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Saturday, October 18, 2014
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Review: Red & Wolfe, Part IV (Red & Wolfe #4) by Ella James
Return to Rabbit Island for the heart-pounding conclusion to Red and Wolfe's story. Don't forget your extra panties - but this time, you might also want to bring your gun.
*This is a serial novella of approximately 30,000 words.*
Overall Rating: 4.5 Rockin’ ★★★★☆
Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Not Sarah Red Ryder. This is part 4 and the finale of Red & Wolfe by Ella James and it is awesome! The faith in each character portrayed was so eloquently expressed that I was blown away.
James Wolfe finally has a reason to live again, Red. But can he save her? Will he be able to save the woman he has let into his heart? Hiding on an island in seclusion for years now, it's time for him to move on, make hard choices and in the process find himself again.
Sarah is in trouble. So much has happened since she came to her dead grandmother’s island. Sarah has met the man of her dreams, but there is still so much she's unsure about. Caught up in a windstorm of terror and lust, Sarah must decide what is most important to her. Will she be able to save the one man who has captured her heart, body, mind and soul?
James and Sarah's story finally took the turn I was longing for and I was definitely satisfied with the outcome. From the twists and turns of the story, to the beautiful, long awaited ending, this story captivated me and wouldn't let me go. What an erotic fairytale, Ella! ~TSRBR
Hero – James Wolfe 4.5 stars
Heroine – Sarah “Red” Ryder 4.5 stars
Steam Level: 4.5 stars
Plot: 4.5 stars
Cliffhanger: No
Would I recommend this book: Yes! This whole series is a must read! This book is a great modern day fairy tale with a twist, of course. READ this book!!
Would I recommend this author: Yes! I have yet to read a book by this author and not be blown away! Each book just seems to get better than the last one and makes her readers eager to read the next.
***Received an ARC of this book from the Author in exchange for an
honest review***
Review: Smoldered (The Electric Tunnel #2) by Rachel Blaufeld
Asher Peterson is a self-made man, owner of the Electric Tunnel, Sin City’s hottest adult entertainment spot. Brazen and formidable in designer T-shirts and motorcycle boots, he seems unflappable whether he’s making his rounds through the decadent decor of the Tunnel, or whipping through the desert heat on his bike. But inside he is a shattered man, desperate to understand what unconditional love from a woman feels like.
Hiding the effects of his emotionally stunted youth behind a gritty persona, and keeping his fractured soul buried deep while seeking out his baser instincts, Asher is convinced he is man enough to leave the past in the past. The only clue to his broken soul is his deep-seated need to provide safety and a good life for emotionally damaged women within the glamorous walls of his strip club.
Fooling himself that he deserves little in life, Asher keeps his big heart tightly guarded with everyone but Sienna Flower, his friend, business partner, and headliner. Until, that is, the night he runs into his childhood friend, Natalie Parker. While trolling a rival strip club, perusing their offerings for his own personal pleasure, he collides with his past. Coming face-to-face with a woman he only knew as a girl, he’s shaken when he finds the dark-haired beauty in a precarious position. Now all grown up, she’s a hardened soul who reminds him of where he came from, and stirs within him the need to protect yet another woman.
Known as Nat to most everyone, Natalie is a single mom to Quinn. But when she’s under the bright spotlights in a thong, she’s known as Natasha or Nataleigh Dallas. A girl who once had everything going for her, she’s now a jaded stripper with only room for her son in her life, and has erected impenetrable barriers around her heart. The strength of those walls is challenged the night a man she has known since childhood steamrolls his way back into her life, flashing those smoky-gray eyes that have always melted her.
A man she has loved from afar since she was a young girl, one who lights fire to her walls, burning deeper, setting everything ablaze––smoldering her.
Asher and Natalie, two people who are equally tormented by their own demons, set out to rescue each other as part-time lovers in a torrid, desperate workplace affair. Thinking they can remain friends while keeping their hearts at a safe distance, they find themselves at odds when their situation morphs into a messy, tangled mess.
Ripping free of each other proves impossible as they learn that the very web that connects them goes much deeper than they ever expected.
Hiding the effects of his emotionally stunted youth behind a gritty persona, and keeping his fractured soul buried deep while seeking out his baser instincts, Asher is convinced he is man enough to leave the past in the past. The only clue to his broken soul is his deep-seated need to provide safety and a good life for emotionally damaged women within the glamorous walls of his strip club.
Fooling himself that he deserves little in life, Asher keeps his big heart tightly guarded with everyone but Sienna Flower, his friend, business partner, and headliner. Until, that is, the night he runs into his childhood friend, Natalie Parker. While trolling a rival strip club, perusing their offerings for his own personal pleasure, he collides with his past. Coming face-to-face with a woman he only knew as a girl, he’s shaken when he finds the dark-haired beauty in a precarious position. Now all grown up, she’s a hardened soul who reminds him of where he came from, and stirs within him the need to protect yet another woman.
