THE UNIDENTIFIED REDHEAD by Alice Clayton

The Unidentified Redhead by Alice Clayton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I just loved it. Grace is hysterical, free and all the things I wish I could be. I'm so buttoned down, its ridiculous. But she says and reacts exactly how she feels and is so engaging. I can see why Jack likes her.

My only issue with the story and it's probably because I work in the entertainment industry and was an agent for many years, is that there is no way I would let my friend and my top client become an item. That is a recipe for disaster and the possibility of losing a client. It actually happened to me. Now she wasn't my best friend, but I was hooking up my client and he totally left me a couple years later at her encouragement. And the person is very recognizable and on a very popular tv show right now... I digress.

Jack is so sweet. He's not concerned that Grace is older, doesn't even know her real age until towards the end of the book.

I'm already reading the second book in the series and hoping that the price drops for the third already listed to come out in December 2013.

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THE REDHEAD REVEALED by Alice Clayton

The Redhead Revealed by Alice Clayton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I love Grace and Jack. When she breaks his heart, I'm crushed for him. I get that she's concerned about what's good for him, but agree when she realizes she's only thinking of herself and not what he wants.

I absolutely love their story and can't wait to continue learning more about them in the next book. I want to learn more about Holly and Lane as well.

Their pet names for each other are hysterical and I love what his gift says and how it's only understood by them. I gasped when I thought he was proposing and wish he had, but hopefully that will happen in the next book.

I would watch this as a tv show.

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BENEATH THE SURFACE by M. A. Stacie

Beneath the Surface‏ by M.A. Stacie


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Dale Porter gets a job working for Taylor Reese at the company he runs with his brother Kyran, after finding her best friend in bed with her boyfriend and another woman. Kyran and Taylor both have their issues based on the fact that they weren't raised by their emotionally and most often physically absent father. Kyran turns to bare-knuckle fighting in a local club, where Dale's brother works. When Kyran first meets her, he's immediately taken with her and territorial over her. They start a sex-only affair, keeping everyone they know in the dark. But it soon becomes more for Dale. At the same time, she notices that things are quite right with Taylor. She asks Kyran about it, but he is always reluctant to discuss his brother or their relationship.

When Dale slips and tells Kyran she loves him, he tells her he can't tell her what she needs to hear and decides the sex-only relationship won't work for her anymore. At the same time Taylor spirals out of control and is found half dead from a drug overdose. Kyran can't deal with his personal life falling apart with both his brother and Dale. He starts fighting more and doesn't care if he gets hurt.

Dale's brother Trace tells Kyran where she's run off to and he goes to her to tell her he loves her.

This book was just this side of being okay. There just seemed to be something missing. Something that could have tipped it over and made it really good. I felt as if the story rushed over some things and didn't delve more into things that would have been spectacular. Like when Dale realized what Taylor could have been capable of and that not only did they hire her to work for him, but his brother, who she'd been sleeping with, didn't warn her what he could potentially do. I think they should have hired a guy to work for him. And why weren't they more concerned about a possible lawsuit? Because they had gotten away with paying the last person off.

I also thought that her relationship with her brother was confusing. My assumption is that Trace is older, but they have different last names. Though they have the same father. But she didn't go love with her father and brother until her mother, basically left her. So did her father have an affair with her mother while he was with Trace's mother. How was Trace living with the father, ets. just confusing to me.

And then the the names are terrible. How can one some be named something so strange as Kyran, but then his brother's name is so normal as Taylor. There's not explanation of how to pronounce Kyran's name until she starts calling him Ky. Dale seems like a guys name.

I like the idea of the story, just the execution was off for me.

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OFFICE TOY (Office Toy #1) by Cleo Peitsche

Office Toy by Cleo Peitsche
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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Elle goes in for a job interview and ends up in a threesome with the office Dominantes. It seems that her therapy session, which she took before the interview, provided them with the information that she would be open to being a submissive.

My problem isn't with the book. It's just that it all seemed to clinical. I didn't get any emotion, not even from Elle. She wasn't scared, thrilled, excited, just seemed to go with the flow. And since it was a novella, I wasn't able to get enough from any of the guys to know what they wanted from her other than sex.

Just wasn't really for me.

