Until the Sun Falls from the Sky (The Three Series)

Until the Sun Falls from the Sky

I started first with book 2 of the series.  Though I didn't miss any story from the first book like you can start with either one of them... Lucien was mentioned and made presence a couple of times.. and that was so enough to get me intrigued. I wanted more of Lucien. I wanted to know him better.
I call this book Vamp and the second book Wolf.

Vamp story goes differently than Wolf. Wolf was intense from the beginning. Cal and Sonia were destined to be. Cal was known King. And he was kind and warm....

While Lucien.... Lucien was a vampire... so yeah, he was what he was supposed to be.. cold. But Lucien was the sweetest vampire, ever. The way he talked.. The way he explained.. The way he protected her...

Half of Vamp was focused on vampire and Leah's nature.. it was focused on him 'taming' her. The pace was slow. Half way through Vamp, I got tightness in my chest twice. This book can't be that bad. It's just that... Like I told you, there isn't any essence in it. Only how he's gonna get her. Tame her. 

And finally after she's 'broken' like almost at 70% things started getting interesting. And the real interesting part came at like last 10% !!!!!

Won't say I regret spending time reading it. I knew I just had to read it. Lol.

Now book 3 will be about a hybrid and a mortal... We'll see if I'll give that one a go. At the moment I'm content with these two books. ;)

With Everything I Am (The Three Series)

With Everything I Am

Read its prologue and I fell in love. LOVE LOVE it.

I do read some paranormal. But I never really fray from vampires.
I never really thought I'd love Wolf. But you can't resist this King Callum.

Chemistry between this wolf and Sonia, his human lifemate is like BIG, HUGE... Like when Jacob is imprinted... but this is no baby wolf.... this is KING of WOLVES!!!And man is he hot.
You're gonna love their conversation, their confrontation... talking and non talking...
I ended up highlighting almost half of the book! And still fanning myself.
Love love Callum. Thank you Kristen Ashley! :)

I'm well aware that this is book 2 of the series. I haven't read book 1 but I don't feel like missing anything. Though Lucien from book 1 was mentioned here and there in this book, it only make me more curious... if Wolf could be this good, I shouldn't miss the Vampire from book 1 and I'm sooo gonna get it soon!!!

"Baby doll, you're about to be claimed." 

>__<

Books I read in November

1. Groupie by Ginger Voight
I may not have been able to avoid falling in love with Giovanni Carnevale.
The mistake was when I thought I could ever claim him as mine.
2. Rock Star (Groupie) by Ginger Voight
3. Undeniable by Madeline Sheehan
4. Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet: Book 1) by CJ Roberts
5. Seduced in the Dark (The Dark Duet: Book 2) by CJ Roberts
6. Charade by Nyrae Dawn
7. Covet (Vampire Erotic Theatre Romance Series Book 1) by Felicity Heaton
8. Unravel Me by Kendall Ryan
9. This Man by Jodi Ellen Malpas
10. The Edge of Never by Redmerski, J.A.
 

Kiss Me (The Keatyn Chronicles: Book two) by Jillian Dodd

Kiss Me

I read That Boy. I read That Wedding. And I love Jillian Dodd's writing style. So, yeah... I read Stalked Me. I had no hesitation to buy Kiss Me. And I wasn't disappointed. Stalked Me was good. Kiss Me was even better. I don't know how she did it... but I feel Keatyn more. I feel her silliness fitting for a 17 years old girl. I feel her confident when she needed it. I feel her fear when the stalker and her friends and family are involed. I feel her frustration... Oh and all the hotties, the gods, the gorgeous.. swoon! Can't wait for Date Me! I wonder who will it be? Dawson? Aiden? Oh god... please let it be God of all Hotties!!! >.<

Oh, and if before, during, or after reading you wanna discuss, you can join the amazing Keatyn Chronicles Boy Discussion Group on Facebook :)

Unravel Me by Kendall Ryan

Unravel Me

The name was Ashlyn Drake. She's a doctoral student studying behavioral psychology. Her thesis focused on the effects of amnesia. This time her subject was suffering from a complete amnesia. He was arrested at the scene of a murder, standing over a man who'd been beaten so badly he had to be identified through dental records. The problem was... his beauty stirred her hormones...
 
Lying in the hospital bed like that, he could have been posing for a cologne ad. Scent de insanity......

Covet (Vampire Erotic Theatre Romance Series Book 1)

Covet

There was one rule his kind honored above all others: an owned human must never be touched by a vampire other than their master.
Every vampire knew that to lay a hand on a bonded human out of desire or feed from their vein caused them immeasurable pain and suffering, and that their master would know of it and would come to act out the penalty.

But what if it's the human who initiate the contact? What if Lilah is the one who seduced Javier? Chemistry was very strong. It was short with only 95 pages... but just enough. All essentials covered. Just good.

Groupie

Groupie

O M G. I think I've just gotten myself another good book. The book got me from it's first page, and now only at 2% I'm already all excited to read it through and already bought book 2 Rock Star.

And better yet, if you wanna save, you can buy a Groupie/Rock Star bundle too.

