5 Smooches

Synopsis

When 27-year-old pop sensation Brooklyn Heart steps in front of a microphone, her love songs enchant audiences worldwide. But when it comes to her own love life, the only spell she’s under is a dry one.

So when her label slots her for a Grammy performance with the sexy and soulful Jason Monroe, she can’t help but entertain certain fantasies… those in which her G-string gets more play than her guitars’.

Only one problem. Jason is a lyrical lone wolf that isn’t happy about sharing the stage—nor his ranch — with the sassy singer. But while it may seem like a song entitled ‘Jason Monroe Is an Arrogant Ho’ basically writes itself, their label and their millions of fans are expecting recording gold…

They’re expecting The Duet.

A fun & sexy Romantic Comedy.

Review

“Cammie, my sweet, innocent little sister, When you’re twenty-seven, if you’ve gone a whole year without having sex, I will personally take an ad out in the newspaper for you and it will say: Cammie Heart will put out for nearly anyone. Age not important. Job unnecessary–“

I am an undeniable complete and utterly huge R.S. Grey Fangirl! It is official. If there was any doubt after reading her other books (don’t let me fool you there was no doubt) she has now clearly cemented herself as one of my FAVORITE authors! This book was perfect for me. If you ask my co-blogger what my favorite books are she would tell you New Adult with humor and a dash of sex! Well R.S. does that like few can! I would love to break this down and tell you some small detail I would change but honestly there is nothing I would if I could.

When we meet Brooklyn Heart, pop princess, you can’t help but love her. She is flirty and fun and the banter with her sister is like no other. She has gone a year celibate and decided now is the time to end that. After a less than exciting night with a super sexy Brazilian Underwear model left her running late and frantic to an important meeting, she makes a less than desirable impression on Jason Monroe, the new HOT singer on the label! Now she is being told that the two of them will be doing a duet together at an awards show and it is clear that Jason is not at all excited about this.

“I’d ridden once or twice as a girl, but never as an adult. It was definitely on my bucket list though. Well, riding bareback with a sexy man . . . then after we were done, we’d saddle up and actually go horseback riding, Hah.”

Jason decides the best place to write this duet they are being forced to do together would be at his ranch and Brooklyn eager to make a better impression goes along with it. Now about my favorite part about Jason . . . he is an ASS! I mean a giant jerk who is clear in his disdain for Brooklyn. Why must I love men who are jerks. I don’t know I probably need help but damn I loved him. HARD! Not only does he insult her on a regular basis but he is damn sexy while he does it. Brooklyn must have the same problems as me because it is clear that even though he is not nice he is definitely a turn on for her!

“I think somewhere in there you were trying to be sweet, but then you ruined it with your mouth.”  “That’s the first time I’ve been told that my mouth ruined something.” “Oh my GOD, did you seriously just say that?”

In a crazy event the two of them decide that a kinda friends with benefits is the best way for them to deal with each other and surprisingly the best way to get a song written. This has disaster written all over it but itsn’t it just yummy all the same!

“Dear God, if you’re up there, please don’t let me pass out from excitement before he even gets it in.”

So can these two for the sake of their careers and sanity keep their feelings out of it and have some casual sex while writing a duet? I loved how easy a read this book was. Somehow R.S. always has a way of tackling issues with such a keen sense of humor and wit that you don’t even realize how emotionally attached you are until you are too deep and can’t stop till the book is done.

“I’d rip my heart out before I’d asked him to leave. None of this was healthy, but it had been a disease from the very start.”

So overall, This book needs to be read by everyone! You will laugh till it hearts, be so turned on that your embarrassed and your heart will be filled with so many emotions you won’t even know how to deal! As always I cannot wait until R.S. Grey puts out another book to take me away!

~miranda

“It’s just . . . have you ever had sex with a Brazilian underwear model and thought. ‘Seriously, I thought this would be better’?” “Can’t say that I have.”