Known as Nat to most everyone, Natalie is a single mom to Quinn. But when she’s under the bright spotlights in a thong, she’s known as Natasha or Nataleigh Dallas. A girl who once had everything going for her, she’s now a jaded stripper with only room for her son in her life, and has erected impenetrable barriers around her heart. The strength of those walls is challenged the night a man she has known since childhood steamrolls his way back into her life, flashing those smoky-gray eyes that have always melted her.
A man she has loved from afar since she was a young girl, one who lights fire to her walls, burning deeper, setting everything ablaze––smoldering her.
Asher and Natalie, two people who are equally tormented by their own demons, set out to rescue each other as part-time lovers in a torrid, desperate workplace affair. Thinking they can remain friends while keeping their hearts at a safe distance, they find themselves at odds when their situation morphs into a messy, tangled mess.
Ripping free of each other proves impossible as they learn that the very web that connects them goes much deeper than they ever expected.
Overall Rating: 4.5 Rockin’ ★★★★☆
Smoldered is book two in Rachel Blaufeld's Electric Tunnel series. From the beginning of the book I was hooked. The characters seemed to flow effortlessly with the way they were created by this exceptional author. The story grabbed me and wouldn't let go. Rachel created a beautiful world of erotica using the strip clubs and the characters in her book.
Asher Peterson is a hard man to please, in the bedroom that is. He has always needed...more. From threesomes, to hot nasty sex, his demands are pretty high level and taste specific. In every facet of Asher's life, he works hard, and plays equally hard! But a second chance meeting 5 years earlier brought the one woman that he has always carried a torch for, his "little doll" back into his life. This time he would take whatever she is willing to give.
Natalie Parker is a single mom trying to support her son by working as a stripper at the Electric Tunnel. She has known Asher since she was a little girl, when he rescued her from the former club she worked at and now he is her boss with benefits! Confused and never wanting to trust him too much, Natalie keeps Asher at arms length most of the time. There are so many secrets that could change everything, but she can't help herself, she has always wanted Asher.
This book has a little bit of everything in it. Hot steamy sex, passion, love and a reckoning of monumental proportions! I couldn't believe how the story took shape and grew even more intriguing as I turned each page. My heart was pounding in my chest and my panties were wet from the depth of the writing in this story! I was totally smoldered, Rachel!!!
Hero - Asher Peterson 4.5 stars
Heroine - Natalie Parker 4.5 stars
Steam Level: 4.5 stars
Plot: 4.5 stars
Cliffhanger: No
Would I recommend this book: Yes! I would totally recommend this book and the one before it! Smoldering hot from the beginning to the end!! You must read this book!
Would I recommend this author: Yes! Absolutely, I love everything I've read by Rachel Blaufeld. She is brilliant in her writing. I can't get enough!!
***Received an ARC of this book from the Author in exchange for an
honest review***
Review: Beast Parts 1-3 by Ella James
At twenty-one years old, third-generation movie star Cal Hammond was on top of the world. He had more money than God and more women than any man could need. But when a night of debauchery ends in tragedy, he forfeits a life of luxury for a ten-year prison sentence at La Rosa, California’s most violent prison.
TO A BRUTAL BEAST
Eight years later, a ruthless, cunning man runs La Rosa from the inside. He is known simply as BEAST. All the wardens fear him. All the gangs obey him. He speaks to no one but his inner council. What he says is law.
NOW ONLY SHE CAN SAVE HIM
Annabelle Mitchell’s father is the warden at La Rosa. He deals as dirty as his trustees, and after years of smooth relations with Beast and the gangs he runs, Holt lands on the powerful prisoner’s hit list. That very afternoon, Annabelle pays a surprise visit to her father’s work, hoping to use her new counseling license at a place she thinks she could make a difference. When she catches Beast’s eye, he releases the warden and grabs the daughter. The price for the warden’s error is not death. It’s his precious Belle.
Continue the dark, erotic journey of Annabelle, the warden's daughter, and the man she's pined for since her girlhood. No longer Cal Hammond, actor, Beast is a brutal man who runs the prison's gangs from behind a shroud of secrecy and lies. Can Annabelle's love save him from his tainted past, or will his deceit ruin both of them?
*Beast 2 is a serial novella. If you don't like novellas, or reading stories in installments, this probably isn't for you. It deals with intense subjects and features absolutely panty-melting sex. If you're on a bus, in the subway, in your office, or babysitting innocent children, I'd advise you to read this story later. If you just can't wait, be warned. Beast will make you wet.
*Part 3 will be out September 8.
