Showing posts with label unconventional. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unconventional. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

 Trouble In Hell by Alex Grayson


(Hell Night 1)
Author: Alex Grayson
Released Date: October 18th, 2018
Source: GR


Book one in Alex Grayson's brand new romantic suspense series, Hell Night.... Welcome to Malus.

Trouble and his brothers escaped from Malus, Texas as kids. In the dead of night, they left behind a hell so hideous, it made national news.

Years later, they returned to make the place that was once their living nightmare, a safe place for those who have suffered just as they have.

When Remi comes to town, heavily pregnant and in desperate need of help, as the town's only doctor, Trouble reluctantly offers his services. Little did he know the strong attraction he would feel for the woman. He fights it, tries to push it to the side, but it only grows stronger, nearly consuming him.

Love is not something Trouble can afford to feel. Not when he still has vengeance in his blood and the need to punish those of his past. Not when he knows Remi would never be able to see past the merciless actions he must carry out.

Remi has no time for love either, no matter how much her heart yearns for Trouble. Not when danger is knocking on her door, demanding something she'll never be able to give.

Will the darkness in their pasts devour them, or will they find the beauty that's just out of reach? In a town like Malus, anything is possible....

DISCLAIMER: Intended for readers 18 years and older due to mature content, abusive situations, and harsh language. May contain triggers for some readers. Please read with caution.

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 BOOK REVIEW: Gods and Monsters by Saffron A. Kent


(Standalone)
Author: Saffron A. Kent
Released Date: February 18th, 2018
Source: GR


He was an artist. She was his muse.

To everyone in town, Abel Adams was the devil's spawn, a boy who never should have been born. A monster.

To twelve year-old Evie Hart, he was just a boy with golden hair, soft t-shirts and a camera. A boy who loved taking her picture and sneaking her chocolates before dinner. A boy who made her feel special.

Despite her family's warnings, she loved him in secret for six years. They met in empty classrooms and kissed in darkened church closets. Until they couldn't.

Until the time came to choose between love and family, and Evie chose Abel.

Because their love was worth the risk. Their love was the stuff of legend.

But the thing about legends is that they are cautionary tales. They are made of choices and mistakes. And for Abel and Evie, the artist and the muse, those mistakes come in the form of lights, camera, sex.

NOTE: This is NOT a paranormal or a priest romance.

REVIEW

Title: Gods & Monsters
Author: Saffron Kent
Genre: Coming of Age ; Contemporary Romance

"You see, when two people fall in love, the other seven billion don’t matter. It’s not the world that tears them apart, it’s them. Only they have the power."

"Because legends don’t die. Our story’s gonna live forever. Abel and his Pixie.”

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

 BOOK REVIEW: Medicine Man by Saffron A. Kent


(Standalone Forbidden Contemporary Romance)
Author: Saffron A. Kent
Released Date: September 27th, 2018
Source: GR



Willow Taylor lives in a castle with large walls and iron fences. But this is no ordinary castle. It’s called Heartstone Psychiatric Hospital and it houses forty other patients. It has nurses with mean faces and techs with permanent frowns.

It has a man, as well. A man who is cold and distant. Whose voice drips with authority. And whose piercing gray eyes hide secrets, and maybe linger on her face a second too long.

Willow isn’t supposed to look deep into those eyes. She isn’t supposed to try to read his tightly-leashed emotions. Neither is she supposed to touch herself at night, imagining his powerful voice and that cold but beautiful face.

No, Willow Taylor shouldn’t be attracted to Simon Blackwood at all.

Because she’s a patient and he’s her doctor. Her psychiatrist.

The medicine man.

REVIEW

Okay i don't have suffice words for this incredibly amazing book, as always Saffron Kent is one of the brilliant author that i know. So i will be leaving you guys some of the epic lines in the book❤.

"Do you know why i love the rain? Because it reminds me of second chances, it makes me think that if this ugly world can be pure after a heavy shower, i can be pure too. I can get all the chances that i want". - Willow Audrey Taylor

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"Maybe i haven't said it yet because... what i feel for you is more than love. It's happiness, You make me happy Simon.

