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OK, even though I think people racing motorcycles have a death with, I love it.
And it made me wish I was back in the days when I worked in race teams. Sigh how I miss those days! The smell of burning rubber, the noise, the excitement.
Right from the start, Furious Rush is an action packed, adrenaline filled story. Set in the world of illegal street racing and legal circuit racing, this had it all for me.
I thought it was going to be hard for me to let go of my book husband Kellan, but Hayden, with all his secrets and flaws comes a pretty damn close second.
Kenzie and Hayden have been told they couldn't. They shouldn't. They can't. But what happens when they do?
As much as I loved Kenzie and Hayden, I gotta say, I really don't think I liked many of their co-stars. The family and friends, most of the time they brought out violent tendancies in me, and one pretty main character I just wanted to nut punch from the first time he was mentioned until the last page of the book he p!ssed me off that much!
I would have liked to know a bit more about Hayden - this being told all from Kenzie's POV gave us a lot of her, but maybe just a couple of chapters from his POV would have given us that insight into him that I felt I was missing - because at times he did some stuff that I was all "really? WTH is that about?"
But that could just be me.
And also, I am not sure if there is going to be more about these racers, but there was something at the end that could be set up for another book? Or not, I guess we will just have to see.
From the green light to the chequered flag, Furious Rush kept me intrigued, and I read this book in one sitting.
And it made me wish I was back in the days when I worked in race teams. Sigh how I miss those days! The smell of burning rubber, the noise, the excitement.
Right from the start, Furious Rush is an action packed, adrenaline filled story. Set in the world of illegal street racing and legal circuit racing, this had it all for me.
I thought it was going to be hard for me to let go of my book husband Kellan, but Hayden, with all his secrets and flaws comes a pretty damn close second.
Kenzie and Hayden have been told they couldn't. They shouldn't. They can't. But what happens when they do?
As much as I loved Kenzie and Hayden, I gotta say, I really don't think I liked many of their co-stars. The family and friends, most of the time they brought out violent tendancies in me, and one pretty main character I just wanted to nut punch from the first time he was mentioned until the last page of the book he p!ssed me off that much!
I would have liked to know a bit more about Hayden - this being told all from Kenzie's POV gave us a lot of her, but maybe just a couple of chapters from his POV would have given us that insight into him that I felt I was missing - because at times he did some stuff that I was all "really? WTH is that about?"
But that could just be me.
And also, I am not sure if there is going to be more about these racers, but there was something at the end that could be set up for another book? Or not, I guess we will just have to see.
From the green light to the chequered flag, Furious Rush kept me intrigued, and I read this book in one sitting.
ARC received from Simon and Schuster Australia for an honest review.
Where do I start with this book?
Right from the start I was a emotional wreck. Ms Carlino reached into my chest, took grip around my heart and didn't let go until the very end.
Emiline and Jase's story is told in past and present tense, with the past being told as a book within the book, with the story flicking between past and present each chapter (it sounds a lot, but it flows so well you don't even realise it!)
The story is heartbreaking to the max. I don't know how many times I shed tears, especially whilst reading the "book" bits. Each time I picked my shattered heart back up off the floor, it was again ripped from my chest, only to go again.
All I wanted was Emiline and Jase to have what Emerson and Jax had, feeling it right through to my bones that they could have it again.
They had to find their happiness again, they just had to!
Swear On This Life is a beautifully written book, the story leapt of the page and into my heart. It is a tragic yet beautiful story of first love, lasting love. Through it all (and they went through a hell of a lot) Emiline and Jase never gave up hope that one day, some day they would find each other again.
That dreams can really come true.
Thank you Ms Carlino for this amazing book. I can't wait to see what you bring us next.
Where do I start with this book?
Right from the start I was a emotional wreck. Ms Carlino reached into my chest, took grip around my heart and didn't let go until the very end.
Emiline and Jase's story is told in past and present tense, with the past being told as a book within the book, with the story flicking between past and present each chapter (it sounds a lot, but it flows so well you don't even realise it!)
The story is heartbreaking to the max. I don't know how many times I shed tears, especially whilst reading the "book" bits. Each time I picked my shattered heart back up off the floor, it was again ripped from my chest, only to go again.
All I wanted was Emiline and Jase to have what Emerson and Jax had, feeling it right through to my bones that they could have it again.
They had to find their happiness again, they just had to!
Swear On This Life is a beautifully written book, the story leapt of the page and into my heart. It is a tragic yet beautiful story of first love, lasting love. Through it all (and they went through a hell of a lot) Emiline and Jase never gave up hope that one day, some day they would find each other again.
