tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36473257123770961972024-03-14T11:06:09.604+00:00Lost in a moment...For all that travel through the pages of the book of life.Wildflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598527995808115100noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647325712377096197.post-13392739865767774242015-09-06T10:18:00.000+01:002015-09-06T10:18:03.529+01:00Free today on Amazon - Tracie Peterson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
So, good morning, here a beautiful day in Lisbon, even though I can feel September settling in.</div>
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Because when Sunday kicks in, there's a letting go of your troubles and a looking forward to the new week ahead, the sense that it can all start again, a new beginning of the continuing journey to be better and to do better.</div>
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This book is all about new beginnings and falling in love all over again, putting behind you what is bad and looking forward to what life has to offer, some good stuff for a change.</div>
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For reviews you can go to Goodreads where some have already reviewed the book or to the author's page, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27788.Tracie_Peterson" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27788.Tracie_Peterson</a>.</div>
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Newly widowed Lydia Sellers discovers that through an unforeseen fluke, she is the sole recipient of her husband's fortune. But instead of granting her security, it only causes strife as her adult stepchildren battle to regain the inheritance for themselves. Lydia, longing to put the memories of her painful marriage behind her, determines to travel to Alaska to join her aunt.<br />
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Lydia's arrival in Sitka, however, brings two things she didn't expect. One is the acquaintance of Kjell Bjorklund, the handsome owner of the sawmill. Second is the discovery that she is pregnant with her dead husband's child. What will this mean for her budding relationship with Kjell? And what lengths will her stepchildren go to reclaim their father's fortune? Lydia soon finds her life--and that of her child's--on the line.Wildflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598527995808115100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647325712377096197.post-13185171847554767442015-07-22T23:24:00.000+01:002015-07-22T23:24:04.409+01:00The Scots Rule .... "Deception of a Highlander" Madeline Martin<div style="text-align: justify;">
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When Mariel's parent's die, Mariel and her little brother have to fend for them self's. Living on the streets, with no money has been hard but they thrive on hope of better days.</div>
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As his sole caretaker, Mariel's priority is to protect her brother but in the end without money they cannot survive in the streets. But there are always vile people lurking in the dark and preying on to those who are desperate.</div>
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I have to be honest, when I arrived at the end of the third chapter, I really didn't care much for Mariel. I kept reminding myself that all she did was to save her brother and that M. Martin had a plan to turn around this character, to make me love her by the end of the book, so I carried on.</div>
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Really a surprising twist in a female character that starts out as a spy working for the enemy and turns out to be a kick ass woman of her time. You're forgiven Mariel.</div>
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The author induced a development in Mariel, hinting the why and at the same time showing that her actions didn't speak for her character. With battles, feelings for Kieran, and the faith she has in her heart, the heroin is a woman to be admired.</div>
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Now Kieran MacDonald is another story. He stood out of the pages and conquered my heart immediately.</div>
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Such an honorable soul, a hunk of a man, sweetness in his touch and love in his heart.</div>
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From London to Scotland travel with Mariel and Kieran to find out what it is like to be swept away.</div>
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Melissa Medina desperately needs this job to get the bills payed, now that her mom is sick again. Even though she is a fighter, she also knows that she was a victim in the past, but after raising herself from scratch she is not giving up now.</div>
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Alexander Kane has always believed that his father's money was cursed and that his life was to be lived in the limit, most importantly to be lived without love.</div>
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He has a past filled with bitterness, addictions, and heartache but when he sets eyes on Melissa he starts believing that it is possible to love and be loved, ultimately to have a true family.</div>
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Get in this wild ride and hold on because you will be swept away and in the end you'll be crying for more.</div>
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So, I wasn't expecting to be carried away by Melissa and Kane, I never saw it coming but loved the roller coaster ride from the first to the last page.</div>
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Melissa was the perfect insecure and kick ass girl that fights her ghosts with all her might.</div>
