Saturday, May 21, 2016

ARC REVIEW Kill or be Kilt by Victoria Roberts

I have really enjoyed this series I'm so glad Walsingham a big family. Book three in the series takes place three years after the last book and sixteen year old Elizabeth Walsingham has grown up and is now a beauty and has convinced herself that she is over her childish crush of Laird Ian Munro. I very much enjoyed this one just as much as the previous two; secrets and lies, murders and mayhem, and just the right amount of romance and seduction. I know I have a good book whenever I pick up a Victoria Roberts book her writing is captivating and if life hadn't kept getting in the way of my reading I would have inhaled this book in a day. The murder mystery of the book was a good one, I figured it out but it was exciting when the truth came out.

It's been three years since Laird Ruairi and Laird Ian have been forced to attend the King at court all because of Ravenna's pull with the King. But unfortunately the Walsingham's uncle died suddenly in a carriage accident and they must travel to England to comfort their aunt. While down there they must pay a visit at court. Elizabeth has waited three years for Ian to come back, after Grace and Fagan's wedding he never returned to visit, but now that they have to court he will be traveling with them. Grace has given up on Ian wanting her and as much as she tries to convince herself that she has out grown her crush her heart still flutters when she sees him. She has decided that she needs to go to court with Ruairi, Fagan , and Ian so she can find herself a husband. Grace understands and she helps convince Ravenna and the men that it is a wise choice.

Ian wasn't expecting little Elizabeth to be such a stunning woman. At first he stayed away because she was so young but now that she is older he doesn't feel worthy enough for her, but seeing other men flirt with her and Fagan talking some sense into him helps him come to terms with his true feelings for Elizabeth. It's so cute how Ian tries to prove himself to Elizabeth it's enough to make you swoon. All the while the advisers to the King are getting killed off. Unbeknownst to Elizabeth it's in her blood to get right in the middle of things and she manages to figure it all out. To top it all off she finally learns what really happened with Grace and her former fiancee and with Ravenna before that and about how she comes from a long line of spies.

Overall this was a great story and just as good as the first two. I can't decide which one I liked better and I can't wait for Torquil and Kathrine's story.  

Thursday, May 19, 2016

#TBT One Pink Rose by Julie Garwood

This is the start of something new, I'm going to be doing a #TBT (Throw Back Thursday) Review it can be any book that's been published 5 years or longer. For the first book I am doing a book I have read and loved and even better it's been re-released, One Pink Rose is book two of the Rose Hill/ Clayborne Brides series. The first book, For the Roses, I recommend reading just because it introduces the whole family and how they got where they are and along with it a wonderful romance between the only girl in the family and her past.

One Pink Rose is about the youngest brother, Travis. Now Mama Rose has her heart set on finding good wives for her boys. Her daughter is all set and happily married with a baby on the way and now Mama Rose is meddling.

Mama Rose was swindled! and Travis Clayborne won't have it he's out to find the man who stole the compass from Mama, she had a gift for everyone but this gold compass was for Colt. Travis is taking it personal no one steals from Mama Rose. So he sets out to track down this ruffian but first he has to run an errand for Mama. It seems that she promised that Travis would escort a mail order bride to her waiting groom. Emily Finnegan is a wonder to behold, she is smart, head strong, and feisty. She was previously engaged but the loser left her at he alter for her sister, so now Emily thinks she has to change who she is so she can be happy. She arranged the mail order bride plans and she is determined to be the best wife she can be; if only she can get there. Emily has had the worst luck getting from Boston to Montana one escort got food poisoning and the second was shot so now she is stranded.

Travis thinks this will be a quick job, but he soon realizes after meeting Emily it won't be a walk in the park. It doesn't help he likes everything about her. Emily did a silly thing, she fell in love with Travis. Overall, this is a funny, cute, and quick read. I love Julie Garwood's western romances. I'm glad this has been re-released.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

ARC REVIEW Alpha Wolf Need Not Apply by Terry Spear

In this Shifter universe Terry Spear has created this is book 19. For this particular series it is book 6. I have only read one other book in the series but I can tell you that it's alright. So far each book isn't really connected plot/subplot/story arc in any way except that the characters all live in the same area, some are related, most are all in the same pack and are all shifters. I have to say what I love most about this series is that the H/h don't really have sex until they are 100% committed to being mates. So most of the book is them getting to know one another and falling in love even though the wolf half of them has already decided that they are mates. There is one true mate that is a once in a life time thing but they can mate with anyone. Both Pepper and Eric have had mates in the past and neither of them really wanted to mate again, but Eric's wolf recognizes Pepper as his one true mate at first sight. Pepper needs a bit more convincing.

