Review: Outlaw by Bella Love-Wins

Outlaw by Bella Love-Wins
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Silas has a lot on his plate, being the president of his MC, so why did he save a damsel in distress? He doesn't really know, but now that he has saved Sabrina from being kidnapped, he is now resposinble for her safety. Even if she is determined to go back to her life - as terrible as it may be.

Sabrina had things under control...kinda. But the big bad Silas taking her away from her current prison - er home? That was not on the agenda. And her attraction to him? Also was not on the agenda.

The more Silas and Sabrina are around each other, the more they get lost in the instant attraction they feel for one another. But then the secrets come out, and now they have to see if they can get past their shady past, and their dark secrets, and the predictament that is their present to even consider if they have a future.

This was a good novel. I also love me a good motorcycle club book because it is usually very dominant and possessive and steamy. Silas and Sabrina are two strong willed characters so it was entertaining seeing them butt heads so often.

I also love how tough Sabrina was. She didn't let anyone give her crap, and she made it known right away that she was not just a spoiled rich girl who can get knocked around.

I liked this book and am glad that I have read it!

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Review: Moonlight Scandals by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Moonlight Scandals by Jennifer L. Armentrout
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

OMG!!! This book is so amazing! Seriously I wasn't sure how JLA was going to finish this series, but never in my wildest dreams did I see any of those reveals coming!

Loved it so much! Detailed review to come closer to release date!


I received this eARC novel from the author and Edelweiss. This is my honest review.

Devlin de Vincent. The Devil. And the man that drives Rosie crazy. He is so obnoxious and judgemental and cold at times. But he is also the man she saw at the cemetery. And he is the guy she keeps bumping into a lot lately and when she's not around him, she finds herself thinking about him.

Devlin's nickname doesn't bother her. Many are scared of him and the power that he has. But Rosie has her own nicknames for him - none of them very nice either. And she's definitely not afraid to tell him exactly what she thinks and feels when she's around him. In fact, she loves seeing the reaction on his face when he finally realizes what she says to him most of the time.

And since Devlin lives in the mysterious, supposidly haunted mansion that no one has been in, she's hoping she can convince him to let her sweep his house to find out what ghosts are there with her investigation team.

The second Devlin meets Rosie, he is intrigued. He's never been so entranced by a woman before, and he really doesn't want to start now. There is too much going on in his life right now, and throwing romance into the mix is not a smart idea.

But Rosie is hard to forget, and harder to avoid like Devlin wants to do. In fact, he's intentionally seeking her out to see her and be around her... Even though she hunts ghosts and has a beaded door.

The more Rosie and Devlin are around each other, the more their arguments become so heated, the more a different passion sparks between them. But things are tumbling down around the de Vincent family. Secrets and mysteries are being unveiled, and if powerful people find out what is being discovered, the more danger will be arriving on their doorstep...

OMG!! This book is so amazing! Seriously, I wasn't sure how JLA was oing to finish this series, but never in my wildest dreams did I see any of those reveals coming! And I loved every second a new "whaaatttt????" came out of my mouth while my eyes were racing across the pages.

I so so so loved Devlin and Rosie together. I swear, Rosie is such a patient person that she is the only one for Devlin because one needs a lifetime of patience with that man. He can be downright nasty and rude, and then come back the next day like nothing was wrong. But Rosie is an angel, and she seems to have a limitless supply of forgivness.

Devlin is something else. I knew I was going to like reading his story, and boy was I in for the ride of my life. He is such a complicated character, but one thing I knew from book #1 was that he is completely loyal to those he loves the most. So it was amazing to be able to see his story unfold and to really see how much he sacrifice to make sure those people won't suffer.

I am so glad I got a chance to read this book as an eARC, and I cannot wait to buy the physical copy to add to my shelf. I am, however, bummed that this series is done now. :( Unless JLA will write about another character...?!?! One we just met?!?!?! :D)

I know for certain that this is a series that I am going to have to revisit over and over and over again!

