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[New Post] New Review: Reckless Love

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Title: Reckless Love

Author:  J. Saman

Page count:  260

Published: June 22, 2018

Publisher: Next Step PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance/ Second Chance Romance

Received: E-Arc from Publishing Company

Purchase: Amazon

Rating: 5/5

Summary:

Jameson 
I let her slip through my fingers…
No, that’s a lie. I was reckless and pushed her away.
I was never supposed to fall for her. She was my tutor. My best friend. My fantasy. I tried to stay away. I failed.
Then we graduated and everything changed. All I needed was a step back. A moment to breathe… And by the time I came up for air, she was in the arms of another man.
Four years later, everything is different. And when I see her again, I remember why I should have never let her go in the first place.

Lyric 
It started on day one…
New school. New life. And there he was, the boy I grew up with, walking up the steps of my very first class. Except now, the boy from my memories was gone, and his place was an Adonis of a man.
It didn’t take much for me to fall for him. Even though I knew we were doomed from the start. But when you find something that perfect, you don’t second guess it.
Until it ends.
Four years later, he’s back. Steamrolling through my life like he never broke my heart to begin with. Only this time, I’m older, wiser and know that second chances are the stuff of fairytales.

 

My Thoughts:

I absolutely adored this book. I didn’t want to finish it. I wanted to stay in the world of Jameson and Lyric.

They grew up together, they met in their kindergarten class. This happen, and they went their different ways and meet up again in collage. There relationship begins when they are in the same class and Jameson askes her to help him study. When he didn’t need the help he just wanted to spend time with her. As time goes on their feeling begin to deepen and they try to deny it. At Christmas break there stuck at Jameson’s place because there is a big storm coming, that’s when their relationship starts to develop into something that I can only explain as wonderful. There relationship does have its ups and downs because they end up spending months apart due to there jobs. I loved how realistic it was.

4 years pass, and Jameson has a ton of regret, Lyric had shed a lot of tears. The big question is can Jameson prove to Lyric that he made a mistake? Can Lyric forgive him? You’ll have to read it and find out.

This is my first book that I have read by Saman and I don’t think that it will be my last. She made these characters feel real and they had there flaws just like everybody.

 

[New Post] New Review: When Elephants Fly

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Title: When Elephants Fly

Author:  Nancy Richardson Fischer

Page count:  400

Published: September 4th, 2018

Publisher: Harlequin Teen

Genre: Teen

Received: E- Arc/Netgalley

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Rating: 2/5

Summary:

  1. Lily Decker is a high school senior with a twelve-year plan: avoid stress, drugs, alcohol and boyfriends, and take regular psych quizzes administered by her best friend, Sawyer, to make sure she’s not developing schizophrenia. Genetics are not on Lily’s side.

    When she was seven, her mother, who had paranoid schizophrenia, tried to kill her. And a secret has revealed that Lily’s odds are even worse than she thought. Still, there’s a chance to avoid triggering the mental health condition, if Lily can live a careful life from ages eighteen to thirty, when schizophrenia most commonly manifests.

    But when a newspaper internship results in Lily witnessing a mother elephant try to kill her three-week-old calf, Swifty, Lily can’t abandon the story or the calf. With Swifty in danger of dying from grief, Lily must choose whether to risk everything, including her sanity and a first love, on a desperate road trip to save the calf’s life, perhaps finding her own version of freedom along the way

 

My Thoughts:

Before I get into my review I feel like I need to say that If you are dealing with mental illness, there is always someone that you can talk too. You Are Not Alone.

The mental health aspect of this for me was interesting because Lucy was trying to connect with Swifty. The way that the author intertwined the mental health aspect of the story was really fascinating. It kept me reading.

Lily has a 12 year plan its consisted of running 3 miles everyday, meditating, an avoid stressful situations. She is doing all of this because she doesn’t want to become like her schizophrenic mother. Whom happened to kill her when she was 11.

Lily then gets a job at the newspaper and that takes her to the zoo. As she’s there she see’s this mother elephant attempting to kill her 3-week-old calf. I wish that Lily and Swifty were able to have more development then what they did have.

Over all, I did enjoy this book. If you like to read books about mental illness or the description peak your interest then I suggest that you pick this one up.

 

[New Post] New Review: The Room of Arches

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The Room of Arches (Soul Seekers) by [Black, Alice J.]

Title: The Room of Arches

Author:  Alice J. Black

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Published: June 5th 2018

Publisher:  Parliament House Press

Genre: YA

Received: E-Arc

Purchase: Amazon

Rating: 4/5

Summary:

Peyton is beginning a new chapter in her life. Abstinent and coming to accept herself, she is finally conceding to her ability.

Now that Peyton has chosen to see her powers as a gift, she is open to the possibility of change all around her.

Peyton knows she can’t stick to working her part-time job at the solicitor’s for much longer, so when an opportunity presents itself, despite being warned to stay away, she can’t resist who she is meant to be…

My Thoughts:

I loved being able to dive back into Peyton’s head like I hadn’t missed anything. She’s now working at her friend’s law office as an assistant. One day that she’s at work she over hears that there’s a possible chance of a haunting which peaks her interest. Adele is such a sweet friend to Peyton, I hope we get to see her more in the series to come.

With everything that is going on in Peyton’s life with the ghost’s and powers that she’s trying to harness and keeping her sobriety, I find that she’s handling it really well.

