Solomon Sanders doesn’t have time to fall in love. Until a
stunning, skittish, single mother forces him to pause and recognize just
how empty and hollow his busy life has become.
From the start, it’s been ingrained in Solo’s DNA to fight.
Carter Sloane is famous
for one thing: winning cases. He’s sharp, astute, and always gets his
way. In his private life, he’s constantly fumbling his way around when
it comes to…
Carter Sloane is famous
for one thing: winning cases. He’s sharp, astute, and always gets his
way. In his private life, he’s constantly fumbling his way around when
it comes to raising his two nieces.
When he moves into a new
office, he just can’t take his eyes off the fiercely independent woman
across the street. He’d love to touch and kiss that irresistible body.
Valentina
“Val” Connor is proud of her booming fragrance company. If only she
were half as successful in her love life… Between trusting the wrong men
and sheer bad luck, Val is convinced she’ll never find the one.
However,
the sexy lawyer in the neighborhood with his sophisticated charm and
sex-appeal is hell bent on proving to her that she is wrong. Val’s
senses warn her to stay away from men like him–even if her body is
begging her to cave.
But when she finds out about Carter’s
nieces, she steps in to help, doting on them with love and care. She
can’t believe that the same man who is usually in control is completely
in over his head with the girls.
But as Val and Carter grow closer, one thing is clear to him: He’d
move mountains to make her happy, but with Val’s career soaring, how
can he ask her to commit to the chaos of his life?
Disclaimer: I obtained a free copy via Netgalley for my honest review
Description:
Sixteen-year-old
cupid-in-training Kali is in an Olympus-sized mountain of trouble. Rule
number one in arrow-toting matchmaking: don’t stick yourself. But
accidents happen, and Kali instantly falls hard for her indie rock,
bass-playing target, Benicio.
Disclaimer: I obtained a free copy via Netgalley for my honest review
Description:
Sixteen-year-old
cupid-in-training Kali is in an Olympus-sized mountain of trouble. Rule
number one in arrow-toting matchmaking: don’t stick yourself. But
accidents happen, and Kali instantly falls hard for her indie rock,
bass-playing target, Benicio.
The God of Love is going to kill her. Even if he is her dad.
Being
the daughter of Eros isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For one thing, a
girl can get jaded when her parents have the most beautiful and
fatalistic love story in history. For another, immortality royally sucks
when the Oracle condemns you to eternity in the wrong profession. Do
the Gods care that Kali wants to ditch the love stuff and be a muse?
Nope.
To
reclaim her heart and her destiny, Kali is left with no choice but to
defy the Gods, tempt the Fates, date the mortal love-of-her-life, and
hope she doesn’t lose her best friend, Hector, in the process.
A sexy standalone novel from New York Times and international
bestselling author Elle Kennedy. THE RISK takes you back to the world of
hot hockey players, feisty heroines, bro banter, and steamy scenes…
Everyone says I’m a bad girl. They’re only partly right—I
don’t let fear rule me, and I certainly don’t care…
A sexy standalone novel from New York Times and international
bestselling author Elle Kennedy. THE RISK takes you back to the world of
hot hockey players, feisty heroines, bro banter, and steamy scenes…
Everyone says I’m a bad girl. They’re only partly right—I
don’t let fear rule me, and I certainly don’t care what people think.
But I draw the line at sleeping with the enemy. As the daughter of
Briar’s head hockey coach, I’d be vilified if I hooked up with a player
from a rival team.
And that’s who Jake Connelly is. Harvard’s
star forward is arrogant, annoying, and too attractive for his own good.
But fate is cruel—I require his help to secure a much-coveted
internship, and the sexy jerk isn’t making it easy for me.
I need Connelly to be my fake boyfriend.
For every fake date…he wants a real one.
Which
means this bad girl is in big trouble. Nothing good can come from
sneaking around with Jake Connelly. My father would kill me, my friends
will revolt, and my post-college career is on the line. But while it’s
getting harder and harder to resist Jake’s oozing sex appeal and cocky
grin, I refuse to fall for him.
That’s the one risk I’m not willing to take.
Rating: 5 Stars
I received an Advance Reader’s Copy for my honest review.
In the Kingdom of Winter, he’s a swaggering potioneer who hunts for wisdom—a brew that will shake the world. It’s the only secret he craves. Except for the one boy he can’t have.
Nicu is a dreamer with hopes.
He’s an impish Royal who hunts for wishes—a legendary star that grants…
Teenage virgin Reed Whitney stands to inherit a cache of lovemaking wisdom that has been passed down through generations. There’s only one problem: the knowledge is shared directly from father to son. Sorely lacking in confidence and skill in the bedroom, Reed is desperate to please his girlfriend, Aubrey. But can he survive the awkward embarrassment of instruction from his dad, and learn the art of worship?
