Review: Untamed (Thoughtless, #4) by S.C. Stephens

4 stars! ****

Author: S.C. Stephens

Title: Untamed (Thoughtless, #4)
 

The spotlight doesn't only shine. Sometimes it burns.

Being the bad-boy bassist for the world's hottest band has earned Griffin Hancock some perks: a big house, a fast car, and most importantly his incredible wife, Anna. The one thing it hasn't brought him is the spotlight. Anna tells him to be patient, that his talent will win out. But Griffin is through waiting for permission to shine.

Without warning, Griffin makes a shocking decision and takes the gamble of a lifetime. Suddenly he's caught up in a new level of lights, cameras, and chaos. One that pushes his relationship with Anna to its limits. Anna has always found his unpredictable behavior sexy, but lately he's seen an ache in her eyes--and it has his soul in knots. Just as the recognition Griffin seeks is finally within reach, the thing he loves most in life could be slipping through his fingers...

Review: Rockstar's Girl (Decoy, #2) by K.T. Fisher

2.5 stars! ***

Author: K.T. Fisher

Title: Rockstar's Girl (Decoy, #2)
 

After finding each other after four years, Jax has found out the truth that he's Finley's dad. Even though Jax is angry with Kendal for keeping him away from his son, he still wants Kendal back. In Jax's eyes Kendal has always been his. He will have her back, even if that means having a fight in the middle of a club.

Kendal knows she loves Jax but she doesn't know if she should tell him or not. She doesn't want Finley confused. Jax knows that Kendal loves him and after telling her, he thought Kendal would confess too. Jax knows just the way to get her to admit to her true feelings. Surely getting Kendal hot and sweaty and on the verse of an orgasm will do the trick.

Join Kendal and Jax to see if they can finally be together again. Amongst the paparazzi, concerts and annoying ex partner can they find their happiness? Read Rockstar's Girl to find out.

Review: Rockstar Daddy (Decoy, #1) by K.T. Fisher

1.5 stars! **

Author: K.T. Fisher

Title: Rockstar Daddy (Decoy, #1)
 

Kendal Moore and Jax Parker met when they were eighteen. Two years later, they're together and are very much in love. At the age of twenty Kendal finds out she's pregnant, she knows she has to make the right choice.

Her Boyfriend, Jax is in an up and coming rock band called Decoy. Kendal knows that if she keeps the baby Jax will do right by her and support her all the way. But does she really want him to do that? She loves Jax too much to let him give up on his band and their dream to stardom.

So Kenal makes the hard choice to leave Jax and keeping the baby a secret.

Rockstar Daddy takes place four years after Kendal left Jax. Kendal is a hard working mum to three and a half year old Finley and Jax is a huge rockstar. Read Rockstar Daddy to follow Kendal and Jax's journey. Will Jax and Kendal meet again and will Jax find out he has a son?

Review: His Fantasy Girl (Things To Do Before You Die…, #1) by Nina Croft

2 stars! **

Author: Nina Croft

Title: His Fantasy Girl (Things To Do Before You Die…, #1)
 

When fantasy and reality collide...

There's nothing like a near death experience to make a guy reassess his life. And that's exactly what nightclub owner Logan McCabe decides to do, starting with looking up the girl he spent one wild night with eleven years ago, right before his life turned to crap. He spent a year fantasizing about her. Now he's ready to see how reality matches up.

Abigail Parker is a perfectionist. She's only strayed from the straight and narrow once in her life, on her eighteenth birthday. It was supposed to be one wild night with a totally unsuitable man before she settled into her sensible future. Instead it changed her life forever.

Logan might still be the sexiest man Imogen has ever seen, but a dirty-talking, tattooed, ex-con is the last thing she needs in her perfect life. He claims she's his fantasy girl, but what he doesn't know is she's also the mother of his ten-year old daughter...

