoms. With her moral compass guiding her, she finds herself drawn back to San Diego and all she left behind. 

Him. 

With memories from their pasts haunting every interaction and decision in their present—and future, their timing never seems to be quite right. 

A marriage.

A baby.

Nothing. 

Some friendships last the test of time, can Ben and Harper’s stand the tests of life? 

Life doesn’t care what you love, it takes it away anyways.

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Wish You Were Here by Renee Carlino

My rating: 6 of 5 stars

Have you ever read a book that has moved you so much and means more than you can pen into words? I’m still MESMERIZED—so UNEQUIVOCALLY MOVED—by Renee Carlino’s words in Wish You Were Here, a story that STUNNED ME SPEECHLESS. A story that made me melt…made me break…made me think…made me feel. Wish You Were Here made my HEART BLEED and my SOUL SOAR, and I can’t stop feeling this romance.

I knew right away that this story was SPECIAL. I knew that Wish You Were Here is the kind of story that sticks, the soul-stirring type that stays long after the last page is turned. I knew this tale would hold my heart in its hands forever, and I would let it take my heart as its own because Wish You Were Here OWNED ME and MY HEART FROM THE START.

This is a romance you have to experience and wholeheartedly feel for yourself—preferably blindly—as I did. Wish You Were Here is not a story but an adventure, a romance that is so much more: love but mostly life. This story, along with its hero and heroine, is strength in spades. Wish You Were Here is a journey of love and life; happiness and heartbreak; and so much strength.

It was like we already knew each other, like we had met in a previous life.

After a magical night together, Charlotte and Adam felt the force of fate, as if they were soul mates. I MELTED from the MAGIC of this couple. I felt their SPARK too. Together, this hero and heroine were the sun amid the storm.

“Love is a wordless secret; it’s an inside joke. Only the two of you have to understand it.”

I lost myself in Wish You Were Here, vanishing into this life-altering story, SPELLBOUND, as it seized every part of me: body, heart, and soul. Wish You Were Here is HEARTBREAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL, a book bleeding with feels. Oh did my heart break, shattering into pieces!!! Tears flowed like a river and I didn’t try to stop them…could not stop them. I UGLY CRIED, and it was catastrophic yet cathartic. The feels flowed feverishly where I FELT EVERY WORD ON EVERY PAGE. I felt every drop of sunlight, every drop of rain, every pull of my heart, and every slay of my soul. I FELT EVERYTHING!!!

The first thing I noticed about this story besides its stunning cover is that Renee Carlino weaves her work with detail, incredible descriptors that transport you right into the story. I was immediately thrust into the world of Wish You Were Here. This is my first Renee Carlino romance but I can feel how this incredible and new favorite author of mine poured her heart, blood, sweat, and tears into a breathtakingly beautiful and brilliant book. This PERFECTLY POIGNANT LOVE STORY is one that remains for a lifetime like that epic love we all seek.

Wish You Were Here is a story that is SO MUCH MORE than a romance. Wish You Were Here is taking that leap and living life to the fullest. Wish You Were Here is love against the odds. Wish You Were Here is happiness, hope, and heartbreak in a book bathed in beautiful words.

Devastatingly beautiful, passionately poignant, and life-changing, Wish You Were Here is a book that bleeds LOVE and LIFE. You can’t help but become touched by this love story and FEEL Wish You Were Here word-for-word and cover-to-cover.I’m still being touched by this romance. Tears are etched in my eyes, ones that still feel fresh from feeling so much. My HEART IS WIDE OPEN as it sits—SHATTERED yet SOARING—from this soul-searing story. Wish You Were Here is a romance I wish everyone would read. I’ll forever feel this masterpiece in vibrant color.

A TOP 2017 MUST-READ ROMANCE!!!

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 but worth all of the stunning stars

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Charlotte has spent her twenties adrift, floating from interest to interest, job to job, and guy to guy, searching for a spark but never quite finding it. All she knows is that she won’t discover it working as a waitress at a pies-and-fries joint in Los Angeles or living with her fun but aimless best friend in a tiny apartment in the Arts District.

Then Charlotte collides with Adam, a gorgeous and soulful painter who seems just as lost as she feels. Their instant connection turns into a midnight drink… and a whirlwind night of champagne, Chinese food, and the kind of conversation that only happens in romantic comedies. But the next morning, Adam gives Charlotte the cold shoulder, leaving her confused and hurt—and wondering if the few odd moments between them the night before were red flags in disguise.

Months later, Charlotte hasn’t been able to shake Adam, so she decides to find out what happened the morning after their magical night together. This fateful decision rewrites their wild love story, but what Charlotte doesn’t know yet is that the ending has already been written.

