To get the most out of The Rules of You and me, I think it is best to read The Boyfriend Thief first. The author/publisher do say that The Rules of You and Me is a stand alone novella, however without some of the back ground from the first novel, some of the intricacies of the relationships between the characters will leave you thinking “but why?”

Here we meet 17 year old Hannah, told for years who she should be. The summer before her senior year of high school, her world is falling apart.

She finds our her father life, which she thought he always had perfectly under control, is spiralling out of control. Her mother just wants the image of perfection, so takes off overseas on vacation.

Hannah decides to buck the system and spend her vacation with her aunt (who abandoned Hannah when she needed her years ago) instead of with her flakey mother.

What would a YA book be without the "troubled" boy for our heroine to fix and fall in love with. This would be Jude.

The interactions between Hannah and Jude are very well written, you can feel the pain of both characters as they learn about each other, and learn to let someone else into their life. They both have their tragedies and issues with family - the death of Jude's brother, the lack of a mother figure (seriously, as much trouble as Hannah's dad has got himself into, he is the much better parent than the self involved, selfish mother!!)

Jude's story just seemed to have a couple of unfinished/unanswered questions - he was accused of something, but we never find out more of why he was accused/what really happened? It just seemed to be roughly kind of answered and swept to the side, which was disappointing.

I really quite enjoyed this book, although the ending seemed to wrap everything up in happy ending a bit quickly for me, after all the angst and drama throughout. The mother had a complete personality transplant at the end, which after the way she had acted the whole way through the story was a bit of a let down.

Teens/YA will enjoy this book, and even though I am well past my teens, I did enjoy this book.

4 - 4.5 stars.

I just felt that that whole stalker plotline probably wasn't needed in this story.

But it was well written, made me laugh out loud, loved the interaction between the character - Emma's family, and the brothers especially.

Am looking forward to more of the Skin Deep series

ARC Copy received for honest review

You need to read 'The Last Boyfriend' before reading this book.

The Last Husband continues on from The Last Boyfriend.

Zane and Lucky's relationship is moving along in leaps and bounds, but the journey to a HEA is never easy.

Drug dealers, so-called best friends - anything that can be thrown in their path is.

At the end of The Last Boyfriend, Zane's behavioural change from commitment-phobe to wanting to be with Lucky seemed very quick but after reading 'Husband' and his struggles, does not seem so fast.

Add to this a twist that had me going 'oh wow!'

I read this in an afternoon and really enjoyed it.

When I first started reading this, I thought "oh yeah this will be a light hearted good time read".

While it is that, it is also a bit darker than I imagined it was going to be.

West is still trying to deal with the death of his mother 6 months earlier, his father emotionally checked out on him a year ago, he has no one but his best friend Cat, and the subscribers to his vlog to help him deal.

The darkness of West emotional state was not what I expected in this book, but it was very well written and you could feel his pain.

When he and Cat start drifting apart, the emotions are tangible, and I just wanted to jump into the book to give him a hug.

I very much enjoyed Click to Subscribe, and look forward to reading more by LM Augustine.

Riff - that is all!

ARC received from publisher through Netgalley for honest review.

3.5 silver stars

Firstly, please don't promote this as one of those "If you loved Fifty Shade of Grey or The Crossfire series blah blah" book.

Books should not be compared to others, especially to blockbusters like those two series.

I really enjoyed the story in The Silver Chain, even though it did drag along for the first 3/4 of the book. I did comment to a friend who had also read it that "OMG it is sooooooo slow" and she agreed with me.

Gustav meets Serena one cold wintery night, just after moves to London. Sparks fly, and they can't seem to keep away from each other.

He offers her a business proposition with strings (or silver chains) attached.

I do no mind inner dialogue (thank god there was no Inner Goddess here),but boy Serena had a lot of it! I felt myself wishing she would move on!

I did enjoy the side stories of Dickson and Crystal, they tied into the stories quite well.

By the time I got to the last 25% of the book, I like that things were moving along a lot quicker.

Oh, and what is the deal with the red scarf? Does it have meaning, or is it just described too much in the book and I noticed it?

Just be aware that there is a cliffhanger at the end - and even though a bit of a tedious read at times, I am looking forward to reading more.

Just please - don't drag things out so much.