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"I know how difficult i can be. I know that, i know living with me, with someone like me won't be a picnic and i can't ask anyone to do that you know- like marry me and have babies with me because you never know if my babies are gonna come out like me or-"

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"I'm your snowflake."
"Fuck yes, you are."
"I love you. I love you so much, Simon."

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Monday, October 19, 2020

 Devious Lies by Parker S. Huntington


(Cruel Crown 1)

Author: Parker S. Huntington

Released Date: December 13th, 2019

Source: Goodreads


From USA Today bestselling author Parker S. Huntington comes an enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn romance full of revenge and a dash of fate.

“She could enjoy her pretty, perfect world a little longer. Soon enough, everything she owned would be mine.”

I had a plan to escape the friend zone.
Step one: sneak into Reed’s room.
Step two: sleep with him.

But when the lights turned on, it wasn’t familiar blue eyes I saw.
These were dark, angry, and full of demons.
And they belonged to Reed’s much older brother.

Four years later, Nash Prescott is no longer the help’s angry son.
I’m no longer the town’s prized princess.

At twenty-two, I’m broke, in need of a job.
At thirty-two, he’s a billionaire, in need of revenge.

Who cares if my family ruined his?
Who cares if he looks at me with pure loathing?
Who cares if every task he assigns me is designed to torture?

I need the money.
Simple as that.

I’ll suffer his cruelty in silence, knowing there’s one thing he wants more than revenge…
Me.

Note: Devious Lies is a 145,000-word standalone in the Cruel Crown series. If you love banter and angst, this book is for you! Welcome to Eastridge. Enter if you dare.



Nash Prescott was thrift-shop beauty, threadbare and jaded, the memory of something once beautiful lingering as he looked on the world with war-torn eyes.

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 BOOK REVIEW: Our Way by T.L. Swan


(Standalone Contemporary Romance)

Author: T.L. Swan

Released Date: July 24th, 2020

Source: Goodreads


Nathan Mercer, the only man in my life.
Loving him was never an option.

We met ten years ago, when we started at the same company on the same day.
Both new in town and with nobody else to rely on, we quickly became friends.

And while Nathan went on to rule San Francisco, I’m still doing the same job with the same people.
We finish each other’s sentences, we spend Christmas together and he sleeps at my house more than his.
He’s beautiful.... beyond belief.
In another life, he’s probably my soul mate.

However, lately things have changed. He’s started looking at me differently.
His eyes drop to my lips as I speak.
His hugs are tighter…. longer.
Our fights are more passionate, his jealousy insane.

I know it’s all in my head….it has to be.

They say to never love someone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
I don't. To him I'm a queen.

But our story is complicated.
And as much as I love Nathan Mercer with all of my heart. . .
He’s the one man I can never have.


REVIEW

Our story isn’t neat and it doesn’t fit into any boxes. We are complicated and messy.
Fucked up and tainted.
But…
This is love.
Our Way.


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 BOOK REVIEW: Sweet Dandelion by Micalea Smeltzer


(Standalone Student-Teacher Forbidden Romance)

by: Micalea Smeltzer

Released Date: March 25th, 2020

Source: Goodreads



Dandelion Meadows is cursed.
Horrible name.
Horrible luck.

At eighteen she should be headed off to college, all smiles and naivety.
Instead, a victim of a school shooting, she’s starting her senior year in a new city and living with her brother.
Nightmares of that terrible day haunt her, affecting her daily life and the relationships around her.
Forced to meet with the school counselor, Dani finds him chipping away at the walls she’s built around herself, and even her heart.

Lachlan Taylor doesn’t know what to make at first of the broken student he’s tasked with helping. She’s survived a trauma he’s not sure he can save her from, but he knows he has to try.

The more time they spend together, the more they learn about what it really means to live.

Some things are forbidden.
Some things are necessary for survival.