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A GOOD TIME by Shannyn Schroeder

A Good Time by Shannyn Schroeder
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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I liked this one a bit more than the first story in this series, More Than This . Independence "Indy" Adams knows Griffin Walker through her sister Quinn and her fiance turned husband (in this story), Ryan. Griffin is a video game titan, who got out of his humble circumstances through hard work and determination not to be anything like his cheating, conning father. He's Ryan's best friend and honorary member of the O'Leary clan.

Indy is Quinn's older sister who has always put herself second in looking out for her sister. Things from her past have kept her from thinking she's the type of person who desires or deserves a happy ending. So, when her married boyfriend, soon after his divorce, asks her to marry him, she breaks up with him. She has no intention of getting married to anyone, especially not Richard who doesn't seem to know or want to know who she really is. Indy likes to be able to change jobs when she gets bored, go out when she wants to have fun, change boyfriends when she's not longer interested. The only person she's kept at arms length is Griffin Walker. She wants the commission for finding him a house and she doesn't sleep with clients... well, at least at first.

Once Indy and Griffin start up, things start to spiral out of control. They have feelings for each other, but something happens which causes Indy to push Griffin away. But Griffin doesn't want that and he does everything he can to make her see he's there for her.

Negatives: Again, the author brings things into the story, but then drops them. Like Malcolm, what happened to him? The last thing he says to Griffin, is "You'll regret this," then we don't see him again. Griffin suspects him in some of the things that happen, but we quickly learn that Malcolm wasn't responsible. So what happens to him? What Richard did to Indy, was criminal and the fact that she nor Griffin thought to press charges against him was beyond me. What he did was absolutely crazy. I agree that lying to Richard wasn't the right way to go, but after she did it, nothing in the world should have prompted her to go back and tell him the truth. He's a despicable human being and should never be trusted with her life or anyone else's. The fact that Griffin thought she should tell Richard truth and threatened to tell him, given his history with his father, was shocking to me. Also the transition from Griffin being a total ladies man to being in love with Indy was a little clunky to me. After all the pushing him away, I'm surprised he did fall in love. I like that he did, it's just strange given his reasons for not wanting anyone permanent in his life, that he did. And why didn't he fire Kendra? That woman made me crazy in her treatment of Indy.

Positives: I loved their story. It was tragic and sweet for all the right reasons. I loved how they got together in the first place. I loved how Griffin saw Indy for who she really was, flaws and all. He understood her relationship with her sister and her father. That she was the caregiver who took care of everyone else emotionally, which left little for herself. Which I think is why she just was about having fun. She used that to keep from being hurt by people. I loved how Griffin stepped up, even when he felt like he wanted to run when Indy's circumstances changed and she started pushing him away. He didn't let her at first, then he gave her time. Almost too much time. But even when he thought she was lying to him, he stuck with her and tried to help her. He brought her into his life and asked her to help him with things that were important to him. I loved when he took her to the O'Leary's like Ryan did with Quinn. A way of introducing her to his family. I love how he respected her mind and trusted her with his business, his secrets, his public image, and didn't care what it looked like for him publicly to be with her.

I really liked this story. The ending where we have no idea of the truth, made me a little crazy, but that's not technically a negative. I kept thinking we would somehow know, because I'm hoping it's Griffin, for all of their sakes. I guess you can figure it out because of the timing, but I'm still not sure. Maybe it's just hope on my part that Richard will never have anything to do with Indy's life again. It was so sweet and sad at times. Indy just never thought she deserved anything good. She was so scared to accept that she could have what her sister had. I think she was noble in a way that she didn't want to sattle Griffin with her problems, but I think she also held on to him in her own way that allowed him to be needed and know what life could be like if he let someone need him. There was always a door slightly open to him and he stepped up and opened it.

I hope there will be more stories with this family... The O'Leary's.

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THE DOM PRIZE (The Dominants Novellas, Book 1)

The Dom Prize by Mina J. Moore
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Gosh Darn Cliffhangers...

And I don't know what I expected since it says its a novella in the title, Ugh! The interesting thing is that, although it took a moment to pick up, the story was better to me than the sex. They had a lot of it and it was fine, but the underlying things were more intriguing to me. What's with JP's father, why didn't Gia understand when he said, "The moment you walked into that room, I knew", she didn't put two and two together? Plus his insistance that she wear the red dress should have been a clue.

