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Review: The Good Fight

7/25/2016

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The Good Fight
Time Served #3
by Julianna Keyes

Synopsis

I was born a fighter. You had to be, to survive in Camden. Lucky for me, I loved it. The thrill, the pain, the glory. Until one night things went too far and I almost lost my ticket out.

So I swore off fighting. Never again. No matter how much I wanted it.
I went to college. Got a degree. A job on Wall Street. Yet I still wasn’t smart enough to stay away. So now I’m back. And it’s just as bad as I remember.

Enter Dr. Susan Jones, superstar neurosurgeon. She’s brilliant, she’s sexy and she’s a pain in my ass. I can’t get enough and she's too busy for a relationship. She wants to hook up, get off, go home. She doesn’t have time for a thug from Camden. But she keeps coming back.

This place brings out the worst in people. Every day it threatens the project I’m working on, the plans I’m making. Every day it drags me down just a little more, until the hands I vowed to keep clean start itching to get dirty. 
If I don't start fighting for what I want, I’ll wind up with nothing, and I didn’t come back to Camden for nothing. I came back to start something. And when people hurt the things I care about, the gloves come off.



Review

I am always up for something in the "steamy" department, and usually it's not too difficult to hook me. The Good Fight took me quite a bit to get into - which is okay. Ultimately, if the book offends me in some way, that's  my cue to put it down. If I end up not caring about the characters, I might still finish the book to see what happens. This one just didn't grab me right away. Maybe it would have been different if I had read the previous two books? 

I ended up getting sucked in a little with the characters since I came to like them to varying degrees. It wasn't easy to like Susan, but that is the point, really haha. Oz was easy to like and I enjoyed seeing things from his POV. So, even though I wasn't fully enthralled in the book, I found it easy to finish and enjoy the characters. I'm not sure if I'll seek out the first two books to read. Maybe if I have time? (she says as she stares at her HUGE TBR pile). 

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About the Author

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​Julianna Keyes is a Canadian writer who has lived on both coasts and several places in between. She’s been skydiving, bungee jumping and white water rafting, but nothing thrills—or terrifies—her as much as the blank page. She loves Chinese food, foreign languages, baseball and television, though not necessarily in that order, and writes sizzling stories with strong characters, plenty of conflict, and lots of making up.
 
In addition to The Good Fight, she is the author of four contemporary romances: Just Once, the story of a world weary socialite and a stubborn ranch foreman; Going the Distance, a love story set in China between a kindergarten ESL teacher and a former army interrogator; Time Served, the tale of an ambitious young lawyer whose perfect world is jeopardized when she reunites with her ex-con ex-boyfriend; and In Her Defense, in which a ruthless young lawyer realizes there’s more to life than being the best...right? Her first New Adult romance, Undecided, in which a reformed bad girl moves in with the campus heartthrob and inadvertently falls for his cocky best friend, was published in April 2016.

For more details on these and any upcoming books, visit her online at http://juliannakeyes.com, or sign up for her free newsletter at http://juliannakeyes.com/newsletter.html.
 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/juliannakeyesauthor

Twitter: @JuliannaKeyes
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EEYH2XA

B&N: http://bit.ly/243Nfmg

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29902378-the-good-fight
 
 

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Review: Hitched

7/20/2016

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​Hitched
Volume One
by Kendall Ryan

Synopsis

Marry the girl I’ve had a crush on my whole life? Check. 

Inherit a hundred-billion-dollar company? Check. 

Produce an heir… Wait, what? 

I have ninety days to knock up my brand-new fake wife. There’s only one problem—she hates my guts. 


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And in the fine print of the contract? The requirement that we produce an heir. 

She can’t stand to be in the same room with me. Says she’ll never be in my bed. But I’ve never backed down from a challenge and I’m not about to start now. 

Mark my words—I’ll have her begging for me, and it won’t take ninety days. 

A hot and hilarious romp not to miss! 

Say "I DO" to your next book boyfriend husband. (He totally wants to put a bun in her oven.) 