*This story will be either three parts or four parts.
Return to La Rosa Prison as Annabelle tries to save Beast from his grizzly fate. Her tongue and hands are doing most of the saving.
Okay, not really.
There's suspense and a healthy dose of smut, too. You know that's how you like it...
Overall Rating: 4.5 Rockin’ ★★★★☆
From the very beginning I was enchanted by this beautifully written fairytale by Ella James, Beast. The characters were cast out of this fanciful story and thrown into a modern day setting is nothing short of whimsical! Ella James recreated the story with a twist and I must say it will draw you in immediately and captivate you until the very end.
Part 1:
Oh, the webs we weave...Annabelle Mitchell has been in love with the famous actor Cal Hammond since forever. Now she finally gets a chance to meet him in person at a party on her seventeenth birthday. Smitten from the moment she laid eyes on him, Annabelle knew that she wanted Cal.
Cal Hammond a famous actor, whom everyone wants, is lonely to his core. Only a chance meeting with a young girl who sparks an interest in him changes his path dramatically. After having a taste of the beautiful girl, he leaves her wanting for more.
After the party, Cal and his friends are in a fatal car accident that sends his world into a tailspin. The only thing that keeps him from dying is the image of his "Eighteen" and now "Angel".
However, when reality catches up, Cal finds himself in jail and known as the enigmatic Beast.
When Cal and Annabelle's paths cross again in the prison her step-father works in, Annabelle is thrown into his world again.
Part 2:
Annabelle makes the only choice she can, accept what Beast (Cal Hammond) has to offer. A no strings attached relationship where he uses her for his pleasure. Oh there is pleasure for her as well, but now she just wants to save him. With her mother dying and trying to take care of her little sister as well, Annabelle decides that whatever it takes, she will help him.
Beast wants his Angel. He will have her anyway he can. But he is hiding something as well. He's not called the Beast in prison for nothing. Cal has done some horrible things and wishes to forget it all by becoming a monster.
Part 3:
Struggling to make sense of everything that has happened, Annabelle relegates herself to hiding and trying to find a way out of the prison. Caught in the storm of the Beast she must make some hard choices.
Finding Beast in the worst way, Annabelle makes the decision that she will stick by him no matter what comes. She longs to save him from himself and all that's horrible in the world.
All three novellas kept me on the on the edge, needing more, wanting more! In the pivotal ending, I was drowning in my own longing to see what would happen next. The creative genius of this author commandeered my senses and left me breathless. I anxiously await the final chapter in this erotic fairytale. You make me believe in fate, Ella! ~TSRBR
Hero - Cal Hammond, AKA Beast 4.5 stars
Heroine - Annabelle Mitchell 4.5 stars
Steam Level: 4.5 stars
Plot: 4.5 stars
Cliffhanger: Yes
Would I recommend this book: Yes! This is an awesome series! The fairytale come to life in a modern world is phenomenal! This is a must read!!!
Would I recommend this author: Yes! Love, Ella James! She is a superb author that creates her novels with so many erotic twists and turns that readers cannot get enough.
On Sale Now! Escorted by Claire Kent
Title: Escorted
Author: Claire Kent
About Escorted:
She hired him to take her virginity...but now she wants even more.
Lori might be a popular romance writer, but she's never been anything but a flop with sex and love in her personal life. Still a virgin at twenty-six and increasingly frustrated by her inexperience, she decides to take matters into her own hands. She hires a talented, sexy male escort to take care of her inconvenient virginity.
She assumes one time with Ander will be enough, but she never dreams how much pleasure he can make her feel. Once isn't nearly enough. Twice isn't enough either. Soon, she becomes one of his regular clients.
Lori knows that nothing would be as foolish as falling in love with her paid escort, but she's never been wise with her heart. And, despite his professionalism, he doesn't seem entirely immune either.
Lori might be a popular romance writer, but she's never been anything but a flop with sex and love in her personal life. Still a virgin at twenty-six and increasingly frustrated by her inexperience, she decides to take matters into her own hands. She hires a talented, sexy male escort to take care of her inconvenient virginity.
She assumes one time with Ander will be enough, but she never dreams how much pleasure he can make her feel. Once isn't nearly enough. Twice isn't enough either. Soon, she becomes one of his regular clients.
Lori knows that nothing would be as foolish as falling in love with her paid escort, but she's never been wise with her heart. And, despite his professionalism, he doesn't seem entirely immune either.
About Claire Kent:
Claire has been writing romance novels since she was twelve years old. She has a PhD in British literature and, when she's not writing, she teaches English at the university level.
She also writes romance novels under the penname Noelle Adams.