Review: The Only One (The One, #3) by Tawdra Kandle

4.5 stars! *****

Author: Tawdra Kandle

Title: The Only One (The One, #3)
 

Mason Wallace left his hometown to live his dream: he had the perfect career, a gorgeous wife and a beautiful baby girl. He was on top of the world, until it all shattered with the sudden death of his wife. Now he's back in Georgia, running his bar and trying to take care of his family. And he needs all the help he can get.

Rilla Grant's never been farther than twenty miles from her family's farm. Her overprotective father wants her to marry their church's youth pastor and settle down into the life he's chosen for her, but she's not sure that's what she wants anymore. Rilla's chafing to make her own choices, and that includes starting her own PR business and maybe even moving off the farm, no matter how much her dad hates it.

When Mason asks Rilla to work on some promotion for his bar, she's both excited and terrified. Excited, because it's just the opportunity she's wanted, and terrified because Mason, with his electric blue eyes and drool-worthy body, is the kind of guy who makes her knees weak and her heart pound. He's the only one who's ever tempted Rilla to defy her family, and when she does just that by moving in to help take care of his daughter, they're both forced to make a decision that'll change their lives forever.

Sometimes love isn't the easy choice. Sometimes it's the only one.

Review: The First One (The One, #2) by Tawdra Kandle

4 stars! ****

Author: Tawdra Kandle

Title: The First One (The One, #2)
 

Ali and Flynn were high school sweethearts. Eager to see the world and leave behind their small Georgia hometown, they’d planned for an exciting new life together after they finished school. But on graduation day, only one of them hit the road. Eight years down that road, an unexpected loss brings Flynn home again. He’s a big-shot photo journalist, and he’s made most of his plans reality. But he’s done it alone. Is it too late for his biggest dream to come true? Ali’s spent those years working hard, raising a daughter and helping her brother keep their family farm alive. Thinking about Flynn and what might have been is a pain she tries to avoid. . .even when it’s impossible to forget. Flynn’s return brings back feelings Ali thought were long dead and hopes she’d abandoned. Finding their way back to each other will change them forever, opening old wounds and stirring up memories. Can the first love be the one that lasts forever?

Review: To Cherish and To Hold (Love of a Rockstar, #1.5) by Nicole Simone

3 stars! ***

Author: Nicole Simone

Title: To Cherish and To Hold (Love of a Rockstar, #1.5)

Luke and Marlene return in the follow up to the Amazon best selling novel, Love of a Rockstar

Marlene Parker got her fairy tale ending. Luke Anderson, her one and only love and their darling little girl are finally a family again. However, nobody said marrying a rockstar is easy. The media is out for blood, groupies are singing on Marlene’s front lawn and people are deeming her the new Yoko Ono. If that wasn’t enough, there is a wedding to plan and pies to bake. An expert in chaos, Marlene doesn’t get easily stressed. That is, until an unexpected pregnancy digs up old insecurities, potentially threatening the life she has worked so hard to gain.

Will Marlene and Luke vow to cherish and to hold forever?

Or was their story never meant to be?

Review: Love of a Rockstar (Love of a Rockstar, #1) by Nicole Simone

4 stars! ****

Author: Nicole Simone

Title: Love of a Rockstar (Love of a Rockstar, #1)

Marlene Parker thought she met her soul mate at eighteen but when he left her pregnant and alone to pursue a life of rock n roll, she vowed to never love again. Now four years later, she is being offered the dream of a lifetime. Moving to France with her daughter to start anew. There is only one problem. Marlene’s formative ex is back in town, and his pull is strong as ever.

Luke Anderson has everything a man could want. Fame, fortune and enough beautiful women to last him a lifetime. That is until a young runaway shows him what is truly important. Family. A word in which plagues Luke with regret. As a scared twenty two year old he ran away from the love of his life and their unborn child. Now ready to reverse his biggest regret with only three days to do it, Luke’s fate hangs in the balance. The question is, will he be able to convince Marlene their love story deserves a second chance?

