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Monday, September 3, 2012

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.

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