“You’re making love sound tragic,” I said.

“No”—he shook his head—“I wouldn’t want it any other way. Tell me about us. What do we like to do?”

“Paint and sail and eat and drink. Just simple things.” “Don’t forget about sex,” he said.
“Yeah, lots of sex. Before the children were born we

“We were practically naked every second of the day.”

“I like that.”

“When they got older, we’d sneak away for weekends and leave them at my mom’s.”

“What are they like? Our children.”

“Happy. That’s all we wished for. We put our love first and it just spilled over into them and now they’re happy.”

Tears sprang from my eyes and ran down my cheeks. Isn’t that what we all hope for when it comes to our children?

His tone suddenly changed. “That’s beautiful, Char- lotte.” It was like he was waking up from the dream. I didn’t want to go back to reality yet, but I knew these fantasies were just to help Adam get his mind off things.

“I can imagine a long life with you,” he said. “I can imagine what a great wife you’d be.”

I pulled my hand out of his. “The story is about you and me.” He didn’t say anything; he just nodded and then continued to stare out the window. I bent and kissed the top of his head again, and whispered, “It’s about us. Don’t take that away from me.”

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Thousands by Pepper Winters

My rating: 6 of 5 stars

There is no GREATER HIGH than when I sink myself into a Pepper Winters story. Half of her words penetrate me like a knife, cutting into me deeply, twisting and turning around my heart, where I plummet through the dark. OH DO I LOVE THAT FALL! The other half shines through me like the sun, soaking me in warmth and light, where I feel as if I’m floating on air, everything so right. It’s this whirlwind of light mixed with dark that draws me into Pepper Winters’ creations, stories that strip me bare as they bare everything to me.

Here I sit days after reading, still STUNNED SPEECHLESS, still so very MOVED by Thousands, Pepper Winters’ latest story in the Dollar series. Thousands sank into my soul—my emotions on edge—as its pendulum-like push and pull SPELLBOUND ME. Words opened the floodgate of feels: POIGNANT … PASSIONATE … POWERFUL. These words penetrated me like rain and I wanted to feel every last drop.

Two hearts are broken, longing to be whole.
Two souls are dead apart but alive together.
Elder and Pim, fate finds them together again. 

Now I understood the message. I was dead without her. I was alive with her.

Dark-haired, dark-eyed, and inked Elder is gorgeous. Hero and hunter. Angel and devil. Saint and sinner. PURE PERFECTION. Burned by a painful past with wounds that still resonate deeply, this beautiful man seeks salvation. I NEEDED HIM TO BE SAVED TOO. I LOVE ELDER, MY DARK HERO, SO MUCH!!! 

I was nothing. I was no one.

My HEART BLED for Elder, this beautiful and broken man! Elder doesn’t want to love Pim when he can’t love himself, but the fuel of fate is too lethal to escape.

“You’ve emotionally crippled me, Pim. You’ve reached inside and wrapped around everything vital keeping me alive.”

These words PENETRATED ME. These words gripped my heart. These words soared straight to my soul.

Beautiful Pimlico ‘Pim’ has survived hell, battling the most evil of monsters. She is gaining strength, fighting back to reclaim part of who she was before her life ended. I LOVED this STRONG HEROINE, a WOMAN WARRIOR!!! From meek little mouse to roaring lion, it’s Pim’s turn to roar. I admired her courage and tenacity so much! She is sweetness and strength, a survivor.

Pim seeks to be the light in Elder’s dark world, the spark to his soul. THOUSANDS was a SPARK to my SOUL.

I no longer lived for me. I lived for him.
She wasn’t alive because of me. I was living because of her.

Elder and Pim’s chemistry is UNDENIABLE. One look is all it takes for their electricity to detonate. I felt it through the pages, this combustible chemistry that MELTED ME. 

I launched myself at her. She didn’t run. She was weightless as I crushed her to me. She was eager as my mouth slammed on hers and every last thought exploded into nothingness.

The kiss speaks what words can’t. A kiss that is a fusion of soulmates. A kiss that is EVERYTHING. 

“All things worth having are terrifying.”

“Then you must be the greatest thing on earth, Pimlico, because you f**king petrify me.”

These words are PURE POWER.
Power to break.
Power to bind.
Power to feel each one.

Oh did I FEEL!!! I FELT these words vibrate through me, GRIPPING and GUTTING ME, as they cast a spell on my soul that spun, soared, and shattered for Thousands The persistent push and pull…the fire and ice…the secrets and lies…SO INTENSE, so much that I FELT THIS STORY along with Pim and Elder. I FELT every heartbreak, every hope, every bit of happiness, and every bit of bleeding angst from these real-to-me characters. I FELT EVERYTHING!!!

