Jul 10

There Goes the Neighborhood by M.A. Stone Review

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Synopsis

In Riveted you were introduced to spunky Bleu Drawn, her brother Axel and her father Aaron; as well as everyone else in their crazy “family”. But how did it all start? 

1983. A bad boy biker named Aaron Drawn, who makes ridiculously reckless choices, meets up with the nicest, sweetest girl next door Angel Lonero, when she is his nurse after he gets shot. 
He thinks she wants the picket fence, 2.5 kids and Sunday dinners. What she really wants is a bad boy with a heart of gold who can make her heart race and her toes curl. Can he get past his demons and trust her with his heart? Can she get over his past, including a very mentally unhinged ex girlfriend who has a fetish for sharp knives?

Review

The story of Angel and Aaron isn’t a pretty one. Being surrounded by ugly can sometimes cloud your vision of the life you want. Angel has a unique way of pushing that all aside and looking at the best in what life has to offer. Her best friend, Almeida, has a big brother, Aaron. Even though she has known Almeida for quite some time, she never met Aaron. When they do finally meet, in the hospital of all places, sparks fly. She is the light to his dark. In his mind, he is messed up and unable to provide the “happily ever after” that he thinks most girls want. What he doesn’t realize, is that Angel is his happily ever after. His redemption, his salvation, his heart. There are some crazy scenes in this book involving seriously psychotic characters. Poor Aaron and Almeida. Their life began with some seriously messed up circumstances, but Aaron did his absolute best to shield his baby sister from their father, and the knowledge surrounding his courtship with their mother. Aaron is a good man, even if he doesn’t believe it.

Angel is sweet and endearing. She is a nurse and spends her time trying to do the best she can for her patients. She takes extra care with the pediatric department at her hospital and even enlists Aaron and his buddy Tangler to join in. These big, muscle-bound, tattooed men playing with paints and markers with the little kids is so sweet. These aren’t your typical biker dudes. They have found their loves, Angel and Almeida, respectively, and are just trying to live a good life.

One of the funniest characters in the this book is Angel’s Gran. She seriously says the craziest stuff! She is the one that ended up raising Angel after her parents passed away and they are very close. Angel takes Aaron, Tangler, and Almeida up to meet her. Needless to say, Gran and her crazy run rampant with the couples and everyone has a good laugh.

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This is a wonderful edition to the Drawn Series. It was nice to get background information on the parents of Bleu and Axel. Bottom line with these characters, they have a lot of love to give, be it in their own personal crazy way. I can’t wait to see what happens next!

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~Nicole

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Jul 10

The Dare by Rachel Van Dyken Blog Tour and Giveaway

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The Dare

The Bet Series # 3

by Rachel Van Dyken

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Synopsis

From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken, comes the third and final book in the New York Time’s Bestselling Bet Series…

Boring Beth Lynn has always lived up to her nickname… until she wakes up in a hotel bed next to a sexy as sin state senator she re-connected with at a wedding the previous night.

The biggest problem? She can’t seem to remember anything about the night before except for crying into a box of cookies, and she’s pretty sure Grandma Nadine slipped something in her drink. And what should have been a one night stand turns into a six day adventure when Grandma whisks them off to Hawaii to save them from the ensuing media firestorm.

Jace isn’t looking for commitment — he believes he made that clear when he left the wedding with Beth. Then again, he can’t remember much of anything other than the way her skin felt beneath his hands. Now he’s stuck with her at some lame couple’s retreat and trying his hardest to fight the attraction only a woman like Beth could invoke.

He doesn’t think it can get any worse.

But one spider attack… A donkey ride from hell… And an unfortunate episode with Viagra tea — and there’s one thing Jace knows for sure: He should never have agreed to Grandma Nadine’s suggestion in the first place.

Because if this isn’t paradise, and it isn’t a vacation — that only leaves one option.

Survival.

But to make it through alive… they might lose their hearts in the process.

(Romantic Comedy, Friends to lovers, Vacation Romance, New Adult Romance, Funny Stand Alone, Bargain Books, Humorous Romance)

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“What the hell?” A deep voice rumbled from somewhere underneath me.

I closed my eyes.

“You can’t close your eyes. I already know you’re awake.”