I know now I will have an enjoyable weekend... hopefully not too zombie like! :)

Books I read in October

1.  Bared to You by Sylvia Day

     read in May, reread again to refresh memory about Gideon and Eva

2.  Reflected in You by Sylvia Day
3.  My Favorite Mistake by Chelsea M. Cameron
4.  Love Left Behind by S.H. Kolee
5.  Down to You by M. Leighton
6. Table for Two: A New Adult Novel by Alexis Lauren
7.  The Wild Ones by M. Leighton
8.  The Christmas Catch (Holiday Brides Series) by Ginny Baird
9.  A Table for Three by Lainey Reese
10. Love, Lies and High Heels by Debby Conrad
11. The Bride Wore Chocolate (Sweet and Savory Romances) by Shirley Jump
12. Let's Make It Legal by Patricia Kay
13. Losing It by Cora Carmack
14. Devoured by Emily Snow
15. Bargain in Bronze (Flirting to Win) by Natalie Anderson

Let's Make It Legal

Let's Make It Legal

The language was beautifully written. The book was first published in 1994 when cell phone wasn't a household item. Note from the author already made it sounds so charmingly classic. Life without a cell phone!

John was a successful lawyer. But he gave it all up after his wife died and became a work at home Dad for his two children. He made the downstairs of his house a paralegal temp office.

Sydney was like a replica of Andrea, John's wife. They're both overachiever lawyers. Driven. Focused. Aggressive. Exactly what John didn't need in his life. But he inevitably found himself falling for her.

The mood of the book was almost all the time light, until the slight conflict near the end. But don't worry, it's a HEA ending.. as happy as a classical romance can be. :)

Love, Lies and High Heels by Debby Conrad

Love, Lies and High Heels

Rustina Paris had a fancy life. She's beautiful. She's rich. She travels the world. But she stops and gives up everything she had in California to be with her dying father.

Luke Galloway despises the woman like Rustina. A presumptuous, naive, arrogant, spoiled brat. But he had to take her back to the ranch.. just like what he promised Rustina's Dad.

Rustina's dying Dad's only wish is to hold a grandchild. And now I think you can guess the rest of it.
Oh, it's HEA alright. The pace was just right. The chemistry was great. All in all a good romantic read. The kind that will get the smile on your face while reading.

Cowboy? Horses? Designer shoes? Yes, please. :)
4 stars for the cover alone too. ;)

A Table for Three by Lainey Reese

A Table for Three

Hmm...the name and the cover said all, didn't it? It's a trio love. This isn't romance. This is erotica. I almost thought these people don't do anything but sex. But that's not true. The author made sure to give you a glimpse of their lives. She even let you know that Cade ran a restaurant and bar. And Trevor really actually went to work on his charity foundation. But every time they were together.. Hmm... *blush*
Riley was just moving in to NY. She met Cade because a good NY cab showed her and taught her how to behave in this kinda pub and oh she was so innocent. The three feel in love since day 1.

What got me though.. Was even before page 1. Lainey had me at 'acknowledgement' ;)

The Christmas Catch

The Christmas Catch

This book is short but sweet. An easy read. Just about a hundred pages.
Christine and her little boy took a 2 weeks break from Chicago to spend in the snow filled Vermont. There, they met John. He was intelligent, kind, great with kids,.. and he has a smart dog.

The book was sweet but it was out of reality for me. He was that kind of guy who was not ready to settle. Because of his career choice. But then he chased after her, and proposed? Just after spending two weeks and one kiss? A kiss under the mistletoe to be exact. Anyway, short enough, sweet enough, magical enough to have it evolved around Christmas time.

Table for Two by Alexis Lauren

Table for Two

Isabella was the owner of TigerLily, a growing restaurant. Parker was a rock star. It was an easy read. Fast pace. Got all the elements it needed for romance. Nothing too deep or too conflicted.
I just hope someone could have prove read it again though.

Love Left Behind

Love Left Behind

When I saw Love Left Behind, 

it was introduced as a contemporary romance for angst-addicts. 

So I was so nervous 

when I saw Emma got hooked up already at the very beginning of the book. 

I had to watch for that dark shadow lurking in the corner waiting to happen. 

Oh my. 

And there it was, 

just almost half way through... the moment was there. 

I had to stop myself from flipping to the end to steal myself a glance for the ending. 

I have never done that. 

I feel so bad for Jackson. 

He's done so nothing wrong!

Second half of the book, 

there were moments I thought I was reading 

Reflected in You. 

It was just how rich and possessive these men are.

And because of the name of the book, 

then when he finally said good bye, 

I had a flash back and hope he won't end up like Chase in Taking Chances. 

Thank goodness, he didn't. 

Jackson was an actor 

still struggling for auditions and try outs when they first met. 

Emma had just called off a wedding, a day after her bachelorette party. 

She didn't wanna be boring or predictable. 

She felt suffocated marrying Sean, a man she's been with since fifteen. 

And moved to New York.

The only thing that annoyed me was how quickly they fell for each other. 

A total of 3 days! That's the part I can't really fall for. 

If the book had stretched it a little bit longer, maybe a week or two? 

Maybe I'd have liked it more.

how far can obligation take you? It took me from the arms of the one man I loved into a life that became meaningless. It took the joy out of my life, leaving me with nothing but pain and regret.

Reflected in You by Sylvia Day

Bared to You

I read Bared to You at the beginning of May. 

I read and reread Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy by E.L. James 

for like ten times together at the end of April. 

So I can't help it 

when my mind keep flickering back to Christian Grey 

when reading about Gideon Cross. 

They're both rich, filthy rich, young, blue eyed, and handsome, 

and ahem.. great in bed. 

Oh and, 

troubled.

"You know what it is- some hot guys don't make your hormones go crazy, while some unattractive guys have massive sex appeal. This guy had it all."