Eric is an alpha, strong enough to lead his own pack but content where he is and let his cousin rule this one, even if he likes to give him a hard time about it. Pepper is the alpha of her pack both her parents dead and only she was alpha enough to lead everyone. Pepper's mate was a beta, he was killed by a rogue alpha trying to take over Pepper's pack, Pepper killed him. Now she is hesitant to accept another mate because she fears that he will just try to take over. Eric knows she is capable of handling her own pack and lets her, his goal is to prove to her that he is the best bet for a co-leader.

They have bit of a problem though, Eric isn't the only one who wants Pepper. Waldron is the leader of a nomadic pack trying to find a place to settle, only they aren't so nice and Waldron is trying to force Pepper into matting with him. Waldron has an alternative motive Pepper's pack is on prime land perfect for growing marijuana. Waldron acts are impulsive, stupid, cruel and selfish. But can Eric and Pepper manage to beat him at his own game and find their HEA.

Overall, this was a great read. I loved the characters and the story of the book.

RELEASE BLITZ Good Girl by Lauren Layne




Title: Good Girl
Series: Love Unexpectedly #2
Author: Lauren Layne
Publisher: Loveswept
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 17, 2016



Blurb

Lauren Layne brings all the unpredictable heat of her USA Today bestseller Blurred Lines to an all-new cast of characters! Country music’s favorite good girl is hiding away from the world—only to find herself bunking with a guy who makes her want to be a little bad.

Jenny Dawson moved to Nashville to write music, not get famous. But when her latest record goes double platinum, Jenny’s suddenly one of the town’s biggest stars—and the center of a tabloid scandal connecting her with a pop star she’s barely even met. With paparazzi tracking her every move, Jenny flees to a remote mansion in Louisiana to write her next album. The only hiccup is the unexpected presence of a brooding young caretaker named Noah, whose foul mouth and snap judgments lead to constant bickering—and serious heat.

Noah really should tell Jenny that he’s Preston Noah Maxwell Walcott, the owner of the estate where the feisty country singer has made her spoiled self at home. But the charade gives Noah a much-needed break from his own troubles, and before long, their verbal sparring is indistinguishable from foreplay. But as sizzling nights give way to quiet pillow talk, Noah begins to realize that Jenny’s almost as complicated as he is. To fit into each other’s lives, they’ll need the courage to face their problems together—before the outside world catches up to them.





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Good Girl is book two of Lauren Layne's stand alone series Love Unexpectedly. (Each book maybe read as a stand alone ) I didn't know what to expect, I love Ms. Layne and I have never read a bad book by her. I find myself a stepping out of my normal reading genres for her books. I'm not all that crazy about New Adult but I enjoy hers, I'm not that crazy over the "Rock Star" or in this case Country Star romance but once again I am finding that if she writes it I'll enjoy it. 

Despite all the fame of being a country singer song writer Jenny never thought it was that big of a deal she was just doing what she loved. But the paparazzi and jealous competition throw a great big monkey wrench and her life goes spiraling out of control. Now instead of being the down home sweet country girl people are looking at her like she's a home wrecking leper. Wanting an escape a place to help her get back to her roots and clear up her writers block she finds the place where it all started a summer music camp. It's closed now but she contacts the new owner and rents out the house.

Noah was his father's spare, his spare son. He was raised by his mother in a trailer park barely scrapping by but when his older brother, he never knew he had, died his father came to collect him the only reason his mother agreed was purely for his education. Noah was stuck between two worlds the one he knew as a child the blue collar world and the one his father raised him expecting him to follow in his footsteps and become just like him. Noah ends his engagement after finding out she was cheating and now he's confused about what he really wants out of life. To get away from it all he moves out to some out of the way property his father left him he never knew he had.

Noah made assumptions about Jenny, and Jenny thinking Noah was just a caretaker made her own. But the instant chemistry between the two also acts like a muse and Jenny writers block is gone. The interaction between Noah and Jenny is great. Both of them are down to earth characters and they feel like friends. Noah turns out to be so sweet and the two of them together are hot!

Overall, once again Lauren Layne has satisfied my sweet and spicy HEA tooth.   






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Lauren Layne is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen contemporary romance novels. Prior to becoming an author, Lauren worked in e-commerce and web-marketing. A year after moving from Seattle to NYC to pursue a writing career, she had a fabulous agent and multiple New York publishing deals. Lauren currently lives in Manhattan with her husband and plus-sized Pomeranian. When not writing, you’ll likely find her running (rarely), reading (sometimes), or at happy hour (often).