On the heels of her smash hit and New York Times bestselling SCREWED series, Kendall Ryan brings you HITCHED, a romantic comedy that delivers heart and heat. A NYC playboy turned business mogul has ninety days to win over the woman he's always desired in order to save his father's company. One tiny problem: She hates his guts.

Review

I love stories about contemporary arranged marriages/marriages of convenience. I don't know what that says about me, really. But honestly, I think the reason why I enjoy them so much is because they remind me of the kdramas I used to enjoy so much. I also think they're ridiculous which makes them fun :D

So, Noah and Olivia are two adults born into a company owned by both their fathers (and grandfathers?). They've pretty much been primed to not only take over their respective halves of the company, but also to be married to each other. They are complete opposites, Noah is a people person, and wild where Olivia is more reserved, a bit awkward, and tightly wound. What they both have in common, however, is their passionate determination to move their company forward to succeed as well as taking care of their employees. 

In romance books, I sometimes find the sexual language kinda funny. I find it too crude at times and it will mess with the flow of the story. That happened in some parts in this story, but I couldn't really picture Noah as a crude person since he shows how much he cares about Olivia and the employees of their company (Noah is the more...sexually blunt of the two lol). 

All in all, I thought this was a good start to a book series. It left off on a cliffhanger and I am totally up for reviewing any of the upcoming books in this series. It was sexy, sweet and...did I mention I love these kind of marriages in fiction?

I recommend these books to anyone up for a sexy, fast read!

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Review: Phantasma

7/3/2016

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Phantasma
by Efthalia

Synopsis

One night’s transgression. A love unveiled. The in-escapable outcome of passion and vengeance.

Carissa Alkippes is a daughter of a god but she doesn’t know it. As a cop she’s seen her fair share of bad but nothing prepared her for the horror of the world she has been plunged into.

Xen Lyson is the head of the Phi Athanatoi, a group of immortals who have been protecting man for over 2,000 years from the Kakodiamones - demons who want nothing more than to feast on humanity.
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Thrown face to face with Xen during a skirmish with the demons, Carissa becomes a pawn in a deadly game of a demi-god who seeks godly power.

Review

​Can I say - I really enjoy a sassy heroine? This is what we get with Carissa Alkippes, a cop who finds out she's a daughter of a Greek god. Seriously, how cool is that?? There's all kinds of supernatural/urban fantasy goodness with some romance mixed in there as well. I love when authors are able to keep a character sassy, smart, and badass when introducing romance all well. I love it!

The book is well-written which is always a joy. Honestly, I'm a grammar geek, so this really is happiness for me. Characters are well-rounded and interesting. Phantasm is a real page turner and it's going to have it's readers wanting book 2, like, now. Trust me, this girl is definitely waiting for it!
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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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Review: Wallbanger

7/1/2016

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Wallbanger
The Cocktail Series Book 1
by Alice Clayton

Synopsis

Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a Kitchen Aid mixer to die for, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks). She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O. Adding insult to O-less, she also has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Every moan, spank, and—was that a meow?—punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has—yep, you guessed it—no O. Enter Simon Parker. When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. Their late-night hallway encounter has…well…mixed results. Because with walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick. A delicious mix of silly and steamy, this is an irresistible tale of exasperation at first sight.

Review

First of all, let me get this out of the way - the cover. I cringe at most romance covers and this one...is not subtle. lol I bought the actual book from Barnes and Noble and paid for it...I was like "Whatever Mr. Cashier Person...I'm reading my book anyway". Granted, no one really cares about what I'm reading - but these covers make me blush!

Okay, now the story - I loved it! Clayton is so humorous in her writing and I love that in romance novels. I love them like I love my romantic comedies - sweet and funny with a pang of jealousy/hurt. Caroline is such a put-together character and she has everything going for her except that she has been made to believe that it is pointless to get her to orgasm (her last bf sucked...) and her neighbor is this hot guy who has a different girl come over every night. Oh, and she can hear them through the walls. The writing is deliciously funny and I really enjoyed reading about this strong and independent woman and the guy next door. It's a fun read and I look forward to checking out the other books in the series!


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