>.<

"What's your definition of dating?" A frown marred the space between his brows. "Lengthy social time spent with a woman during which we're not actively fucking."
"Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you."

With that, I died.

Reflected in You

I loved Bared to You. 

There was no doubt about getting Reflected in You as soon as it's released. 

In fact, I pre-ordered it. 

That was a good experience. The best decision.

Waking up with Gideon waiting on my Kindle. >.<

I don't know how Sylvia Day did it. 

Bared to you was already very good. 

 But Reflected in You was even much better. 

More second characters involved. 

Some issues were cleared. 

And if you read every word and every line, 

you'll have your answer for everything at the end. 

I love it that Sylvia doesn't leave us hanging wondering 

'what?!' or 'how?!' or 'why?!'
It's all just because of Gideon's love for Eva: 

"I'd kill for you, give up everything I own for you... but I won't give you up."

Reflected in You just make Gideon more human being than just sex god. 

A human who does everything for his girl. 

I think I see a wedding coming next book. 

Ah... Can't wait for this year to end.
Entwined to You is up for pre-order

and will be released on the New Year's Eve! 
but, won't be released until next year, May.

Books I read in September

September has been a great reading month.

I didn't read as much as I did in August but all good.

1. The Keatyn Chronicles - Stalk Me by Jillian Dodd.
2. CLASH by Nicole Williams
3. On Dublin Street by Samantha Young. (On Dublin Street has been # 1 on Amazon Best Seller for almost one full month... until Reflected in You was released and took that No.1 place)
4. CATCH by Annie Nicholas
5. Hyde , an Urban Fantasy by Lauren Stewert
6. Taking Chances by Molly McAdams
7. Too Darn Hot by Pamela Burford
8. Friend with Partial Benefit by Luke Young
9. Any Other Night by Anne Pfeffer
10. Match Me by Liz Appel
11. License to Thrill by Stephanie Bond
12. Dirty Little Secrets (Sexy Suspense) by Julie Leto
13. Dirty Little Lies (Sexy Suspense) by Julie Leto

She speaks from my mind ... ^_^

source: from here

Match Me by Liz Appel

Match Me

Bonnie wasn't the kind of girl to crash a wedding. She thought it was her responsibility, not as Chase's ex-girlfriend but as one of his best friends, to protect him. To make him see he was making a mistake. To make him see they weren't meant to be. To tell him she know, without a doubt, that they'd be divorced before the end of the year.

Bonnie kept finding herself in trouble. And every time she's saved by Paul, Chase's best friend and one of the groomsmen. He'd helped her at the wedding. At the grocery store. At the restaurant. At the drug store. At her apartment.

The book kept it so simple that we don't even get to know the main character's last names! (Not that I mind.)

License to Thrill (a romantic mystery)

License to Thrill

Yup, a romantic mystery. That's exactly what this book is.  
James Donovan is a retired British agent. He's hot. And love isn't in his vocabulary.
Kat McKray is a museum curator. She has become a suspect when the burglar broke in and stole the authentic King's love letter from the museum. 
I love the pace of the book. Fast. Mysterious. Practically everyone, everybody could become a suspect, including Kat and James themselves. The plot was good. And the romance, super! :)


Stephenie Bond combines suspense and romance really well. I'll sure dig into more of her books.

Any Other Night

Any Other Night

Any other night, Ryan Mills would have driven his best friend, Michael, to Emily's sweet sixteen party at the Breakers Club. Instead, determined to win over the birthday girl, he goes to the party early and alone, setting off a chain of events that ends with Michael's death in a car accident.

Ryan blames himself for what happened to Michael. As far as he's concerned, he doesn't deserve to have love or be happy ever again. Then he learns Michael left a secret behind. Ryan feels compelled to take on his friend's unfinished business, and in the process, changes his life forever and becomes a man.

This book was published in October 2011 under the title Loving Emily. It was reissued in May 2012, with the content unchanged, as Any Other Night.

A NOTE ABOUT CONTENT: The characters in this book occasionally engage in nonexplicit sexual activities and, in several instances, use profanity and illegal drugs.

September - great read

September has been a great reading month so far.

I started the month with Stalk Me by Jillian Dodd.
Then I found CLASH by Nicole Willians was released.
Then after I read CLASH, Maryse posted about On Dublin Street by Samantha Young.
And after On Dublin Street, Annie Nicholas, the author announced that CATCH was available on Amazon.
And my latest, awesome read, Taking Chances by Molly McAdams.
I mean, all the right timing. Books after books. Just grabbed new books all the time. Didn't have to go over books that were hanging around on my kindle at all.

Now besides October which Reflected in You: A Crossfire Novel by Sylvia Day will be released on the 2nd, I'm most looking forward to December. Dirty Red  by Tarryn Fisher is scheduled for Dec 28th. Kiss me (The Keatyn Chronicles) by Jillian Dodd will be released in December. And Hyde book 2 will also be there.

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Taking Chances

Taking Chances

This book is really l-o-n-g.
My mind kept flashing back to Beautiful Disaster at the beginning of the book. Ah.. But this book doesn't have only one hero. There are two. So yeah, there is a love triangle. And lucky me, my last love triangle read has turned my hot vampires into being bisexual. This one does something even more terrible. Ugh... Can't say it without spoiling the detail. 

I liked the pace at the beginning. And the emotion it makes. That. Was good. But after the half? I kept looking at the bar and wonder how far the story will go. And man, at the end, I wasn't sure anymore what kind of book I was reading. It went everywhere. Pregnancy, baby, giving birth, family gathering, bringing everyone together, not one lose end. Unbelievably HEA.