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The character was believable, well integrated in the plot and insecure enough to lead to a rising full grown woman with a loving heart, knowing her place to be beside a man she knows will break every barrier she has put up against the world.<br />
There were times I wished she would cut some slack concerning Kane, be more aware of gossip and recognizing that it was all lies but I hope she will get there.<br />
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Now Kane is a different story, all together I believe that he might be a "real" man, always with a goal on his mind, knowing what he should go for and staying away from what he knows is destructive and useless.<br />
The fact that the author leads us into a story of love at first sight, a millionaire that obsesses over a wounded girl, is not new, but what is refreshing is the balance between the dominating personality and the love that Kane puts in the relationship.<br />
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Other then the lovebirds, you'll find a set of interesting characters, from friends and family to villeins that I could eat their hearts out and I'm truly waiting for the outcome to be just that, justice.<br />
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Sometimes you'll find that maybe it happens all too fast and that the writing is rushed, leaping from one moment to another but that's a minor damage when you're already into the action and turning the page to find out what's coming next.<br />
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Overall I enjoyed this couple and loved this first book but let me inform you that you'll have to wait for another one coming soon .... I hope !<br />
This romance is in my opinion for mature audiences but what made me give a five star on Netgalley is the fact that A.M. Helen knew how to work the "hot" scenes and make them part of a hole creating a true love story with enough suspense to keep you going and with this I wait impatiently for the next book.<br />
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The feeling that after everything through the day, I can just take off and run away, staying put at the same time.</div>
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From the first word I realized that this book was going to mess with my mind and in it's dark spiral world would make me sometimes stop to get my breath back.<br />
This author writes in a way, graphic and detailed, that the reader just has to sit, open the book and fly with it.<br />
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I'm starting where all things should start, at the beginning.<br />
Serena's recount of her teenage years and most recent break up set the mood, an individual desire of just running away towards the big city, London. A desire to live her dreams, flying solo and exploring another reality that in her mind can only be made alone. Of course she realizes that what she lived in the past was good and finding her way through the troubled times of teenage hood, becoming sexually active, the joy of pride and accomplishment was all due to the help of her childhood sweetheart.<br />
But people change and what continues to be good for one sometimes is not good for another. While one walks, the other has to fly away and grow up. I'm not being selfish, it's just the way life is.<br />
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The characters created out of a magnificent mind deliver a story that falls into a great romance where fate intervenes healing two wounded pasts and making them one, linking them together for the ride of their life.<br />
Serena is all bravery, an entrepreneur of life, skillful in her art, beauty in her vision, love in her heart.<br />
Gustav Levi is someone that is running from a harmful devil that crawls in the shadow of his life, past, present and now after I've read the first book, maybe his future ?<br />
How will this regret unfold and how will this love story work out, I'm all full of questions ...<br />
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Now the details that I loved in this book and didn't find in other books that I've read before.<br />
The descriptive element that characterize every word and together with the beautiful places that the story visits and re-visits in Serena's art make this an attractive and unforgettable love.<br />
Sexually speaking this love is hot. Bordering some subjects that may be considered taboo, voyeurism, punishment, pleasure through pain, raging sex when fury enters the picture but all of this is combined with a skill that the author creates through words and actions that entices the reader further and further into the story.<br />
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Beautifully written, a great love story, two wonderful and engaging characters and a dark twist that sets the pace, this book is a great find for those that always look for something unique and new to freshen up the incredible mind of an addict reader.Wildflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598527995808115100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647325712377096197.post-47261293131756289302014-05-30T15:16:00.001+01:002014-05-30T15:35:51.920+01:00From Cecilia Scott comes "HIM"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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If your looking for something different, something to take you into a roller coaster ride, a passion without limits, than this is it, this is your book.</div>
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Written in the first person, this story sinks beneath your skin, an intimate tale to hear in front of the fireplace on a cold winter night.</div>
