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“The truth is, I gave my heart away a long time ago. My whole heart. And I never really got it back.” ~Sweet Home Alabama Have you ever read a story th “The truth is, I gave my heart away a long time ago. My whole heart. And I never really got it back.” ~Sweet Home Alabama Have you ever read a story that has stolen your soul? Has a book broken your heart, hitting it so hard, that even after it’s mended, its pieces are still stuck in the story? I gave my heart to Wait where it still remains long after I turned the last page. I gave my soul to this story—as if I had a choice—for it to be sucked in like a song, dragging me in, pulling me under, like a big wave. Wait is the newest roller coaster of a rock star romance from AL Jackson’s Bleeding Stars series, and oh did my heart bleed. I devoured Wait in small doses to give my heart time to slow its beating, my body time to slow its breathing, and my brain time to process all of the feelings floating around in my head. I did not want to put Wait down, yet I had to calm my emotions from this story’s sensory storm. By just the second page of the book—the Prologue—my emotions engulfed me, soaring like soldiers ready for battle. This battle was one of feels; a fight I would not win. A fight I did not want to win. I knew this story starring Baz’s little brother, Austin, a broken boy who is now a broken man would break me. I just did not know that Edie, an equally broken girl and now a wounded woman, would break me just as hard. “I trusted this broken boy. So I whispered my secret. Offered it up to him. To hold it. Protect it. Until the day he crushed it in his hands.” Baz’s little brother, Austin, left four years ago at age 17 to treat the wounds that were embedded so deep into him, making him bleed for the past that held him prisoner. One where he still feels unworthy. Tall, muscular, inked, brown-haired and grey-green eyes, Austin could be older brother Baz’s twin. While not the lead singer for Sunder like Baz, he could easily be Sunder's front man, but plays in smaller venues on the West Coast. “I felt that fragmented piece inside stretching out its fingers. Searching for all that had been lost. For that piece I could never reclaim.” Damn if Baz’s little brother didn’t burrow right next to Baz in my heart. Just one chapter in and my heart was breaking. WAIT…I had to catch my breath as my lungs breathed in every wondrous and wielding word. The words quickly became flames, lighting me up. A fire that burned me inside, guiding me to its flames, to the light that I needed to see. Needed to feel when darkness tried to hijack my head and heart. “His voice…that unforgettable voice that washed over me exactly the way it once had. With comfort and joy and an aching hope. I hadn’t seen him since the night this broken boy had crushed the fragile piece of myself I’d given to him. Only Austin Stone was no longer a boy.” The past collides with the present when beautiful blonde and aqua-eyed Edie Evans, Ash’s little sister, and Austin’s best friend and love of his life stumbles into the bar where he is playing one night after four years apart. Secrets and lies destroyed them but each has always held the other’s heart. “He’d been my safety. My haven. Until he dragged me right back into hell.” Two chapters in and I broke as I bled for both the hero and the heroine. Two broken souls who should be one. WAIT…I had to catch my tears as I willed them not to fall. Tears that teased the dam of waterworks waiting to burst from the words that clutched my soul, extracting every emotion. Beckoning me. Binding me. Becoming me. “The girl was the only one who shed a light strong enough to pull me from the dark…that girl had given me air. A reprieve from the unending storm.” Austin is rough around the edges but light lingers through that dark exterior, ready to burst and break free. Edie is the angel who saves him from the dark. Austin is the comfort in Edie’s raging storm. Two broken souls who have been through hell find their way back to each other, hoping for redemption. A second-chance. One where their hearts will resume beating as one. “Because I’d known it since the moment he’d crawled into my bed and whispered his ease. Since the moment his spirit had sank into my soul.” These broken beauties need to be together. Austin and Edie’s pain is mine and only they can pick up each other’s shattered pieces. “He was anchored to me so deeply I could feel him pulling at me from every angle. We were magnets in opposition. Trembling lures.” I swooned so much. My heart was hit so hard, it spun right into my soul. This broken boy and this broken girl…they broke me. Again and again. “This girl was the only thing I could see…Did she get it yet? Did she know she was always going to belong to me?” I could not help but smile a grin filled with hope as I was sucked into a wave of passion, one of soulmates, one of love as deep as the ocean. “I should have known it would always be him.” One third into this soul-searing story and the tears trickled, harder and harder, as that dam of waterworks started to break. Permanent tears became etched into my eyes. I sighed. Wait filled my lungs, words filtering into my very core. WAIT…I had to catch my heart that this story so forcefully claimed. “He kissed me…as if I was the center of his world. And I knew without a doubt, this boy was the eye of the storm. The eye of my storm.” Their chemistry is passion. Their chemistry is pure. Austin and Edie are perfect together, dark mixed with light with a love that has never died. Oh do I LOVE THEM so! “She kissed me so deep I was sure this girl managed to touch my soul.” An angel, Edie is Austin’s light. Like he needs her, she needs her dark knight, the one who has rescued her from hell as she has pulled him from the darkness. Three-fourths into the book and I was broken ... gutted ... unglued. Wait pulled me into the dark; I was drowning in tears mixed with hope and heartbreak. My soul screamed for mercy, so lost it may never be found. WAIT…I had to take another breath as this book buried itself so deep into my soul that it may never leave. “How do you both break my heart and heal it at the same time?” “I don’t want to break you.” “You broke me a long time ago.” Wait, oh did it break me. This book…it’s EVERYTHING!!! An intense, intoxicating, and incredible story of epic love, Wait hit my heart hard and fast like lightning, scorching my soul while my emotions poured like a rain storm. I felt every word I read in Wait where I was left gasping for air, drowning to breathe in a sea of emotions so deep that they stole every feel and every thought in a book that owned every piece of me. I lived Wait. I breathed Wait. I was bound to Wait. I became Wait. AL Jackson writes from the heart and you can tell her heart is poured into every beautiful and brilliant word. Her heartfelt writing hits my heart hard like a hurricane in every single story of this Bleeding Stars series. EVERY WORD MATTERS. Meaningful. Mesmerizing. Magnificent. Everything AL Jackson pens is paint to a canvas, so vivid and valuable. Stories that steal your soul and stay with you forever. Oh did Wait sing to my soul so very much in a beautifully broken story of epic love that was so worth the wait. 5 but should be 10 beautiful, broken, brilliant, and imperfectly perfect stars [image] ...more |
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What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly? ~Erin Hansen I fell in love with Melanie Harlow’s latest sensation, After We Fall, by just reading What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly? ~Erin Hansen I fell in love with Melanie Harlow’s latest sensation, After We Fall, by just reading the synopsis. I had not even sunk myself into story and I KNEW it would be a heart-thrashing hit. Cowboy…OH YES for this Southern gal. Ex-Army soldier…DOUBLE YES for this Army wife. Brooding, hot, muscular, rugged alpha…YES, YES, YES! SOLD! SOLD! SOLD! After We Fall held me in its clutches, quickly captivating and claiming me in one utterly UNPUTDOWNABLE tale. I was at this story's mercy, needing to sink myself so deeply into After We Fall that I never wanted to surface for air. This heartbreaking yet heartwarming story stole my breath where I was drowning to breathe. My emotions were engulfed by this beautiful yet broken book, feels flowing all over the pages. Chills ran through me. My breaths were bated. My pulse raced. My heart shattered. I felt every word I read. After We Fall was my adrenaline...my anguish...my ache...my addiction. I WAS ALL IN. Gorgeous and brooding cowboy, Jack Valentini, wants nothing to do with the beautiful blonde and blue-eyed Margot 'Barbie' Lewiston who is bringing some much-needed PR expertise to his family's struggling farm. This rich gal is an annoyance and he doesn't want any more changes in his already devastating life. "I'd already met the love of my life...I'd married her, and I'd lost her...There was no second chance." I wanted to wrap up Jack in a huge hug. My heart bled for this cowboy who suffered a great loss and is still stuck in the darkness. The closed-off alpha reveals a peek of his big heart and Margot can't help but become enamored by this complex cowboy. "Someone who loved like that had to have a big heart, even if it was buried beneath prickly layers of grief and bitterness. I'd give him another chance." Margot is smart, funny, and beautiful inside and out...I loved her! The sweet and sassy woman wants to get to know the gorgeous, annoying, and tender-hearted man who gets under her skin. Jack wants to ignore the first woman since his late wife to invade his head and heat his body that's been in hibernation for three years but the magnetic force between Margot and him is too powerful to ignore. "I knew what I was going to do before I did it. I knew it was a bad idea. I knew I'd regret it. And I still did it...I kissed her...Our tongues met and I tasted her hungrily, like I'd never get enough...sweet and forbidden." The chemistry burns bright between Margot and Jack, a forbidden flame that fights to ignite, so hard to resist. Oh did I love their angst that bled all over the pages! "He was kissing me like I'd never been kissed before. Like he was going to war." Margot awakened a sleeping bear in Jack that had been hibernating too long, years since a mere kiss. "Her lips on mine felt like rain after a drought." The beauty bathed in heat in these words that melted me to molten lava, my feels flowing all over the pages. Swoon and sadness sent me over the edge. The passion poured off the pages, the pent-up tension a dam ready to burst. I was that dam too, my feelings bursting and bleeding too. This country boy made me swoon! His sexy, seductive, sad, and soul-filled words made me sink under his spell. This tender and troubled, and soulful and swoony alpha held my heart in his hands. Oh did I love Cowboy Jack! PURE PERFECTION. "I wanted to admit my guilt. Open my wounds. Bleed for her." Margot is the beautiful angel who brings light to this broken and handsome cowboy. They are the perfect mix of dark and light, heat and cold, and city gal and country guy. Opposites attract but the storm of the past may be a stronger force than love. "Everything was bare to her now, all my secrets, all my suffering, all my scars. And she still wanted me. I felt myself falling...I had no right. No right." After We Fall is not simply a broken and beautiful romance; it’s a story about heartbreak, hope, and happiness. It’s a story about LIFE AND LIVING. It’s about overcoming tragedy…taking that leap of faith...living for the moment...living life now. The inner dialogue that is a consistent Harlow fixture in all of this author's work is the icing on the cake in her creations, bringing realism and depth to already amazing stories. With every tale that Melanie Harlow writes, there is more heart and soul poured into each one…more emotion…more everything. EVERY WORD MEANT EVERYTHING that Melanie Harlow penned to life in After We Fall, Harlow’s most heartfelt masterpiece and BEST BOOK EVER. This magical mix of heart, heat, and humor in After We Fall, this shattering and soul-searing story of love and loss, was my EVERYTHING!!! Oh did I FALL HARD for After We Fall, this breathtakingly beautiful tale of hard-fought love that rendered me breathless. After We Fall BLEW ME AWAY with more heart, more tears, more sorrow, and the most love I’ve had for any Melanie Harlow romance…ever. After We Fall is one of those books that OWNS MY HEART AND SOUL FOR LIFE. I want to bask in the glow of this Harlow hangover a little longer. ★★★★★ ‘hard not to fall’ stars ...more |
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[image] You just can't beat the person who never gives up. ~Babe Ruth Sitting in the stands watching your favorite baseball team play is a high that d [image] You just can't beat the person who never gives up. ~Babe Ruth Sitting in the stands watching your favorite baseball team play is a high that dives off the diamond straight to you as the energy engulfs the air. The fans are engaged and intently watching the players with baseball greats in tight pants an added bonus. Adrenaline courses through your veins as you hope your team wins. You can’t help but feel alive. The Player by K. Bromberg made me feel ALIVE with its energy and emotion! Pulse-pounding and passionate, The Player penetrates the heart like a fastball, soaring straight to the soul! [image] When your heart is still racing and your pulse is pounding after you finish a book, it’s the highest of highs…the best feeling ever!!! I rode the highest of highs with The Player. This story SPARKED TO LIFE, and oh did I feel every flame…every tremor…every word…EVERYTHING! Easton and Scout together were EVERYTHING! The Player was EVERYTHING!!! [image] The Player held my heart soon after I turned the first page, never letting go…I never let go. This baseball book instantly catapulted itself into my heart and mind with a force I was powerless to stop. The Player ASSAULTED me, its angst was my adrenaline and ache; its pendulum of fire and ice was my passion; and its power was my power too. This soul-searing story struck me like a fast ball, fast and furiously. The Player was all fired up and ready to ignite all of the feels where I could not help but feel every one. The Player — so powerful and passionate —POSSESSED me. I could not devour this heart-stopping sexy and strong story fast enough. The baseball meets romance plot is powerful, Easton and Scout are combustible together — so raw and real — and Bromberg's writing is off-the-charts incredible, flowing with a heady mix of feels and fire. My feels were on fire, engulfed in emotions that were flames, blazing with a dual dose of heady heat and heart. The dedication made me smile. The dedication is as powerful and poignant as the book. The dedication is personal, a glimpse into the real woman behind the author...not K. Bromberg but Kristy. The dedication is EVERYTHING. Not even ten percent in and this story was already 5 stars. INSTANT LOVE!!! K. Bromberg quickly hit this baseball book out of the park, and the game had barely begun. I KNEW that, being a sports romance addict, The Player would be a huge hit but I did not expect my heart to be hit the hardest. I did not expect to NEED The Player so very much. This raw and riveting romance was my oxygen to breathe, as I NEEDED The Player, pure power and passion in words. Easton Wylder is a baseball god. A legend on and off the field. Smokin' hot. A player with a heart of gold. A super star who has to defy the odds of playing baseball again after a big injury. [image] Scout Dalton is beautiful, brave, and bold. A female in a man's world of baseball. A ball-buster in a ball game-focused world. A healer as a physical therapist who has to live up to a legend. [image] Scout is partnered with Easton, her new patient. Fire and ice. Open and closed. Hero and heroine. "If you're going to bust my chops, Wilder, you should know that I can give as good as I get." Like the rest of K. Bromberg's heroines, Scout is strength in spades with quick wit. I LOVED this sassy spitfire of a heroine! Scout batted virtual balls with the player, a battle of banter that was charged with electricity....so enticing and entertaining. Words were FIRE, burning through the pages. "I'm a hard girl to please." Patient blends with player. "A demanding woman indeed," he murmurs before giving me that tender type of kiss that reverberates to your toes and then all the way back up until it slams into your belly. [image] Lines are blurred...maybe crossed. Oh the heat that SMOLDERS from this story! "Good thing I've got a big bat and know how to use it." There may be no going back now... "I think I got to you. I think when you close your eyes, you think about me. I think you don't want to, but you do, because God knows I think about you, Scout." The push and pull of The Player was the sweetest ache. I SWOONED, as Easton's words MELTED ME like molten lava. Easton and Scout have combustible chemistry paired with passion that's difficult to ignore...a fight neither will win. The push and pull. The fire and ice. One or both may crash and burn. This game may end in a shut-out where only one player comes out on top. This baseball romance has heart...ALL of the HEART. The Player touched my heart so many times that I lost count.The passion bled through the pages, each word a drop that oozed to life. Tears fell hard and fast like baseballs, as these characters' pain became mine. I felt every word penetrate through me, pounding every emotion: smiles, swoon, and tears...I FELT IT ALL! The Player hits hard like a fast ball, feels soaring all of the way across the bases! K. Bromberg takes you on the diamond, in the locker room, so close to this baseball game that you're part of this baseball team too. You can't help but surrender to this sports story—baseball meets romance—as emotions entangle around every word like a mitt to a baseball. There is one constant in K. Bromberg's books: Live life to the fullest. Take a chance...a risk. Make every moment matter. This book and all of K. Bromberg's other masterpieces matter. I went into The Player expecting a sizzling sports romance with a few feels. What I received was ALL OF THE FEELS and so much more. The Player is perseverance. The Player is power. The Player is passion. The Player is a punch to the heart. The Player is K. Bromberg's poignant words wrapped around a baseball story woven in love. The Player is PURE PERFECTION. The Player has ALL OF THE SPARK...ALL OF HEART...ALL OF THE SOUL. All of MY heart. All of MY soul. K. Bromberg brought her A-game out to play in The Player, a grand-slam of a baseball romance that hits the heart and slays the soul. I LOVED The Player so much! A 2017 super star, The Player is the best baseball romance I've ever met! A MUST-READ ROMANCE!!! This baseball-meets-romance book—an ACE—is in the big leagues! I'm not ready for this game to be over. "I've played on grass my whole life, Scout. There's no need for me to see what's out there when it's green beneath my feet." ★★★★★ 'heart-hitting' home runs [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookaliciousbb Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bookaliciousbb ...more |
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“Let us not seek the Republican answer, or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us now seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us fix our