Review: The Shucker's Booktique by J.C. McKenzie
After her fiancé dumps her and her beloved Aunt Jenny goes missing, Willa Eklund travels to Lobster Cove with a broken heart to search for Jenny while running her bookstore. When a mysterious man visits the Shucker's Booktique on a stormy night drenched in rain and covered in mud, Willa's heart melts under his stormy gaze. She wants Lon and the answers he may have, but he also has a secret. Can Willa trust him?
Lon Devlin is a Tempest, a water sprite who can only take a human form during stormy nights. He rides the waves, lives by the tides, and nothing can hold him down, not even a beautiful woman. When he visits his mortal friend, he discovers she's missing and her intriguing niece has taken her place. He wants Willa, but he also wants answers. What happened to Jenny?
Lon Devlin is a Tempest, a water sprite who can only take a human form during stormy nights. He rides the waves, lives by the tides, and nothing can hold him down, not even a beautiful woman. When he visits his mortal friend, he discovers she's missing and her intriguing niece has taken her place. He wants Willa, but he also wants answers. What happened to Jenny?
Overall Rating: 3 to 3.5 Rockin’ ★★★☆
Prepare yourself to be entertained as you read this great story. As I read this book, I was reminded of Cinderella, her evil step-mother and two sisters. This book has so many elements running through it that you will need your imagination to follow all the amazing action taking place. The biggest question is “Who is Aunt Jenny” and where did she go?
Willow is running and living at her aunt’s bookstore hoping that her aunt will return. Willow’s mother sent her to run the store and to make sure the profits were sent back to her as quickly as possible. Her mother said Willow was the only one that was free to help take care of things until Aunt Jenny was found since she had just lost her boyfriend. The rest of family could not be bothered to come and help try to find Aunt Jenny. Willow refuses to give up her search even though no one knows what has happened to her. Then one stormy night the banging on the door changes Willow’s life.
Lon is a Tempest, a water sprite. He can assume human form when there is a strong storm. So during a stormy night he goes to visit his friend Jenny only to find her missing. In her place is a special woman that pulls him in a way he has never felt before. Is she the one? Can she hold him to her and make him leave his brothers? Read Willow and Lon’s story to find out what happens!
Hero – Lon Devlin 3.5 stars
Heroine – Willow Eklund 3 stars
Steam: 3 stars
Plot: 3.5 stars
Cliffhanger: No
Would I recommend this book: Yes! This is a really unique story with mystery, sizzling sexual innuendoes and hot mythological creatures. Great read for those that enjoy the unusual in a romance novel.
Would I recommend this author: Yes! I really like this author and her storyline. J.C. McKenzie is not what you would expect in an author and that makes her books an unexpected read.
***Received an ARC of this book from the Author in exchange for an
honest review***
Friday, October 17, 2014
Review: Rev (Bayonet Scars #3) by J.C. Emery
Everyone belongs somewhere. Even the misfits.
With the looming threat from the Mancuso Crime Family, the Forsaken Motorcycle Club is preparing for a war that could destroy them. Grady, the club’s Sergeant-at-Arms, knows that love makes you weak, and he has zero interest in adding to his liabilities– especially now. He’s already got his teenage daughter who keeps him on his toes and a beef within the club that could fracture his relationship with a fellow brother for good.
For Holly Mercer, her life is finally getting on track and the last thing she wants is trouble from her hometown’s resident outlaws. Keeping her nose clean is easier said than done, when suddenly she finds herself embroiled in club business. Holly might like the idea of being with a real-life bad boy, but even being in the same room with tough-as-nails Grady flusters her.
When Holly inadvertently finds herself on Mancuso’s radar, she has two choices: trust that Grady will protect her, or continue to refuse the club’s help. Both roads are dangerous, but only one has the chance to damage her beyond repair.
Love is never more dangerous than when it can destroy you.
With the looming threat from the Mancuso Crime Family, the Forsaken Motorcycle Club is preparing for a war that could destroy them. Grady, the club’s Sergeant-at-Arms, knows that love makes you weak, and he has zero interest in adding to his liabilities– especially now. He’s already got his teenage daughter who keeps him on his toes and a beef within the club that could fracture his relationship with a fellow brother for good.
For Holly Mercer, her life is finally getting on track and the last thing she wants is trouble from her hometown’s resident outlaws. Keeping her nose clean is easier said than done, when suddenly she finds herself embroiled in club business. Holly might like the idea of being with a real-life bad boy, but even being in the same room with tough-as-nails Grady flusters her.
When Holly inadvertently finds herself on Mancuso’s radar, she has two choices: trust that Grady will protect her, or continue to refuse the club’s help. Both roads are dangerous, but only one has the chance to damage her beyond repair.
Love is never more dangerous than when it can destroy you.
