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.

Buy the book: Amazon (free) | Barnes & Noble | Kobo (free)
Find C.D. Reiss: Goodreads | Website | Twitter

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.

Buy the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo
Find Sherrilyn: Goodreads | Website | Facebook | Twitter

Review: Dream Chaser (Dark-Hunter #14) by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Goodreads blurb:

Hades doesn't often give second chances...

Xypher has one month on Earth to redeem himself through one good deed or be condemned to eternal torture in Tarturus. But redemption means little to a demigod who only wants vengeance on the one who caused his downfall.

Until one day in a cemetery...

Simone Dubois is a medical examiner with a real knack for the job. Those who are wrongfully killed appear to her and help her find the evidence the police need to convict their killers. But when a man appears and tells her that she’s more than just a psychic, she’s convinced he’s insane.

Now the fate of the world hangs in her hands...

It was bad enough when just the dead relied on her. Now’s there’s the seductive Dream-Hunter Xypher who needs Simone’s help in opening a portal to the Atlantean hell realm to fight insatiable demons. The future of mankind is at stake—and so is her life. The only question now is: Who is the bigger threat: the demons out to kill her, or the man who has left her forever changed?

I missed the Dark Hunters so much! This was the serie that made me fall in love with books and is completely impossible for a book by Sherrilyn to disappoint me.

I never was a big fan of the Dream Hunters but I can tell you that this book surprised me, Xypher is awesome, he is definitely my favorite Dream Hunter.

Dream Chaser is about Simone and Xypher. Simone is a medical examiner that can talk with ghosts so she uses that to help find the killers. Her mother and brother were killed when she was young and that day when she was in the hospital a ghost named Jesse came to her and told her not to cry, since that day they never left each other. Simone and Jesse have a wonderful friendship, is beautiful to see them together. How much they care for each other, how much they love each other, Jesse is her only family and he loves to be with her.

Xypher is half demon/ half god. He is dead but in the book Devil May Cry, Katra made a deal with Hades that he would allow Xypher to be human for a month and if within that month he found his humanity, he would be free. But Xypher just wants vengeance from the person that caused him to be tortured for all the eternity, he doesn’t even believe for a second that after that month he would not get back to hell, he just wants to make sure that this time he doesn’t go alone.

This book was amazing! Like always Sherrilyn gives us many surprises, twists that we were not expecting and makes us see that just because you suppose a person is mean doesn’t really mean that they are and that some people just need someone to loved them and they can become a completely different person, they priorities can change.

We also get to meet a new character that I LOVED and I am super curious to know more about. At a certain point that character really surprised me with his actions and that made me like him even more.

If you are already familiar with the Dark Hunters world than you know that all the books are fantastic and always full of surprises and you definitely should read this book. If you are not then what are you waiting for? Go read the first book in the series, you will love it.

I recommend reading all the books in the proper order, you don’t have to do it but I think is much more nice to know what previously happened and all the characters stories.

Buy the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Find Sherrilyn: Goodreads | Website | Facebook | Twitter

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.

Buy the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Find Sandi: Goodreads | Website | Facebook | Twitter

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.

Buy the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Find Alice: Goodreads | Website | Facebook | Twitter

Review: A Veil of Glass and Rain by Petra F. Bagnardi

Goodreads blurb:

Brina and Eagan meet for the first time when she's nine and he's fourteen. They like each other from the very beginning, although their bond isn't immediate, but it grows over the years. What links them is the fact that their parents are photographers and are extremely devoted to their work and to each other; so much so that both Brina and Eagan have to learn how to take care of themselves from a very young age. Despite their differences, age, gender, nationality, Brina is Italian and Eagan is American, they find comfort in their growing friendship.
Then Brina becomes a teenager, and her feelings for her friend start changing and deepening. New desires stir within her. As soon as Brina realizes how those feelings complicate her friendship with Eagan, she runs away from him.
A few years later, Brina is twenty and Eagan is twenty-five, they find one another once again. Brina is studying cinema in Rome and she's also trying to become a musician. Eagan begins to work as an architect in the same city. Eagan wants to be a part of Brina's life anew. Brina, however, is still in love with him; she finds it difficult to act merely as a friend and she keeps pulling away.

Set in the beautiful Rome, this is a sensual and romantic story of friendship and love.


(Recommended for ages 17+, due to sexual content and language)

This is a story about love, loss, grief and forgiveness.

I love love stories between best friends, because most of the times, sooner or later best friends end up falling in love for each other. Most of the times that gets really complicated because if you tell about your feelings to the other person you are risking losing not just your best friend but the person that you are in love with. But if the other person feels that way toward you too, is totally worth the risk.

Brina and Eagan met when she was nine and he was fourteen, since then they are best friends. Their parents are always busy with their work, and they became each other family. Brina never lived for a long time in the same place, she doesn't have more family, it’s just her and her parents and sometimes she feels lonely.

Years later, Eagan goes to college in New York and they spend their summer vacations together but what was an simple friendship is now surrounded by drama. Eagan does things that Brina doesn't agree with and when she tells him how she feels about the things that he is doing, he hurts her.

