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Title:  Badd Business

Author: Jasinda Wilder

Page count: 277

Published:  November 9, 2018

Publisher:  Jasinda Wilder

Genre: Contemporary

Received: From the author in exchange for an honest review

Rating:  4.75/5

Summary:

Remington Badd…he’s just as big, just as BADD, just as foul-mouthed and filthy-minded as his brother Roman. But under that rough and wild exterior lies a secret.

Juneau Isaac, a Yup’ik Inuit, is the daughter of a hiking guide father and a mother who creates works of art and sells it to the tourists. The first to go to college—the first to leave her family’s ancestral home near Ketchikan—Juneau feels a deep sense of obligation to her family, to ignore the real passion that beats inside her.

A roughneck smokejumper with an artist’s soul hidden deep inside. An artist living a false life, harboring secrets and fostering forbidden passions.

Can these two find their way to living their truths while navigating the tumultuous waters of a whirlwind romance? In a battle between familial obligation and secret dreams, will there be room for love—not to mention the wild intensity of uncontrollable lust—in these closed-off hearts?

My Thoughts:

Jasinda Wilder has done it again. This is the tenth book in the Badd brother’s series and just keeps getting better and better. I loved how previous characters were in the series. I think it gives it a more homey feel to it.

Rem is another one of the Triplets. He was a smoke jumper before moving to Alaska with his brothers to open a bar named Badd Kitty Saloon. Ironically being close to his cousin’s family bar. Rem doesn’t want to be someone that owns a bar he wants to go off and do his own thing and become a tattoo artist.

Juneau is the first in her family to go to collage. She works hard at a job that she doesn’t really like and when she meets Rem that’s when everything changes, and their chemistry just spills off the page. I also loved how Jasinda incorporated Juneau talents and family heritage.

I was able to read this book in one sitting. It kept me up till the wee hours in the morning because I wanted to know how this story was going to end. I was truly captured by everything that happened in the book. I loved how at the end we get sneak peaks into the next book in the series. I’m dying to know what happens with Ramsey and Izzy.

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Title: Lost Days

Author: A.S. Kelly

Page count: 304

Published:  November 5, 2018

Publisher:  The NextStepPR

Genre: Contemporary

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Rating:  4/5

Summary:

Aaron O’Donovan is a rational man prone to reflection, used to being proactive and finding a solution for every problem. He’s lived these last few years taking care of his sister, and running a pub that he owns with his friends, having set aside his passion for music. Aaron is a constant presence in the lives of the people who surround him, a rock you can count on; but Aaron is a lonely man who has given up on his own ambitions, and who has a difficult past behind him. His experiences have made him cynical, unable to believe in anything, especially in love.

Ciara Doyle works as a tourist guide as she finishes her studies in Art History. She’s young and full of life. Her world is made up of light, color and limitless dreams. She believes in people, in love and living happily ever after, even if there’s only space for one man in her heart – the only man she shouldn’t want.

Aaron has known Ciara since she was a child and has always thought of her like a sister: he’s seen her grow up before his eyes, to become a beautiful sexy woman who is both stubborn and proud. A woman who knows what she wants. And Ciara wants Aaron.

Aaron tries to resist her but the passion between them explodes, forcing him to give in and start wanting something that he has denied himself for years. However, giving in to her would mean the end of her dreams, because Aaron isn’t able to love and will never be the Prince Charming of her fairy tale.

My Thoughts:

Oh my goodness, I don’t even know where to begin with this one. My emotions are all over the place. Aaron broke my heart in this one because everyone of his friends has someone in there life and he feels like he is getting left behind. So over the years he has put up this wall so that he wouldn’t have to deal with all these different emotions, until one night on a roof top when Ciara comes to his aid.

In the previous books Aaron had been the rock, the one that always gave the much needed advice to his friends when they needed it or not. Aaron is also fighting his inner thoughts on how he shouldn’t be with anyone, I loved his character development and how his friends are the ones that are helping him with advice.