Overall Rating: 4.5 Rockin’ ★★★★☆
In the third book of the Forsaken MC series we learn more about Rev and meet Holly Mercer. They live in the same town but may as well come from different planets! She is the good girl that lives by the letter of the law and he is the bad boy that does it his way. They have nothing in common, or do they?
Holly Mercer has returned to her home town and the family that she has never felt that she was good enough for. She has the bad habit of becoming involved with the most needy, self-destructive people around, including her best friend Mindy. Mindy is a drug addict, an alcoholic and her father is a policeman. Holly is there to support Mindy and help heal. She finds a job at the local high school and is assigned Cheyenne Grady, a senior that is in jeopardy of failing. After trying without success to contact and set up a conference with Cheyenne’s dad, Holly is left with no choice but to go on a home visit. The man she meets is not what she was expecting, a member of the local outlaw MC and so hot just looking at him burns.
Grady is the Sergeant at Arms for the Forsaken MC. He is raising his teenage daughter by himself and trying to teach her to be self-sufficient but it’s not an easy job. When he finds a woman on his doorsteps that says she needs to talk with him about his daughter, he immediately puts her in her place. No one tells him how to raise his daughter! Who does this woman think she is? Everything has gone crazy at the club, his best friend Chief is dead and for what? Now he has to deal with a crazy woman from the school trying to tell what to do! So why does he find himself thinking about her?
The club is being hit on all sides by the Mancusco Mafia. Since the kidnapping of their leader’s daughter and the capture of her twin brother, war has been declared. Will Holly discover that the MC world is for her? Does Grady want a relationship with her? Is Holly really a bad girl after all? Read this amazing story and you will not be disappointed at the conclusion!
Hero: Grady 4.5 stars
Heroine: Holly Mercer 4.5 stars
Plot: 4.5 stars
Steam Level: 4.5 stars
Cliffhanger: No
Would I recommend this book: Yes. This book has it all! An MC brother that falls for his teenage daughter's counselor and of course lots of hot sex follows! It also is extremely violent and some parts are not for the faint of heart. This is an outlaw MC that is at war.
Would I recommend this author: Yes. Each book that this author creates is better than the previous. J.C. Emery is a remarkable example of how MC books should read! I look forward to reading more from this amazing writer.
***Received an ARC of this book from the Author in exchange for an
honest review***
Review: Her Purrfect Match (Paranormal Dating Agency #3) by Milly Taiden
Paranormal Dating Agency Book 3 (STANDALONE)
Alyssa Moran is tired of being the old cat lady with no man. She has very specific needs and goes to visit Mrs. Wilder at the Paranormal Dating Agency. Shockingly enough, she is promised a man who likes cats, wants kids, likes curves and will be wild in bed.
Grayson Green needs a mate. Fast. But he refuses to be pushed into anything. That is, until a curvy funny woman shows up in his territory saying she’s there for him. Who is he to argue with someone as delectable as Alyssa decides she wants to give herself to him?
Of course, not all is at it seems and some people want Alyssa gone and Gray dead. If Gray mates, the future of his pride will be sealed and no one can argue his place as leader. Unless it can be stopped before they ever get a chance to make some cubs. He will have to work hard at convincing a human she’s the only one for him or lose his pride and his mate.
Reader Warning: This book contains lots of scorching sex (the kind that will make you sweat and need ice cream), adult language (he's a very dirty talker and we like it), and violence. If this is not the kind of stuff you like to read, skip this book. However, if you like dirty, raunchy sex with a growly tiger on one funny curvy girl, then this is right up your alley. Enjoy!
Ms. Wilder has just the shifter for Alyssa. She matches her with Grayson Green, leader of the tiger pride of Green Edge. Gray's tiger immediately knows that Alyssa is his mate. His human side however fights the urge to love Alyssa and since he is a tiger of few words it opens up some interesting situations.
Hero: 5 stars
Heroine: 5 stars
Plot: 5 stars
Steam Level: 5 stars
Cliffhanger: No
Would I recommend this book: Yes. Once again the guru of matchmaking hits the shifter right on the head with a Purr-fect match! This book is short but packed full of hot, steamy sex and a sizzling hot Alpha stalking his mate.
Would I recommend this author: Yes. Milly Taiden is an incredible author that just keeps giving us her readers’ remarkable books to enjoy! I cannot wait to see where the next book will go and what kind of shifter will be matched next.
Alyssa Moran is tired of being the old cat lady with no man. She has very specific needs and goes to visit Mrs. Wilder at the Paranormal Dating Agency. Shockingly enough, she is promised a man who likes cats, wants kids, likes curves and will be wild in bed.
Grayson Green needs a mate. Fast. But he refuses to be pushed into anything. That is, until a curvy funny woman shows up in his territory saying she’s there for him. Who is he to argue with someone as delectable as Alyssa decides she wants to give herself to him?