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After having slept with a stranger, our lady becomes attached to HIM and from there forward her life is controlled by HIM.<br />
Full of passion and very steamy sex, her days are filled with a never ending yearning for his touch and presence but as they walk through the stages of control and new experiences the sorrow of being at his mercy starts to beat up a heart that held promise of a true relationship.<br />
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Ms. Scott wrote a fabulous book taking us on a journey to hell and back.<br />
With beautiful quotes that accompanies us through out the book, we get a hot detailed relationship of a woman on the verge of going over the cliff, boarding the depths of obsession and grief and heartache for a man that reigns in sex and control.<br />
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I started out reading this trilogy through NetGalley and got hold of the second book. I haven't read the first book but gave a try anyway.<br />
From page one I didn't put it down until I was finished.<br />
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This relationship isn't all about passion, sex, lust or love. It's much more than that, it touch's other aspects of the human behavior while it's confronted with grief and loss, betrayal and the overwhelming feelings of loneliness.<br />
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Evangeline is a woman filled with grief, a dark pain that surrounds her soul and the only way she can fight the feeling of emptiness is through pain. Shocking to the core, the author had the ability of writing the scenes through perfection and really the fact that people might try this to forget their pain is beyond me, I really felt for this woman, good job M. Anthony.<br />
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As the pieces are picked up along the way and Alexander try's to move forward with Evangeline I realized this books were much different from the other erotica series that I've been reading. The story evolves with aspects that we are faced in real life, shallow people, betrayal, selfishness, love, understanding and forgiveness. They are all too many words for a book that speaks it's own mind and is unique in this genre.<br />
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Alexander is also a character that I grew fond of. Not being an expert in all the Dominant/Submissive lifestyle, he tries to understand he's partner's needs, the heart as well as the mind, in bed, in their own house and in between the relationships that come along the social life outside each other.<br />
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What marks this couple is the great love that they feel for each other and the will to be together after all.<br />
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To those that want to start reading this trilogy I recommend that they start with the first book. I've already got it and read it, loved it and the review will be coming shortly.<br />
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Another great mind to join the others that I've already met through NetGalley and I'm hoping the author will give me a chance to read the final book. I can't wait...Wildflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598527995808115100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647325712377096197.post-90897138663865966382013-06-25T12:17:00.001+01:002013-06-25T12:17:50.651+01:00Today free on Amazon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Book 0.5 in The Hitchhiker Strain series by Kellie Sheridan.</i></b><br />
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<b><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Pen separates from her brother so she can keep an eye on the former archangel as Azael works to spread a demonic virus. On her own, she finds herself growing closer to Michael and questioning her complacency in Hell. For the first time in her life, she is not controlled by fate and is unwilling to fulfill her destiny as a demon. Challenging Hell will pit her against her brother, who grows darker and more powerful each passing day. Azael will not let Pen defect so easily, but she is determined to write her own fate, no matter the cost.</i></b></div>
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Wildflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598527995808115100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647325712377096197.post-62272980349060879492013-06-25T09:02:00.002+01:002013-06-25T09:02:17.838+01:00The Page Sage: Book Review: Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/648904762">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
If you're looking for a true romance with some heatedly desire, a native american really hot and a woman risking a second chance at love, this is the book for you.<br /><br />The author is a wonderful writer, touching our emotions with depth and true love, family and showing us what really counts to be happy in life.<br />The book flows with grace, word after word, and one thing is certain, there should be more Silent Hawks out there.<br /><br />Silent Hawk is a man trust worthy and loyal to his family, loyal to his feelings and when he truly loves there's nothing he won't do to get what he wants. I'm not telling but you'll see that he's a good listener too, accepting that he is not alone anymore and changes have to be made, forgiveness is the word.<br /><br />Jo is a woman scarred by her ass ex-husband, believe me he is awful, but she will risk everything to be happy again, overcoming her fears and trusting her heart. I really dig her, truly.<br /><br />Even though "ThunderStruck" is classified as western erotica, I find myself thinking this is truly a western romance and not so much erotica.<br /><br />If given a chance to read or buy this book, don't think twice about it, a true romance is flowing from this pages. <br />
