Review: Acheron (Dark-Hunter #15) by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Goodreads blurb:

Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron endured a lifetime of hatred. His human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almost destroyed the earth. Brought back against his will, he became the sole defender of mankind.

Only it was never that simple...

For centuries, he has fought for our survival and hidden a past he never wants revealed.

Now his survival, and ours, hinges on the very woman who threatens him. Old enemies reawaken and unite to kill them both.

War has never been more deadly... or more fun.

“It takes a lot of strength and courage to trust a stranger when you've been harmed by the very people who were supposed to protect you. But the one thing I've learned is that it can be done. That all of us are worthy and that we all matter.”

Do you see that quote that you just read? Yeah, well just so you know that is a quote from the author’s note! That's how perfect this book is. Sherrilyn is my favorite author ever. God! With her books she makes you feel so many things, she teaches you so many things. She makes you see the world in a complete different way.

As Sherrilyn says, every story has at least two sides. The side of the person who witnessed or experienced it and the truth. Events are always clouded by perception, conclusions and emotions. If two or more people experience the same exact event, they will come away with two entirely different tales about it. In this book you have to think about that a lot because for most of the first part of the book you are reading from Ryssa’s and Acheron’s POV and that makes you hate people. Makes you want to kill Styxx for the things that he did to Acheron but I had to keep in mind that maybe he was doing does things for a reason, I’m not saying that it was right the things that he did, I’m just saying that we simply don’t know how Styxx’s life really was. It was hard sometimes obviously, because you start to think that there is no excuse in the world for those kind of acts, it comes to the point that you just think that he is a horrible person, that he should go through the same things that Acheron did but then Acheron comes and says that no one should go through those things, that he would never do that to another human being and there he is, teaching you how to be a better person.

“Then he will be called Acheron for the River of Woe. Like the river of the Underworld, his journey shall be dark, long and enduring. He will be able to give life and to take it. He will walk through his life alone and abandoned--ever seeking kindness and ever finding cruelty.”

And that's exactly what happens. Acheron just wanted to be loved, just wanted a hug from his mother and father and all that we got were slaps even as a little boy. He was just seven years old and he thought he was a monster when all he was was kind and respectful. He was born and everyone say that he would do bad things to other people when in reality he never wanted to harm anyone. Everyone was mean to him and he didn't want revenge. He wanted someone to love him and stop looking at him like he was a piece of shit or simply to be left alone.

I been waiting for months to read this book. In the previous books we get to know little things from Acheron’s past but when you start reading his book you see that his life was even worse than you though. Oh my god, the way that people treated him was just so cruel, he didn't deserve any of that. And Artemis, you don’t even know how much I hate her, I never really liked her, but in the beginning of the book I began to think that she really loved him. She did love him, as far Artemis can love anyone, but it was the wrong kind of love, it was a selfish love. She did things to him that no one would do to a person that she loves. She is a selfish son of a bitch! I hate her and I would LOVE for someone to kill her! She betrayed Acheron, he loved her and she didn't even wanted to be seen with him in public. He was hurt and all she could think of was that she would heal him so he could sleep with her, and if he didn't act how she wanted or said something that she didn't like she would give him the pain back! Who says that loves someone and at the same time thinks that no one could know that they are together and that if anyone knew they would mock her. Who cares? If you love someone you stay with her no matter what and you definitely are not ashamed of that person.

“The whore was tired now. He was finally broken. And it wasn't by the hand of his master or a client.
It'd been by the hand of the only person he'd ever loved. Defeated and lost, Acheron lay down on the cold balcony and closed his eyes, praying for death to finally come and end this nightmare that was his life.”

In this book you see so many sides of Acheron. In the other books he was mysterious, strong, sometimes scary, intelligent. Powerful. And in the second part of this book he starts to look so normal, doing things that you would read in other books but not in the Dark Hunters. It’s so great to see him like that. He is so adorable! Can you believe that Acheron blushes? He does! And he is so clumsy around Tory, is so cute.

“I'm really not the asshole you think I am. The journal's from a young woman in an isolated part of Greece and documents her life for about eighteen months. It's pretty much boring reading, but if you want more details, call me. 555-602-1938.”

Can you imagine the big scary but cute Acheron writing a note like this because a woman thinks he is a asshole? I can’t!

Acheron and Tory’s relationship is so cute and fun. It’s fantastic because it looks like they were planned to be together for a long time, it’s like they knew each other but they really didn't. They were strangers and there were so many feelings between each other that a person would only feel for someone that they knew for a long time. Their relationship is beautiful. Thank God for Tory, she is everything that Acheron needed.