“When my mum called and told me you were sick, I got so, so scared, kitty-cat." He nuzzled my neck. “Then, when I saw that you weren't just sick, you were crushed, I wanted to kick myself.”

Even with all the problems in their friendship they are still friends, he supports her music, takes care of her when she is sick and one day Brina kisses Eagan and sees that she has other kind of feelings for him and in her mind the best thing to do is run away. She leaves and goes to Rome to study cinema and she and Eagan barely talk to each other anymore.

After a tragedy Eagan decides to go to Rome because he want’s to rekindle his friendship with Brina, but things are not so easy as they seem. It hurts Brina when she isn't around him but it hurts even more when she is. She loves him but she just doesn't want to ruin their friendship by telling him about her feelings.

“I can't even feel my own tears. Damn it, Eagan! I'm a mess without you, and I'm a mess with you. I don't know what to do.”

After many failed attempts to rekindle their friendship, she decides to tell him and for her surprise he feels the same way. They decide to stay together but the drama that surrounds them doesn't go away and that ends up breaking them apart again. She asks him for six weeks to think about their relationship and he accepts.

They are both miserable but neither one of them wants to make the first move, Brina because she thinks that she is not good for him and Eagan because he wants to give her the space that she asked for. But a friend convinces Eagan to go to Brina and when they reunite again everything is how is supposed to be and they get their happy ending.

“Take control of the situation. Be an alpha guy. Instead of—Hell, I don't know which letter of the Greek alphabet you're now, but it's not a good one."

I liked the end, and really liked that the epilogue had how they were 18 months, 3 years and 5 years after they happy ending. Overall I liked the book, it was well written and the characters were well developed. The one negative point for me was the flashbacks because it was a little confusing, sometimes I didn't really know when it was the present and when it was in the past.

I recommend reading the book, it was a good read.


*Copy of the book provided by the author*

Buy the book: Amazon 

Find Petra: Goodreads |  Facebook

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.

Buy the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Find Kitty: Goodreads | Website | Facebook | Twitter

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.

Buy the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Find Chelsea: Goodreads | Website | Facebook | Twitter

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.

Buy the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Find M. Leighton: Goodreads | Website | Facebook | Twitter

Review: Surviving Raine (Surviving Raine #1) by Shay Savage

Goodreads blurb:

As the captain of a schooner catering to the elite on the Caribbean Seas, Sebastian Stark does his best to avoid any human encounters. Interacting with people isn't his thing, and he prefers the company of a bottle of vodka, a shot glass, and maybe a whore. There's no doubt he's hiding from a checkered past, but he does well keeping everything to himself…

…until the night his schooner capsizes, and he’s stuck on a life raft with one of the passengers.

Raine's young, she's cute, and Bastian would probably be into her if he wasn't suffering from alcohol withdrawal. As the days pass, DTs, starvation, and dehydration become the norm. Even the most closed person starts to open up when he thinks he's going to die, but when she realizes their traumatic pasts are connected, it's no longer the elements that have Bastian concerned.

He has no idea how he’s going to Survive Raine.

I heard about this book one day before it was out. After I read the blurb I got so excited because it was so different from what I been reading. It was then that I saw that it wasn't out yet and that is the story of the worst day of my life (kidding).

So this book is about Bastian and Raine. Bastian is a really moody bastard, he yells a lot and his sarcasm is as big as the moon. He is a alcoholic and a man whore, but in the end, oh my God he is so cute. I wanted to hug him so bad, he just needs to be loved.

Bastian was abandoned by his mother when he was very little, he was on a bunch of foster homes, juvenile detention and all that led to a really messed up life.

He owns a ship and that ship capsizes, Bastian ends up stuck on a life raft with Raine.

Raine is really shy and very very sweet, the complete opposite to Bastian and that is what makes them perfect for each other. Bastian needs someone sweet, kind and especially someone who can love him because he never really had that and he doesn't believe that he will ever do.

The story is told completely from Bastian's POV. I never had read a book in just the hero's POV, but damn, this was a nice first.

Oh, I almost forgot, Bastian is HOT. He is tall, muscular. Overall he is just big! Yup, in those places too, I know that you were thinking about it. Let's just say that on top of that he is a very horny guy. You know those times when you don't have anything to do and you get really bored, well Raine could never say that she was bored.

Let's talk about the end now. I almost died in the end, I already knew that there was not a cliffhanger but I was scared anyway. And the epilogue, oh how I wanted to kill someone! Make it all nice so Bastian and Raine could be happy without anyone getting in the way.

There will be a sequel that there's not much information about but I will definitely read it. I am already preparing to read another book by Shay, she is just awesome! I am in love with male POVs.

Without any doubt you should read Surviving Raine, you will love Bastian, I promise.

Buy the book: Amazon 

Find Shay: Goodreads | Website | Facebook | Twitter

Review: The Selection (The Selection #1) by Kiera Cass

Goodreads blurb:

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in the palace and compete for the heart of the gorgeous Prince Maxon.

But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.

Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself- and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.