“This is all a dream,” I muttered, my voice sounding scratchy and unfamiliar. “I’m a figment of your imagination. Swear. In two seconds you’re going to feel—”

“Shame,” the voice said. “Isn’t that what you were going to say? Absolute mind-shattering shame?”

I opened my eyes. “What?” I should have left them closed.

Really. It’s the small things in life that get you. Close your mouth. Close your eyes. Pretend you don’t see that. Crap. Some things just can’t be forgotten.

And that face?

Those lips?

Bright blue eyes?

Blond hair that fell just below his ears?

Officially stored into my permanent memory until I died, alone with all my cats.

“I was kidding.” Mr. Sexy chuckled. “I just thought I’d throw that in there to make you feel more comfortable.”

Right, because lying across a complete stranger in nothing but a smile screamed, Hey, let’s joke around. I’m game. I quickly grabbed at the sheet and pulled away, kneeing the poor bastard in the process.

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The Dare by Rachel Van Dyken Review

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Synopsis

Boring Beth Lynn has always lived up to her nickname… until she wakes up in a hotel bed next to a sexy as sin state senator she re-connected with at a wedding the previous night.

The biggest problem? She can’t seem to remember anything about the night before except for crying into a box of cookies, and she’s pretty sure Grandma Nadine slipped something in her drink. And what should have been a one night stand turns into a six day adventure when Grandma whisks them off to Hawaii to save them from the ensuing media firestorm.

Jace isn’t looking for commitment — he believes he made that clear when he left the wedding with Beth. Then again, he can’t remember much of anything other than the way her skin felt beneath his hands. Now he’s stuck with her at some lame couple’s retreat and trying his hardest to fight the attraction only a woman like Beth could invoke.

He doesn’t think it can get any worse.

But one spider attack… A donkey ride from hell… And an unfortunate episode with Viagra tea — and there’s one thing Jace knows for sure: He should never have agreed to Grandma Nadine’s suggestion in the first place.
Because if this isn’t paradise, and it isn’t a vacation — that only leaves one option.

Survival.

But to make it through alive… they might lose their hearts in the process.

Review

The Dare by Rachel Van Dyken is book 3 in The Bet Series. While each book revolves around a separate couple and could be read as a standalone I very much recommend reading these in order. Not only are they some of the funniest books I have read but the stories do interconnect. I absolutely LOVED The Dare, this book was sweet, funny and just sexy enough. I was not surprised to find that I could not put it down because that has been the whole series for me.

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Beth and Jace wake up after the wedding of her sister and his friend together in a hotel room and nothing but crazy Granma Nadine antics happen from there. In the middle of all the insanity that Grandma always seems to cause is a very sweet and endearing love story. Beth is a scientist and very rational she knows what she wants and what she doesn’t want. And what is it that Beth doesn’t want, a politician. Enter Jace, you guessed it, a politician!  But, when Grandma is around what you want or better yet what you think you want does not matter. Things get complicated quickly with the press getting involved and sweet innocent Beth even getting called a Prostitute.

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One would think with as many crazy antics that take place in the book, donkey ride from HELL as well as contestant interruption and interference from Grandma and so much more, that this would come off as cheesy but that is where the beauty of Rachel’s writing comes in play. She has a way of making you laugh and fall in love all at the same time. One of Rachel’s skill that not many have is the ability to write a very sexy novel without a lot of actual sex or even graphic sex. Between the very clear attraction Jace and Beth have and the hilarity that Grandma brings I honesty cannot recommend this book enough. The Bet series as a whole is one I find myself reading again and again and I can’t wait for you all to discover and enjoy it!

Now all I can hope for right now is that Rachel isn’t done and that there will indeed be more Grandma Nadine in my life!

 

~miranda

Jul 10

Unwritten by Chelsea M. Cameron Release Day Blitz and Giveaway

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UnWritten by Chelsea M. Cameron

July 2014

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BOOK SUMMARY (Not the official blurb) :

Blair Walton isn’t your average tattooed children’s librarian. She’s also one half of bestselling romance author, Scarlet Rose. Along with her bff Raine, she spends her nights writing books so steamy, she’s afraid they would shock her Southern conservative grandmother to death, if she knew about them. Blair and Raine keep their smut peddling ways a secret from everyone, including family.