I just want to know so much more about of their story. There are all the elements for a full and good novel.

Well, I will definitely read the next novella.

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LICK by Kylie Scott

Lick by Kylie Scott
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

He looked to be in his mid-to-late twenties--a man, not a boy. He had long, dark hair falling past his shoulders and sideburns. His eyes were the darkest blue. They couldn't be real. Frankly, those eyes were overkill.



"Wait a minute," he said watching me through narrowed eyes. "You're just messing with me, aren't you?
"I'm so sorry."
He physically recoiled from me. "Let me get this straight, you don't remember anything?"
"No," I said, swallowing hard. "What did we do last night?"
"We got fucking married," he growled.

I loved the drama. I loved the back and forth. Evelyn had a plan, but one night in Vegas changed all that. And once she spends time with David, she just can't walk away. Bandmates come between them, fans hate her and think she's breaking up the band. The only time they seem to be on the same page is when Mal, the drummer of the band, suggest's David take her to his home. Which turns out to be in Monterey, California.

"When you looked at me it felt..."
"What?"
He cleared his throat. "I dunno. Doesn't matter."
"Yes , you do. And it does."
He groaned.
"Please?"
"Fuck's sake," he muttered, shifting around in the driver's seat all uncomfortable-like. "It felt real, okay? It felt right. I don't know how else to explain it."
I sat in stunned silence for a moment. "That's a good way to explain it."



David is himself when he is with Ev. She makes him feel like a normal guy. She tells him the truth and gives it to him straight. Even when she was drunk and didn't remember how they got married, she was still not impressed with who he was. She just liked how nice and sweet he was. But there is a hurt, self-involved rock star in there and when things don't go his way, David can throw a temper tantrum. Yet David can be oh so sweet to Ev. You suspect right away that he has deeper feelings than he's letting on. Only someone who really cares can be hurt so easily.

David's best friend and drummer in the band, Mal, is hysterical. Typical boy in a man suit, but with lots of money and the ability to get lots of girls, due to his Rock Star status. He is Ev's only ally when she's forced to go to California to get away from the paparazzi and deal with the marriage issues. Mal's attention, prompts a very jealous reaction from David.

After learning David has lied to her about who Martha was to him, Ev can't handle the lies and the world he lives in. Being married to "Rock-N-Rolls favorite son," isn't easy and people are cruel to Ev at every turn. She just want's to get to know David, because she feels that being without him feels wrong.

David doesn't give up on her, though. And how he does it is kinda really sweet.

4.5 star. I really liked this book. The only reason I'm not giving it a full five stars is because there were quite a few grammatical and spelling errors. There were even moments where I had to reread the line or paragraph to figure out what the author really meant. With something this good, it should have been edited to within an inch of it's life.

Aside from that, there are so many quotes in this book that I could throw in this review. But then I would give away everything in the book. I just thought it was sweet and adorable. I can't wait to read more about the guys in Stage Dive.

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TRAINING THEIR MATE (Pack Wars, #1) by Vella Day

Training Their Mate by Vella Day
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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Liz, Trax, Dante

Liz Wharton has gone under cover at the offices Harvey Couch in order to kill him. She read her mothers' diary after her suicide only to find out that Couch had raped her mother twenty years ago and recently started repeatedly raping her again. But the GHB, Liz has given him doesn't seem to be working. Undercover as his new assistant she'd placed it in his coffee. But when he didn't pass out, she leaves the office at the end of the day like nothing's happened. On her way to her car, Liz is attached by two 'dog,' which she witnesses turn into men.

She's saved by Trax Field, who has been tracking Couch an other like him that the call Colter's. Trax and his brother Dante are good werewolves and recognize Liz as their mate. They decide to take her to their house and keep her their until Couch can be caught. The problem is that Trax is fighting his mating instinct as Dante is embracing it and has sex with Liz almost the moment she walks into their home.

Of course there's a lot of sex, Harvey threatens Liz. Liz is ticked off when she realizes her two men are werewolves and they didn't tell her. yadda, yadda yadda.