The Selection was a really different book from what I usually read, I was in a reading slump so I really wanted to read something different, I've read fairy tales but never dystopias in this case is the two together and I really liked it.

I stayed up all night not wanting to go to sleep before I finished the book. I am always curious about how the world will end up being and I really enjoyed reading about the caste system, the story of the country and I loved the characters.

In case you want to know more about the castes you can click here.

America is a Five, she is a musician as well as her mom, her father and her sister May are artists and she also has a seven year old brother named Gerald that hasn't found his talent yet.

Her mother wants her to fill out the form to enter The Selection but she doesn't want too. She is in love with Aspen and she wants to marry him not go compete for Prince Maxon, but Aspen is a Six and is very rare and difficult to a woman to marry down. When a person wants to marry someone from a different caste they have to fill out paperwork and wait ninety days before they could do any of the other legal things, and it costs money that they don't have.

America doesn't want to fill the form but Aspen tells her to do it because if she has a chance to have a better life, he doesn't want her to miss that because of him. America is sure she will not be chosen to be one of the thirty-five girls and Aspen just wants her to enter and if she isn't chosen at least he will not feel bad for holding her back.

Life as a Five is very difficult, being a Six like Aspen is even more, many times he doesn't have anything to eat because he doesn't have enough money so America keeps food to give to him when he visits her but Aspen is a really proud guy and thinks that he should be the one giving her things not the other way around.

America ends up being chosen to be in The Selection, but she is not really there to compete for the Prince, she is there because of the money that her family is receiving while she is in the competition.

Prince Maxon is not so bad as America thinks and soon she starts to see it and starts to enjoy spending time with him. Maxon is really sweet, polite and kind, the complete opposite to what America thought he was and she starts to get confused because she still loves Aspen but she can't deny that she is feeling something towards Maxon.

There is a thing that I really don't like and that is love triangles, I get so confused sometimes I think I am even more confused than the character that should be confused.

America didn't know what to do, didn't know with whom she wanted to be with and to make it even harder Aspen comes back.

I was not disappointed with the end, it was very simple, nothing dramatic, it makes you want to read the next book to see what America will do. I'm not sure when I will be reading The Elite because book number three is only coming out on May 6th, 2014 and I don't know if I can wait that long after I finish the second book, but I will definitely read both of them.

Buy the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Find Kiera: Goodreads | Website | Twitter

Review: Rock Hard (Sinners on Tour #2) by Olivia Cunning

Goodreads blurb:

An ultimatum can break your heart....

Every night lead singer, Sed Lionheart whips thousands of women into a frenzy with his voice alone. But the stage is the only place Sed feels any passion since he lost Jessica...

If you’re not willing to break all the rules...

It shattered her heart, but law student Jessica broke off her engagement to Sed, determined to be successful on her own terms. But no other man can ever hold a candle to Sed...

Then a chance meeting and tortuously close quarters lead to uncontrollable flares of passion and rediscovery of their unique penchant for public encounters. Now, in addition to the risk of mutual heartbreak every time they get together, they’re in danger of truly scandalous public exposure...

After reading Backstage Pass, Olivia became one of my favorite authors. I never thought Sed's book was going to be bad but it was Sed, I didn't really know what to expect. So I start reading Rock Hard and it surprised me.

Rock Hard is the book about Sed and Jessica, his ex fiance that we heard about in the first book. In that moment I thought she was a bitch, because she was the reason Sed was like that but it really wasn't how I thought it was.

Jessica loved Sed but she wanted to follow her dreams and Sed wanted her just for him. She had to choose between her dream of becoming a lawyer and the man she was going to marry with.

After years of not seeing each other, they meet again. Sed is furious and Jessica doesn't want to be around him but at the same time they can’t deny the attraction between them.

“He’s really sweet, actually.
I don’t think we’re talking about the same Sed. Sedric Lionheart. Tall guy. Broad shoulders. Blue eyes. Short black hair. Body befitting a Greek god. Sings. La la la la.”

As the times goes by, Jessica starts to see that Sed is different. He is very protective over the people that he loves and when a tragedy that can break the band apart happens she stays by his side even if she is always being judged, especially by Brian. She doesn't leave Sed and supports him when everyone doesn't believe in him.

Sed and Jessica are made for each other, they complete each other. Without the support from Jessica everything would have been much more difficult for Sed. She has a lot to lose because of being involved with Sed but she loves him and every time it gets even more harder to leave.

“If I didn't already love you, Jessica Chase, I’d fall in love with you all over again, every minute of every day.”

Sed loves Jessica like he never loved anyone else and seeing her again was the best thing that could happen to him but when he sees her giving up her dreams because of him, he decides that he should let her go.

This book made me feel so angry because of the way he treat her, the way everyone treated her. They blamed her because of what Sed became after she left him. And poor Jessica didn't do anything wrong, Sed made her do that. He didn't want her to follow her dreams just wanted her in his bed available for him after his concerts and that made me so mad, made me hate him so bad!

It was a good read, easy to read and I recommend everyone reading it, it was great. And i’m excited to read Jace's book.

Buy the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Find Olivia: Goodreads | Website | Facebook | Twitter