Review: Paper Hearts (Hearts, #2) by Claire Contreras

5 stars! *****

Author: Claire Contreras

Title: Paper Hearts (Hearts, #2)

I lost her.

No, I didn't lose her. I threw her away.

She was my best friend.

I was never supposed to fall in love with her.

I was careless.

She was heartbroken.

I was doing fine until she came back into my life and reminded me what love was supposed to feel like.

When it's all said and done, she may not want to stay, but this time I'm going to do everything in my power to not let her go.

Review: Torn Hearts (Hearts, #1.5) by Claire Contreras

5 stars! *****

Author: Claire Contreras

Title: Torn Hearts (Hearts, #1.5)

They were inseparable, their love was fierce, their loyalty unwavering... or so they thought...

Torn Hearts follows Mia and Jensen's story in the beginning. Like many of our own stories, theirs is not complete. Once I am finished posting this prequel, I will give you the title of Mia and Jensen's full length, standalone story, along with a release date for it.

Review: The Girl I Was Before (Falling, #3) by Ginger Scott

3.5 stars! ****

Author: Ginger Scott

Title: The Girl I Was Before (Falling, #3)

I’m the selfish one. I suppose that’s the nicest thing people say about me. I’ve heard the other things, too. “Paige Owens is a pretty girl with nothing else to offer. She’s just a good time at a party. She’s stupid, heartless, cold and useless. All she cares about is getting a guy to look at her. Why would anyone want to be her friend?”

Some of those things are true. Others were true. They’re all hurtful.

None of it matters.

I’m ready to make the hard choices. I’m ready to face the consequences. I’m ready to be the girl I was before, and I’m done being the one who lost her way.

I’m ready to become the girl Houston Orr sees when he looks at me.

Houston isn’t a star athlete. He doesn’t play in a band. He’s never going to be president, and his life is so far away from simple and easy it isn’t even funny.
He wasn’t part of my plan. But I’m starting to think plans are overrated, and maybe our stories are what we make them. And mine depends entirely on me, and the choices I make…starting now.

Houston is my fairytale. He’s perfectly imperfect. He’s poetry and life. He’s truth and heartbreak, all rolled up in a tall body with dark hair, broad shoulders and green eyes that lull me into submission. He’s nothing I ever thought I wanted, but the very thing I need. He’s the only guy I’ve ever really loved, and he thinks I’m a princess. I fell into him, and now I’m holding on.

But sometimes life takes away our ability to choose. Sometimes…things aren’t in your control. Sometimes, it hurts to be selfless. My only hope is that when it comes time to choose, I get it right.

Welcome to my once upon a time and wish for happily ever after.

Review: Tyrant (King #2) by T.M. Frazier

4 stars! ****

Author: T.M. Frazier

Title: Tyrant (King #2)

I. Remember. Everything.

Only now I wish I didn't.

When the fog is sucked away from my mind like smoke through a vacuum, the truth that has been beyond my reach for months finally reveals itself.

But the relief I thought I would feel never comes, and I'm more afraid now than I was the morning I woke up handcuffed in King's bed.

Because with the truth comes dark secrets I was never meant to know.

I will put the lives of those I love most at risk if I let on that my memory has returned, or if I seek help from the heavily tattooed felon who owns me body and soul.

I don't know if I'm strong enough to resist the magnetic pull toward King that grows stronger every day.

He's already saved me in more ways than one. Now it's my turn to do whatever it takes to save him.

Even if that means marrying someone else...

Review: King (King, #1) by T.M. Frazier

5 stars! *****

Author: T.M. Frazier

Title: King (King, #1)

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.


Warning: This book contains graphic violence, consensual and nonconsensual sex, drug use, abuse, and other taboo subjects and adult subject matter. Although originally slated to be a standalone, KING is now a two part series.

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.