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<b><i>When James saves her, Prue can’t give herself to him. Something has happened during her captivity, and she’s not the same. She demands time. But time isn’t what she needs. Since she’s been gone, James has changed. After talking with a therapist, Prue realizes what she needs and it isn’t the placid man James has become.</i></b><br />
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Here, Sam Crescent plays with our anxiety and if you were expecting all the dominating character of James and the submissiveness of Prue, well you are wrong.<br />
What we find is a troubled Prue and a loving James, sacrificing everything he is and all his heart until the woman he loves can find her way into his arms.<br />
The elements and other characters that were introduced in the story made a great love story, not so charged with sex and domination, but more real to me, a couple does go through troubles in their relationship and this couple is no different.<br />
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After having read the first two chapters, I got a feeling that this book comes with a story that all young teens should read, especially if they are feeling that they want to live it out free as a bird. Freedom comes with a price, with it comes responsibility.<br /><br />This is what the author transpires, the real life on the streets, the everyday drama that is united by dreams of succeeding big time without any effort, only the intelligent ones make it through the sea of "no ones" that roam the streets.<br /><br />I think this is a smart approach to real life experiences, and to the coming of age of adulthood, with the drama of relationships, sex and finding your way through life. </div>
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<span style="color: #272727; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">To meet a man that could make you feel what you been missing in your life ... Have the chance to be truly fulfilled and happy with someone, especially with a man like Julian.</span></span></div>
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Wildflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598527995808115100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647325712377096197.post-17503761993887569812013-06-19T22:03:00.001+01:002013-06-20T16:12:13.980+01:00NetGalley - Review eXclave - a BDSM erotic romance bundle by Emily Ryan Davis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, I'll be living here the link for the review from a while back on "Claiming Lauren", <a href="http://bookloverandotherjourneys.blogspot.pt/2013/05/netgalley-claiming-lauren-by-emily-ryan.html" target="_blank">http://bookloverandotherjourneys.blogspot.pt/2013/05/netgalley-claiming-lauren-by-emily-ryan.html</a>,I simply loved this short story and then I said that I was left wanting more, well I'm glad M. Davis heard me and sent me more, not of the same but another perspective of a troubled relationship.</div>
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Mac and Amy are a couple but with a crisis brewing in the background, a loss of communication and issues from the past clouding their judgement. Even though they can't live without each other, they can't seem to find the courage to face one another and just talk, put it all out in the open.</div>
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For me, this was their major problem and it almost cost them their marriage. Now I ask myself, how many couples go through the same problem and just give up because they don't have the courage to face the problem, sexually or otherwise, it doesn't matter ...</div>
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I know that this kind of books fall into erotica and BDSM life style, which I see no problem but I also know that it's not for everyone, but they have so much "juice" when they are well written that if you're willing to enlighten the strong ideas that come out of it, you can relate to the characters and maybe avoid errors in your real life book of stories.</div>
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Wildflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598527995808115100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647325712377096197.post-88440387093177837232013-06-19T16:38:00.000+01:002013-06-19T16:38:07.303+01:00Review - Midnight Breed #1 "Kiss of Midnight" by Lara Adrian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Talking about being in the wrong place at the wrong time or maybe not ... After all, from one disaster comes what is meant to be.<br />
When Gabrielle witnesses the brutal attack on a human she never would have guessed that it would be a life changing moment and the needles would set track for a trip into a dark world full of dangers, decisions and an undeniable passion that would mark her forever.<br />
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Vampires are my favorite supernatural creatures that I choose first when I read paranormal and after having become addicted to J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series I've read and visited various worlds where vampires live. I've gone and fell in love with the beautiful creature that author's words describe and their macho, alpha, passionate loving and their fierce combative skills that win all the evil villains they face.<br />