“Let us not seek the Republican answer, or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us now seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us fix our responsibility for the future.” ~John F. Kennedy Growing up in the D.C. suburbs of Virginia, I could not help but live and breathe politics—whether I wanted to or not. Only a couple of presidents have made me feel good about America, both from opposing parties, as party has never played a big part for me compared to issues. So many candidates feed us broken promises and are all ‘smoke and mirrors.’ Somehow in the past several years, I lost faith in politics and the presidency…until I met Mr. President, a book by Katy Evans that blew me and my anti-political mind away. I ditched my dislike for politics, opening my heart and mind fully, as I offered all of myself to Mr. President. I gave my heart and soul to this story—as if I had a choice—for it to be stolen as it sank into a world of politics, parading through everything and everywhere DC. Katy Evans wrote a mind-blowing and magical masterpiece in Mr. President, a politically-powered romance that put me on the campaign trail where I fell in love with everything politics. From the very first page, Mr. President enraptured me as I quickly became entangled in this engaging and electric story. Politics…power…potential love?!? I was ALL IN!!! I wanted to wait…taking my time to soak up every powerful and poignant word of Mr. President. I wanted to rush…tearing through these pages like the adrenaline from this thrilling tale coursed through me. I climbed Mr. President like Mount Everest with a deep hunger, a desire so high that I did not want to come up for air. Mr. President quickly became my addiction. My ache. My adrenaline. MY ALL. My emotions were amplified—a fusion of hope, heartbreak, and happiness—as hope was on the highest alert. Mr. President rapidly caught fire, heating me up, sending an unexpected rush as this story bled into me. The characters in Mr. President claimed me, captivated me, and catapulted me into their lives—this political whirlwind of an adventure—where I wanted to follow this president-elect on his campaign, living and breathing everything politics. This story sparked to life as magic poured from the pages, casting Mr. President in a glow as powerful as the presidency. Shortly into this intoxicating and inspiring tale, Mr. President already had my vote. “I really hadn’t realized how much we missed a strong leader, an inspiring leader, until every time I stare at the one I want. He could make such a difference. A man like him could make such a difference.” The gorgeous dark-haired and dark-eyed Matthew ‘Matt’ Hamilton has been the beautiful red-haired and blue-eyed Charlotte Wells’ crush since she first met him at her home along with his father, the President of the United States, when she was only eleven. While Matt was visiting, Charlotte, daughter of Senator Wells, even jokingly stated she would help the President’s son with his campaign if Matt ever ran for office. Flash forward over ten years later and Charlotte realizes her prediction may just be on its and his way to a presidency. “He is so gorgeous I bet every woman watching wants him to father all of her babies, put those lips on nobody but her, and use those eyes to look at nobody else…This god. The Prince of America. Has decided to run for president?” Charlotte has never stopped believing in Matt, her childhood crush and man, who as a boy, inspired her upon just one meeting. When asked to cash in on her promise with a premier spot on Matt’s campaign, Charlotte is shocked but excited to help make Matt’s dream come to life. “Maybe I can help. I believe in him. I believe he’s better than any of the options they’ve been tossing around on TV.” Charlotte doesn’t realize that the aura of awe she felt upon meeting Matt both at a young age and at his campaign party is mutual; Matt is smitten with this wonderful woman too. “You can’t say Charlotte is beautiful, she’s too stunning for that. You just don’t forget a face like hers…Despite being raised as a senator’s daughter, she’s so far been untouched by political scandal…she loves the presidency—and she always has.” Despite trying to remain professional, the chemistry is electric, on fire, burning bright like a halo of fire surrounding them. Mr. President, or America’s Panty-melting and Passionate Prince, is PURE PERFECTION. His dirty talk sparks heat that lights up the pages, the hot and heated banter between Charlotte and Matt igniting into more. “I made your nipples hard that day at the campaign kick-off too.” “Oh wow. Well my nipples weren’t the only things getting hard that day, I’d say.” “You don’t know the half of it.” A current crashes through the air, circling them like a cloud of dust, an attraction that’s becoming too powerful to ignore. An attraction deeper than looks; one that delves straight to the soul. “Matt…looks at me. Just looks at me. So intently and like he can see everything that I am, have ever been, and ever will be.” Their friendship is raw and real, a friendship catching fire, one where hopefully they won’t get burned. I want this couple, connected by fate, to cross that friendship line. They are perfect together with similar backgrounds and opportunists wanting to make America greater. “Every thought in my head scatters to nothing when he swoops down and takes my mouth with his. Everything falls away.” I felt that intense kiss surge from the story straight to me. Oh my wow! Charlotte has no choice to surrender to this passion that permeates between Matt and her, pouring off the pages where I felt this passion too. “I look forward to having a major hard-on the day you call me Mr. President.” “I groan when her breath catches, getting one last taste of her and one last feel of her sex clenching around my finger as I drive it inside. I’m playing with fire and I don’t care.” The kiss is fueled by the flames, creating an inferno that once ignited, may create a forever burn. Chemistry entrenched by fate…always there…unbreakable…unstoppable. “I breathe to help him win—even if that means I won’t ever, ever feel his arms around me like this…He belongs to America now. He always has. I need to stop this before we get in too deep…to the point of no return.” Winning will take everything. Winning can’t afford distractions. Winning means keeping your head in the presidency game. Despite a friendship and fireworks fused by fate, the relationship must stop before it really started. Matt needs to focus on the presidency sans scandals, and Charlotte doesn’t want to be the scandal to stop this amazing man from becoming this nation’s leader, a shining star that the country needs to become brighter. Katy Evans’ Mr. President penetrated my heart, hijacking it…hijacking me. My heart pounded out of my chest. I was a prisoner to these passionate pages that pounded that passion straight to me…through me. Intoxicating and incredible, I could not help but become besotted with this book that blasted big dreams through me. I FELL HARD. I FELL FAST. I FELL IN LOVE WITH EVERYTHING MR. PRESIDENT. Mr. President is so much more than a politically-powered romance; it’s hope for the future of America. Mr. President should be every president’s bible. If every president could be non-partisan and positive like Matt Hamilton, voting would be a seamless. Matt Hamilton, while a fictional president, should be real, a model for every campaign and one that would make America’s forefathers beam with pride. “For years the public has come to believe every promise made by every candidate has been pure bulls**t. Nobody believes in them anymore. Politics has been totally tainted by propaganda…America wants a change. America wants to grow. America wants to be young and powerful again.” In a story that’s so much more than its title, Mr. President bled a passion for politics that penetrated the anti-political me, making me believe again. Mr. President is about dreaming big. Mr. President is about positive and passionate politics full of promise, something lost decades ago in our great country. I was rendered breathless at times in this book that’s a breath of fresh air—so full of life—as Mr. President is full of passion, power and possibility. Katy Evans painted Mr. President to perfection in a book that’s sheer brilliance from beginning to end. How can you not love a gorgeous alpha who is the perfect mix of panty-melting and passionate who happens to be running for president? How can you not admire a beautiful gal from inside-out whose passion for the presidency is bigger than life? How can you not love a book that makes you dare to dream about politics that are pure and positive? MR. PRESIDENT IS EVERYTHING!!! SO MUCH GOODNESS. SO MUCH PASSION. SO MUCH PERFECTION. I can’t wait for Mr. President to continue captivating and claiming me. I VOTE YES TO MR. PRESIDENT…AGAIN AND AGAIN. ★★★★★ 5 ‘but worth 10’ politically-powered and passionate stars ...more |
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[image] You don’t find love. It finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars. Love found me in Helena Hun [image] You don’t find love. It finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars. Love found me in Helena Hunting’s newest hockey romance, Pucked Off. Oh DID I LOVE THIS STORY!!! So deep and different...unlike any other story in the Pucked series...JUST WOW!!! [image] I started Pucked Off with a big smile on my face as the books in the Pucked series have been a mix of a lot of humor, heat, and heart and a little heartbreak. After a few words on the first page, I wiped that smile off of my face, replacing it with a mix of a serious meets sad face. My eyes were already ready to bleed tears. I KNEW from just one page that this book would break me, and that it did. Pucked Off BROKE ME IN THE BEST WAY!!! [image] After just a few pages, I was UTTERLY ENTHRALLED. Pucked Off was ADDICTION…MY ACHE…MY ALL!!! I did not want to…could not…stop devouring this soulful story. After just a few pages, I KNEW THAT THIS STORY WAS SIX STARS, A TOP 2017 READ. [image] You may think you know hockey player, Lance ‘Romance’ Romero, from the glimpses of this hot Scot who looks like a fiery Viking with his red hair, tall and muscular body, and piercing green eyes…BUT YOU HAVE NO CLUE!!! There is way more to Mr. Romance than meets the eye. Mr. Mystery is finally solved and you will be besotted with his soul-searing story like I was. [image] I’m a legend. I’m the one people whisper about, even though half of the rumors aren’t true. I’m the man women with no inhibitions want. And I f**king hate it. Lance collides with a beautiful ginger who is as sweet as pie. Her life is pretty routine until it’s uprooted by a certain hockey player. [image] The instant connection between this couple was palpable. It wasn’t just chemistry; it was a feeling of fate. I could kiss her forever. I could live in this memory – past fused with the present. This kiss would be my heaven. [image] This story sparked to life as magic poured from the pages. I SWOONED SO MUCH at these tender and touching words that kissed me as butterflies fluttered around my heart. I want to be worthy, and I’m afraid I’ll never be. This broken man BROKE ME!!! I was GUTTED…UNGLUED by Lance as my heart was crushed along with his. [image] I have a broken boy who’s become a broken man, and as stupid and naïve as it may be, I want to be part of what heals him. Lance is broken but light lingers through that dark exterior, ready to burst and break free, waiting for an angel to save him from the dark. “I think there are parts of me that can’t be fixed.” Pucked Off was nothing I expected at all: it was MORE! So much more! This story stole, scorched, and shattered my soul. This book broke my heart, hitting it hard like a puck to the gut, shattering it like pieces of ice. Pucked Off is all of the heart and all of the soul! Heart-wrenching and heartwarming, this hockey romance will break your heart in the best way!!! I felt every word I read in Pucked Off where I was left gasping for air, wading in an explosion of emotions. Pucked Off is sorrow…soul…swoon…sensations…SO MUCH OF EVERYTHING! Pucked Off OWNED EVERY PUCKING PIECE OF ME!!! This devastatingly beautiful book is Helena Hunting’s most PUCKING PERFECT romance yet and a top 2017 read!!! Pucked Off BLEW ME AWAY!!! Pucked Off is the most heartfelt hockey romance I’ve ever read. Helena Hunting brought her A-Game in Pucked Off. This game is still far from over for me, as my heart is still pounding for Mr. Romance. "You’re all the good things I didn’t know I was missing.” ★★★★★★ pucking perfect stars Amazon US ➭ http://amzn.to/2m3Os23 CA ➭ http://amzn.to/2gi1Blb UK ➭ http://amzn.to/2gBS6O2 AU ➭ http://amzn.to/2g4xhY5 Nook ➭ http://bit.ly/2gcXaEs Kobo ➭ http://bit.ly/2gyCH0Q iBooks ➭ http://apple.co/2fnVHNQ [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... Readers Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/BBBBoo... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookaliciousbb Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bookaliciousbb ...more |
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[image] There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, “What if you fly?” ~Erin Hanson [ [image] There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, “What if you fly?” ~Erin Hanson [image] Tears are streaming down my face, as I just finished If You Were Mine. JUST WOW!!! I’m a little lost for words after one of the most amazing endings to a fairy tale that I wished went on forever. I’m still BREATHLESS. For once, words are hard to find for this love story, but I will try to write my heart out as Melanie Harlow wrote her heart out in this beautiful book. Like a fine wine, Melanie Harlow’s books get better with age: smoother, stronger, sweeter, and spectacular. I have followed this AH-MAZING author since day one when Frenched debuted in 2014…I was there. In these past three years, I’ve seen this author grow so much. Melanie Harlow has expanded her writing that started out as more hot and humorous to incorporate swoon and soul in spades. She has steadily climbed to the top tier of my favorite authors as Melanie Harlow’s words are my wine: fine and flawless, potent and powerful, and savored to the very last drop. From the minute I dove into If You Were Mine, I was lost in words that wrapped themselves around me like my favorite blanket. I planted myself into this story as if I were a character because I felt like one, hanging with the three lady besties, like they were my besties too. If You Were Mine was unbelievably REAL…so raw that I felt every word…every emotion entangling around me. Like an addict, If You Were Mine was MY DRUG and I could not get enough of these wondrous words. [image] Claire French is the last woman standing in the trio of besties without some man candy by her side. I think Melanie saved the best heroine, the best hero, and the best book for last. Claire is a die-hard romantic like me, dark blonde hair (hello...like me), green-grey eyes (me again), and is gifted in art (guilty though I don’t paint anymore and my art is more on the computer now). Claire was my soul sister! I LOVED HER!!! [image] That is where the similarities end as I am more of a risk taker like Claire’s friend, Jaime. Claire, oh sweet gal, follows rules to a tee. She is a serious saint (so not me). However, Claire believes in romance (me, me, me!!!) and is looking for her soul-mate (found mine a long time ago). Sick of being single, Claire takes a risk and hires a hot guy to be her wedding date. Theo MacLeod is HOT with dark hair, dark eyes, and a muscular body that would make Roman statues weep in envy. He is a drifter who floats from place to place, woman to woman, and job to job. Claire is his job or was supposed to be. [image] “Life is short. Do you really want to live yours this way? Never taking a risk? JUMP. Claire needs to step outside of her boundaries and LIVE. Theo convinces Claire to leap to the unknown. “Theo,” I begged. “Jump.” JUMP. A kiss wasn’t supposed to happen. When her lips reached mine, I wrapped my arms around her, holding her close. I’d never forget the taste of this kiss as long as I lived. [image] JUMP. One night together definitely wasn’t supposed to happen. However, their attraction is a force field; their connection is UNDENIABLE, physically and more. Claire and Theo are electric. Their chemistry is a current that flows fast and furiously through them, perhaps carved by fate. Opposites definitely attract. I felt their passion pounding through the pages. She made me wish I was someone else…someone worthy. Theo’s words BROKE ME. I cried for this broken boy inside this conflicted man, wanting to give him a hug and make his pain go away. I LOVED THEO so much!!! He has a heart of gold hidden beneath layers of pain, if only he would uncover that hidden treasure. “I trust you. I trust you not to hurt me. I trust you not to lie to me. I trust you not to break my heart.” JUMP. More seems possible. Claire is a breath of fresh air, light to Theo’s dark world and he can’t help but bask in her, soaking up her sweet sunshine. That sunshine shone on me too, warming me…melting me…making me believe. I was DRUNK ON THIS BOOK, heady from these heartfelt words that embedded themselves in my heart. JUMP. “Come on,” she whispered. “Jump.” What started out as one hot night has become more. "I don't deserve you, but if you were mine, I'd spend every last damn day of my life trying." The beauty bathed in heat in these words that melted me to molten lava, my feels flowing all over the pages. Swoon and sadness sent me over the edge. The passion poured off the pages, the pent-up tension a dam ready to burst. I was that dam too, my feelings bursting and bleeding. All Theo has to do is grab onto his angel’s wings, and open his closed heart. All he has to do is stay. If You Were Mine is MAGIC!!! I was UTTERLY ENAMORED! This story sparked my soul to life and held my heart in its hands. I bled tears for this book, heartbreak fused with hope and happiness. This perfectly imperfect fairy tale stole my heart. If You Were Mine is messy love that melts the heart, magical in every way. If You Were Mine is not simply a broken and beautiful romance; it’s a story about heartbreak, hope, and happiness. It’s a story about LIFE AND LIVING. It’s about overcoming tragedy…taking that leap of faith...living for the moment...living life now. It’s about taking that risk…taking that leap…JUMP. Oh did this story leap to life, making me fly to the sky with butterflies in my belly and hope in my heart. This story MEANT THE WORLD!!! Oh did I FALL HARD for If You Were Mine, which quickly claimed itself as MINE. ALL MINE. This book is my new Melanie Harlow favorite, already a top 2017 read because it made me FEEL the whole time reading, my heart and soul were intertwined in this book from beginning to end. If You Were Mine is so BRILLIANT AND BEAUTIFUL. This book BLEW ME AWAY!!! JUMP. Oh DID I JUMP!!! If You Were Mine jumped into my heart, where I felt so much love leap to life. This breathtakingly beautiful tale of hard-fought love rendered me breathless and made me swoon in spades. If You Were Mine is the MOST ROMANTIC ROMANCE! The ending was EVERYTHING, one I’ll treasure and remember forever. If You Were Mine was ALL OF THE FEELS. ALL OF THE SENSATIONS. ALL OF THE SWOON. ALL OF THE SOUL. MY ALL!!! I bestow all of the crowns to If You Were Mine because I felt ALL OF THE LOVE!!! If You Were Mine is one of those books that OWN MY HEART AND SOUL FOR LIFE. I don't know how Melanie Harlow will top this fierce fairy tale, but I can't wait to see her try! ❤ 6 magical crowns A MASTERPIECE & MUST ONE-CLICK!!! --> http://amzn.to/2lwdKBc [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... Readers Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/BBBBoo... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookaliciousbb Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bookaliciousbb ...more |
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“We were two broken souls in love and maybe our crooked pieces were what made us fit together so perfectly, just like a puzzle…The puzzle I didn’t kno
“We were two broken souls in love and maybe our crooked pieces were what made us fit together so perfectly, just like a puzzle…The puzzle I didn’t know I needed, and the puzzle he didn’t know he wanted.” ~Unknown Have you ever begun and ended a story with tears? The first, last, and so much of the middle of the book render you a wreck, where the tissues are a lifeline, controlling those feels that flow like a river. Those emotions are entangled so deeply where you feel EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. Down Shift by K. Bromberg hit my heart hard and sank itself into my soul where all the feels flowed fast and furiously, leaving me bound to this devastatingly beautiful book where I may remain forever. JUST JUMP. Oh did I want to jump! I wanted to devour Down Shift. I wanted to savor it, Zander, and Getty. I wanted to rush. I wanted to take my time. Down Shift stormed its way into my heart and soul, a bolt of lightning, striking me hard and hastily. Feelings flowing. Pulse pounding. Soul spinning. I WAS ALL IN. Happy tears. Nostalgic tears. Weary tears. Sad tears. So many tears. I knew Zander’s story would be one of heartbreak, and perhaps hope and healing. However, Getty’s story dealt me a few emotional blows where I broke just as hard. So many emotions cut through me like a knife. The Prologue dragged me into Down Shift. Before I could catch my breath, I was thrust into this story. Utterly immersed. Emotions engaged. Air amplified. It took but a few words to become one with this touching tale. One line...two lines...three and my emotions were standing at attention, preparing to fight the ensuing flood of feels…a losing battle. “The stain on my soul darker than ever before.” After just one paragraph, Zander embedded himself in my heart. The Prologue spun me around, my head in disbelief, my heart heavy and hurting for Zander...for Colton...for Rylee. I was brought back into the Driven world—with just a few words—as if I never left. I saw a newer and even better Colton as a father who melted me to pieces. This Colton is wiser and more mature but still passionate and persuasive. Oh Down Shift, I gasped for air as this story stole my breath and took my tears. “Everything important taken away from me with the slam of the door: my family, my ride, my anchors. And the sting is real.” The sting was real indeed. Zander Donavan, Colton and Rylee’s son, has never dealt with his painful past. Now, the past floats around him like a ghost, returning again, haunting him, wrecking his racing, and leaving his life in ruins. He has no choice except to fight the demons head on, a battle that needs to be fought solo. Self-healing. JUST JUMP. Oh does Zander have to take that jump. Rebuild his life. Rebuild himself. Leaving his LA life and spot as the top racer behind, Zander relocates to a friend’s house on the Washington coast to work those demons out of his system, eliminate those complications and purge that painful past. “I can’t chase the ghosts away for good if I don’t face them head-on.” My heart that has held Colton for so long now holds Zander. Cocky and complicated, wounds rush through him that are years old, causing Zander to wound others in his path. I wanted to hug him and help him soothe the pain. The gorgeous dark-haired, blue-eyed, tall, and muscular Zander didn’t expect to meet the beautiful brown-haired, brown-eyed, long-legged, and curvy Getty Castor. Getty is running from demons too after being controlled like a puppet all her life. She leaves home for a fresh start, a new life, one where she will be confident and commanding. "That unmistakable zap of chemistry. My neurons catching fire…for a split second I think he feels it too.” Zander and Getty are electric. Their chemistry is a current that flows fast and furiously through them, perhaps carved by fate. Despite the deep desire and attraction, they are complications to each other. Zander does not need Getty mixing up his mind further when he needs to fix his failures while Getty is done with men after they have let her down all of her life. "Words. Thoughts. Confessions. The look in his eyes and the comfort of his touch cause my head to whirl, make me want to let him in.” Both Getty and Zander have messed up, made mistakes in the past. Zander is supposed to be finding himself but Getty is who he has found and who is softening his hardened heart. "You complicate things, Getty. Because there is something about you that continually reminds me why I came here.” JUST JUMP. Zander and Getty succumb to the temptation of touch, waging a war on those fireworks that ignite whenever they touch, heating them from skin to soul. "You kiss me like I matter." This story...oh does Down Shift matter. Tears that tried to tangle with me during the first half of the story won the war, trickling down my cheeks like drops of the ocean. "Right now every damn part of me wants to kiss you again. Kiss you till we can’t breathe, then lay you down on my bed and show you what it’s like to feel that kind of worship…But I can’t do that to you. I can’t knowingly walk you into my storm without showing you where the lighthouse is so you have a way out before you even begin.” I FELL IN LOVE fast and furiously with Zander, Getty, and Down Shift. My heart bled for these broken souls who should heal and be happy together as one. "It’s like I’m trying to come up for air and he’s trying to pass me his.” I swooned so hard from these beautiful words that seduced my soul, carving a piece of my heart out with every word...every paragraph...every page. JUST JUMP. Zander and Getty need a relationship jump. Their chemistry is off-charts-hot but their compassion is just as combustible. Getty and Zander care so much for each other but won't take that lap around the relationship track. It’s too bad that they still think of each other as a complication, something they don’t want or need. "I snarl and clench my jaw, because the last thing I need is her presence here to cloud my thoughts. Give me reasons to want to stay. Make me want to walk up to her, back her against the counter, and kiss her senseless. Which is exactly why I’m leaving. Right now. Distance. Space. Clarity.” Love may be washed up on the shore before it’s even ridden the waves as the past collides with the present. Darkness dangles itself in the air, threatening to steal the light. Zander must find himself without losing Getty. He’s the puzzle she didn’t know she needed, and the puzzle he didn’t know he wanted. Two broken hearts must find a way to fit together. “Everyone’s churning ocean is fueled by a different type of storm.” Down Shift was my perfect storm, an electric current that lit me up like a lightning bolt, sparked with sensations, where a force of feels flowed through me. Dark yet light. Turbulent yet tender. Broken yet beautiful. Explosive, exhilarating, and enchanting, Down Shift is EVERYTHING. This shattered and stunning epic love story is the perfect complement to the Driven series. Those beautiful and broken words broke me where I was drowning to breathe as Down Shift stole every piece of me: mind...body...heart...soul. JUST JUMP. Oh did my heart jump as I was free-falling into Down Shift, riding the waves of emotions that crashed into my soul, where I felt every word I read. Down Shift was ALL OF THE FEELS. ALL OF THE SENSATIONS. ALL OF THE SOUL. Oh did this story hit my heart hard. Bate my breath where I held it for periods in anticipation. Pounded my pulse as adrenaline rushed through me. Mesmerized my mind that fell hostage to this latest Driven book from the very first page. Stole my soul that was tied to this story like a race car to a track. Like Colton and Zanders' cars around the track, my heart is still racing for Down Shift. What started with Driven, a series that stole my heart years ago and still holds it closely today, has ended with Down Shift, a shift in gears. I'm not quite ready to shift gears. Down Shift and the Driven series are not just stories; they are beauty in words...adventures that feel so very real. The forever kind of real. The voodoo vortex kind of real. The real that I raced over two years ago, race today, and will still race tomorrow from A to mother f**king Z. 5 broken and beautiful stars ...more |
