REVIEW: Holly Lane by J.B. Morgan

Holly Lane by J.B. Morgan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Book Description: 

Hollie + Layne = One trip. One week. One chance meeting that they'll never forget. Two hearts. Two different places, and one event that could change it all.

Hollie goes off on her senior class trip with her best friends expecting some fun in the sun before starting life after high school. She didn't expect to meet Layne.

Layne is stationed in Hawaii, anticipating his next deployment. He doesn't expect to meet a girl that will change his life.

This Christmas, take a stroll down Holly Lane where you'll discover the unique journey of friendships, a town full of holiday joy, and the healing power of love. 


Note: This is not a heavy book. It's light, has swoony romance, filled with humor and great friendships with some holiday magic thrown in.

      

NEW RELEASE FROM JESSIE LANE!!!!

From Best Selling Author Jessie Lane...

Bobby Baker is a man with new lease on life.

He is engaged to his high school sweetheart, and he is bonding with the fourteen year old son he wasn’t aware of a little less than a year ago.

But there’s more. The love of his life is pregnant with their second child. This time, he’ll be there to witness the birth of one of his children instead of missing out on it.

Or will he?

Belle unexpectedly goes into labor a month early while Bobby is coming off a mission half a world away. Will he be able to make it home in time for the birth of his second child?

Or will he miss this delivery, too?

*Previously published in the back of Ice, Regulators MC #1. This is a short story that should be read after both Secret Maneuvers and Stripping Her Defenses in the Ex Ops Series.*

REVIEW: The Game Plan by R.L. Mathewson

The Game Plan by R.L. Mathewson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Book Description: 

Spend the next 40 years in prison or break her lease early? 

Normally she’d be able to say that this one was a no-brainer, but things have definitely changed since she was forced to move in across the hall from Danny Bradford. 

A lot of things…… 

She wanted to get through one day, just ONE day without Danny Bradford doing something to test the limits to her control, but with that damn smile of his and his habit of leaving her contemplating manslaughter, she didn’t see that happening anytime soon. 

He loved his family, but some days……. 

It was too much, but that was okay, because his small neighbor living across the hallway provided him with endless hours of entertainment. Not on purpose of course, but did it really matter as long she made him smile?

     

Return of the Bad Girl by Codi Gary

Bad girls don't forgive.

Bad girls don't forget.
Bad girls don't fall in love.

Caroline Willis may be known for causing trouble, but she is NOT about to become homeless. So when she learns that her perfect apartment has been double-booked—to a dangerously hot bad boy—Caroline's bad-girl reputation comes out in full force. He may be sexy as sin, but she's not afraid of him … or his panty-melting smile.

Rock Canyon's got room for only one bad attitude—and Gabe Moriarty was here first. Still, starting over means playing it smart, so while sharing his new apartment is less than ideal, it's worth getting his dream business off the ground. Not to mention that it means shacking up with a sexy wild child. Caroline may be giving him the cold shoulder, but Gabe always was good at starting fires …

Caroline vows to keep things professional with Gabe, but as close quarters begin to ignite the sizzling chemistry between them, she's left wondering: Bad boy plus bad girl equals nothing but trouble … right?

REVIEW: Stepbrother Billionaire by Colleen Masters

Stepbrother Billionaire by Colleen Masters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Book Description: 

I’ve hated him since middle school. 

The effortlessly popular, lacrosse superstar, beautiful, blue-eyed nightmare Emerson Sawyer. Funny thing is, he didn’t even know I existed until our senior year, when his mom started hooking up with my dad. 

Now he torments me in the hallways, calling me “Sis” whenever he gets the chance, relishing in the fact that I can’t hide my blushing whenever he’s around. Even though I can’t stand him, my body betrays me—and he loves it. 

Emerson and his mom just moved in with us, and as if crushing on him wasn’t weird enough, now our bedrooms share a wall. 