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When I read "Edge of Dawn" for NetGalley, I realized that I was missing out on an ancient world that had come before and after I've finished it I got my sights on starting the series from book one and enjoying another ride in one of the most acclaimed author around.<br />
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I've found that with time this genre is beautiful and unique because of all it's world building factors, usually dark and dangerous, they arouse our senses and get us running, page after page with the fabulous characters we find along the way.<br />
M. Adrian kicks off this series with what I call "a gold mine", something rich that can bring you all the riches in a book and keep you coming back for more. She created with her rich imagination a world I enjoyed and experienced through her most able writing, action at every corner and twists along the way, and a most sexy hero, vampire, and a strong kick ass heroine.<br />
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Lucan and Gabrielle couldn't make a better couple. He runs from blood lust, trying to be what his kind needs and protect his people, so here there's character and spirit of sacrifice.<br />
Gabrielle is a woman out of her skin, not quite belonging to the human world but trying to fit in a life that she created for herself.<br />
Their passion bursts out like fire and again M. Adrian did the best in writing their love story, giving us what we crave, a sexy and intense physical relationship and making our imagination run free.<br />
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The little details that are part of the plot and follows the action through out the book spikes our interest and this is one book you will not be able to put down.<br />
When it's over, you'll be ready to jump on the next book and get yourself together for another hard ride. You'll always come back for more.Wildflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598527995808115100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647325712377096197.post-31251527872300931232013-06-17T20:26:00.001+01:002013-06-17T20:26:10.553+01:00NetGalley - The Callens Series #9 "Diamonds and Spurs" by Melody Snow Monroe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">So NetGalley made me the very happy reader, on behalf of Season Publishing, of this wonderful romance that I simply devoured and couldn't put down until I got to the last page.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"Diamonds and Spurs"reached my expectations in this type of plot, with two very hot heroes, twists along the way, and a very able and confident heroine.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The author also made a point that the book was not only about their relationship and the menage liaison, but also about the story that runs along with the characters. This factors make me a very happy reader and also the knowledge that I found an author that I want to read more of.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Mandy is the perfect heroine, a woman that as it all but through her honesty throws everything away gaining her integrity back when she decides to divorce her high profile husband.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Now, Vince and Cameron couldn't be more perfect, as partners and as lovers.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">They "work" in partnership, love Mandy as equals and are not overly authoritative in relation to their woman. They are modern men, living in today's world but enjoying the wilderness and peace that this back country gives them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Even though this book is pure romance, erotica, falling in the sub category Menage, this book is so well written, it flows without any gaps between the actions and is proportionally perfect for someone that wants to read a romantic suspense book.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">M. Monroe writing style is one that I want to catch up on and wait for the next books to come out.</span></span><br />
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So, from NetGalley I've received to read "The Testing" and before I get into it I made my research to know what it was all about.</div>
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Francesca Arno has been commissioned to create a grand centerpiece painting for the lobby of Ian Noble’s new skyscraper. It’s at a cocktail party in her honor that she first meets him—and the attraction is immediate for Francesca. It’s also bewildering. She’s not used to such a wholesale sexual response to a stranger. Enigmatic, darkly intense, with a commanding presence, Ian completely unnerves her. And she likes it.</div>
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For Ian, she’s the kind of woman he can’t resist—one that comes all too rarely: a true innocent. But he can sense in her a desire to open up, to experiment, to give herself to the fantasies of a man in control. The first kiss, the first caress, the first challenge for a woman who craves what she’s never had—a man who gets what he wants.</div>
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I've been reading erotica for a while because it doesn't drive me for the sex but it does appeal to me because of the choices that are made and the barriers that are broken, freeing the mind and rewarding the body.</div>
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In "Because you Tempt Me" you get what I love in a story, the wakening of the senses, a craving that takes over the mind and a man that gets what he wants, and all the way challenging his own beliefs and life style. This is why I read Beth Kery, to see if she delivered what I look for in an erotica title, she did.</div>