ARC review: That One Night (That One Series, #1) by Josie Wright

4.5 stars! *****

Author: Josie Wright

Title: That One Night (That One Series #1)

All it takes is just one moment to change the course of your life. For me, it was one perfect night.
I have always had a thing for my brother’s best friend, Ben. When I found him on my parents’ couch, drowning his sorrows in a whiskey bottle, my attempts to comfort him quickly turned into a night of raw and intense passion.
My foolish heart hoped he might feel the same way I do.
But Ben wasn’t there to stay and I woke up the next morning alone with a broken heart.
I attempted to forget the guy with a smile to die for and a touch that sets me on fire.
I thought I was over him.
I thought he was gone forever.
Until, eighteen months later Ben returns and learns my secret. Now, he is hell-bent on winning me back.
He plays dirty.
And he won’t stop until he gets what he wants—me.

But he has secrets of his own.
Secrets that could destroy everything we might have and everything we are.

Review: Kick Push by Jay McLean

4 stars! ****

Author: Jay McLean

Title: Kick Push (Road #2)



Kick. Push. Coast.

Amazing, emotional ride. It was full of secrets that kept you wondering. It was full of jokes that kept you laughing (well, mostly Tommy kept you laughing). It was full of romance that kept you swooning. It was full of anger and resentment that kept you wanting to punch somthing. Or someone.

It was full of sadness that made you cry. I was really strong and started leaking only in the last fifty pages! I'm glad that I was sensitive enought to not read it in public. That would've been embarassing.

Most importantly it was full of love. Not only the love you fell for someone else. The love you feel toward hobbys, toward life itself. It was full of hope. That unfulfilled dreams will come true. That everything will be alright, that we'll pull through, that everything will be okay.

Josh became a single father in his teens and he was left alone with his son Tommy. His parents threw him out, his baby mama Natalie run away and disappeared, his best friend had other concerns. He had to give up his greatest joy - skateboarding. He's on his own and he's got nothing. No money, nowhere to sleep, no support. Then a stranger comes and saves him. She takes him in and gives him everything he needs. Place to live, a helping hand, hope.

Becca is broken. After the death of her mother she comes to live with her grandma. She's surprised when she finds out that a man with a child also lives there. She can barely speak, because the car accident that kiled her mom also damaged her vocal folds. That's not the only thing. She can't handle being touched.

She and Tommy become the "bestest" friends. And with time she and Josh get closer to each other. She lets him touch her, a bit here and there. Both of them fell hard and fast.

Suddenly there are three things that Josh loves more than anything - his son, skateboarding and Becca. But she never planned to stay forever and eventually she leaves to attend college. And Josh is alone again, feeling more lonely than ever before.

Kick Push was a heart-breaking story with lots of twists. Once you start reading it's almost impossible to put it away. But it also make you want to throw it away sometimes. Or give a little shake to the people in the story.

I both loved and hated the book. I both loved and hated Becca. She was both strong and extremely weak. She was both annoying and endearing. I loved both Josh and Tommy. I loved Josh even when he was having a mental breakdown, I felt so sorry for him qnd just wanted to hug him.

And the ending? I honestly hope it wasn't the end. Such a fucki*g cliffhanger? I never read books with cliffhangers before there a continuation but I stupidly thought this one won't have it and it is a stand-alone. It just can't end like that. I'm refusing it. 

Review: Deal Breakers by Laura Lee

3.5 stars! ***

Author: Laura Lee

Title: Deal Breakers (Dealing With Love #1)




Devyn and Riley has been friends for a couple of years. The met the first year at university and has been unseparable ever since. They bonded over sports and beer. And while they do feel atracted to each other they don't pursue it.

Riley is a man-whore but at least he keeps one girl around for a couple of weeks before he bores of her and dumps her.

Devyn (I really don't think this is supposed to be a girl's name) is a gorgeous blond, she loves football (the american one) and drinks beer better than most of the men.

They hook up before moving to different parts of the US. Riley who's been attracted to Devyn from the very beginning stars to ignore her after that.

Fast forward five years they meet again and Devyn's not alone. She's got a four year old who's the spitting image of his daddy.

