Review: Quintessentially Q (Monsters in the Dark, #2) by Pepper Winters

2 stars! **

Author: Pepper Winters

Title: Quintessentially Q (Monsters in the Dark, #2)

“All my life, I battled with the knowledge I was twisted… screwed up to want something so deliciously dark—wrong on so many levels. But then slave fifty-eight entered my world. Hissing, fighting, with a core of iron, she showed me an existence where two wrongs do make a right."

Tess is Q’s completely. Q is Tess’s irrevocably. But now, they must learn the boundaries of their unconventional relationship, while Tess seeks vengeance on the men who sold her. Q made a blood-oath to deliver their corpses at Tess’s feet, and that’s just what he’ll do.

He may be a monster, but he’s Tess’s monster.

Review: Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark, #1) by Pepper Winters

3 stars! ***

Author: Pepper Winters

Title: Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark, #1)

“My life was complete. Happy, content, everything neat and perfect.
Then it all changed.
I was sold.”Tess Snow has everything she ever wanted: one more semester before a career in property development, a loving boyfriend, and a future dazzling bright with possibility.

For their two year anniversary, Brax surprises Tess with a romantic trip to Mexico. Sandy beaches, delicious cocktails, and soul-connecting sex set the mood for a wonderful holiday. With a full heart, and looking forward to a passion filled week, Tess is on top of the world.

But lusty paradise is shattered.

Kidnapped. Drugged. Stolen. Tess is forced into a world full of darkness and terror.

Captive and alone with no savior, no lover, no faith, no future, Tess evolves from terrified girl to fierce fighter. But no matter her strength, it can’t save her from the horror of being sold.

Can Brax find Tess before she’s broken and ruined, or will Tess’s new owner change her life forever?

Review: Beneath These Scars (Beneath, #4) by Meghan March

3.5 stars! ***

Author: Meghan March

Title: Beneath These Scars (Beneath, #4)
 

I’m the guy you love to hate.

In every story in my life, I seem to end up playing the villain—and I’ve got the scars to prove it.

That role works fine for me, because I’m sure as hell not anyone’s hero.

I run my life and my empire with an iron fist—until she knocks my tightly controlled world off its axis.

She’s nobody’s damsel in distress, but I can’t help but want to save her anyway.

I guess we’re about to find out if there’s a hero buried … beneath these scars.

Review: Gabriel's Redemption (Gabriel's Inferno, #3) by Sylvain Reynard

2 stars! **

Author: Sylvain Reynard
Title: Gabriel's Redemption (Gabriel's Inferno #3)

Professor Gabriel Emerson has left his position at the University of Toronto to embark on a new life with his beloved Julianne. Together, he’s confident that they can face any challenge. And he’s eager to become a father.

But Julianne’s graduate program threatens Gabriel’s plans, as the pressures of being a student become all consuming. When she is given the honor of presenting an academic lecture at Oxford, Gabriel is forced to confront her about the subject of her presentation – research that conflicts with his own. And in Oxford, several individuals from their past appear, including an old nemesis intent on humiliating Julia and exposing one of Gabriel’s darkest secrets.

In an effort to confront his remaining demons, Gabriel begins a quest to discover more about his biological parents, beginning a chain of events that has startling repercussions for himself, Julianne, and his hope of having a family.

Review: Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2) by Sylvain Reynard

2.5 stars! ***

Author: Sylvain Reynard

Title: Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno #2)

Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell. Sequestered on a romantic holiday in Italy, he tutors her in the sensual delights of the body and the raptures of sex. But when they return, their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics, and a jealous ex-lover. When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he succumb to Dante's fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever? In Gabriel's Rapture, the brilliant sequel to the wildly successful debut novel, Gabriel's Inferno, Sylvain Reynard weaves an exquisite love story that will touch the reader's mind, body, and soul, forever.

Review: Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1) by Sylvain Reynard

3.5 stars! ****

Author: Sylvain Reynard

Title: Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno #1)

Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption.

When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends him on a journey in which his past and his present collide.

An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love and redemption, "Gabriel's Inferno" is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible...forgiveness and love.

ARC review: Beautiful Surrender (Forever, #3) by Priscilla West

3 stars! ***

Author: Priscilla West

Title: Beautiful Surrender (Forever, #3)

“What gives you a thrill Kristen?”

The conclusion to the Surrender Series by Priscilla West.

No one is who they seem to be.

Kristen let Vincent into her heart because he seemed so different from everyone in her conservative world of wealth management. She thought they shared something special, but when she realizes that Vincent has been playing her the entire time, her heart is crushed.

