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[New Post] Review: Hard Glamour

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Title: Hard Glamour

Author: Maggie Marr

Page count: 305

Published: Aug 9, 2018

Publisher: The NextStepPr

Genre: New Adult

Received: From the author in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Summary:

Lane takes a risk and move to LA to work in the film industry. Broke, homeless and without a job, she scores a gig working for the hottest bad-boy actor in Hollywood.

My Thoughts:

I had previously written my review on the older version of this book.

This book was the first that I have read of this author an I have to say that I absolutely adored this book.

Lane was an amazing lead, the first encounter that she has with Dillon was just amazing, it made me laugh.

Lane moved to L.A from Kansas because she was offered a job but things got mixed up and she didn’t have the job when she arrived. She meets Choo and he offered her a job. She didn’t know what it entailed but she was excited about it. She gets a job as Dillion’s script reader/ dog walker. She adores the dogs and they adore her so it’s an added bonus.

Dillion is an up an coming movie actor / bad boy. He only cares about himself and his brother Choo. That’s until he meets Lane.

The chemistry that they have is completely undeniable. I loved going on there journey with them. I can’t wait to read the next book.

*received an arc from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.*

[New Post] Book Review: You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn

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Title: You’d Be Mine

Author: Erin Hahn

Page count: 320

Published: April 2, 2019

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Genre: Teen / YA

Received: From Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Rating:  4/5

Summary:

Annie Mathers is America’s sweetheart and heir to a country music legacy full of all the things her Gran warned her about. Superstar Clay Coolidge is most definitely going to end up one of those things.

But unfortunately for Clay, if he can’t convince Annie to join his summer tour, his music label is going to drop him. That’s what happens when your bad boy image turns into bad boy reality. Annie has been avoiding the spotlight after her parents’ tragic death, except on her skyrocketing YouTube channel. Clay’s label wants to land Annie, and Clay has to make it happen.

Swayed by Clay’s undeniable charm and good looks, Annie and her band agree to join the tour. From the start fans want them to be more than just tour mates, and Annie and Clay can’t help but wonder if the fans are right. But if there’s one part of fame Annie wants nothing to do with, it’s a high-profile relationship. She had a front row seat to her parents’ volatile marriage and isn’t interested in repeating history. If only she could convince her heart that Clay, with his painful past and head over heels inducing tenor, isn’t worth the risk.

Erin Hahn’s thrilling debut, You’d Be Mine, asks: can the right song and the perfect summer on the road make two broken hearts whole?

My Thoughts:

There are some trigger warnings there’s mentions of suicide, alcoholism and drugs.

This book follows a girl named Annie who happens to be smart, genuine and  talented daughter of country music legends. One day there is something tragic that happens when she’s 13 and leaves Annie all alone and shocked from the event, she refuses to follow in her parents footsteps.

Clay and he is the country swoon worthy bad boy. He gets drunk and arrested one night an his music label makes a deal with him. But he needs to convince Annie to sign to there label, will he be able to? Or will she run because she doesn’t want to be in the spot light?

I this this would be a great summer read to sit at the beach and read.

If you are a fan of country music you will love this book. so make sure to check it out in 2019.

 

[New Post] Review: Elizabeth and the Thunder of Dragons by Ava Mason

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Title: Elizabeth and the Thunder of Dragons

Author: Ava Mason

Page count: 200

Published: June 2018

Publisher: N/A

Genre: Paranormal, RH

Received: From the author in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Summary:

An old enemy. A chance for revenge. A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance.

It’s time for Elizabeth to reclaim her pack, but returning home without a plan would be…unwise. Every minute it takes to plan makes Elizabeth more and more anxious. Returning to the place your parents were murdered makes for unpredictable emotional reactions…the kind that ends up with deadly consequences.

Finally, when Elizabeth and her dragons near her home, they realize everything is worse than they could have imagined. With her homeland in tatters and her heart feeling the weight of every loss and every hope, Elizabeth marches ever closer to a climactic fight with the man who killed her parents and stole her pack.

She is determined to defeat Garrett and become Alpha of her pack. Will she win? Will it be worth the pain? Will she even survive? Will everyone she loves?

