The Allure of Julian Lefray by R.S. Grey
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

5 So-Cute-so-Hilarious Stars!!

Perfection! So cute and laugh out loud hilarious! Exactly what I expect out of a R.S. Grey read and I was not disappointed :)

Julian....

PUT YOUR DIMPLES AWAY SIR!! US WOMEN NEED TO KEEP SOME OF OUR PANTIES FROM DISINTEGRATING!!


"He didn’t even know the effect those dimples had on my girly parts. One word: Ijustgotpregnant. Yeah, that’s one word."

Josephine is a young fashion blogger who moves from small town Texas to New York City with big dreams and a teeny-tiny wallet. She has been in the Big Apple for about 2 weeks and is hard up for a job so she won't be kicked out of her billion dollar POS apartment. The story opens with her attending a fashion Gala where all the major players in the industry will be rubbing elbows. She wants get in on the rubbing. At this Gala she is fortunate enough to run into Julian Lefray,the money bags behind his sister's fashion Co. Lorena Lefray Designs. Julian is busy revamping his sisters company while she is undergoing rehab. He has completely cleaned house and he needs an assistant and fast! He hires Josephine on and they turn out to be a fantastic team. They knew right away they had chemistry, but will this chemistry ruin their working relationship and new found friendship? Is Josephine willing to take a chance on her new boss with so much to lose if things don't go as planned?
You will have to read to find out!!

~ This book will make you smile and laugh out loud because that is just the way of R.S. Grey's writing. I always look like a crazy person when I read her books in public. But I can't Help it!!

Some of my favorite lines:
"Runner’ is a strong word. On occasion, I’ve been known to move slightly faster than a walking pace, but it’s not very often.”

"Half a dozen naked, old people. So very naked, and so very, very old."
'Josephine,' Holly called from across the room. 'Come on in, we don’t bite!' Of course you don’t bite, most of you don’t even have teeth."

“You don’t mind if I take the middle armrest, right? My elbow is arthritic.” Great. I’ll just wedge myself against the glass and pray for death."

"Did I, however, look like I was about to go yachting with New York City’s upper elite? No. I probably would have fit in better at the Jersey Shore between Snooki and JWoww."

So much quotable gold in this book... LOVED IT. If you know what is good for you, you will read it too :)


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Review: Submitting to the Billionaire

Submitting to the Billionaire by Georgia Le Carre
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Loved it! It was Filthy and delicious and lovely!


Another by Georgia Le Carre that makes me glad I have recently discovered her!

Again, a very unique and engaging story that kept me coming back for more. Couldn't put the book down if I wanted to. And at one point it was 4 am and I was like

"Ahhh... I have work tomorrow...I really have to sleep... Maybe just like one more chapter.... "

Nikolai - 37 year old Billionaire with a shady way of making those billions, a dark past, devastatingly good looks and domineering sexual appetites. Takes one look at Star and knows without a doubt that she is what he wants. However, Unfortunately for him, she is already taken.

Star Minton is a beautiful 23 year old would be college student if it weren't for her POS husband, Nigel, who is 25 years her senior who chased her down at the age of 16 at his niece/her friends birthday party. Star is fully convinced of the love she has for her husband and thinks that no one else could make her happier. Is she truly married to her one true love or will she find out it was all a sham?

I think I may have liked Rosa better than star in this book! Star drove me crazy with her loyalty to Nigel, who was proven time and again to be a total dirt bag. But, I guess we can all be totally blind to the flaws of those we love, so in that way she was a very truthful and believable character. Even if I wanted to slap her stupid a lot of the time!

I loved Nikolai being the Alpha billionaire male that he was. He had all my favorite book boyfriend ingredients... Super hot, shady damaged past, domineering sexual appetites, muscles, muscles and more muscles...
Did I mention muscles??
Yum.



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Cold Cole Heart by K. Webster
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

6 TOTALLY FUCKED UP STARS!!

Damn... I FREAKING LOVED LOVED LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!!



It was emotional, depths of the bottom of the ocean dark, graphic, even cringe-y some of the time, but it was also beautiful, and triumphant, and just freaking perfect!

