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: 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: 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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