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A spellbinding and soul-searing story of epic and ever-lasting love, Aced reignites a slow burn of bleeding passion that started with Driven and conti
A spellbinding and soul-searing story of epic and ever-lasting love, Aced reignites a slow burn of bleeding passion that started with Driven and continues to scorch, rendering a deep and dominant connection. It’s the click. A forever love. The kind of awe for a book that makes you giddy, nervous, and full of butterflies---a sweet ache. That book or series that shakes your soul, grabs your guts, and hits your heart so hard that you feel your emotions oozing out of you long after the book is finished. Driven has the click, the voodoo spell that is all-encompassing, and Aced feels like coming home. Colton and Rylee are back, and when Aced hit my e-reader, I may have had a book-gasm---thrilled that I was about to become one with the Driven vortex again. I’ve been dreaming of more Colton, my second husband, for too many months to count or years since my first Driven date. Aced is simply a Driven lover’s dream come true and is the perfect complement to Colton and Rylee’s tale with a few more twists and turns. I may or may not have been smiling and sometimes screaming, “Yes!” while reading Aced, as I could barely contain my excitement of being reunited with my Ace and Ry too. Barely into the prologue…just a few pages into Aced and… Colton’s dirty mouth melted me from head to toe, the heat pouring off the pages. “I can’t hide the lighting-quick grin that flashes across my face because the type of eating out I’m thinking of has nothing to do with chopsticks. And from the purse of her lips, she knows perfectly well what I’m thinking. And yes, I may be hungry, but I don’t really give a flying f**k about food right now because there’s the taste of something else I’d rather have on my tongue.” I cried tears of joy from the sweetness wrapping itself around me. “My face is buried in the curve of her neck. And if I thought my heart and soul had been lost to her before, I was so f**king wrong it’s not even funny. Right now, in this moment, I’ve never felt more connected to her. My f**king Rylee...We finally crossed the finish line we thought we’d never reach.” Aced has quickly found a big place in my heart, as Colton and Rylee’s story flows back to life. I smiled as this story quickly swept across my soul, resonating my love for this series and the phenomenon that is Colton and Rylee. Once again, I’m reminded just how much the Driven series owns me. Colton with his green eyes, dark hair, scruff, and a chiseled body---he is a walking wet dream. Swoon! Gorgeous on the inside and out, our Ace has grown since we last Raced him. Oh, that hot dirty-talking mouth we love is still there that spouts out scorchers and snort-laughing phrases like estrogen vortex and nothing but the sheets. However, this Colton is older and wiser, and more of the calm than the storm. He has conquered control of his emotions, and he is even more remarkable and beautiful inside and out if that is possible. “Our eyes lock. That goddamn sucker punch of emotion hits me like a battering ram, because for a man who thought he’d never feel anything, she makes me feel everything. The whole f**king gamut.” Stunning Rylee with her violet eyes, curves, and inner and outer beauty that glow like a halo around her still brings out the best in her Ace. “I can see that when he looks at me, beautiful is what he sees, and I’ll take it, because when a man sees you at what you feel is your worst and thinks you’re at your best, don’t question it.” I love how Colton and Rylee still spice up their marriage after many years, and that their love for each other is stronger than ever. I was entertained as Rylee is now a bit more dirty too…maybe a few lessons from the master. “Colton Donavan on any day is drop-dead handsome, but when his waist is framed between my thighs, his chest bared so every inch of bronzed skin is shadowed for effect, and the look in his eyes says he’s going to take me as he sees fit---no holds barred---he’s indescribable. Rogue. Rebel. Reckless.” This strong couple has fought battles, weathered storms, and dealt with so many relationship twists and turns that Colton and Rylee's bond is a powerful force. They will be tried and tested again as the past bubbles up to the surface once more---haunting them, taunting them, and planting seeds of doubt. “Colton wouldn’t do that to me. He loves me. He loves us. We’re each other’s world.” Rylee was Colton’s rock as he nearly crashed and burned from the dark storm of his past. Now Colton must save Rylee. Spiderman. Batman. Superman. Ironman. Rylee needs her hero to fight for her. “Every knight has a weak link in their armor. I fear I just might be his.” Like Colton and Rylee, Aced is imperfectly perfect as is the Driven series. Aced fueled my fire where I was driven with desire. This sensational story crashed my heart a few times yet made me smile and snicker. I raced every word and every minute of this powerful and poignant piece. This story and series are not just books but emotional and enlightening experiences that bring out the feels. K. Bromberg aced this story as she has with the devastatingly beautiful Driven series. You can’t help but race the whole Driven crew and their creator, K. Bromberg, who has flawlessly and fabulously built these soul-bearing stories, bringing these captivating characters to life while touching hearts along the way just like her writing does from A to mother f**king Z. Imperfectly perfect. 5 amazing, beautiful, and captivating ‘A to mother f**king Z’ stars ...more |
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[image] She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked through the Universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of win [image] She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked through the Universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings. ~Ariana [image] Some books make me fly, taking me to destinations unknown, where my heart and soul follow this adventure too. Books by Mia Sheridan always makes me fly where I am one with the world, feeling every ounce of love bleed through the pages, as I channel my inner philosopher and ponder life. Mia Sheridan’s stories are special, not just romances but life-altering stories that leave imprints on your heart and soul. Oh did her latest roller coaster of romance, Preston’s Honor, leave an everlasting imprint on me. Preston’s Honor made my heart bleed and my soul soar as I felt every word and everything. [image] Preston’s Honor is one mesmerizing and meaningful MASTERPIECE, one I had to savor like a fine wine, cherishing each drop. I was instantly thrust into this all-consuming and awe-inspiring story, Preston’s Honor penetrated through every part of me. I WAS ALL IN…body…heart…soul…everything. I FELL IN LOVE…SO MUCH LOVE…after just a few pages!!! Preston’s Honor instantly enthralled me, embracing every emotion, wrapping me in its words like a hug where I felt the squeeze of each one on my soul. I had to take deep breaths, sometimes holding my breath, while reading as I tried to process the pages that pummeled my heart, words wound tightly around my soul. Preston’s Honor’s powerful and poignant words SHREDDED MY SOUL, where I felt stripped bare, my emotions belonging to this beautiful book from beginning to end. Not even ten percent into this story, I knew Preston’s Honor was worth ALL OF THE STARs as it already had ALL OF THE HEART and ALL OF THE SOUL. I almost immediately knew Preston’s Honor would be a top 2017 book. I knew this story was SPECIAL. I knew this story would hold my heart in its hands forever, and oh does Preston’s Honor still have my heart in its grasp. Beautiful, dark-haired and green-eyed, Annalia ‘Lia’ De Valle has loved Preston Sawyer her whole life. Best friends with golden-haired and blue-eyed Preston and his identical twin brother, Cole, the three were inseparable during their childhood. Friends for life. Preston and Annalia are beautiful together…magical. Soul mates whose story touched me so deeply that I felt their connection in my soul. She was so beautiful sometimes it hurt me to look at her. The daughter of an impoverished migrant worker in central California, Annalia’s life was limited due to being poor, but the Sawyer boys’ farm was her world, a land of freedom that made her forget the chains of limitations from being poor. [image] Part of my love for Preston was like a slow-moving river that had gained breadth and speed over time. And another part came in short bursts of white-hot lightning, marking the very moments when the love in my heart had charged and intensified. Preston has always loved Annalia from afar, but a sense of honor kept him from crossing the friendship line. I don’t want you to kiss anyone else. I want you to kiss me. I’ve always…I’ve always wanted you to kiss me.” [image] One night, Preston could no longer hold onto his sense of honor. I’ve waited so long for you, Lia. So long.” One night, he gave into his love for Annalia. Preston was the one I wanted with every fiber of my being. He was the one I craved. He was the other half of my heart. One night they gave into the passion that always penetrated them, the combustible chemistry, the love, and so much more. “Tonight. This is our beginning, Annalia.” One night changed everything. Why hadn’t she known that losing her would tear the last piece of my heart to shreds? One night sent Annalia away. I wondered distantly if people who had once been stripped bare and cracked open could recover. One night broke both of their hearts. Annalia. Mine. She’d always been mine. I gave my heart to Preston’s Honor where it still remains long after I turned the last page. My heart was decimated. My heart was warmed. My heart was broken. My heart was whole. This book gripped me hard and never let go as it tore open my heart like a gaping wound, gutting me. I gave my soul to this story—as if I had a choice—for it to be sucked in and shattered like a storm, dragging me in, pulling me under. Preston’s Honor SHREDDED MY SOUL, this story slaughtering every part of me. Preston’s Honor seared my soul, its light warming me from outside in, and oh did I LOVE THIS STORY SO MUCH!!! Tears flowed like a river and I didn’t try to stop them…could not stop them. The feels flowed feverishly where I FELT EVERY WORD ON EVERY PAGE; I FELT EVERYTHING. I felt every drop of sunlight, every drop of rain, every pull of my heart, and every slay of my soul. I swooned and was swathed in sweetness, as if the sun was seeping on every part of my soul. Preston’s Honor GUTTED and UNGLUED me yet cast a GLOW on me, making me feel WHOLE…LOVED. Preston’s Honor is a devastatingly beautiful story of everlasting love that bleeds heart and soul, rendering you breathless from beginning to end. Preston’s Honor branded me…breathed life into me…became me. I was bound to this book, and my heart still beats for this beauty in words. This coming of age story of everlasting love, the special kind that is a rare treasure like the stars on a clear night, Preston’s Honor touched me everywhere. Mia Sheridan is a visionary. She paints the perfect vision through her words. Words by Mia Sheridan are crafted with precision—pure poetry—as if by a paintbrush where each stroke, when combined, creates a masterpiece. Mia Sheridan makes you a believer in love, hope, and what’s beyond the happily after. A special story writer, Mia Sheridan's whose way with words is not only spectacular but spiritual. There is an ethereal beauty in Mia Sheridan’s writing, so poignant and pure. This author’s words are an extension of nature…the world…something larger than life. Her sensational and soul-searing stories make you believe that life is indeed bigger than this earth, something so breathtakingly beautiful that one can only ponder its existence. It’s as if Mia Sheridan’s stories are stamped with a spirit, perhaps something supernatural, that imprints on your soul, seeping in so deep that you feel it deep in your soul too. Oh did I FEEL IT ALL! Preston’s Honor seeped through my soul...sweetness...sorrow...swoon...all of the senses!!! From Archer's Voice to Preston’s Honor, which is now among my top 2017 reads and my new favorite book by this author, Mia Sheridan breathes life into a story that hits straight to the heart. Her meaningful and mesmerizing words MATTER. Each of Mia Sheridan’s poignantly penned pieces own a piece of my soul…so very special just like this amazing author. One of my new favorite books of all time, Preston’s Honor is pure poignant perfection. Oh are my emotions still on edge long after I turned the last page! Preston’s Honor is a magical and meaningful modern day fairytale of epic love, the kind that lives on long after the story is over. The kind of love that is LIFE. So much life that lives on forever as Mia Sheridan’s spellbinding and soul-slaying stories live in my heart and soul. ★★★★★★ ‘but worth all of the soul-shining’ stars [image] Stars weren’t only beautiful, they could also guide your way. [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookaliciousbb Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bookaliciousbb ...more |
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[image] Just when I felt like everything was falling apart, I'm beginning to wonder if maybe they were finally falling into place. I have a [image] Just when I felt like everything was falling apart, I'm beginning to wonder if maybe they were finally falling into place. I have a mix of shattered, soulful, sweet, and swoon-filled tears in my eyes left from The Catch. My feels are still flying at full force. My emotions are still entwined around every bit of this book. This surprise of a story snuck up on me, throwing a HUGE CURVEBALL my way, and I LOVED EVERY FAST-FLYING MINUTE. After just one chapter, my heart jumped, racing out of my chest, beating fast and furiously. I knew almost immediately that this romance is a GAME CHANGER, as The Catch DELIVERS ALL THE THINGS!!! The Catch went from something to EVERYTHING in mere minutes. Sexy, swoon-filled, and spine-tingling, The Catch hits the heart hard and shreds the soul in a roller coaster of a romance that is BASEBALL BOOK BLISS. [image] The characters immediately pulled me towards them where I was I intertwined so closely, they felt real. Scout, so strong and beautiful, is a warrior woman fighting battles for those she loves. Easton is one hot and full-of-heart alpha of a ball player who goes to bat for what and who he loves. Scout and Easton are MAGNETIC together, their romance full of fire where I MELTED!!! This line is pure power, passion, and poignancy in words. This line is devotion. This line is LOVE...so much love for Scout and Easton. I'd sacrifice me to save you. My soul was SLAYED. This couple's chemistry is combustible and their adoration for each other endearing. My feelings were bursting inside. "I want to drown in you tonight, Scout. I want to forget the world, forget what's going to happen tomorrow, and drown in everything about you, starting now." My heart beat out of my chest. My pulse pounded. My soul shattered and soared. My emotions were on edge. I FELT all the passion. I FELT all the angst. I FELT all the sorrow. I FELT all of the smolder. I felt all of the sweetness. I FELT all of the words. I FELT EVERYTHING. Both Scout and Easton have fought the fires of hell and have returned stronger than ever. I LOVED watching this couple grow, LOVED their story that surprised me the whole time reading, and LOVED every part of this PASSIONATE romance. I LOVED being caught by this SOUL-SLAYING story. "I'll be whatever you need me to be." The Catch was what I NEEDED IT to be and MORE. I never stopped feeling this story course through me while reading. My heart caught in my chest, tears bleeding so many emotions. The Catch twisted and turned my heart inside out where it SHATTERED and SOARED. I did not expect this baseball romance to SHRED ME, owning every emotion...OWNING ME. The Catch is every baseball thrill...every flutter...every feel...EVERYTHING!!! This raw, rush of a romance is as touching as it is thrilling, the best baseball book I've read!!! It's no secret why K. Bromberg has been one of my top, go-to authors for years...soon after she published her first words. This author BRINGS HER ALL to everything she creates, and that's why I'm a fan for life. K. Bromberg brought her A-Game out to play in The Catch. I bestow this ACE of a love story SIX SUPER STARS, a top 2017 read!!! The only problem is that I NEED MORE! ❤️ "I know exactly what I want. Funny how my decision has been there all along. I was looking in all the wrong places." 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹'caught my heart hard' diamonds (because baseball) A MUST-CLICK ---> http://amzn.to/2rGSnkA [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... Readers Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/BBBBoo... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookaliciousbb Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bookaliciousbb ...more |
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protecte