On deadline for their latest book and out of ideas, Raine suggests (demands) that Blair find a guy and “do some research.” It just so happens that Blair has a guy that’s ready and willing. Declan Bennet has all the qualifications: He’s British, looks fabulous in a suit and gets bonus points for being a single dad. But what started out as a research project quickly turns into something much more. Someone else is writing this love story and Blair has completely lost control. But will Declan still feel the same way when he finds out the truth about Blair and her secret motives?

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Chelsea M. Cameron is a YA/NA New York Times/USA Today Best Selling author from Maine. Lover of things random and ridiculous, Jane Austen/Charlotte and Emily Bronte Fangirl, red velvet cake enthusiast, obsessive tea drinker, vegetarian, former cheerleader and world’s worst video gamer. When not writing, she enjoys watching infomercials, singing in the car and tweeting (this one time, she was tweeted by Neil Gaiman). She has a degree in journalism from the University of Maine, Orono that she promptly abandoned to write about the people in her own head. More often than not, these people turn out to be just as weird as she is.

Her New Adult Contemporary Romance titles include My Favorite Mistake, which has been bought by Harlequin along with a sequel, Deeper We Fall and Faster We Burn (April 20, 2013)

Her Young Adult books include Nocturnal, Nightmare and Neither, the first three books in The Noctalis Chronicles. The fourth and final book, Neverend will be out in 2013. Whisper, the first in The Whisper Trilogy is also available, with the second book in the series, Silence and the final book, LIsten coming out in 2014.

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Jul 09

Pulled Beneath by Marni Mann Review

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5 Smooches!

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Synopsis

What happens when you uncover years of secrets and find out everything you thought to be true was a lie?

Drew Stevens finds her world turned upside down when her parents are brutally murdered. Soon after, she learns she inherited a property in Bar Harbor, Maine, from recently deceased grandparents that she believed had died when she was a baby.

Drew travels north to settle her grandparents’ estate, but finds more questions than answers as the truth starts unraveling. What she didn’t expect to find was Saint, whose reputation is as tumultuous as his past. But the very thing that brings them together is the same thing that keeps them emotionally caged.

With Saint’s scars so deep and Drew’s so fresh, can the pair heal from their painful wounds or will they be pulled beneath the darkness of their pasts?

Review

Wow..just wow.  This book is a first in a series.  I read where the second book will be out in Summer of 2014.
I really enjoyed this book.  It was about a girl named Drew from Florida who’s parents were murdered and she finds out the grandparents she thought who died when she was a child, which lived in Maine, had just died recently.  So she decided to go to Maine and see if she could find out answers about her life from the home her grandparents had left her.  She goes on this quest to get her grandparents house sold, get her questions answered about her parents from their home town before she decides to go back to Florida.  In the meantime she meets a man by the name of Saint. He is nothing like the guys she usually is attracted to, he is the HAWT bad tattooed boy, sleeps with all the girls that are passing through but he seems to have a troubled past too and Drew is very attracted to him.  Will she move back home to Florida after she gets her answers or will she stay with the HAWT bad boy in Maine?  You have to read and find out..this is for mature readers. This is the first time I have read any of Marni Mann’s books..It was a very easy read and I felt like I was sitting in the room or running around town with Drew..the descriptions were so awesome.
I gave Pulled Beneath 5 Smooches!

Tricia

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Jul 09

All Broke Down by Cora Carmack Cover Reveal

We are so excited to get to share the cover for Cora Carmack’s ALL BROKE DOWN today! A New Adult Contemporary Romance, and published by William Morrow-an imprint of HarperCollins, this is the second book in her Rusk University Series, and it is set to be released on October 28, 2014! But you can pre-order it NOW! Check out what it’s about and then fall in love with this gorgeous cover!

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In this second book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack’s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with All Lined Up, a young woman discovers that you can’t only fight for what you believe in . . . sometimes you have to fight for what you love

Dylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to be one.

Environmental issues, civil rights, corrupt corporations, and politicians—you name it, she’s probably been involved in a protest. When her latest cause lands her in jail overnight, she meets Silas Moore. He’s in for a different kind of fighting. And though he’s arrogant and infuriating, she can’t help being fascinated with him. Yet another lost cause.