I didn't hate it, but there were so many contradictions and dumb things in this book. At first, Liz thinks they are dogs that have attached her. But then she speculates about the movies and how there are werewolves, werecats, etc. Then she goes right back to calling them dogs. Before she even has sex with Dante, he talks to her about the fact that both he and Trax want to have sex with her then he brings it up again and says something to the effect of, "Wait until you have both of us together" and she just seems to go with it. I'm thinking WHAT?! Not that its not a nice thought, but come on. She has to be shocked that it would seem so normal to them and even that two brothers would want to share a woman. There's a point when she's changing and needs a hand hooking her bra and she puts her arms through the straps and holds it close to her and asks Trax to hook it up. But then the author writes that Liz lifts her shirt to ask him to button her jeans. Then she tells her friend Chelsea about the werewolves who've attacked her and Chelsea just goes with it. Never questions it. And it's a big fact that humans don't know about them. Also, when Couch shoots at her when she's been handcuffed in the car by Trax, she speculates that he may have blanks in his gun, because they didn't penetrate the window. I'm thinking how stupid that is. My first thought it why isn't she pissed at Trax for leaving her handcuffed and vulnerable in a car bulletproofed windows or not? Then, why would the guy have blanks in his gun, since he didn't know she was going to be there? It was just dumb. Then she stupidly asks Trax about it. It was just a terrible thing for the author to write. Liz isn't supposed to be a bubble head, that I know of. Then there is never an explanation as to why Couch was fixated on Liz's mother and felt the need to rape her once let alone twenty years later.

The only good thing about the book was her connection to Dante. He was fun and I liked his interactions with Liz.

If NetGalley provided the next book in the series, I'm not sure I would read it. I definitely wouldn't buy it.

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DOMINATING AMY by Emily Ryan-Davis

Dominating Amy by Emily Ryan-Davis
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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This book was actually part of the ExClave bundle. Although I had already read the first book. Go to Claiming Lauren to see the first book in the series. In Dominating Amy, Amy and Mac have been married for ten years. They were childhood sweethearts. But recently their relationship has changed. Amy wants to be his submissive, but doesn't know how to tell him. Mac is afraid of being anything but equal with his spouse for fear that it would be a slippery slope to becoming abusive like his father.

It seems Amy's cousin, Elizabeth, runs some sort of BDSM club from her home and she is the conduite, which both of them use to understand what they are feeling.

The story was a little disjointed and all over the place. I get that her modeling gig was a catalyst to showing him what she wanted and what turned her on, but I just don't understand the modeling gig at all. It was so inappropriate that her agency sent her out on that job, I couldn't believe it. I still have no idea really what Mac does for a living. I don't know if he works on computers or electronic equipment or what.

I get that this is a novella, therefore not much time to tell the story, but I still don't understand why two people who had been married for so long and had known each other so much longer, couldn't have a conversation about what they needed in a relationship. Now I guess if I could answer that, the divorce rate wouldn't be so hight. I just that there was a lot of avoiding for no reason.

The sex was hot, what little there was of it. But it wasn't enough to make the story, though enough to make it just okay.

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CAPTIVATION by Nicola Moriarty

Captivation by Nicola Moriarty
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

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The story opens six months after Juliette's husband, Danny, has passed. She's just starting to think it's time to get out of the house and get her life moving forward when she start smelling Danny's cologne and dreaming of his kisses start to feel more real. As time goes on, these occurrences start to increase with more frequency and definition to them. She starts feeling his touch, hearing his voice.

At the same time, her penchant for baking when she's stressed or needs to think things through increases. She starts leaving wrapped midnight gifts of her baking endeavor at the front door of her neighbors. At the same time, she notices a man watching each time she's on her balcony, from his the balcony across the court from her. But its usually late at night, and although he seems familiar in a way, its usually late at night and she doesn't stay long enough to figure it out.

Danny's presence becomes more real to the point that she can see him. But they soon realize that if she spends any time away from the apartment, or away from thinking of him and spending time with him, that is strength to be with her diminishes. Soon, Juliette is not eating, sleeping, leaving her place or even answering the phone or door. Danny becomes increasingly concerned about her health. At the same time, her mother shows up and barges in, concerned for her daughter. Her presence in the apartment diminishes Danny's spirit until he's almost gone, causing Juliette to kick her mother out of her place.