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Thursday, May 12, 2016

BLOG TOUR Prowled Darkness by Carrie Ann Ryan


About PROWLED DARKNESS
Humans aren’t as alone as they choose to believe. Every human possesses a trait of supernatural that lays dormant within their genetic make-up. Centuries of diluting and breeding have allowed humans to think they are alone and untouched by magic. But what happens when something changes?

Eliana Sawyer’s life was rocked from its foundation twice in as many years. She risked her heart and had it shattered into a thousand pieces when Malik left her with no warning. While she’d normally raise her chin and ignore the pain, she can’t forget what he gave her before he disappeared from her life. 

Malik Ward is a prince amongst the lion shifters and knows that one day he will have to take a mate. Only, his people can never mate with humans. Under the mistaken impression that Eliana was only human, he forced himself to leave before they’d crossed a line and he broke his vow to his people. Now that he knows the truth about Eliana, however, it will take more than groveling to win back the one woman fated to be his. 

 While Eliana and Malik embark on a new sensuous path that might lead to disaster, the realms aren’t ready to allow the final lightning-struck human to be enveloped into their fold. The couple will have to combat those plotting against them, as well as the broken promises and heated emotions they share. 

 Warning: Contains a Leo with a bite that’s worse than his roar, a woman with one last chance at the life she’s always dreamt of, a flame that could extinguish with the wrong sacrifice, and the final journey in the bestselling Dante’s Circle series.

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Such a bittersweet end. I'm glad everyone has had their HEA but it' so sad to see it end. From the first book to the last there have been babies and death the collapse of the ruling system and lots and lots of sex. This is one series that has kept me captivated from the very beginning. Carrie Ann created a cast of characters so different and unique from each other but above all they are sisters in bond even more so after the lighting strike.

Elena thought Malik was human, and Malik thought Elena was human. Well about nine months after Malik ripped out Elena's heart, as well as his own, by breaking up with her he has come back and never expected to find out that she was one of the lighting stuck women. But now that he knows and he is willing to risk everything to make her his own. Even if it means a possible civil war among his kind.

Such an ending, it's so hard to say good-bye even if they are fictional characters.

 





There were times in a man’s life when he felt like he held the world in his hands. There were times where that man could conquer that world and know instinctively what to do with the life it held.

This was not one of those times.

Malik Ward wanted to throw up, even though he didn’t have a thing in his stomach. Or maybe yell at someone until he was so red in the face he couldn’t speak. Perhaps hit someone so he could feel bone smash against bone. Or maybe, just maybe, go down to his knees in front of the woman who carried his child and beg for forgiveness.

As Malik was in line for the lion throne and a Ward, the latter wouldn’t be happening.

Ever.

If he were anything less than the lion he was, he’d have tucked his tail between his legs and walked out of the bar as quickly as he’d come in. But he wasn’t that kind of man, and now he had to face the consequences of his decisions.

And what consequences they were.



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About Carrie Ann Ryan

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan never thought she’d be a writer. Not really. No, she loved math and science and even went on to graduate school in chemistry. Yes, she read as a kid and devoured teen fiction and Harry Potter, but it wasn’t until someone handed her a romance book in her late teens that she realized that there was something out there just for her. When another author suggested she use the voices in her head for good and not evil, The Redwood Pack and all her other stories were born. Carrie Ann is a bestselling author of over twenty novels and novellas and has so much more on her mind (and on her spreadsheets *grins*) that she isn’t planning on giving up her dream anytime soon.

Monday, May 9, 2016

BLOG TOUR NEW RELEASE Until Death Do We Part by Fiona Davenport


Until Death Do We Part
A Sex & Vows Novel
Fiona Davenport
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance
   


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BLURB:
Alex Shaw.
Code Name: Justice
Contracts attorney.
Adoring husband.
Spy with a reputation for being able to break anyone.

Genevieve Shaw.
Code Name: Scarlett
International art dealer.
Loving wife.
Covert operative with more kills to her name than any other agent.

They’re crazy in love… and completely unaware of what the other is hiding. Four years of wedded bliss is blown apart when they finally cross paths on a mission. They’re hunting the same target, but with very different goals. Justice has been sent to retrieve and interrogate. Scarlett to eliminate the threat.

On opposite ends of a mission, their love is put to the ultimate test.