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” ~President Ronald Reagan Growing up in the Virginia suburbs of DC, I was never a fan of politics, but I had two presidents and political heroes whom I greatly admired: one who was before my time, John F. Kennedy, and one was during my childhood, Ronald Reagan. When I heard these presidents speak, both great communicators, I could not help but feel American pride and positivity surge through me. So many candidates feed us broken promises and are all ‘smoke and mirrors.’ Somehow in the past several years, I lost faith in politics and the presidency. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ~President John F. Kennedy I had not felt that feeling of pride, possibility, and positivity for many years until my one of my favorite authors, Katy Evans, wrote a political romance that started with Mr. President and ended with Commander in Chief. THIS DUET BLEW BOTH ME AND MY ANTI-POLITICAL MIND AWAY! Katy Evans’ Commander In Chief is an intoxicating, inspirational, and passionate-powered political romance that dares you to dream big as you fall in love with one beautiful president and his positive politics. OH DID I FALL SO VERY HARD! Commander in Chief picked up where Mr. President ended but I felt as if I had never stopped reading this spellbinding story. This political scene with one powerful and passionate president, the breathtakingly beautiful Matt Hamilton, still moved my mind and definitely still had my heart. I WAS STILL ALL IN…still on a high from Mr. President, one that grew into one aching addiction with Commander in Chief. Adrenaline surged through me while I pounded through Commander in Chief like I was running a race…excited…breathless…fearless…as my heart beat out of my chest to the sweet song of love mixed with a world of possibility. I FELL IN LOVE AGAIN AND AGAIN with the dashing president and his gorgeous first lady in Commander in Chief, adoring Matt and Charlotte more than ever in this story. Patriotic pride beamed bright like a beacon of light—a beacon of faith—as I read these wondrous words filled with so much heart and hope, and passion and promise. Commander in Chief make me feel proud to be an American! “I drink him up like a starved woman, six feet plus of pure fantasy, all packaged in a real man---beautiful beyond belief. So beautiful, I can’t believe beauty like that exists.” Oh Matt Hamilton…Mr. President and Commander in Chief…where do I begin?!? This man is beautiful inside and out with his dark, dark eyes, and over six feet of all man. His passion, promise, huge heart, and hope for everything great were inspiring and heartwarming! This man and president are PURE PERFECTION! “I don’t want to forget that for a little while, Matt Hamilton—forty-sixth president of the United States—was mine.” Beautiful red-haired and blue-eyed Charlotte Wells grew up with her crush and reunited ten years later, her once lover and now president, Matt Hamilton, but had to let him go months ago so he could pursue his White House dreams and not be distracted by her…though the pain of letting him go eats at her alive every day as it does Matt. Two broken-hearted lovers needed to be reunited so their hearts could become whole. “I want to be able to kiss you anywhere, anytime I want.” My eyes teared up with these declarations of love that lit my soul on fire. Oh Matt’s sweet words to Charlotte made me melt like chocolate on a hot day. The Commander in Sweet made me smolder and swoon. I LOVED MATT SOOO MUCH! “Every time we kiss feels like the first time, but this time feels like it’s the only time.” Charlotte and Matt’s kisses were a combustible mixture of fire and fate that when fueled by the flames, created an inferno that, once ignited, may forever burn…always there. Their passion was off the charts heat and heart—unbreakable and unstoppable—like their love for each other. “He takes a moment to look down at my kissed lips—at me. In the way only he sees me, as if he knows my every dream and fare and nightmare, and all I have been and ever will be. As if he knows that I…was and am and will always be his.” Oh sweet sigh. These words of beauty shone through the pages, words that touched me everywhere: body, heart, mind, and soul. “I’m in over my head for this girl. Once I thought I couldn’t do both, govern a broken country and have her. But I know now that I will die trying to do both. This is who I am. I’m the president and a man.” Katy Evans’ Commander in Chief seduced me, as I scorched and swooned, a power play of words that caught every piece of me until I fell so very hard in love. This story rendered me breathless, so full of exhilaration and emotion, where I felt every word…FELT EVERYTHING. I was powerless to the power of this story, one of politics and passion, one of love and life. This story did not just hit this Virginia gal, this DC area native, and American patriot; Commander in Chief tore at my military wife heart. This story moved me…ALL OF ME. Oh did Katy Evans’ enlightening and emotionally-entangled words make me BELIEVE! I BELIEVED IN LOVE…I BELIEVED IN POLITICS…I BELIEVED IN THESE FEEL-WORTHY WORDS. I dared to dream and I DREAMED BIG as I pounded through these pages, passion and promise penetrating every piece of me. Commander in Chief is so much more than a politically-powered romance. It’s heart and hope…inspiration and passion…beauty in words…magic. It’s a dream for the future of America. It’s making every moment count. Mr. President and Commander in Chief should be every president’s bible. If every president could be non-partisan and positive like Matt Hamilton, voting would be a seamless. Matt Hamilton, while a fictional president, should be real, a model for every campaign and one that would make America’s forefathers beam with pride just like I did while inhaling this brilliant book. Katy Evans painted Commander in Chief to perfection in a book that’s sheer brilliance from beginning to end. I was besotted as this book buzzed excitement, so full of love and life, blasting big dreams through me. I FELL HARD. I FELL FAST. I FELL IN LOVE WITH EVERYTHING COMMANDER IN CHIEF. Intoxicating and incredible, Commander in Chief COMMANDED ME…every part…JUST EVERYTHING. I LOVED IT ALL. I’m still wrapped up in this dream of a story and I’m still DREAMING BIG. “You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we’re all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it’s going to be over, and you better make this count.” ~Nancy Reagan Commander in Chief COUNTS. ★★★★★ but worth 10 ‘dream big’ stars ...more |
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Fun, flirty, flaming hot, and fabulous, Big Rock lights you up with laughter and heats you from head to toe, touching your heart along the way. Big Ro
Fun, flirty, flaming hot, and fabulous, Big Rock lights you up with laughter and heats you from head to toe, touching your heart along the way. Big Rock is seductive, sinful, sexy, and one super amazing package. You’ll devour Lauren Blakely’s latest sensation, Big Rock, with a voracious hunger---taking all of it in---as it’s that delicious and decadent. Big Rock is simply the perfect fit for the lover of…romantic comedies and steamy stories. Typically, I’m not a fan of single point-of-view (POV) stories, as it’s hard to capture the viewpoint of both leading characters when only one is speaking. However, Big Rock is written in a refreshing and melt-your-panties male voice with a fine-tuned and detailed storyline entailing countless character thoughts and dialogue, making Lauren Blakely’s execution of the single POV flawless and fabulous. Before you dig in and go put that BIG Rock into your lap, perhaps have a few pairs of panties on standby and maybe your own man, boy toy or battery-operated toy handy as well. This super sexy story steams up your e-reader, delivering heat to your head right to your lady parts. Holy hot! How can you not love a scorching story with a first line like this one? “My dick is f**king awesome.” Skip down just a few lines on the first page: “You don’t want to ride a miniature pony when you can saddle up on a rock-star cock at the rodeo of your pleasure.” O.M.Giggles! Barely into the book, I was already contemplating a shower to cool off my body that was suddenly on fire. Moving on to just the second page, the fire burning through my body quickly became an inferno: “When it comes to my best asset, all I want you thinking about are these words: long, thick, smooth, hard. If the Renaissance masters were carving sculptures of cocks, mine would be the model for all of them.” You get the BIG picture: Big Rock is big HOT. Smoking. Smoldering. Multi-nightclub owner, Spencer Holiday, is one ultimate alpha who is locked and loaded with a weapon that packs a nearly foot-long powerful punch. Dark-haired, blue-eyed, chiseled, and muscular, Spencer is over six feet of man candy with a BIG rock or weapon of mass destruction that ladies of NYC line up to sample. This young and rich playboy works his BIG rock like a fine-tuned guitar---slow, steady, hard, fast---an instrument that performs to perfection. It’s too bad his BIG rock has to go on lock-down while Spencer plays the part of the good guy, a gentleman, a one-woman guy, a family man. It’s time to find a fake fiancé to impress a potential buyer for his father’s jewelry store empire. “Ouch. I’ve just handcuffed my favorite appendage for the next few weeks. But that’s okay. I can do this. I can pretend to be engaged. I can put my dick on ice. So to speak.” What better woman to play this role than his beautiful best friend, Charlotte Rhodes?!? They have already faked a relationship before to rescue each other from bad dates. How hard can it be? The chemistry is electric so no faking that part. A few weeks of pretend, and then back to normal. “Charlotte and I can both appreciate each other’s appearance. That’s one of the great hallmarks of our friendship. I can acknowledge she’s a babe, and she can do the same with me, and we’re still all good. That’s why she has to be my pretend fiancé.” The problem is that Spencer does not realize nor could he fathom just how Charlotte would make his BIG Rock want to come out of hiding and play…HARD. “Charlotte is kissing me. On the streets of New York. Her lips on mine. She tastes fantastic….I want to tug off those panties, sink into her heat. But she’s my best friend, and I can’t do that.” Lines are blurred. Feelings are forming. What begins as a game starts to become and feel real. “All I want is more of this fake kissing. More tongue, more lips, more teeth. More contact. More her. Exactly what I can’t be wanting.” When a secret unfolds, and a tornado of trouble starts spinning their way, the game may be over soon. Spencer may have dug himself into a mess bigger than his BIG Rock. I love a well-written friends-to-lovers story, and Big Rock delivers the goods. Lauren Blakely is a master at romantic comedies---humor and heat that soar through the pages in stories that are achingly addictive. A playful and mesmerizing masterpiece that pulls at your panties and tugs at your heart, this book is pure pleasure. I still want a longer play date with my BIG Rock. Lauren Blakely has banged out another BIG hit that leaves you hungry for more ROCK. Go grab your Big Rock now and devour him…I mean...it…this brilliant book. Five BIG and brilliant stars ***ARC provided to Bookalicious Babes Blog for an honest review*** ...more |
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[image] People who are meant to be together find their way back. They may take a few detours, but they’re never lost. There is no love story as special [image] People who are meant to be together find their way back. They may take a few detours, but they’re never lost. There is no love story as special to me as a second-chance romance...my absolute favorite!!! Soul mates who have always loved each other are granted a do-over. There is no greater love like second-chance love, this special love that finds its way back to two often broken souls. Second-chance romances speak to the soul like no other love stories, and oh did Tycoon by Katy Evans speak to mine. This story of soul mates who found each other again was EVERYTHING!!! Tycoon, this spellbinding and spine-tingling second-chance romance, was my heart…my soul…MY KRYPTONITE. [image] I sank myself wholeheartedly into Tycoon from the start, this story saturating me, giving me no choice but to succumb to its power. I DEVOURED Tycoon and it devoured me. Its MAGNETIC PULL held me captive. Nothing else mattered. Tycoon ENGULFED me where I clung to every word, unequivocally ENAMORED with this raw romance. These characters held my heart from the start! Beautiful Bryn is so strong and sassy. She has been through hell and persevered. I felt her grow up so much in this story. Like Katy Evans' other highly-addictive heroes, Aaric Christos has an animal magnetism and radiates power. Devastatingly handsome. Chiseled. Commanding. Caring. Unwavering. This ALL ALPHA...this Greek God OWNED EVERY OUNCE OF ME. So incredibly intense and dominant, Aaric is a man who fights for what and who he wants. He is a man of honor who I LOVED SO HARD. Aaric is PURE PERFECTION. Aaric and Bryns' paths again cross after many years. "You look like a boy who thinks he'll get to kiss me." I wanted Aaric to kiss me. LE SWOON. The chemistry is COMBUSTIBLE, so HOT it should be lethal. I MELTED, morphing into a puddle of goo from Aaric's commanding words that wield power and passion. "You make me want to protect you and at the same time you make me want to break you. I want you to stop thinking and just f**king feel me. Feel this." I FELT EVERY WORD STREAM THROUGH MY SOUL, LIGHTING MY HEART ON FIRE. "Can you see how much I want you, bit?" Tycoon BLEEDS ANGST, as two childhood friends fight the MORE. A relationship is a risk that neither broken soul may be able to afford to take. "Promise me you'll forget me." I WAS WRECKED. My HEART HURT. My SOUL WAS SLAYED. Katy Evans turned my world around again, tilting the axis to Tycoon, where I did nothing but BASK IN BOTH THE BROKENNESS AND BLISS OF THIS BOOK. Tycoon, this INTENSE and INCREDIBLE tale, thoroughly INTOXICATED ME. I was so DRUNK on this romance, savoring every word like smooth and sweet whiskey. I LOVED TYCOON TO THE MOON AND BACK!!! I LIVED and BREATHED Tycoon. Its words BLED straight to my heart, leaping out of my chest, as they beat for this book. I cried happy and heartbreaking tears, as Tycoon STOLE MY SENSES, entangling around every emotion. This roller coaster of a romance owned every emotion...OWNING ALL OF ME. My heart leapt out of my chest. My throat gulped. My pulse pounded. My smiles morphed into tears. My tears morphed into sobs. I did not expect Tycoon to TEAR ME TO SHREDS. I did not expect to FEEL ALL THE FEELS, but damn if I didn't revel in the whirlwind of EMOTIONS THAT ENGULFED every bit of me. TYCOON both tore my heart apart yet made it soar to the sky. Heart-stopping sexy and seductive, Tycoon is a second-chance romance—fueled by fate—that burns the body and seizes the soul. Undeniable. Unstoppable. Unputdownable. Unequivocally MINE. "Some what ifs, some you never get to do over." 💋💋💋💋💋 'Lil Bit' of Heart-Stopping Kisses A MUST-CLICK ---> http://amzn.to/2t7BYH8 [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... Readers Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/BBBBoo... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookaliciousbb Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bookaliciousbb ...more |
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[image] Sometimes you read a book that is so beautiful that you’re left in a haze, floating in the air where life is more precious from above. I finish [image] Sometimes you read a book that is so beautiful that you’re left in a haze, floating in the air where life is more precious from above. I finished Say I'm Yours by Corinne Michaels days ago but it feels as if I'm still stuck in this story. Say I'm Yours rendered me in a dreamy daze---a story stupor---where I'm in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, drifting, going through the motions while my emotions are still entangled around these beautiful words. Passionately poignant and breathtakingly beautiful, Say I'm Yours hits the heart hard and slays the soul. Oh was my SOUL SLAYED!!! [image] Have you ever read a story that stole your soul and broke your heart on the very first page? One page and... Say I'm Yours hijacked my heart...breaking it...BREAKING ME. One page and... Say I'm Yours consumed me, claiming every part of me, commanding every feel. One page and... I was ALL IN…body…heart…soul…everything. One page and... I sank so fast where I was drowning in these words that crashed into me like big waves. One page and... I was screaming, "MINE!" I knew the oldest Hennington brother's story would break me and that it did. Trent was the Hennington that hijacked my heart the most, the one who may never leave me. Gracie has given 20 years of her life---along with her whole heart---to a man who won't give all of his heart to her. Trent has always considered Gracie the only woman for him, but has let his fears come first, treating Gracie more like silver when she is nothing but pure gold. "If you ever loved me, even a little bit, you'll let me go." Beautiful Gracie with her dark hair, blue eyes, and huge heart loves her childhood sweetheart, Trent Hennington, but she is done waiting for him to make her wholeheartedly his. I loved this gal, so sweet and strong! [image] "You forgot the part about where I want to be someone's world." I held on, trying to stay strong, but tears trickled down my face, raindrops of sorrow and salvation. Say I'm Yours has ALL of the ANGST!!! The PASSION POUNDED into me! My soul spun and my heart melted, a mix of sorrow and swoon, where I FELT ALL THE FEELS. These words shot sparks to my soul. These words made my heart beat out of its chest. These words WERE EVERYTHING!!! Say I'm Yours WAS EVERYTHING...MY EVERYTHING! Oh Trent! Gorgeous blond-haired, blue-eyed, tall, muscular, and all-alpha Trent, I knew this man would be the most complex and broken brother, the one with a huge heart hidden under years of fears and layers of pain. I LOVED this sweet but stubborn man! [image] The passion penetrated between Gracie and Trent, as their love was raw. I FELT THEIR IMPENETRABLE CONNECTION, so caring and combustible. I LOVED Trent and Gracie together, and LOVED their story soooo hard! This couple felt REAL with their situation and happenings RELATABLE, as if their story could really happen, and that made Say I'm Yours even more special. This childhood love, the kind from soulmates, the one you root for to last forever had me rooting for this couple to last a lifetime. If only Trent would see the light through the dark, the light that is Gracie, his shining star who has guided him for a lifetime. "It's only ever been you." Trent TOOK MY TEARS!!! I felt his heartbreak, emphasized with his struggles, and knew this man was everything GREAT!!! I SWOONED HARD as these soul-wielding words clamped down on my heart, squeezing so many emotions out as I fell even more deeply in love with this story and this beautiful couple. Emotional ecstasy. Say I'm Yours was EMOTIONAL ECSTASY!!! I breathed every bit of Say I'm Yours in, some breaths bated, wanting it to last forever. [image] I gave my heart to Say I'm Yours, my whole heart, where it still remains long after I turned the last page. I gave my soul to this story—as if I had a choice—for it to be sucked in like a song, dragging me in, pulling me under, like a big wave. This soul-searing story struck me like a storm, fast and furiously, where I could only succumb to the words that were my world. Words...mere WORDS…rendered me so full of FEELS where I still felt and am feeling everything long after the story has stopped. Say I'm Yours SLAYED MY SOUL. Say I'm Yours HIJACKED MY HEART. Say I'm Yours had my heart in its hands, shaking it, willing it to shatter, and shatter it did in spades. Say I'm Yours BROKE ME. Say I'm Yours BLEW ME AWAY!!! Say I'm Yours became MINE. Say I'm Yours is not simply a broken and beautiful romance; it’s a story about LIFE AND LIVING. It’s about taking that LEAP OF FAITH...LIVING FOR THE MOMENT...LIVING LIFE NOW. EVERY WORD MATTERS that Corinne Michaels pens to life, so beautiful and brilliant. This author writes with all of her heart and steals readers’ hearts along the way. Say I'm Yours stole every piece of me in a story that is a top 2017 read and story I'll fondly remember for life. Penned like paint to a canvas, so vivid and valuable, Say I'm Yours is one of those books that THAT SLAY YOUR SOUL AND OWN YOU FOR LIFE. This love story is MAGNETIC, so MAGICAL that you can't help but MELT, falling in love with every word in Say I'm Yours. My heart is still reeling and racing. These characters won’t stop dancing in my head. This tale took my tears, still imprinted in my eyes. This story stamped itself all over my soul, slaying every ounce. Say I'm Yours took everything out of me because this heartfelt story was MY EVERYTHING! My soul is still soaring high, as Say I'm Yours made itself MINE, claiming me from the first page in a heartfelt romance that will OWN ME for life. ❤️ [image] ★★★★★★ 'I'm Yours' Stars A MUST-CLICK ---> http://amzn.to/2mgWkOu [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookaliciousbb Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bookaliciousbb ...more |
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Love cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Love can always find a way. ~ Pyramus and Thisbe When a Katy Evans bo Love cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Love can always find a way. ~ Pyramus and Thisbe When a Katy Evans book lands in my hot hands, I shut out the world because that book BECOMES MY WORLD. Nothing exists except Katy Evans’ words and me, words that I devour yet savor, words that penetrate straight through my heart like Cupid’s arrows, shooting sensations straight through me. Her brilliant and beautiful books are my love…my life. I clutched this story with a bit of anxiety, adrenaline coursing through my veins, as I exited my everyday life and entered the world of the Womanizer. I knew that this last man standing in the trio of manwhores—the Womanizer—would cast a spell on me as the others did and claim me for life. Oh was I claimed; I swiftly succumbed to this story that slowly and smoothly seduced me. Womanizer just began and I already did not want it to end…ever. Sigh. Smolder. Swoon. Sigh. Smolder. Swoon. Womanizer enticed me with a build-up of feels…a slow burn of smolder, swoon, and soul. I bled in angst. I burned in need. I was engulfed in flames, a fire that sparked into a full inferno. My appetite for these powerful and penetrating words could not be sated enough. Womanizer’s words WERE ALL THE THINGS that made me melt from inside out, shooting straight through my heart like Cupid’s arrows, sensations swimming around me. Womanizer filled me with a heady mix of energy and emotion, an exhilaration that made me feel giddy and dizzy as if this story were my drug and I were the addict. Oh was Womanizer MY ADDICTION. Womanizer was the air that I needed to breathe…my oxygen…as every breath belonged to this book. THIS BOOK BECAME ME. Oh Callan Carmichael. Tahoe Roth’s best friend and billionaire with a sexy, bad boy, James Dean look and vibe. Copper hair and golden eyes. Yummy facial scruff. Tall. Cut. Cocky. Complex. Intense. PURE PERFECTION. “I can’t believe anything can be both this male and this perfect.” Olivia Roth, Tahoe’s little sister, is interning at the company Callan owns. Beautiful, blonde, and brainy Olivia is out to prove that there is more to her than meets the eye and definitely not a dumb blonde, a stereotype that follows her and one that she uses as motivation to rock the business world. A chance meeting on the terrace at work changes her life when she encounters the most sinfully sexy, cool, charming, and confident man who becomes Olivia’s confidant with chemistry between them combustible. A man who happens to be Olivia’s boss. “His lips capture mine, our tongues moving slowly to meet. It’s like two lightning bolts crashing…God. I’m being kissed from the inside out. His hunger only feeds mine.” That kiss melted me from inside out. I felt the passion from Olivia and Callan penetrate me, owning these pages…owning me. “Say you can handle what I’m about to do to you. Once I’m in, I’m owning every freckle I find….You’re coming so fast, so hard, and so very frequently tonight there won’t be a day that you come and not think of me.” I. WAS. ON. FIRE. The heat set me ablaze, as I burned along with this sensual and seductive story. The forbidden fanned those flames of fire, sparking even more desire. “I’m a full-time working girl and I can’t be Callan’s shiny new toy.” Olivia will surrender her body, but not her heart as she won’t let this Womanizer hurt her or squash her plans for becoming a success businesswoman. “I’m trying to do the right thing, but I’m not a good guy.” For the first time in his life, Callan is wowed by a woman, one who is more just sex, and he can’t fight his addiction to Olivia who has turned his world upside down. His best friend’s sister is supposed to be forbidden, but temptation has never felt so right. He is torn between capturing his beautiful butterfly with whom he is falling in love and letting her spread her wings to fly. I loved their fierce friendship that burned as bright as their intense chemistry. Friendship along with chemistry is the perfect beginning of a relationship, the substance, the build-up to love. “I had my whole life planned out, and maybe Callan won’t change his spots for a girl---there’s a reason he’s the last man standing.” This player may finally end the game as the prize is too good to resist. “I’m a reasonable man. So why, when it comes to you, do I have no reason?” Oh how I LOVED CALLAN. Tough and tender. Intense and irresistible. Complex and compassionate. Sweet and sexy. All man. ALL MINE. “I know I can break. I know this can break me.” Will Olivia let Callan into her heart or will this womanizer remain the last man standing? Womanizer bleeds passion with heart and soul in an addictive and seductive, smoldering, and swoon-filled story of forbidden love. Oh did I smolder and swoon! Womanizer was the wind beneath my wings where I flew on an adrenaline and angst-filled ride. Womanizer was my addiction. My ache. My adrenaline. MY ALL. Womanizer twisted itself around every piece of me, quickly capturing me in its clutches. IT did not let go; I did not let go. I FELL FAST. I FELL HARD. I FELL IN LOVE WITH EVERYTHING WOMANIZER! Katy Evans once again outdid herself in one UNPUTDOWNABLE, pulse-pounding, and pleasurable penned piece of PERFECTION!!! Weaving her magic into wondrous words that make you melt to mush, Katy is an artist and those pages are her canvas where she paints words to life. SO MUCH LIFE AND LOVE. OH DO I LOVE HER WORDS WITH EVERY BREATH I TAKE. Her beautiful, broken, and brilliant books bled into me….becoming me. Oh did Womanizer come to life!!! Womanizer is the perfect end to the Manwhore series. The innocence…the angst…the explosive chemistry…the raw sexiness…the sweetness...the swoon...the fierce friendship...the forbidden element...ALL OF THE FEELS…EVERYTHING!!! Dizzying, dominant, and spine-tingling, Womanizer was my rush. This all-consuming, raw, and racy romance felt real, as it wrapped itself around my head and heart, relentlessly tugging and tearing, and never letting go. I don’t ever want to let go. ★★★★★ sweet and smoldering smokin’ stars ...more |