I loved Ciara an how she was able to help Aaron when he needed it. ( I don’t want to spoil why. ) She is the perfect match for him and I couldn’t see him with anyone else but Ciara. When I read the previous books I always wondered why Aaron was never with anyone. I’m so happy that after all the years of knowing her they ended up together.

This is such a wonderful series, I think you should all check it out.

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Title:  The Gathering

Author:  L.A. Fiore

Page count: 322

Published: October 12, 2018

Publisher: TheNextStepPR

Genre: Paranormal Romance

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Rating:   4/5

Summary:

Words like unnatural and impure started the whispers.

From the very beginning, Ivy Blackwood was different. She was only a child when she was accused of setting the fire, one she passively watched engulf the small house she had called home. Her fingertips burned and her hair singed. Some who watched her crossed themselves, convinced she was soulless for she showed no emotion at all. Calm and dispassionate, even when the screaming started that quickly turned to bellows of agony before dying into nothing but the roaring of the fire.

She was locked away where she couldn’t bring harm to herself or others. To all involved, they had protected the world from a monster, but sometimes things are not what they seem.

My Thoughts:
This is the first book that I have read by this author, I’m completely blown away I can’t believe that this is only the first book in the series. I can’t even imagine what will happen in the next book. This will definitely not be my last by this author. While reading this book did give me chills a few times and I did keep looking over my shoulder while reading. I’d say this is the perfect read just in time for Halloween.

This book follows a woman named Ivy she’s such a beautiful character. Something happens to her when she was 10 that leaves her in a mental hospital. As you read on you get to know more and more. While reading we get to meet Bain who is Ivy’s love interest and I loved there relationship and the dynamic it added to the story.

Josiah and Cyril are trying to solve the recent murders and realize that Ivy is connected somehow.

When the pieces of the story finally come together and everything makes sense, I was left shocked I didn’t see it happening the way it did at all.

This was truly a captivating story I was hooked from the first chapter. I think you should all check it out and get to know Ivy and Bain because there story is one you won’t forget

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Title:  The Blood of Caged Birds

Author:  J.M Stredwick

Page count:  286

Published: September 6^th, 2018

Publisher: N/A

Genre: Historical Fantasy

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Rating:  3/5

Summary:

A world of dark creatures and ruthless men.
Archaic secrets trembling to be told.
Can their love survive beneath the pressure?

Giselle Bonteque lives a tedious life knowing someday she’ll be wed to the man of her parents choosing. When her sister, Claire, arrives home to their grand Maison in the country, a thrilling bet between the sisters catapults her into the arms of Benjamin, a mysterious half-islander man who seems strangely familiar and sparks the only flame of passion she has ever felt.

Drawn into a passionate romance, ever more aware of the ticking of the clock, Giselle must make difficult decisions or risk losing Benjamin forever. But her problems are graver than she knows as sinister schemes loom around her.

Beyond this simple world of mantua gowns, lusting men, and the social elite, a world of dark magic abounds. The head of an ancient cabal continues to search for the one whose soul could be the key to immortality: hers.

With those who are prepared to do whatever it takes to find her, will Giselle find freedom from the expectations of society before destiny takes hold?

Due to thematic elements, this series is recommended for upper YA+

Fans of dark fantasy, romance, plot twists, and historical fiction will devour this story

My Thoughts:

Reading this story I had a little knowledge of what it was about before hand because I had read the blurb but I still didn’t really know what to expect. This book did start off a little slow for me but once it pick up I couldn’t put it down. This book was set in 17th century France and who doesn’t want to go to France ?

I don’t want to give to much of the story away, because I think you should all check it out. The book is told in multiple POV’s. Giselle and her sister Claire are at the age where they are to get married but need there parents approval, it’s mostly there mothers. Although these two have something else in mind.

Claire uses her beauty to get what she wants from men, why because she loves sex and she isn’t afraid to admit that.

Giselle on the other hand when she meets Benjamin who is a handsome fellow. They both knew that they were meant to be together.

Being someone that doesn’t read that many historical books, I did enjoy this one and the magical elements that it had added. This author does an amazing job. I’m looking forward to seeing her work in the future