[R] Tangled PLUS others stories, by: Emma Chase

Tangled
(Tangled #1)
by: Emma Chase

★★★★☆

Drew Evans is a winner. Handsome and arrogant, he makes multimillion dollar business deals and seduces New York’s most beautiful women with just a smile. He has loyal friends and an indulgent family. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed? 

He’ll tell you he has the flu.

But we all know that’s not really true.

Katherine Brooks is brilliant, beautiful and ambitious. She refuses to let anything - or anyone - derail her path to success. When Kate is hired as the new associate at Drew’s father’s investment banking firm, every aspect of the dashing playboy’s life is thrown into a tailspin. The professional competition she brings is unnerving, his attraction to her is distracting, his failure to entice her into his bed is exasperating. 

Then, just when Drew is on the cusp of having everything he wants, his overblown confidence threatens to ruin it all. Will he be able untangle his feelings of lust and tenderness, frustration and fulfillment? Will he rise to the most important challenge of his life? 

Can Drew Evans win at love? 

Tangled is not your mother’s romance novel. It is an outrageous, passionate, witty narrative about a man who knows a lot about women…just not as much as he thinks he knows. As he tells his story, Drew learns the one thing he never wanted in life, is the only thing he can’t live without.

Tangled Extra Scenes

(Tangled #1.1)

★★★★★

A few extra scenes of Drew's and Kate's life together as a couple. 

Taking place after or during 'Tangled'.

Holy Frigging Matrimony

(Tangled #1.5)

★★★★★

What does Drew Evans have to say next? Find out in this forty page short story, filled with his sexy charm, unique advice and hilarious one-liners.

Marriage: the final frontier. Steven went first. He was kind of our test subject. Like those monkeys that NASA sent off into space in the fifties, all the while knowing they’d never make it back.

And now another poor rocket is ready to launch.

But this isn’t just any posh New York wedding. You’ve seen my friends, you’ve met our families, you know you're in for a treat. Everyone wants their wedding to be memorable. This one’s going to be un-frigging-forgettable.

Holy Frigging Matrimony takes place about a year after Tangled’s end and is from Drew’s POV.

Teaser Tuesday [5]

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: grab your current read; open to a random page; share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page; BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!); and share the title & author, too, so that other people can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

Tangled

by: Emma Chase

Drew Evans is a winner. Handsome and arrogant, he makes multimillion dollar business deals and seduces New York’s most beautiful women with just a smile. He has loyal friends and an indulgent family. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed?

He’ll tell you he has the flu.

But we all know that’s not really true.

Katherine Brooks is brilliant, beautiful and ambitious. She refuses to let anything - or anyone - derail her path to success. When Kate is hired as the new associate at Drew’s father’s investment banking firm, every aspect of the dashing playboy’s life is thrown into a tailspin. The professional competition she brings is unnerving, his attraction to her is distracting, his failure to entice her into his bed is exasperating.

Then, just when Drew is on the cusp of having everything he wants, his overblown confidence threatens to ruin it all. Will he be able untangle his feelings of lust and tenderness, frustration and fulfillment? Will he rise to the most important challenge of his life?

Can Drew Evans win at love?

Tangled is not your mother’s romance novel. It is an outrageous, passionate, witty narrative about a man who knows a lot about women…just not as much as he thinks he knows. As he tells his story, Drew learns the one thing he never wanted in life, is the only thing he can’t live without.

my teaser

I once heard my mother tell my father that she shouldn't have to explain why she was pissed. That if he didn't already know what he'd done wrong, then he wasn't really sorry for it. What the fuck does that even mean? Newflash, ladies: We can't read your thoughts. And frankly, I'm not entirely sure I'd want to. The female mind is scary place to be. 

Men? We don't leave a lot of room for doubt: You're a dick. You fucked mu girlfriend. You killed my dog. I hate you. Direct. Clear. Unambiguous. You girls should try it sometime. It would bring us all one step closer to world peace.