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Legend is a tale of guts and glory that grips your heart, tugging it every step of the way. This is not just a story but an escape where you dive in,
Legend is a tale of guts and glory that grips your heart, tugging it every step of the way. This is not just a story but an escape where you dive in, head first, immersing yourself into this brilliant and beautiful book. Legend bleeds into your world, becoming one with you. Legend consumed me from the very first page; I was all in. Fingers trembling while gripping the book or ereader. Heart pumping. Body shaking. Bated breathing. Eyes tearing. Mouth smiling. Legend, like the rest of Katy Evans' raw and rousing Real series, is an adrenaline rush of a read. I felt…Hypnotized. Possessed. Alive. I wanted to devour Legend. I wanted to savor it and Maverick. I wanted to hurry. I wanted to take my time. I wanted to be transported to another world…I was. Legend occupied my heart and head. I was at the Underground. I was at Remy and Brooke's house. I was at the hotel. I was at the park. Legend crept in my head and heart, recklessly and relentlessly, and never left. Just 10% in and the emotions are pouring off the pages and drowning my heart. The feels, like a fighter on the mat, pound from the pages to me. Searing my soul. Brandishing my brain. Harnessing my heart. I tear up early and often, as the words are powerful punches to my heart, full of feels that flutter to my soul. I read Legend with anticipation and a little anxiety. Could I fall for another fighter who could be Remy’s enemy and possibly fight him in the ring? At 15% into the book, my answer is: Maybe. Maverick Cage. Stunning. Black hair. Steel gray eyes. Tall. Muscular. A hoodie and low-slung sweat pants. The muscular V. Panty-melting hot. Dangerous. Intense. Untamed. Beautiful and broken. Maverick has a bit of a dark past. Abandoned by his father, a boxer, Maverick is out to prove his worth in and out of the ring. His value. “He was, like a predator, paying attention to his surroundings without alerting his prey.” I don't want to like Maverick…but I do. Maverick is desperate to fight…it’s in his blood. If only a coach would pick him up so he could rock The Underground where Remy is the undefeated King. At a gym, he meets Reese Dumas, Brooke’s younger cousin. She is has an hour-glass pin-up figure and is blonde, blue-eyed, and beautiful. Like Maverick, she is reserved and communicates with few words. “He looks at me, so deep, I feel found.” Their chemistry is insta-hot. Electric. Palpable. “His gaze feels so probing all of a sudden, he looks at me as if he’s been waiting for me for a long time. I feel like I too have been waiting for him for a long time.” Reese links Maverick with a retired and alcoholic coach, Oz. The only man to open the coaching door to Maverick, it’s an instant match. The rookie fighter and the fallen coach. Two dark souls meet with a goal to get to the Underground---one’s almighty return and the other’s virgin voyage. Both men want to prove their value and get to The Underground’s final round: The Ultimate Championship. Maverick “The Avenger” Cage. Dark. Fearless. Unstoppable. “Now live up to the name. Let’s bring some excitement around her. Show them what happens when two nobodies pair up---two nobodies against the world.” "Hey, we’re not nobodies. We’re somebodies. Everyone’s somebody.” “Somebody’s not enough. Let’s be the champions.” A fighter in the ring, Maverick ‘The Avenger’ Cage battles his way…match by match, blood, sweat, and tears…to fight the ultimate champion: Remy ‘Riptide’ Tate. “If I withstand ten fighters next fight, I can get to him. Face-to-face. I get to fight him. I get to see exactly what he’s made of. Hell, I get to see what I’m made of.” Out of the ring, the gloves are off and his heart beats for a new obsession he can’t shake: Reese Dumas. “My mind goes in all directions but it ends up in the same place: her. Her watching me fight. Her in a nice room with me. On a nice bed. And me, kissing her in a very un-nice way. Hearing her make noises that are the opposite of nice. And I still think of that nice girl who doesn’t want to be nice. A girl who wants to be unforgettable and doesn’t realize, she already is.” My body heats. My heart breaks as Maverick finds his way through, penetrating my soul. Maverick is slowly building up a love for him that rivals Remy’s. I don’t like it. I do. Reese is reserved. She’s never had a boyfriend. Never fit in. Never felt understood…until Maverick. “I never thought there was another human who could be quiet enough that I feel like he can hear me. I never thought anyone else could help find the switch but me.” They are kindred spirits. One light, one dark. One soft, one hard. Their chemistry is palpable. “And then his eyes find me. And I’m found. And alive.” In finding herself, she found Maverick. My tears, which have welled up in my eyes nearly the whole time reading Legend, fall harder. “He takes me in for the tensest second, and then he drinks me in with one rake of his eyes over my body. My breasts feel his gaze. So does my sex. And my tummy. And my heart….I’m possessed by my happiness. I’m possessed by him." These words…gah! I cry. I swoon. I’m awe-struck in the beauty bleeding off of the pages that carve out a part of my heart with each line. Maverick. This big and strong man is menacing---a lion in the ring but a pussy cat with Reese. They are each other's air. Each other’s hope. Each other’s salvation. Maverick "The Avenger" Cage climbs his way up, fight by fight, to the Ultimate Championship where he will face Remy. Riptide or the Avenger---who will Reese choose? Can she pick a side? “Reese. And it dawns to me. She is with them.” Hearts may break. “Loss. You can’t lose shit you don’t have. I feel like I just lost a fight I didn’t even know I fought. And I lost it to Tate.” My heart crushes for Maverick. How can I love Remy's enemy too? A fighter may fall. Love may turn into loss. Only one will be left standing at the end and be the Ultimate Champion in the ring and of the heart. “All it takes is a match to light a fire, and He. Is. The. Match.” LEGEND is over. Tears are still flowing. Like a death, I feel an utter loss. This is it. The end. Legend marks the end of the Real stories that felt so damn real with real smiles, real laughs, real anger, and real tears. Like tears, the feels are still flowing after the ending too. Legend is my fire that makes me feel alive as the powerful words, like a match, strike a spark straight to my soul. This breathtaking beautiful story is about love, loss, hope, and a painful past that threatens to strike like a fighter lays out an opponent in the ring. Magic. Legend is magical with a fierce and fire-hot force than takes and takes and takes. Takes your heart. Takes your soul. Takes you on a beautiful book adventure you never want to end. It’s almost a drunk feeling. Drunk on this beautiful and brilliant book. Like a Monet painting where each stroke of a brush makes beautiful art, each word penned by Katy Evans makes a breathtakingly beautiful and brilliant masterpiece. One of my absolute favorite authors with a heart of gold that, like Midas, turns her perfectly penned words into gold and has brought her ‘A Game’ out to play in Legend. LEGEND. The perfect ending to this favorite fighting series' legacy. Powerful like punches in the ring. Gut-grabbing like the fight. Soul-searing and heart-wrenching like loved ones feel watching their fighter. Pure perfection. A beloved LEGEND that will remain one of my all-time favorite series. Simply legendary. 5 'but worth way more' legendary stars ...more |
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Incredible, intense, and intoxicating, Ladies Man is an all-consuming friends-to-lovers romance that wraps itself around your head and heart—relentles
Incredible, intense, and intoxicating, Ladies Man is an all-consuming friends-to-lovers romance that wraps itself around your head and heart—relentlessly tugging and tearing, never letting go. With the pages as the canvas, the mesmerizing and meaningful words are painted, flowing into feelings that touch every part of you. This beautiful, broken, and brilliant book bleeds into you. Belongs to you. Becomes you. Like the rest of Katy Evans’ enticing and emotional reads, Ladies Man is claiming and consuming me as I read just the first page. I can’t stop devouring these powerful and poignant words that are stealing my thoughts, becoming my dreams. Emotions flow fast and hard, pouring off of the pages. This story just began and I already don’t want it to end. The build-up is slow. Steady. Swoon-worthy. Sensational. Pure magic. I don’t have to read much of the book to realize that Ladies Man is more than the title. More than the striking cover with the gorgeous and rugged Viking staring so intently. More depth. More passion. More meaning. More everything. For several hours, this book became my world, blending with my reality as the words—each full of meaning—spoke to me with lessons of hard-fought love and life. Oh Tahoe Roth. Malcolm Saint’s best friend. My valiant Viking. Beautiful and broken. Blond hair. Blue eyes. Yummy facial scruff. Tall. Muscular. Rugged. Cocky. A Golden God. “Tahoe Roth is hot to the extreme. Six feet four, at least two hundred pounds of man. A power box of testosterone.” Regina ‘Gina.’ Rachel Saint’s best friend. Beautiful. Brunette. Brown eyes. Curves in the right places. Ever since she turned him down a year ago, Tahoe has invaded Gina’s head. “You’re staring at the guy who’s been haunting your dreams, and you don’t know what to do about it. What to do about him.” Gina doesn’t want to want the tantalizing but terribly annoying Tahoe. Perhaps a dirty night with one of the leading players of Chicago will do the trick. At his birthday party, Gina offers herself on a silver platter to Prince Player, a night where she plays vixen to his Viking. One night to screw him out of her head for good. One night to taste Tahoe and then feast elsewhere. "I’m not a one-night-stand kind of girl, which is why I’m giving you the chance only a few others have ever had. One night with me.” Holy shocker. The Tahoe Train turns her down. On his birthday. A present that would have changed his life and hers. “I’ve got nothing good to offer you, Regina.” And just like that, only three percent into the story, my heart starts to crack for this complex but caring man. “You need a guy who will always be there for you. One who will never let you down.” “And you need a thousand women to make you feel good, and I’m only one.” “Friends then.” Friends who fantasize about each other. Friends who should be lovers. Friends who walk a fine line towards more. “I hadn’t realized I was stroking his chest. He’s watching me with a heavy-lidded gaze. The air thickens with awareness. Our eyes hold. His expression is so hungry, and inside that gaze is that primitive look, so intense it borders on pain.” Push. Pull. Push. Pull. This cat and mouse game runs rampant as they are friends but aren’t. The desperation. The attraction. The need. The want. The angst and anticipation burn as they pull me over the edge, teetering in hope where I struggle to balance as my emotions are suddenly scattered everywhere. “He may look like an Adonis, but there’s a darkness in his gaze. Sometimes I wonder if I’m the only one who sees it. I see it now as I stare at his gorgeous, haunting face, with a shadow of a beard and full pink lips that I continue to see in my dreams.” It’s New Year’s Eve and once again, Gina and Tahoe find themselves at a party. Nearing midnight, they have no choice but to kiss. That kiss. It’s electric. A game changer. “God, this mouth belongs to me, this mouth was made for me.” Their chemistry is insta-hot. Electric. Palpable. So much anguish as Gina and Tahoe struggle to remain friends when they are already so much more. “No one is the way they seem. We all hide little pieces, either because we don’t want to be judged, or because we don’t think we’ll be understood, or simply because we don’t want those pieces of us to belong to anyone but us.” Oh how I’m falling in love with Tahoe. Protector of Gina. Her tamed beast. Her T-Rex. Tough but tender. Fierce but loyal. This man wears many layers as does Gina. Tahoe shields himself with meaningless sex to dull a painful past and guard his heart while Gina wears a mask of makeup as a barrier to suppress her emotions. “I’m bare—more self-conscious about my face than I am about my body. My plump lips and wide, expressive eyes. And right now, Tahoe Roth is taking it all in. Taking all of me in.” Each is wearing a mask that only the other can unveil as they are kindred spirits. The calm to each other’s storm. “He’s looking at me as if he can’t get enough.” The words are arrows piercing my heart, pulling it into this story as I’m consumed more than ever. The passion pours off the pages as I feel it all. The feels start to freely flow. I feel the desperation of Tahoe and Gina. Their hunger. Their anguish. Everything. The friends who see each other inside and out, but are afraid to take a chance. To ruin what they have. Afraid to get burned again. “I can’t get on the Tahoe rollercoaster. Maybe before, when it would be a one-night stand, it was an option…I am so scared to get hurt again. To get hurt a thousand times more than I ever have.” The story is over but the feels don’t stop flowing, as Ladies Man still holds on to my heart. Happy tears. Hopeful tears. Sad tears. Sappy tears. I swooned. I sweated. I ached. I anguished. I lusted. I loved. HARD. All of it. I love Ladies Man so very much as this book is like Tahoe: full of many layers. Deep layers that penetrate it all: heart, head, and soul. A sweet surprise. Ladies Man is a hidden gem. So much more than a troubled billionaire romance full of heat. It’s heavy on heart too. It’s even more than a hard-fought friends-to-lovers romance. Ladies Man is a story about hope. Healing. Self-discovery. Self-preservation. A book that is meaningful, lingering long after the story has ended with a valuable life message: Don’t change your true self for anyone as when you do, you risk losing your best you. Five fierce and fabulous stars ...more |
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[image] You don’t find love; it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars. Love found me when I dove i [image] You don’t find love; it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars. Love found me when I dove into The Hot Shot by Kristen Callihan, a deep and dreamy love story that soared straight to my soul. Maybe it’s because I love FOOTBALL and watch it obsessively. Maybe it’s because I love sports romances, my favorite romance genre next to rocker reads. Maybe because friends-to-lovers romances are my weakness…my kryptonite. Maybe it’s because I need to lose myself completely in stories, feeling every word. Maybe it’s because I get a thrill when meeting a new or new-to-me author. No...not maybe at all...but YES!!! YES to all of these and more! Kristen Callihan wrote SO MUCH MORE than a sports meets friends-to-lovers romance!!! The Hot Shot is a love story of FEELS and FATE, a romance of DREAMS and DESTINY. This book wholeheartedly CAPTIVATED ME, calling to my heart and soul, as The Hot Shot CONSUMED ME from beginning to end. There haven’t been many sports romances that have made me FEEL EVERY WORD like The Hot Shot did, a story that shot stars along with tears in my eyes. [image] The first thing I noticed about The Hot Shot was how smooth and seamless Kristen Callihan’s writing flows, as if this book were an ocean and the words were waves, separate but perfectly intact and intertwined with the story. I can’t exactly explain it but this book just FELT RIGHT. From the very start, The Hot Shot CLICKED in every way. I felt this natural ease when reading The Hot Shot with words that not only perfectly flowed but were FLAWLESS. Reading this story felt as natural as breathing, and at times I held my breath in excitement and anticipation. Is there anything sweeter than a friends-to-lovers romance?!? A friendship that blossoms like a flower into more. The Hot Shot is sweetness meets smolder, a friends-to-lovers romance with passion in spades. This story is SWOON in spades and oh did The Hot Shot hero make me swoon like I was watching a sappy Hallmark movie during Christmastime. [image] Finn Mannus is an all-star NFL quarterback, a player on and off the field. Gorgeous with sun-kissed brown hair and sky-blue eyes, tall, chiseled, and cut…beautiful inside and out. The last thing he wants or needs is to entangle himself into a relationship, lose his focus from the ball. [image] I suspect Ms. Chess Copper is going to take me down and make me feel it. Except Finn didn’t count on a sassy, spitfire, tattooed, pin-up looking beauty with dark hair and green eyes to throw him off his game. Chess Copper has dated a bunch of frogs and has yet to find her prince. Her prince is bearded and inked, eccentric, an artist of some sort. Her prince is not supposed to look like the pretty boy quarterback who pushes her buttons. [image] It’s too bad that fate has other plans… The second I touch him, I know it’s a mistake…In that instant, I know him. I know him. I feel like I’ve known him my whole existence, like I’ve been waiting for him to return from wherever he’s been. Friends…the friend zone is easy. Chess and Finn will be friends only… Until lines are blurred… “You and me. We could be real.” With each of Finn’s heart-hitting words, my heart blossomed, blooming, as it bled for love. Feelings develop… “One day, Chess, you’re going to feel safe enough to let go. And I’m going to be there to catch you when you fall.” Oh Finn…this sweet and sexy man stole my heart. Caring. Considerate. Cocky. Complex. Utterly perfect! Finn…this brave and beautiful man OWNED me. I cried happy and sappy tears as this big and strong quarterback is vulnerable inside, and that itself is powerful. Finn held my heart in his hands. My heart was all Finn’s! I LOVED this hero, this knight-in-shining armor so very much. Those lines are crossed… Finn presses his mouth to mine. The kiss is sweet and swift, a touch of lips to lips, a slight exchange of air. And it still manages to stop my heart and send heat flaring up my thighs. [image] That kiss, so sweet and delicate was EVERYTHING!!! I could not help but smile, as this kiss lifted me up to the clouds, swooning all the way. The chemistry between Chess and Finn is a play they can’t fake. They have crossed the Friend Zone and jumped into the Point of No Return… "Tell me again that I'm a bad bet. Because I can't wait to prove you wrong." Their connection is real. Somehow whatever it is between Chess and Finn feels right…but neither do relationships… “Everything is right when I’m with you.” Sweet. Sexy. Soulful. I SMILED a lot. I CRIED at times. I HELD MY BREATH a few times. I FELT ALL THE EMOTIONS the whole time. The Hot Shot with its hero quarterback with a huge heart held my heart the whole time reading. I don't think I could love Finn any more as this PERFECT Prince Charming POSSESSED ME!!! Feel-worthy and flawless, The Hot Shot is a football love story flooded with feels, and I dare you not to feel every single word! I FELT ALL OF THE FEELS in The Hot Shot like a spiral ball straight to my heart! This story is a slow burn of the soul. I am still soaring in the clouds with stars in my eyes, floating on Cloud Nine. I still can feel one hell of a hangover heating me like the Summer sun from The Hot Shot, a sweet and swoon-filled sports romance that shot through my soul and made my heart dance! Why did I wait so long to meet the master writer and word magician known as Kristen Callihan?!? I was a fool to not inhale this author's books sooner! There is no greater BOOK BLISS for me than discovering and then LOVING a new or new-to-me author's writing, such as Kristen Callahan's. I am a fan girl for life! I am in UTTER LOVE with this author's powerful writing, as Kristen Callihan made me experience every emotion through mere words!!! Kristen Callihan rose to my all-time favorite authors with one book: The Hot Shot. One book that made me smile, swoon, smolder, and snicker. One book that hit my heart and soared through my soul. One book that was beauty in words. One book where I felt every word. One book that was MINE IN EVERY WAY as I was its. I was WOWED and WOUNDED, my heart breaking in the best way, as The Hot Shot did one hell of a heart-stopping number on me. This tale is one tender-loving TOUCHDOWN!!! This book is PURE MELT-WORTHY MAGIC! The Hot Shot is a shot to the heart, PERFECT IN EVERY WAY!!! ❤ “Do you understand? Your life stops, mine does too.” ★★★★★ 'hot shot to the heart' stars A MUST-CLICK ---> http://amzn.to/2nUbnyb [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... 