That dreams can really come true.
Thank you Ms Carlino for this amazing book. I can't wait to see what you bring us next.
ARC received via Netgalley for an honest review
I love a sports romance. I think it makes up for me not having an athletic bone in my body!
I know absolutely nothing about American football (other than it seems to take all day to play a game lol). Throw in a small down and romance and I am a goner.
Blake and Annabelle, there is just so much spark, so much fun between them. There is attraction, but as much as they are attracted, they annoy each other no end. But the sniping and bickering is extended foreplay, leaving us knowing that things are going to be explosive between them if/when they get to that stage.
I felt for Blake as we learn more about his retirement from professional football, but can't help admire him more for it.
I live in a small down, so I completely felt the small town vibe of Winner Takes All, Where you sneeze and someone two streets over calls out bless you, where nothing goes unnoticed.
There are some great secondary characters in this book, which is the first in the series. I am not sure whose story is going to be next, but I am looking forward to finding out.
Winner Takes All is a flirty and fun, sweet and sexy romance, a great winter (or summer for your northerners!) read. Ms Kern is a new to me author, but I will not be on the look out for more in the future.
ARC received for an honest review
This is my favourite book in the series - so far.
An Indecent Proposal reads a bit like a Shakespearean tragedy. Star crossed lovers, feuding families, death and mayhem all around.
Cillian O'Malley is struggling after events in the previous books ( you don't have to read them as you get enough information in this one, but why miss out?) and no one really sees him.
Then there is Olivia. She sees more than people expect, more than Cillian likes. And she knows more about the life he is in than he could ever imagine.
But boy oh boy is there something between them. I loved that Olivia wasn't all over Cillian like a rash from the get go. There was a slow burn to their relationship, giving themselves and the reader time to really connect with the characters.
Olivia is strong, independent and oh so feisty. I want to be like her when I grow up.
I felt that An Indecent Proposal was a darker, grittier story than the previous books, with the families balancing on a knife edge between peace and war... though is there ever really peace when it comes to mob families.
There was a bit of a set up for the next book in the series, and I can't wait to see what happens next.
ARC received for an honest review
It has been a long while since I have read a m/f romance from Nicole Edwards (for no other reason that I LOVE her m/m books and have been focusing on them).
But I am back in the game with her new series, The Season.
Besides, a Nicole Edwards book and hockey - I am in like Flynn with that! #InstaClick #HockeyHotties
The Season: Rush was everything I have come to expect from a Nicole Edwards book.
Cover lust. Lovable, complex characters. Laugh out loud moments. Hot as Hades sexy times. Killer Asses
"He has a killer ass. Like, top ten best asses ever. Right up there with... I don't know, but still. Top ten. Maybe top 5. Yes, definitely top five. And I want to bite it."
Ellie and Kingston's relationship is not the norm. Could you go into a pretend relationship with someone you have true feeling for?
I adored their shared history, the way their worlds have always been intertwined even when they weren't in the position they are in now. And besides, who doesn't love a story where the woman is in lust with her brother's best friend.
I couldn't help but want Ellie & Kingston to be more. To want more. To have more.
I loved that we got both POV's (and a 3rd POV thrown in at times for good measure, but I don't want to spoil what that's all about for you), and especially loved getting into Kingston's head as he fights the distractions that he faces on and off the ice. Focus. Puck, patience. React.
Ms Edwards writing drew me right in, I felt like I was in the arena, could feel the chill of the ice, hear the roar of the crowd. I was completely immersed into the world of hockey.
From the first word until the last, I couldn't put this book down, even forgoing food so I could read what happened next.
There are plenty of great secondary characters, some of whom I hope become a bigger part of The Season series.
Now while I am waiting for the next book in the seriess #IwanttoscaleMountRushmore
ARC received from author for an honest review
I wasn't sure what to expect when I cracked open Inarticulate. But in typical Eden Summers style she had me hooked right from the start.
Reconnecting with family during a work visit to Seattle should have been all it was about for Savannah, but things turned into so much more when she met Keenan.
Keenan is all silence an intrigue - and that piques her interest a lot more than it should.
This is a story full of lust and passion, with a whole lot of mystery and lies thrown in the mix. While Keenan and Savannah have chemistry out the wazoo and steamed up my kindle, I could feel that things weren't going to be easy for them.
As disaster after disaster descends on Savannah's work life, her private life starts to imitate, when all she thought was good in her life comes crashing down.
Not going to lie, I wanted to nut punch Keenan more than once as events unfolded, but then I wanted to hug it out with him as well.