I'm loving this novel page by page, is super hilarious! He is a dick, but a funny one *winks*.

[R] Mine, by: Katy Evans

Mine
(Real #2)
by: Katy Evans

★★★★★

He's mine, and I'm his. Our love is all-consuming, powerful,
imperfect, and real...

In the international bestseller REAL, the unstoppable bad boy of the Underground fighting circuit finally met his match. Hired to keep him in prime condition, Brooke Dumas unleashed a primal desire in Remington "Riptide" Tate as vital as the air he breathes... and now he can't live without her.

Brooke never imagined she would end up with the man who is every woman's dream, but not all dreams end happily ever after, and just when they need each other the most, she is torn away from his side. Now with distance and darkness between them, the only thing left is to fight for the love of the man she calls MINE.

[R] Real, by: Katy Evans

Real
(Real #1)
by: Katy Evans

★★★★★

A fallen boxer.
A woman with a broken dream.
A competition…

He even makes me forget my name. One night was all it took, and I forgot everything and anything except the sexy fighter in the ring who sets my mind ablaze and my body on fire with wanting…

Remington Tate is the strongest, most confusing man I’ve ever met in my life.

He’s the star of the dangerous underground fighting circuit, and I’m drawn to him as I’ve never been drawn to anything in my life. I forget who I am, what I want, with just one look from him. When he’s near, I need to remind myself that I am strong–but he is stronger. And now it’s my job to keep his body working like a perfect machine, his taut muscles primed and ready to break the bones of his next opponents . . .

But the one he’s most threatening to, now, is me.
I want him. I want him without fear. Without reservations.
If only I knew for sure what it is that he wants from me?

[R] #Player, by: Cambria Hebert

#Player
(Hashtag #3)
by: Cambria Hebert

★★★★★

Players gotta play.
Hate is like a poison. It contaminates everything.
So does doubt.
Even though I deny what I overheard, even though I insist it isn’t true, the seed of doubt has been planted. I can’t help but be tormented with the endless what-if’s that have taken over our lives.
Romeo and I were happy in love. The future stretched before us brighter than any star in the darkest sky. Now everything is broken. Literally broken. Romeo’s entire career is at stake, my entire future is threatened… and my past?
It’s coming back to haunt me.
To haunt us.
Romeo says we’re in this together and right now the only sure thing is us. But how far can a love so new be pushed? The lengths we will have to go to save each other puts everything at risk.
Romeo is a #player but how much of the game can one person play?

[R] #Hater, by: Cambria Hebert

#Hater
(Hashtag #2)
by: Cambria Hebert

★★★★☆

It started with unspoken animosity. The bitter bite of jealousy. And now its full blown hate.

It was during my first football game that I first felt the first chill of hate. I looked it right in the eyes and felt its sticky tentacles reach out for me. I’d never experienced something so cold and empty before.

The effect of that look lingered, like an unspoken promise, long after it was gone.

Becoming a couple – becoming the other half of a campus celebrity wasn’t easy. I let down walls guarding my heart and he looked past my glasses and accident prone tendencies. Romeo and I are an unlikely match, a #nerd and a jock. But we made it.

And we’re happy.

Zach doesn’t want us to be happy. He wants Romeo to pay for getting him kicked out of Omega and for the night he spent in jail. He’s going to use anything and everything he can to get his revenge. Including me.

As the weather on campus grows cold and the days become dark, revenge becomes the center of someone’s life and the happiness Romeo and I worked so hard for is threatened.

I can’t help but worry that our love is going to be overshadowed by hate.

[R] #Nerd, by: Cambria Hebert

#Nerd
(Hashtag #1)
by: Cambria Hebert

★★★½☆

Two people from completely different worlds are about to be thrown together…

In more ways than one.

She wants to keep her scholarship. He wants to stay on the team. An awkward alliance doesn’t even begin to cover Rimmel and Romeo’s relationship.

But that’s about to change.