Of course, not all is at it seems and some people want Alyssa gone and Gray dead. If Gray mates, the future of his pride will be sealed and no one can argue his place as leader. Unless it can be stopped before they ever get a chance to make some cubs. He will have to work hard at convincing a human she’s the only one for him or lose his pride and his mate.
Reader Warning: This book contains lots of scorching sex (the kind that will make you sweat and need ice cream), adult language (he's a very dirty talker and we like it), and violence. If this is not the kind of stuff you like to read, skip this book. However, if you like dirty, raunchy sex with a growly tiger on one funny curvy girl, then this is right up your alley. Enjoy!
Overall Rating: 5 Rockin’ ★★★★★
Milly Taiden's third novella in the paranormal shifter series is "Her Purrfect Match". Matchmaking guru, Gerri Wilder is at it again when she arranges a date for our heroine, Alyssa with an Alpha Tiger. Since she is a cat lover looking for a lasting, stable relationship this seems like the perfect match. The list Alyssa gives Ms. Wilder is that she is wants love, marriage, and a man to father her children. An added bonus for Alyssa would be not having to "save" the man she is matched up with because she always seems to get the take care of me guys!
Ms. Wilder has just the shifter for Alyssa. She matches her with Grayson Green, leader of the tiger pride of Green Edge. Gray's tiger immediately knows that Alyssa is his mate. His human side however fights the urge to love Alyssa and since he is a tiger of few words it opens up some interesting situations.
Meanwhile Alyssa surrenders to the glorious sex and propositions Gray to let her have his children. It is an amicable deal that can't stand up to what their hearts know is the truth. When put to the test, these two lovers are purr-fectly matched! Hold on tight for smoldering ecstasy and a journey to inevitable love.
Hero: 5 stars
Heroine: 5 stars
Plot: 5 stars
Steam Level: 5 stars
Cliffhanger: No
Would I recommend this book: Yes. Once again the guru of matchmaking hits the shifter right on the head with a Purr-fect match! This book is short but packed full of hot, steamy sex and a sizzling hot Alpha stalking his mate.
Would I recommend this author: Yes. Milly Taiden is an incredible author that just keeps giving us her readers’ remarkable books to enjoy! I cannot wait to see where the next book will go and what kind of shifter will be matched next.
***Received an ARC of this book from the Author in exchange for an
honest review***
Book Highlight & Giveaway: Game On by Collette West
Title: Game On
Author: Collette West
Genre: Romance
Publication: October 17th, 2014
Pitching phenom Bruce "Jilly" Gillette has a hard
time talking to women. His hulking presence of tattoos and muscles is what
makes him an intimidating closer on the mound, yet off the field, he's
painfully shy, uncomfortable in his own skin.
Desperate to revamp his loner image, the New York Kings hold
a dream date contest, granting the lucky winner a night on the town with their
surly reliever, doing whatever it takes to force Jilly out of his comfort
zone.
Hailey Halpert enters the contest on a whim, looking for
answers as to why her high school relationship with Jilly hit the skids. Now
she’s a popular romance author writing under a pen name, and her reappearance
in Jilly's life is no accident. It turns out that her novels are all about the sexy
players on the Kings, and Jilly has no clue that he's about to become her new
leading man.
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clumsy attempt to show his feelings started off as something beautiful,
something I'll never forget, and I want him to know that.
"Jilly…" I say tentatively, and his eyes
instantly snap to mine. "The way you held me all through the night, felt
so…right. The way you touched me, running your hand up and down my arm, and
later when you were stroking the inside of my palm with your thumb. God…it felt
so good. You didn't have to say anything. I could feel it."
"You don't know how long I'd wanted to do that,"
he whispers softly, his face turning red.
I smile, breaking eye contact because I'm completely
overwhelmed. He's saying the words I've always wanted him to say. This is the
talk we should've had a long time ago, and I want him to know everything that's
in my heart.
I meet his eyes again. "What made it even better was
that…you didn't have to touch me in all of those places…any other guy would
have to make me want you. Your fingers on my arm were enough. I was in agony
being so close to you and not being able to do anything more. I wanted you to
take me somewhere, anywhere, to finish what you started—upstairs to one of the
bedrooms, outside on the porch, in the back seat of the car—so I could kiss you
everywhere I wanted to—but you didn't."
He's staring at me so intently that I'm afraid to go on,
but I have to. I'm almost there.
"I
know neither of us got much sleep that night because all I could feel was your
hand caressing my body from my neck to my fingertips. But the next morning, as
soon as it got light, you couldn't wait to get out of there. You started muttering
to yourself about being late for something, propped me up on the side of the
couch, and left me there. You didn't even say goodbye. Do you have any idea
what that felt like?"