“It had been a really, really good first kiss. To put it in perspective, any kisses that I’d had before that kiss were just a waste of facial muscles. I should have been saving up all my energy for Jason Monroe because I had a feeling I was going to need it.”

4 Smooches!

Synopsis

I get paid to photograph intimate moments in other peoples’ lives—specifically one man. During the day, I watch while he’s working, and every night I watch him while he’s f***ing. It started as a job but quickly turned into an obsession.

His name is Nikolas Gallo.

I spent years in front of the camera before I escaped. Now I’m behind it and in control of what my shutter captures. The moment I viewed Niko in the lens of my camera I found the escape I’d been searching for. I finally felt connected – whole.

There are two types of celebrity photographers: those that wait for their victim to venture into public, always allowing some semblance of privacy. And then there are those that lurk in the shadows, steadily invading lives, hunting and searching for the most private shot, and that’s what I had become.

My name is Brook Beckham and I found my inner peeping Tom.

Review

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5 Smooches!

Synopsis

He was trouble from the start, but I couldn’t resist. 
[She was the best kind of trouble. The kind that was so wrong, it felt right.] 

I’ve tried and failed to stay away from him. 
[I’ve done everything in my power to make her mine and keep her.] 

He’s almost impossible to say no to. 
[She never tells me yes.] 

We’re always fighting. 
[When we’re not fighting, we’re… well… making up.] 

He makes me laugh so hard. 
[I miss her laugh the most.] 

I’m a liar. 
[She knows the truth, but won’t admit it.] 

Sometimes, I wish I’d never met him. 
[I wish we could meet all over again. I’d do better.] 

His girlfriend knows. 
[The guy she’s with is a fool.] 

I’ll never love anyone like I love him. 
[She doesn’t love me enough to choose us.] 

It was the wrong place. 
[It was the wrong time.] 

It should have been him. 
[It will always be her.] 

*This book contains adult situations and is recommended for adult readers.

Review

First of all, I feel like M. Mabie must be a damn marketing genius.  I love that cover so much and the blurb immediately made me take notice and add it to my TBR.  And the title.  Well it is just the icing on the cake, especially after you read it and really understand it.  Anyways, all of these phenomenal things made me want to read this book and I am sure glad that I did.  Bait wrecked me, ruined me, made me cry so hard my husband rolled over in bed and asked if I needed anything.  I love a book that makes me feel and this one had so many feels.  It was mostly sad feels with a huge side of ANGRY!

So, I read Bait all in one day.  I ignored all of my responsibilities because I just couldn’t help it.  I was IN the story; transplanted to that special place only a few authors manage to take me.  I spent the entire day in a state of despair and ugly cried my heart out and I loved it so much!  Seriously,  I am tearing up writing this review.

Bait is a cheater book.  Bait is a love triangle.  Bait does not have a happily ever after.  Bait has a huge cliffy.  Bait spans years of heartache.  I just wanted to get that out of the way for all the haters out there.  😉  Some people just cannot stomach that stuff but personally, the more drama in a book, the better for me.  Yes, it was hard and painful and I felt slightly sick about it but hey, IT MADE ME FEEL, and I seriously love that.

Did I want to strangle the hell out of Blake?  Yes!  She continuously makes  the wrong decisions but in real life we all make bad decisions from time to time.

I had a boyfriend.  I had an almost financé.  I was a ho.  

Yes, Blake, yes you are.  And you didn’t feel bad enough about that shit in my opinion.  Nor, did you feel bad enough for Casey either.  Casey.  Sweet, delicious, at the top of my book boyfriend list Casey;  I love you.

For once, in a book, the damn male lead makes the right decisions for the most part.  Casey won my heart immediately.  He is funny and honest and I could immediately see why Blake would cheat with him.  He is simply amazing.  His character made this book.  He is the source of all the good and torment that kept me turning every freaking page.

Even though Blake pissed me off, I knew that she loved Casey and that probably pissed me off even more because in true insecure heroine fashion, she just kept making the wrong decision when it came to the men in her life.