It starts with a dare. An initiation. A challenge.

Quickly, it turns into more. But when you’re a victim of your status, there is no room for anything real. The rules are clear and simple.

Stick to your circle.

And never fall in love with anyone on the outside.

Waiting on Wednesday [11]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. 

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

 A Perfect Ten

(Forbidden Men #5)

by: Linda Kage

Let your hair down, Caroline, they said. It'll be fun, they said. 

I know I've closed myself off in a major way over the past year, ever since “the incident” where I messed up my life completely. It's past time I try to live again or just give up altogether. But this is quite possibly the craziest thing I've ever done. In a last ditch effort to invigorate myself, I'm standing outside Oren Tenning's bedroom, I just peeled off the sexiest pair of underwear I own, and my hand is already raised to knock. My brother would disown me for doing anything with his best friend, and he'd probably kill Oren. But if I play my cards right, no one will ever know about this. Not even Ten. 

Maybe after tonight, I’ll finally get over this stupid, irrational crush I hate having on the biggest jerk I’ve ever met. Or maybe I’ll just end up falling for him even harder. Maybe I’ll discover there’s so much more to my crude, carefree hunk than meets the eye.

I actually haven't read all the books of this series... errr, well, I have only read the third book and only that. BUT this character, Ten, is the most hilarious and hot player of them all, so I really want to know how he goes down. How he will fall in love and really fight for her, Caroline. I saw glimpses of the two of them and its sweet. So, what are you waiting on?

[R] The Five Stages of Falling in Love, by: Rachel Higginson

The Five Stages of Falling in Love
by: Rachel Higginson

★★★★★

Elizabeth Carlson is living in the pits of hell- also known as grief.

Her husband of eight years, the father of her four children and the love of her life, died from cancer. Grady's prognosis was grim, even from the start, but Liz never gave up hope he would survive. How could she, when he was everything to her?

Six months later, she is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and get the kids to school on time. Both seem impossible. Everything seems impossible these days.

When Ben Tyler moves in next door, she is drowning in sorrow and pain, her children are acting out, and the house is falling apart. She has no time for curious new friends or unwanted help, but Ben gives her both. And he doesn't just want to help her with yard work or cleaning the gutters. Ben wants more from Liz. More than she's capable of ever giving again.

As Liz mourns her dead husband and works her way through the five stages of grief, she finds there's more of her heart to give than she thought possible. And as new love takes hold, she peels away the guilt and heartache, and discovers there's more to life than death.

TTT [12]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join! This week Top Ten is...

Top Ten Books On My Spring TBR

Under the Never Sky, by Veronica Rossi

Vanishing Girls, by Lauren Oliver

Reboot, by Amy Tintera

Cruel Beauty, by Rosamund Hodge

Dream of Me, by Quinn Loftis

Red Rising, by Pierce Brown

Lying Out Loud, by Kody Keplinger

Liars, Inc., by Paula Stokes

The Fuck It List, by Julie Halpern

Rooms, by Lauren Oliver

I have NO order for these, but that its basically what I want to read and you can see more here. What do you have on your spring TBR list?

[R] How The Wolf Lost Her Heart, by: Sarah Brownlee

How The Wolf Lost Her Heart
by: Sarah Brownlee

★★★★★

Set against the backdrop of a dystopian London where thugs and criminals run rife, Skye Archer possesses a rare gift, the ability to transform into her spirit animal at will. Widely regarding her morphing ability as a curse, Skye's aim is to keep it a secret at all costs. But one day she meets the intriguing and affluent, Raphael Renzo, who soon proves to have a secret of his own, one that could heal the downtrodden city and affect Skye in ways she never thought possible...

This debut novel from author, Sarah Brownlee, is a compelling and gripping read, taking the reader into a world where both the heart of a city and the heart of a girl are simultaneously pierced by one man.

Waiting on Wednesday [10]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. 

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

 Liars, Inc.

by: Paula Stokes

For fans of Gone Girl, I Hunt Killers, and TV's How to Get Away with Murder.

