[New Post]Review: The Darkness Within

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Title:  A Darkness Within

Author:  Alice J. Black

Page count: 125

Published: April 2018

Publisher: Parliament House Publishing

Genre: Horror

Received: From the author in exchange for an honest review

Purchase: Amazon

Add to Goodreads: Goodreads

Rating: 4.5/5

Summary:

The dead speak to Peyton. All her adult life, she’s used alcohol to drown out their spectral voices, but enough is enough! Peyton decides to turn her life around and stop drinking with the help of her best friend, Olivia. But without alcohol…the voices are back and they’re louder and more demanding than ever. But what do they want from her? Enlisting the help of local psychic, Sylvia, Peyton discovers that her weird ability…is actually a gift.

Just as she begins to settle in with the idea of accepting her ability, Peyton is thrust into a world of demons. The horror is paralyzing, and it soon becomes clear that it’s not just the voices of the dead that are going to haunt her. Peyton realizes that there is only one way to deal with her fears: facing them head on.

My Thoughts:
This is the first book in the Soul seekers series and it’s amazing. Don’t let the 125 pages fool you. There’s a lot of action and suspense. Payton is an alcoholic who sees spirits and she drinks to cope with that. One day her friend Olivia talks to her because she’s afraid that she will lose her best friend. Payton starts to go to AA meetings and becomes one month sober. This book had its moments where I thought it was going to be a book that was just going to be okie. I was completely shocked I was wrong. Near the end this book had me on the edge of my seat. I can’t wait to read the next one an see what happens to Payton

[New Post] Review: Evermore

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Title:  Evermore

Author: Alyson Noel

Page count: 320

Published: February 3, 2009

Publisher:  St. Martin’s Griffin

Genre: Teen

Received: Bought my self

Purchase: Amazon

Rating: 3/5

Summary:

After a horrible accident claims the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people’s auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone’s entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact to suppress her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school — but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste.

Damen is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. He’s the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head – wielding a magic so intense, it’s as though he can peer straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, she’s left with more questions than answers. And she has no idea just who he really is – or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is that she’s falling deeply and helplessly in love with him.

My Thoughts:

I got this book when it first came out because it really interested me so my review may be a little off, I’m not really into fantasy books but this one was pretty good.

 

I found that Ever was a good lead for the story, I understood the things that she went through.

 

Her friend Miles did get on my nerves a little and I didn’t really find him to be relatable.

 

Damon from what I can remember was sort of like Damon from The Vampire Diaries.

 

All in all I remember that I really enjoyed the story.

[New Post] Review: Stiff Discipline

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Title:  Stiff Discipline

Author: Ember Cole

Page count: 161

Published: June 25th 2018

Publisher: Entangled Publishing

Genre: Erotica/Romance

Received: Netgalley

Purchase: Amazon

Rating: 5/5

Summary:

’ll ruin her if she doesn’t ruin me first…

When a gorgeous new tenant slips into my office the night of her twenty-first birthday with only one thing on her mind, I know I should send her on her way. Even if the thought of her tied up and at my mercy makes me ache.

I’m a harsh, demanding man, and Kymber’s too young, too innocent. A goddamn virgin. I hate myself for even thinking about stealing what should belong to another.

So I do the honorable thing. I walk away.

My babygirl is just as stubborn as me, though. Twenty-two years in the military, my discipline never faltered. Not once. And yet the feel of her trembling against me, begging for my permission, makes me lose all control.

Her innocent touch kick starts my battered heart. But my past left me with an emptiness I can’t fill, and I’ll be damned if I let my darkness destroy her light…

 

My Thoughts:
Would you like to go upstairs and have sex with me? Is how this relationship started and it was a hot and steamy ride at that.

Kymber is 21 and for her birthday she wants to get laid with no strings attached. She goes to the club with her friend Bekka to look at potential men when it dawns on her friend that she knew the perfect guy. It happens to be there landlords son Adam.

When she goes home and works go the courage to ask him she knocks on the door and it was Daniel that answered. They have an instant connection that exudes off the pages. I loved the way there relationship progresses. It was a fast burn romance yes, but it was perfect in every way.

I can’t wait to read Embers next book in the series because I know I’m going to love it just as much as I loved this one.