Ms Summers kept me on a knife edge with this one, never knowing which way the story would turn next... and I loved that.
This book was like that Ronan Keating song, 'you say it best when you say nothing at all'. What can be said with a smirk, a raised eyebrow, a look.
This was a completely different kind of book from Ms Summers, but one that kept me enraptured through each and every twist and turn.
Now I am impatiently waiting for what she brings us next
I wasn't sure what to expect when I cracked open Inarticulate. But in typical Eden Summers style she had me hooked right from the start.
Reconnecting with family during a work visit to Seattle should have been all it was about for Savannah, but things turned into so much more when she met Keenan.
Keenan is all silence an intrigue - and that piques her interest a lot more than it should.
This is a story full of lust and passion, with a whole lot of mystery and lies thrown in the mix. While Keenan and Savannah have chemistry out the wazoo and steamed up my kindle, I could feel that things weren't going to be easy for them.
As disaster after disaster descends on Savannah's work life, her private life starts to imitate, when all she thought was good in her life comes crashing down.
Not going to lie, I wanted to nut punch Keenan more than once as events unfolded, but then I wanted to hug it out with him as well.
Ms Summers kept me on a knife edge with this one, never knowing which way the story would turn next... and I loved that.
This book was like that Ronan Keating song, 'you say it best when you say nothing at all'. What can be said with a smirk, a raised eyebrow, a look.
This was a completely different kind of book from Ms Summers, but one that kept me enraptured through each and every twist and turn.
Now I am impatiently waiting for what she brings us next
ARC received for an honest review
It has been a loooong time since I have read a Tijan book, but what a book to jump back into the fray with.
Even if it wasn't a Tijan book and was an unknown author to me, I would have read this one for the title. I am sure I am not the only one who didn't jump on the stepbrother trope bandwagon, and have been very vocal about my anti-stepbrother stance!
But I digress.
From the first "Something wrong with you?" to the last word, I was hooked on Summer and Caden's story. The slow burn of attraction to more, the confusion felt with first lust and love. Everything. It was unputdownable (it did take me 3 days to read it, but that was because the flu knocked me on my butt, but every minute I was awake I was reading this book).
There wasn't really angst, but there was tension and conflict enough to keep me on the edge of my bed.
There are no words to describe my love for Caden - he is, was and will forever be everything to me. He was perfection in a young-enough-to-be-my-son package.
"I came to college to be with my stepbrother, but I fell in love with the anti-stepbrother instead. Kevin was an ideal, a band-aid over a wound, but not Caden. He was the good, the bad and the stuff in between. He'd make me feel all of it. He was everything."
There are some great - and not so great - secondary characters that rounded out Anti Stepbrother to perfection. They are quite an incestuous little group here, crapping all over guy/girl code! There are some characters *cough cough Marcus and Avery cough cough* that I would love to get more of in the future
Thank you Tijan for the opportunity to get my greedy little hands on Caden early. This book was everything and more that I want in a read.
It has been a loooong time since I have read a Tijan book, but what a book to jump back into the fray with.
Even if it wasn't a Tijan book and was an unknown author to me, I would have read this one for the title. I am sure I am not the only one who didn't jump on the stepbrother trope bandwagon, and have been very vocal about my anti-stepbrother stance!
But I digress.
From the first "Something wrong with you?" to the last word, I was hooked on Summer and Caden's story. The slow burn of attraction to more, the confusion felt with first lust and love. Everything. It was unputdownable (it did take me 3 days to read it, but that was because the flu knocked me on my butt, but every minute I was awake I was reading this book).
There wasn't really angst, but there was tension and conflict enough to keep me on the edge of my bed.
There are no words to describe my love for Caden - he is, was and will forever be everything to me. He was perfection in a young-enough-to-be-my-son package.
"I came to college to be with my stepbrother, but I fell in love with the anti-stepbrother instead. Kevin was an ideal, a band-aid over a wound, but not Caden. He was the good, the bad and the stuff in between. He'd make me feel all of it. He was everything."
There are some great - and not so great - secondary characters that rounded out Anti Stepbrother to perfection. They are quite an incestuous little group here, crapping all over guy/girl code! There are some characters *cough cough Marcus and Avery cough cough* that I would love to get more of in the future
Thank you Tijan for the opportunity to get my greedy little hands on Caden early. This book was everything and more that I want in a read.
3.75 stars
This was my first Jenna Bayley-Burke read, and it was a lovely, sweet, friends to more story.
Callum and Miranda have been friends with benefits for so long, I don't think they really know how to move forward without each other.