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As far as the characters go, they perfectly fit the story and their relationship comes with pages and pages of a storm just waiting to happen. New experiences drive to feelings neither of them are used to and then they crash into each other's will's, Ian the need to control and Francesca the need to submit, throw into the equation love and all walls start to fall.</div>
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The passion that flares on first sight and burns through out the pages, the erotic interactions and the fight of wills that they put on play takes us to a hole new level of Dominant/Submissive relationships and the vision that I finish the book with is that love and pain walk hand in hand and thread in a very thin line.</div>
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After the years of imprisonment Jack Dalton is nothing but an automated man without any humanity and all he thinks about is getting revenge from the evil that took his sister's life.<br />
When he get's news that his most hated enemy is in town he arranges a way to escape and finally get his revenge.<br />
But things aren't always what they seem and when he finds out that there is hope beyond revenge, will he take a leap of faith and save himself or will he only see deception or revenge ?<br />
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Zoe Archer is what I think a perfect creator of characters, tortured heroes and scenarios that come out of ancient times that have marked history, in this case England in her most dark beauty and shadows.<br />
Who doesn't love a good robin hood story combined with the methods of the greatest detective that lived: Sherlock Holmes ...<br />
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This book started out being a refreshing surprise to me, a story theme that I've never had read before, with surprising scenarios and twists that leave you panting for more, a beautiful city, dark in all it's glory, with no main border between the poor and the rich, your fate decided at birth.<br />
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Between Jack and Eva confidence, or the lack of it, is probably the main and first link between them. The lack of confidence that Jack feels and the belief that Eva has in Jack turn their feelings into something more than just a mere professional relationship.<br />
The growing of confidence that Jack feels influence a physical attraction to turning into a deep long lasting relationship.<br />
They are two characters that accompany us through out the book and are both the trigger for the plot that we follow closely.<br />
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I can't leave out Simon, a character with an amount of mystery that grows through out the story and keeps us waiting for the second book.<br />
I personally can't wait for it and hope that light will be shed on the reasons of why and how he came into Nemesis.<br />
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If you're looking for adventure, a bit of passionate romance and retribution for the villain, this is the book for you.<br />
It's an historical romance out of the ordinary, away from the glamour of the rich and influential, away from the flashing balls and beautiful dresses, and into the dark of the streets, the poor, the homeless, and like saviors, human compassion is here at it's best.Wildflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598527995808115100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647325712377096197.post-66232775166689397312013-06-01T19:55:00.000+01:002013-06-01T19:55:02.171+01:00NetGalley - "The Amish Canning Cookbook" by Georgia Varozza<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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This book is a complete guide to canning sweets, preserves and other types of food like butters, vegetables, and meats. From a brief history of canning, the author helps you get started with the utensils, the different methods that canning involves, how to adapt your taste and recipes to this very art of simple and cheap living. It surely will help with the house budget.<br />
All the directions are very detailed, one point in favor for me because sometimes the first is not so perfect as it should be.<br />
If you're a starter with canning and had the idea that it was for professionals, loose it and use this book to outrun your fears and get into something that in the end will pleasure your taste and the love for achieving something that you thought was so out of reach.<br />
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This book is a way of going back to the simple life of having time for what really counts and is a must on your favorite cookbooks shelf.<br />
Can you imagine when you open your pantry and see the fabulous goodies in it ... I know you'll be proud and wanting more !<br />
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My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/616361760">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
