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[New Post] Book Review: Drilled by Jasinda Wilder

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Title: Drilled

Author: Jasinda Wilder

Page count: 262

Published: September 14, 2018

Publisher: N/A

Genre: Contemporary

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

Rating:   4.5/5

Summary:

IMOGEN: Jesse says you better know what you’re doing with Franco.
ME: Dude, I’m scared.
IMOGEN: !! What? Tell me!
ME: He makes me FEEL THINGS. It’s icky and I don’t like it.
IMOGEN: You’ve known him what, a few hours?
ME: I’m telling you, he scares the sh*t out of me. But he’s so good I can’t stop myself.
IMOGEN: Audra, seriously. Chill. It’s been a couple hours. It’s just insta-lust.

I send Imogen another selfie, this one of my face—I’m biting my lower lip, eyes wide, glancing to the side at Franco laying next to me—his mouthwatering and lust-inducing body is on full display from the waist up. I send a caption a second later:

ME: YOU DONT UNDERSTAND!!! HE’S GOT A MAGICAL D*CK AND I’M FEELING THINGS!!!
ME: Uh-oh. He’s waking up. Time for round…3? 4? I’ve lost count. Tell me I’m a cold-hearted man-eating b*tch with no soul. Tell ME!
IMOGEN: You’re a cold-hearted man-eating bi*ch with no soul? Only, you’re not. So…you’re on own with this one. Except if you need me of course. I’ve got All Thai’d Up on speed dial, three bottles of Josh in the rack.
ME: if this goes south—or anywhere except nowhere, you’d better make it four. Or six. Because we’re either going to be incredible together, or we’ll destroy each other. There will be no in between.

I set the phone aside as Franco’s stunning blue eyes open and fix hungrily on me. He reaches for me, and all thoughts are banished except one:

God, I hope I know what I’m doing…

I laugh internally at that, because does anyone know what they’re doing?

I know I sure as hell don’t.

My Thoughts:
Oh wow! I really don’t know how Jasinda does it. Her books are just amazing, they just suck you in and you don’t want to leave the world that your reading. It happens every time I read a book by her.

This book it is hot and steamy to say the least. It also has a great humour to it. I love that the characters in this series are in there 40’s yet when reading it, it feels like there younger.

I loved the back and forth with Franco and Audra. Although some times I could have bopped her on the head.

I can’t believe that this is only the second book in the series. I can only imagine what is going to happen with the next one.

[New Post] Book Review: The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West

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Title: The Fill-In Boyfriend

Author: Kasie West

Page count: 357

Published: May 2015

Publisher: Harper Teen

Genre: Teen

Received: Bought myself

Rating:  3.5/5

Summary:

When Gia Montgomery’s boyfriend, Bradley, dumps her in the parking lot of her high school prom, she has to think fast. After all, she’d been telling her friends about him for months now. This was supposed to be the night she proved he existed. So when she sees a cute guy waiting to pick up his sister, she enlists his help. The task is simple: be her fill-in boyfriend—two hours, zero commitment, a few white lies. After that, she can win back the real Bradley.

The problem is that days after prom, it’s not the real Bradley she’s thinking about, but the stand-in. The one whose name she doesn’t even know. But tracking him down doesn’t mean they’re done faking a relationship. Gia owes him a favor and his sister intends to see that he collects: his ex-girlfriend’s graduation party—three hours, zero commitment, a few white lies.

Just when Gia begins to wonder if she could turn her fake boyfriend into a real one, Bradley comes waltzing back into her life, exposing her lie, and threatening to destroy her friendships and her new-found relationship

My Thoughts:

I was able to read this book in one sitting I did find that it dragged at some parts and I found the ending to be rushed a little bit. I would have loved to see more of there relationship. I did find it to be really cute.

When we first meet Gia, she gets dumped by her boyfriend on the night of prom, that’s kind of a dick move imo. In the beginning when we first got to meet Gia I did find her to be a little on the annoying side but as the story went on I did like the way the way her character developed.

The fill in Bradly (Hayden) he was swoon worthy, I loved him and his little sister. I also liked the way he was able to get Gia to stand up to her friends because when she didn’t it drove me a little mad.  Getting to know more about the fill in Bradly he was a cute dork, and extremely sweet when it came to Gia.

 

If you are a fan of Kasie West, you should defiantly check this book out.

[New Post] Book Review: Temporoparietal by Kris Ellis

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Title: Temporoparietal

Author: Kris Ellis

Page count: 308

Published: July 17,2018

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Limited

Genre: New Adult / Teen

Received: From Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

Rating:  3/5

Summary:

Kris Ellis’ debut novel follows Matt Pearce, OCD sufferer, low-achiever, film fanatic and Jack Kerouac enthusiast, who reaches an existential crossroads. He finds himself looking back on a life thus far of dead-end jobs, binge drinking, encounters with aggressive locals, sessions with therapists, and failed relationships with alluring but ‘head-doing’ young teenage girls.

When one of these relationships, with an abused teenager called S., goes badly wrong, Matt flees the country and undertakes a Greyhound bus journey across the USA, partly to escape from S., partly as a pilgrimage to Kerouac’s final resting place, partly to pitch his draft indie movie script to an unsuspecting Hollywood, but mostly to find himself.

