Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Waiting on Wednesday [199]

"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:
Jamieson Valley #6

THE CANDLE PALACE

by: Devney Perry
Publication Date: August 20th, 2019

 

Sometimes a single flame can ignite a love that lasts a lifetime.

Milo Phillips knows the meaning of pain. Suffering through the most intense physical agony of his life, he’s confined to a hospital bed to bear it alone. More than once, he wishes he’d died in the explosion that melted and mangled his skin. Darkness consumes him, snuffing all the joy in his life and leaving an empty hole in its place.
But one day, a flicker of light sneaks into his hospital room, driving away some of the hopelessness. For the first time in months, pain isn’t all he feels.

The flicker’s name is Sara Foster, his new nurse. Milo just hopes that Sara can see past his scars. Because underneath, his heart has begun beating again just for her.

What are you waiting on?

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Thursday Tracks [135]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays are dedicated to music thanks to this feature! Created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. 
Now, this week song is...

DOIN' TIME

Artist: Lana Del Rey


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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Waiting on Wednesday [198]

"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:
Stormheart #2

RAGE

by: Cora Carmack
Publication Date: August 27th, 2019

 

Princess or adventurer.

Duty or freedom.

Her Kingdom or the Stormhunter she loves.

If Aurora knows anything, it's that choices have consequences. To set things right, she joins a growing revolution on the streets of Pavan.

In disguise as the rebel Roar, she puts her knowledge of the palace to use to aid the rebellion. But the Rage season is at its peak and not a day passes without the skies raining down destruction. Yet these storms are different—they churn with darkness, and attack with a will that’s desperate and violent.

This feels like more than rage.

It feels like war.

What are you waiting on?

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Thursday Tracks [134]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays are dedicated to music thanks to this feature! Created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. 
Now, this week song is...

RIVER

Artist: Bishop Briggs


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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Waiting on Wednesday [197]

 
"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:
Dream Man #4.5
1001 Dark Nights #107

QUIET MAN

by: Kristen Ashley
Publication Date: August 13th, 2019

 

Charlotte “Lottie” McAlister is in the zone. She’s ready to take on the next chapter of her life, and since she doesn’t have a man, she’ll do what she’s done all along. She’ll take care of business on her own. Even if that business means starting a family.

The problem is, Lottie has a stalker. The really bad kind. The kind that means she needs a bodyguard.

Enter Mo Morrison.

Enormous. Scary.

Quiet.

Mo doesn’t say much, and Lottie’s used to getting attention. And she wants Mo’s attention. Badly.

But Mo has a strict rule. If he’s guarding your body, that’s all he’s doing with it.

However, the longer Mo has to keep Lottie safe, the faster he falls for the beautiful blonde who has it so together, she might even be able to tackle the demons he’s got in his head that just won’t die.

But in the end, Lottie and Mo don’t only have to find some way to keep hands off until the threat is over, they have to negotiate the overprotective Hot Bunch, Lottie’s crazy stepdad, Tex, Mo’s crew of frat-boy commandos, not to mention his nutty sisters.

All before Lottie finally gets her Dream Man.

And Mo can lay claim to his Dream Girl.

What are you waiting on?

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Thursday Tracks [133]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays are dedicated to music thanks to this feature! Created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. 
Now, this week song is...

YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN

Artist: Taylor Swift
Album: Lover


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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Waiting on Wednesday [196]

"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:

THE GIRL THE SEA GAVE BACK

by: Adrienne Young
Publication Date: September 3rd, 3019

 

For as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Her own home and clan are long-faded memories, but the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as one who can cast the rune stones and see into the future. She has found a fragile place among those who fear her, but when two clans to the east bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse.

For the first time in generations, the leaders of the Svell are divided. Should they maintain peace or go to war with the allied clans to protect their newfound power? And when their chieftain looks to Tova to cast the stones, she sets into motion a series of events that will not only change the landscape of the mainland forever but will give her something she believed she could never have again—a home.

What are you waiting on?

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Thursday Tracks [132]

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays are dedicated to music thanks to this feature! Created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. 
Now, this week song is...

I REMEMBER YOU

Artist: Skid Row
Album: Skid Row


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Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Waiting on Wednesday [195]

"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:

HEARTWOOD BOX

by: Ann Aguirre
Publication Date: July 9th, 2019

 

In this tiny, terrifying town, the lost are never found. When Araceli Flores Harper is sent to live with her great-aunt Ottilie in her ramshackle Victorian home, the plan is simple. She'll buckle down and get ready for college. Life won't be exciting, but she'll cope, right?

Wrong. From the start, things are very, very wrong. Her great-aunt still leaves food for the husband who went missing twenty years ago, and local businesses are plastered with MISSING posters. There are unexplained lights in the woods and a mysterious lab just beyond the city limits that the locals don't talk about. Ever. When she starts receiving mysterious letters that seem to be coming from the past, she suspects someone of pranking her or trying to drive her out of her mind. To solve these riddles and bring the lost home again, Araceli must delve into a truly diabolical conspiracy, but some secrets fight to stay buried...

