COURTING TROUBLE by Maggie Marr

Courting Trouble by Maggie Marr
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

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There just wasn't much to this story. I could tell you where it was going from the first moment. Savannah was boring and one dimensional. She just seemed so angry. I understand her not wanting her daughter to be hurt by her father, but it felt like the character was more upset that he wasn't around early on in their relationship, therefore she didn't want him in her daughter's life.

As for Cade... If he loved Tulsa so much, he should have gone after her to find out why she left and not waited 20 years until she came back to ask her the question. Also, how blind could Cade be to his father's machinations. His father even treated his half brother Wayne poorly. To blindly believe his father, even though he was his father was dumb. Your parents are infallible.

Now Tulsa flip-flopped so much that I didn't know if she was coming or going. Ad for some wo was almost 40 years old and as successful as she was should have been better able to communicate who she was, what she wanted and what happened to her. She just never seemed clear on her feelings and after so many years, it should have been easy to say. Example is when her sister confronts her about looking into her mother's death. I mean, I don't care what discomfort I may have to go through and what other people think, there is no way I would want to let anyone get away with her death and I would want to know what happened. I just thought that Tulsa should have been able to explain that. I realize their mother wasn't June Cleaver, but still being left in a ditch or just dropped off at the hospital wasn't a cool way for her to be treated.

And for that matter, once Cade knew all that his father had done, he forgave so easily. I get that the man's days were numbered, but still. It was just too easy.

I didn't feel that the story as a whole had any high stakes. If a judge let the kid go to Alaska with her father, where his job wasn't stable, he wouldn't be around much to make sure she had rules and bouderies and just basically let her move to Alaska because she wanted to, and there was nothing that Savannah had done to cause her to lose custody would have been ridiculous.

I don't know, there was just so much detail that I didn't care about, it just wasn't the story for me.

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BONDS OF TRUST by Lynda Aicher

Bonds of Trust by Lynda Aicher
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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It was okay, as I've indicated in the two star mark. I enjoyed the read to an extent, but there wasn't any big payoff. I knew where it was headed, I even figured that Cali's ex-husband was a submissive.

I didn't get enough history of Jake, Seth and Deklan to really get their connection or why Jake felt like he had to run. Even though Doug explained how and why his parents were killed, but it still wasn't enough emotionality to it.

I also thought it was strange that Kendra was so secretive and nothing that made me really want to know why in the story. I just kept thinking, leave her alone, I don't care why she keeps leaving so quickly.

There were a lot of misspellings and grammatical errors, which should be fixed by an editor before the book comes out. Like I said, enjoyable enough read, I just don't care enough to read the sequels.

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THREE STAGES OF LUST: LOVE by TC Anthony

Three Stages of Love: Lust by T.C. Anthony
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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It was better than Okay, but not quite 3 stars. There were a lot of grammatical and spelling errors. I thought that Eva's back and forth as to what she was willing to give or receive was annoying and gave me whiplash.

I don't like how the book ended, because I now want to know if Alexander will forgive her or not :). I'm assuming he will, but the excitement and anxiety you get from the lust or push-pull in these types of books was slightly missing.

The only emotional pull is from the loss of her friend and the guilt you are sure she's experiencing for living and loving her life while her friend dies. I get that.

But like I said, for some reason I want to know what happens next. Not the best written book, but not the worst either.

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ENTICE by Jessica Shirvingtion

Entice by Jessica Shirvington
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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I have to say I was greatly disappointed by this installment, since I so loved the first book in the series. I don't want to say I didn't like it because I do like these characters, I just didn't like it a lot. It was just okay.

I found Violet whinny and fatiguing. I just wanted her to get a backbone and say what she wanted and what she needed. It was like everything she was feeling had to be a secret and I'm not sure as to why. If she would tell them what Phoenix was doing to her or how she was feeling about Lincoln, maybe a lot of her anxiety would go away. There's something to be said for being a straight shooter and I felt like Violet was that in the first book. When she was pissed she told Lincoln and/or Phoenix how she was feeling. She even asked Phoenix to help her with her emotions. She was straight about how she felt and what she wanted, no matter how wrong or right it was.

I felt like Lincoln was more of a teenager than a man. His emotional response to seeing Violet kiss Spence was dumb to me. Dropping his glass and running out. Then when he realizes she was manipulated by Phoenix, he can barely keep his hands off of her. And there was no real resolution to that either. I'm sure it will come later, but it's dragging for me. I need to know what their choices are and if they will be like Rudyard and Nyla were.

Why no one could figure out that Magda was the traitor in Violet's dreams is beyond me. It seems Violet paid very little attention to what her dreams were telling her. She didn't even go to Griffen or Linc to talk them out to get clarity. There were just a lot of missed opportunities to me. And why did they let Magda go? She knows too much about them and about their plans. Just dumb to me.

Also Jude's last minute arrival into the story was kinda weird to me as well. It was just strange to me. He was sort of dropped in in my opinion.

The action was also lacking compared to the first book in my opinion. I just liked the first book so much better.

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DOUBLE TIME by Olivi a Cunning

Double Time by Olivia Cunning
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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Where I liked everyone else's story, I didn't like Trey's. Don't get me wrong, I still love reading about all the Sinners, but I found Trey, selfish and childish. Who pines for someone for 14 years knowing they aren't interested in you. Maybe before Brian got married, but once he made his choice and married Myrna, Trey needed to pull up his big boy underwear and get a life. I also didn't like the fact that the author made it seem like Brian loved him as much as Trey loved Brian, but made a choice to be with a woman therefore, belittling the relationship between Brian an Myrna... To me.

I didn't like the fact that Trey was using Reagan, in the beginning, to get over Brian and wasn't honest with her about his feelings. I also, don't like the fact that although he's bi-sexual, he can't be in love with one person and be monogamous. Trey says he's in love with Reagan, but he still needs a hard body. Than find a relationship with a man and not a woman, but not with both at the same time. I still think it's cheating. Maybe I'm just too conventional. I have nothing against Threesomes, but when you tell someone you love them, that should be it. I don't know, just didn't like his vibe.

Trey was never happy for the milestones in Brian's life, he was always thinking about himself. Even Myrna new that Trey was struggling and thought about him enough to ask if he was okay. But Trey only thought about what he wanted and who he wanted to the point of telling Brian after all was said and done. If he didn't have the balls to tell Brian how he felt before Brian got married and there were others on both sides of the relationship, then it was time to not speak and let it go.

It's like being so guilt ridden that you had an affair that you tell the other person. It's not for them, its for you. I just didn't like this one as much as the others.

I hope there will be books about Exodus End....

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