Sounds like I complain more about the book than the part I liked but that's not true. Because I liked the book a lot (for some part of it) but then there were parts I told you I had to look and see how far I was and when it would end. Huh... I had to go to Maryse and see if her review would help. But .. If you checked her page out, you'll see. I'm not the only one in this frustration. -_-

Most awesome part? There is a discussion forum where you can relive the book, laid your emotion/confusion and try to move on. :)

Hyde

Hyde

Hyde? 

Yeah. Hyde.
Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson to be exact.
And again, old habits die hard. 

I didn't read any excerpt before jumping into the book.
Hyde was on Maryse's suggestion list. 

And she mentioned that the author was the one she interviewed just a day before. 

Oh yeah, the book has got to be good, right? 

Right my @ss. 

My normal read would have been romance. Any kind of romance. 

But, gothic. Oh please, at least give me a vampire.

This book didn't have any vampire in it. 

And no, no werewolf either. 

It had Mitch and Hyde. And Eden and Chasity. 

I didn't even know what they really were even after finishing the book. 

Heck, I didn't even know it's going to continue in book 2!? 

Hello? Déjà vu?

Well, though Hyde's obviously not my type of book, I don't regret it at all. I'd probably grab it and read it anyway. Yeah, the book was that good. 

And worst of all? I'm definitely looking forward to book 2.
Second book is expected in December. 

  

"To survive, they must embrace what they most despise . . . in themselves and each other.

Mitch Turner is everything women want most in a man—charismatic, successful, drop-dead gorgeous. Except he’s not a man—he’s a monster.

The only way Mitch can protect others from his monstrous side is to stop them from getting too close…that and a 7x7 foot cage. Isolated by his genetic curse, he spends his life hurting people emotionally, driving them away before Hyde can harm them physically. But, after a night of the best sex Mitch has ever had, he realizes that might be impossible. Except the woman he wakes up with claims she doesn’t remember any of it.

Eden Colfax is everything men want most, men other than Mitch, that is. She’s kind, honest to a fault and sickeningly sweet. To rid herself of the monsters that haunted her broken childhood, Eden doesn’t lie, doesn’t curse, and definitely never wakes up naked in strangers’ beds…until the day she does.

Then the flashbacks start—places she’s never been, people she’s never met, blood she’s never spilled. She discovers she’s split into two parts—the woman she thought she knew and another who is capable of anything. And the only person with any answers is the one man she never wants to see again.

What neither of them know is that someone is watching them both, manipulating them, determined to see just how evil the two of them really are. And when the truth begins to seep through the cracks, leaving them nowhere to turn but each other, they will be forced into a partnership neither had expected.

Because in life, who you trust is as important as who you are. And when you can’t even trust yourself, sometimes the only person you can rely on is the last person on Earth you should be falling for."

*** This novel is intended for adults only, as it includes lots of cursing, descriptive sex, biting sarcasm, and themes similar to those in Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, from which this story was inspired

CATCH by Annie Nicholas

CATCH

O M G. I can't believe it. 

I thought it was quite cruel knowing that the book was there but wasn't available in kindle version earlier. 

So, when the author did announce its availability? 

I didn't wait a second to grab it.

But, as soon as I read the blurb... 

my oh my, did my heart sank to the ground.
" In the middle of a power struggle, Connie fights to keep her lover, but didn't plan on Tane slipping into her heart." 

What?! She can't do that to Rurik, can she?

Times after times, she keeps hiding her secrets from Rurik.

Is she really in love with him?

I remember myself yelling 

"Connie is such a b*tch.
She so doesn't deserve my Rurik!!"

With my own disappointment, putting the book down was tempting.
But it was Rurik who kept me reading. 

And then somewhere near the very end, 

I realized, if the book can get me that emotionally involved, 

the book can't be bad, can it?

One last thought.
I can't believe I stayed up until 2 a.m. to find out that my vampires love triangle was solved by turning them into bisexual

Oh. My. Goodness!
Annie! If your goal for this book is to put readers in agony, 

you've so achieved it!
I truly doubt if that was the case though.
Lol.

>.<

Stalk me. (The Keatyn Chronicles)

Stalk Me

Gossip Girl meets Hollywood in this steamy new series by That Boy author, Jillian Dodd.
Keatyn has everything she ever dreamed. Her life is following the script she wrote for the perfect high school experience. She's popular, goes to the best parties, dates the hottest guy, and sits at the most-coveted lunch table.

She's just not sure she wants it anymore.

Because, really, things aren't all that perfect.
Her best friend is threatening to tell everyone her perfect relationship is a scam.
Her perfect boyfriend gets drunk at every party they go to.
It's exhausting always trying to look and act perfect.
And, deep down, she isn't sure if she has any true friends.

To add to the drama, her movie star mom has a creepy stalker.
A hot, older man flirts with her and tells her they should make a movie together.
And she's crushing on an adorable surfer. Dating him would mean committing social suicide.

So she writes a new script. One where all the pieces of her life will come together in perfect harmony.
But little does she know, there's someone who will do anything to make sure that doesn't happen.

Jillian keeps her style. Diary like. One person POV. You have to read every word and every lines because things happen unexpectedly all the time. 

CRASH - CLASH

Crash

Crash started with Lucy on the beach just a couple of weeks before her senior year at  new school started. It's also when this eye candy "Prince Hot Damn" arrived with one whole mess of guys, tossing a football back and forth.

