4 Smooches!

Synopsis

She’s careful, but wants to be reckless.
She’s cute, but wants to be sexy.
She’s innocent, but wants to be bad.

When ex-Olympic gymnast, Adaley Knight wakes on her eighteenth birthday she only has one wish, to leave the only town she’s ever known and start fresh.

Finding herself enrolled at a college across the globe, the once modest Adaley is almost unrecognizable. Her new persona dances on the wild side by sinking her teeth into the first bad boy she sees. The only problem is he’s not the least bit interested.

Ryle Benson, baseball extraordinaire and brooding campus bad boy keeps everyone at an arms length. Things have never come easy for him and the last thing he needs is getting involved with any female.

The tables are reversed as she tries to be bad, tempting fate, and he tries to fight his. The push and pull is half the fun. But what happens when one pushes a little too hard?

Review

Adaley had her life mapped out for her; gymnastics, gymnastics and gymnastics. Until an injury turned that dream into a nightmare and she decides she has to escape her safe boyfriend and preacher father and go to university away from anyone she knows. When she gets there she meets her match in the form of Ryle. A guy she feels instant attraction for but who by his own admission is bad news, with demons he doesn’t want anyone to know about. Will these two help fix each other or will they tear each other apart?

“I’m frightened that he—anyone—will see me for what I am. A poser. A girl who’s desperately trying to be something she’s not.”

This was a really enjoyable read; it was entertaining, thrilling, funny, romantic and with an absolute shocker of an ending that you will never see coming!

“He was no longer a scared little boy fighting through the depths of other people’s depravity just to survive. He was Ryle Benson, baseball extraordinaire.  He was a survivor.”

I did love Adaley’s character, she was brave and had courage in her decision to move away and start new and she wasn’t going to let anyone walk over her. She had a fierce and sassy personality that was easily likeable. There were some moments when I wanted her to be stronger and stand tall like she had been but these moments were rare and she always came back to her independent and strong character. Her story moved me, I felt her pain when her dream died and I admired her drive to still make something of her life!

“Our story is just beginning. Don’t ruin it with tales from the past,” he rasps into my ear.”

I adored Ryle!! I loved his moody side, I loved his funny side, I loved his caring side. He was complex but with very good reason and the broodiness just made him intriguing and sexy. Yes supporting characters were great as well! I loved the brother and sister; they added some much needed lighter elements to the story and I’m actually really excited to get Taylor’s story.

“We can’t stay broken forever. I won’t make it through another day without you. We can’t sort this out together unless we forgive one another for our mistakes.”

The plot was unique in a way; I had never met a character with Adaley’s back story. The romance side was both sweet and sad, exciting and unexpected and we had little bits of everything; drama, laughter, sadness and the complete and utter surprise of an ending. I have to say I didn’t love the ending, I understand why the author wrote it that way but for me it was too sudden, there was no build up and it happened in the last page of the story…just like BANG, there’s the ending and then epilogue.

“My heart was black before you came into my life. It was tainted by a past that taught me far too much about life in a short period of time, but you changed it back to a vibrant red.”

Overall though this was a perfect summer read for those wanting a romance with an edge.

~Bethany

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5 Twisted Smooches

Synopsis

“All things truly wicked start from innocence.” – Ernest Hemingway

I hear screams in my head.
I see blood on my hands.
When I look in the mirror I see a stranger.

How is it that I can remember bits and pieces of my life, but nothing of any importance and nothing that makes any sense? Everything is twisted and nothing is right. I’m choking with every breath I take, suffocating on the unknown.

Two days ago, everything changed. Two days ago, the people I should trust the most became strangers in my convoluted head. The dreams I have can’t be real. The fleeting memories that whisper through my mind are scary and wrong…they have to be. If they aren’t, I have something much worse to fear than my fractured mind. I need to find out the truth, even if it destroys me.

I’ve been told my name is Ravenna Duskin. I’m eighteen years old and I live in a prison…

Review

UMMM . . . WHAT DID I JUST READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is no way this was brought to us by the same mind that wrote Seduction and Snacks, Burned and Ficher’s Light! Tara has been hiding this dark and twisted soul deep within and I honestly fear for the well being of her husband and children!