This book was so so so so good. The characters are perfect as always and the story was very well written. It was amazing to get to know more about Acheron and finally see him happy. This book is now part of my favorite books.

Can’t wait to read more books of this fantastic series. For me there is nothing better than to read a book by Sherrilyn.

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Review: Forever Black (Forever Black #1) by Sandi Lynn

Goodreads blurb:

When Ellery moved to New York with her boyfriend, she thought they’d live happily ever after in their small New York apartment. She never thought he’d pack his bags and leave because he “needed space.” With her newfound single status and fear of being alone, Ellery buries herself in her artwork and paintings until one night she helps a mysterious intoxicated stranger get home safely. Little did she know the mysterious stranger is none other than CEO and millionaire Connor Black. After finding Ellery in his kitchen the next morning and assuming she broke his #1 rule about sleepovers, he becomes intrigued, not only by her stubbornness and defiance, but by her kindness.

Connor Black, emotionally dead and damaged, that stemmed from a personal tragedy, made a vow to never love or fall in love with a woman, until Ellery Lane walked into his life by accident. After she opens up and shows him her world, Connor starts to feel emotions and feelings he never knew existed. Despite the rumors and warnings regarding Connor Black and his use and misuse of women, Ellery finds herself being drawn into his world.

Ellery knows they can never be together because she is harboring a deep secret that could destroy Connor emotionally forever.

Join Connor and Ellery as they embark on a journey of courage, love and strength. Will it be enough to save them?

Forever Black is the first book by Sandi Lynn. She had a fantastic start!

The story of Elle and Connor was never supposed to be easy but Sandi went even further and put in the way of both of them a problem that could not be solved, even with all the money in the world. A problem that we can’t avoid, run away from or simply ignore. A problem that can keep them apart forever.

Elle and Connor meet in the simplest way possible, she is in the right place at the right time. When I think about destiny I think about the fact that a simple action that you do every day someday when you least expect it can make you meet the love of your life and there you were thinking that nothing especial was going to happen because every day you did the same thing.

“Elle that is not a good idea, you don’t know whom you’re dealing with here.”
I put my hand up “I know what I’m doing, and he needs help.”

Elle already felt more pain in her life than someone with her age was supposed to, but that didn’t make her sad or selfish, quite the opposite. She works, paints and still makes time to help other people. After her boyfriend of four years left her she focused on painting. Elle is used to her life never being good for a long period of time and her worst nightmare just decided to let her know that he is still there to torment her.

Connor is rich, sexy, a manwhore and has a reputation of being cruel. He likes his life how it is now, he doesn't want to be emotionally involved with anyone. Loves is definitely not on his plans, at least until Elle enters his life and messes with all his plans.

“Listen buddy, I don’t know what you think happened last night, but you didn't fuck me; I would never give you the pleasure; trust me.”

Elle helps Connor when he can’t take care of himself, and the next morning he doesn't remember anything and asks himself what that stranger was doing in his kitchen. What started with just helping another person becomes something much stronger. They became friends and Connor never had a friend that was a girl.

“Give me some time; this friendship thing is new to me. You need to understand that I've never been just friends with a woman before.”

Elle shows him many things that are completely new to him, simple things like eating a pizza without a fork and knife or how is amazing to eat an ice cream, things that he never did or didn't do since he was a kid. She shows him that is possible to help without expecting something in return and she doesn't treat him differently just because he is a billionaire. With her he is simply Connor not the big CEO Connor Black.

“How long has it been since you ate ice cream?” I asked.
He looked at me puzzled, “I don't know. I guess since I was a kid.”
“Are you kidding me, you haven't had ice cream since you were a kid?”
“No, is that a problem?”
“No, I'm just surprised.”

Elle and Connor give in to the passion, but Elle knows that it is wrong because her intentions never were to hurt Connor, she just wanted to enjoy being in love because she thought that that would never happen.

They complete each other, but they never stop to disagree with each other. They are so stubborn that dealing with them is a challenge.

“Because at some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life and this is my way of keeping you in my heart.”

They both are keeping secrets, Connor's is the first to be revealed. His secret is not a easy thing to talk about but he trusts her and tells her. Elle wants to tell him her secret but she is waiting for the right time because she knows that when she tells him everything will change but unfortunately someone comes first and tells her secret.

“I could never understand my purpose in this world. I have had nothing but pain and loss my whole life. But now I know why god saved me the first time. It was so I could find you.”

