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Review: Screwdrivered

7/2/2016

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Screwdrivered
The Cocktail Series Book 3
by Alice Clayton

Synopsis

Readers back for a third round of the bestselling Cocktail series will enjoy a madcap romantic comedy about bodice ripping and chest heaving, fiery passion and love everlasting. Plus a dash of paperwork filing and horseshi—wait, what?

By day, Viv Franklin is a tough-as-nails software engineer who designs programs and loves hospital corners. By night, Vivian’s a secret romance-novel junkie who longs for a knight in shining armor, or a cowboy on a wild stallion, or a strapping firefighter to sweep her off her feet. And she gets to wear the bodice—don’t forget the bodice.

When a phone call brings news that she’s inherited a beautiful old home in Mendocino, California from a long-forgotten aunt, she moves her entire life across the country to embark on what she sees as a great, romance-novel-worthy adventure. But romance novels always have a twist, don’t they?
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Review

So, as some of you may have already read - this is the second book I read by Alice Clayton...but it is actually the third book in the series. How does this happen to me? I am such a completist and need to read books in their right order...but oh well, it happened. 

​Screwdriver started off really slow in my opinion. It took me picking the book up about 4 times to finally really get into it. What got me to keep picking it up (because I have no problem letting go of a book I can't get into) was the fact that Vivian, Viv for short, is a computer/art/romance novel geek. Now, I don't know about you, but that is exactly what I want in a female character. Viv believes her life has become like one of the romance stories she loves to read (hello, meta) when she finds out that her great aunt has left Viv her estate. When she flies out to check out her inheritance, she meets a "hot" cowboy which totally fits into Viv's delusion that she's in her own proper romance story. The cowboy is a jerk though, but Viv can't see that quite yet. 

Then she meets Clark, the town's librarian and historian. He's there to tell Viv all the things she can't do to her great aunt's home because it is, in fact, a historical home. Well, Viv isn't the type of girl you tell what to do, know what I'm saying? The librarian though? Yeah, he's pretty cute. 

I won't go into much more detail because it is a cute and funny book. It is also infuriating because I really disliked that cowboy. Also, Viv constantly thinks "Aw yeah" A LOT to herself throughout the story. Usually repetitive phrases really bother me in people's writing, but Viv was too cute to dislike really. Just infuriating sometimes. Ha!
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Welcome to Vaginal Fantasy Friday!

2/26/2016

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Hey there! Today embarks a new feature on my blog called, as you probably guessed, Vaginal Fantasy Friday! In case you haven't heard, the Vaginal Fantasy Book Club is an awesome group hosted by the lovely Ms. Felicia Day and joined by Bonnie Burton, Kiala Kazebee, and Veronica Belmont. They are all fantastic ladies who choose a different romance book each month and then get together and discuss it - which we can watch on YouTube! Here are the awesome links you should check out:

Vaginal Fantasy Wikia
Vaginal Fantasy Goodreads
Vaginal Fantasy YouTube
I am not affiliated with them...I have nothing to do with their club...sadly...tragically....

BUT I have been wanting to read the books and re-watch the videos after I read them. They provide a list of their books and alternates on their Wikia and I plan to plow my way through it. I'm not giving myself a deadline - I finish a book when I finish it. I tend to read more than one book at a time, so that's how it's gonna be!

Each Friday I will update you on my progress - it may be a review or it might be something else. You'll have to tune in to find out. Feel free to follow me into this lovely adventure! I am following their book list in chronological order (because...that's what I do). It would be great to have people to discuss with! 

First Book....

The first book on this adventure of mine is Kalayna Price's Grave Witch, an Alex Craft novel. I started reading it last night and it has definitely gotten my attention. Here is the synopsis if you find yourself wanting to join me:
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As a private investigator and consultant for the police, Alex Craft has seen a lot of dark magic. But even though she’s on good terms with Death himself—who happens to look fantastic in a pair of jeans—nothing has prepared her for her latest case. Alex is investigating a high profile murder when she’s attacked by the ‘shade’ she’s raising, which should be impossible. To top off her day, someone makes a serious attempt on her life, but Death saves her. Guess he likes having her around...

To solve this case Alex will have to team up with tough homicide detective Falin Andrews. Falin seems to be hiding something—though it’s certainly not his dislike of Alex—but Alex knows she needs his help to navigate the tangled webs of mortal and paranormal politics, and to track down a killer wielding a magic so malevolent, it may cost Alex her life...and her soul.
 

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