Showing posts with label 2016 Favourites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2016 Favourites. Show all posts
Tru Blue
Melissa Foster
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2iLPsST
Review: https://goo.gl/my5WSG
The Spiral Down
Aly Martinez
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Review: https://goo.gl/2tYDr4
Black Swan Affair
K.L. Kreig
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2iM4yI3
Review: https://goo.gl/nfPRVd
Wilder
Rebecca Yarros
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2hzr755
Review: https://goo.gl/06X68M
The
Studying Hours
Sara Ney
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2iMhH45
Review: https://goo.gl/OhbXTc
Retrieval
Aly Martinez
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Review: https://goo.gl/aw62WZ
Transfer
Aly Martinez
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ifmduP
Review: https://goo.gl/lai7LT
Sweetness
Sierra Hill
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2iMYzXB
Review: https://goo.gl/UDTMTA
The
Hard Count
Ginger Scott
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2hzx1D8
Review: https://goo.gl/P50n4F
Unexpected
Reality
Kaylee Ryan
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2iN820Y
Review: https://goo.gl/twWGXq
Dark
Sexy Knight
Katy Regnery
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2hTKyTV
Review: https://goo.gl/MzkjoL
Priceless
Linda Kage
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ifzfs5
Review: https://goo.gl/1xbuCl
Until
June
Aurora Rose Reynolds
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2hTQvA5
Review: https://goo.gl/EDhwMY
When
I’m with You
Harper Sloan
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2hzGdYo
Review: https://goo.gl/heXQBn
Shameless
Lex Martin
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ilaYyN
Review: https://goo.gl/zL9Hn4
The
Rules
Elizabeth Brown
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ilaN6U
Review: https://goo.gl/UIBlfx
I think I fell in love with Truman on the first page and I just
fell deeper and deeper as the story progressed. I just couldn’t get enough of
him or his story and I hung on every word of this book.
I expected something really dark and I went into this feeling
very apprehensive as I just wasn’t in the mood for something dark and
devastating. Thank god that wasn’t how this book was written and the amount of
love that poured off the pages was so perfect and beautiful. There were a few
moments of darkness but they were few and far between and the over whelming
beauty of the book had me smiling and swooning so much more than I cried.
Tru was beyond perfection. He was the ultimate heart of golf in
an inked armour and I can’t ever express how amazing he was. The way he loved
his family made my ovaries explode and my heart beat out of my chest while
tears streamed down my face. He was just incredible. And he absolutely made
this entire book for me.
“I never thought I needed anyone, but I’m starting to think I was just waiting for you.”
Gemma was amazing most of the time but at others she annoyed me.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved her and I thought she was great for Truman but she
had a few moments where I wanted to smack her and tell her not to be an idiot.
This is the first time I have read a Melissa Foster book and I
am so happy because if any of her other heroes are anything like Tru I can now
go stalk her and add a whole heap of new book boyfriends to my ever growing
list.
Wow. This Book. Words could never do
justice to all the emotions and stomach clenching heartbreak I have gone
through reading this book. It is definitely one of the best books I have read
this year and the irony is that I didn’t want to read it.
Don’t get me wrong, I signed up to
review it, I loved the blurb and the promise of it being non cheating with a
HEA had me thinking I had to have it. But between then and everyday life when
it came time to sit down and read it I just felt like I NEEDED something light
and I couldn’t handle the angst I knew this would bring. That said I was
running out of time to read this so I sat at the optometrist waiting for our
daughter to get her eye tests done and I started it.
I got to 3% and I was so gone over these
characters and the way the words were written and the story that was being told
I couldn’t handle putting it down. I kept trying to explain it’s epicness to my
husband who really doesn’t care except for the fact he is happy I am so
excited. Every time I had to put it down I had to go to GoodReads and tell the
world that this book is breathtaking.
The story is told in dual POV and that
gave me a pretty good idea of who Maverick is going to end up with but it’s
also told in flashbacks and the emotion she felt for Killian made me question
everything I thought. I honestly had no idea who she was going to choose. I was
waiting for the plot twist that was going to destroy me because it honestly
didn’t matter who she chose because the importance was more on the why than the
who.