Cue a surprise wedding, an unexpected accident, and watching them fall hard made for an enjoyable, quick read.
I did enjoy that through their dramas they seemed to forgo the awful bitterness that we get in so many books.
There are great secondary character with witty and at times snarky banter that filled out our lovelies story well.
This is a quick, albeit predictable story, and one that I really quite enjoyed.
This was my first Jenna Bayley-Burke read, and it was a lovely, sweet, friends to more story.
Callum and Miranda have been friends with benefits for so long, I don't think they really know how to move forward without each other.
Cue a surprise wedding, an unexpected accident, and watching them fall hard made for an enjoyable, quick read.
I did enjoy that through their dramas they seemed to forgo the awful bitterness that we get in so many books.
There are great secondary character with witty and at times snarky banter that filled out our lovelies story well.
This is a quick, albeit predictable story, and one that I really quite enjoyed.
ARC received for an honest review
It has been a while since I have read a Melissa Foster book, and I have not read the earlier books in this series, but I did not feel that I was missing anything by not having read them.
It was nice to get back into Melissa Foster World.
This was not your typical diva movie star meets bad boy rocker. Trish and Boone are so much more than their public persona. What they are sold as may not be who they really are.
Ms Foster drew me right into Trish and Boone's story. From their first encounters, misconceptions and assumption until the last word, there was just the right amount of drama, tension, romance - and even with the drama it was an angst free read. Now don't get me wrong, I love angsty, but sometimes I just love the characters in the books I read to communicate, to get along, to I don't know, act like adults!
Chased By Love has some hard, gritty events as well that I felt made the characters more whole, more real.
I loved that their relationship, though they may not seem the average Joe Bloes - felt normal, it grew organically (though maybe a bit faster than us non-celeb types!)
I was left wanting to know more about Trish and Boone, and especially more about Trish's family - and I will now go back and read the earlier books.
I can't wait to see what happens next with the Ryders!
Copy received via Netgalley for an honest review.
Batter up (well, first base man up!) it is time to get back into the world of the New York Saints
If you have read the previous books in this series, you will know what a d!ck Finn Castro has been. In fact, for the most part I really, really didn't like him.
As I started reading I thought to myself "it is going to take a lot of work to redeem Finn to me - if she can at all".
Shunted back to the minors, he is all about sorting his crap out and getting himself back to the majors. Becoming a better person in the meantime is an added extra bonus.
Eva has had a crush on Finn since well before he came back down a notch. But after years of denying herself to help out her family, he is not the man she is going to take that next step with.. or is he?
I have to say, Ms Scott did a great job in redeeming Finn to me it was at times hard to remember why I disliked him so much.
Eva on the other hand - gah the woman frustrated the heck out of me. I just felt that her justifications for never moving on were weak. Her reasons for pushing Finn away just didn't cut it for me. I wanted to shake some sense into her!
But this could just be me!
All I know about baseball is what I have learned from watching Major League and Bull Durham over and over again. But this has not taken away from my enjoyment of this series. But to me this is more than just a sport romance. This is about people learning from their pasts, learning from their mistakes and moving onwards and upwards in their lives.
Ms Scott, you keep on writing them and I will keep on reading them! And with players retiring, new players moving on up and rosters changing, there will always be someone new to write about, won't there.
Batter up (well, first base man up!) it is time to get back into the world of the New York Saints
If you have read the previous books in this series, you will know what a d!ck Finn Castro has been. In fact, for the most part I really, really didn't like him.
As I started reading I thought to myself "it is going to take a lot of work to redeem Finn to me - if she can at all".
Shunted back to the minors, he is all about sorting his crap out and getting himself back to the majors. Becoming a better person in the meantime is an added extra bonus.
Eva has had a crush on Finn since well before he came back down a notch. But after years of denying herself to help out her family, he is not the man she is going to take that next step with.. or is he?
I have to say, Ms Scott did a great job in redeeming Finn to me it was at times hard to remember why I disliked him so much.
Eva on the other hand - gah the woman frustrated the heck out of me. I just felt that her justifications for never moving on were weak. Her reasons for pushing Finn away just didn't cut it for me. I wanted to shake some sense into her!
But this could just be me!
All I know about baseball is what I have learned from watching Major League and Bull Durham over and over again. But this has not taken away from my enjoyment of this series. But to me this is more than just a sport romance. This is about people learning from their pasts, learning from their mistakes and moving onwards and upwards in their lives.
Ms Scott, you keep on writing them and I will keep on reading them! And with players retiring, new players moving on up and rosters changing, there will always be someone new to write about, won't there.