He meets my eyes for a second before looking away. "If
you were tightly wound, you can imagine how I felt. You don't remember what you
were doing right before that, do you? How you were running your leg up and down
mine? Your knee at my—” He stops, burying his head in his hands. “I had to get
out of there because I—"
I swallow, realizing now why he did what he
did.
"But I could've…" I stammer. "Helped
you…with that."
He pushes himself away from the table, and I'm afraid he's
going to leave me sitting there all alone again. "I didn't know what to
do. I—"
"Jilly, I was yours for the
taking."
"Are you still?" His gaze burns into
me.
I look into his soulful, brown eyes, which are holding
nothing back from me. He's taking a giant leap for me now, even if he couldn't
do it back when we were kids. Things could've turned out so differently if he
had, but here we are, in New York City, sitting across a table from each other,
four years older, four years wiser.
I’d
thought he was lost to me forever, never to be a part of my life again. But
he's here, offering me a second chance at what I've always wanted—to be with
him.
Collette West grew up as somewhat of a jock-nerd hybrid.
Entering the world three weeks premature, her dad nearly missed her birth
because he had seats behind the dugout for a sold-out, highly-anticipated
match-up between two of baseball's biggest rivals. Not to be outdone, her
book-loving mom taught her how to read by the time she was three. A love of the
game coupled with an appreciation for the written word were instilled in
Collette's impressionable brain from a young age. No wonder her characters
believe in the philosophy: sports + romance = a little slice of heaven.
Splitting her time between the Pocono Mountains and
Manhattan, Collette indulges her inner fangirl by going to as many games as she
can from hockey to baseball and downloading every sports romance novel in
existence onto her iPad. When she's not clicking away on her laptop, she enjoys
walking her dog in Central Park, satisfying her caffeine craving at the
Starbucks on Broadway and keeping an eye out for Mr. Right. But above all, she
loves dishing with her readers. Email her at collette_west@yahoo.com.
She is the author of NIGHT GAMES, GAME CHANGER and GAME
ON.
Cover Reveal: Sessions by Kailin Gow
Cover Reveal
Sessions by Kailin Gow
Sessions releases on November 17, 2014
I'm Mark Sessions, Dr. of Psychology, Sex Therapist and Former Mr. Body, also an entrepreneur who made millions from owning a health supplement company. I have a practice in Seattle where I am a therapist. They call me the Sex Shrink of Seattle. Women call me Sex on Legs. I'm an expert on sex because I get plenty of it, and I know a whole lot about it. I'm also on TV as an expert on sex therapy when the whole Fifty Shades thing became big so now my business is exploding with women wanting to learn how to break free of being prudes. Problem is, I'm in a rut myself. It's not exciting for me anymore, until SHE walked through my door and propped herself down on my sofa. Who knew SHE would be taking lessons from me, but she is, and now she may be the one teaching me a thing or two. For mature audience.
About Kailin Gow
Kailin Gow's life is sometimes more fascinating and stranger than fiction, which is being chronicled in a feature film based on a treatment optioned and in development for a release date of 2018. (IMDB.com - The Colorful Worlds of Kailin Gow 2018). Her true life experiences as a world traveler where she has traveled to over 25 countries, logging hundreds of thousands of miles, absorbing the cultures and collecting stories relating to places and the romance of the land, and incidents in her personal life, has inspired her to write and publish over 170 books with over 30 series.
She is noted as an indie pioneer, as one of the first to publish in 2001. Breaking stereotypes, her books has crossed traditional and indie lines, gaining recognition in schools and libraries, as well as the indie community. Her action adventure young adult fantasy series, The Frost Series, an ALA YALSA Reader's Choice Nominated book series - had been optioned by an international film company and is currently in development as a game and a film at http://www.facebook.com/ thefrostseries. Five of her fantasy/action adventure series have been optioned to be made into worldwide games.
Kailin Gow has been known in The World Journal, an international newspaper, to be a phenomenon. She was profiled on the homepage of Amazon.com as an Author Success Story who overcame personal obstacles to become a bestselling author, appeared as one of Amazon's top authors for the Kindle Fire launch release, and is one of the earliest indie authors who have sold over a million books. She writes for Fast Company as a publishing expert, had appeared on a major network Television News as a bestselling author who writes fiction and non-fiction with a social conscious, and has made speeches and appearances across the U.S. and on top 15 national radio regarding self-esteem and issues relating to women.
Kailin Gow was an invited speaker and signing author at Book Expo America (BEA)2014.