What are you waiting on?

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

[Double Review] Confessions #3 & #4, by: Ella Frank

Confessions #3

PRIEST

by: Ella Frank
Genre: Contemporary, MMM Romance, Adult Fiction
Published: August 14th, 2018
Read: August 18th, 2018 (first time)
Format: Kindle Edition
Pages: 290

 

I am complex.
My love is all-encompassing.
And when it comes to my heart, there is only one rule:
Don’t mess with what’s mine.

Until the age of seven, I was Joel Alexander Donovan, son of Jimmy.
The man who terrorized a town and made its citizens fear
the very ground he walked on. Including me,
the day I realized that ground ran red with blood.

At age eighteen, I became Priest.
A man without a past.
A man determined to right the wrongs of my father.
A man who never believed anyone could love the son of such a monster.

But then a thief stole my heart.
A sweetheart lit up my world.
And I forgot for a moment you should never turn your back on your enemy.

And thus begins a lesson to those who would seek to harm: Never underestimate what the Priest will do to protect the Princess and the Prick.

Confessions #4

THE PRINCESS, THE PRICK & THE PRIEST

Published: November 10th, 2018
Read: November 12th, 2018 (first time)
Format: Kindle Edition
Pages: 269

 

Everyone said our love wouldn’t work.
That it was too hard, too complicated, too messy.
Oh how I enjoy proving everyone wrong.

My men are smart, sexy, sophisticated—
and most of all, crazy about me.
The only problem is trying to explain
that to my big, opinionated Italian family.

But after all we’ve been through, we deserve a
happily ever after. And if there’s one
thing I know about my guys, they always
manage to have a few surprises up their sleeves.

my rate overall

I have to admit that I have no idea why I haven't review these two books when I'm pretty sure I have read them more than two times. I loved the whole idea of Robbie having a happily ever after with these two perfect guys called Priest and Prick.

Every book in this series focus on one person of this trio, so I was very excited to read about Priest. I knew shit was going to hit the fan in a bad way after the end of Julien. I couldn't put down the book, okay? And after that, I read it all over again like two times. If the other books were romance packed, this one had action and a whole lot of backstory from when Joel was growing up. Seeing Joel torn because his past finally caught up him and in the most horrible way he can think possible was devastating, really. But having the help of someone that was very unexpected and Robbie made everything perfect. In the end, the Priest was saved thanks to a Princess.

Now, The Princess, the Prick & the Priest is a book of the three of them coming together. No more skeletons in the closet and just making their lives fit together in the most beautiful way possible. Reading this book is like a breath of fresh air. I felt like I was actually reading a whole book of Epilogue, even though the Epilogue in this book is super sweet. I enjoy every romance, hilarious, and deep scene in this book. I ate it all and came out as happy as if someone told me that I won the lottery.

Ella Frank writes well. Good. Perfection. She is and will be an author that will be on my sights for future books just so I can read them. Beware that she loves cliffhangers, so I recommend you to read the whole series instead of just one book. I enjoyed this series and recommend it wholeheartedly.

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Sunday, June 30, 2019

[Series Review] King, by: TM Frazier

KING SERIES

by: TM Frazier
Genre: Romance, Dark, New Adult

 

 

#1 & #2

KING & TYRANT

Published: June 24th & August 16th, 2015
Read: June 7th, 2019
Format: Kindle Edition
Pages: 303 & 294

Homeless. Hungry. Desperate.

Doe has no memories of who she is or where she comes from.

A notorious career criminal just released from prison, King is someone you don’t want to cross unless you’re prepared to pay him back in blood, sweat, pu$$y or a combination of all three.

King’s future hangs in the balance. Doe’s is written in her past. When they come crashing together, they will have to learn that sometimes in order to hold on, you have to first let go.

 

#3 & #4

LAWLESS & SOULLESS

Published: December 6th, 2015 & February 23rd, 2016
Read: June 8th, 2019
Format: Kindle Edition
Pages: 276 & 276

Ruined. BROKEN. LOST.

Thia’s lost it all. With no options left she turns to the biker she met as a kid to cash in the favor he swore to return all those years ago. 

Bear’s best friend is dead. His old man wants to put him to ground. He has bigger things on his mind than the pink-haired girl from the gas station he never thought he’d see again.

Until her battered body is tossed onto his doorstep. 

Keeping his promise to Thia means Bear has to be willing to risk everything, including his life...and what’s left of his heart. 

Thia’s bruised and battered.
Bear’s leather and lawless. 
It will never work between them.
It’s a lie they ALMOST believe.

  

#5, #6 & #7

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SAMUEL CLEARWATER

Published: October 25th, 2016, January 24th, 2017, & April 26th, 2017.
Read: June 9th & 10th, 2019
Format: Kindle Edition
Pages: 300, 282 & 282

You thought Preppy was dead...you thought wrong.