  
  



Think Mr. and Mrs. Smith but with more sex, more emotional connection to the characters and instead of fighting and angry sex it's just good hard fucking. Now Alex and Evie Shaw are happily married and thinking about starting a family, but after four years of hiding the truth from each other their other life forces it's way into their HEA. The book for me started a little rocky I had a bit of a hard time getting into it but once it got to the meat of the book it was unputdownable. At one point I was holding my breath, it was exciting. I loved both characters, Alex was just alpha enough to make you hot and the fact that he accepts Evie as she is both as the woman she is and as the infamous assassin, makes him hotter. Evie is a Jill of all trades in the spy biz; an expert marksman who can shoot any thing, but also hand to hand combat and bunch of other stuff but she also is a loving and devoted wife. 
Overall, this was an excellent read.   








“Colin?” Evie asked when I gave her my attention once more. “The sexy Brit at your firm?”
Despite my complete confidence in Evie and our love and desire for each other, jealousy exploded inside my head, pounding at my temples. “Yes, the dead man who used to work with me.” I was only half-kidding.
Evie’s eyes widened in surprise, then her lashes lowered, but not before I caught the coy gleam in them. “I should have known he was a spook. He just screams 007, don’t you think?”
I growled, gripping Evie’s waist and pulling her against me. “Don’t push me, baby. Or you’re going to find yourself bent over my knee with a very red ass. And then I’ll show you exactly who your man is, by fucking you into next week.”
She looked up at me through her long, dark lashes, her brown eyes heated. “Promise?”
I stifled a groan with a curse. I was going to need to learn to control myself. If I had to spend the whole mission with a hard on, it was going to make things extremely difficult. “Behave,” I scolded. Just then, the doorman whistled and a cab pulled up to the curb.
Before climbing inside, she leaned up and whispered in my ear, “Jealousy is a sexy look on you. It makes me wet.”
For the love of…I was so screwed.



OTHER BOOKS BY FIONA DAVENPORT
**All books available on Kindle Unlimited**


Risqué Contracts Series Box Set
Penalty Clause, Contingency Plan & Fraternization Rule


Yeah, Baby Series Box Set
Baby, You’re Mine, Baby Steps & Baby, Don't Go


ABOUT FIONA DAVENPORT
    
Hello! My name is Fiona Davenport and I'm a smutoholic. I've been reading raunchy romance novels since... well, forever and a day ago it seems. And now I get to write sexy stories and share them with others who are like me and enjoy their books on the steamier side. Fiona Davenport is my super-secret alias, which is kind of awesome since I've always wanted one.


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Saturday, May 7, 2016

ARC REVIEW The Girl from Summer Hill by Jude Deveraux

I have a new favorite Jude Deveraux book!

This is a retelling of Pride and Prejudice in the same manner that Kiss Me Kate is a retelling of Taming of the Shrew. If you haven't seen it or heard of it. It's a stage production of the original story but with a case of Life Imitating Art. A small town stage production of Pride and Prejudice, but the actors are put through situations and the events and their attitudes reflect that of the the original story. This is in Deveraux's Montgomery/Taggert universe but can be read apart from the other series and is the start of a new series Summer Hill. I love Jude Deveraux writing style, her writing is always humorous, sweet, romantic, and a bit of heartache. One little thing about the book I enjoyed was that instead of chapters it's Act and Scene, I thought that was neat. There is a lot going on in the book, if you know Pride and Prejudice this is very similar just updated and it's very well done.

Kit Montgomery has written a stage version of Pride and Prejudice. His idea is to get his newly discovered relative to Tate Landers to play Darcy, he just has to trick him into it. Tate's family home is in Summer Hill, his Mother had to sell the place before he was born and for his sister and his adorable niece he bought the place and fixed it up he never planned on staying there. But for his sister he will even if it means getting roped into playing Darcy. Casey Reddick was the head chef at a prestigious D.C. restaurant, but when her boyfriend left her she felt she needed to reevaluate her life, her mother suggested finally meeting her father and all eleven of her half siblings. (funny story that)

When Casey and Tate first meet it is hysterical. Casey, like Elizabeth, has an immediate dislike to the man. Tate is a famous actor and has been typecast as the brooding male role, he is use to woman falling at his feet and is intrigued with Casey who has nothing but disdain for him. Doesn't help matters that Tate's ex-brother-in-law has also been cast in the play as the part of Wickham, who in real like is the embodiment of Wickham and tries to sway Casey from Tate. You also have the side story of Jack and Gizzy aka Jane and Bingley and also that of Kit and Olivia and little Lydia.

Overall, I loved this book it was such a fun and sweet story with naked men and crazy peacocks.