You are Mine is set up in a world where women are complete possessions and being subservient to a warlock is considered the best life they can hope for. I only say best because the other option is becoming a tarnished, which means you are branded and cast out of the world. (Although the tarnished seemed to have way more freedom than the owned women, but that was kind of the point) Janeal Falor took such a difficult subject, and made it a fascinating read. I really enjoyed You are Mine. I couldn't put the book down.

Serena is a spunky and independent minded young woman. Both things that I loved about her, but they were also considered her worst traits in this world. Her father hated her for her self-thinking and independent attitude. She was severely punished whenever she questioned him. When she was sold to a rich suitor, I was actually scared for her. I had really come to like her. But then in a fighting competition, her new owner was defeated by a barbarian, named Zade, and by defeated I do mean killed. So now Serena has a new owner, and he is an outsider to their world of ownership and total patriarchal rule. It's so ironic because the barbarians are feared for being savages and cruel creatures, but he is so much more human than Serena's father and the other men in their society. He actually treats Serena with respect and gives her some free reign.

One of my favorite parts of the book was how Serena chose to kind of speak out and show her independence. She went into town with the ample money that Zade gave her and she went to a tarnished woman to help her create totally nontraditional outfits for her bonding ceremony with Zade. She completely broke with tradition and chose colorful outfits and even wore pants. Scandalous! Zade doesn't mind at all and I like that you can see that he is slowly starting to like Serena and she is even warming to him.

You are Mine is well written and very engaging. I read the whole book in one sitting. I went into this book expecting to like it but I was nervous that the society would annoy me with their backwards thinking and ways. But what really happened was I found some characters that I couldn't stand,and got to hate from page one to the last page, but I also found some characters that I really connected with and came to love. Serena was such a treat and so was Zane. You are Mine is a great read.

Yay! Another mythology series that I am completely loving. Mythology is something that always fascinates me and I have come to find that it is one of my very favorite subgenres in young adult books. It just seems to work so well for me. I really liked My Ex From Hell. I thought it was a unique twist on greek mythology while still remaining true to the stories and gods and goddesses. There is a war brimming between Hades and Zeus, and meanwhile Sophie was just oblivious to it all. She thought she was just a normal high school student, but she comes to find out that she is the Goddess Persephone and her soul was transferred into a human body to save it because someone tried to kill her. We don't know who or why, and to top it all off Sophie can only remember bits and pieces of her former life as Persephone. I hadn't seen this variation done before and I thought it was really interesting.

Sophie is a spitfire. I loved that she just would not back down; from anyone or anything. She seemed to take all the news about her new goddess status in stride, but she never fully accepted anything unless she could see it for herself. I appreciated her skepticism. Sophie has a great friend in Hannah. She was the only non "greek" at the school in her little group. Cassie and Theo and Kai all had ties to mythology. I really liked the little group dynamic Theo, Hannah and Sophie had, and I thought that the rivalry between Theo and Kai was pretty funny. It is not a love triangle though, which was refreshing. Kai is the son of Hades and he and Sophie used to be an item. I would have thought that Kai would have been a little happier to see her after all these years, but he instead he just had this super arrogant air surrounding him all the time. It was really hard to see what he was actually thinking. But those little genuine moments that he shared, or let slip out, were totally worth it.

The dialogue in My Ex From Hell was witty and snappy and extremely enjoyable. I liked the brisk pace of the story and I liked how funny the characters were. Tellulah Darling has such an inviting writing style. Once I started reading My Ex From Hell, I couldn't put it down, and I really wished that I had the second book right away so that I could continue the story. The ending had me asking, "why!!" and I need to know what is going to happen next. This is a must read for fans of mythology.

Out from Under You is one heck of a romance. Lia and grayson have known each other for eight years. And they work so well together. I loved how uncomplicated it was with the two of them. Which seems really weird because it should be anything but uncomplicated seeing as Grayson is Lia's sisters on again- off again boyfriend. I know, I know, that seems like a mess of a situation and I'm not going to lie, there were times that I felt bad for Alex, but Lia and Grayson just seemed meant to be so it didn't really bug me too much. It was hard to not get swept up in the magic of Out from Under You.

Lia is hardworking and dependable and sweet and feels like she has always been in the shadow of her older sister Alex, who seemed like a whirlwind of magnetic energy all the time. It seemed like Alex just breezed in and easily took everything she wanted. I enjoyed Lia a lot more than I did Alex. Alex seemed too brash, too harsh and much too controlling. She had to have everything her way and she didn't care who stood in her path. But Lia was accommodating and a people pleaser. She took over her mothers restaurant when her mom just up and left town and held it together for the family. When Grayson came back to town, and into Lia's life with her sister Alex, the plot of the story just took off. I was so engrossed in their story. I loved watching how affected Grayson was by Lia; how charmed.