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True love is always worth fighting for. The best books are like love. Stories cast a seductive spell on us, stealing our heart and soul, as we float a True love is always worth fighting for. The best books are like love. Stories cast a seductive spell on us, stealing our heart and soul, as we float around on Cloud Nine. Say You Want Me did not even have to hijack my heart and soul; I willingly surrendered them to this spellbinding story where my head is stuck in the clouds in the best book haze as I’m still swooning long after the last page. I gave my heart to Say You Want Me where it still remains, likely bound to this story forever. I gave my soul to this story—as if I had a choice—for it to be sucked in like a breath of fresh country air, pulling me under, where I could not help but FALL FAST IN LOVE. Say You Want Me is Corinne Michaels’ latest roller coaster of a romance, one where I felt every twist and turn of my heart as it traveled on a riveting ride of swoon and sorrow. This book began with a bang where my feelings were free-falling fast and hard. I WAS ALL IN! Say You Want Me swiftly stomped on my heart with the force of a stampede of horses where I could not help but devour the pages with a voracious hunger, drowning in them like my last breath. This book is beauty in words that bled tears…WORDS…that rendered me so full of FEELS where I felt every word penetrate me with passion. Every word was pure wonder. Every word meant the world. Every word quickly became my world. EVERY WORD WAS EVERYTHING. Say You Want Me is a good old-fashioned heartfelt romance with a modern twist. This story sparked to life as magic poured from the pages, casting Say You Want Me in a glow as powerful as the sunset. I was elated to return to the country town of Bell Buckle Tennessee, portrayed so vividly where I felt like I was there with this family of characters who quickly captivated and claimed me as they came to life, becoming my world yet again. I suspected from the last book that Wyatt Hennington was the brother who would forever hold my heart the hardest and oh did he make me fall hard for him. The beautiful blonde and deep blue-eyed Angie Benson, Presley ‘soon to be’ Hennington’s best friend, had one hot night with Wyatt Hennington while visiting Presley in Bell Buckle, Tennessee from Philadelphia. When Angie woke up, Wyatt was gone that morning, and Angie never heard from the hot heartbreaker again. “He played me as if I were his personal instrument. Every touch, every kiss, every swipe of his glorious tongue was done just to please me. I don’t know how I managed to walk out of there. He rocked my world and then was gone before I woke up.” Wyatt haunts Angie’s head; she can’t get him off her mind. She wants him…she loathes him. It’s one conundrum. When she finds herself back in Bell Buckle again, she will have the face the man who’s haunted her dreams and makes her body tingle at a mere thought. “I turn and come face-to-face with the flashing smile, honey-colored eyes, and brown hair I’ve dreamed of. Wyatt Hennington stands before me in a pair of fitted jeans and a black shirt, and he’s looking at me with heat in his gaze. Everything inside me clenches.” Dark-haired, honey-eyed, and inked Wyatt, the biggest and most muscular of the three Hennington brothers, is a lethal mix of all alpha male and gentle giant. Smart, sexy, and funny, Wyatt is the whole package. “..I didn’t want you to leave, Angie Benson…I liked having you next to me…the next time you’re in my bed with your blonde hair on my pillow, you should stay there…I wanted you to stay.” This country boy made me swoon! His sexy, seductive, and soul-filled words sent me on a ship to Swoon Land where I sunk under his spell. This man is pure perfection. I was OWNED by Wyatt. I was owned by Say You Want Me. “The sex was explosive, but more than that…I was drawn to her like I haven’t been with anyone else. She lit me up and then left me burning.” That night was a giant misunderstanding...wasted time. Now they have time to figure out if that night could turn into something more. Do Wyatt and Angie have more sizzle than just under the sheets? “I lose track of time as he kisses me as if I’m his reason for living.” Those kisses melt from the pages, penetrating that passion right to me as I felt it too. Those lifetime kisses that you know will lock you to love for life. “What if you realize that I’m the best man on the planet and you can’t live without me? Give this a chance.” Wyatt hasn’t been with a woman since Angie blasted her way into his life in one explosive night, lighting fireworks to his body and heart. “I already know that the sexual chemistry between us if off the charts. Now, we need to see if the rest of what we’re going for has a chance.” Angie has seen love die all around her; her heart is guarded with a fortress of steel, walls that have never been broken. Though one determined cowboy is prepared to fight, to claim his city girl who already has his heart. “He’s the kind of guy I want to want me. He’s strong, sexy, caring, and so much more…Wyatt makes me feel alive. He’s excavated the parts of me I’ve buried under sarcasm and attitude, the girl who wants a man to love her. But fairytales don’t come true. People die. And I’m destined to be forgotten.” Love is a battlefield and sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in, fight for the other person, fight for love. Wyatt is going to have to work hard if he wants to make this city gal his lady. The entire town of Bell Buckle is rooting for romance between two stubborn and passionate people: Big City and her Rhinestone Cowboy. Wyatt is going to have to bring out the big guns to claim Angie as his queen before the clock strikes midnight and this City Cinderella flees home to Philadelphia. “Make no mistake—you’ll want me. I’m making damn sure of it.” Intoxicating and incredible, I could not help but become besotted with this book that entangled my emotions around every character, every place, every page, every word, and every feel as each explosive emotion made me fall harder and harder for Say You Want Me. Say You Want Me?!? YES…I’ll say it: I WANT YOU!!! I want Wyatt, my new favorite Hennington. I fell so deeply in love with this amazing man. Wyatt’s story made me swoon so hard where my soul soared into the clouds. I LOVED THIS STORY SO MUCH!!! Say You Want Me melted me into mush, melding itself into my heart, hijacking it…hijacking me. I was a prisoner to these passionate pages that pounded that passion straight through me. This book broke me in the best way. Say You Want Me BLEW ME AWAY!!! Say You Want Me is not simply a broken and beautiful romance; it’s a story about LIFE AND LIVING. It’s about taking that LEAP OF FAITH...LIVING FOR THE MOMENT...LIVING LIFE NOW. EVERY WORD MATTERS that Corinne Michaels pens to life. Penned like paint to a canvas, so vivid and valuable, Say You Want Me is one of those books that THAT STEAL MY SOUL AND OWN ME FOR LIFE. I WAS UTTERLY OWNED in this swoon-filled and soul-searing story. Say You Want Me WAS EVERYTHING!!! Say You Want Me stole my heart and soul in a breathtakingly beautiful tale of hard-fought love that rendered me breathless. I want this whole frickin’ fairytale full of feels. I want to feel this story again and again. Corinne Michaels is one of those wondrous writers of books that break you, bind you, and brandish themselves to you in a bath of beauty where you’ll remember them forever. I’m still blown away as I bask in the most beautiful hangover, my head stuck in the clouds, where I want to remain forever. ★★★★★ 5 ‘but worth 10’ breathtakingly beautiful stars ...more |
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[image] The best relationships begin as friendships. When fire meets friendship, burning with the flames of desire, that friendship ignites and goes BOO [image] The best relationships begin as friendships. When fire meets friendship, burning with the flames of desire, that friendship ignites and goes BOOM! Friends to lovers…ahhh…what a perfect match…my perfect match! J.D. Hawkins is a master of friends-to-lovers tales. Hawkins infuses his romances with the perfect amount of sweetness, spice, sarcasm, and swoon along with a little angst that make for riveting reads that rock readers’ worlds. Unprofessional is a fresh, flirty, and forbidden friends-to-lovers romance that is full of fire!!! [image] Unprofessional lured me from the very first page. The conversational style writing—so raw and real—CONSUMED ME!!! This sizzling and sugary story SEDUCED ME where I was under its spell. Beautiful, brunette, green-eyed, and curvy Margo has maintained a platonic relationship with her hot best friend, Owen, for years...years!!! Owen with his tall, muscular body and dark hair. Owen who is a man-whore, sampling women like fine wine. Owen who has a huge heart. Owen who is all alpha and definitely delicious. Owen knows that his best friend is beautiful, but so off-limits, especially since Margo is his co-worker. One drunk night, limits were tested… I realize I'm still drunk---or at least I tell myself that, because this feels so good I need an excuse not to stop. [image] Now that they have had a taste test, Margo and Owen want more…. Suddenly he sweeps close, lifting me out of the chair to clutch my body to his, crushing his lips on mine to kiss me in a way that makes everything disappear. A kiss that says more than a thousand words ever could. [image] This kiss was intense, intoxicating, and in depth, capturing more than words. Its passion penetrated me, making me melt all over. Lines are blurred, and remaining professional may be the toughest test of all. This sweet and sexy story SEDUCED EVERY OUNCE OF ME, hitting all of the right spots. Unprofessional is FIRE-HOT and FUN with its fresh setting of BuzzFeed-like atmosphere, captivating characters, serial dating, and forbidden office romance…A PLEASURE TO READ. I loved the long history and connection between Margo and Owen, their fierce friendship was truly powerful and endearing. Though I would have loved to have seen more dialogue between Owen and Margo, and a heavier dose of feels, more emotions from these main characters. J.D. Hawkins WOWs readers once again with witty writing that is raw with characters that feel real. Slaying both male and female viewpoints, J.D. Hawkins’ Unprofessional flows with a natural ease, so smooth and seamless. The catchy and conversational style of Unprofessional ENTICED and ENTERTAINED me. I CRUSHED on this office romance HARD! Unprofessional was unputdownable. ❤ “Wild horses. They sound a lot like you.” [image] ★★★★ fresh and flirty stars [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... Readers Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/BBBBoo... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookaliciousbb Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bookaliciousbb ...more |
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You can't help but fall in love with Lauren Blakely's latest must-read masterpiece, Sweet Sinful Nights, a smoldering, suspenseful, sweet, and oh-so-s
You can't help but fall in love with Lauren Blakely's latest must-read masterpiece, Sweet Sinful Nights, a smoldering, suspenseful, sweet, and oh-so-sinfully sexy second-chance romance that swallows your heart and soul. A spin-off of the oh-so-seductive Seductive Nights series, Sweet Sinful Nights is a story about hope, love, happiness, and that much-coveted happily ever after for two former lovers who drifted apart though they have still held on to each other's hearts. You'll want to devour the deliciously descriptive and decadent Sweet Sinful Nights quickly as it's pure addiction with masterful writing that grabs your emotions---happiness, angst, sadness, and anger---and bounces them around like a merry-go-round. Like the Sweet Sinful Nights title, Lauren Blakely brings the perfect mix of sweet and sin to both the characters and this brilliant book that takes place in Sin City or Vegas. Younger brother, Brent, gives Clay some serious competition in the panty-melting man department. Speaking of panties, make sure you have a spare pair on hand because this book may melt yours right off. Beautiful Shannon Paige-Prince, a former dancer, had the perfect relationship with hot and hilarious comedian and rising star, Brent Nichols. She was all set to marry the love of her life until a terrible fight tore them apart. Brent walked away from his happily ever after and has regretted his grave mistake ever since. "He'd tried to move on from the biggest mistake of his life. Because she'd been right---she'd been absolutely right with her last words. Hardly a day went by when he didn't regret having walked away from being with her." Flash forward ten years later and the former couple are living new lives: Shannon has a new name and new career as a dance company owner while Brent left the comedy circuit to become an owner of the hottest nightclubs across the globe. A chance encounter brings them together as they both have relocated to Vegas. Sparks ignite, unresolved feelings surface, and hope floats in the air, full of possibilities. "They kissed like it was a first time, and a last time, and like it was all time. They kissed like two people who wanted to climb into each other's skin, to smash into the other person. There were no doubts. No questions. She had to feel everything he felt. She had to want a second chance too." A happily ever after may still in the cards for this couple who may have once given up on each other. Though they can't deny or stop feeling the love that still flows between them like the air they breathe---not to mention the combustible chemistry where a mere touch ignites everything in their bodies. Brent gives Shannon hope, love, and a chance at finding much-needed happiness. She is his reason for existence. He's her knight in shining armor that helps erase her pain and replace it with pleasure, bringing light to her darkness from a painful past. That is if secrets and the past don't stop threatening to rip their new found happiness apart, and steal Brent and Shannon's well-deserved second chance. I loved this book--my favorite of Lauren Blakely's brilliant books so far. Sweet Sinful Nights is crack for the book whore. I'm still nursing a book hangover from this addicting read, and can't wait for the next book in this sweet and sinful series! 5 Sinful, Scorching, and Sweet Second-Chance Stars ...more |
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“The devil is not as black as he is painted.” Jay Crownover painted her latest story at the Point, Honor, in black and red with maybe a hint of white “The devil is not as black as he is painted.” Jay Crownover painted her latest story at the Point, Honor, in black and red with maybe a hint of white to represent the darkness that often eclipsed the light. I thought I was prepared for the battle this book would bestow on me, but nothing could have primed me for Honor, Jay Crownover’s blackest book ever. No pep talk or words of wisdom would have helped me walk through the pits of hell where the devil reigned, praying for a sliver of light. All I could do was dive in and silently pray for mercy on my emotions, hoping they would stay at bay. I wanted to rush through this riveting read, soaking up all of the ‘Crownover Crack.’ My emotions engulfed like flames, making me read in smaller doses. Some of these doses delivered darts of darkness that made me pull away to try to catch my rapidly beating heart. Honor swiftly sank my soul, where it drowned in the dark in hopes to see light. Honor was my enchantment. My escape. My EVERYTHING. The Introduction warned me, willing those feels to stand down. The Prologue prepared me for this battle, a book I knew would wreck me…and oh did it tear me apart. This battle was dark and deadly, one forged from the depths of hell, but one where I had to survive. This dark devil’s tale became my demise and I wanted to fight by his side. I knew Nassir’s story would be the hardest to digest and the longest from which to heal, but a story perhaps more worthy than those of the others who paraded the Point. “I wasn’t just part of a war…I was the war.” Nassir Gates, the beautiful man who is the power of the Point, had already waged a war in his past life that made the Point look like a playground. This brave boy went to war alone with no one by his side, not even his family. “There was an army of one, and the war he fought was for survival and self-preservation.” I wanted to hug the boy who was robbed of his childhood. I could not help but break and bleed for the man forced to become the monster…all that he’s even known. Until one woman lends him a lifeline, a sliver of light in the depths of darkness. A life with lost meaning, Honor is Nassir’s reason to live. “She was so much more than freedom. She was Honor.” Nassir’s salvation and soul rest in Honor, a virtue and savior. Beautiful and vibrant Keelyn ‘Key’ Foster danced her way through Nassir’s club and into his heart, giving him a reason to care…a reason to live…for the first time ever. She left him once the devil revealed a glimpse of an angel, fleeing from her past. It’s time for the devil to pay his dues and take what’s taunted him and holds a piece of him: Honor. “My devil wasn’t going to push me…he was going to do what devils did best. He was going to tempt me.” Oh what a temptation Nassir Gates was from outside in. Golden skin and bronze eyes, dark hair, and a body made of perfection with a dominance that made me melt. This monster if made into superhero would be the Punisher, half villain and half hero, as Nassir walks a fine line between good and evil. Key did not stand a chance against this dashing devil. “I was made to stand out not to blend in, and I was going back to the Point ready to shine.” Of course, Nassir doesn’t stand a chance against Key either as she is the only one to unlock his frozen heart. Beauty, brains, and bravery in spades, Key is Nassir’s equal in every way. She is her own warrior. Both are a match made in heaven forged in hell. “You are so deep inside of me I feel like I’m missing pieces of myself when you aren’t around.” The devil melted me, even making me swoon. The heart I tried to freeze to stay strong in this story shattered so many times. “He kissed like he did everything else, with finesse, with skill, with demand and force.” His beautiful battle warrior wills him to fight as she doesn’t want to want Nassir, but can’t help the power and passion that permeate between them. This devil plays dirty to collect his dues, needing the Key to his heart. “I’m not giving you my heart.” “You don’t have to give it to me, because I’m going to take it one way or another.” One dark angel…one mixed devil…one team…one war. Tragedy strikes, blood is shed, and war wages on the Point where lives are altered forever. The past may be the most dangerous weapon of all. “When you make your home in hell, you want to have the devil in your corner.” Oh did this devil dancing on the city of doom demolish every part of me. Honor dipped me into the darkness, dangling my emotions off a cliff, where I could not help but fall. I FELL HARD for Honor, a story that shook my soul with a force I did not see coming, but one that engulfed every emotion like a raging inferno. Honor BLEW ME AWAY!!! Honor hit my heart hard, wrecking it—wrecking me—in the best way. Haunting, heartbreaking, and heroic, Honor is a must-read romance that rages among the ashes in an epic story of the hardest-fought love ever. HONOR WAS EVERYTHING!!! Only Jay Crownover can make you fall in love with the devil and follow him to the pits of hell. Oh did I want this dashing devil in my corner, Nassir, my dark knight. I fell so deeply in love with a villain who—hidden beneath the mask—was a hero with a heart. Jay Crownover’s writing reaches inside deeply, grabs your heart, holding it in its hands, and then both hits and hugs it so hard. With each story Jay Crownover writes, I fall deeper into her spell that I’ve dubbed ‘Crownover Crack’ since meeting this author’s first masterpiece, Rule, years ago. Those devastatingly beautiful books that authors pen like paint to a canvas, so vivid and valuable…THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT STEAL MY SOUL AND OWN ME FOR LIFE. Jay Crownover is one of those wondrous writers of brilliant books that break you, bind you, and brandish themselves to you forever. It’s that ‘Crownover Crack’ that hits me harder each time, where I’m rendered with the worst yet best emotional hangovers. My ride through heaven and hell was a huge honor, one I’d do again in a heartbeat. 5 ‘but worth 10’ heart-hitting and honor-filled stars ...more |
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A nail-biter of a twisty, thrilling, and touching tale, Last Kiss bleeds angst, pouring passion from the pages straight to your heart and soul. Like a
