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Book Review – Pull Me Close by Sidney Halston

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Pull Me Close: The Panic Series
I loved it! I’d been hearing plenty in regards to how it was a must-read (so I one-clicked it!!), and that we should go in blind, because of a few twists that give this story that extra-oomph that we don’t see coming. And I wholeheartedly agree! It ALL fits, it’s all emotionally real, and honest in its delivery, and for real? It felt like I KNEW these characters by the end. All of them. Not just the main ones.

I will absolutely be reading book #2 (but no worries, this one stands alone and is replete with everything we need and love in our romances). read more

Marissa Farrar – The Monster Trilogy Reading Order

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DARK READ KIDNAP & RECLUSE ALERT!!! Book #1 is super-bargain priced today, and the trilogy conclusion is coming out this month! It sounds pretty darn great! She has a phobia of being touched, and she’s kidnapped by a recluse that won’t let himself be seen in public. Yikes!!! This sounds right up my alley. Has anyone read these yet?

About book #1:

Monster
Hidden away from society by his criminal father, there lives a man who has never entered the outside world. Now, having taken over his father’s business, he has all the money and power he could dream of, yet still he refuses to let himself be viewed by the rest of society. read more

Emma Scott – City Lights Series Reading Order

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I only discovered this author with her latest book #3 release (each book can be read as a standalone), but I fell in love with her writing and had to know more! Sure enough, it would seem the theme of this series features reclusive, brooding men, traumatic experiences and the women that they finally let into their hearts. *sigh*

Jillian: Maryse you’ll Love Rush. PLEASE give it a shot. You’ll be hooked. I know it! It really is just brilliant. You FEEL and LIVE every moment with them. He’s the epitome of a jerk to her at the beginning… I was so mad at him! The things he says and does… Gah!!! And the girl in it is the perfect heroine. She wasn’t over the top perfect, but she wasn’t annoying. She was real, he was real. He was an amazing extreme sports athlete… To have that taken away and the way we get to see his pov through his blind eyes? Wonderful. She wrote it to a T. Anyone!! You won’t regret reading it. (I swear I do not know the author, promise) ;) read more

M. Pierce – Night Owl Trilogy Reading Order

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<— THIS BOOK MADE ME *SQUEEEE!!!* I loved it like crazy, ’cause it put me in that wonderful love-fog that I crave so much when reading. I developed and ended the book with a serious “uber-crush”. 😉 I loved every single detail, every single emotion, every single SUPERRRRR STEAMY (eyepoppingly so) scene. There was stuff in there that I umm… *ahem* had never read before. 😉 *blush*

And by the end of this book, I felt as if I personally knew the “hero”. Matt. From his every character trait, (the good and the “bad” – I loved them all). His sullenness, his moodiness, her hermitness, his arrogantness, his self-centeredness, his deviantness. 😉  His vulnerableness, his sweeeeeeetness. OMG his sweetness!!! Don’t get me started on the pet bunny. Or the sweet horse… or the stuffed manatee. *sniff sniff* (P.S. Here’s my review of Night Owl) read more

Book Review – Checked Again by Jennifer Jamelli

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Checked Again (Checked Series Book 2)
I just HAD to read this one as soon as I finished book #1 (considering how it ended – see my review). My heart!! I totally *clutched* my chest with that last line. What a poignant, kind of hurty, ending, and I was just lucky enough that this one had just been released. I didn’t have to suffer for long.

And I enjoyed #2, but I think it’s more of an in-between “read”. Yes, of course it’s #2 in a trilogy, so the “in-between” status is obvious, but this one didn’t freak me out the way #1 did. Not that #1 was all that crazy or anything. Can’t be that crazy when it focuses on a character that is so OCD that every single detail in her life is controlled to a T. Can’t be that crazy, right? read more