"The name's Jude Ryder, since I know you're all but salivating like a rabid dog to know, and I don't do girlfriends, relationships, flowers, or regular phone calls. If that works for you, I think we could work out something special."

"I also knew you wouldn't stop your staring until you learned the cold, hard truth. So, consider yourself warned. I might not be the kind of guy that reads textbooks at the beach, but I'm smart enough to know girls like you should stay away from guys like me. So stay away."

It looked interesting at the beginning but I have to admit that around 18% of the book I started to doubt if this bad boy is too bad and the story too heavy for me. They burned her dog. They burned her hair and doused her with gasoline!
I'm glad I didn't put the book down and continued reading it anyway. It's Jude's love that made the story so beautiful.

"My Mom left when I was thirteen. My dad's serving a life sentence for killing a young kid. I spent the last five years in a boy's home being bullied, beat, and abused by the kids, the staff, and even the goddamn dog. I sold drugs. I did drugs. I got arrested. A lot. I screwed a lot of faceless woman. And when I met one whose face I couldn't forget. I fell in love with her. I hurt her because I fell in love with her and was afraid she was going to leave me the way everyone else had. I still love her."

Clash

Clash followed only a little more than a month apart. >.<

The only easy thing about Jude and Lucy’s relationship is their love for one another. Everything else is hard. That's when Lucy started to believe that love just isn't  enough sometimes.

"Love is like a seed.You've got to plant it to grow. But that's not all. You need to water it. The sun needs to shine just enough, but not too much. The roots have to take hold.  You can't plant a seed and hope it will grow on its own."

"Love is what brings you together, Lucy. But it's the blood, sweat, and tears of hard work that keeps you together."

Just like what her roommate confirmed to her. "Jude was the hand you were dealt, and that man is no carousel, Lucy. That man is the super-duper- looper, Six Flags, knee-trembling roller coaster extraordinaire." Lucy started to doubt if they're supposed to be together. And when she figured it all out. She grabbed the microphone and walked to the fifty yards line.

"We rode this roller coaster. Up, down, and around and around, and just as soon as I was sure it was coming to a stop and we could get off of it once and for all, we repeated the same ride all over again. I didn't think I wanted to be a passenger on that ride anymore, so I got off, leaving him to ride it alone."

"But then this morning, over a sleepless night a pot of coffee, someone knocked some sense into me. I realized I'd never really gotten off that roller coaster, we were just riding it different cars. My life is a roller coaster whether or not I am sitting next to this boy, and I'd rather share this crazy journey through life with him at my side. I'm done leaving. I'm done questioning if we can do this thing, Jude. "

"I love you, Jude Ryder. I'm done letting that scare me. I'm not going anywhere."  But the security guards didn't think so because one of them said to her. "Yes, ma'am. I'm afraid you are." Lol.

As the guards were leading her through the tunnel, the familiar voice rose through the stadium. 

"Lucy Larson? Could you come back out here? I need to ask you something."

Ahem. >.<I guess you can imagine what happened next and how the story beautifully ends. 

Books I read in August 2012

1. Crash by Nicole Williams
Jude Ryder and Lucy Larson.
He's a bad boy and she's a dancer. Real bad bad bad boy who totally loves her and willing to be better.

 "caring for someone is scary because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat. But you can't let fear dictate your life... Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them." - Lucy's Dad.

2. Star-Crossed by Kele Moon
Second book from the Battered Hearts series
Aldo Moretti, head of the largest crime family in NY. Heavyweight UFC fighter. Mafiaso. Shooting. Genius with photographic memory. Romeo and Juliet.

3. Wraith by Edie Claire

4. Maybe Baby by Lani Diane Rich
Dana Wiley is having a very, very bad day.It starts when she realizes she never should have let her deep-seated fear of marriage cause her to leave the love of her life, Nick Maybe, at the altar. Then, she discovers that her old nemesis, Melanie Biggs, is after her winery. To save her business, she’s forced to go to Manhattan to ask her eccentric mother, Babs Wiley McGregor, for help. When she gets there, she discovers that Nick moonlights for Babs, doing odd favors for her rich friends. Then Babs is kidnapped, and a rare, valuable, stinky and flightless green Kakapo parrot is the ransom.

5. Lust and Honor by Harriet Schultz
This is too short to be a book. It's more like a prologue to "Legacy of the Highlands."
It's good enough for you to taste her writing and decide of you'd like to continue reading. Oh well, she had me. And I bought "Legacy of the Highlands" as soon as I finished this "too short" Lust and Honor. :)

6. Legacy of the Highlands by Harriet Schultz
Young, good-looking, successful and wealthy. Will and Alexandra Cameron had it all until the night he went out to buy ice cream after an evening of passionate sex and never returned. When his body is discovered in a nearby Boston alley, the only clue to his murder is a Scottish dagger left beside it. Will's grieving widow finds refuge in the Miami villa of his best friend Diego Navarro, who has the means, power and temperament to solve the puzzle and to avenge his friend's murder. The sinfully handsome and charming womanizer's feelings for Alexandra run deep, and he becomes equally determined to win the devastated widow's heart. The attraction between them grows as they follow leads from Miami to Buenos Aires and Scotland, unraveling the Cameron family's centuries-old secrets.