A nail-biter of a twisty, thrilling, and touching tale, Last Kiss bleeds angst, pouring passion from the pages straight to your heart and soul. Like a kiss, this story is scorching, sensual, and seductive. Last Kiss is not just a book—it’s the ultimate escape from reality where you are utterly immersed and intoxicated. You are folded into this story so deeply that Last Kiss bleeds into your world, haunts your head, and dances in your dreams. This book becomes you. You are Last Kiss. From the very first page, I’m on edge. Anxious. Afraid. Enchanted. Energized. I dive in. I devour Last Kiss. Last Kiss devours me, eating me alive. I want to slow down and enjoy the ride. I want to race through this incredible and intoxicating read but, like a gravitational force, the pull is too strong to slow down. Last Kiss quickly steals my breath, my thoughts, and my emotions. Pulse pounding. Brain bending. Tears tricking. Body burning. Soul soaring. I am drowning in feels. Last Kiss is a thriller. A suspense. A romance. So many things rolled into one amazing adventure. This adrenaline rush of a read has hypnotized me. Held me. Haunted me. Hurt me. Healed me. The adventure is so raw and real that I feel that Last Kiss. I'm addicted. I'm awe-struck. I'm alive. Beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed, and curvy Emily Wayborn is a character I love yet hate. She is fearless but spineless. Endearing yet annoying. Such a contradiction. Co-dependent and clingy, Emily depends on others too much for her own happiness and it drives me crazy! Emily has faced tragedy after tragedy but is still a survivor, and I have to applaud her for being so strong. Reeve Sallis is a gorgeous, tall, dark-haired and blue-eyed billionaire. Powerful. Passionate. Penetrating. Possessive. Predator. Reeve is a man of many layers. I love him. I loathe him. Reeve owns Emily. Reeve owns me. Emily is reeling from Amber's return. The best friend who was supposed to be dead. The one who is now in the middle of whatever it is that’s forming between Reeve and Emily. Emily is unsure where she stands and unnerved. “I turned to the man who held her. Who moments ago was my man—now I wasn’t so sure.” Turmoil thrusts throughout the story like a dragon breathing fire. My heart breaks for Emily whose relationship with Reeve is now compromised and more complicated than ever. Reeve let her get close and now that slow building trust may be for nothing. Emily is bathing in a bath of betrayal as Reeve realizes he was merely a pawn in her act of revenge. “I’d let him in, let him consume me and yet I’d still kept him at a distance, even when I knew he’d tried to let me in.” Truths unfold as Emily and Reeve confess, leaving both disappointed. Deceived. Devastated. “He’d wanted me to trust him because he wanted me to love him.” Emily doesn’t fully trust Reeve but she wants to. She wants to love and trust this man and give him everything she has. Everything she is. Everything she wants to be. “You feel me. Right now you feel me, Emily. That’s where I am—inside you. All the time, I’m there. No matter whose bed you sleep in.” Gah! These powerful and poignant words pull at my heartstrings. The feels flow HARD. Reeve is intense and incredible. I LOVE this complex but caring man. I can’t stop swooning. I don’t want to. “I wish you could see this Emily. You’re so beautiful like this. Bent over and open for me.” The chemistry burns hot like fire. So intense and intoxicating. I'm melting. My body is aflame. Reeve can just take me NOW. “He loved me. He loved me enough to say it out loud. But he’d loved her too. Yes. I did belong to him. But I belonged to Amber too.” Danger has pushed Reeve's former and current loves under the same roof. While two is company, three is a crowd. Emily is ready to throw it all away. Concede and let Amber hold the cards....again. “Amber’s presence changed everything. I made promises to her long before I’d thought about making promised to Reeve.” I want to hug Emily yet hit her hard to knock some much-needed sense into her. She has let Amber control her too hard and too long. Emily is the puppet and Amber is the puppeteer pulling the strings. Emily puts Amber above Reeve. Above her. Above happiness and love. Above everything. “Hell was cold and ice and emptiness. Hell was watching the one I’d grasped to so tightly slip through my fingers. Hell was realizing the one I’d come to love would never choose to love me.” All is fair in love and war. This is war. A bloody battle for love where ashes are left after the heart is burned. One where there is no winner. “I want to break you.” “You do. You do break me. Every time.” Last Kiss broke me. Bewildered me. Branded me. Breathed fire and life into me like a last kiss. I cried hopeless tears. Happy tears. Hopeful tears. Last Kiss captivated and crushed me ceaselessly. I was held prisoner by this heart-hitting story, hoping for a happily ever after to follow the broken trust and beautiful disaster that was Last Kiss. In Laurelin Paige's most explosive and emotionally-wrenching romance yet, Last Kiss is a powerful and poignant tale that permeates straight to the soul. It's dark, dirty, and decadent like a kiss with heat and heart hidden in the core. It's lust, loathing, and love but so much more. Last Kiss leaves a longing that may never leave as it touches all the right spots. I fell in love with both First Touch and Last Kiss, and I’m not ready to let them go. 5 twisty, thrilling, and touching stars ...more |
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[image] Sometimes you have to play dirty, and oh did Laurelin Paige take me on a deliciously dirty ride with Dirty Filthy Rich Men! Dirty Filthy Rich M [image] Sometimes you have to play dirty, and oh did Laurelin Paige take me on a deliciously dirty ride with Dirty Filthy Rich Men! Dirty Filthy Rich Men dances in the darkness but leaps towards the light, a magical mix of good and evil laced with sex and sin. This romance rages, smolders, and stings from start to finish, a tingling tale felt everywhere. Dirty Filthy Rich Men is a riveting roller coaster of a romance of tantalization and thrills...pure adrenaline-fueled addiction! The outside world closed around me, ceasing to exist, as I was captive to the best Dirty Filthy Rich Men. I was tangled and twisted in every part of this thrilling tale from the start! Pulse-pounding, breath-bating, mind-mesmerizing, heart-hitting, and soul-searing, Dirty Filthy Rich Men is not just a book; it’s an entrancing, electrifying and emotionally-entwined escape into another world…MY WORLD!!! I could not get enough of this deliciously dirty romance that raced through my head, as I raced to turn the pages, where I became dirty too. Dirty Filthy Rich Men was my angst…my ache…my addiction…my ALL!!! [image] He was a special kind of catnip. This romance was my catnip. Dirty Filthy Rich Boys was my dark, dirty, and delicious drug…one I did not only want but NEED. I needed this story like air to breathe, as Dirty Filthy Rich Boys became my breath, branding me. After ten years, Sabrina Lind is reunited with the dark and devilish man who stole her body and still dances in her dreams after so much time apart. Dark-haired, green-eyed, tall, and muscular Donovan Kincaid is both sinner and saint. Deliciously dirty and super rich, Donovan is the ultimate player. I did not want to like this mysterious man, but I could not help but fall hard and fast for this bad boy…scorching HOT in every way. [image] “The problem is that the thing you really want to stop isn’t me, it’s how you react.” Donovan’s dominant words possessed me, lighting a fire that burned from head to toe where I MELTED like molten lava. Sabrina and Donovan's cat-and-mouse game was amplified, more racy and risky than ever. So THRILLING where I could not stop the surge of power from this story that permeated through me. I had the impulse to slap him, but it was lost when his mouth crashed against mine. Then I couldn't think about anything but him—his hands, his body, his victory over me. It was such an easy surrender. [image] I could not help but combust from this fire-hot kiss that raked over my body as if I were floating over hot coals…so heated…so hot! The push and pull had me panting…wanting…needing more. The connection with Donovan and Sabrina was INTENSE, I felt it through my bones—a shiver through me—as their link was so strong that even if these two opposites were separated, the connection would be felt in spades. We were a set, bound together by Cellophane. It smothered, making it hard to breathe. A thrilling and tantalizing tale of deliciously dirty players, Dirty Filthy Rich Men is a cat-and-mouse game of epic proportions, a HIGH felt all the way to the sky! Hudson may have to make room for Laurelin Paige’s most intense alpha yet!!! Donovan delivers the dark and dirty, and I want to bathe in his delicious darkness covered in dirt! [image] Dirty Filthy Rich Men is intense, intoxicating, and invigorating, a rush of adrenaline and angst straight to the core! This scintillating story SEDUCED ME…everywhere. I could not help but feel every word I read and live every part of this delectable and daring adventure. I LOVED this brilliant book so hard! Dirty Filthy Rich Men blazes with fire—bleeding angst— and oh did I get BURNED in what is Laurelin Paige’s best book yet!!! I still need another hit or ten of this delicious drug. Oh Laurelin Paige! I am so addicted to this scintillating story and series that OWNS every ounce of me! So incredibly good! I could not devour this heart-stopping sexy and strong story fast enough. The plot is powerful, the characters are combustible, and the writing is off-the-charts incredible, flowing with a heady mix of feels and fire. Laurelin Paige has brought her A-game out to play in Dirty Filthy Rich Men, a gem that is as stunning as it is dirty. Oh did I love getting dirty! ★★★★★★ scintillating super stars A MUST-CLICK ---> http://amzn.to/2nzUWps [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... Readers Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/BBBBoo... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookaliciousbb Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bookaliciousbb ...more |
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[image] People who are meant to be together find their way back. They may take a few detours, but they’re never lost. I LOVE SECOND-CHANCE ROMANCES SOOO [image] People who are meant to be together find their way back. They may take a few detours, but they’re never lost. I LOVE SECOND-CHANCE ROMANCES SOOO MUCH! These love stories are my absolute favorites!!! Soul mates who have always loved each other are granted a do-over…another chance. There is no greater love like second-chance love, this special love that finds its way back to two broken souls, this special love that summons the soul…MY SOUL. Second-chance romances speak to my soul like no other love story, and oh did Nova by Rebeca Yarros speak to mine. Nova, the spellbinding and spine-tingling second-chance romance, was my heart…my soul…MY KRYPTONITE. [image] This heart-pounding and heartwarming romance claimed my heart from the start. My heart caught fire, a slow burn seeping into my soul, as Nova bled into me…becoming me. My emotions were amplified as I was ON EDGE, entangled around every part of Nova as this soul-searing story embedded itself into every part of me. A fusion of hope, heartbreak, and happiness swirled around in my head like a tsunami waiting to collide. My feels flooded all over this book…ALL OVER ME. These characters claimed me, captivated me, and catapulted me into their lives. I lived this dare-devil adventure through these compelling characters…through Nova. I wanted to free-fall off a cliff into the sea, climb the tallest mountains, and float away with The Renegades crew…with Nova. [image] Landon ‘Nova’ Rhodes with his dark blond hair, green-blue-hazel eyes, ink, and body of a Greek God is fast and furious, a dare devil who snowboards like he owns the mountains. This professional snowboarder collect X Games medals like they are candy, and oh is he melt-worthy! Landon may be Casonova to the women who he conquers like those tall mountains, but only one woman has conquered his heart, and will forever hold his heart in her hands: Rachel. [image] Rachel Dawson, beautiful and petite with dark hair and dark eyes, gave her heart away to who she thought was the love of her life, until he shattered it to smithereens and never looked back. Landon Rhodes, oh how she wished she could get the supernova out of her head and heart. When Rachel lands on the ship where The Renegades, the X-Games competitors, are filming, Landon is more determined than ever to reclaim the woman who has always been his. Does she still hate me? I hope so. I deserved it. Lord knew I hated myself enough for the both of us. The problem with love was that once it was gone, there was no filing that hole, no substitute for that euphoria. These words broke me…so hopeless and heartbreaking. “You’re like a supernova – an explosion so bright no one can see past you.” [image] Now he was Casanova…and no longer mine. I felt Rachel’s pain through the pages, oh was it heart-wrenching. She could try to ignore me all she wanted, but somewhere under all that hatred and ice, she was still my Rachel….I just had to find a way to break through to her. From beginning to end, oh did Landon POSSESS ME!!! This amazing alpha made me swoon and smolder. This man is pure perfection. Nova is PURE PERFECTION. I was owned by Landon. I WAS OWNED by Nova. “You win this round. But I’ll win the war.” My feels were at war, emotions rearing up to battle, as they threatened to explode…all over this soulful story…all over me. “That Rachel – the silly eighteen-year-old you said was your infinity – you killed her.” Those heart-wrenching words hit my heart hard, a sword to my chest, as I felt the hurt everywhere. [image] “I loved you. I broke myself…You and I are inevitable, no matter who we hurt – even if it’s each other.” I broke as I bled for both the hero and the heroine. Two broken souls who should be one. I had to catch my tears as I willed them not to fall. Tears that teased the dam of waterworks waiting to burst from the words that clutched my soul, extracting every emotion. Beckoning me. Binding me. Becoming me. [image] “Rachel, don’t look at me like that.” Swoon collided with soreness, hurt fused with hope. The pain turned into promise as I melted all over pages, warmth seeping into my heart that was bleeding. Words of sweetness and nostalgia kissed me where I felt butterflies dancing in my belly, a feeling of hope, happiness, and freedom fused with love. His mouth find mine, and I was home. My heart was hit so hard, it spun right into my soul. These words SHOOK MY SOUL!!! [image] Rachel and Landon are each other's air. Each other's heart. Each other’s hope. Each other’s salvation. Rachel is almost ready to take that leap again, no longer caring if she falls for she knows that Landon will catch her and keep her this time. In seconds she had rebuilt her walls that had taken me months to break down, and once again it was me who sliced her to the quick. The painful past brings smoke, which causes Rachel and Landon to veer off course, possibly sending them into a collision where their rekindled love may crash and burn. Oh how these two broken hearts needed to be whole…one again. “You’re it. You’ve always been it.” This line is EVERYTHING!!! This explosive, emotional, and epic second-chance love story is EVERYTHING!!! I was ENRAPTURED with Nova This story held my heart in its hands from the start…hijacking it…hijacking me. I LOVED NOVA SO MUCH!!! Nova is devastatingly beautiful and perfectly poignant, an explosion of emotions that penetrate the heart and soul. Oh did Nova a penetrate me EVERYWHERE! I was a prisoner to these passionate pages that pounded that passion straight through me. I was broken. I was breathless. I was branded. I became everything Nova. This spellbinding and spine-tingling story surged through me like lightning where its touch was felt everywhere. OH THE FEELS!!! My feels were free-falling through this story. I felt every word I read in Nova where I rode this roller coaster of a romance, the adrenaline and angst coursing through me like a rush of wind…fast and furiously. I FELT EVERYTHING. Nova is not simply a broken and beautiful romance; it’s a story about LIFE AND LIVING. It’s about taking that LEAP OF FAITH...LIVING FOR THE MOMENT...LIVING LIFE NOW. Rebecca Yarros is one of my favorite authors because you can feel her emotions through her wondrous words. EVERY WORD MATTERS that Rebecca Yarros writes: magical, meaningful, sweet, spirited, and soulful…just like her. Every day is a new beginning. A chance to love. A chance to live. A chance to dream. A chance to do! We live through our actions. We live through our memories. Sometimes we live through stories. I lived and loved through Nova where I went on the emotional adventure of a lifetime—one of hope, heartbreak, and happiness. Nova, this beautiful and broken love story, will stay with me…to infinity and beyond. ★★★★★★ infinity and beyond stars [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookaliciousbb Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bookaliciousbb ...more |
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I've been looking for the perfect summer romance. A story that sizzles and is set in the sand. A fun and flirty fling. A book that takes me away, body
I've been looking for the perfect summer romance. A story that sizzles and is set in the sand. A fun and flirty fling. A book that takes me away, body and soul, to a far away place. A Sapphire Affair is THAT STORY. Here is my little checklist of why The Sapphire Affair is THE book affair you need to have this summer: 1) The BEACH! This book is set at the beach, The Caymans. YES please!!! 2) ROMANCE! This read is a romance between two beautiful people with chemistry that burns like the sun. A slow burn of passion. 3) SUSPENSE! This story is swathed in suspense and sprinkled with clues that you, the reader, get to solve. How fun is that?!? 4) THRILLS! This tale of thrills rivals a James Bond movie. The Sapphire Affair by Lauren Blakely is THE perfect summer read---a steamy and spellbinding story wrapped in suspense. Oh did I love every mysterious and mesmerizing minute. Adventurous and alluring, The Sapphire Affair is an adrenaline rush of a romance, an affair of words to remember. From the very first page, The Sapphire Affair captivated me where I was captive to the sapphire sea, floating in fixation. I tasted the salty air, felt the waves, and listened to the ocean. I was in The Cayman Islands solving this page-turner of a tornado of suspense where I was spinning. Like Nancy Drew, I was trying to solve the $10 million dollar mystery that wove its way from the pages to my head, and it was a heady feeling that I thoroughly enjoyed!!! I was bound to The Sapphire Affair like the tide of the sea as it pulled me under, page by powerful page. Bounty Hunter, Jake Harlowe, is a hot knight in panty-melting armor that heated me from head to toe. Dark hair, green eyes, tall, and a muscular body to be climbed like Mount Everest. Jake captures stolen goods and returns them to their rightful owners, serving justice, thief by thief. "I'm a modern-day Robin Hood." Robin Hood meets his Maid Marian in a bar night, steaming up the place with a passionate kiss. Beautiful blonde, blue-eyed, and buxom beach gal, Steph Anderson, caught Jake's and, like a mermaid, Jake wants to capture this beauty with brains. Steph Anderson is smart, sassy, and savvy and I love her! He almost caught his beautiful beach goddess until he discovered that they both want to bust the same thief. The alleged thief being Steph's stepfather. The 10 million dollar heist now has two detectives on the case. Jake vows not to mix business with pleasure. However, the chemistry that explodes like fireworks is too powerful to stop. "You deserve someone who craves the taste of your lips. The feel of your body...I would make sure you come three times before I even do once." Yes...yes...yes! Jake is one delicious dirty talker whose words morphed into involuntary thigh clenches. I sweated and swooned in a sea of lust. Jake melted me from the inside out. One hot night results in passion that permeates from the pages while a fire blazes between this couple. Though the after effects are ashes, remains of what could have been as Steph loses trust in her Robin Hood, wondering if Jake used her to get to her stepfather. "You've lied to me so far, and now you're here clearly trying to get closer to me because you think I know something...don't you see how this looks?" The Sapphire Affair is sheer brilliance from beginning to end. I loved the intrigue of this sexy suspense that intoxicated me. Lauren Blakely's words are vivid like paint to a canvas where I experienced EVERYTHING. The angst. The attraction. The action. I wore The Sapphire Affair like a jewel that was a part of me: stunning and spectacular. I felt the surge of adrenaline that poured from the pages to my body. I lived and breathed this book. I felt ALIVE. I was ALL IN. The Sapphire Affair was an affair of my book lovin' heart, a romance where I was so lost that I did not want to be found. The only cure is to dive more of this gem of a series, The Sapphire Heist. 5 spellbinding and spectacular jewels ...more |
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“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is no
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” ~ Corinthians 13:4-13
Sometimes you read a book that is so beautiful that you’re left in a haze, floating in the air where life is more precious from above. You wonder how mere words….WORDS…can render you so full of FEELS where your emotions are still dangling on clouds long after the story has stopped. Emotional ecstasy. Corinne Michaels’ latest second-chance romance, Say You’ll Stay, is THAT FEEL-GOOD BOOK that renders you breathless and blissful from all of the heart that is poured into this piece of penned perfection. Say You’ll Stay consumed me from the very first page; immersing me deeply into this devastatingly beautiful book.Chills ran through me. My breaths were bated. My pulse raced. My heart quickly broke as tragedy strikes hard. Presley and her two young boys are forced to flee back home to Presley’s family in Tennessee after their lives are turned upside down. Tears are starting to trickle as waves of despair crash into Presley, crashing into me. "Black. That’s how I feel---void of any light or color.” My tears are falling fast and hard, soaking my face. I’m nearly gasping for air, drowning to breathe, as I can’t help but become immersed in the devastation. This poor mother, Presley, is still reeling from heartbreak yet she has to rebuild her life and muster up strength for her two boys. As a mama, I am devastated right with Presley. Now she is forced to face Zach Hennington, who broke her heart seventeen years ago when they were teens. “He’s the same boy I fell in love with at twelve. He’s the boy who taught me to love. He’s the boy I saw myself growing old with, having children with, and yet he destroyed me.” Presley left to forget Zach; now that she is back in her hometown and can only remember. “That’s the thing about young love in a small town---it never dies.” Presley is running from the past as she tries to overcome the tragedy of the present; Zach is running towards her. “She’s the reason I haven’t been able to move forward in my life.” Where there is darkness, there is light. Where there is heartbreak, there is hope. Where there is hope, there is healing. A misunderstanding tore them apart, leaving Presley bitter and broken, but she and Zach are reunited. Their love, despite tragedy and time, has never died. “Love doesn’t let go. It grows stronger.” Presley and Zach are a ball of fire. Their passion pours through the flames. They are turbulent yet so tender. As Zach pounds his way into Presley’s head and heart, he uncovers feelings that Presley tried her hardest to bury. “My heart skips a beat. As much as I will try to fight the draw---it’s still there. Zach holds a string that’s tied inside of me. If he pulls, I’ll unravel.” A boy and girl then; now a man and woman. Zach is the match that lights Presley’s body in flames. The sparks that resonated years ago are now reignited, burning brighter and scorching stronger than ever. Their love has survived heaven and hell. “It’s not because of you, Presley. It’s because it’s always been you.” I SWOONED HARD as these soul-wielding words clamped down on my heart, squeezing so many emotions out as I fell even more deeply in love with this story and this beautiful couple. Presley can’t fight her feelings for Zach any longer. Zach took a part of her heart when they were teens and never gave it back. She owns his heart and always has. Their love is the kind that happens once in a lifetime. Soul mates who have lost their way and have finally come home. “You were my first kiss, my first love, the first man to touch me. I want you to kiss me, and I need to kiss you.” These words are so real, raw and romantic…gah! I’m awe-struck in the beauty bleeding off of the pages that carve out a part of my heart with each line.I cry. I smile. I hope with everything I have that Presley and Zach get the happy ending that they have fought long and hard for and deserve so desperately. “I’ve always closed my eyes and seen you beside me. It was never over.” My heart is still reeling and racing. These characters won’t stop dancing in my head. Corinne Michaels has written one of MY TOP ROMANCE READS OF ALL TIME, touching me so deeply in Say You’ll Stay.This author writes with heart and steals readers’ hearts along the way. Corrine Michaels' intense and intoxicating words in Say You’ll Stay have wrapped themselves around my heart and won’t leave. Say You’ll Stay is a powerful and poignant, an epic and everlasting love story that dances in dreams and soars inside the soul. A romance that radiates passion and promise, Say You’ll Stay is so raw and real that I felt each word I read. My heart shattered and soared so many times. This book broke me yet breathed love, luster, and life into my body where I was left in utter book bliss. I fell in LOVE with Say You’ll Stay so HARD. Say You’ll Stay will stay with me like that special and sweet first love, owning a piece of my heart forever. 5 'but worth way more' beautiful and broken stars ...more |