So, as a recent Raine Miller fan, discovering the fabulous Ethan, I did what every reader did on the day this book got out, I got it, I read it, and I loved it.<br />There's something compelling in this books that leave you in a cliffhanger and that because they are appealing to a romance reader, keep you coming back for more. You get drowned in a story that you run to know more and are always compelled to read and read ...<br /><br />This is the final clash between Ethan and Brynne and the most important one in their lives.<br />After having walked so far together, can they make it and stay together ?<br /><br />Interesting question when all that is hazardous and bad happens to them.<br />Can we readers see a light at the end of the tunnel or will we be in the dark, "crying" over a so fabulous story that went sour ?<br />No, my friends, this author does not let us down. There's a roller-coaster of emotions that flow through words of underlined reassurances that above all, Brynne and Ethan do work out their differences and learn to open up their feelings to each other, even in the eye of madness and chaos surrounding them.<br /><br />I find it interesting that I began the first book seeing Ethan as a controlling and alpha man and now I get that he is only a passionate, protecting and human man that the only thing he wants is Brynne.<br />He as evolved and matured as a character, from someone that has a kink and only wants the superficial connection to his one night stands to someone that likes to control in bed but learns to respect and recognize the other half's space and needs.<br /><br />Brynne, on the other hand, started out being an american girl in love with the "big bad wolf" to a brave, grown up woman, accepting responsibility for the feelings that her heart speak and moving forward from grief and pain to love and trust. I think her biggest issue was trust and Ethan did a magnificent job at breaking her barriers.<br /><br />This is also the proof that a romance novel can be action packed, it keeps you focused always waiting for another twist in the story.<br />The main threat continues until it is annihilated and ended and the author made a great job continuing the story line through the third book.<br /><br />Now I'm hungry for more, more character's story from this book, and I would love to read more about Ethan and Brynne's friends and universe, what do you say Ms. Miller, can you give us more ?<br /><br />If you haven't picked up this trilogy, please do, if you didn't read the third book in the Blackstone Affair, what are you waiting for ? <br />
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Wildflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598527995808115100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647325712377096197.post-71521071511507278442013-05-29T21:33:00.000+01:002013-05-29T21:33:05.347+01:00Review - "Reno's Chance: A Navy Seals Story" by Lora Leigh Tempting SEALs, #1 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8692416-reno-s-chance" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px;"><img alt="Reno's Chance: A Navy Seals Story (Tempting SEALs, #1)" border="0" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327893877m/8692416.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8692416-reno-s-chance">Reno's Chance: A Navy Seals Story</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2614.Lora_Leigh">Lora Leigh</a><br />
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/625670950">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
I'm a big fan of Lora Leigh and I've read time and time some of her books.<br />She always manages to capture my attention and hook me in with a romance or a plot that twists up my imagination.<br />Her male characters are always alpha and big, brooding, delicious, and I could be here all night writing adjectives and not get tired of it.<br />On the other hand, her female characters are sexy, strong, and always driving the male species out of their mind.<br />What I most like about her romance is the intense feelings that they nurture for each other, the sex is hot, hot, and so sexy.<br />Sometimes I do find gaps and little things in her writing that doesn't add up but everybody has to agree, her books are delicious and I'm always waiting for more.<br /><br />In "Reno's Chance" we have a short story, a way to kick off this great series that book by book grew into a best seller and sometimes I go back to read.<br /><br />Here we meet Reno and Raven, long time sweet hearts but never venturing more than a few kisses.<br />Reno knows that the woman of his life is Raven and that she runs because fear of loosing him is big when you are a Navy Seal.<br />But he will stop at nothing to make her see that it's all worth it in the name of love because one thing is certain, she belongs to him.<br /><br />I loved this two and their game of cat and mouse. No matter how much Raven ran, Reno was right behind her every step of the way.<br />Raven is unsure, with a bad example in her past, she doesn't want to hurt and be like her mother, and especially loose the man she loves.<br />Reno does convince her nicely, with pleasure and sex, cherishing her and loving her.<br /><br />I tend to return to this series time and time again to read it, I love it.<br />If you like a hot navy seal and a big, big love between long time sweethearts, this is the book for you. <br />
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Wildflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598527995808115100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3647325712377096197.post-47817693445937927142013-05-29T16:15:00.001+01:002013-05-29T16:15:05.745+01:00"Leather Bound" by Shanna Germain<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17855890-leather-bound" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px;"><img alt="Leather Bound" border="0" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1367088773m/17855890.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17855890-leather-bound">Leather Bound</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3013716.Shanna_Germain">Shanna Germain</a><br />
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/627507297">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