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Review: Heir of Ra by M. Sasinowski

Heir of Ra by M. Sasinowski
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I received this eARC novel from Netgalley. This is my honest review.

At first I really enjoyed this book. I was really excited to get started on it because I love Egyptian mythology and everything to do with Egypt. And the beginning reminded me a lot of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider when they were on the dig in Cairo. But for some reason toward the middle of the novel my interest started drifting off from it. I'm not quite sure why but I found myself skimming pages trying to skip to the next part of the story.

Overall I thought it was a good novel and I'm hoping that I can pick it up again and enjoy the rest of it from the middle to the end. I think a lot of readers will really enjoy this adventure novel with all the mystery and twists and turns. The only bummer is that it's a part of a series in the next book isn't released yet haha.

Maybe when the series is over I can restart this book and read the series in its entirety and be more engaged with it at that time. I'm really happy I was able to get an early copy of this book and I'm sure that other readers will definitely enjoy it when it is published.

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Review: Sweet Little Thing by Abbi Glines

Sweet Little Thing by Abbi Glines
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Beulah loved her life with her mom and sister. Putting her mom passed away and gave her a mysterious woman's name, Beulah had to trust her mother's last wishes and put her at her sisters life in the strangers hand.

Life wasn't glamorous but Beulah made it work and always looked on the bright side of life rather than focusing on the negative. Things are going well until Portia's son Jasper came home. That is when Beulah learned that Jasper is actually in control of everything from his father's will and now she has to see if she can still be employed and live there now.

Jasper seems like a party boy and all his friends are very rich and elite and look down on Beulah. But the more Beulah gets to know Jasper the more she realizes that he's not what he appears to be.

But there are secrets that are hiding from Jasper, his mother, and Beulah and soon those secrets are going to come to light and everything will change for all of them.

Oh Abbi Glines... I love your stories. I really do. But I'm having a hard time lately with Glines's novels that she's written lately. I knew reading the description that this was going to be a knock off of Fallen Too Far series. I just wish that it really wasn't. And of course I love the original series more than this one so I was a bit annoyed and upset that this was so similar to Blaire and Rush's story.

Beulah is an amazing character who always looks in the bright side which I can definitely admire. And I love how much she adores and loves her sister Heidi and her mother when she was alive. She is a character that people should strive to be more like because there is not a selfish bone in her body. Other than that the other characters were just annoying or snobby and treated Beulah like trash.

And of course there's a cliffhanger ending that will make everybody (who hasn't read Blaire's story) jaws drop. But I knew that a game-changer was going to happen and I'm honestly not interested in finding out how it gets resolved. I know how Blaire and Rush figured out their life so I'm assuming that Beulah and Jasper will have a similar story. It was a good enough story and if I hadn't read the previous series first I may have fallen in love with this and need to know more about these characters. But for now I can say that I read this book and leave it at that.

I'm still having hope that future novels from Glines will be more original and unique since I adore her previous novels. At some point though if it continues the way it has been I may have to stop reading Glines's novels which makes me very sad.

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Review: Hollywood Princess by Monica Corwin

Hollywood Princess by Monica Corwin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I received this eARC from the author. This is my honest review.

Since this is such a short novel the synopsis of the book on Goodreads basically sums up what happened in this book. So I won't be giving my own synopsis of it.

There's not a lot of content in this book because it's so short but to me it seemed Cathy was a bit desperate. I'm sure in the next book more will be explained and more will happen between the two characters but this was pretty much a tease to get the readers invested in the story for the next book to come out.

I'm not sure that I'll be buying the next book but if I happen to get an eARC of it I would be more than happy to read it and see what happens. There's definitely a lot of mystery and suspense and the sexual tension between Heath and Cathy is definitely there so it should be a good installment for the next book. I'm glad that I got this novella to read to get me interested and I'll be keeping an eye out for the next book!

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Review: Ruthless King by Maya Hughes

Ruthless King by Maya Hughes
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Life pretty much ended for Emmett and Avery in their senior year of high school. Both loved each other immensely but because of circumstances that needed to be secrets their breakup was pretty brutal. In fact to this day they can't even be in the same room without anger and hatred.