Connor doesn't react well to her secret and I just wanted to tell “She needs you you idiot! Don’t fucking judge her!”. Just like Elle thought, things between them change but now she has something that she didn't have before. Someone that makes her want to live.

Her journey is not easy and when that starts to affect the people she loves she can’t stand it. She decides to try one last thing before she can really be with the love of her life.

“Infinity is forever, and that is what you are to me, you are my forever Mr. Black.”

There is so much to say about this book, if I was to write really everything that I want to say this would have a bunch of spoilers or better yet I would tell the whole book! I was on a rollercoaster of emotions. This book made me question so many things. I have so many questions in my head that I really don’t have a answer for, and I hope that I will never have because that would mean that I was in a similar situation as Elle.

The last pages of the book were the most hard to read, I just wanted to know what was going to happen, there was so much suspense that when the epilogue finally came I could finally breathe properly again. I cried, I laughed and I was angry at everything!

I will definitely read the next books of the series because this is one of my favorite books. And I will be looking for more books by Sandi. Really really recommend reading Forever Black, it has great characters and an amazing story.

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Review: Wallbanger by Alice Clayton

Goodreads blurb:

Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a KitchenAid mixer, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks). She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O.

Adding insult to O-less, since her move, she has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Each moan, spank, and–was that a meow?–punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has, yep, you guessed it, no O.

Enter Simon Parker. (No, really, Simon, please enter.) When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. Their late-night hallway encounter has, well, mixed results. Ahem. With walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick…

In her third novel, Alice Clayton returns to dish her trademark mix of silly and steamy. Banter, barbs, and strutting pussycats, plus the sexiest apple pie ever made, are dunked in a hot tub and set against the gorgeous San Francisco skyline in this hot and hilarious tale of exasperation at first sight.

The most funny book I ever read!

Caroline has a successful career, is beautiful, confident and has a fantastic new apartment. To complete all that her best friends just gave her a kitchenaid stand mixer, what is a very important thing to her. But she is missing something, she is missing the O.

In her first night in her new apartment she is stunned to wake up to weird noises.

“OH, GOD.”
Thump.
“Oh, God.”
Thump thump.
What the…
“Oh, God, that's so good!”

But do you think that this is just one night? Oh, no! The Wallbanger, how Caroline calls him, has many night of this thump thump until she can’t bear hearing them again and goes knock on his door.

Simon is charming, sexy, confident. I loved him! He is that type of character that makes you want to fall on your knees in front of him. He is a photographer and travels a lot, so a serious relationship is not in his plans at least until Caroline appears on his door in a pink baby doll nightie.

“That’s Wallbanger?” Sophia screeched.
“Wait a minute, that’s Pink Nightie Girl?” Neil laughed, and Mimi and Ryan snorted.

I loved that this book was about two people who were successful and not the poor girl with the billionaire guy. They both have their careers, they routines and they like to spend time with each other. They start with hating each other to being good friends. They have fun together, like to be around each other, like to talk with each other. It’s so nice to see their friendship, little things that they do that make the other so happy. How they mess with each other. Is the type of friendship that everyone would like to have. To feel so comfortable around another person that you can truly be yourself. But there is also the attraction that they feel for each other, and at times it gets to the point that they can’t simply ignore it. Simon doesn't want to do anything that can change their friendship, he doesn't want to make things weird, he really likes Caroline and if he lets himself do something about the attraction things may never be the same again.

The book is in Caroline's POV but there is also text messages between Caroline, Simon and their friends what was really nice. One thing that was really funny was at a point where you could read what Caroline, Simon and two of their friends were thinking. It was the most funny thing that I ever read.

The book was hilarious, really easy to read because you get to the point where you don’t want to get up because you don’t want to stop reading even if you have to go to the bathroom really bad. It was well written and the characters were simply fantastic.

If you want a break from cliches, want a book without drama everywhere and want to have some fun, you should definitely read this book.

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Review: My Favorite Mistake (My Favorite Mistake #1) by Chelsea M. Cameron

Goodreads blurb:

Taylor Caldwell can't decide if she wants to kiss her new college roommate or punch him.

On the one hand, Hunter Zaccadelli is a handsome, blue-eyed bundle of charm. On the other, he's a tattooed, guitar-playing bundle of bad boy. Maybe that's why Taylor's afraid of falling in love with him, or anyone else. She doesn't want to get burned, and even though her other roommates adore him, she wants him gone before it's too late.

Hunter himself has been been burned before, but the fact that Taylor calls him out on his crap and has the sexiest laugh ever make him decide maybe love isn't a lost cause. They make a bet: if she can convince him she truly loves or hates him, he'll leave the apartment--and leave her alone. The problem is, the more time they spend together, the less she hates him, and the more she moves toward love.