Max Cantrell has never been a big fan of the truth, so when the opportunity arises to sell forged permission slips and cover stories to his classmates, it sounds like a good way to make a little money and liven up a boring senior year. With the help of his friends Preston and Parvati, Max starts Liars, Inc. Suddenly everybody needs something and the cash starts pouring in. Who knew lying could be so lucrative?

When Preston wants his own cover story to go visit a girl he met online, Max doesn’t think twice about hooking him up. Until Preston never comes home. Then the evidence starts to pile up—terrifying clues that lead the cops to Preston’s body. Terrifying clues that point to Max as the murderer.

Can Max find the real killer before he goes to prison for a crime he didn’t commit? In a story that Kirkus Reviews called "Captivating to the very end," Paula Stokes starts with one single white lie and weaves a twisted tale that will have readers guessing until the explosive final chapters.

I'm hella excited for this book!

[R] The Return, by: Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Return
(Titan #1)
by: Jennifer L. Armentrout

★★★★★

The Fates are cackling their bony asses off…

It’s been a year since Seth made the deal with the gods that pledged his life to them. And so far, the jobs they’ve given him have been violent and bloody–which is kind of all right with him. But now Apollo has something else in mind for Seth. He’s got to play protector while keeping his hands and fingers off, and for someone who really has a problem with restraint, this new assignment might be the most challenging yet.

Josie has no idea what this crazy hot guy’s deal might be, but it’s a good bet that his arrival means the new life she started after leaving home is about to be thrown into an Olympian-sized blender turned up to puree. Either Josie is going insane or a nightmare straight out of ancient myth is gunning for her.

But it might be the unlikely attraction simmering between her and the golden-eyed, secret-keeping Seth that may prove to be the most dangerous thing of all.

Because history has once again been flipped to repeat.

Book 1 in the new adult paranormal TITAN series, spin-off to the best selling COVENANT series.

Waiting on Wednesday [9]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. 

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

 Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

by: David Levithan

It’s Tiny Cooper’s turn in the spotlight in this companion novel to New York Times bestseller Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

Jazz hands at the ready! Tiny Cooper (“the world’s largest person who is also really, really gay”) stole readers’ hearts when he was introduced to the world in the New York Times bestselling book Will Grayson, Will Grayson, co-authored by John Green and David Levithan. Now Tiny finally gets to tell his story—from his fabulous birth and childhood to his quest for true love and his infamous parade of ex-boyfriends—the way he always intended: as a musical! Filled with honesty, humor, and “big, lively, belty” musical numbers, the novel is told through the full script of the musical first introduced in Will Grayson, Will Grayson.


I REALLY want to read this. I like WG WG, so I really want to know what happened with Tiny Cooper and his story. Plus, that character is just hilarious! The book comes out in March 17. What book are you waiting on?

[R] Love & Other Theories, by: Alexis Bass

Love & Other Theories
by: Alexis Bass

★★½☆☆

If you want more, you have to give less.

That’s the secret to dating in high school. By giving as little as they expect to get in return, seventeen-year-old Aubrey Housing and her three best friends have made it to the second semester of their senior year heartbreak-free. And it’s all thanks to a few simple rules: don’t commit, don’t be needy, and don’t give away your heart.

So when smoking-hot Nathan Diggs transfers to Lincoln High, it shouldn’t be a big deal. At least that’s what Aubrey tells herself. But Nathan’s new-boy charm, his kindness, and his disarming honesty throw Aubrey off her game and put her in danger of breaking the most important rule of all: Don’t fall in love.

[FEB] 2015 Challenges Wrap-Up

As some of you may know, I went completly cuckoo with challenges and almost sign up in everything I could. So, basically to keep track and letting you all know how good or bad my months are going, I'm doing these monthly wrap-ups. January wrap-up post is here, if you want to see and you can found the list of all my challenges here. THESE BELOW are only the updates of THIS month. Sooo, that's it! Au reviour, amis!