Since then Emmett has gone off to play professional hockey and Avery has been able to take care of her sister and got her to graduation.

After much sacrifice every now has a chance to do what she's been wanting to do which is go to college and start her future. But when she gets invited to hang out with her high school friends she decides to take the chance and have fun for once. When Emmett showed up though things took a turn to the worst and now she has to deal with his anger after the misunderstanding of their breakup.

This is the first time they've been near each other and 4 years for a long time and both Emmett and Avery cannot deny the attraction that they still feel for one another. But with all the secrets that are still stuck between them the future that they dream about in high school may not be able to come true if they can't be honest with each other.

I have been waiting for this book since the novela to introduce these characters!!! The brutal way that they ended the relationship and the unanswered questions have been killing me this whole time! So I am so glad that I have finally been able to read their story to see exactly what happened between them! And I definitely was not disappointed by all of the answers that were revealed!

I love Avery so much! She is one tough chick and is bad ass in the kitchen and is loyal to a fault. Even though it almost killed her that she broke Emmett's heart she had her reasons and she stuck with it no matter how hard the last 4 years have been.

And Emmett... he's been gone doing professional hockey for the last few years so he really wanted this time to hang out with his friends who he hasn't seen in a while. And I get why he was mad at Avery but I felt like he should have listened to her once he calmed down and got the shock over what had happened. I could never imagine what they went through and why they went through it.

This book definitely answered questions I had and I loved seeing Avery and Emmet reconnect with one another. All of the Kings are sexy as hell but they all have their issues too so it's really great to see them work through all of that and their stories. Now I'm extremely excited to read Ford's story and will be impatiently waiting for that one now!

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Review: Listen to Your Heart by Kasie West

Listen to Your Heart by Kasie West
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Kate is in love with the lake life that she has grown up with. Whenever she gets any free moment you can always find her on the lake either working or enjoying just being on the lake for fun. She hates when school starts back up because that means that it'll be less time for her to be at the lake where she is the most content.

And now with school starting she realize that when her friend Elena talked her into doing the podcast class that Kate was not going to enjoy it after the first day. And then when her teacher made her one of the host of the podcast she was definitely not happy. Kate likes a quiet subtle life not the voice of attention for a very popular podcast at her school.

And if that wasn't enough Elena started crushing on Diego. That's normal except when Kate realized she may be crushing on him as well.

The more she practiced for the podcast the more she realize that she liked it. But with the podcast comes secrets and Kate seems to be finding herself involved in a lot of secrets. By the end she realizes that secrets may need to be revealed but at what cost?

I adore Kasie West. All of her books are just the feel-good kind that have a happy ending and it's definitely a novel that I am excited to start reading. And this book was definitely one of those novels!

I love how passionate Kate was about the lake but I'm also glad to have seen her grow as a person and realize that she has other interests besides just the lake. I also enjoyed seeing her realize that her ex was not the only person in the world and she also moved on from that. There is definitely a lot of character development that happened in this novel and it was amazing to see Kate go through all of that.

I also adored Diego. He's very soulful and definitely more mature then his actual age. He's going through a lot of rough stuff at home so it was nice to see him open up to Kate and just talk about his feelings which you don't see often in teenage boys.

I'm so glad I got a chance to read this book and I will definitely be keeping my eye out for future novels by West! I definitely recommend her books to all readers because not only are they a fast read but they all have a great message in them!

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Review: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Every year, on the Day of Sacrifice, the village of Protectorate takes the youngest baby and delivers him/her to the witch as a sacrifice to protect their village. It is a terrible thing to do, but that is what the witch demands as payment of her protection.

And each year, the parents of the baby girl or boy sadly hand over their bundle of joy and know that they will no longer be with the living because the witch is going to kill the baby. Except for the one mother, who would not hand over her child. She was yelling, screaming, hanging from the rafters of her house, and even bit her husband when he tried to take the baby.

