Review: Beg (Songs of Submission #1) by C.D. Reiss

Goodreads blurb:

This novella is the first in a series

My name is Monica. I’m a singer born and raised in Los Angeles.
I've stopped dating. When I cut a record, or win a Grammy, maybe then I’ll be with someone, but every man in my past has done everything he could to make me submit myself to him, and it’s gotten in the way of my career. I won’t do it again.

But there’s Jonathan. He owns the high-rise hotel where I work, and he is gorgeous and charming. I refuse to fall in love with him, even though when he asks me to submit to him, I want nothing more.

****GRAPHIC LANGUAGE, SEX, AND ADULT SITUATIONS****

First things first, I don’t like Monica! You wanna know why? I will show you why.

“I loved Gabby. She was like a sister to me, but sometimes I wished for a less burdensome friend.”

That’s just not right! Her friend has a depression, tried to kill herself, she is now showing the same behaviors that she did when she tried to kill herself, and Monica wishes for a less burdensome friend!? What the hell! And one more thing, when she has to choose between going home with Gabby and make sure she doesn't do anything bad and going to Jonathan’s house to sleep with him, what do you think she chose? She chose going to Jonathan’s house. I just think that that is not right, I would never do something like that and that is why I don’t like Monica. If you have to choose between making sure your best friend is okay and sleeping with a guy that you barely know, you choose your best friend.

Well, moving on... Jonathan, I was impressed that he had red hair. I was not excepting that, I never read a book that the guy had red hair. I tried searching for some pictures of guys with red hair and I didn't really find many good ones, so I had a hard time imagining Jonathan.

At first I didn't like him either because he looked shy or something.

“H-Hi,” I stammered. “I’ll be your server.” I smiled. That always worked. Then I thought happy thoughts because that made my smile genuine, and I watched Drazen move his gaze from my smiling face, over my breasts, to my hips, stopping at my calves. I felt as if I were being applauded again.
He looked back at my face. I stared right back at him, and he pursed his lips. I’d caught him looking, and he seemed justifiably embarrassed.”

Aren't you supposed to look at her, see that she saw you looking and smirk, like that was exactly what you wanted to happen? Well, I guess I’m just used to things this way...
Anyway, as I read the book, I found that he is not so bad.

I read some parts of other reviews before I started reading the book, and many people said that the sex scenes were hot, so I was excited to read them. But when I did I found that it was too short. She was saying that she thought that she couldn't take four more hours of that and I was thinking “What did you do that was so special?”. There was a part that I think is very... what’s the word? Interesting maybe?

“When I looked down at him, his eyes were closed with intensity as he flicked his tongue over my clit.” (....) “We kissed. He tasted perfectly of whiskey and desire. I wanted him. I wanted every inch of him”

You do know that you are tasting yourself right? Is good to know that she finds that her taste is perfect...

It was exactly at 96% that I thought it was getting interesting, so because of that I will continue to read the books because even though I don’t like Monica and had a hard time finding Jonathan sexy, I’m interested in knowing what will happen next.

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Review: Big Sky by Kitty Thomas

Goodreads blurb:

Veronica Cason lives in a small apartment with no clear view of the sky. It’s uncertain which might crush her first: her debt or the buildings squeezed in so tight that they surround her like ominous sentinels. She can’t breathe in the city. Her success is a lie, and her debt is coming to collect her—unless someone else gets there first.

When a stranger offers her a job at a ranch, it feels like salvation, but it could also mean her death if his motives aren't pure. Which door has the tiger behind it? The claustrophobia of the city or ranch life under an open sky?

NOTE: Big Sky is dark, literary erotica and is intended for a mature adult audience.

God, I don't even know what to say. This was all so crazy!

This book is about Veronica, she just lost her job, has no money to pay the bills and she soon will have to leave her apartment. Luke owns a ranch and offers her a job but she doesn't want to accept because she is scared of what he could do to her once she was there. Luke doesn't stop trying to convince her to go work for him and she keeps declining, until he kidnaps her.

Luke makes so many things to her, he shares her with the other men who work on the ranch and so many other crazy things that I didn't imagine ever reading about. But Veronica likes it, at least some things and even when she doesn't like one thing that he makes her do or wants her to do, she ends up liking it.

Luke wants her to be like his ex girlfriend Trish. He kidnapped her because she looks like Trish. He sometimes even calls her Trish. Veronica starts to think that she wants Luke to notice her, she wants to be different from is ex, wants to do things with him that he didn't do with Trish. She likes how she feels when he is around and she says that she is addicted to the way Luke and the other men touch her and too comfortable with a warm bed, food and shelter. She doesn't want to leave anymore.

Luke is always gonna see her as Trish and Veronica knows that but she is ready to accept that and live the rest of her life in the ranch.

“She blinked back the tears before they could overwhelm her. If he couldn't love her, this had to be enough. The pleasure. The clean air and peace. The freedom from her debt. As she looked up, bright blue with dots of cotton candy clouds filled her vision. In the end, the sky was the only thing that was real.”

I felt so bad in the end because I always want a happy ending and Veronica simply accepts what happen to her and in her mind there is the best place to her but I don't want it to be like that. I want her to kill all those bastards and then try to have a good life, try to be happy, find someone that can love her and marry her and have a bunch of beautiful babies. Unfortunately that doesn't happen.

It was a very crazy book, but I still enjoyed it.

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Review: Up to Me (The Bad Boys #2) by M. Leighton

Goodreads blurb:

Happily ever after doesn't come easy. But for love, it’s always worth the fight.

Olivia finds bliss unlike any she’s ever known in Cash’s arms. He sets her skin on fire and melts her heart right inside her chest. Unfortunately, their happily ever after is short-lived when a shadow from Cash’s past threatens to turn their world upside down.

Dangerous people from his father’s world have discovered that Cash holds information that could put them away for a very long time. And they’re willing to do anything—and hurt anybody—to get it back. Giving it up means Cash must choose between the life of his father and the life of Olivia.

Having nearly overcome her wariness of bad boys, Olivia’s trust is shaken when this new threat arises. Now she finds that Cash is not only a danger to her heart, but his family has associations that are a danger to her life as well. She soon discovers that there are some situations in life where trust is a girl’s only option. And this is one of them. If she’s to live, she must trust Cash with her life. But to Olivia, that’s much, much easier than letting go and trusting him with her heart.

I was very excited to read this book, I couldn't stop thinking about the twist that so many people were talking about in reviews. My imagination started working and I got even more excited, I had to read it.

I was a little disappointed because the twist was kinda what I expected but it didn't happen how I expected. I'm not saying that it was a bad twist, not at all, it was a fantastic. I just imagined it happening in a different way.

Olivia is still a little insecure and having a hard time trusting Cash. After all the bad boys that broke her heart, all the lies. But now she has to trust Cash, but Cash is more dangerous that she thought he was.

"What in the world have I done? Not only did I do exactly what I knew I shouldn't-get involved with another bad boy-but I went and picked one that actually has a dangerous past. He's not just dangerous to my heart; he's dangerous period!"

Cash would do everything to keep Olivia safe. But things are not easy, he starts to see that behind all that is happening are a lot more secrets that he didn't know about.

Up to me has a good story, a fantastic twist but I didn't really liked the characters. I think Cash is a little girlie. I like alpha males and Cash was a little too nice, too sweet. Sometimes it didn't look like a guy was talking...

I still liked the book and I will read the third book in the series. I recommend reading it. Maybe for you Cash will not look so girlie and maybe you will love him.

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