Dystopia Reading Challenge 2015

by Blog of Erised

Goal: 24 books or more/ 2 books per month or more

Read Last Month: 4 books
Read This Month: 3 books

List of Books (click on the title for the review):

1. Fairest, by Marissa Meyer
2. The Jewel, by Amy Ewing
3. Vivian Apple at the End of the World, by Katie Coyle

365 Days of YA Reading Challenge

by What Sarah Read & Literary Kate

Goal: 14 books per season/ 4.6 books per month

Read Last Month: 9 books
Read This Month: 10 books

List of Books (click on the title for the review):

1. Illusions of Fate, by Kiersten White
2. Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo
3. The Chaos of Stars, by Kiersten White
4. I'll Meet You There, by Heather Demetrios
5. The Young Elites, by Marie Lu
6. Top Ten Clues You Are Clueless, by Liz Czukas
7. The Jewel, by Amy Ewing
8. The Madman's Daughter, by Megan Shepherd
9. Playlist of the Dead, by Michelle Falkoff
10. Vivian Apple at the End of the World, by Katie Coyle

2015 Contemporary Challenge
by The Book Belles

Goal: 26 books in total/3 books per month
Read Last Month: 14 books
Read This Month: 3 books

List of Books (click on the title for the review):

1. I'll Meet You There, by Heather Demetrios
2. Top Ten Clues You Are Clueless, by Liz Czukas
3. Playlist of the Dead, by Michelle Falkoff

2015 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge
by Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book

Goal: 26 books in total/1 per letter
Read Last Month: 11 books
Read This Month: 11 books

List of Books (click on the title for the review):

The Chaos of Stars, by Kiersten White
Emeral Green, by Kersten Gier
Fairest, by Marissa Meyer
Her Dark Curiosity, by Megan Shepherd
The Jewel, by Amy Ewing
The Madman's Daughter, by Megan Shepherd
Promised, by Jodi Ellen Malpas
Ruby Red, by Kersten Gier
Unveiled, by Jodi Ellen Malpas
Vivian Apple at the End of the World, by Katie Coyle
The Young Elites, by Marie Lu

2015 Monthly Key Word Challenge
by Bookmark to Blog

Goal: 12 books/1 book per month
Read Last Month: 1 book
Read This Month: 1 book

List of Books (click on the title for the review):

1. Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo

2015 TBR Pile Reading Challenge

by Evie Bookish

Goal: 120 books in total
Read Last Month: 24 books
Read This Month: 26 books

List of Books (click on the title for the review):

1. Illusions of Fate, by Kierten White
2. Promised, by Jodi Ellen Malpas
3. Denied, by Jodi Ellen Malpas
4. Unveiled, by Jodi Ellen Malpas
5. Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo
6. The Witch of Duva, by Leigh Bardugo
7. The Tailor, by Leigh Bardugo
8. The Chaos of Stars, by Kiersten White
9. Ruby Red, by Kersten Gier
10. Sapphire Blue, by Kersten Gier
11. I'll Meet You There, by Heather Demetrios
12. Emerald Green, by Kersten Gier
13. Fairest, by Marissa Meyer
14. The Young Elites, by Marie Lu
15. Top Ten Clues You Are Clueless, by Liz Czukas
16. Fifty Shades Darker, by EL James [re-read]
17. Fifty Shades Freed, by EL James [re-read]
18. The Jewel, by Amy Ewing
19. This Man Confessed, by Jodi Ellen Malpas [re-read]
20. Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy, by Cassandra Clare & Sara Rees Brennan
21. The Madman's Daughter, by Megan Shepherd
22. Playlist of the Dead, by Michelle Falkoff
23. Her Dark Curiosity, by Megan Shepherd
24. A Cold Legacy, by Megan Shepherd
25. Vivian Apple at the End of the World, by Katie Coyle
26. A Home for Lily, by Elizabeth Kelly