Juliette comes to the realization that she needs to end her life in order to be with Danny and keep outside forces from keeping them apart. Danny realizes he's been selfish and that she has a full life yet to live. He convinces her to change her mind and saves her from jumping from her balcony. As she heals, Juliette begins to loose the memory of what happened while she was hold up in her apartment, thinking of it as a mental breakdown, and live again. Until a year later she has a chance encounter with the man who watched her from the balcony asks her about the man she was with and it all comes back to her.

At first this was a very slow going for me as a read. Its tough to read something when the person has isolated themselves and most of what's happening is description or internal dialogue. But the one thing that go me was when Danny was trying to save her from killing herself. I cried for her dispare and her grief. I felt how hard it was for him to let her go and for him to convince her it was time for her to let him go and live her life and try to find another love. That is the reason I've given it the rating I have.

I was sincerely bored at the beginning, but once it was about her desperation to keep him with her and his desperation to let her go, it was heart wrenching. If the author could just have made the beginning more interesting, she would have had a all out hit in this story.

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CONFESSIONS OF A CHALET GIRL by Lorraine Wilson

Confessions of a Chalet Girl by Lorraine Wilson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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Holly has just arrived in Switzerland to work as a chalet girl because her best friend and flatmate, who originally suggested they both do this for the winter to catch a rich guy (her joke), had gotten pregnant and moved in her boyfriend... a mechanic's apprentice. Holly figures she'll do this job over the holidays, not have to back to her mother's home, and figure out the rest of her life when the season's over. Holly immediately attracts the attention of the owner of Chalet Repos and her boss, Scott Hamilton, although she doesn't know it at the time. Scott doesn't date employees, but he's immediately attracted to Holly.

Although she becomes a favorite of the chalet guest, due to her sweet personality, Holly quickly becomes a target by her fellow female employees due to Scott's seeming interest in her.

Scott has a thing about lying. His father is a serial adulterer, his sister passed away a year ago because she never told anyone she wasn't feeling well and ened up having cancer too advanced to do anything about it. So when he suggests Holly go with he and the some of the guests on a ski run, she's not sure where that's come from until she realizes her facebook and twitter account has been hacked. Realizing it was one of the other chalet girls, she tries to tell Scott that she doesn't ski well, but he takes it for her being modest. She soon hurt herself and he's angry because he feels she lied.

Scott ultimately realizes that Holly was set up and apologizes. They start to get very close, realizing they could be much more than a hook up to each other, when Scott tries to explain why he doesn't drink, because he used it as a crutch after his sisters death. But before Holly can hear the reason, she balks and walks away from him. She's been traumatized by a lifetime of taking care of and begging her alcoholic mother to get sobber. But Holly quickly realizes she didn't let Scott fully explain why he doesn't drink and she never told him why it bothers her so much.

They both realize the only way things will work is if they are completely honest with each other and don't jump to conclusions when the other doesn't quickly understand something, like the text from her friend asking if she's bagged the millionaire yet, which Scott reads. She laughs it off as her friend trying to get her in a relationship and he understands that it's not Holly's goal and wasn't why she was there in the first place.

It wasn't terrible, it just was a little clinical in the writing. I didn't really feel any real connection or angst from the characters. Since it was a novella, all of their conflicts were resolved so quickly and without much discussion. Things were explained and accepted at face value. I guess that's good, but it doesn't make for a great reading experience. We need misunderstandings, stubbornness and sometimes, the thought that things may not work out. Everything just fell into place. Too pat.

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LOVE AT FIRST DATE by Susan Hatler

Love At First Date by Susan Hatler
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Very cute. Not as good as the second book, but I still liked it a lot. The beginning starts off a little slow, but since its a very short novella, it quickly picks up.

I love how Ellen discovers how Henry saw her in their first moments when she views the painting. I understand her struggle in finding someone with her similar interest versus taking a chance on someone from a feeling.

I like these characters and the friendship between Rachel, Gina and Ellen. Although Ellen seems to be the catalyst in everyone's relationships but her own.

Anyway, I like this a lot.

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THE STORY GUY by Mary Ann Rivers

The Story Guy by Mary Ann Rivers
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

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Again, this is not something I like to do. An author works really hard to put themselves out there and I really respect that. But this book was terrible. I didn't care for the writing style. The characters had no chemistry whatsoever. It just didn't work for me.