Samuel Clearwater, A.K.A Preppy, likes bowties, pancakes, suspenders, good friends, good times, good drugs, and a good f*ck. 
He s worked his way out from beneath a hellish childhood and is living the life he s always imagined for himself. When he meets a girl, a junkie on the verge of ending it all, he s torn between his feelings for her and the crippling fear that she could be the one to end the life he loves. 
Andrea Dre Capulet is strung out and tired. 
Tired of living for her next fix. Tired of doing things that make her stomach turn. Tired of looking in the mirror at the reflection of the person she s become. Just when she decides to end it all, she meets a man who will change the course of both their lives forever. 
And their deaths. 
For most people, death is the end of their story. 
For Preppy and Dre, death was only the beginning.


#8

UP IN SMOKE

Published: February 16th, 2018
Read: June 10th, 2019
Format: Kindle Editon
Pages: 358

I’m a man without a conscience. 
I deal in murder and mayhem.
I’m the best at what I do. 
Frankie Helburn is supposed to be an easy job. 
A means to flush her father out of hiding.
Simple. 
Except there isn’t anything simple about Frankie or the secrets she’s keeping. 
She’s stubborn as hell and the sexiest god damn thing I have ever seen, sending dark, dirty animalistic desire coursing through my veins. 
She’s cocaine with legs. A f*cking addiction that makes me question things I’ve never questioned before. Want things I’ve never wanted before. 
I might have her, but she isn’t mine to keep. 
If her father doesn’t show his face, she will be mine. 
To KILL.


#9

N9NE: THE TALE OF KEVIN CLEARWATER

Published: June 18th, 2019
Read: June 27th, 2019
Format: Kindle Edition
Pages: 326

Stalking is such sweet sorrow...

Nine lives. 
Nine inches. 
One chance to make her his. 
Preppy's brother is about to live up to the family legacy in more ways than one.

This is the story of Nine, The Tale of Kevin Clearwater.

my overall rating & thoughts


t was a long time ago when I start seeing these books popping up in my feed on Goodreads, since then they have been in my TBR. So it has been a long time. Recently I have been trying to stumble upon books from back in the days and just read them. I have been getting this feeling of “why the hell did I not read this before?” so I guess I have been doing a good job.

That is exactly what happened with this series. I just finished N9ne and I have absolutely no regrets in reading them now that they are all out because some of these books ends were very fucked up for me waiting for the next one. I’m very grateful to stumble upon them when I did. All the drama is mostly set in Logan’s Beach, Florida, where there is a King, a Preppy, a Bear, and later on, a Prince named Nine. These books ripped my heart apart just to give it back with a few words little by little. I have a feeling that I might actually reread some of these books.

King is that, the motherfucking King. There is nothing much I can say to describe him. His backstory is hard, so that is the way he is a ruthless as he is. No one messes with King and lives to tell the tale. Unless you are Preppy, the diarrhea of things that comes out of that mofo is just unbelievable. But when a Jane Doe crashes his party, his room, and his thoughts… let say that this King might as well claim his Queen. Obviously, there is more than what meets the eye with Doe but too bad she remembers shit and when she does, damn, shit hit the fan as messy as a pig in a pen.

Bear is another story. Because King found his soulmate without looking for her. But, Bear, Bear found her young and never thought of her again. She, Thia, never stopped thinking about him and the promise he made her. So when the time came, Thia went straight to Bear. Cannot say that it was the right time for him after all the shit that went down with everything, but it was the right time for THEM. So Bear had to do the tough job, he had to get his head out of his ass.

Preppy’s story wrecked everything I have inside of me. Spoilers ahead. I swore up and down that he was dead and I almost couldn’t deal with it, so the chance to read a book of him was not on my list until at the end of Bear’s story he came crashing down on them. Preppy’s wife was just that for at least three years and no one knew about, only him. Dre is a powerful lady, let me tell you. That girl got to the lowest point, only to go back up for herself and, deep down, for him. Reading their story made me weep. I swear I’m still trying to get used to everything that happened in these three books.

Smoke is a really far away character that we see once in Preppy’s story, and then he just did that. He went up in smoke. Reading his story was easy, there was still heavy shit and my heart hurt how he came up to be who he is, but I enjoyed the ride. Frankie is smart. Like smarter than anyone smart. But she’s still in harm’s way and in so much shit that only Smoke can help her even though it doesn’t look like help in the beginning. I swear these two are one for the other.

Nine’s story is as heavy as Preppy’s backstory. These poor kids had it hard growing up, but finding out each other did them good. I was devastated reading about how he lost someone that would change his life for good when he knew that Preppy was dead. But losing her made him found himself and then his brother that wasn’t really dead. That whole scene is the MVP in both books (Preppy’s and Nine’s). Lenny’s story wasn’t my favorite, but these two together were the bomb. That plot twist in almost the end gave me chills.

The bonus epilogue at the end of N9ne of him receiving the key of the kingdom and becoming the prince give me seriously good vibes that I wanted to cry. This series is going down with me for a long time. I swear you will not regret reading these.