Thursday, January 10, 2019

#NewRelease #Reviews SOPHIE by Kelsie Rae @authorkelsierae

Sophie by Kelsie Rae is HERE!!!


Available Now on Amazon

KU subscribers can read Sophie for #FREE


Blurb:

Sophie
Aren't one night stands supposed to stay in the past? Aren't they supposed to be with a stranger whom you never have to see again?
Yeah. I thought so too.
And then one of my best friends asks me to be the maid-of-honor at her wedding.
Wanna take a guess who the best man is?
I'm screwed.

Nathan
I don't do feelings. I don't do relationships. And I sure as hell don't do love.
And then I was stupid enough to sleep with Soph. The girl who screwed with my head in ways I never could've imagined.
So I left.
I ran.
And I'm going to continue to run as soon as my best friend's wedding is over. 
It's one weekend. How hard can it be?


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The first month of the year and I've already found a new author. I will be going back to look at her previous books. 

Sophie and Nathan have a one-night fling and then they are thrown together at a friend's wedding the attraction is obvious and sparks fly. I enjoyed this sweet romantic fun story. Even though relationships make him nervous Nathan will still make you swoon and Sophie will make you giggle. 

This was a quick read, it was fun and flirty and emotional. 


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EXCERPT:

I sleep about as peacefully as you can expect on a flight, because…it’s a flight. And the seats are terrible. And the person behind me keeps kicking my chair. And I need to pee.

Dammit.

After thirty minutes of tossing and turning, and only getting a few minutes of solid sleep, I throw in the towel and head to the tiny restroom in the front of the plane.

The majority of the passengers are asleep, and the quiet atmosphere is almost soothing. The gentle hum from the engines seems to act as a lullaby for the people around me. I use the lavatory and am washing my hands in the tiny sink, when I hear the muffled sounds of moaning coming from the bathroom next to mine, along with the rhythmic thumping that can only be described as someone getting it on in the bathroom. I try to hold in the laughter and secretly want to high-five the person joining the mile-high club as we speak.

At least someone’s enjoying their flight.

Nathan’s face comes to mind as I’m reminded of my one and only sexual encounter. 

And man…was it good.

That is, until the Weiner left me without a trace. I know the mechanics of a one-night stand. I’m not completely naive. 

But this didn’t feel like one. It felt like so much…more.

Blah. How cliche is that? A girl loses her virginity to a notorious bad boy, and she assumes he felt an inkling of what she did while it happened?

Stupid, Sophie. Get a hold of yourself, girl!

The squeaking and moaning stops, bringing me back to the present.

Shit. I better get out of here.

I dry my hands on a paper towel quickly, deciding it would be best if I snuck back to my seat before they emerge from the bathroom and are caught in the act.

Or the…after the act?

Regardless, I gotta get moving.

I open the door and step into the tiny space the plane designers call a walkway, when the door across from me opens simultaneously, revealing a disheveled-looking flight attendant with a dopey smile on her face. 

She almost looks drunk, and I snort when she takes a wobbly step out of the small bathroom.

However, when I’m greeted with a face that’s been haunting my every thought for the past four weeks, I almost collapse.

Be strong, Soph.

He looks incredible. Better than I remember. Sandy blonde hair. Broad shoulders. Tapered waist. And warm brown eyes you want to get lost in.

The scruff is new, though. I don’t want to admit that I like it. That it gives him a certain edge that he didn’t have before.

Nathan’s arrogant smirk slips for the briefest of seconds when his eyes connect with mine. However, like a chameleon, he slides it right back into place, grinning cockily at me.

“Fancy seeing you here,” he quips, eyeing me up and down like a piece of meat.

I swallow past the golf ball lodged in my throat while debating how I should handle this situation.

The old Sophie would’ve made a snarky comment to both of them before confidently walking back to her seat in her classy high-heels and making him wish he’d get another opportunity to be with her.

The new Sophie is shaking in her proverbial boots, trying not to puke as her stomach rolls with the knowledge that the guy she’s been dreaming about for the past month just had sex with another woman thirty seconds ago. Proving that I really am an immature girl with unrealistic dreams of finding her happily ever after.

Screw you, Nathan.

By some miracle, my legs are steady as I take a step forward and pat Nathan’s stubbled cheek, condescendingly. “I’m so happy the enhancement surgery went well, honey. The doctors were worried you wouldn’t be able to perform.” I slap him once again with a little more force, ignoring the way his scruff tickles my palm.

I turn to the flight attendant. “I really hope you made him wrap up. The problem’s hereditary and…” I lift up my index finger before bending it and pouting dramatically, “No little boy should have to deal with that.”