I get that Brian was in a difficult situation with caring for his ailing sister, but he was such a marter about it that he'd isolated himself and not only had little to no physical help, but he had no emotional support at all. At one point I wondered if he'd caused his sister's condition, but that wasn't even the case, and yet may have made his 'story' more interesting. For someone working for the government, he spent so much time not knowing or wanting to use the services that could have made his situation a little easier.

Carrie, was a gluton for punishment. She meets this guy, whom with she has immediate chemistry online and then in person. But Brian pushes her away and keeps thing simple. Carries friends encourage her to keep trying, which I think is nuts. Yes, she's of a certain age, but who would push their friend to potentially be hurt by someone who, 1) They don't know and 2) They have no idea of his intentions or character.

Everything was written in some form of angst and with flowery prose. And ultimately, nothing really happened. Two people met in an unusual way, fought their attraction only to come together to help the other through a tough time. Eh!

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FALLING FOR THE BACKUP by Toni Aleo

Falling for the Backup by Toni Aleo
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

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Although I still love Toni Aleo and all the characters in The Assassins series, this book felt rushed. There were a lot of grammatical and spelling errors as well. I'm hoping there will be a good editing push before the actual release date.

I loved Aynslee and her very open personality. She basically has to be the pursuer in her relationship with Jordan. Getting hurt and having his previous fiance leave him while he was rehabbing had to really bring his confidence down significantly, but this guy was going to walk away from everything they had and not open his mouth to say what he wanted and how he felt. He made me crazy. Aynslee had to tell him what she wanted from him and the relationship at every turn. Which was something I really liked about her. She was so in tune with her feelings, she didn't hold anything back even when it could smack her in the face or went against convention. But he needed to be a participant as well and I didn't like that he let her down a lot because of what he thought would either be her reaction or best for her.

I also didn't like to see anyone leaving the Assassins, but I guess that's what's needed to spin off into another team and other characters. I just wished it had been a little cleaner and maybe not a novella.

But, Toni still has my heart and I can't wait to read the next book in the series.

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TRUTH OR DATE by Susan Hatler

Truth or Date by Susan Hatler
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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I thought it was adorable. Although I wanted to punch Gina a couple of times for being so obtuse. I loved how Chris played up the pretend girlfriend thing in order to keep going out with her and trying to get her to spend more time with him. I also liked how he was with her when she was with Ethan. A little possessive, but not too much.

Her friends Ellen, Kristen and Rachel were funny. Rachel being the one who tried placing Chris in Gina's orbit. She was just so fixated on what was going on with getting out of her place with George, trying to date the right type of guy and eating her Cookie Dough Ice Cream boyfriend, she couldn't see what was right in front of her.

I thought the story was adorably cute and a very fast read.

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COME AND GET IT by Keira Cole

Come and Get it by Keira Cole
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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Dixie is a widow who goes out on a first date with a California visting architect, Quin, and promptly sleeps with him. Now, I have no problem with chemistry and then the characters having sex. But there was no chemistry between these characters in this book. The first thing he says about her is "Who is the bimbo?" Who does that when they don't even know the person. She was doing nothing to have that judgement. She was serving food from her food-truck.

There was no push and pull other than Quin's internal issues over Dixie fitting into his world. He seems to go from wanting model thin, what he considers highly educated women, to Southern Belles who live on ranches. Just because she didn't finish college, doesn't mean she's stupid and the author's inference that she is is appalling to me.

How some woman get's Dixie's number off his phone and calls to leave a message is beyond me. How did she get his phone? When did he take a photo of Dixie? And when did he discuss Dixie with this person?

At one point Dixie asks Quin if he's ever been in love and he tells her no. Then later in the story the author has him thinking about the one person he allowed himself to fall in love with and was hurt by.

The story was just all over the place.

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TAKEN BY HIM by Red Garnier

Taken by Him by Red Garnier
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

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Other then the completely unrealistic chance that Peyton and Luke could meet in Cancun and end up living in the same city of Chicago and her not know anything about him, it was cute.

I liked the meet cute in Cancun. I like the fling turning into much more for both of them and how Luke didn't recognize the signes, because he'd been such a slut and womanizer all his life. He didn't get the signs until he was on his way home and didn't know how to reach her. I would have liked to have seen Luke hire someone to find and follow her. And since he did do that, I really didn't understand the author's tact at having him pissed off at her when she first walked into the his party. He knew he'd lied to her, he should have understood the shock and hurt on her face when she saw his place filled with people pj's and him surrounded by women.