The book is told in dual narrative with Lia and Grayson's voices. I love getting inside a guys head and Sophie Swift does an amazing job with the male point of view. I enjoyed Grayson's inner conflict in deciding what to do with Alex and Lia. I loved how he decided Alex, and honestly it was his vision of her that made me feel a little bad for what him and Lia had done. But then I stepped back and really looked at the way Grayson and Alex interacted, they fought all the time. Constantly and when they weren't fighting it was because Grayson had just decided it wasn't worth the fight and gave into Alex. Sophie Swift does an amazing job creating very realistic characters. Her whole world seemed to come to life as I was reading Out from Under you.

Out from Under You has been one of my favorite new adult contemporary romances in a while. I was totally addicted to the genre and then I started to burn out on it for a little, but this story has rejuvenated me and gotten me interested in New Adult and contemporary again! I loved it. Everything in Out from Under You is realistic. When you think someone would be mad, they were mad. If you think the choices Lia and Grayson make along the way don't have consequences, you would be wrong. But I enjoyed that about the book, I liked seeing people react the way I would expect them to react in real life. And I loved Lia and Grayson and their romance is hot to say the least. I loved watching them both come alive around each other. They both just seemed to be going through the motions before they came into each others lives, but when they are together everything just had this spark of light that was impossible to miss.

Stir Me Up turned out to be a pleasant surprise. When I started reading Stir Me Up I was a little skeptical that I would grow to love Julian. He was just so rude to everyone, and he took longer to grow on me than most main chracters, but I ended up LOVING him, so it all worked out. Once I started liking him, the book became so much more intriguing and interesting for me. Stir Me Up turned out to be a really nice love story.

I really loved Cami. She is sweet, but she has a little temper on her. I liked the combination of nice thoughtful Cami having a feisty side. And Julian seemed to bring out the feistiness in her even more. Food was flying all over the place in this book. Cami wants to be a chef so she is always experimenting with recipes. Her father is a french chef and he was so hard on Cami. He wasn't very open with her and even though you could tell that he loved her, he wouldn't compliment her food. He wasn't very encouraging of her passion and I just felt bad for her. Julian wasn't very nice to her either for a good portion of the story, and while Estella was always nice to Cami, she seemed to blame Cami for all of the fights between her and Julian, which I didn't think seemed fair. I know that Julian had it very rough overseas and that he lost a leg and was having a tough time recovering but he was just mean sometimes. But like I said, he eventually comes around and Cami really gets to know him. That's when the magic of Stir Me Up starts to happen. With Cami and Julian. They are electric together.

I think I would have liked Julian more if I had been able to get inside his head. At a few points in the story, I kept thinking that I would have enjoyed seeing his point of view as well. Cami tells the whole story, but I think I would have understood Julian much better, and much sooner, if I saw his view as well. I loved Julian's plan at the end of the story. Cami graduated from high school and she was deciding what she was going to be doing for the next year, and so was Julian, but he didn't want either of them to share their plans with the other person. He wanted them each to do what was best for them. And what they each decided to do was my favorite part of the book. It was just so sweet!

Stir Me Up turned out to be a great romance. I enjoyed seeing Cami and Julian help each other become better people. They just accepted each other and each grew in the process. Stir Me Up is a book that took some warming up for me, but once I really got into it, it became a great story.

I loved Forgive my Fins, so I was super excited to read Fins are Forever. Fins are Forever picks up right after the end of the first book, with Lily giving up her crown to be with Quince on land. Lily is the princess but she cannot rule unless she is bonded by her 18th birthday, which is quickly approaching. And since she broke her bond with Quince in the first book, she can't rule. Fins are Forever is a really cute book. I loved every minute of it.

Lily is a great character. In this book you really get to see how much she is willing to help others. Her cousin, Dosina shows up at her house, exiled. Lily has to get her kind of rude cousin to like humans. It was no small feat, she was kind of a brat in the first book and she is an even bigger brat in this book. As the story goes on however, you can really see some growth in her. I loved that. There were a few moments where you could see some vulnerability peaking through her tough exterior, and those were like rare gems to me. Those moments made me like Doe. I think the ultimate test happened for Lily in this book. And it involved her old crush, Brody. I really liked this new, more mature Lily that I saw in Fins are Forever.

Even though most of this book takes place on land, we do get to journey to the underwater kingdom, which I absolutely love. The way Tera Lynn Childs describes the vibrant kingdom is my favorite part of the book. It just seems so beautiful and full of life. This book is actioned packed all the way to the very end. I thought Fins are Forever was a great sequel to Forgive My Fins. Fans of the first book will be very happy with Fins are Forever. The ending made me really happy. I can't wait to read the third book.