Football and trouble are the only things that have ever come naturally to Silas. And it’s trouble that lands him in a cell next to do-gooder Dylan. He’s met girls like her before—fixers, he calls them, desperate to heal the damage and make him into their ideal boyfriend. But he doesn’t think he’s broken, and he definitely doesn’t need a girlfriend trying to change him. Until, that is, his anger issues and rash decisions threaten the only thing he really cares about, his spot on the Rusk University football team. Dylan might just be the perfect girl to help.

Because Silas Moore needs some fixing after all.

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Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something characters. She’s done a multitude of things in her life– boring jobs (like working retail), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys placing her characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too. Her first book, LOSING IT, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.

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Jul 09

Burn by Callie Hart Review

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I’m not safe.
I haven’t been safe for a while now.
I ran to Zeth for protection, but Zeth is in danger himself. With Julio on one side, and the leader of the Widow Makers MC on the other, the smartest thing to do would be to run. I’ve been running long enough, though.
This is the closest I’ve come to finding my sister in two years.
I can’t back down now.

Zeth 
My right hand man’s being tortured in the basement.
The guy who tried to buy Sloane’s virginity is burning rubber in our direction.
My psychotic boss is on a mission to find me, and the girl I’m supposed to be keeping safe has landed herself right in the middle of all of this.
Just another breezy weekend in the Californian desert.
What could possibly go wrong in the next 48 hours?

Review

The third installment of the Blood and Roses series had so many twists and turns, I was on the edge of my seat! Some very interesting characters are introduced and it would appear that Sloane is slowly losing her even-keeled demeanor. She finally makes contact with her sister. Yes, finally, but the circumstances are dire. Throughout all the crazy madness that surrounds Zeth and Sloane in Julio’s house, they find their strength within each other. It is becoming quite apparent that they are not just using each other just for sex. They have a symbiotic soothing effect on each other.

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The wonderful thing about this series, is yes, the twists and turns and yes, the high energy sex-capades, but it’s also the relationships depicted. There are many, many layers to all the characters, and I absolutely love how Callie peels those away to reveal true humanity. No one is inherently good, and truthfully, no one is completely bad. Everyone in these stories seem to be grasping for their own sense of peace, and I cannot wait to see if Zeth and Sloane find it.

5 BIG OL’ SMOOCHIES

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~Nicole

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Jul 09

Neanderthal Marries Human by Penny Reid Blog Tour and Giveaway

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Neanderthal Marries Human
by Penny Reid
Knitting in the City #3
Publication Date: June 24, 2014
Genres: Contemporary, Contemporary Women, Humor, Humorous, Romance

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Synopsis: There are three things you should know about Quinn Sullivan: 1) He is madly in love with Janie Morris, 2) He’s not above playing dirty to get what (or who) he wants, and 3) He doesn’t know how to knit.

After just five months of dating Janie, Quinn—former Wendell and unapologetic autocrat—is ready to propose marriage. In fact, he’s more than ready. If it were up to Quinn, he would efficiently propose, marry, and beget Janie with child all in the same day—thereby avoiding the drama and angst that accompanies the four stages of pre-matrimony: engagement, meeting the parents, bachelor/bachelorette party, and overblown, superfluous wedding day traditions. But Janie, much to Quinn’s dismay, tosses a wrench in his efficacious endeavors and challenges him to prove his devotion by going through the matrimonial motions, no matter how minute and mundane.

Will Quinn last until the wedding day? Or will he yield to his tyrant impulses?

Regardless, one thing is for certain, Quinn Sullivan will have to learn to expect the Spanish Inquisition (i.e. the unexpected) if he plans to have and keep Janie Morris as his wife.

This book is not a standalone. It is the sequel to ‘Neanderthal Seeks Human,’ it is book #1.5 in the ‘Knitting in the City’ series, and it is a full length, 100k word novel.

Again, you must read ‘Neanderthal Seeks Human’ first before reading this book.

This book is written in first person, alternating POV (Janie Morris AND Quinn Sullivan; but more Janie than Quinn).

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SEX! It all started with sex, between my parents. Personally I don’t like thinking about it, but whatever works for you is a-ok with me. No judgment. The sex happened in California and much of my life also occurred in that state until I moved from the land of nuts (almonds), wine, silicon… boobs, and heavy traffic to the southeast US. Like most writers I like to write, but let’s get back to sex. Eventually I married and gave birth to 2 small people-children (boy-6, girl-4 as of this writing).