Their love is both.


REVIEW



I’m very lucky to be on my own two feet, but sometimes I feel like a bird with a broken wing, destined to never fly and it hurts all over again.

Such an emotional and heavy heart story. Learning to breathe and be brave again. Losing someone you loved was never easy. Dani's journey of finding oneself and unexpected love with a someone though its forbidden and unconventional was still a great inspiration and hard lesson at the same time, but that was life. We can't really choose who we might fell in love. Life is messy and beautiful.

You can only fight gravity for so long, and the two of us have been falling together from the start.

Lachlan and I are inevitable.
An ocean could separate us and I know deep down we’d still find our way back to each other.


This story has more depth to it, than what you are thinkin'. It contains sensitive matter that might offend some readers but I can assure you Micalea handled those meticulously. IMO it helps the book not be bland instead more engrossing.

“Wrong doesn’t always mean bad, Mr. Taylor.”

“You’re loving me in the light.”

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 BOOK REVIEW: Arrogant Bastard by Winter Renshaw


(Arrogant 1)

by: Winter Renshaw

Released Date: July 28th, 2015

Source: Goodreads



The last time my father beat me to a bloody pulp was the night he walked in on me with his woman in his bed.

To be fair, she seduced me. And to be honest, I liked it. But to CPS, I was a victim.

They shipped me to Utah where my estranged mother lived with her husband and two sister-wives. And that’s when I met her. My innocent, wholesome, perfect step-sister. Well, one of many. But Waverly stood out because just like me, we’d been fighting a losing battle our entire lives.

Falling for her was a mistake, but shit, it’s not like I ever made good decisions.

F**k being “family.” I must have Waverly Miller, and I won’t stop until she’s mine. AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is a full-length, standalone, HEA romance. Contains forbidden themes as well as religious undertones not meant to offend. Please be 18+.


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“I’m a beacon of change. A catalyst. I’m here to bring about a longitudinal shift that will open her eyes in ways she’s only ever dreamed of.”

“He’s my heart and soul, my insides and out. I live for him, and I know he lives for me.”


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Sunday, October 18, 2020

 BOOK REVIEW: Hush, Hush by Lucia Franco


(Hush, Hush 1)

by: Lucia Franco

Released Date: August 14th, 2019

Source: Goodreads


A new, seductive forbidden romance that caters to Manhattan's elite...

I knew the rules:

Never reveal my true identity.
Play the game, give the illusion.
Don’t get close to the clients.

The dark and glamorous lifestyle of the rich and shameless open my eyes to a lavish world of sin and wealth, and a man I can’t have.

A man I desperately want—James Riviera.

We're treading a fine line as we live the ultimate double life until we make a startling discovery that tests both our loyalties.

I only had to follow the rules, but rules are meant to be broken.



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He's the flame on the tip of the arrow that's aimed right at my heart. I want to burn alive with him.

This book gets me out of my slump, I loved a good age gap forbidden romance its my go to genre and this book goes as above so below expectations. I wished I read this sooner than later because its sooo good, the writing style is very descriptive that even the tiniest detail are written yet I don't mind. You just can't help to be allure in this decadent world that Lucia created not only on her characters but for her readers as well.

To give an overview of the plotline, this is about a 21 yrs old Aubrey Abrams who works as an Escort to this high end Manhattan elite and fell in love with his 52 yrs old client James Riviera, and this is their romance. The plot twist in here, I kinda forecasted it as soon as it was foreshadowed. Regardless I still loved the storyline, her style of writing was fit to convey the most intricate and sensational words to comprehend with the utmost clarity. it evokes a detailed and realistic conundrum of what real life mirrors in the fictional world. This right here was epic.

"We met by a cruel chance of fate. Becoming your lover was part of the job, but falling for you… I had no control. I didn't stand a chance."


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 BOOK REVIEW: Sicko by Amo Jones (Standalone Dark Romance) Author: Amo Jones Published: September 1st, 2020 Source:  GR He was my foster bro...