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Book Review – Night Owl by M. Pierce

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Night Owl (The Night Owl Trilogy)
I loved it! Fun fun fun, suuuuuper-steamy (like eye-popping at times… he’s got a dirty dirty mouth!) but SO much more than that. Definitely erotica but with an intense story in the mix, and a twist or two (right off the bat) that grabbed me. And then bring on the angst! Yet, I dunno how to describe this one, without giving too much away. It’s like everything we love to read, but with it’s own “feel” you know?

I posted it on a recent bargain post this month when Justine recommended it saying: read more

Book Review – Making Faces by Amy Harmon

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Making Faces
This is one of the most heartfelt, touching and beautifully narrated stories I’ve read all year, and has fast become one of my favorites in this genre. Gentle, yet powerful, the inspiring message learned… no lived by the characters, will be felt down deep, by all. We experience every single bit of it with them. We take each step, have every conversation, reach a hand out after a fall, let each other in, and laugh and cry with abandon… by their side.

And right from the start (I mean it!! 7% in and I was already crying), it had me in it’s clutches as two of the main characters  (still children) sobbed in their mothers’ arms while being rocked together on the porch, coming to terms with a grave realization. Bittersweet in it’s lesson, painful in it’s acceptance and yet it still had me chuckling in it’s sweet comical relief by the name of “Bailey”. I was grinning through glassy eyes, wiping up a few last tears that escaped… read more

Book Review – Unbound by Cara McKenna

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Unbound: (InterMix)
This author is apparently one of my favorites, ’cause it seems every one of her books I’ve read, I’ve loved. Each one of her stories is unique and unforgettable, often exploring a more taboo look into “adult-life”. Having personal (and very private) desires, her relatable characters might just complete each other. But not without a bit of personal turmoil and angst in the mix.

But what I especially love about her characters is that we can see ourselves in them. Them…in us. We can recognize (and relate) to their adult lives through their worries, their habits. Their boredoms. Their hopes and their dreams. Their disappointments and their achievements. And even in their need for more. Because, you see… each one of her characters (at least the ones I’ve come to know) has his/her own very particular “twist”.  But… we can often relate to that, even. Whether their *quirk* is ours or not ours, by the time we reach it, we take it in and experience it like out own. read more

Shay Savage – Evan Arden Series Reading Order

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Since I fell so hard in love with Bastian from this author’s book “Surviving Raine” I’ve been hearing GREAT things about another one of her series. THIS one! I hear these are unputtdownable!!! So I read the prequel last night (only 50-something pages) and it was steeeamy and very very good. 🙂 Prompted me to immediately start the official book #1 and so far, so good! YAY ME!!

Joanna OMFG… I have discovered Shay Savage and I have fallen in love!!!! I read a novella (Otherwise Alone) by her last night and it sucked me in so hard I immediately downloaded the sequel, “Otherwise Occupied.” Then I read it in one sitting. Then I downloaded her book “Surviving Raine” and read through half of it. Yes, my dears… I read a novella, a full book (and not a super short one) and half of another in one sitting last night. I’m in love. read more

Book Review – Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

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Me Before You: A Novel
Ohhhhh what a magnificently written, bittersweet, extraordinary story. Unforgettable, because it broke my heart… gently.

My friend Jackie (in England) was adamant that I read this ASAP. It wasn’t available in the US at the time (not even in digital format) so she MAILED me a print copy, and left me an urgent note. The way she was going on about it in chat, I knew this was going to be big. It was obviously one of “those” reads. Inspirational and deep, you know? I was excited, but you know me and physically holding an actual book. 😉 And this is a BIG book. Not just in size but in emotion, too. read more