By day I’m a biomedical researcher with focus on rare diseases. By night I’m a knitter, sewer, lino block carver, fabric printer, soap maker, and general crafter. By the wee hours of the morning or when I’m intoxicated I love to listen to the voices in my head and let them tell me stories. I hope you enjoy their stories.

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Working Girl by A.E. Woodward Cover Reveal and Giveaway

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Title: Working Girl

Author: A.E. Woodward

Genre: New Adult/Coming of age

Release Date: Coming Soon

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Life As I Know It:
Booze
Drugs
Gambling
Easy Women
Such was my life in fabulous Las Vegas. But what do you expect when you’re the daughter of a prostitute. This is not the life I want for myself, and I have a plan.

Life As I Want It:
Go to college.
Get my degree.
Get as far from Vegas as possible.

But life has other plans. Plans that include him. Life isn’t always sunshine and roses and even the best laid plans change.

This is my story. The story of a girl who thought she had it all figured out until life threw her a curve ball. My name is Presley and I refuse to be just another Working Girl.

 

 

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A.E. lives in Vacationland with her husband and two children. Between her real job and writing she finds little time to enjoy life’s finer things. However in the free time she does manage to steal, she enjoys spending time with friends and family and reading. A.E. is the author of Kismet and A Series of Imperfections: Imperfectly Perfect, Imperfectly Real, and Imperfectly Bad. Working Girl is her fifth book.

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Jul 09

Kairos by K.J. Coakley Blog Tour and Giveaway

Title: Kairos, An Enmortals Series Novel

Author: K.J. Coakley

Release Date: June 13, 2014

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What if the enticing man who has just seized your every sense enlightens you to realms beyond our dimension? Can that spark of love withstand a war to protect mankind? Kairos: An Enmortals Series Novel by K. J. Coakley is the spellbinding novel that reveals that the deepest love need not be confined to the trappings of one world.

The first in a series of paranormal romances, Kairos swirls in mankind, magic, and mythology as it chronicles the first blush of yearning between Sulwen Macgregor, a shy and sheltered college senior, and Logan Thatcher, a mesmerizing former playboy with arresting good looks, an offbeat sense of humor, and an ironclad moral code. When the two meet, Sulwen has no inkling that she soon will embark on an odyssey that not only exposes Logan as other than mortal, but uncovers astonishing aspects of her own being as well.

As Logan saves Sulwen from fast-approaching peril, the two must discover if their love is truly without bounds and strong enough to fend off adversaries far more craven than they ever could fathom. With wild imagination, otherworldly passion, and heart-pumping action, Kairos goes where no human being has dared, all in the name of love.

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Her dark lashes lie against her ivory skin. A few tiny freckles are speckled over the bridge of her nose. I run my finger from the indent next to her pert little nose, over her high cheekbone, and then trace the edge of her hairline down and around her ear. My eyes watch with rapt attention, taking in every detail of her beautiful face. She is the most breathtakingly beautiful woman I have ever laid eyes on. I smirk as I think of how she doesn’t even realize how truly alluring she is. God, I love this woman.

I settle her down on the grass and lean down to graze my lips over hers. Her warm breath glides over my cheek as I turn my face into hers and run my nose and lips along her jaw.

“I love you, Sulwen Macgregor,” I whisper softly next to her ear. I kiss the tip of her nose and then gently lay her down.

As I stand I steal one more glance at her and feel the smile that breaks across my face. So peaceful. So much of everything that I need lies there looking like a nymph in the grass.

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Author K. J. Coakley lives a life where she plays many roles…as most women do when they are a wife, mother, and caretaker of two rowdy dogs. But when she’s not working her nine to five gig, or spending time with her family, she can be found glued to her laptop where she loves to create worlds with sexy alpha males and brazen heroines. She is also an avid fan of heavy metal and rock music, and regularly attends music festivals.

Coakley received an Associate degree in Business Administration from Walters State Community College, and a Bachelor of Business Management degree from East Tennessee State University. Her debut novel Kairos is the inaugural installment of a new paranormal romance series.

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