As Kristen’s relationship with Vincent reaches a crisis point, a man from Kristen’s past returns looking for a second chance. Is her ex-boyfriend really looking for redemption or is his goal something more sinister?

Kristen struggles to hold herself together, until she discovers a revelation that will change everything.

ARC review: Secret Surrender (Forever, #2) by Priscilla West

3 stars! ***

Author: Priscilla West

Title: Secret Surrender (Forever, #2)

“What gives you a thrill Kristen?”

I knew that giving in to Vincent Sorenson was a risk, but it was one I was willing to take. I had hidden my heart for so long and for the first time in a long time, Vincent was close to breaking down the walls.

When a trip to Vincent’s exclusive private island reveals the real Vincent underneath the layers of suave nonchalance, I thought we were close to the start of something special.

Just when things were looking up for us, I would discover the one secret that Vincent never intended for me to find.

ARC review: Forbidden Surrender (Forever, #1) by Priscilla West

3.5 stars! ***

Author: Priscilla West

Title: Forbidden Surrender (Forever, #1)

“What gives you a thrill Kristen?”

The minute I saw Vincent Sorenson, I knew he was trouble. Billionaire. Bad boy. And dangerously sexy. He was everything I craved, and nothing I needed.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t just avoid him. The higher ups at my company decided they needed his business, and I was on the team to bring him in. Vincent Sorenson didn’t seem as interested in business as he was in me, but I knew that was a door better left unopened. If I got involved with him, it would only unearth the pain I spent years trying to bury.

I thought I had it under control, but I seriously underestimated Vincent’s seductive charm and silver-tongue. I would soon find out how delicious it would feel to let myself fall into this forbidden surrender.

Review: Reunited in Love by Nadia Lee

2 stars! **

Author: Nadia Lee

Title: Reunited in Love (Hearts on the Line, #2)


Hmm. Not what I expected. I knew a bit of the background story beacause I spoilered myself by reading The Billionaire's Secret Wife and I thought Reunited in Love will be about forgiveness, inner strenghth, love and steaaamy scenes. There were none of that.

Ethan is Alex's best friend and we met both of them in Vengeful in Love. He'd grown up in a warm, loving italian family, he's open-minded, muscular, good looking and a bit of a workaholic.

Kerri is Natalie's best friend and again we've met them in Vengeful in Love. Her family practically shunned her and when her grandpa finally reachs out to her, she runs away. Too little, too late.

  

Ethan is the one who picks her up on the airport where they realized they'd already a one night stand before (I expected that it will held some significance later in the story, but no). And they pick up right where they left it. BUT it's only temporary. Because Kerii is so scared of commitinh herself that she'd have run away if she thought Ethan wanted something premanent.

I really really really didn't like Kerri. She was so damn annoying, selfish, self-centered bit*h. What I don't understand is how she and Natalie can be BFFs when Nat know basicaly nothing about Kerri, because she never shared a single thing. She didn't even go to Nat's wedding because someone from her family might have gone there.

What intrigued me was Catherine Fairchild. To be honest I'll probably skip the other novels and just read only hers and than move on to another author.

Review: Vengeful in Love by Nadia Lee

3 stars! ***

Author: Nadia Lee

Title: Vengeful in Love (Hearts on the Line, #1)




Oh god! So many names! There were like thirty different names in the first ten pages. And so many relationships and connections between those names! Ugh. But I finally started to orient hundred pages later. Yup, my memory is that good.

Alex Damos wants revenge. And he'd do anything to achieve it. All he needs to do now is to take over the company lead by a son of the woman who destroyed his father. But there's problem. Someone from his own company is leaking critical information.

Natalie Hall is an asian who was adopted by a senator Brian Hall. That's the official story. He found her abandoned as a baby in a trash. Her step-mother and step-sister are hostile towards her if Nat is having a lucky day and mean when she's not. But her godmother is good to her and supports her no matter what. Her godmother is also the woman Alex wants to destroy.

Although Alex only wants to use Natalie at first, their chemistry is off the charts and he starts to find out that she's nothing like he expected. In reality she's smart, beautiful, kind and lonely. And he starts to wish that she wasn't the one leaking the information. He doesn't only wish he believes it. But then proves that she did it are discovered and chases her away.

Natalie doesn't know what happened. Man she thought she was in love with doesn't trust her, her grandmother tried to blackmail her, her father lied to her. She's got nothing left and is ready to move somewhere else and start over new.

These "I-want-revenge-no-matter-what" themed books are getting kind of annoying. They are all the same. You could wake me up in the middle of the night and ask me how exactly some random book with this theme will go and I'd tell you. And 99% of what I'd say would be spot-on.