It was on the shorter side but it felt alright. It wasn't rushed (at all! it took them ten years after all). Sometimes I felt a bit of deja-vu because a lot of scenes were about the same thing, in the same place.

I loved the little Nathan. He's the cutest of kids I've read about until now. Or at least his in the top 10. But he's definitely the funniest. Yep, he's asked his mother why his weenie gets big when he plays with it. For real.

But Devyn's and Riley's chemistry was off the charts! Steamy smoking hot!




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

Review: Captivated By Your Love by Kennedy Kelly

2 stars! **

Author: Kennedy Kelly

Title: Captivated By Your Love (The Blue Hearts #2)

I don't get how someone who wrote such an amazing book (The Right Kind of Love) could write this. It was.. ehm.. eh.. not good.

Justice who we met in The Right Kind of Love is a police officer and he was described as alfa male. I thought he was only possesive and compulsive. Things had to be his way and no one elses. He growled and was saying "mine, mine" like a freaking Tarzan.

Someone can find it romantic and spontanious and impulsive but to me it is just screams "crazy"!

And don't let me start on Abbee. She HAS to be called Bee or she throws a fit. She's so moody. She's angry. No, she's horny. NO, she's furious. Ups, no, she's happily in love. Aaaand she's not. Argh. She resisted everything Justice did, got unreasonably upset, yelled at him and before you turn the page she's doing exactly what he wanted. She's selfish and so damn touchy.

Both of them are so immature it hurts. They don't understand they have to COMPROMISE to have a chance for a happy ending.

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

Review: The Right Kind of Love by Kennedy Kelly

4.5 "special" stars! ****

Author: Kennedy Kelly

Title: The Right Kind of Love (The Blue Heart #1)



I'm usually sceptical about these type of books - where the girl is raped/kidnapped - so I was pleasantly surprised.

Sydney Summers just moved across the country to escape her past and her stepbrother Wes to start over new in Vegas. When she knocks on her new roommate's door, she's surprised to find out that her roomate isn't she but he.

Damien Blue is a tattoo artist/guitarist and a total man-whore. He's got different girl in his bed every night and he's not planning to change his ways anytime soon. Even having a girl as a roommate isn't going to stop him.

At first those two argue and banter just about everything. They gave each other cute nicknames: prude and pig. You can guess who is who. Oh, and Sydney's little chivauva Zeus is called rat. Well, pig calls him that. Prude thinks of Zeus as her child.

After while Damien stops whoring and his usually revolving bedroom door are actually closed. They become close friends and as their relationship form and grows so does the chemistry between them.

This book took me on an emotional rollercoaster. One second I'm laughing at their bickering and the other I'm feeling so sad and angry for Sydney.

In the end Sydney showed up to be a really strong and resilient. She took what she was handled and made the best out of it.

And I totally fell for Damien. Because even though he was a man-whore, he was caring, cute, funny, protective, family oriented and sexy as hell (he's got THE piercing!). [SPOILER: He didn't even want to kiss Sydney when she was drunk, because he wanted it to be special.]

Although their relationship progressed pretty fast, it didn't seem unnatural and unbelievable as it often does.

I ate up the whole book. I went to sleep at 4am just because I had to finish it.



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

Review: Breathe Me In by Erin McCarthy

3 stars! ***

Author: Erin McCarthy

Title: Breathe Me In (Blurred Lines #5)



The beginning was great and I really enjoyed how Anya and Kane interacted and how they started to bond. But as the story went on I started to get annoyed with Anya for being such a bit*h and with Kane for being such a wimp. I mean, the NYC epizode? He changed his mind with her doing nothing but looking sad.

The ending was way to rushed and nothing was really resolved even though we get to see a glimps of their happy ever after. I'd like to read a novella with those two, how they are three years from now, how they deal with their insecurities and issues and the probable baby.

I expected to see more interaction between her and Chloe and Ethan.

But overall I quite enjoyed this book)