But when the man who holds the key to Taylor's fear of giving up her heart resurfaces and threatens to wreck everything, she has to decide: trust Hunter with her greatest secret, or do everything in her power to win that bet and drive him away forever.

“I can't promise not to make you mad. I can't promise that I won't hurt you. All I can promise is that I want you in my life, and I'll do anything to keep you there.”

When Taylor, Renee and Darah lost one of their roommates, they didn't expect that Hunter Zaccadelli was going to knock on their door telling them that he was going to be their new roommate. Taylor didn't like the idea. But is it because she doesn't like him or because she doesn't like that she can’t keep her eyes of him? Well, we know the answer.

Taylor is stubborn, tough and she doesn't like to take chances, she likes to have everything under control. But well in the end we get to know why she is like this.

“We were both broken, trying to become unbroken. Maybe we just needed a little help. Not to fix each other, but to help us fix ourselves.”

Taylor doesn't make Hunter’s life easy, but as the time goes by she starts to like him. She knows if she listens to her feelings that things can get difficult and she thinks that she is not ready for a relationship with him.

When you first look at Hunter, he is a bad boy, charming, tattooed and with blue eyes that you can get lost in. But there is so much more to him. He can cook, play guitar. He is sweet, romantic and just full of surprises. He is every girls dream.

Taylor doesn't want him there. Hunter doesn't have anywhere else to go. So Hunter decides to make a bet with her: if she can convince him she truly loves or hates him, he'll leave the apartment and leave her alone.

Taylor tries so many times to tell him that she hates him but he doesn't believe her.

Can you imagine sleeping in the same room with a hot guy that never loses a chance to mess with you?

“I'm going to take a shower," I said and prepared for the comment I knew was coming.
"You know what they say, conserve water and shower with a friend.”

They become friends. He plays guitar for her, cooks for her, they go out together. He is always trying to impress her. Hunter falls in love with Taylor and he want’s to prove that he is worthy of her trust. But how can two people be together if there is secrets between them that can ruin their relationship?

“I love you, Missy girl. Even if I can't be with you, know that I'm here. So, that's it. More than the stars, Taylor. More than the stars.”

After an argument Hunter tells her his secret and hopes that one day Taylor will tell him hers.
Taylor’s past comes back to haunt her and she tells Hunter her secret, but she is scared that things will change between them. She thought that he would leave her but he stays with her and supports her. He believes that she will face and overcome all her fears and that she will achieve her goals with him by her side.

“Loving you was the best mistake I ever made”

This book is full of surprises, romance and is not full of drama. The story was well written, is easy to read, the characters are perfect and even the other characters that are not so important we know a lot about them.

One of things that I really liked on the book was the songs that Hunter played. While I was reading about Hunter playing them I had to hear them and they were fantastic.

I fell in love with the characters, for all of them. Chelsea made a amazing work. It has a great ending and is a good example that everything happens for a reason because if it was a girl on the door on that day, Taylor would have never learned how to trust another person.

I love the cover, the title. Overall I love the book, it is now one of my favorites. And to think that I almost didn't read it, I was going to make a really really big mistake.

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Review: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden (The Coincidence #1) by Jessica Sorensen

Goodreads blurb:

There are those who don’t get luck handed to them on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.

Luck was not on Callie’s side the day of her twelfth birthday when everything was stolen from her. After it’s all over, she locks up her feelings and vows never to tell anyone what happened. Six years later her painful past consumes her life and most days it’s a struggle just to breathe.

For as long as Kayden can remember, suffering in silence was the only way to survive life. As long as he did what he was told, everything was okay. One night, after making a terrible mistake, it seems like his life might be over. Luck was on his side, though, when Callie coincidentally is in the right place at the right time and saves him.

Now he can’t stop thinking about the girl he saw at school, but never really knew. When he ends up at the same college as Callie, he does everything he can to try to get to know her. But Callie is reserved and closed off. The more he tries to be part of her life, the more he realizes Callie might need to be saved.

“There are those who don’t get luck handed to them on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.”

I started reading this book completely randomly, I couldn't sleep so I picked my phone up opened my kindle app and chose a book without even knowing what it was about.

This is the story of Callie and Kayden. They have known each other for a long time, they have gone to school together since they were in kindergarten and their families have dinners together, but Kayden always pretended like he didn't know Callie.

I can't even tell you how great Callie is, she is one of those characters that really touched me, I understood her so well.