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LOVE IS FRIENDSHIP THAT HAS CAUGHT FIRE. ~Ann Landers Sometimes when you least expect it, love throws a curveball your way. It sneaks up on you and ste LOVE IS FRIENDSHIP THAT HAS CAUGHT FIRE. ~Ann Landers Sometimes when you least expect it, love throws a curveball your way. It sneaks up on you and steals your heart and soul, brandishing you to its power with a force as strong as the sun. Books are like love; we get lost in them. We feel them. We experience them. We are under their spell. Stories seize us unpredictably as love does, becoming much more. Anti-Stepbrother by Tijan stole my heart and soul like the power of love, crashing into me with a force I never saw coming, but one that made me splendidly succumb to this story over and over again. From the first few pages, Anti-Stepbrother intoxicated me where I was immersed into the college world. These charismatic characters quickly became my classmates and my friends. As my college days flashed before my eyes, I was thrusted back to a care-free time of university life with classes, books, frat parties, and first time love. I lived and breathed this book as Anti-Stepbrother seeped into me, extracting every emotion, stealing every piece of me. The story started out slow but a burn built that beckoned me right into the flames as my heart caught fire, a slow burn seeping into my soul. My emotions were heightened, swirling around in my head like a hurricane, waiting to hit where they would flood…all over me. Beautiful Summer Stoltz has lusted after her stepbrother, Kevin, ever since her father married his mother and they moved into his house. One of the most popular guys on campus, Kevin filtered through girlfriends like water. Summer chased Kevin to college, hoping to be his permanent princess. Instead, Kevin’s enemy, a tough and gorgeous guy who was more popular on campus than Kevin, caught her eye and Summer could not stop looking at the beautiful distraction named Caden Banks. “I’d always had Kevin on a pedestal, and for the first time, he looked less than. He now stood against a guy who seemed more male in almost every way.” I LOVE CADEN! Caden Banks is all man. Tall, tattooed, muscular, genuine, and intense in every way that people stay out of his way. Summer doesn’t like the cocky Caden at first though can’t dislike him either as her emotions run rampant. “I hated him. No. I only wish I did.” Somehow, in harmony over what a douche Summer’s stepbrother Kevin is, an odd alliance and friendship form between the lower-classman, Summer, and the upper-classman, Caden. One is shy, inexperienced and awkward. The other is confident and candid. Together...they work. “I’d come to this event a nobody, but suddenly, with the acknowledgment that Caden Banks knew me, I knew I wouldn’t be a nobody for long.” I wanted to scoop Summer up into a hug as her self-confidence needed a big boost. Cayden and Summer become fast friends, hanging out together all the time and sparking interest on campus. Suddenly, Summer is significant. Summer is more reserved at first and appears meek, but Caden is the sun that makes her sprout, helping Summer growing from lamb to lioness. As Summer and Caden become closer, their friendship walks the line of love, confusing what they are…what they can be. That attraction brewing between them is building into something bigger. “I looked at him and knew my emotions were shining through. If he’d glanced back at me, he would’ve seen everything I felt.” Chemistry charges like a bull, hitting Summer and Caden with a sudden urge, forcing them out of the friend zone. “I don’t know who started it, but it didn’t matter because we were kissing. His mouth was on mine. I was underneath him. I wanted to be more than underneath. I wanted to be with all of him…I just wanted to take his hurt away.” These beautiful and bare words cut straight into me like a knife. My emotions were scattered all over the pages. “She calmed me. She quieted me. She made the anger go away.” Caden is broken but Summer is the glue helping repair his shattered soul. “I wasn’t the sun. I was just reprieve in the darkness.” As Summer and Caden get closer, the past strikes hard like lightning, threatening their new-found friendship and budding love. “He delivered a bomb to me and stepped back as it detonated. I felt wrecked, but could only nod, because in that moment, I would’ve have given him anything.” The wreckage ruined me; my heart shattered as I hoped for healing and happiness. Hoping for Summer and Caden to heal each other. Praying that the dark knight and his princess would ride off into the sunset together. “I broke for someone who couldn’t break.” Anti-Stepbrother broke me with a heavy hit to my heart where my tears bled onto the pages. Happy tears. Heartbreaking tears. Hopeful tears. The beauty in these words warmed my body and soul; I felt every word I read. Words that reached inside and grabbed my heart hard, tugging it the whole way where it stayed stuck in this story. Tijan RUINED ME with Anti-Stepbrother in THE BEST WAY!!! Caden has my heart…THIS MAN IS EVERYTHING. THIS STORY IS EVERYTHING. My head was full of swoony sensations and so much goodness! I had not read a college romance that hit me that hard since Jamie McGuire’s Beautiful Disaster. I did not expect to fall in insta-love with Anti-Stepbrother but I did. I did not expect this sweet and swoony story, Anti-Stepbrother, to shoot stars into my eyes and daggers in my heart but oh it did. I did not expect much of anything but got everything. Every tear. Every smile. Every laugh. Every gasp. Every beat of my heart. Anti-Stepbrother stole them all. Anti-Stepbrother dug itself into my heart, penetrating it profusely and poignantly. I fell in love with this soul-searing story over and over again. I did not want to be done with my Anti-Stepbrother in a story I felt had only begun, one where the feels will remain long after the last page. 5 devastatingly beautiful stars ...more |
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[image] "Sometimes it takes a nudge to get the knight in shining armor to drop that shield he's using to protect you." I end every Jay Crown [image] "Sometimes it takes a nudge to get the knight in shining armor to drop that shield he's using to protect you." I end every Jay Crownover with tears streaming down my face. Sometimes those tears start early and stay etched in my eyes the whole time reading. Some move in ebbs and flows like the tide. All of my tears hit me like a hurricane: powerful, with a force I never quite see coming. That's what Jay's books are: heart-hitting hurricanes. Salvaged is a heartwarming and heart-wrenching hurricane, and oh did this romance RAVAGE and WRECK me. [image] The only way you can read a Jay Crownover book is to go ALL-IN: body...mind...heart...soul. I ditched life, took Salvaged, and made it MINE. I went FULL THROTTLE. I was ALL IN and I felt this story SEEP THROUGH MY SOUL. There is no other author whose books I read that gives readers a GIFT, a personal chapter through the Introduction like the passion poured into Salvaged. Jay Crownover documents her writing journey of her books through their introductions that engage the readers' emotions—feelings in full force—as much as the stories themselves. These introductions, like in Salvaged, are pieces of this author poured into her books, glimpses into what makes Jay 'Jay,' what hits her heart and surfaces in her soul. Life lessons are poured into these pre-book pieces, ones that make you really ponder your life. With each of Jay’s beautiful and brilliant books, I’m inspired and moved before I even start the story as I was with Salvaged. He took something worthless and made it priceless. I couldn't deny that there was a part of me that wanted to know if he could do the same thing with me. I knew Poppy's story would entangle me in a blanket of emotions where I would experience a mix of chills and heat. I knew her story would be a battle of feels, one I would feel with every ounce of me. I just didn't expect to FEEL SO MUCH. Watching Poppy morph from an awkward duckling into a confident swan was a beautiful journey of self-discovery and healing from a life of hell. I knew it was selfish and that I was walking on very dangerous ground, but I couldn't stay away. She was hiding and I was seeking. Wheeler is the perfect man: gorgeous, inked, compassionate, thoughtful, protective, and sexy. He is not Jay's usual broken hero. Wheeler, a beauty inside and out, is the perfect knight-in-shining armor who knows when to wield his shield and go to battle for those who matter. "I saw you, Poppy. When I had no right and no reason to be looking, I saw you." I MELTED into a puddle of goo. Poppy and Wheeler are WARRIORS, a BEAUTIFUL build-up of strength and colliding souls. Both Poppy and Wheeler have broken pasts. A lone wolf seeks acceptance. A battered lamb seeks strength. Both seek love. Poppy and Wheeler are made for each other and I loved their journey of growth. "I see you, Wheeler. Even when I wasn't looking, I saw you." I MELTED even more. Wheeler and Poppy brought each other back to life while Salvaged BROUGHT ME TO LIFE. This story grabbed my heart, holding it in its grasp, as it delved deep into my soul. "When I didn't know anything or believed in myself, I believed in you." I MELTED until I couldn't melt anymore. Salvaged, this SLOW BURN of a romance seeped into my soul, hitting my heart hard like a hurricane, and I FELT EVERY WORD...EVERYTHING. Salvaged is a splash of sun on top of a storm. Salvaged is strength and salvation after the hardest fought battle of and with life. Salvaged is EVERYTHING, and I LOVED THIS STORY HARD!!! Jay Crownover takes you on an incredible journey with each book, and oh was Salvaged a heart-wrenching, heart-healing, and heartwarming HIGH. Salvaged left its mark, a mark that has lifted this story to a top 2017 read. Salvaged was my SOUL STORM, a hurricane of heart-wielding words that made me yield to every one. I just can’t turn the feels left in the wake of Hurricane Jay off from Salvaged and I don’t want to; I want to keep living through her wondrous words that are LOVE AND LIFE. My heart is forever imprinted with Jay's passionate and poignant words that pierce every part of me every time. That 'Crownover Crack', my term for Jay's addicting words, coined after Rule was born, is my drug for life. This author writes MY KRYPTONITE. I'll never stop chasing Jay's words and hungering for more. 💋💋💋💋💋💋 sweet and strong 'honey' kisses A MUST-CLICK ---> http://amzn.to/2tmnUK8 [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... Readers Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/BBBBoo... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bookaliciousbb Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bookaliciousbb ...more |
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[image] "Show me the most damaged parts of your soul, and I will show you how it shines like gold." ~Nikita Gill When you begin and end a book in tears, [image] "Show me the most damaged parts of your soul, and I will show you how it shines like gold." ~Nikita Gill When you begin and end a book in tears, you know it’s a game changer of a story that’s ruled not only your head but your heart. [image] Riveted by Jay Crownover slammed into my soul with a force I never saw coming, but one I felt with every word from beginning to end. I had no choice but to fall into the words that bled into me – becoming me – because each word that Jay Crownover pens shines like gold, as powerful and as penetrating as the sun. TRUE STORY: I typically start and end a Jay Crownover story in tears. [image] Riveted was both my sun and rain, the perfect storm and rainbow. Riveted was my light and dark, shades of grey that mix the gloom with the great. Riveted was my happiness and my sorrow. Riveted was so many things. Riveted was everything…MY EVERYTHING. TRUE STORY: Jay Crownover’s introductions and dedications to her books engage my emotions—feelings in full force—as much as the stories themselves. The introductions and dedications Jay Crownover writes are as moving as the stories themselves, relaying the reasons for and the background behind the books but so much MORE. These introductions and dedications are pieces of this author poured into the books, glimpses into what makes Jay…‘Jay’…and what hits her heart and surfaces in her soul. Life lessons are poured into these pre-book pieces, ones that make you really ponder your life. With each of Jay’s beautiful and brilliant books that I’m inspired before I even start the story. You don’t believe me?!? Here is a quote from Jay’s Introduction, which resonated with me: “No matter what kind of armor we wear, all of it has a chunk, a dent that speaks to a battle we fought and lost.” This quote is LIFE!!! TRUE STORY: Jay’s words are not just emotions but inspiration. I can’t help but ponder the meaning of life with the lessons Jay teaches in her words. Dixie Carmichael is the red-haired beautiful bartender at Rome’s bar who has had her eye on the bar’s gorgeous and gruff bouncer, Dash ‘Church’ Churchill for many months. An eternal optimist and forever romantic, Dixie sees life as sunshine and rainbows while the muscular, former soldier, Church sees more darkness and storms. “She shone as bright as the sun every single day but I was a man that knew all too well that too much time in the sun could lead to some serious burns.” [image] TRUE STORY: As a military wife whose husband has gone to war a few times, I could relate to the former soldier, Church, as some of those battle scars truly never heal. Those kinks are still in that armor, as even the brave battle a few internal wars too. “She kissed me. Her lips touched mine and she destroyed me.” [image] This book?!? Riveted DESTROYED ME, decimating every piece. This story hit my heart like a hurricane. Riveted SATURATED AND SHRED MY SOUL. I felt Riveted’s light shine through me while reading. I felt the dark too that DECIMATED MY EMOTIONS, a dark cloud over my soul threatening to storm. “I knew the sun could burn when you let it shine on your unprotected skin for too long.” Riveted is an ALL-CONSUMING and AWE-INSPIRING roller coaster of a romance that dances between dark and light, shredding the soul and hypnotizing the heart. Oh is Riveted SPECIAL!!! This perfectly imperfect story scorched and saturated my soul, teetering between storms and rainbows. This former soldier and bartender were magical together, a bold fusion of dark and light, two heroes whose story I'm glad Jay Crownover told! Riveted is over, but I’m still riding the high from this moving and memorable story. Tears are still etched in my eyes, this brilliant and beautiful book fresh in my head. Jay Crownover’s wondrous words wrap themselves around me each time, daring me not to feel…EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. “Sometimes all people can see is what’s different, but those differences are what make us who we are.” I don’t see life as black and white; I see varying hues of gray. Jay Crownover’s books are gray: not black…not white…not quite dark…not quite light…but sooooo bold and beautiful. Since I met first met Rule years ago, I coined a few Jay-isms that apply to each since story of hers. Jay Crownover is the master of writing fierce and flawed heroes, heroes that since Rule I’ve called ‘bad ass boys with big ass hearts.’ I know these boys, all of her heroes, own my heart for life as do her beautiful and brave heroines. Riveted was my ADDICTION…my ACHE...MY ALL. This heartwarming and soul-searing story will fall in a long line of Jay masterpieces with all of The Marked Men, The Point, and Saints of Denver. All of these stories hold a special place in my heart and most are signed beauties on my shelf. TRUE STORY: Jay’s books are my drugs. I call this addiction, which began with Rule and hasn’t stopped, ‘Crownover Crack.’ The Crownover Crack gets me every time. Jay Crownover’s books have marked me for life, each story an intense imprint on my soul. Riveted left its mark, a mark that has lifted this story to a top February 2017 read and a best book of 2017. I just can’t turn the feels left in the wake of Hurricane Jay off and I don’t want to; I want to keep living through her wondrous words that are LOVE AND LIFE. TRUE STORY: There were tears in my eyes as I wrote this review, the story still moving me though it’s been over for many hours. A must #oneclick ---> http://amzn.to/2kCnjlE ★★★★★★ raw and riveting stars [image] Web: http://www.bookaliciousbabes.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bookaliciousb... 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“The truth is, I gave my heart away a long time ago. My whole heart. And I never really got it back.” ~Sweet Home Alabama Have you ever read a story th ...more |
Aug 13, 2016
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What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly? ~Erin Hansen I fell in love with Melanie Harlow’s latest sensation, After We Fall, by just reading ...more |
Nov 28, 2016
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[image] You just can't beat the person who never gives up. ~Babe Ruth Sitting in the stands watching your favorite baseball team play is a high that d ...more |
Mar 30, 2017
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“Let us not seek the Republican answer, or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us now seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us fix our
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[image] You don’t find love. It finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars. Love found me in Helena Hun ...more |
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[image] There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, “What if you fly?” ~Erin Hanson [ ...more |
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“We were two broken souls in love and maybe our crooked pieces were what made us fit together so perfectly, just like a puzzle…The puzzle I didn’t kno
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A spellbinding and soul-searing story of epic and ever-lasting love, Aced reignites a slow burn of bleeding passion that started with Driven and conti
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[image] She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked through the Universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of win ...more |
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[image] Just when I felt like everything was falling apart, I'm beginning to wonder if maybe they were finally falling into place. I have a ...more |
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protecte
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Fun, flirty, flaming hot, and fabulous, Big Rock lights you up with laughter and heats you from head to toe, touching your heart along the way. Big Ro
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Dec 15, 2015
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Jun 15, 2017
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Love cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Love can always find a way. ~ Pyramus and Thisbe When a Katy Evans bo ...more |
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Legend is a tale of guts and glory that grips your heart, tugging it every step of the way. This is not just a story but an escape where you dive in,
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Incredible, intense, and intoxicating, Ladies Man is an all-consuming friends-to-lovers romance that wraps itself around your head and heart—relentles
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[image] You don’t find love; it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars. Love found me when I dove i ...more |
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True love is always worth fighting for. The best books are like love. Stories cast a seductive spell on us, stealing our heart and soul, as we float a ...more |
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You can't help but fall in love with Lauren Blakely's latest must-read masterpiece, Sweet Sinful Nights, a smoldering, suspenseful, sweet, and oh-so-s
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“The devil is not as black as he is painted.” Jay Crownover painted her latest story at the Point, Honor, in black and red with maybe a hint of white ...more |
Oct 11, 2016
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A nail-biter of a twisty, thrilling, and touching tale, Last Kiss bleeds angst, pouring passion from the pages straight to your heart and soul. Like a
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[image] Sometimes you have to play dirty, and oh did Laurelin Paige take me on a deliciously dirty ride with Dirty Filthy Rich Men! Dirty Filthy Rich M ...more |
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I've been looking for the perfect summer romance. A story that sizzles and is set in the sand. A fun and flirty fling. A book that takes me away, body
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“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is no
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