I smirk at the two of them before walking back to my seat with the confidence of a runway model. Collapsing into my chair, I take a few deep breaths in through my nose, releasing them through a tiny “o” in my lips as tears threaten to spill onto my cheeks.

I will not let them fall.

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About Kelsie

Kelsie is a sucker for a love story with all the feels. When she's not chasing words for her next book, you will probably find her reading or, more likely, playing with her "monsters".

She adores chocolate, photography, baking, and chick flicks. And now that she's actively pursuing her writing dreams, she's set her sights on someday finding the self-discipline to not eat an entire batch of cookies in one sitting.


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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

#NewRelease #5stars #ReviewBundle THE KISS THIEF by L.J. Shen @CandiKanePR @lj_shen

   
THE KISS THIEF BY L.J. SHEN

Release Date: January 9th
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Blurb

They say your first kiss should be earned.

Mine was stolen by a devil in a masquerade mask under the black Chicago sky.

They say the vows you take on your wedding day are sacred.

Mine were broken before we left church.

They say your heart only beats for one man.

Mine split and bled for two rivals who fought for it until the bitter end.

I was promised to Angelo Bandini, the heir to one of the most powerful families in the Chicago Outfit.

Then taken by Senator Wolfe Keaton, who held my father’s sins over his head to force me into marriage.

They say that all great love stories have a happy ending.

I, Francesca Rossi, found myself erasing and rewriting mine until the very last chapter.

One kiss.
Two men.
Three lives.
Entwined together.

And somewhere between these two men, I had to find my forever.

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I’ve spent the last 24 hours trying to decide how to write this review. I can’t express how much I loved this story! I found myself unable to tear myself away from this book.... even in the midst of our full finished basement being flooded. We cleared out the basement, yes, but then the rest was up to my husband because I had to dive back into this story, lol! Sorry, honey! 
I’ve been in a reading slump lately. I’m fairly easy to please, but have been yearning for a book to knock my socks off and make the rest of the world fall out of focus. This book was RIGHT ON THE MONEY! It hooked me in right from the start. The love triangle within the story was so angsty. Both men were attractive and alluring in their own right, but I knew which one I was rooting for, for sure! This book was desperate, bewildering, electric, angsty, and hot. We had a touch of dark and brooding... and I loved the character development and growth for both main characters. My favorite part of this story is my love for an a-holish brooding man and experiencing his guard coming down! *swoon* 

Highly recommend! 


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Unless you've been living under a rock you'll have seen the hype regarding this book. First we got teasers lots of wonderfully sexy angst filled teasers. Then we got TKT and we all tried to work out what it meant thinking caps were on ladies then the cover dropped and it's just beautiful. 

All the waiting was worth it this story was glorious. The characters were intoxicating to read, sweet innocent against broody alpha. I was in love from start to finish. The author never fails to surprise and deliver for the reader. 

This was my first book of the year and what away to start. Well done LJ it was everything I wanted and more. 


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The Kiss Thief is an unexpectedly, tumultuous journey. Kisses are stolen. Lives are changed. Things are lost. 

The reader will be helpless to stop this runaway train from crashing most spectacularly. They will waver. They will wonder. They will be lustful, loving, and torn. 

Some will be confused, others indignant but most of all they will be understanding. It's a nontraditional romance. (Like you would expect anything else from LJ Shen.) It's full of passion, lust, and love. It's not the stuff Disney sells but it feels more real.