* * * * *
“Son, you are here to receive a precious gift. It is one that my father bestowed upon me, and that his father bestowed upon him—one I will pass on to you now and expect that you give to your own sons when it is time.”
“You are a Whitney, and were therefore born with certain natural—endowments—that predispose you to success with women. But, there is a beauty in sex which, if you could only grow to appreciate it—an art which, if you could only commit to learning it—will bring you and the women in your life such divine fulfillment as most mortals never know. It is the art of worship, Reed, and it has very little to do with sex.”
Rating: 5 stars
Review:
First off, NEVER HAVE I EVER heard of parents talking this way to their children about sex. Like. Never. In fact, most of my (meager) knowledge about sex comes from books I’ve read, movies and tv shows I’ve seen, and the little research I’ve done myself.
I truly want this conversation to be taken for granted… as in something that everybody does. This book, while at times a little weird, was funny and approached sex with both an adult point of view and a young adult point of view. Now mind, they are eighteen so they are considered adults in America, but that shoudn’t matter. The characters in this story are merely vessels that deliver a an important message: TALK ABOUT SEX WITH YOUR KIDS.
Kilby Blades made me laugh while simultaneously providing me with knowledge about sex. Which seemed impossible. I was actually really hesitant to read this book because of the subject matter and just everything about it. But honestly I’m glad I did. It kind o opened my eyes to the fact that perhaps more discussions should be had about sex and its permutations. And not just focus on the pro abstinence lessons being taught in public schools.
I forget where I heard it but a quote I quite like about sex goes something like this: I don’t understand what is humans’ obsession with sex. It’s considered a taboo subject but then we put it everywhere and one can’t hide from i.
i am a firm believer of taking away the mystery of anything. It makes whatever it is seem a thousand times less evil and less enticing. It takes away the forbidden-ness of it.
Maybe school districts should have this book on hold for everyone. I know I’m going to be referencing it for years to come.
Teenage virgin Reed Whitney stands to inherit a cache of lovemaking
wisdom that has been passed down through generations. There’s only one
problem: the knowledge is shared directly from father to son. Sorely
lacking in confidence and skill in the bedroom, Reed is desperate to
please his girlfriend, Aubrey. But can he…
From the author of Fawkes comes a magical take on the story of Anastasia Romanov.
The history books say I died.
They don’t know the half of it.
Anastasia
“Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient
spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her
family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after
them … and he’s hunted Romanov before.
Nastya’s only chances
of saving herself and her family are either to release the spell and
deal with the consequences, or to enlist help from Zash, the handsome
soldier who doesn’t act like the average Bolshevik. Nastya’s only
dabbled in magic, but it doesn’t frighten her half as much as her
growing attraction for Zash. She likes him. She thinks he might even
like her …
That is, until she’s on one side of a firing squad … and he’s on the other.
Disclaimer: I received a free ebook from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
Expected Publication: August 7th, 2018
Three lush and adventurous stories in the Star-Touched world.
Death and Night
He
was Lord of Death, cursed never to love. She was Night incarnate,
destined to stay alone. After a chance meeting, they wonder if, perhaps,
they could be meant for more. But danger…
You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.
The first lesson is to make yourself strong.
After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.
When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.
Rating: 5 Stars
Holly Black and Cassandra Clare are both breaking my soul and they have no qualms doing it. In this, the second book of The Folk of the Air series, sh*t goes down. It’s kind of unbelievable.
Without going too in depth, nor giving away too many spoilers, let me just say: Whichever fanfiction you read throughout the year while you were waiting for this one… they were true. They were right. And I’m not sure what that says about the book. It might have been predictable. It might have been a little weird. And the ship has been stalled in the harbor. But I think it was perfect.
This is the second book in the series. So it goes without saying that this one is the bridge. It solves the problems from the first and presents new problems for the third. Well, kind of. The Wicked King didn’t explicitly solve any problems. I don’t think. It was more like a band-aid. A very big band-aid. There was definite character growth in all of them and there were a couple of new villains that were a little surprising. Jude’s attitude did a real big turn.
She and Taryn’s did a whole 360 degree turn. It was a little sad at the end, to tell you the truth. And Cardan. Oh. Cardan. That boy. I am more in love with him than ever.
I know that it’s going to be next to impossible for my wish to come true, but if we could get The Queen of Nothing before the new year…I’ll be ecstatic.
I honestly can’t say much more than that without giving spoilers. And I don’t wanna do that.
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