Two days ago something happened and now Ravenna Duskin is on the search for her memories and to find out who she really is.

Really that is all you should know before going into this intriguing psychological thriller. I came up with a new theory and had new questions with every clue we discovered and while I might not ever sleep the same at night I can hope that many of you will join me on this crazy journey and delve into the twisted mind that Tara has been hiding behind her fun personality and happier books.

So please, buy the book, read the book them I beg you message me because I need to talk to someone about this crazy, astonishingly intricate and exciting book. Also I might need you to hold me as I rock back and forth mumbling . . . fair warning!

~miranda

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5 Smooches!

Synopsis

It is the end of the world…

They call him Eagle. Like the grand and beautiful animal that symbolizes freedom. And during these dark times, when humanity is full of nothing but suffering, a man with such a powerful name should be a beacon of hope.

He is anything but.

Her name is Autumn. Though she hasn’t said this name, or much of anything else, in the four years since the fall of civilization. A shell of her former self, and living wild in a cave at the bottom of a ravine, Autumn is accustomed to being alone. She prefers it actually, especially when her only other options for company are either trying to kill her, or worse, lock her up inside their walls.

Captured by Eagle’s people Autumn is suddenly thrust back into the land of the living, though she would hardly call it living. The community of Purgatory is full of sinners, the most evil of which seem to have set their sights on her.

In an act born of anger and defiance, Eagle becomes Autumn’s unexpected savior forcing these two solitary people into one another’s broken worlds. Neither knows quite what to make of the other, but one thing is certain.
To survive Purgatory, they will need to learn how to rely on each other; a feat that could quite possibly teach them how to live again.

Review

LAWD MERCY!  Guys, there were a million things that I absolutely loved about this book but let us start with that cover.  It is hot and a little scary and so very sums up Eagle.  I adore it!  Now, this is the second book in the Thicker Than Blood Series.  I would definitely recommend that you read Thicker Than Blood first even though this could probably be a standalone.  There are a couple of reasons; one, Thicker Than Blood is freaking awesome and two, being you get introduced to Purgatory and you meet Eagle.  Being introduced to Purgatory and Eagle is kind of a big deal because you really get an idea of how bad Purgatory and Eagle are.  In fact, I couldn’t decide who was worse.  But I admit, I was desperate for Eagle’s book.  Because I love a mean book boyfriend and Eagle really is the meanest of the mean.

I won’t go into too much plot detail because I really do not want to spoil this amazing book for anyone and really, everything about it is kind of epic and spoily, if you know what I mean.  But I will say that while the first book wasn’t really what I would consider a romance in every sense of the word, but this one is.  Oh, it so is.  And this romance loving girl ate up every bit of it.  I could not stop.  I read this book in one sitting.  I was hooked.  I was in Purgatory (hell on earth) right along with Eagle and Autumn and I was falling in love too.

‘She was good, a tiny slice of goodness surrounded by filth, and I wanted to be a part of that.’

It is odd how love can still flourish in the most awful of places, in saddest and most terrible of circumstances, but it can.  Even to people have lost everything and everyone.

‘We weren’t prepared, not for this, not for an enemy who wore your wife’s face, who had your daughter’s eyes, your son’s dimples.’

Oh, the feels, guys.  At times this book was gut wrenching and miserable and still I couldn’t stop because I knew there was the potential for so much and just like these broken characters, I had such hope for the future.  When I wasn’t overwhelmed by all of the feels, I was engulfed in the inferno of sexual tension between Autumn and Eagle and it seemed to go on and on and man I love a good build up to the sexy time.  I love fevered seeming to never end kisses.  I love looks of longing and stolen glances of love and this story had so many.

‘All I wanted to do was kiss her again, kiss her and touch her, and make the world go quiet.’

I also really enjoyed getting to know some really awesome new characters and revisiting the ones I hate.  Yeah, I am talking about you LIV!  You are an asshole of epic proportions and I do not know how I will ever get over it.

So, yes, one of my favorite books this year will probably be a sci-fi/fantasy/post-apocalyptic/horror/zombie type of romance.  Which sounds absolutely crazy to say but it SO the damn truth.  I am already dying of the next one.  These stories are just getting better and better!

‘Beneath the blood and bone, there was nothing.’

~Amie

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