I loved that Alice was able to suck me back into Peyton’s world in a matter of pages. This story keeps getting more an more interesting. I can’t wait to see what happens for Peyton. I know that I’m going to be eagerly waiting to see.

[New Post] Review: Bane

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Title: Bane

Author:  L.J. Shen

Page count:  355

Published: May 10th 2018

Publisher: unknown

Genre:  New Adult

Received: Kindle Unlimited

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Rating: 5/5

Summary:

Bane
Naked surfer. Habitual pothead. A con, a liar, a thief and a fraud.
Last I heard, he was extorting the rich and screwing their wives for a living.
Which is why I’m more than a little surprised to find him at my threshold, looking for my friendship, my services, and most puzzling of all—looking humbled.
Thing is, I’m on a boycott. Literally—I cut boys from my life. Permanently.
Problem is, Bane is not a boy, he is all man, and I’m falling, crashing, drowning in his sweet, perfect lies.

Jesse Carter
Hot as hell, cold as ice.
I wasn’t aware of her existence until a fat, juicy deal landed in my lap.
She’s a part of it, a little plaything to kill some time.
She is collateral, a means to an end, and a side-bonus for striking a deal with her oil tycoon stepdad.
More than anything, Jesse Carter is a tough nut to crack.
Little does she know, I have the teeth for it.

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

My Thoughts:

Holy fuck. This series was amazing. I can’t believe that its over. L.J Shen has defiantly a way with words. She writes the perfect asshole guy. I’m so glad that my friend Jessica introduced me to her. All of Shen’s books that I have read just keep getting better and better. I can only imagine what she can write next.

Out of all the men in this series I think Vicious and Bane were toe to toe. I’m not sure I’m able to pick one that’s “better”. I don’t think I’m able to do that. So, to saw there are one in he same is good for me. Bane is just ughh I don’t even think I can put into words how I feel about him.

We first get to meet Bane (Roman) in Scandalous and when I first read about him I KNEW I needed to get more. Bane wants to make his dreams come true and he needs money to do that, since he’s not like the rest of the Sinners. So, he has to do some “dirty work” to get the money. Bane made me so happy.

Jessie is a beautiful amazing match to Bane. Even at the young age of 19 she has had a lot of weight to carry on her shoulders.  Their story was amazing to read and how they came together. I loved to see them together, even though there meeting wasn’t the greatest. I still think that it fit the story perfectly.

They both have had some struggles in their life since they were kids, which broke my heart. The sexual tension that was going on with these two felt like it was coming off the pages.

The way the story ended blew me away. I didn’t see that coming at all.

If you haven’t read this series yet.. you NEED to read it.

[New Post] Review: Brave Enough

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Title:  Brave Enough

Author:  Kati Gardner

Page count: 320

Published: August 21st 2018

Publisher: Flux

Genre: YA

Received: E-Arc/ Netgalley

Purchase:  Amazon

Rating: 4.5/5

Summary:

Teenager Cason Martin is the youngest ballerina in the Atlanta Ballet Conservatory. She never really had a choice of whether she learned to dance or not. Her mother, the conservatory’s artistic director, has made all the decisions in Cason’s life. But that’s about to change. Cason has been hiding an injury, and it’s much worse than anyone imagines.

Davis Channing understands all too well what it’s like to give up control of your life. He’s survived cancer, but his drug addiction nearly killed him. Now he’s been sober for seven months and enjoying his community service at the hospital. But just when he thinks he’s got it together, Davis’s ex-girlfriend, who is still battling her addiction, barrels back into his life.

Cason and Davis are not friends. But, as their worlds collide, they will start to depend on one another. Can they both be brave enough to beat the odds?

My Thoughts: Okie first off, the cover to this is stunning. Its one of the most beautiful ones that I have seen in a while. The book follows Cason and Davies as the main character their stories are remarkable. Cason is a ballerina that gets diagnosed with Bone Cancer, and Davies is the one that is a cancer survivor and also recovering from an addiction to drugs.  Being in the heads of both of these two people an getting to see how they are with having cancer and dealing with addiction was amazing. We get to see Cason’s life as a high school student and her love of dance. She is a ballerina that is preparing for her audition for the American Ballet Theater. She only wants to dance and doesn’t have time for anything else. She’s not going to let the pain in her knee stop since she thinks is just a sprain. When she does find out what it truly is it changes everything. Davis is one of the lucky ones that was able to conquer cancer, but now he has a different type of problem. He has an addiction. He has to do community service at the hospital that he got treaded at a few years ago. Davis has an ex-girlfriend who I found to be rather annoying because she would always come at the worst times for Davis asking for help/money.  Cason is getting chemo at the hospital where Davis is doing his community service and when they meet you can tell there is an instant connection. Even with the both of them having their own stories they still find love in one another, aside from one another knowing what the other is going through. Kati wrote an outstanding book. I’m surprised that this was her debut book. I can’t wait to see what other works she has up her sleeve. I was able to connect and feel for these characters and you don’t always have that happen with this type of book. At the end of the book we get to know that this was something that actually happened to Kati just as Cason. Finding that out blew me away. With this book being one that deals with cancer/depression it may not be a book for everyone.

*I received this book in exchange for an honest review form Netgalley and the publisher. *