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#BookReview: The Highlander’s Sword (Highlander #1) by Amanda Forester

4 Out of 5 Stars

A soon-to-be nun is forced to marry a Highlander to strengthen her father’s allies and find out who is trying to kill her family.

It was good and fill of tension, but the ending did not live up to the rest of the story.

#BookReview: Slenderman (Emma Frost #9) by Willow Rose

4 Out of 5 Stars

Someone in town is using the myth of Slenderman to get revenge.

A little confusing because I haven’t read the previous books, but that only pertains to one small key element. The rest was very intriguing, don’t care for the “preview” (close to half of the book) of another at the end of the book.

#BookReview: Hearts Over Blood (First Time Bareback Cowboys #3) by Odin Nightshade

3 out of 5 Stars

Cowboy falls in love with his brother’s ex-best friend.

Sweet and romantic. Sad and frustrating in a few places but still a good love story. A few grammar errors and missing words but nothing too severe.

No bareback scene, one star off. Second star was knocked off because the main title is less than half of the whole book. I’m also a little unsure if the brother Shane actually lost one of his legs, as described in the beginning, but returns later by the way he is said to walk or sit. Then it disappears again in the end. It is just not clear in the middle if the leg is gone or not.

#BookReview: Go Deep (True Bliss #1) by Sam Elswit

3 out of 5 Stars

Two NFL teammates fall in love.

Sweet, but not quite what I was hoping for. A bit slow in parts and too much glossing over details that would have made the story better.

#BookReview: Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Read for school.

1 out of 5 Stars

I just do not care for F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I do not like the opening. I feel like we are starting in the middle of a conversation and I cannot make heads or tails of the part we do catch.

Even though we do not hear him order a drink, when he says “No, no more.” and the bartender replies, “You were going pretty strong a couple of years ago.” Fitzgerald is implying that Charlie was a big drinker back in the day. We also get the impression that this bar used to be the place to be for ex-pats, but it has now “gone back to the French” and is pretty much a dead zone.

The line about people in Prague not knowing him there, is implying that since he was last in Paris he has settled down quite a bit.

A little bit of sarcasm here, I love how we are supposed to differentiate between a room being American or the bar being French. Are the French so different that just by saying a room is French or American the general reader will be able to picture it perfectly? Do the French make different noises in the kitchen than Americans do? I understand languages are different, but that still does not tell me what “French noises from the kitchen,” means.

Why do we only get half of the conversation instead of the full thing?

If he is at his brother-in-laws house, why is Marion standoffish? She would be his sister. Why would he not say, he is going to bring “our” sister over from America?

#BookReview: I Do by Van Cole

1 out of 5 Stars

After being left at the altar and a night of heavy drinking two best friends wake up married.

Surprise wedding? That certainly spells disaster, no matter that the priest isn’t going to perform a wedding ceremony just a blessing. Then he’s not even a priest currently, so it wouldn’t be technically be legal. hundreds of short stories at the end just to add pages is ridiculous. I hate it personally, find it a cop-out for crappy writing thrown out as fast as possible. I almost didn’t even read it because it is 901 pages long, but the title story is only a small few of those.

If Kirin knows the girl so well, how did he not know about the peanut allergy? That is something people pay a lot of attention to. They don’t like to die, so they make sure their close friends and family know about it.

If Kirin is half Indian, what’s with the Spanish? It was never stated what heritage his mother comes from, so we can only assume she is Hispanic…would be nice to know though.

The guy didn’t notice charges on his credit card that he didn’t make? Or were they already sharing bank accounts?

#BookReview: The Mountain Lion’s Temptation (Secrets and Lions #1) by R.A. Muldoon

5 Stars!

Young gay wolf meets bad-biker mountain lion.

West Side Story meets m/m paranormal, with a better ending! Loved it.

#BookReview: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

1 out of 5 Stars

Did not finish it, but here is what I thought of it before I quit. Hank Rearden can be a jerk, but his family is a bunch of jackasses.

Orren Boyle is an idiot. Plus how can he appear on the scene from nowhere five years ago, but then a few paragraphs later state “We’ve been improving steel rails for generations…”

What is the point of Wesley Mouch? He doesn’t offer anything to the conversation. No one listens to what he is saying. Why is he there? What purpose are his comments serving aside from just having a third person there.

Don’t even get me started on the “rooftop bar” that is like a cellar and though it is on the rooftop, you have to go down a flight of stairs. And there are cracks in the building’s architecture that let in just enough light. Something is wrong there.

I quit when I got to the author calling a man “noble” for enduring a childhood of abuse. I struggled just to get through the measly 68 pages I did make it through and I’m done.

#BookReview: The Blackwell Lessons (Devoted #4) by Suzy K. Quinn

4 out of 5 Stars

After marrying her teacher, Sophia thought life would be easier. She is soon finding out that her controlling BDSM-obsessed husband is just getting started.

Loved it, but got a little predictable. I can’t wait for book six.

#BookReview: World War II: A Brief History by Charles River Editors

4 out of 5 Stars

Very short and condensed, but very informative.