This book is a love triangle but it’s so
much more than that. It’s a heartbreaking journey through the life of a woman
torn apart by the two people she loves most in the world and the decisions she
makes as truths about their intertwined past comes to light and changes her
view on everything she thought was absolute in her life and I absolutely got
lost in every word of it.
Even now just thinking about it and
trying to put into words the perfection of this story I have tears streaming
down my face and I can’t say enough things about this book to express my love
of it. That said I think you need to experience and feel this book without any
idea of the journey it will take you on. So put aside your reservations about
love triangles or anything else and dive in. You can’t miss this book, it’s
utter perfection.
This seems to be the month for amazeballs books. It’s
like all my favorite authors got together to see if they could blow my mind
with their awesome.
It goes without saying that if Rebecca Yarros writes
it, I will read it. But damn did this book have all the action and emotion I
could handle and then some.
Wilder was everything I could ask for in a new adult
hero. Cocky, arrogant, wild, man whore who knows what he wants and gives his whole
heart and soul into getting it. He was so fearless and full of life it was hard
not to fall in love with him as soon as I met him. He is one of those people
who pulls you into his orbit without effort and I loved the fact that I could
feel the pull between Wilder and Leah from their first meeting.
Leah was struggling so hard to repair her broken
pieces and I loved that she never used everything she had gone through as an
excuse to avoid her feelings for Wilder. She was such an amazing character I
loved her as much as I loved Wilder. And despite a few tests and trials she
never made stupid drama or excuses, she just pulled up her big girl panties and
dealt with it. Her strength was awesome to watch.
There were a few things that upset me to no end and
for a while there I thought I might have to put the book down and walk away but
of course Rebecca is a goddess and she pulled me back to being on her stalker
list and I absolutely can’t wait to read the rest of the Renegades finding
their HEA.
Oh my god! Best. Duet. Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like I can’t even take a full breath
yet from all the emotions still flooding through my system. Like I need to just
sit back down and start them all over again because I am not ready to leave the
beauty and heartbreak of Aly Martinez’s Retrieval Duet.
Firstly, I can’t explain how epic Retrieval was and I was so devastated to get to that ending and hit the cliff hanger without having Transfer loaded on my kindle but thankfully I only had an hours wait before I could get into full meltdown mode. Sadly, it was 11pm and there was no way I could have gone to sleep without just reading the first few chapters to get passed the cliff hanger.
Umm yup hello 1am and 50% before I remembered I
had to get up in 5 hours. So then I spent the whole day trying to adult and not
obsess over Clare and Roman and Elisabeth. I did however think I was going to
go insane when I had to put the book down at the 70% mark with everything up in
the air.
The depth of emotion is indescribable and I know
this book will stay with me for ever. Hands down the best characters, the
infinite love and heart stopping drama had my heart stopping before it pounded
out of my chest with tears streaming down my face. But of course you always
know you are going to get perfection from Aly Martinez.
Fuck, Walter Noir was insane. That man had had it all. An amazing wife. A gorgeous daughter. A beautiful life. But, for some reason, he hadn’t been able to get his shit together enough to hold on to it. And thank God for that. Because, now, she was my woman. My girl. My life.
So I am not going to go into the story at all
because if you haven’t read the first one yet you need to one click them both
right now, seriously there is no excuse not to. And if you have read the first
one you would already be finished with this one before you could stop to look
at reviews. So I will simply tell you this is without a doubt the absolute must
read of the year.
Now that is how you write a college sports
romance. Oh my god I feel like I have been wandering the desert looking for
water waiting to read this book. All the ones I have read recently have been so
hit and miss and sadly more miss than hit that by the half way mark of this
book I was almost scared to keep reading incase it was all going to go to shit
because I am sure I would have broken down into huge, ugly, fist wailing sobs
(not pretty people) but damn did Sara Ney nail this so hard.
I don’t even know where to start with this one just damn. It ticked every one of my boxes as well as tickling my box ;)
Sassy,
smart arse non virgin heroine Sexy,
douchebag, man whore hero Sexy
sports uniforms that leave little to the imagination Dirty
talking douchebag
I honestly could just keep right on ticking off
things I loved about this book, in fact there was very little I didn’t like. I
mean there was one moment there were I was about to have a hissy fit but then
when I realised Sara hadn’t crushed all my hopes and dreams of a five star read
I actually felt like she earnt a high five for giving me a heart attack.