7. With a View by Alana Coca
Ashley Meyers is an architect. And Mason Gregory hired her to renovate his master bedroom.

It was short. But it was good. We all know it's only 50 pages long. But we didn't know how good it is. It's fast paced. And it's over my expectation for something 50 pages could do. The whole story. Five stars for every line. :)

8. Meandros
9. Doctors know best
My cheeks were filled with warmth the whole time. At the beginning until half from humiliation. Poor Eve. Then after the humiliation it was just heat.

No love mentioned in the story. Just pure sex.
10. Connection
Lonely Cathy, college dropout, works in a grocery store and makes completely random phone calls to strangers just to make a human connection. When a strange coincidence forces her to actually speak to the person on the other end of the phone, she's suddenly thrust back into the world, with all its vulnerability.

Seth is very kind and caring. It's because he cares enough to ask "is this a cry for help?" that's how he reaches her.

The story was good. The tone, the plot, the story telling was perfect. It's the end that was abrupt and hanging. It's like it was just cut off. It would be nice to know if there is a complete book waiting for us somewhere.


11. Bait by Annie Nicholas
It was these fierce blue eyes on the cover and 4.5 stars from 33 reviews that got me to read this book and man, it didn't disappoint. Rurik is my favorite vampire of the month. :)

12. Pride and Pleasure by Sylvia Day
I bought this book because I read Sylvia Day's Bared to You.
I first skimmed through it and only stop where it caught my interest. After about 40% of the book, I had to start reading it from the beginning again. I couldn't waste knowing I have skipped any word, any line, any part of the characters encounters and smart mouth remarks. I like the language. Historical Romance. Ah.. timeless >.<

Jasper Bond was a handsome thief-taker. He's what Eliza needed. Miss Eliza Martin, a wealthy, smart, independent young lady needed protection, investigation, and a suitor. With some twists at the end of the book. Entertaining. :)

13. The New Deputy in Town

14. Married by Mistake by Abby Gaines

Do not adjust your set. That really was Casey Greene being jilted by her fiancé on live TV! And that really was Memphis's most eligible bachelor who stepped in to marry her instead.
Millionaire businessman Adam Carmichael wanted only to help Casey save face. He isn't prepared for the news that their "fake" wedding is legal and binding.
While they secretly wait for an annulment, media and family scrutiny forces them to put on their best loving-couple act. Except by now, neither one is quite sure who's acting....

15. Tricked Truths
The sex was HOT!
And the story line was great!
Unexpected combination. The story was intense from the start and carried on its intensity through out the book.

Grace Jamison held so many secrets. And once they're revealed, Trick became ashamed of his harsh words and actions.

16. Honeymoon bite (Golden Vampire Legacy)
Interesting theory about golden vampires. The tracing, fating, oh and how they can have normal children who can choose whether to become vampire or stay human at puberty.
I felt like there was sex all over the book, almost the main thing they do. Strong secondary characters. Everyone got their fair share. The book gets very intense at the end, like, last two chapters. I didn't expect to cry in this book but I did. It's beautiful. :)

17. The Mighty Storm by Samantha Towle

My new favorite book of the year :)

18. Christmas Cash by Maggie Casper
It was tense but it was short. It lacks the background.
If you're looking for something short and all sex, here you have it.
But nothing really more to it.


19. The Handsome Bastard
Part of the Ancient Blood series.Cyprian Augustus, a blood-drinker of irresistible charm and deadly cunning, has eluded hunters from the purist group We Who Serve Humanity for centuries. Now he's pitted against their most dangerous warrior. Beautiful and heartless, Leotine has destroyed every blood-drinker she has been sent to kill. Cyprian and Leotine begin a perilous game of seduction and lies. In their attempt to outsmart each other, they might just lose themselves to the all-consuming passion burning between them.

20. The Dom of My Dreams by M.F. Sinclair
Marjorie Fordham is just itching to sign up the hottest author in the world into her quaint little publishing house. Well, she’s also itching for other things, to be honest. So what if she finds the author attractive? And so what if he makes an offer she cannot refuse? So what if she accepts? And so what if David J. Seton is everything she has ever wanted in a man? He is a Dominant male with some ulterior motives up his sleeve, something that both terrifies and excites our feisty, independent, love-is-for-needy-chicks-and-not-for-me heroine. She has entered a world of Domination and submission, one she cannot free herself from, no matter how hard she tries to fight it.

The Mighty Storm by Samantha Towle

The Mighty Storm

"Jake Wethers, sexy, tattooed and deliciously bad lead singer, and brains behind The Mighty Storm, one of biggest bands in the world, left Tru with a broken heart when he moved from England to America with his family when they were both fourteen.

Sent to interview Jake for her music column by the magazine she works for, they are both unprepared for the sparks that fly the instant they reconnect. Only, there's a complication to their instant feelings for one another - Will, Tru's boyfriend of two years."

This book has it all. I didn't know one can write a book like this. It has the rock star love triangle like Kellan and Kiera in Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens. It has the angst like The Opportunist by Tarryn Fisher. And the love you so much I'll do anything for you love like Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire. And I LOVE all those three books. The Mighty Storm is sure my new favorite! (And hopefully, yours? :)

The New Deputy in Town

The New Deputy in Town by B.J. Daniels

This story was set in Whitehorse, a small town in Montana with only a population of 50! And there were soooo much going on.
Geraldine Shaw's murder. An after-hours bar assault. 19 chicken disappearance. Nick Rogers, the new deputy sheriff was covering shifts for Sheriff Carter Jackson who returned from Florida to find his jail full and a dead man at the bottom of a swimming pool.