2015 Reading Challenge
by I don't know, I found it in 9gag, but some people have said its from PopSugar and I don't know what that is

Goal: 47 things to rule out, no # of books
Ruled Out Last Month: 15 points
Ruled Out This Month: 6 books

List of Books (click on the title for the review):

1. A book with non-human characters: The Madman's Daughter, by Megan Shepherd
2. A trilogy: One Night, by Jodi Ellen Malpas
3. A book with a color on the title: Ruby Red, by Kersten Gier
4. A book that was writen originally in other language: Ruby Red, by Kersten Gier [German]
5. A book set in christmas: Top Ten Clues You Are Clueless, by Liz Czukas
6. A banned book: Fifty Shades Darker, by EL James

I guess that's it! As I said last month, February was the month of Fantasy and LOVE, so I did read a lot of romance and fantasy book and mostly both of them combined. Wishing you all the best in all your challenges because mine are going good and I hope it goes that way the whole year. PLUS, March is the month of Taking Control TBR Reading Challenge! I'm going to do wrap-ups once a week to keep you inform of how I'm doing. Are you going to participate? What are you going to read? What did you read? Do you have a wrap-up too? Let me see!

[R] A Home for Lily, by: Elizabeth Kelly

A Home for Lily
by: Elizabeth Kelly

★★★★★

Trapped in a loveless marriage with a baby on the way, Lily Castro doesn’t believe life can get any worse until a car accident changes everything. Now, alone and broke, she’ll do whatever it takes to provide for her baby.

Firefighter and single dad, Logan Anderson, needs a nanny for his traumatized child, Hazel. When the fragile woman he rescued from the wreckage of a car shows up at the station to say thank you and applies for the job, he agrees to hire her.

Lily is determined to keep her new job as a nanny. It means the difference between keeping and losing her baby. But will her growing feelings for her new employer destroy her chance at a fresh start for both her and her baby?

StS [9]

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews, which is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. You can read more about the creation of this meme by visiting the official launch page here.

February 7, 2015 to March 7, 2015

As you may, or not, know I do not tent to do this weekly. So before the next month comes up, I will do this today. Here are all my reads in the past few weeks, what I'm reading and what I expect to read in the next week. Fantasy February is over and now comes in Taking Control TBR... I did pretty good this month. Also, in March, is the end of Winter season in 365 Days of YA Reading Challenge, so I'm hoping to read all I can of that infographic, the only downer is that I can't ready any new releases from March because of Taking Control TBR Challenge. Well, wish me luck!

Read These Past Weeks (not in order):

○ Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo
○ The Witch of Duva, by Leigh Bardugo
○ The Tailor, by Leigh Bardugo
○ The Chaos of Stars, by Kiersten White
○ Ruby Red, by Kersten Gier
○ Sapphire Blue, by Kersten Gier
○ Emerald Green, by Kersten Gier
○ I'll Meet You There, by Heather Demetrios
○ Top Ten Clues You're Clueless, by Liz Czukas
○ Fairest, by Marissa Meyer
○ Playlist of the Dead, by Michelle Falkoff
○ The Jewel, by Amy Ewing
○ The Madman's Daughter, by Megan Shepherd
○ Her Dark Curiosity, by Megan Shepherd
○ A Cold Legacy, by Megan Shepherd
○ The Young Elites, by Marie Lu
○ A Home for Lily, by Elizabeth Kelly
○ Vivian Apple at the End of the World, by Katie Coyle
○ Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy, by Cassadra Clare & Sara Rees Brennan

Currently Reading:
○ Love & Other Theories, by Alexis Bass

What I Hope to Read:
○ For Darkness Shows the Stars, by Diana Peterfreund
○ The Sin Eater's Daughter, by Melinda Salisbury
○ Since You've Been Gone, by Morgan Matson

That's it guys! That was basically my month, but there is a challenges February wrap-up post coming right up soon today. I did really good advances, I think. What are you stacking in your shelves?