All of the characters were just perfect, even the
arsehole secondary ones that I loved to hate and I am so signing up for the
rest of this series. I had laugh out loud moments, I had soaked panty squirming
and head palm, eye rolling I just couldn’t put it down. The Texts From Last
Night hashtags had me laughing so hard I had to read them all out to hubby. It
was so well rounded with sexy, sweet, funny in perfect quantities. I seriously
loved it all. I could just keep right on ranting.
I
don’t think I have read an Aly Martinez book that hasn’t stolen part of my
soul. So when I was awarded an ARC of Retrieval I was so excited and so
apprehensive. You see these are not books you can read for an hour here and 20
minutes there as you shuttle the kids to basketball and football and school and
soccer. These are books you need to clear a few hours of your day and find a
quiet room to hide out in as you become fully immersed in the story.
So
I had a plan. I was going to read it Saturday afternoon but then I slowly
watched the day dwindle away and when I sat down at 9pm I knew I had missed my
opportunity so I bitched to hubby and he cleared me a Sunday arvo. And now I am
sitting here with tears streaming down my face NEEDING to get my grabby hands
on Transfer.
Elisabeth
was so sweet and I loved that she was so filled with attitude and spirit, she didn’t
once do something stupid or try to punish Roman she just knew how she felt and
what she wanted and she went after it. I absolutely fell head over heels for
her. I loved knowing where she was coming from and how she got where she got in
her life and emotions.
But
damn was she one strong willed woman to walk away from the amazeballs of Roman.
Holy shit was he all that you could ever want in a book boyfriend and then just
a whole heap more. In fact I think he transcends book boyfriend by far. I just
could not get enough of him ever.
But I’d never, not once, seen Elisabeth with just my eyes. My heart was just as much a part of the way I viewed her as my retinas.
To
be completely honest, the concept of infertility is a hard one for me to grasp and
reading the absolute heartbreak Roman and Elisabeth went through in their
struggle my heart broke for them. But to continue the honesty I think most of
those emotions were pulled out of me by the amazing talent of Aly more so than
the subject. But damn did I feel their pain like a knife to my stomach.
I
can never get enough of the way Aly Martinez writes and I honestly think she
must have the map to my heart for the men that she writes have all got a piece
of it locked away. And now I am off to beg, borrow or steal to get my hands on Transfer
before I have a nervous breakdown waiting to see what is going to happen next.
This is absolutely one of the best books I have read this year, I honestly don’t
know how to put it down and continue functioning without knowing what happens
next but if you will excuse me for a bit I think I may start by going to cry in
the shower for Claire. Until I focus on the many assets of Roman to cheer
myself up that is.
Oh my god this book was so exactly what I needed
I can’t even begin to get my mind around it. First I need to explain that when
I saw this book a month ago I thought it sounded sweet but I kind of forgot all
about it. Then it rocked up on my kindle and I wasn't really in the mood for it
but I figured I had better read it. Within minutes I was hooked.
So why wasn't I in the mood for it? First I need
to tell you I am in a completely basketball dominated household despite being
an avid AFL fan. And coming to the end of our season here I have been attending
something basketball related 7 days a week for the last 5 months. So to say I
am over basketball is a slight understatement.
Then I pick up this book and it's about college
basketball. I seriously thought my head might explode. But then Ainsley. Sweet,
beautiful, caring Ainsley. And Cade. Holy hell Cade. These are the types of
books that make me love new adult novels. The ones that break off a little
piece of my heart and wrap it up in their pages.
Ainsley has never had anything easy in her life.
She has been the only thing she can count on her entire life and has never
known anything but instability. She has worked her arse off for everything she
has and to provide a safe environment for her sister. Then she bumps into Cade
and damn was he a self centered, entitled, man whoreing arsehole.
Cade has just made the stupidest decision of his
life and with it he is faced with losing everything he has worked towards. With
his last year at college in jeopardy he is forced to accept responsibility for
his mistakes and set about fixing them. Then he bumps into Ainsley and his
focus shifts.
Destiny.