Amazon categorized it as contemporary romance. This book has romance in it. An intense one. I'm not arguing about it. But definitely more suspense material too.
I had to come back and look at product detail if I picked up the wrong book. Again, not complaining. More like a surprise. A nice surprise, of course. :)

Pride and Pleasure by Sylvia Day

Pride and Pleasure

I bought this book because I read Sylvia Day's Bared to You and love it.
The story was set back to 1818 so I wasn't sure how I would find it. I first skimmed through it and only stop where it caught my interest. After about 40% of the book, I had to start reading from the beginning again. I couldn't waste knowing I have skipped any word, any line, any part of the characters encounters and smart mouth remarks. I like the language. Historical Romance. Ah.. timeless >.<

Jasper Bond was a handsome thief-taker. He's what Eliza needed. Miss Eliza Martin, a wealthy, smart, independent young lady needed protection, investigation, and a suitor. With some twists at the end of the book. Entertaining. :)

Bait by Annie Nicholas

Bait

It was these fierce blue eyes on the cover and 4.5 stars from 33 reviews that got me to read this book and man, it didn't disappoint.

Connie Bence, a widow who broadcasted her grieve and pain was a live bait. This time her target was Rurik, a delicious, hunky, make-me-swoon, the Overlord vampire of Budapest.

Rulik. The lovable, passionate, and understanding vampire. These vampires are burnt in the sunlight. They bleed. But they heal. They heal after injuries. And they feed on human blood.

This book has everything. Romance, vampire details, twisted plots, betrayal, and a fight. I myself had given it 5 stars.

Wraith

Wraith

Wraith by Edie Claire

Kali and Zane. She sees shadows and he was one. A hot surfer boy shadow.
I thought the plot was so predictable. But her story telling made me doubt if I was right. That the ending would be like I expected. It kept me reading.
I wondered if I would find the exact place and location in Oahu, Hawaii.
And man, does it go with what I've heard before.. all the time that she wondered why her senses became more sharp and why she saw much more shadows there. The answer I had in my mind, Hawaii is closest to Hell.

Books I read in July

1. Easy by Tammara Webber 

'Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart'
LM (aka Lucas, aka Landon, aka Mr.Maxfield)
JW (aka Jacqueline, aka J, aka Ms.Wallace, aka Jackie - but will apply self defense training as needed if called such)

2. Bone Deep by Bonnie Dee
3. Sempre by JM Darhower
4. Letting Go by Michele Zurlo

Sabrina Breszewski and Jonas Spencer. Sabrina - Head Creative Director of an ad company Rife and Company. 
She needs to be married before she's thirty and that's within a week so she proposed to Jonas, an ex teacher, 6 months new employee of the company and current dominatrix and exhibitionist at the club.

5. That Boy by Jillian Dodd
6. That Wedding by Jillian Dodd
7. Taking Instruction(Taboo) by Cheyenne McCray

Jessica Grayson, a student in Professor Craig Bennett's English class.
She's found a man she wanted more than anything. And she intended to get him. But he'd found her a born submissive and turned the tables on her.
If you're looking for something erotic and short, this book is your answer.

8. About Last Night by Ruthie Knox

Neville Chamberlain aka City, the hot banker and Marie Catherine Talarico from a well-known mafia family in Chicago. Tattooed her four life mistakes to her torso and about to make it five. And he's using his artistic ability to win her.
In 'About the Author' section, it mentions 'Ruthie abhors an epilogue and insists a decent romance requires at least three good sex scenes.'
Hmm.. I hope that's enough clue to get you to know what you're up to. ;)

9. Don't You Remember by Lana Davison

I'm so not use to the main characters in love at the beginning of the books. It makes me paranoid and keep looking for when the disaster would come.

Such a tease!!

10. The Reluctant Dom

Kaden is dying, but before he goes he has one problem to solve--he must ask his oldest and dearest friend, Seth, to take over as Dom and Master to his beloved wife, Leah. 

[Menage and More: Erotic Consensual BDSM Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, public exhibition, spanking, flogging, whipping, sex toys, HEA for M/F]

 This book is sex heavy. But it's something else too. It's the book that made me cry. It's so predictable. Yet the tear flowing was so inevitable.

11. Private Party by Jami Alden

Julie Driscoll chose to have an amazing rebound sex with the groom's best man, Chris Dennison. And decided to pursue this no string friend with benefit relationship with him at his luxury resort in the Caribbean.  

12. Defying the Odds (Battered Hearts) by Kele Moon

Clay Powers and Melody

13. Kiss of an Angel by Janelle Denison.

Caitlan, a guardian angel was sent to protect her soul mate, J.T. Rafferty. Beautiful story. Beautiful love. Their love was so strong.

"Between you keeping the medallion and me moping around heaven, Christopher and Mary decided to put us both out of our misery. "

I feel a little bit bad for Johny though. That he had to go through all these and thought he was insane. Amanda could have just kept it to herself. What good would it do if they can't be together?

14. Preservation by Rachel Wade

She already had me at acknowledgment. She clearly is a fan of Fifty!! >.<The SHOUTY CAPITALS. And the Laters. She even signed off as Rachel Grey. >.<  If she loves Fifty. She must be good. And her book must be too. Can't wait to jump on it to read!!

That Boy Series by Jillian Dodd

I saw this book a couple of times when I looked for something to read.
At first glace, it looked like a teenage book, so I skipped it.
But Maryse suggested this book very recently.
Actually I think I just bought it right on the day she posted the series' reading order.