But the Elders of the town eventually got the baby girl, and the mother went mad. She went so mad, she was locked in the tower with the Sisters of the Star until she was well.

The kicker though? All of this is a lie. The witch is not evil, and she does not eat the babies. In fact, one day, long, long ago - almost 500 years - she found a screaming baby outside of a town that was so full of sorrow and she took the baby with her on her travels, feeding it starlight to keep it nourished. Then, when she got to another town, she found a great home for that baby, parents and siblings who loved it so much the first time they met it.

And every year after that, the witch will find another baby on the same day, in the same place, and she will travel to another town to do her medicine routines and find another home for the baby that year. All of the towns celebrated the day that the witch came with a new baby, because they were celebrating another life being added to their lives.

As for the baby whose mother fought for her? The witch, Xan, was going through the same yearly routine. But she made a mistake. Instead of feeding the baby starlight, she fed the girl moonlight, which gave her magically powers. This isn't normal magic either, but magic that is seeped into her bones and thoughts and her very being.

Xan knew she made a mistake, but she also knew that no normal human could take care of such a baby with an enormous power. So Xan decided to name her Luna and keep her as her granddaughter to train her on how to use her magic.

With the help of the Swamp Monster, Glerk, and a Tiny, but Simply Enormous Dragon, Fyrian, Xan raises Luna. Not by training her to use magic, because of a terrible side effect of a spell, but they raise Luna to be a sweet girl of 13.

But when Luna gets closer to the age of 13, the more her magic is about to burst out of her.

And other big events are about to happen at the same time:
- a father is not willing to give up his son for the Day of Sacrifice - he is going to kill the witch instead
- the real witch of the story is about to see what happens when she up against a lot of love between a mother and her daughter
- the volcano is going to erupt after 500 years of being dormant

And much, much more.

Luna needs to figure out all of the lies that she has been told throughout the years, and figure it out fast to save all of the ones she loves the most.

I decided to read this book because I was making a list for work of the winners for the Newbery Awards for Children. The cover really caught my attention, and when I read the synopsis, I was snared and had to find a copy.

And this book definitely deserves the award! I so enjoyed the story and even though there were a lot of viewpoints going on throughout the novel, it was a very quick read that had an amazing moral and message.

I could only image what a 5 year old hooked on magic would be like. I know how a normal 5 year old acts, so having one with magic just makes me shudder. I don't blame Xan for what she did, because Luna would have been a terror if she continued the way she did.

I loved all of the side characters from the forest, to the village of Protectorate, and to the people of the other towns. There was a lot of information crammed into this book, but it was told in a way that didn't make the reader too overwhelmed.

I'm very glad that I decided to read this book, and it will definitely be a book that I recommend to other book lovers, no matter what age they are :)

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Review: Jane: A Retelling by Lark Watson

Jane: A Retelling by Lark Watson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I received this eARC novel from NetGalley. This is my honest review.

Jane has been in and out of foster homes pretty much her whole life. So now that she is an adult and is on her own finally, she finds that being a nanny to kids is the best job for her. Especially since she tended to take care of the younger kids in her foster house, she's already had years of practice.

When Jane gets a job that requires her to move into their remote location in the middle of nowhere to help a little girl speak English rather than Spanish, she knows that it will be different than any other nannying job she's taken. Not only because the "house" is really a mansion, but because there is an air of mystery around the master of the house: Mr. Thorneton.

Jane likes to be invisible among the parents. She just wants to work with the children and then go off to her room when she's done. But for some reason, Mr. Thorneton intrigues her more than any other person has done in her life. She knows when he is in the area, and her senses go up in alert.

Then, with the mystery of the house and strange things happening, Jane is wondering what she got herself into when she accepted this simple nanny position. One thing is for sure, though. Nothing will be the same for Jane ever again.

So, I've never read Jane or seen movies of Jane, which means that this storyline was all new to me. And for the most part I really liked it! I loved the way Jane is so tentative in life - even though that was because of her terrible childhood - and how she grew to be the woman she is at the end of the book because of how well loved and accepted she became with the family and staff at the Tower House.