But I loved how he went after her. So many times in books like this, the guy lets the woman take off to calm down. To go after her a day or how ever long later. This didn't happen here. She got away and he kept coming until he told her what he wanted to tell her.

I also wish I had been able to read what Graves did to get the people out of his place.

Nice short novella.

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TWISTED by Rebecca Zanetti

Twisted by Rebecca Zanetti
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

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This was a cute novella with lots of fighting, pack intrigue and shifting. Unfortunately for me, I'm started reading this series with a novella after five previous books. But I have to say that I'm looking forward to more in this story.

I loved Terrent's Alpha, strong, fighter personality trying to take care of his mate. I love how he pretty much stayed away from her for ten years in order to not only to try to make the world safer for her, but to give her time after losing her memory. He wanted her to heal in order to be able to accept him as who he was to her.

I thought that Shannon and Andrea were hysterical. Two unsuspecting teenagers, who are cunning saboteurs as well as good fighters, and all for the right reasons.

Maggie was funny too. How she ever trained to fight, being such a klutz is beyond me. But Terrent is always there to catch her.

Sweet. Looking forward to more in the Dark Protector's series.

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TEMPTED BY TWO by Portia Da Costa

Tempted by Two by Portia Da Costa
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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I'm not sure what it is about Portia Da Costa's writing that doesn't do it for me. I liked the story just fine, it's just her writing seems a little old fashioned. It has nothing to do with her being English. I have an affinity for the Brits and I like other British authors. I'm a bit of an Anglophile if I say so myself, especially when it comes to film and television. But, her style just dosen't seem flow well for me. This is the second of her books that I've read, and as I read this one, I realized what my problem was with the first of her titles I'd read.

Now, that being said. I am the first to love the idea of two men and a woman. But I have to say, I'm not into two men who are sexually into each other and a woman. Just does nothing for me. I think I would feel left out of the equation if they were together without me. Selfish, I know, but just how the fantasy works for me.

In this novella, there isn't much of a backstory for our heroine, Katie. She seems to be on some sort of long holiday. And let me tell you, three days alone in the country, let alone three weeks, does not sound fun or relaxing to me. Anyway, she meets an artist, Marcus Dane, while viewing his work. He promptly takes her to meet up with him lover, Owen. They, not so subtly, proposition her and begin to make love to her. Well, technically not make love. They feel her up and get her off. Then they put on a show for her and have sex with each other.

The book goes on to have them have sex in public places. Then they cut to three week later, where Katie is sad to leave, but believes that they don't need a third wheel and will be happy to get back to just the two of them. Marcus and Owen are both afraid to say anything to each other fearing that the other will think they aren't enough. But they eventually come clean and realize that having Katie in the mix is what makes them a unit. They go into the city after her and plead their case in front of all her co-workers, where they convince her to come back with them and be a permanent part of their lives.

Although that part of them showing up at her job was really funny to me, some of the very real aspects of relationships weren't addressed. Kids, funds, property, etc. I know its a book, but it just leant itself to the realities and not the general fantasies while reading this story.

I don't know, it wasn't terrible and it was a little better than just okay, but I couldn't give it more stars. It just wasn't enough emotion, fun or fantasy of the situation for me.



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NO STRINGS ATTACHED by Nicolette Day

No Strings Attached by Nicolette Day
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

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Cute... Jace and Hayden had been childhood friends. Best friends. Jace had spent the last year being her best friend, rock and confidant after her ex-had been found in bed with her cousin, whom he'd just informed her he was marrying. Hayden was spending her last night with her friend Lily and Jace's club. She was determined to have one last fling before she was going to spend a year in the Sudan taking photos for Time magazine.

Jace had been supportive of Hayden's work, but couldn't support this. Not only because she would be in a war-torn country, but because he felt like he was losing her. That he was losing his chance to be with the woman he loved. The problem was, neither of them wanted to risk the friendship and tell the other how they really felt. How they had always felt about each other.

Hayden, goes into the store room thinking she's going to break from her reserved ways and have a one-night stand with a random guy, only to discover it's Jace she's been kissing in the dark.

They spend the night together and realize they can't let each other go.