I believe that a smart and especially nowadays 21st. century woman can distance herself from love, guarding her soul from heartbreak, and recognize lust as a way of feeling in the gaps of loveless love life.<br />One can interact with lust, choosing the freedom of enjoying our pleasures without having to risk your heart in the process.<br /><br />Janine has the perfect life.<br />Her bookstore, "Leather Bound", is coming along, she enjoys her days with her best friend, Lilly, working together, and her nights with Kyle, enjoying lust without the compromise of a relationship.<br />But when Kyle takes a step forward and asks her to marry him she panics. Off balance, Janine meets Davian and lust kick's inn fullforce, dragging her into pleasures, dark pleasures, that she never knew could move her so deeply.<br />Will she accomplish a loveless life giving in to lust or will she risk everything to become bound to her heart ...<br /><br />This book has given me the chance to discover an author that can really write well erotica and sink us in a warm place inside our heads.<br />The story narrated to us by Janine is overwhelming and pulled my mind to endless questions that I often ask myself. It's dark and sensuous, the characters are fabulously invented, adult and sexy, they are nothing as shallow and empty, they are rich and demand an interested and intelligent reader.<br /><br />I have to point this out because considering the book as whole we have to praise ...<br /><u>The Cover</u> is beautiful, sexy, simple and it's half way to want to read the story.<br /><u>Leather Bound</u>, the fact that it's a bookstore and the elaborated description of it's appearance and feel of old, leather books, the smell of paper, ink and again leather, feels like an element that only enriches the story and just a fix won't do, you'll want to read more about it.<br /><u>Dark Pleasures</u>, the fact that from trying to find a book that doesn't exist, would come an extreme attraction and a physical relationship that starts out from the head of our characters, turning the sex element as something beautiful, rich and devastating.<br /><br />Janine was a character that gave us so much of herself, her fears, her victories, her sensuality and all of this was able because of M. Shanna Germain.<br />The boys were consistent and really just a point to achieve what this book to me was, lust or love, a hard question to answer.<br /><br />If you think that this is all about sex, you're wrong.<br />The author will keep you running, turning, and on your toes as the story unfolds. Janine will lead you, page by page, towards discoveries, questions, and uncertainties, the revelation of the body, mind and soul as well as a book that tells you the story of a very intelligent lady, at a time, she can be called Nancy Drew ... <br /><br />I really liked this book and planning to read more on this author, I do recommend this book, a keeper.<br />
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Publisher: Entangled Publishing LLC<br />
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Gadget journalist Christie St. John is more geek than chic. But when research for an article she has to write on online dating leads to the bed of the hottest guy she’s ever met, she knows that if the geek is to keep the hottie CEO, she’s going to have to come out of her digital shell. Tech mogul Joseph Ashton never expected an Internet blind date to end in the best sex of his life. Yet as the chemistry between him and Christie burns out of control, he can't help but think this woman is out for his money like all the rest. She claims she wants his heart instead – but that’s the one thing he can never give.<br />
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Such a refreshing story this was, funny, geeky, passionate and rewarding.<br />
I really didn't know what to expect, I've read the story line and liked the sound of it, but never in my wildest dreams I would have thought that it was with an online chat room that this romance would start.<br />
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This book grabbed me from the start and the more I read it, the more I wanted to read. It was full of up's and down's, the more Christie ran the more I wanted her to stop and as close as Joseph got to the true attraction in his heart, the true feeling that he never admitted till a point he had to step down and surrender, the more I cheered for both of them.<br />
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Christie was a character that I understood well. Her loneliness, her fear of loving and not being loved, the rejection of those close to her and her indecision in seeing herself in hole new light, were all symptoms of someone that really needed help to rise above her lonely life and move forward with confidence.<br />
She was a great partner to Joseph and I loved every moment that she kept me company while I was reading the book.<br />
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Now Joseph was a present that I unwrapped page by page, a billionaire with a lack of personal life, a lifestyle based on a no commitment basis, it should be hard to live alone your whole life and never really connecting with anybody.<br />
His health condition turned me moody and the fact that his past was tragic broke my heart.<br />
But when he meets Christie another man comes out of the box, and boy what a man that is.<br />
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Christie's and Joseph's love is hot, a passion burning in the night and the sex was so delicious, hot hot, their connection had a lightning effect, a light that made me smile all the way to the end.<br />
Even when the road had a down turn between them I never took it against Joseph and knew that he couldn't make it without her.<br />
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So, for wraps, in a few words read this book.<br />
It's a wonderful romance and a great author, you won't regret it.<br />
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