Having experienced bullying firsthand and slander as a woman, Kailin Gow is an active advocate against bullying in the workplace and in schools. She has written Shy Girls Social Club Handbook Against Bullying and has helped launch Stories for Amanda where all proceeds go towards the Amanda Todd Foundation against bullying. She has written several books with the theme of abuse towards women and children, especially the steamy international bestselling The Protégé Series, which launched a book club initiative in battered women's shelters and won The Indie Excellence Awards at NIEA for Erotica in 2014.
She holds a Masters Degree in Communications Management from The University of Southern California, and degrees in Drama and Social Ecology.
She resides in the American West with her husband and daughter, but had lived for a decade in Texas, and briefly in England. Besides being a full-time author, she volunteers for many organizations, is active in church helping build homes for the homeless and visit orphanages. A voracious reader, when she is not writing, she loves reading an entire series in one sitting! She spends way too much time on Facebook than she is supposed to at http://www.facebook.com/ kailingowbooks, but loves meeting new people from all walks of life.
She has over 30 Series, written under Kailin Gow, and more under her middle grade, women's fiction, and mystery pen names:
***For 16 and up***
The Frost Series - COMPLETED. Bitter Frost Series Consists of 8 full-length novels.
The Wolf Fey Series - COMPLETED. Consists of 2 full-length novels and one novella.
Fairy Rose Chronicles - age 13 and up.
The PULSE Series - Next Book - Blood Ring (PULSE #9), releasing due to readers' demand to continue the series. Consists of 9 full-length novels and one novella.
FADE Series - COMPLETED. ALL Full-length novels.
DESIRE Series - All Full-length novels. Last Book, FRENZY - 2015.
Fire Wars Series - All Full-length novels.
Alchemists Academy - All Full-length novels.
Wordwick Games - All Full-length novels.
Wicked Woods Series - COMPLETED. Consists of 5 full-length novels.
Steampunk Scarlett - All Full-length novels.
The Phantom Diaries - All Full-length novels. Last Book, DARK VICTORY - 2015.
Stoker Sisters - All Full-length novels. Last Book, SISTER OF THE STRIGOIS - 2015.
The Wolf Fey Series - COMPLETED. Consists of 2 full-length novels and one novella.
Fairy Rose Chronicles - age 13 and up.
The PULSE Series - Next Book - Blood Ring (PULSE #9), releasing due to readers' demand to continue the series. Consists of 9 full-length novels and one novella.
FADE Series - COMPLETED. ALL Full-length novels.
DESIRE Series - All Full-length novels. Last Book, FRENZY - 2015.
Fire Wars Series - All Full-length novels.
Alchemists Academy - All Full-length novels.
Wordwick Games - All Full-length novels.
Wicked Woods Series - COMPLETED. Consists of 5 full-length novels.
Steampunk Scarlett - All Full-length novels.
The Phantom Diaries - All Full-length novels. Last Book, DARK VICTORY - 2015.
Stoker Sisters - All Full-length novels. Last Book, SISTER OF THE STRIGOIS - 2015.
Beyond Crystal River - 2015 NEW SERIES.
SHADES - 2015 NEW SERIES. This is a high concept psychological thriller.
***For 18 and up (New Adult/Coming of Age)***
Loving Summer - All full-length novels.
The Donovan Brothers - All full-length novels.
Saving You Saving Me (You & Me Trilogy)- COMPLETED. Consists of 3 Full-length novels.
Never Knights - COMPLETED. Consists of 3 Full-length novels.
Rock Hard Love Hard - 1st book, Rock Hard Love Hard is now Available.
The Donovan Brothers - All full-length novels.
Saving You Saving Me (You & Me Trilogy)- COMPLETED. Consists of 3 Full-length novels.
Never Knights - COMPLETED. Consists of 3 Full-length novels.
Rock Hard Love Hard - 1st book, Rock Hard Love Hard is now Available.
Sawyer House Chronicles (Spin-off of You & Me Trilogy) - Coming in 2015
Canvas - Coming in 2015
Canvas - Coming in 2015
***For 18 and up (Adult/Steamy Romance)***
The Protege - COMPLETED. 3 Full-length novels.
Master Chefs - COMPLETED. Consists of 3 Full-length novels.
The Blue Room (Spin-off of Never Knights Trilogy) - Romantic Suspense.
Barely Legal (Spin-off of The Protégé) - Romantic Suspense.
The Oyster House - Artistic Romantic Thriller set in Hong Kong and England.
- Coming in 2015.
Master Chefs - COMPLETED. Consists of 3 Full-length novels.
The Blue Room (Spin-off of Never Knights Trilogy) - Romantic Suspense.
Barely Legal (Spin-off of The Protégé) - Romantic Suspense.
The Oyster House - Artistic Romantic Thriller set in Hong Kong and England.
- Coming in 2015.
For information on the series, new series and new book releases, contests, appearances, KG-Convergences, and more, sign up at http://www.KailinGowBooks.com.
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