REVIEW: Dearest Clementine by Lex Martin

Dearest Clementine (Dearest, #1) by Lex Martin
My rating: 4.5 our of 5 stars

Book Description: 

Twenty-year-old Clementine Avery doesn't mind being called bitchy and closed off. It's safe, and after being burned by her high school sweetheart and stalked by a professor her freshman year of college, safe sounds pretty damn good.

Her number one rule for survival? No dating. That is until she accidentally signs up for a romance writing class and needs material for her latest assignment. Sexy RA Gavin Murphy is more than happy to play the part of book boyfriend to help Clem find some inspiration, even if that means making out...in the name of research, of course.

As Gavin and Clem grow closer, they get entangled in the mystery surrounding a missing Boston University student, and Clem unwittingly becomes a possible target. Gavin tries to show Clem she can handle falling in love again, but she knows she has to be careful because her heart’s at stake…and maybe even her life.

DEAREST CLEMENTINE is a stand-alone novel with two companion novels. This New Adult romance is recommended for readers 18+ due to mature content. 

     

COVER REVEAL for Breaking Noah by Missy Johnson and Ashley Suzanne!

Cover Reveal: BREAKING NOAH

by Missy Johnson and Ashley Suzanne

What happens when you start falling for your worst enemy? Fans of Abbi Glines and Monica Murphy will relish this addictive novel of smoking-hot seduction—and revenge gone so wrong, it’s right.

I wasn’t always this jaded. I had a clear head, things I wanted out of life, and a concise plan on how to get there. For being only twenty-one, I pretty much had it all figured out. Until the day my cousin died.

I spent months going over all the details surrounding her death, trying to figure out how I missed the signs, and the only thing I could come up with was she would still be alive if it wasn’t for one person: her professor. So I transferred to his college, enrolled in his class, and set my new plan in motion.

First I’ll seduce him. Then I’ll ruin him. I’ve just got to stay strong and not let his charm and my emotions get the best of me. Because someone has to pay for her death. If it’s the last thing I do, I’m going to break Noah.

Coming 5/26/2015

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Missy Johnson is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who lives in a small town in Victoria, Australia, with her husband and her confused pets (a dog who thinks that she is a cat, a cat who thinks he is a dog . . . you get the picture). When she’s not writing, she can usually be found looking for something to read. (Website: http://www.missycjohnson.com)

Ashley Suzanne has been writing for as long as she can remember. As a youngster, she was always creating stories and talking to her imaginary friends. Thankfully, her parents also carried this love of fiction, and helped her grow into the bestselling author she is today. When Ashley isn’t coming up with her next story, you'll most likely find her on the couch, telling her husband all about her new book boyfriend, or spending quality time with her two gremlins . . . er, adorable children. (Website: http://www.booksbyashleysuzanne.com)

COVER REVEAL for Laura Kaye's Hard to be Good!

Laura Kaye's dark romantic suspense series, The Hard Ink Series, keeps readers on the edge of their seat. Today, we are thrilled to share with you the cover for the upcoming novella, HARD TO BE GOOD. But that's not all we have! Check out the cover for the next novel in the series, HARD TO LET GO. We can't wait for you to get your hands on the next two Hard Ink men, Jeremy and Beckett. Without further ado...

Check out the beautiful cover for HARD TO BE GOOD!

   

  

REVIEW: Code Red by Amy Noelle

Code Red by Amy Noelle
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

Book Description: 

After getting hurt in college by a gorgeous man, Nicole Magette vowed never to risk losing her heart again. Now she lives a structured and satisfying life. Her work is easy, her friends are her family, and the only consistent men in her life are her two cats, Winchester and Huntington Peabody the Third. She doesn't date, and she hooks up only with losers—men she has absolutely no risk of falling for. But if she finds herself in danger, she has her old fail-safe in place—the Code Red.

In college, she and her four best friends came up with the system as a way to keep away the good-looking bastards that might worm their way past their carefully constructed walls. Seven years later, three of her friends have succumbed to their last Code Reds and are happily married. Now it’s just Nicole and her closest friend, Jen, who are still on their own, and Nic is just fine with that.