That one word has my tummy fluttering thinking back
on how we connected. Not once. Not twice. But three times we ran into each
other by happenstance.
Two impossibly opposite individuals with completely
different upbringings and circumstances. Yet, we meshed. It’s like what Cade
said TV sports announcers call a perfect shot.
“Nothing but net, baby.”
And I felt their connection to the depths of my soul. Cade made me feel not just the amazing amounts of chemistry these two had but also a really solid emotional connection despite their completely polar lifestyles and experiences. It wasn’t easy and there were bumps along the way but he never once doubted that they were meant to be together nor did he ever do anything to make me doubt his utter devotion to Ainsley.
I fell in love with them both and I had so many
moments where I was holding my breath waiting to see what was going to happen
next. I only put the book down long enough to wipe the tears from my eyes, not
all of them sad.
Before I forget I should mention that while there
were basketball references you don't need to be a basketball fan to follow the
story and it wasn't sport heavy he just happens to be a player. There were a
few references to plays and such but they wouldn't detract from the story if
you didn't understand them.
This is the first book by Sierra Hill that I have
read but I am now slightly obsessed. I am seriously dying to see how this
series continues and who is going to get the next book and when I can get my
hands on it. If you're a new adult fan you need to one click this right now and
clear a few hours off your schedule to sit down and meet Cade and Ains.
What’s a girl to do when she literally has a
dozen books she has to read? One clicks a different one and reads it in one
sitting because it’s the new Ginger Scott novel of course. I have been waiting
a month to read this book but I managed to stop myself pre ordering it because
I knew I had too many other books to read but of course I couldn’t make myself
sit down and read any of them for the last two days waiting for this one to
release so I caved and spent a rainy Saturday in bed and I couldn’t be happier.
Ginger Scott always makes me feel so much for her
characters, not just the things they are going through but just them in
general. I love them. But in this case I also had a load of holy shit is that
for real moments. I feel like I went to a whole other world that just doesn’t
line up with mine. See I have 2 boys who play representative level sport (the
highest level they can play for their ages in Australia) and I can’t comprehend
that level of high stress ever being put on a sport, especially high school
kids and coaches.
As I got lost in this book I literally felt like
a 16 year old girl with her first crush. I fell so hard for Nico, I wanted to
run away with him and have his children (sorry honey). He was absolutely
perfect. He was so smart and caring and loving and just wow. I feel like I am
sitting here with my mind screaming I can’t, I just can’t even, words and
stuff. That was the perfection of Nico and all that he was and all that he
overcame to get to the dreaded “the end” when I wasn’t ready to leave yet.
And Reagan was awesome too. She felt so genuine,
I loved her nerdiness and her lack of all of the cliché dramatics. She was
comfortable in her position in her life and watching her fall in love with Nico
was beautiful. There were no insecurities, or tantrums over misunderstandings
there was just life and all the associated pains and disappointments that occur
when two people come from very different backgrounds and each have their own
crosses to bear and I fucking loved it.
I was so invested I feel like I held my breath
for half of the book, trying to guess what was going to happen or trying to
figure out what had happened. I loved all of the supporting characters
especially Sasha and (her BF) and I would love to see them all get their own
book or maybe a novella of college life because I seriously don’t think I could
get too much of these guys.
On that note I am off to dream of Nico.
There’s so much I want to say about this book but I honestly
FEEL you need to go into it not knowing what to expect.
When I saw the cover and read what little there is for a blurb I
had an idea of what the book was about and if you’re thinking what I was you’re
right. But there was so much more.
As I got into this book I was so hooked, I couldn’t put it down.
It’s so beautifully written and the story was perfect. I thought I knew what
was going to happen and I was right and then I was so so wrong.
I went through all of the emotions. I was pissed, I was gutted,
I was so happy I was smiling like an idiot and I loved every word of it.
Ridge was everything you could ask for in a leading man. Oh my
god I fucking loved him. I did have a very brief moment of doubt near the
beginning but damn did he redeem himself.
But in the interest of full disclosure I will say the editing
was a little rough but I can excuse that in an ARC. Also the last 15% I didn’t
see coming and it hit me like a mack truck, and for me I loved it but some may
think it was a little over the top but what do you want in fiction if not an
awesome story that makes you swoon and feel a full range of emotions?