Poor poor Casey keeps sticking around and the more he sticks around, the more I love him and the more I hate Blake.  Sister needed a reality check and Casey keeps giving her them, but she is so blind.  I was practically screaming at my kindle.  What the hell is wrong with you, Blake!  Can’t you see how much he loves you?

If you ask me, this book is not about cheating or love triangles.  It is about Casey’s love for Blake and her inability to accept it.  She is just too scared to take a chance on something as wild and feral as Casey Moore.  Who could blame her, really.  He is so incredibly gorgeous, kind, hilarious and kind of perfect.  Often in life we put people up on pedestals and I feel like that is exactly what Blake did with Casey.  She doesn’t feel deserving and she probably isn’t but it doesn’t matter to him.  He loves and wants her with such passion, just the way she is.

I think the main reason this book spoke to me was because it just felt so real.  Bait is not a fairy tale romance.  Blake and Casey’s story was not easy nor was it far fetched.  I felt like this was totally something a friend of mine could be relaying to me as her story.  It felt like real life.  Real pain.  Real sadness.

Our pain and our love are one and the same.  I’l wait for you.  Probably, forever if that’s what it takes.

Go on, take the plunge.  Read it!  Hate it!  Love it!  Medicate with some fabulous chocolate and wine, but make sure you have some tissues handy.

~Amie

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4 Smooches

Synopsis

She can track down the world’s most dangerous drug lords, hack into any computer, and kill a man in fifteen different ways—but when she comes face-to-face with the only man who’s ever held her heart, it might be her most dangerous mission yet… Or is it?

Sloan Walker. Dr. Felicia Santora. Agent L-55.
Three very different personas, three very different names, but all have one thing in common. They’re all controlled, acted out, and lived by one woman.

Her past has been long forgotten. Ten years have gone by since someone remembered the girl she used to be. The young girl with the big-brown eyes and beautiful dreams of happiness, dreams of love. She now lives a clandestine life. A life filled with top-secret missions and covert assignments. Only a handful of people know the true nature of her job. Her safety is constantly being pushed towards the brink of life-threatening danger.

Then one day someone unexpectedly steps back into her life…

A man who once owned her mind, body, and soul.
A man who held her heart in the palm of his hand.

He remembers. He knows.

And this knowledge could threaten everything she’s worked so hard for. Nixon West is as intelligent as they come and his Navy SEAL training has made him one of the most dangerous weapons in the United States Military. The moment she reappeared into his life he promised himself that he wouldn’t let her go.

But the true question is…what extreme lengths will Nix go to for her?

She will soon face another mission.

And it will test everything.

Time never seems all that important until your life hangs in the balance.

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock…

Review

Covertly Strong is the first book in a new series by NA Alcon.  I really enjoyed this book and its\’s military/cia theme. It was so different than any other book I had read and thoroughly enjoyed how it used military style headings and time to help tell the story of Nix and Sloan.

Nix and Sloan met when they were 16 years old in Hawaii while her dad was stationed there. It took no time at all for them to become attached to each other and become inseparable. It is quickly apparent that they are in love and that their love is very very strong. But a year later when they get separated because Sloan’s dad gets a new assignment something happens and they lose contact.

Flash forward fourteen years and Nix is a very sexy Navy Seal and Sloan is a in command CIA agent. The two run into each other while she is undercover and we can all see that the chemistry and feelings they were once there never really go away.

Covertly Strong is an action packed romantic suspense novel that will leave you wondering what is about to happen next. I loved Nix’s alpha tendencies and how much he clearly has always loved Sloan. Sloan is a wonderful Heroine who is strong willed and can easily handle herself in any situation! Overall, I really liked the plot and characters in this novel.

I will say that I enjoyed the present part of the book a lot more than the past. It took me a few to get hooked into it but once I did I just couldn’t stop. If you like Romantic Suspense novels than this is one you will want to add to your list!

~miranda