***Elizabeth and the Thunder of Dragons is Book Six of the Fated Alpha Series. Each book features a paranormal romance, a true reverse harem with one woman and four sexy, demanding and protective shifters. This series is intended for adult readers for sexual situations, violence, and lots of cussing.***

Buy now to dive into this sexy reverse harem world!

My Thoughts:

Okie, now that we are almost at the end of the series I’m going to try and give a spoiler free review, because I think you should all check this series out.

This book is packed with romance, danger and excitement. I feel more than the pervious books. Since were are in the sixth book now.

Elizabeth has the chance to go back to her pack and her vengeance that she’s always wanted. It’s not the easy, there are some losses. She needs to find out who can be trusted and who can’t be. There happens to be a cliffhanger which is a bummer but it’s a segway into book 7. Which I can’t wait to read.

I was given an advanced readers copy from the author in exchange for an honest review

[New Post] Review: Keeping Her Close by Casey Diam

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Title: Keeping her Close

Author: Casey Diam

Page count: 307

Published: Aug 14, 2017

Publisher: NLM Romance Publishing

Genre: Romance

Received: Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

Rating:  2.75/5

Summay:

When a heart is broken, it withdraws, shielding itself from further pain, but also from further life.

Brandon Kuvat gave up on love ten years ago—the year he was set to become a dad. A wealthy playboy pilot, he still sees plenty of action, but he’s not the man he once was. Or the man he wishes he could be. The first time he encounters Jordan, he knows immediately she is different. He also knows hurting her is inevitable. Still, he can’t stay away, even if it means he’ll have to settle for a friendship—but only for as long as that can last.

Wounded by a disastrous relationship, Jordan Artesian has put her whole focus on work, nurturing her dreams of owning her own fashion line. But though her creativity blooms, the rest of her is still frozen, that is, until Brandon charms his way into her life. He’s irritating, but somehow…intriguing. She hates that she finds his charming and challenging ways attractive. He isn’t supposed to make her feel things she’s given up on feeling.

For these two, friendship will never be enough—not when she’s what he needs to heal, and he’s what she needs to feel again. But can they find their way down the path of friendship to truly love and trust one another, or will they only destroy each other’s hearts all over again?

My Thoughts:

After reading this book I have to say that I wasn’t a fan of how it ended. It made me feel like there is more to the story that hasn’t been said. So hopefully there is another on to this series.

In this book the relationship with Brandon and Jordan does go on for quite a bit even though the chemistry was there, it was all most coming off the pages. I was getting a little frustrated with Jordan and Brandon because I just wanted to yell at them to tell one another how they feel. To me also seemed like they were purposely trying to sabotage their “Relationship” on purpose but when it finally happened I was happy. While I was reading this I did feel a disconnect with Jordan, I did feel a connection more with Brandon.

[New Post] Book Review: Changed by T.S. Murphy

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Title: Changed

Author:  T.S. Murphy

Page count: 395

Published: August 1, 2018

Publisher: Victory editing

Genre: NA

Received: From Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 3.75 /5

Summary:

Kate McGuire has loved her brother’s best friend for years—an older guy who didn’t know she existed and whose smoking-hot girlfriend could punch her into next week. But now Kate’s eighteen and Quinn Haley is girlfriend-free and looking at her like she’s definitely outside the friend zone. Everything is working out perfectly—until a devastating medical diagnosis throws her life into a tailspin.

Quinn Haley has dealt with abuse and rejection his entire life, but when he finally breaks up with his cheating girlfriend while home from college for Christmas, he realizes his best friend’s little sister has always been there for him. Only now, Kate’s all grown up and frankly adorable. Definitely not someone he wants to keep in the friend zone.

Kate’s entire future will be a lifetime of no. No children. No sex. No Quinn. And when Quinn won’t take no for an answer, she fights him every step of the way.

All the way into love

My Thoughts:

I’m not sure why but I love to read books that have medical issues involved, this book on the other had left me wanting a little more. When I first read the synopsis of the book it was a little vague, but I was still interested.

Kate is 18 when she finds out that she has MRKH which stands for Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser. When I first read that I thought that it was interesting because I have head of people having the condition, but I have never known what it was called. The fact that it’s not rare there are one in 5000 girls that are born with it, it kinda blows my mind.

I loved how this book follows her journey on how she copes with having this condition and dealing with a relationship and still having a scene of humor with it all.