I was given an Arc from the author and the publisher in exchange for an honest review

[New Post] Review: A World in Blue

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Title:  A World in Blue

Author: Danni Maxwell

Page count: 64

Published: June 25th 2018

Publisher: Nine Star Press

Genre: LGBTQIA

Received: Netgalley

Purchase: Amazon

Rating: 4/5

Summary:

At just eighteen years old, Oliver was offered a publishing deal. The very same day, he lost his mother to suicide. Two years later, he encounters a tall, dark, and handsome stranger. Never thinking he would write again, he is inspired once more.

Just as Oliver is launched into fame from the success of his book, the handsome stranger comes back into his life. His name is Blue and happens to be flirting with Oliver

My Thoughts:
This was a sweet and loveable story. It’s a quick and easy read.

Oliver’s mother dies and that’s when he finds out that he has a half sister named Liv( crazy right ) he then later meets Blue. Who happens to be volunteering at the book store that Oliver works at.

This was a wonderful story that deals with love, loss and over coming grief. I do wish that the story was longer so that we could get more into the lives of Oliver and Blue.

I was given this as an Arc from the author/ publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

 

[New Review] New Post: A Wish for Us

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Title: A Wish for Us

Author: Tillie Cole

Page count:  423

Published: June 11, 2018

Publisher: N/A

Genre: Teen/Coming of Age

Received: Bought myself

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Rating: 5/5

Summary:

Nineteen-year-old Cromwell Dean is the rising star of electronic dance music. Thousands of people adore him. But no one knows him. No one sees the color of his heart.

Until the girl in the purple dress. She sees through the walls he has built to the empty darkness within.

When Cromwell leaves behind the gray skies of England to study music in the South Carolina heat, the last thing he expects is to see her again. And he certainly doesn’t expect that she’ll stay in his head like a song on repeat.

Bonnie Farraday lives for music. She lets every note into her heart, and she doesn’t understand how someone as talented as Cromwell can avoid doing the same. He’s hiding from his past, and she knows it. She tries to stay away from him, but something keeps calling her back.

Bonnie is the burst of color in Cromwell’s darkness. He’s the beat that makes her heart skip.

But when a shadow falls over Bonnie, it’s up to Cromwell to be her light, in the only way he knows how. He must help her find the lost song in her fragile heart. He must keep her strong with a symphony only he can compose.

A symphony of hope.
A symphony of love.
A symphony of them.

 

My Thoughts:

This story was truly heart wrenching and gripping at the same time. I damn well knew that I was going to have my heart ripped out, but I still went on to read it anyway. Reading that you may be thinking that I regret reading it? In all honesty no I don’t, I’m glad that I did pick it up an I got to read a beautiful love story like Cromwell and Bonnie.

The cover for this book I think is poetic justice in its own. It completely represents the story in an exquisite way.

Cromwell Dean is a 19-year-old rising star DJ. He is beyond talented, he has his issues with music and his own personal demons. He goes to collage in the states and there is where he meets his other half.

Bonnie has a twin named Easton and they both attend the same collage that Cromwell is attending, he also happens to be Easton’s roommate.

When Bonnie and Cromwell first meet in England on a beach, it wasn’t the greatest but after the conversation they had it stirred something in him. They then go their separate ways not thinking that they would see one another again until collage that is. They had a few classes together and in one of there classes she is pired up with him for a school project. At first there both at one another’s heads until one night when she seems him playing the piano. That’s the moment everything changed for them.

This book was clearly one that had me in so many emotions that I don’t even think that I’m able to put them into words for my review. I just finished this book and I really don’t know what to say.

What I do know is that Tillie always has a way with words that make me interested in the books that she puts out. When I first heard about this book I knew it was one that I wanted to read, even though I knew it was going to make me cry like a baby. I didn’t let that stop me. I wanted to be able to distance my self from the book because I didn’t want to cry but that didn’t happen at all either. After chapter 20 I was reading through tears. Every time I picked the book up to read just more tears came.

Tille Cole is an exceptional author to be able to have so many emotions happen while reading. This is defiantly a unique story in its own. I think that’s why it made it even more special. It will also have a special place in my heart.

I am positive that my review is all over the place because I just finished this an I wanted to get my thoughts out about it. Even though it is jumbled I still hope you all enjoyed it.