And even though there weren't too many moments, the times where Jane and Thorne were together were great! The suspense was so thick between the two of them, and when the moment finally came where they caved to temptation? Amazing. It gave me goosebumps and I didn't want it to stop.

The issues I had were about Thorne's secret life. I just didn't quite get what was going on and then BAM it was all there, but still no really good explanation of it. In the end, I got over that issue, but I think the book would have been superb if that was fixed/eliminated.

The ending was great. I loved this novel. And it looks like Micah might get his own novel, so I'll have to see if I pick that up or not. I know I loved the way Micah and Jane became friends and tested poor Thorne with their innocent flirting, but I'm not sure how Micah's own story will be.

I'm so glad I got a chance to read this novel, and maybe I'll have to find the original to see how it compares!

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Review: The Dark Lands by Christina Bauer

The Dark Lands by Christina Bauer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I received this eARC novel from NetGalley. This is my honest review.

Myla is getting used to being the Great Scala, the Queen of Thrax, and now a mother to her beautiful baby boy Maxon. But when Walker needs her help, she's not prepared for the idea of losing her honorary older brother.

A new enemy is in town: Viper. And it seems that he has the ability (from one of Lucifer's many magic items) to take abilities or sins or anything from another person. And it seems that Walker has to face this person, because Viper hurt someone very close to Walker.

But when Walker disappears, Myla has to figure out all of Walker's secrets in order to find him and save him - without Walker disappearing out of her life forever.

This was a great novel. Myla has totally figured out life and has everything in control. I especially loved how Myla's dad was trying to train Maxon, a 6 month old boy in military format. Too cute and funny! The relationship between Myla and Walker was very strong in this novel, which is great because it gives the reader a chance to really see how much they mean to one another. We haven't really gotten that feeling during the series yet.

I loved how Armageddon was not the focus of this story, but a whole other side of the backstory came into play to show another side of the history of these characters. It was a nice change of pace, and I definitely enjoyed it! :)

And now here is the sad part... Amazon says the next book gets released in September 2019?? Sigh, that's 9 months of waiting to see what other great adventures Myla will go on. Oh well, I will just have to fill that space with other novels and hope they are as enjoyable as this series :)

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Review: Thrax by Christina Bauer

Thrax by Christina Bauer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Myla and Lincoln's honeymoon is almost over, and Myla doesn't want to go back to the real world. She wants to stay in their rooms all day long, but unfortunately life has a way of interrupting Myla's great plans. When Lincoln gets a gift from an old friend, only to have him disappear through a black smoke and Myla wakes up from a "dream", does Myla really know that the honeymoon is over and now she has to go find her husband.

Problem is that there is an imposter, Evil Lincoln, as Myla calls him, who is telling everyone in the palace that Myla is going crazy with pregnancy hormones, so no one should listen to her. Myla is becoming trapped in her own house, and she is tryinng to find a non-fighting way to get herself out. Having a bun in the oven is wrecking havoc on her fighting time.

Once Myla gets to Earth, she is on the hunt to find her husband. Thankfully Cissy and Zeke are there to help her, so they set on their mission to save Lincoln before it's too late.

And when Myla finally finds out the root of the evil that has taken her husband - they better run far and fast away from her before she gets her arrowed tail into them.

I'm feeling a bit sad for Myla and Lincoln. They just can't ever get a break and live life together for a short period of time. There is always something that is happening and in this case, they were separated for the problem. I just want to see them be normal people for a change, but 1. that would probably be a boring book and 2. that is just not the Myla and Lincoln we know.

I am very proud of Myla. She is trying to be a better Queen than an Arena fighter, and she did a tremendous job in this novel. And there were a lot of times she could have caved into her old Myla habits, that's for sure.

Also, this book really showcases just how smart Myla is. She came up with TONS of plans that usually were successful, and it just shows that she is going to be a great Queen when she can finally rule the Thrax.

I thoroughally enjoyed this novel, and now I'm about to dive into the next one!

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