On her twelfth birthday something really bad happened to her and since then everything changed. She has locked up her feelings and vowed to never tell anyone what happened on that day.

Callie has problems with people touching her, so everything social related is a problem to her.

When she moves to college everything starts to get better, she meets Seth, her first friend since her twelfth birthday and he is the first person to know about her secret and he helps her getting better. Together they make a list of things that they would normally never do and each week they have to cross off at least one thing, even if they are scared they have to do it.

Callie thought of telling what happened to her to her mom, but because her mom leaves in a bubble and doesn't want nor care about the bad things that happen in the world she doesn't.

Kayden always had a hard life, beaten by his father since he was little, he does everything that his father wants him to do, including playing football.

One day, luckily for Kayden, Callie is in the right place at the right time and saves him.

“In the existence of our lives, there is a single coincidence that brings us together and for a moment, our hearts beat as one.”

Coincidentally Callie and Kayden end up in the same college, Callie trying to stay away from everything that makes her remember that horrible night and Kayden trying to stay away from his father.

Kayden becomes interested in Callie, the girl that did what he thought no one would ever do, the girl that he really never paid attention to but that now he can’t stop thinking about.

Callie trusts Seth, and she doesn't really trust other people so when Callie and Kayden start to go out together, Kayden starts to wonder how would be like for someone like her to trust him but he thinks that he has too many twisted secrets for that to ever happen.

“There is something about someone trusting you enough with their secrets that it makes it easier to trust them. It’s like they’re opening their heart and in return yours should open up to them, too.”

The book switches between both characters POV's. Is very interesting learning about the characters from their point of view, since there are things about one another that they don't know about the entire book.

Towards the end I was getting so nervous, I couldn't be still, I didn't have any idea about what was about to happen. It was the best end that I ever read.

It completely broke my heart, I couldn't stop crying, and I was already crying during most parts of the book. I couldn't believe that it was ending that way, I switched pages over and over again to make sure that it was it. I was really not expecting a cliffhanger.

The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden became one of my favorite books.

I loved the characters, really connected with them and loved how Callie changed so well, it wasn't rushed, like one minute she had problems and then minutes later everything just went away, it made the character look much more real.

The book made me believe that even if you are in a really dark place in your life it can get better, to never give up on happiness.

Jessica is a really amazing writer, I really look forward to read more of her books.

You should definitely read this book, I guarantee that it will not let you down.

There will be a second book to this series, The Redemption of Callie and Kayden that is coming out on August 6th, 2013. I'm super excited to read it.

I just have to add one more quote that I really loved and that really made me think.

“I often wonder what drives people to do things. Whether it’s put into their minds at birth, or if it is learned as they grow. Maybe is even forced upon them by circumstances that are out of their hands. Does anyone have control over their lives or are we all helpless?”

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Review: On Dublin Street (On Dublin Street #1) by Samantha Young

Goodreads blurb:

Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare…
Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well—until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.

Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and he’s determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship, Braden proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached.

But after an intrigued Jocelyn accepts, she realizes that Braden won’t be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her… down to the very soul.

When I finished reading this book I was only certain of one thing, this was one of the best books I ever read. I couldn't stop reading it, I felt so connected with Jocelyn that during the entire book my heart was just a mess.

Jocelyn had the perfect life until she lost everything, her home, her family and everything she ever knew. This book is the proof that you should enjoy every moment in your life like it was the last one, because everything can change in one simple second.

Jocelyn is a very special person but she is very hurt. After leaving Virginia she focus on college and in her only two friends, Rich and James who she shares an apartment with. When the time comes for her friends to start a life together in a new place, Jocelyn has to find a new apartment for her. She finds the perfect place on Dublin Street where she meets Braden.

Braden, what to say about him? He is the guy who can take your breath away. He is captivating, provocative and sexy as hell. He never gives up what he wants and he wants Jocelyn. But he is also adorable, sweet, kind and he helps Jocelyn like anyone ever did.

Braden tries to make Jocelyn trust him, but she built too many walls to protect herself and thinking about loving another person again is too hard for her because she doesn't want to lose a person that she loves again. She believes that everyone that she loves ends up dying and is better if she just stays away from everyone.

I loved every bit of this book. It was so frustrating, I couldn't stop reading. I could say so many things about this book, just writing about it brings so many emotions. Anger, frustration, sadness, happiness. Because everything ended up well but they had to go through so many things to get to their happy ending.

This book deserves five big hearts. I recommend reading it, you will not be disappointed. This is one of my favorite books and I can’t way to read Down London Road.

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