That is, until Joshua Daniels is transferred to Nicole’s office from New York and assigned to work with her on a special project. He's everything she's avoided and everything she claims she doesn't want, so why can’t she get him out of her mind? He's persistent, dangerously handsome, and sexy as sin. In other words, he’s her worst nightmare. She turns to her friends to help her resist Josh’s considerable charms and the inescapable draw she feels every time she gets near him. Can the Code Red save her this time, or will Josh send her perfectly balanced life into chaos?

     

REVIEW: Debt by Nina G. Jones

Debt by Nina G. Jones
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Book Description: 

I don’t know what I was thinking when I hired someone to attack me. Maybe I was bored, or lonely, or there was a void so deep inside of me that I needed something explosive to fill it. 

It was supposed to be safe. A thrill. A way to break through the monotony of everyday life. It was an illusion of danger that I could walk away from as soon as it was over. 

Except that it wasn’t. Because I had been in danger long before I ever invited it into my life. 

———————

My mission is almost complete. The bubbling boil of vengeance that heats my blood might finally simmer. 

She is the last piece of the puzzle. Once I destroy her, everyone who ever hurt me will have paid their debt. 

It was supposed to be quick and easy, but as soon as I met her it got complicated. 

Very complicated.

     

REVIEW: Asylum by Lily White

Asylum by Lily White 

My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Book Description: 

Words are funny things.

Their meaning, the pictures they paint in the minds of those that hear them: they’re not always the same and to me at least, that makes them meaningless.

Take for instance the phrase ‘black widow’. Those words conjure the image of a spider, an eight-legged creature with the red imprint of an hourglass on its abdomen.

However, instead of speaking of an arachnid, of the resident of a spindly and dew-laden web, the people who whisper those words are talking about something much different.

They’re talking about me.

From what I’m told, I’m called the Black Widow because no man I’ve ever loved has survived.

Yet, I have no memory of any of it.

My new home leads me to the definition of another vague and meaningless word.

It’s a place where I’m supposed to seek refuge.

A place of retreat and security.

It’s a place where I’m supposed to be kept safe because I’m sick.

But the definition for this place is wrong and the word becomes meaningless when you’re tucked away and made silent by drugs and pretty white jackets.

My name is Alexandra Sutton and this is the story of what happened when I was imprisoned inside an Asylum.

Sunday Spotlight: Book Funks! boooohissss

Welcome to this week's Sunday Spotlight!

I have a very important topic to discuss. Have any of you ever been in the dreaded Book Funk?! 

*cue the dun dun duunnn*

Well, I have and it totally sucks! A little background info on me... I'm a very active member on Goodreads. I love that site! I think it's the best thing since sliced bread! :D My tbr contains a total of 4,309 books. No joke. So when I decide to look for a new book to read, and I'm going through that massive number of books and I still come away thinking "I have nothing to read!" I know a book funk is looming. It's so depressing! Who's with me here!? I mean, how can I not be able to find a book to read with that many choices right?! It's like women obsessed with clothes looking in their closets saying "I have nothing to wear!" Ridiculous. But true. 

So, what do we do about these awful book funks? Well, for me and my cohort Lindsay, we came up with a fun game we like to call the Kindle Coordinates Game. Basically, what we do is, she picks for me and I pick for her. We choose a page number on our kindles, then a collection number (if it lands on a page with collections) then a number 1-6 and that's the book we try. 

Example: Page 13; Collection 4; (page 2 - if applicable) Book 6

OR

Page 64; Book 3

This is a fairly new game and we've luckily only needed it to try to keep that dreaded book funk at bay a few times, but it's always fun. We even invoke the "redo" every now and then when a book just isn't what we're in the mood for. It's helped too! :) 

Book Funk is a serious condition that we readers must rally against! If you are like me, reading time is precious and sacred, especially in today's hectic and crazy world. Laugh all you want, but I have two kids and a full time job so I don't always get to read when I want. I have to utilize my reading time to its full advantage! I don't want some pesky condition trying to steal my time with Knight (my kindle)!!! ;) I want to sit down and open a good book that will take me away to a fantasy land for a little while before reality comes a callin'. 

So for all you avid readers out there who have had the misfortune of finding yourselves in a book funk a time or two, you are not alone! *hugs* And hopefully you have a reading buddy to support you in your time of need. Try Lindsay's and my Kindle Coordinates Game sometime! It's a fun way to find a book and maybe even do a buddy read! :-)