That END?!? IT SHOCKED and SHATTERED ME!!! When you think you can’t wade into the pits of hell any deeper, Pepper Winters takes you there, thrusting you into despair where you can only pray for survival from the massacre on your heart and soul. A MASTERMIND of monster-mixed-with-hero stories, so FLAWLESSLY fused with dark and light, there is no better dark romance author than Pepper Winters. NO ONE. This Queen of Darkness is IT for ME!!! Thousands is a TOP 2017 book, a MUST-READ romance!!!

HEARTBREAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL and PASSIONATELY POIGNANT, Thousands hits the heart and slays the soul. From the moment I began Thousands, this soul-searing story both bared itself to me and STRIPPED ME BARE, stealing every smile and tear, entangling itself around every emotion. I knew this book would break me, and that it did. This book BROKE ME in the BEST WAY!!! I WAS RUINED!!! But oh was I IN LOVE!!! So much love!

I lived Thousands. I breathed Thousands. I was bound to Thousands. I became Thousands, a story worth billions in gold. THOUSANDS OWNED EVERY PART OF ME. I am still BREATHLESS, my heart beating for Thousands. Thousands thrust itself into my heart, both throbbing as one, and never let go. I still can’t let go. 

This was pure love, and I sank to the bottom of it and didn’t care if I drowned.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 heartbreakingly beautiful ‘but worth 1000s ‘stars

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“Love had been stolen from me for reasons entirely my fault. But then a miracle happened, and Pim gave me something I thought was lost forever. She gave me a love I’d earned. Love that ruined me. Love that made me hopelessly hers…”

Once upon a time, I didn’t think I’d ever be normal.

Now, I’m talking and trusting, and it’s all thanks to Elder.

He gave me my life back, and I gave him my heart, but love stories like ours are never simple.

I did something to protect him.

He did something to survive me.

We screwed up.

And now, it’s no longer just about us.

It’s about safety, sanctuary, and sin.

A MUST-READ ROMANCE!  READ TODAY!!!

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Pepper Winters is a multiple New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today International Bestseller.

After chasing her dreams to become a full-time writer, Pepper has earned recognition with awards for best Dark Romance, best BDSM Series, and best Hero. She’s an multiple #1 iBooks bestseller, along with #1 in Erotic Romance, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, and Erotica Thriller. With 19 books currently published, she has hit the bestseller charts twenty-six times in three years.

Pepper is a Hybrid Author of both Traditional and Self-published work. Her Pure Corruption Series was released by Grand Central, Hachette.

Her books have garnered foreign interest and are currently being translated into numerous languages, including already released titles in Italian and Turkish. Audio Books for her entire back-list will be available in 2017.

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Sexy Beast by Piper Rayne

Sexy Beast is just that. A sexy beast of a read that is EASILY Piper Rayne’s BEST BOOK YET! 
This book is super sexy. I loved EVERY MINUTE  of it. Garrett is my FAVE single dad yet! Lordy, that man was insanely hot, moody, broody, delicious and hella dirty! 

His relationship with Charleigh was EXPLOSIVE. The undeniable attraction and chemistry between Garrett and Charleigh was palpable. 

This story well and truly packed a punch though, with an intense slow burn, alongside a heartbreaking past that Garrett endured, my emotions were well and truly stirred up. Mix that with a forbidden aspect of best friends little sister romance and Sexy Beast was a WINNER! 

I absolutely ADORED these two as a couple and breezed through their story with blissful ease.

I loved this sexy, sinful romance and cannot wait for more Piper Rayne goodness.

It’s time.

Time to get a life.

Time to start over.

Time to move beyond the past.

The guys in the Single Dads Club would tell you it was time years ago, but until recently, the risk of hurting my little girl outweighed the benefit of getting a piece of ass.

Now that I have a tween daughter on my hands? It’s becoming more apparent with every poster hung on the wall, every fight over wearing make-up and every uncomfortable conversation about puberty, that at least one of us needs a female touch in our lives.

Jesus. I can’t even think the words ‘female touch’ without thinking of her.

Charlotte Rose. Charlie.

She’s everything I shouldn’t want, but someone needs to tell that to my damn libido because every time she’s around I have a constant case of blue balls.

There’s a list of reasons why I shouldn’t give into what I feel—she’s my best friend’s little sister, she’s seen me at my most vulnerable, and the biggest one—she’s the first person in twelve years who has the potential to break me.

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