The sexual tension keeps building between us, but I know nothing can ever happen…especially now that our parents are engaged. I try to tell myself that I hate him, that he’s wrong for me, that we’ll never be together… 

So why did I agree to play Seven Minutes in Heaven at his girlfriend’s high school party? 

And why does Emerson suddenly have my panties in his hands?

Stepbrother Billionaire is a standalone novel. It contains adult themes, harsh language, and graphic sexual content.

Sunday Spotlight: Collecting Book Boyfriends

I read a book recently (Keystrokes by Lisa Marie), and it prompted me to write my first Sunday Spotlight about it.

As I got to the end of the book, there was a passage in the final blog post the character Farrow posts that bothered me. Here's the passage:

I am done with book blogging. I don't have much desire anymore. I already won the best book boyfriend ever. No one will ever top Tate, except Kasen. And since they are one and the same to many, MANY women, I am the luckiest woman in the world.

Here's why it bothered me...I don't blog for that reason. Throughout the whole book, I felt like the character, and by extension the author, understood reading and blogging. And that passage made me feel like she totally missed the mark.

I'm not trying to make a blanket statement and speak for everyone, but having talked to a few people, I felt the need to take pen to paper fingers to keyboard and voice my thoughts on the subject.

I blog because I love books. I love to read. I love the stories, the characters and the romance. I do collect book boyfriends. Nikki and I bicker about them all the time. But that's a byproduct of reading romance. These guys are in some way ideals of what we want, what we don't have and what we'd like to find. They're also what guys will never be. They allow us to step out of reality and wish that they were real. I don't read to collect book boyfriends. They're just a bonus.

So to see that passage in a book, about a blogger, it was discouraging. I love my book boyfriends, they're like a favorite book, they're comfort reads. They're always there to go back to when you need a sure fire hit. When you can't figure out what new book to read, or had a string of bad books. But I don't read with the sole intention of collecting them. So it distressed me that Farrow, or even the author, thinks that bloggers read to collect book boyfriends.

So, I'm asking you, why do you read? Do you read to collect book boyfriends? Do you think bloggers read to collect boyfriends? Or do you read for the love of the stories?

Wild and Free by Kristen Ashley blog tour!

Your eyes do not deceive you, you read that correctly! We're part of the Wild and Free Blog Tour!!!!

 

If you know anything about us, you know that we're big fans of Kristen Ashley. Particularly Nikki. Swear to god, she reads KA's whole back list once a month. So when we received one of the coveted KA invites, it was pretty much a million times better than this: 

It was like being in the presence of greatness....like being at a New Kids concert. 

*snickers* Only YOU would equate the New Kids to KA.  When I got the news it was a go, I was pretty much all 

 

We pretty much dropped everything we were doing to start this book ASAP. And honestly, can you blame us?! Not only was it an ARC, a KA ARC, but it's the last book in The Three series! This was big! We're talking HUGE!

So, before we get to the good stuff (aka the review), here are the pertinent deets about the book! 

LOL. Why do I feel like you're ready to announce the nominees at the Grammys or Oscars? 

LOL. Because I'm awesome that way!? 

Abel Jin and Delilah Johnson have lived their lives with a hole in their soul, yearning for something they don’t understand. 

Until one night Delilah is in mortal danger and a man who’s otherworldly strong and supernaturally fast saves her. Delilah is then cast into a world where fiction comes to life in the form of Abel, her destined mate, a vampire/werewolf hybrid who claims her at first breath as his. 

But Abel knows the danger isn’t done. He’s dreamed for centuries that his mate will perish and he will stop at nothing to keep her safe. 

For Delilah, she’s not only coping with fantasy come to life, but a mingling of very different families. Not to mention, she has on her hands a man who doesn’t understand his true nature and has lived his long life thinking he’s a monster. 

Abel and Delilah together fills the hole that has been clawing at them for decades. But finally finding each other, it also tips their destinies as the last of The Three. They must unite with the other destined lovers, who with Abel and Delilah, are fated to save the world. 

Or die trying.