Now take a long look at that cover while you one click it
because you won’t get to see it again until you have read the last word. Then
you can join my stalking to beg the author for the rest of the guys to get
their own books.
I don’t know where to start to explain to you how
amazing this book, this series and this author are. I feel like anything I say
at this point is redundant. Everything Katy Regnery writes has this ability to
crush me then make me feel like all is right in the world. And from the very
first book her Modern Fairytale series has been pure gold.
Dark Sexy Knight is no different. I knew I had to
have it from the second I saw the blurb and as soon as it landed on my kindle I
just had to pick it up and read it. I normally feel a little guilt when I one
click a new book knowing I already have
heaps of books on my kindle just waiting for me to read them but knowing
that a percentage of the sales from these books go to amazing causes I actually
feel like I have to buy them as quickly as possible.
Verity is sinking, drowning under the weight of a
life without luck and a special needs brother who is her whole world since the
death of her parents, until she meets Colt. Colt swoops in to play knight in
shining armour despite his feelings of self-loathing and his own battles with
his inner demons.
This book truly is a love story. And from their
very first meeting I could feel the chemistry between them like a string
pulling them together. I felt so
personally invested in their relationship that when everything seemed to be
perfect and I realised I was only at 50% my stomach was in knots trying to
guess what was going to go wrong or how these two were going to be tested. And
when it happened I was right even as I was entirely wrong and I loved it.
I spent half of this book with a huge smile on my
face and the other half with tears in my eyes or streaming down my face. The
only negative for me personally is I would have liked to see a little more
recompense for everything they went through. But then that epilogue was so
beautiful I guess I can live without it and just sit back and think about the
great things to come in their future.
Oh god. I think knowing what Caroline
and Noel went through I always just assumed that Brandt and Colton had been too
young to have experienced their own issues. I mean other than the poverty and
neglect their mother forced them to live through but reading that prologue had
me heartbroken before I even started.
Don't get me wrong I know going in that
Linda is going to have me ugly crying for half the book but geez ease a girl in
a little.
I have been obsessed with the Forbidden men since the very
beginning so how this book snuck passed me I don’t even know but as soon as I
saw it on my GR feed I immediately one clicked it and cleared my calendar and
damn was it worth every second of pretending I couldn’t hear the kids calling
me.
The never ending prologue was amazeballs I loved seeing
them grow from first meeting to present and seeing the families around them that I
feel so invested in grow and change. Especially seeing it from a whole new
perspective in Brandt and Sarah’s eyes.
And seeing how all the things that all the other couples went through in
an outside perspective made me relive the read so I almost got the feeling of
re-experiencing all those books again and damn the feels were awesome.
“Ten? You think Caroline is sneaking off with Ten? No way.
That’s whack.”
I felt like I knew these characters going into the book so
to see them as adults in their own story was perfect. And while I did know their history and parts
of the background there was so much that had not been told or had been told
from a different perspective leaving their part of it out. And then there was
the NOW part of the story that hadn’t been told yet. That showed us not only
Sarah and Brandt but everyone they love.
Everything I love about this series was front and foremost
in this book. Brandt lived up to the Forbidden Men title and in some aspects he
even exceeded it. He had the possessive, alpha thing nailed. & although I
would have much preferred him to have not been so promiscuous before he was
with Sarah it was so understandable it was never really an issue.
“I just want one time,
one experience to check off my bucket list. And then we can go on as if it
never happened.” As if it never happened, huh? Right. Just fuck the girl of my
dreams, the person I loved above all others, and then carry on and forget about
it.
Sarah was so strong and determined I couldn’t help but love
her to pieces and there were so many times I felt my heart break for her during
this book but she never stopped fighting. But damn did she have to have so many
struggles? Now I know that most of that was part and parcel of her cerebral
palsy and I in no means wanted to see that downplayed I just wanted Brandt to
be able to wave a magic wand and have her life be sunshine and rainbows.
“He...Seth called me...the c-word.” Reese gasped. “Cunt?” I
laughed softly and shook my head. “No. Cripple.”
And now I just have to up my author stalking since I have
obviously been slipping and I can’t wait for Colton’s story.
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