Reviewed for Sweet Spot Sisterhood

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Excerpt

“Are you sure you’re on my card?” I turned to the man with a polite yet distant smile. I was still disoriented from the exchange with Angelo when the stranger pulled me against his hard body and pressed a possessive hand lower than socially acceptable on my back, a second from groping my butt. “Answer me,” I hissed. “My bid on your card was the highest,” he replied dryly. “The bids are undisclosed. You don’t know how much other people have paid,” I kept my lips pursed to keep myself from yelling. “I know it’s nowhere near the realm of what this dance is worth.” Un-freaking-believable. We began to waltz around the room as other couples were not only spinning and mingling but also stealing envious glances at us. Naked, raw ogles that told me that whomever the blonde he’d come to the masquerade with was, she wasn’t his wife. And that I might have been all the rage in The Outfit, but the rude man was in high demand, too. I was stiff and cold in his arms, but he didn’t seem to notice—or mind. He knew how to waltz better than most men, but he was technical, and lacked warmth and Angelo’s playfulness. “Nemesis.” He took me by surprise, his rapacious gaze stripping me bare. “Distributing glee and dealing misery. Seems at odds with the submissive girl who entertained Bishop and his horsey wife at the table.” I choked on my own saliva. Did he just call the governor’s wife horsey? And me submissive? I looked away, ignoring the addictive scent of his cologne, and the way his marble body felt against mine. “Nemesis is my spirit animal. She was the one to lure Narcissus to a pool where he saw his own reflection and died of vanity. Pride is a terrible illness.” I flashed him a taunting smirk. “Some of us could use catching it.” He bared his straight white teeth. “Arrogance is a disease. Compassion is the cure. Most gods didn’t like Nemesis, but that’s because she had a backbone.” “Do you?” He arched a dark eyebrow. “Do I…?” I blinked, the courteous grin on my face crumpling. He was even ruder when we were alone. “Have a backbone,” he provided. He stared at me so boldly and intimately, it felt like he breathed fire into my soul. I wanted to step out of his touch and jump into a pool full of ice. “Of course, I do,” I responded, my spine stiffening. “What’s with the manners? Were you raised by wild coyotes?” “Give me an example,” he said, ignoring my quip. I was beginning to draw away from him, but he jerked me back into his arms. The glitzy ballroom distorted into a backdrop, and even though I was starting to notice that the man behind the demi-mask was unusually beautiful, the ugliness of his behavior was the only thing that stood out. I am a warrior and a lady…and a sane person who can deal with this horrid man. “I really like Angelo Bandini.” I dropped my voice, slicing my gaze from his eyes and toward the table where Angelo’s family had been seated. My father was sitting a few seats away, staring at us coldly, surrounded by Made Men who chatted away. “And see, in my family, we have a tradition dating back ten generations. Prior to her wedding, a Rossi bride is to open a wooden chest—carved and made by a witch who lived in my ancestors’ Italian village—and read three notes written to her by the last Rossi girl to marry. It’s kind of a good luck charm mixed with a talisman and a bit of fortunetelling. I stole the chest tonight and opened one of the notes, all so I could rush fate. It said that tonight I was going to be kissed by the love of my life, and well…” I drew my lower lip into my mouth and sucked it, peering under my eyelashes at Angelo’s empty seat. The man stared at me stoically, as though I was a foreign film he couldn’t understand. “I’m going to kiss him tonight.” “That’s your backbone?” “When I have an ambition, I go for it.”
A conceited frown crinkled his mask, as if to say I was a complete and utter moron. I looked him straight in the eye. My father taught me that the best way to deal with men like him was to confront, not run. Because, this man? He’d chase.
   
   
About the Author

L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby cat.
Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets peoples’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards.
She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be outlawed.
   
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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

#NewRelease #Reviews #5star RAW: Rebirth by Belle Aurora @GiveMeBooksBlog @BelleAurora1




Title: RAW: Rebirth
Series: RAW Family #3
Author: Belle Aurora
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: January 2, 2019



Blurb

It had been six years since my world was turned upside down.
He exposed me to the darker side of life and I could never go back to the person I was.
I had been through more things the average person couldn’t even relate to.

If I had the chance to go back and do things differently though?
Not a chance.

I’d pick him a thousand times. A million times. For eternity.

I guess not much has changed.

My name is Alexa Ballentine, and I am still in love with my stalker.






He's back Twitch is back !! 

I know I like hundreds of other readers have been waiting for Twitch Lexi and AJ to be reunited and let me tell you it was worth the wait. 

Twitch wants his family back and no-one is going to stand in his way. The one thing he hasn't counted on is mama bear Lexi. I loved seeing Twitch in daddy mode there are sweet tender moments and some funny laugh out loud ones. Lexi has grown so much from the previous book, she's strong and determined. 

Bring reunited with the gang was heaven , the story is just as intense as you'd expect.

The whole story was perfection from start to finish. The epilogue was everything and little AJ is gonna turn your heart to mush. 


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For 2 years, I b!tched, I whined, and I stalked this book. The moment I finished Dirty I began my chaotic descent into crazy town waiting for more. Waiting for boom.

Belle Aurora brought the motherf@cking boom! Raw: Rebirth is the atom bomb of booms. Everything that tore you apart in Raw and Dirty, everything you clung to in desperate hope, everything you needed to know... It's here but what a price you pay.

All the good guys, all the bad guys. All in one place. When I read Raw and Dirty (I actually binge read them at the time of Dirty's release), I became convinced the song Heathens by Twenty One Pilots was the theme song for this crew. Two years later, I know it's their anthem. 

Raw: Rebirth is seriously that. A rebirth. A rising from the ashes. It is intense. It is hot. It is everything you've come to expect from this series with a whole lot of "wtf!?!" thrown in.

