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Makin’ The Love Monday: Ruthless by Gina L. Maxwell

Ruthless by Gina L. Maxwell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Describe this book in nine words: Raw and naughty on the razor’s edge of tragedy.

I normally would focus on the hot and sexy of a smutty book like this because HOT AND SEXY! There is nothing bad when those two things hang out together. And it’s enough to turn my head every time. The true value of this novel isn’t steam related in anyway– but I will reiterate, it’s high on steam.

Gina L. Maxwell interjects a heart wrenching undertone to Ruthless I think many erotic novels get snipped out in editing or overshadowed by inserted sensual scenes. In this second Playboys in Love novel Gina L. Maxwell stunningly retains a level of dark truth about broken relationships that plague the psyche of lovers throughout time. And she does it masterfully. Continue Reading

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Tongue Wagger: I Hope You Find Me by Trish Marie Dawson

I Hope You Find Me by Trish Marie Dawson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I am going to do this review in two parts because the beginning and the end of this book demand I do so.

PART ONE:

This novel takes place in my hometown San Diego. I’m that adolescent nerd whose heart glows with pride thinking that I’m sharing an inside joke with someone when they honor my little town. The joy I have for America’s Finest City’s starring role in TMD’s book endeared me to the story before I opened the book.

Weh I saw it I danced and sang, “Listen up, y’all! SD is in the house, R-E-S-P-E-C-T America’s Finest City! Holla”. Yep, I did.

Having lost her family and watching her children die of the red plague before her eyes, Riley has nothing left for her at home. San Diego was devastated and the earth has become depopulated after the pandemic. Riley and her dog are survivors stranded in a post apocalyptic nightmare. Trish Marie Dawson’s illustration of this grotesque afterlife is the backdrop for her main character’s struggle to tether herself in a world suddenly without purchase, as she ventures out leaving messages to anyone who may come looking for her with, ‘I hope you find me’. Continue Reading

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Weekend Pick Me Up: Shameless by Gina L. Maxwell

By | On February 10,17 | 0 Comment

Shameless by Gina L. Maxwell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

If you like it dirty let me hear ya holla!

Yeah baby! This first Playboys in Love book is for nasty babes who don’t know how to fix a sink or clear a browser history. Don’t pretend you haven’t been there; all we nasty babes have. Too bad we can’t all have a ‘Handyman’ clear our pipes for us.

Jane is a sexually repressed student just trying to get through her thesis and hoping that there is life on the other side. Sometimes it’s impossible to get those last few pages written when you aren’t properly motivated. How can someone write about the issues of objectification in society when they only have one sample group as research?

Insert male strippers here. (Or perhaps you have a better place to insert them.) Continue Reading

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Trigger Warning: The Boy Next Door by Leddy Harper

The Boy Next Door by Leddy Harper
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

First of all this book made me feel uncomfortable. I did not finish it.

Kristy Abner is a vile 33 year old horrible excuse of womanhood. Harsh? NOT IN ANYWAY.

This mother of a 16 year old daughter is obsessed with her 17 year old neighbor, Ash Jenkins. Worse yet, he is stars-in-his-eyes and excitement-in-his-loins in love with her. Female 101 teaches you to not dabble in the dating pool of your own teenage daughter but Kristy is thrilled by the attention she gets from Ash and charmed by the fact that he seeks her out and fills her head with all the sweet things she has been missing. But STOP RIGHT THERE! This isn’t just an older woman taking compliments from a younger man, she is lusting for the body of a child and leading him on with coy ‘we can’t’ and phishing ‘I’m too old for you’. She’s reeling in this vulnerable kid by playing hard to get instead of of shutting him down for his own well being. Continue Reading

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Tongue Wagger: Wolf Bride by Elizabeth Moss

Wolf Bride by Elizabeth Moss
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I am voluntarily reviewing this reader copy of Wolf Bride.

Tudor Era novels. I don’t have a good reason for not reading them, I just always think I don’t like them. Maybe it’s the tv show tripping me up. Anne Boylan wasn’t really a good friend to anyone, so maybe I always think she mucked up an entire Age. I pass these books by, after reading Wolf Bride I have a fresh palate and Elizabeth Moss has inspired me.

This book is steamy to the nth. Definitely 5 Steamies out of 5 and also NSFW. Continue Reading

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Weekend Pick Me Up: Save Me by Bella Scully

Save Me: a Stepbrother Romance by Bella Scully
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Mmm Cal Gatlin, I’ll have a dozen and keep them coming.

This is probably one of the most mature YA/NA books I’ve had. Great enjoyment to read. It’s basically teen erotica and my nineteen year old sister is not old enough to read it yet. Hell, I might not be mature enough to read it.
But I do definitely love it.

This is the good girl gone crazy for a bad boy with a heart of gold. He also has a potty mouth with a tendency to say dirty, dirty things. And he has a reputation that only a girlfriend in love could make light of. Continue Reading

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Any Day That Ends in YA: Resisting the Rebel by Lisa Brown Roberts

Resisting the Rebel by Lisa Brown Roberts
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What do you call a book that you have a major thing for? Is it my love bookfriend? Or should I go with the classic and say that I want to marry it? Cool? That works. ‘Cause I do! I want to marry this book!

Lisa Brown Roberts totally sucked me into this book with her super comfortable characters. The atmosphere and personalities flow so seamlessly that you won’t notice how much time has passed before you are turning the last page. With a flooded market it feels that snappy, sassy, realistic teen romances are harder to find. Organically driven plot lines and engaging dialogue often are sacrificed for higher word counts creating these exposition heavy stories. I love when my stories are told to me by showing me what has happened and not told to me as a summary. When done properly you get an epic and worthy book.

Hello Epic and Worthy Book, I am your bride. Continue Reading

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Quickie Review: Being Green by Cynthia Sax

Being Green by Cynthia Sax
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is a short story in the Cyborg Sizzle series telling the story of Green, Shelby and the wilting Windy. Back in Releasing Rage it was established that Green’s best friend was his plant Windy and she had saved him when he was at his lowest. Green was concerned because she was in need of repair. After being threatened to be jettisoned into space, a shuttling that she survived, Windy has been suffering a speedy extinction. Continue Reading

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Quickie Review: Zach by Jane S. White

By | On October 16,16 | 3 Comments

I am one of those people who fails to be impressed by anything that should be easy but becomes too difficult. Having a ebook that begins by giving you two chapters, and then sticking another book in the middle is a bad. To clarify: the second chapter gives you a link to the end of the ebook where Zach, the book, picks back up. I am lazy as hell in my daily life and traditional as all get out in book formatting; clicking that one extra button dropped this review a full star. Continue Reading

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