I'm not saying it was bad (because it wasn't) but if you expect something you've never read before, this isn't it.

Review: The Billionaire's Secret Wife by Nadia Lee

3.5 stars! ***

Author: Nadia Lee

Title: The Billionaire's Secret Wife (The Pryce Family, #3)



This is a third book in the spin off series The Pryce Family. I haven't read any of the books in this or the Billionaires in Love series and luckily I wasn't missing way too many details, there was no big hole of what I don't know or understand. So it can be read as a standalone without any problems and misunderstandings.

The billionaire books are my dirty little secret. I can't even imagine having that much money (not that I would've minded. if someone got a few billions to spare you can give them to me), but I like seeing a filthy rich man fall in love with a girl who's not a golddigger.

In The Billionaire's Secret Wife both Vanessa and Justin are insanely rich, altough Justin's considerably wealthier. They've been dating on and off for the last ten years and Justin has finally had enough of only being her booty call.

Vanessa has a lot of issues. Her parents cheated on each other the whole time they were married, her grandmother was a nasty bich. Vanessa wants to prove the world that she can become a partner in a law firm without her family connections.

One booty call led to another and suddenly she finds herself pregnant. And married to Justin. But it's not because they realized they love each other. No, it's a convenience marriage.

The ending without epilog was cheesy and predictable, but that's how it usually is. At least it wasn't too hurried. The epilog was more of a prolog to the next book that will be concentrated on another member of the Pryce family - Shane.

I wasn't disappointed but I also wasn't blown away. There are still lots of guestions unanswered - such as Vanessa's stepsister, the whole marriage of Vanessa's parents. But I think some of those will be answered in the next two books in the series. Hopefully.

Review: Pursued by the Devil by Carole Mortimer

 2.5 stars! ***

Author: Carole Mortimer

Title: Pursued by the Devil



Mikhail is an Russian billionaire and is trying to buy another company. He's hot, he's rich, he's arrogant and he always get what he wants. And what he wants right now is Lindsey.

Lindsey is a lawyer to the company owner. She just broke up with a cheating boyfriend and the last thing she wants right now is be pursued by a playboy billionaire. Moreover he stand on the other side of the court in this case.

Because Lindsey says no to Mikhail, something he obviously never heard before so now there's no way he could back out. So he suddenly doesn't want the company anymore and Lindsey isn't conflicted.

So far so good.

Of course they hook up and he asks her to MARRY him after two days. I mean.. What?

What I like about the book was Mikhail's inner Mischa, the bear in Russian. He growled and conqured and then in the end he was tamed.






*ARC courtesy of publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

Review: Belinda by Peggy Webb

2 stars! **

Author: Peggy Webb

Title: Belinda (The Dixie Virgin Chronicles, #1)


Well. What to write and not be rude?  












Belinda, is a virgin and member of Dixie virgin club with other girls. She never stayes at one place for long and one day she runs into Reeves, who is widower with two kinds. Belinda becomes their nanny. Most of the book nothing happens. Somehow Belinda fell in love with Reeves, that happens kind of overnight and even though he was being dic*k to her. He treats her as a thing, not as a person, always thinking about his dead wife.

Couple pages left and BUM! Suddenly he goes down on his knee and askes her to marry him, telling her he'll love her forever. Just nononono. We never see any development of those kind of feelings and it felt really fake.

But I enjoyed some parts, the ones where the kids were and the ones with housekeeper. That why I give two start instead of just one.

Review: Easy Love by Kristen Proby

4 stars! 

Author: Kristen Proby

Title: Easy Love (Boudreaux, #1)

Eli, a workoholic CEO, who's trying to be what he thought his father wanted him to be. Someone steals from within his company and has to hire Kate (she knows the rest of the family - 5 siblings and his mother). When they see each other they both feel instant attraction. At first they try to resist it, but then they stop trying to fight it and we have some hot steamy scenes.

Kate goes undercover while she investigates and after while it's pretty obvious who steals (not at first, though; we had several suspects and many misunderstanding but in the end it's clear who does it).

We also meet Lila, and we get to know bit more about her. If you read her novel (Easy with You) as a first one like me, it will enlight some things that didn't really make sense in it.

After the crime is resolved and the relationship between Eli and Kate ends. As does the book. 

Nah, not really, not yet anyway.

Misunderstating happens (because we can't have a romance book without a misunderstanding!) and Eli has to come for Kate to Denver. They made up, happy ever after.

Epilogue is kind of a prolog for Rhys' story (Easy Charm). I'm really excited for that one and also for Van's story, I'd love to see her and Ben's HEA.