So read at your own risk, and just know that you will not be able to walk away. Ever. You've been warned.

Reviewed for Sweet Spot Sisterhood

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Author Bio

Belle Aurora is thirty-something year old and was born in the land down under.
At an early age she fell in love with reading. Boredom one summer had her scouring the bookshelves at home. She stumbled across Sandra Brown’s Breath of Scandal and fell in love with romance.
Having been brought up in a loud and boisterous family of Croatian descent, she developed a natural love for dramatics and laughter. Only some years ago had she discovered a new love.
Humorous romance novels.
So many authors had opened a brand new world where she could lose herself yet feel safe and at home in their stories. Belle has been known to become a screeching banshee while anxiously awaiting their newest titles.
Belle never thought she would write. It had never interested her until recently. Friend-Zoned began to form and in February this year Belle typed the words Chapter One. And she fell in love.
With words.
With writing.
With a creative imagination she never knew she harbored.


Belle Aurora is a USA Today best-selling author.



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#Reviews #Collection DON'T LET GO by Willow Winters @willowwintersbb


Google Play: http://bit.ly/2Rn5kQQ
iBooks: Coming Soon
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Blurb:
Seductive. Addictive. Captivating.The irresistible heroes in these stories have those three features in common.Some stories are second chance; others are fated love. But every single one of them, you’ll crave to the last page.

**This is a collection of tales I loved but they're no longer available. These stories touched my heart, but were exclusive at the time, so if you didn’t snag them then, they were lost to you forever.

I wanted to make sure you could read all of my work and now you can. Happy reading, xx

The stories available in this collection are:

Infatuation, the first novella in the USA Today best-selling bundle, Drawn to Him.

Desires in the Night and Keeping Secrets, both shorts published in exclusive bundles with best-selling author Adriana Locke.

Bad Boy Next Door, a novella I wrote years ago that I still often think about. The damaged hero and second chance love in this romance is one I wish I could go back to often. It’s the final tale included in this collection for a total of 4 stories not available anywhere else! 




Infatuation 

From the start this story has an air of both mystery and mysticism. Willow does a great job of setting the scene her words enable the reader to imagine the island. Love or lust at first sight? Or is magic at play?


Desires In The Night

This little novella is a delicious dirty sexy tease from start to finish. Have you ever had a dirty fantasy about a policeman? If so this will appeal to you. 


Keeping Secrets

Short but so sweet . Some secrets can bind you or they can destroy. When the secret is revealed my jaw hit the floor. Quick read with a surprising twist


Bad Boy Next Door

Gotta love me some bad boy. In Catherine and Ryker we get a swoony alpha who falls for the girl next door.


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Infatuation-
It wouldn't be Willow Winters without intrigue, questions, and an alpha with a past. I think she has the formula for guaranteed drool factor. Lust first, questions later, right? Instant infatuation...

I still have so many questions! Ahhh! Not only will you be drawn to him but without him...you feel adrift.


Desires in the Night- 
Holy...! Um, yeah! Please officer! Talk about a delicious fantasy I didn't know I had...
Willow Winters has set us up with a scorcher! I can't resist a man in uniform!


Keeping Secrets-
Wow! I definitely wasn't expecting that bomb! But you are already in pieces when you realize that the blast is happening. Talk about intense. 


Bad Boy Next Door-
Oh yes! Naughty times with the "boy" next door! Bad Boy Next Door has the ability to change the reader into a teenager. I swear I giggles more than she did. It's the perfect amount of tension, lust, and happily ever after.

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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

#NewRelease #Collection DON'T LET GO by Willow Winters


Google Play: http://bit.ly/2Rn5kQQ
iBooks: Coming Soon
Kobo: Coming Soon 



Blurb:
Seductive. Addictive. Captivating.The irresistible heroes in these stories have those three features in common.Some stories are second chance; others are fated love. But every single one of them, you’ll crave to the last page.

**This is a collection of tales I loved but they're no longer available. These stories touched my heart, but were exclusive at the time, so if you didn’t snag them then, they were lost to you forever.

I wanted to make sure you could read all of my work and now you can. Happy reading, xx

The stories available in this collection are:

Infatuation, the first novella in the USA Today best-selling bundle, Drawn to Him.

Desires in the Night and Keeping Secrets, both shorts published in exclusive bundles with best-selling author Adriana Locke.

Bad Boy Next Door, a novella I wrote years ago that I still often think about. The damaged hero and second chance love in this romance is one I wish I could go back to often. It’s the final tale included in this collection for a total of 4 stories not available anywhere else!