Ok. I'll admit, first I only had the sample version. But before I finished it I was already laughing and grinning. A colleague walked in while I was reading and she asked why I was smiling at the screen. Ha. That's when I decided to buy the book and man, it didn't disappoint. :)

Top #20 Amazon Best Rated.Top #50 Amazon Best Seller

That Boy - a romance about falling in love with the boy next door.

One boy will give me my very first kiss.
One boy will teach me to make out.
One boy will take me to prom.
And finally, one boy will ask me to marry him.
They will both be my best friends.
But only one of them will be the boy I fall in love with.
Only one of them is That Boy.

Top #5 Amazon Hot New Release. Top #100 Amazon Best Rated. Top #100 Amazon Best Seller

 That Wedding - a romance about marrying the boy next door.

I know he's that boy. The boy I want to marry, my prince, my happily ever after. I feel like I'm living in a dreamy fairytale. But then, Pastor starts asking questions I don't know the answers to. 

 I have horrible wedding disaster dreams.
I can't find a dress.
I have to manipulate him to get my way.
An old boyfriend asks me to run away and marry him.
My best friend tells me I'm going to ruin everything.
And forever is starting to sound like a really long time.
Which makes me start to wonder.
I wonder if best friends should get married.
I wonder if I'm settling.
I wonder if the fact that sex with him is so amazing that it's clouding my judgment.
I wonder if it's just cold feet.
I wonder if marriage is all that fun.
And then I have to decide. Am I willing to give up on true love forever, or should I say, What the hell, and marry him anyway?

 I've been getting books from The Kindle store since April. And That Wedding was the most expensive purchase I've made so far. But hey, I don't regret any penny! ;)

And today, I found the official website from Jillian Dodd, the author. And she has this very cool page, That Wedding Photos. It's like wow.. the book comes true. :)

And here are my three favorite quotes from this book.

"No boy is worth your tears, but once you find the one that is, he won't make you cry. " - although I'm pretty sure JJ will argue with you about that ;)

"Love makes you feel out of control." - Danny Diamond, the hot NFL quaterback :)

"Realize that people screw up, and you need to at least listen to what they have to say. Let them explain before you convict them of whatever you think they did. " - Jadyn James Mackenzie. :)

Bone Deep by Bonnie Dee

Bone Deep

I got this book free from Amazon a couple of days ago. The cover didn't push itself up on my to read list. I have scrolled past it a couple of times until yesterday when Maryse recommended it.

Once started, it was really difficult to put down. The second half of the book I found myself patting my own chest a few times in attempt to relieve the tension in there.

Tom - the tattooed man who's covered all over with tattoo. And I mean all over.  Literally. It won't be a problem until this story set back to 1945 when tattoo was taboo and worse when he didn't chose to have those tattoos  himself.

Sempre

I've spent a total of three days reading Sempre. 

This is abnormal. Or is it normal? 

Normal for a really good 531 pages book, I guess.

Normally I finish a book in a day. 

The speed of reading tells me one thing though. 

The slower I read, the better the book is. 

Like I said on Facebook, I had 3 other tabs on while reading. 

The last time I needed a dictionary together with Google Translate and Google Images was when I read Gabriel. 

Something rings? 

This book is much better than Gabriel. 

Sempre

Sempre is the book mainly about Mafia and Slavery. 

It's about love. Or it resolves around it. 

Talking about love.. Carmine said

"People use the word too loosely as it is. They say they love this and they love that, when they don't. They just like the shi- uh, stuff. Love is something that changes you, and if you really loved all the crap you say you love, you'd never know who you were because you'd constantly be changing. Once you love, you love forever. You can't help it."
 

And talking about thoughts, this is how JM. Darhower, the author, put it when Haven felt guilty for wasting so much paper. 
"Trees lived and breathed, enduring so much and still surviving, growing stronger and bigger no matter the conditions."

I always envy how these good authors come up with these thoughts.
And I think these thoughts are just the tip of an iceberg. JM. Darhower must have so much going on in her head. This book has everything in it. She even managed to squeeze a couple of good jokes and La Vita Nuova in.

I love Vincent for his pure soul. 

I love the interaction between him and his son. 

I love how he tried to wrap around things, to do good, given bad circumstances around it. 

At least, he tried.
I hate it that Carmine was so f*cked up. He kept screwing things. 

And he cursed too much. 

I like how Corrado ended up. It must be the result of his own karma.

I didn't read the book description before I read it. So I didn't have any expectations. Now that I finished the book and looked back at its description, I couldn't agree more.

 

This is a story about sacrifice... death... love... freedom. This is a story about forever. 

If you have time and looking for a book to read. Choose this one. 

I promise you won't regret it. :)

Sempre (Forever) by JM Darhower

I haven't even finished the book but I have the feeling I'd like to share it so badly. 

The story and the way it's told. 

The characters. 

I love them and have to share them :)

Sempre

Here's the note from the author.

While Sempre is a work of fiction, the concept of modern-day slavery is not make-believe. There are an estimated 27 million people inthe world today, coerced and forced into sexual or labor slavery. The majority of them are female, half being young girls. They're our mothers, our fathers, our sisters, our brothers. They're our friends, our lovers, our neighbors, our kids. They're us. It could happen to anyone, even you.
 
Human trafficking is the second most lucrative crime in the world, making more money every year than Google, Nike, and Starbucks combined. It happens everywhere, from the poverty-stricken providences of Cambodia to the affluent suburbs of California. Two children are trafficked every minute-that's 2880 a day.
 
Become an abolitionist.
If we don't fight for them, who will?