Matt’s journey takes him from New York to Los Angeles via stopovers in Boston, Lowell, Chicago and Las Vegas. He travels across a variegated geographical and mental landscape which provides him with edgy encounters and glimpses of an existential NOW amidst flashbacks from his childhood, adolescence in Freetown, formative relationships with Mona, Alice and S., Socratic dialogues with his ‘head doctor’, movie-making ambitions and struggling attempts to write his own life script.

temporoparietal is a candid, semi-documentary teenage beat novel, told through the hand-held camera-pen of its young adult narrator. The story is written in an experimental colloquial style resembling a philosophical, vigorously delivered stand-up comedy routine about being alive and young in the modern world. Author Kris Ellis describes his protagonist’s state of consciousness as existing somewhere between Holden Caulfield and Bill Hicks. Influenced by J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac and Michel Houellebecq, temporoparietal will appeal to readers looking for an edgy, thought-provoking contemporary novel exploring modern youth in search of its soul

My Thoughts:

When I first saw this book on netgalley I was intrigued by the title. At first, I thought that it was a word that was made up. Then I looked it up and found out that it meant the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) is an area of the brain where the temporal and parietal lobes meet, at the posterior end of the Sylvian fissure. I was still slightly confused but completely interested in the story of Matt.

Matt is a funny guy who is trying to find his purpose in life and that is a struggle but when you add having OCD, Compulsive behaviour, depression and anxiety it makes everything even more difficult. While reading his story you get an insight into his mind. I did find myself being sad a few times reading this because I couldn’t imagine having to deal with all of these let alone one. This story does jump from past to present and first when I was reading it I did get a little confused in the beginning. Near the end of the story we get to see why Matt ran from this abusive relationship with “S” and we find out that she has Hyper Manic-Depressive disorder and everything that Matt has I don’t think that it was going to work out.

This story was good but I felt like it was lacking something in the plot, I’m not sure what that is.

[New Post] Review: Impossible Glamour by Maggie Marr

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Impossible Glamour (Glamour Series Book 6) by [Marr, Maggie ]

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Title: Impossible Glamour

Author: Maggie Marr

Page count: 222

Published: September 20, 2018

Publisher: The NextstepPr

Genre: New Adult

Received: From the Publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating:  4/5

Summary:

A Hollywood Romance

Ellen Legend wants nothing to do with her famous family or their Hollywood lifestyle. She’s content to take her outrageous IQ and photographic memory and become a surgeon. But when her dream seems to disappear and her famous father becomes ill, she is required to deal with Webber Connor, her father’s agent. A Hollywood agent with cars, parties, and women on his mind, Webber is admittedly in love with his lifestyle. With a wicked sense of humor and an outrageous way with words, Webber is the guy who says it like it is, but when Webber comes face to face with the brainiac Ellen Legend, he is nearly at a loss for words. Sizzling heat, two different lifestyles, but a fierce passion that neither Ellen nor Webber can deny–Impossible Glamour takes you on a tour of the film industry that only a Hollywood insider can provide.

My Thoughts:

I am absolutely loving this series, I haven’t read them all just yet but the ones that I have read are amazing. I have been dying to read Webbers story.

Ellen is independent which I love in a female lead an something that I was shocked to read was that she wanted nothing to do with the family legacy considering who her family was. She was studying at a med school to become a doctor. She wanted to live her own life.

Webber is a Hollywood agent he also loves woman, money an cars. He has a great sence of humor that made me laugh a lot.

Ellen and Webber live completely different life styles, yet they are able to make there relationship work.

I think Webber is my favourite, it was Rhett but now that I got to dive into Webber’s story I think he took his place.

 

[New Post] Book Review: Touching Sin by J.Saman

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Title: Touching Sin

Author: J. Saman

Page count: 338

Published: September 20, 2018

Publisher: The NextstepPr

Genre: Woman Fiction

Received: From the Publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating:  4/5

Summary:

Proceeds from pre-orders go to No More – domestic violence & sexual assault charity

Jake
I know she’s lying the moment I see her.
That her name is as fake as her story. She’s barged into my life like a beautiful nightmare, turning everything upside down.
It hasn’t stopped me from trying to help her. Protect her. Save her from the threats that seem to come out of nowhere.
She’s put my entire world at risk. My reputation. My business. My livelihood.
But Mia brought me back to life. And I will do anything to save hers.

Mia
I was running for my life the night I met Jake.
Broken down on the road to nowhere. Lost. Homeless. Scared out of my mind.
I don’t care. I’m willing to risk it all to start over. Desperate to hide and never be found again.
But it doesn’t take much for Jake to break down my defenses. A soft word. A gentle touch. He becomes mine, but more importantly, I become his.
Until the nightmare of my past shows up, pissed off as hell…

*This book contains material that might be offensive for some or elicit a strong emotional response.

My Thoughts:

Before I get into my review I just want to say that the pre orders of this book will be donated to a domestic violence and sexual assault charity which I think is amazing. Now onto my review I hope to keep spoiler free because this is such a powerful book that I think you all need to check out.

Oh my gosh. I loved this book, Jake was dare I say the perfect hero for Mia and maybe my next bookboyfriend? Well I think I will because he was. There wasn’t anything that he wouldn’t do to protect her.

Mia was on the run from her current life, she had no idea where she was going an only had a little bit of money with her. I applaud her for leaving her situation and being able to find a wonderful guy like Jake.