bandherbooks's Reviews (3.65k)

Beautiful former child star Olivia (who is hiding out under a name new in Lucky Harbor) falls for hot, can fix-it-all handyman/local business owner Cole after she "rescues" him from the ocean when he falls off his charter boat. She keeps her past hidden, and he deals with his own past issues. A cute story, but not one of my favorites. I may have finally tapped my guilty thirst for Shalvis novels for a time.

Ridiculous, yet fun romp in the Scottish Highlands that is Beauty and the Beast-esque. I enjoyed Gwendolyn the "pudgy" virgin who is "sacrificed" to the "dragon" of the castle and found her charming and witty, but the overall story lost a bit of steam at the end for me. I chose this for the "re-telling" square on my 2015 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge.

Friday Nights flavored college New Adult romance. I much preferred Cora Carmack's previous series, as I felt this one lost some balance with the attempts to imbue it with football lessons. I did enjoy the characters; both were strong and while there was tension and drama, it wasn't unrealistic or overblown.

Meh. This was ok for me. I enjoyed the chemistry between Silas and Dylan, but as compared to other Carmack books I've read their back-stories didn't catch my interest. The football lesson given to Dylan was especially snooze worthy, and the last minute shock to a peripheral character felt unnecessary to the main story.

Despite the excellent book description promising a hot historical reenactor who accidentally travels back in time and meets a sexy Scottish Clan leader, the overall storyline was uneven and not to my taste.
This was basically an insta-love tale (all action takes place over four days) with fun aspects that were never fully explored. Plus, while the banter between Duncan and Abby was funny and Abby was a pretty awesome leading lady, the ending came too abruptly.
Overall the story was a bit too all over the place and really unfortunately the sexy parts weren't all that titillating.

Typical "New Adult" novel with a tortured soul of a young woman repressing a troubled past and a hot, domineering jerky rich guy, but this time set in Scotland! Same story, different setting, and the Scottish setting really had no impact on the story whatsoever. However, in defense of this story, I did have an iota more of respect for Joss then I normally do for most of the female leads in these novels. She had some good quips, but alas her love interest was basically a controlling asshole.

Read for the "guilty pleasure" square of the Book Riot 2015 Read Harder Challenge.

Hot, steamy, and heck it was in Scotland. That said, you could hardly tell it was actually set in Scotland and not just Any Town, Anwheresville besides a tiny use of slang and city names (set in Edinburgh). A fine way to pass the day while too sick to read anything heavy.

Actual rating, 4.5 stars.

I'm an unabashed anglophile and royal watcher, and just hit all the right notes for me. I'm super behind on Internet culture, so I generally am not up on who is blogging, but you can bet your boots I'll be following the Fug Girls and their royal watch from now on.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to write a legit review for my work's blog, so I'll just keep this brief until I can gather my love thoughts in a coherent manner. Read this now!

I LOVED On The Fence by Kasie West, but unfortunately this story did not connect with me in the same way. It was well-written, but the Rich Boy/Poor Girl meet cute romance arc with LIES as the main driving force of the plot isn't for me. Also, dolls ARE creepy and I can see why you would never make any money selling them.

Kasie West fans will eat this one up though. Not bad, just not for me.

Steamy, but meh. Shalvis shouldn't waste her time with mysteries because the one in this tale is pretty lame. This is an older work, and it shows.