Fans of the supernatural will enjoy this mixture of witches, ghosts and demons. Beautifully Broken is full of secrets, mystery and even a cute guy. The writing is very readable and conversational, which I enjoyed. I think a younger to middle YA audience will enjoy this book the most. The characters are very true to high school girls. And the language matches their age group perfectly. There is slang and lots of OMG's. I thought it was realistic. These are 16/17 year old girls so they are going to gush over guys and they are going to talk in chat speak more often than not. None of the characters are very formal in Beautifully Broken, but none of them were overly immature either. I think they were just realistic which is refreshing to see.

I love that this story revolves around Ravenhurst- an awesome and old mansion. I have this thing about big or cool houses. I just love them, so a story featuring one is going to get some pluses in my book. I want to visit! But the cool thing is that this secret goes deeper than just the house. It is one of those secrets that just keeps getting bigger and bigger as the story goes on. And it is one doozy of a secret. Shiloh was like a little sleuth. I am so excited to see what is going to happen with it in the next book.

So what did I not love about Beautifully Broken? The awful, awful mother! I know the evil mom (or traditionally step-mom) is a classic cliche in books and movies, but I just don't care for it. I knew right away that Shiloh's mom was involved somehow but my thoughts about halfway through the book about her were way off the mark about how she was involved. I love being surprised, so that was another plus for me. I still hate her though.

Other than the mother, I enjoyed Beautifully Broken. I think this will appeal to teens that are looking for a creepy supernatural read. I am really excited to see what is going to happen next in the second book.

I accidentally picked up Something Wicked before I read the first book, Something Witchy. I got about 6% into the book before I realized they were referencing characters that I knew nothing about, and things that were confusing. It was only then that I realized I had book 2 instead of book 1 in my hands. This is definitely a series that needs to be read in order. I liked that book 2 didn't completely rehash the events in the first book, but it can be kind of confusing if you didn't read the two books back to back, or close in time to each other. Something Wicked picks up a little after the huge fight scene at the end of Something Witchy. Something Wicked is a great book for getting answers. Most of my unanswered questions from the first book were addressed in this book, and there is some good action as well. I enjoyed Something Wicked, and the ending made me very curious about the next book in the series.

Ember really comes into her own in this book. We find out more about her powers and we get to see her in action once again, as she tried to vanquish a big bad demon. What I liked about the demon storyline, was that it wove into Nathan's backstory. We got to learn more about his past and about how he is connected to Ember. Nathan and Ember are as adorable as ever. I do kind of wish that they got a chance to just enjoy being with each other, instead of having to fight evil the whole time, but maybe next book they can have a chance to have some fun.

I loved that we got to see more of Kim and Blake in Something Wicked. I was so excited that they got to be a part of Ember's new life. Kim is great and I hope we see a lot more of her in the next book.

Something Wicked is a good second book. It bridges the gap from the plot of the first book and really opens this up to being an interesting series. There were a few slow parts of the story, but overall I really enjoyed learning more about Nathan's past and I loved the kick butt action fight scenes. And the ending. Oh my, it certainly caught my attention! I have no idea what it means, but I need to find out.

Breaking the Rules is a pure romance story. The romance is the driving factor and it completely overshadows everything else. Sure, it has great characters with interesting back stories, but it is first and foremost about the romance. Morgan and Drake fall in love at first sight basically. They both try and stay away from each other because they work together. Morgan is trying to prove herself at a new job and Drake has a deal with his dad. But they can't stay away from each other for long, and so starts their pretty epic romance...in secret.

I liked how smart and savvy Morgan was when it came to her job. She put a career first, and even though she comes from a well off family and is a beautiful girl, she doesn't just want to rest on her family money and become a wife. She wants to be a business woman. I liked her go-getter attitude when it came to her job. She even could be a little sassy. When I saw her inner spitfire on her first day with Drake in the parking garage, I knew that I was going to like her. But then, along the way she fell in love with Drake and I felt like a little bit of that spunk and spirit that I loved in her died. She put up with a lot of kind of jerk moves from him. She kind of just rolled over. Eventually she got her spirit back, but I was annoyed with her a few times in the middle of the story.