Sweet, cute and to the point. Just not much else there and since it's a novella, it feels like it skims over every real emotion or potential heat. Not bad, just not spectacular either.

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DOUBLE COVERAGE by Mercy Celeste

Double Coverage by Mercy Celeste
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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4.5 Stars. Okay, this is a novella so there isn't much back story, but what there is is sufficient enough for me to give me the needed information of relationships, connections or lack there of. I actually wish there was more story development just to add more layers to the story because I thought it was good. I just wanted more which is why it's not five full stars.

But all that to say that when Kailey finally gets together with both Trigger and Bullet (interesting and subliminal nicknames), the sex is H.O.T. I wasn't expecting what happened.

I loved Kailey Whitmore. She was super smart, sassy and sexy at the same time. A lethal combination. I loved how the popular girls, specifically Jennifer, wanted what Kailey ended up with, but was so dumb she didn't even pick up on what the relationship was. Not like Sara Beth and Heather did.

When Kailey returns to her home town for her class reunion, she's a little apprehensive because she's scandalously and recently divorced from her philandering husband who may be go to jail for embezzlement and fraud. When her childhood crush and all around Jock and popular guy Trig "Trigger" Morgan approaches her at the bar. He tells her he had a crush on her when he was a kid and Kailey doesn't believe him. She thinks she's being punked. But decides to take the plunge and go for it.

After an incredible night together, she leaves him for a meeting, doing the "walk of shame" out of the hotel and garnering the attention of Robert (Bobby) "Bullet" Brady, NFL superstar and Trig's childhood best friend. We discover there is a backstory there which has strained their friendship a bit. I would have liked to know more about that, but you get the gist as things progress. It turns out that Trig and Bullet used to share women through high school, college and into adulthood. But things have changed and Trigger doesn't want to share Kailey. Bullet pushes them both and soon they are all in bed together with hot and enticing results.

They figure out that they meet each others needs in more ways than one and can be a family.

You have to suspend belief that this type of relationship could be kept secret for five years with one of them being in the public eye. But, I was willing just to have the fantasy that it could be real.

Yowza... This was scorching hot for me. I will definitely check out Mercy's other titles. She should write bigger story with more layers. I think she would do really well.

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DRAGON MINE by Jaime Rush

Dragon Mine by Jaime Rush
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

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I didn't like this at all. It rambled about their origins, which I still didn't completely understand. The jumping to conclusions by both Kirin and Elle. Lyra comes into the story as the catalyst to bring Kirin back to their town, then promptly disappears. Elle says she suspect Lyra of trying to get them back together, but then Lyra flips out on the phone when Kirin is with Elle.

His father is missing, her father is missing and there are strange Gods watching everything play out like its a football game.

Then the story had the nerve to end on a cliffhanger... Huh?!

Just too strange and not enough information for me to care about the characters. I just wanted it to be over. I don't like saying I hate someone's hard work and efforts to create a story, but this just didn't work for me.

Sorry!

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UNINHIBITED (Unlikely Lovers #2) by Cheryl Brooks

Uninhibited by Cheryl Brooks
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

There were some very funny parts of this book. But the writing was a little average to me.

Although Emily mentions it a couple times, I wonder if Alan shouldn't go to the doctor to get checked out. I have never heard of this ever happening with any guy. I don't even know how it would be possible. Also, to not care about sports at all. I'd wonder if he was missing some testosteron. But, I did like reading how Emily would prove that she wasn't like the other women who'd run out on him.

I knew the moment he talked about his last encounter before he decided to abstain for the past year, who he was talking about. it was so obvious. Small town, her bother lives across the street, Carol turns out to be her sisters friend. How he did't put two and two together is beyond me.

Anyway, it was okay. quick read and funny in parts.

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REAPER'S PROPERTY by Joanna Wylder

Reaper's Property by Joanna Wylde
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Although I think I would balk like a crazy person if someone was this dominate with me, I love the idea of Horse. He saw what he wanted and went after it. Tried to protect Marie as best he could. The lack of communication from someone like this would send me over the ever-loving edge.

But what could be wrong with a guy named 'Horse' for his Johnson (pun intended)? I could just could just squeal thinking about him. Sigh!

I read this in one sitting. Thanks Tosha, for the lend.


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