And Drake had his moments of annoyance too. On one hand, I really liked and respected how much he turned his life around. You could tell that this job was important to him and that he really wanted to put his past behind him, but he was all kinds of misleading to Morgan when he first met her. He was hot and he was cold, he was up and he was down. I had no idea how she put up with him. But once they got past that initial week of confusion, they seemed to be pretty hot and heavy. They were always with each other outside of work and their romance was intense. Adorable and cheesy. Very cheesy. It was insta-love and it was over the top mushy, but they both acknowledged that it was. They knew that they fell in love way too quickly and that they didn't really know all that much about each other, but what I liked about Breaking the Rules was that even know it was love at first sight, a good deal of the book was spent with them getting to know each other.

I really liked how sweet and "true-love" like their romance seemed to be. Fans of cheesy and sappy romances will absolutely eat this book up. And I like cheesy. I really do, but some parts of this book were even too much for me. If Drake said that he wanted to go out of his way to pamper Morgan, I may have gagged. But even with the cheesiness aside, their romance was pretty beautiful. There is no way that anyone could look at them and not know that they were totally crazy about each other. Their story was cute, but I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. For something to happen, because everything seemed too perfect, just a little too good to be true. I wanted some conflict! And I finally got it at the end of the book. I actually loved the ending. Probably because I had been waiting for conflict for so long. And it set up the second book perfectly. Breaking the Rules will be a great read for fans that like their romance a little on the lovey-dovey side.

This is my first attempt at a zombie book. I can't believe that I have been putting off reading the zombie genre for so long! This was an awesome book to start out with. I loved it. There was so much kick butt zombie fighting. This book was one intense ride. I thought Tera Shanley did such an awesome job keeping me guessing. That is part of the beauty of the book I think, so my review might be a little vague because I don't want to give anything away.

Laney is so interesting. She is fierce, and spunky and just the right amount of reckless. She is fearless. She always jumps right into the fray. I think part of it has to do with the fact that she is somehow immune to zombie bites, but she is also just super brave. I really admired that about her. I loved when she dove right in front of Shane's daughter, Adriana to save her from a newly turned dead. That was a turning point for me. It's when I went from liking her to completely loving her. Plus, if her badass fighting skills don't impress you, then her snarky mouth totally will. Some of her one liner retorts totally had me chuckling out loud. I think I even said "oh, snap!" at one point. Laney is a clever girl.

One of the things that I loved the most about Love in the time of the Dead, was that as the name implies, there is romance too. It's not only really cool zombie fight scenes, but there is also a love dilemma for Laney. As soon as Laney first meets Shane and he is a total jerk to her, I knew there was something there. He just seemed to get under her skin. I really liked watching the progression between the two of them as the story went on. Fair warning though, there is a love triangle in this book. I'm not going to give too much away about it though.

Love in the Time of the Dead completely kept me on the edge of my seat. I thought it was so fascinating. I don't have much zombie experience to compare it to, but I thought this was a great book! The added mystery of Laney's blood and he kind of connection to the deads was a unique twist to the story. Why is she immune to zombie bites, and it seemed like each time she was bitten her senses heightened. She is very sensitive to the scent of the deads. Fans of zombie books should grab a copy of Love in the Time of the Dead. It is well written, well thought out, and will keep you totally riveted.

This is my first book by Ophelia London, and I have to say I am a little bit in love with her writing style. It is just so engaging and conversational- in a good way. Definitely, Maybe in Love is such a great love story. I really enjoyed the way the story is spread out. It spans over a full year, and the book is split up into the seasons. So it feels very natural and realistic, no falling in love over the weekend.

Spring is all about sustainability. She thinks she is living her advice, she doesn't eat meat, she protests all the time, and she has an opinion on just about anything. I loved how passionate she is, but it really bugged me how narrow minded she came off at the beginning of the story. If you didn't have the same opinion or view as her, then you were automatically wrong, and that is a huge pet peeve of mine. I think it is so important to see both sides of an issue. And one of the things that I liked most about Henry was that he challenged this stubbornness in Spring, and eventually he forced her to be a little more open to other viewpoints.

Henry appears to be one thing on the surface, but there is so much more to him. I loved that at the start of the book Spring had him pegged one way, and she was totally wrong about him. I thought it was so cute how much he liked to push Spring's buttons. He enjoyed engaging her in debate and he loved the way she got heated about things. I thought the two of them were fiery! I loved their little food fight in the kitchen. But man, oh man they sure did go through their ups and downs. But everything they went through just made it seem even more worth while to me. It made me so happy when they kept finding their way back to each other.

Definitely, Maybe in Love is such an awesome love story. It is amazingly written. I need to read everything else Ophelia London has written. She is the real deal! Her story captivated me. I haven't enjoyed a love story like I did this one in a while. I was really rooting for the two of them. I think Henry made Spring a better person. If you are looking for a great, heartwarming, sassy , and realistic love story, Definitely go for Definitely, Maybe in Love.