~ Thus just reestablishing the unhealthy lady love I have for the lovely and talented Mrs. Webster ~

This story was super unique and captures your attention from page one and keeps it till the final scene. It has fantastic twists and turns and for those fans of Dark Romance this is SUCH A GREAT READ!!

Cole Heart Was such a fantastic character! You found yourself rooting for him and caring about him even when he talked about doing the most horrible things and even DID some terrible things to the h.

"She blinks at me and then bites on her bottom lip. I want it between my teeth. I want to bite her and make her bleed. But not to destroy her like the rest. I want to break her so I can stitch her together again. Over and over again until I’ve woven in so much of me, we’re practically one."

Natalie was an amazing heroine. She was so strong and feisty and given her past and situation in this story it took a really tough person to overcome her struggles and keep going day to day. I loved her.

"When we’re together like this, I almost feel as if I am not dying on the inside. That my life hasn’t been a freak show for years. I feel normal and wanted. Cared for even."

Both of these characters were just so damaged and had so many demons. They each went through their own actual hell to be where they start off in this book and you can just feel all the emotions bleeding through the pages.

"She blinks at me and then bites on her bottom lip. I want it between my teeth. I want to bite her and make her bleed. But not to destroy her like the rest. I want to break her so I can stitch her together again. Over and over again until I’ve woven in so much of me, we’re practically one."

If you are a lover of K. Webster, Dark Romance, twisted love stories, and damaged characters you better Read this immediately!!
WARNINGS
This is NOT a light story! If you are sensitive to any of the following, I might reconsider if this book is for you: triggers (view spoiler)[kidnapping, scenes or rape (not between H and h), Flashbacks of torture, mental illness, and cutting.
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The Man In The Mirror by Georgia Le Carre
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

~ 5 Feels Filled Stars!! ~

Wow! I have to say, every single thing I complained about not getting in the last Georgia Le Carre book I read (see recent posts) - I got in this book ... in SPADES!

This book made me become to real fan of Georgia Le Carre!

~ This was a quick read, but it was just packed full of emotion and just a great unique and original take on the classic Father falls for the Nanny trope. ~

"“You were made for me,” he swore. “No one else. You’re mine, Charlotte Conrad. I swear it you’re mine. And one day you’ll carry my name too.”

God! The things I felt for Brett... He was one of my favorite Heros. He was so damaged and haunted by his past and even current circumstances, but just such a beautiful person. You can feel every single one of his emotions in this book. I was just in love with how much love and adoration he had for his little boy Zachary.
His witch of a wife made me want to throw up and scratch her eyes out through the pages of this book. I despised her and the things she would say to Brett... What a selfish, nasty... person...(rhymes with hunt, starts with a C)
~ Charlotte on the other hand was amazing. The second she stepped into that house and took one look at Zachary she knew she had to help him. I loved her devotion to him even through everything with the Bitch of the house. Her and Brett's chemistry was so palpable, you could feel it burning until the very end. They didn't even have any sexual contact until like 60% or something and it just made it even better!
Definitely, one of my favorite books this year and I KNOW we are only 10 days in, but I am sure it will live up there for a while :)

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Review: Nanny and the Beast

Nanny and the Beast by Georgia Le Carre
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is the first book I have read by Georgia and I found that I did like the story enough to finish it in a timely manner. However, I have to say I didn't really feel the emotional connection between any of the characters. The main characters felt like all they were held together with was lust and sex. You really don't have any feel for any deeper emotion shared between the two.
I couldn't connect emotionally to Yuri's relationship with his niece Yulia either. She was silent for most of the book due to circumstances you will read about if you dig into this one, so it makes sense that the understanding of their relationship might suffer due to that. However, There was a large portion of the book spoken from Yuri POV and there could have been sprinklings through out his inner dialogue that showed his emotional attachment and love for the girl. Instead, I feel like we got ... ' Oh hey, This is my niece for you to take care of.. I love her because she is my niece.. we used to be cool, but now she doesn't talk to me... it's whatever though..'

~Beyond that, This was smut, smut, smut, and a little more smut thrown in for flavor!~
Don't get me wrong... it was SUPER hot... set your panties on fire hotness warning in this book, BUT I thought the relationships within the story actually suffered by having so much page space being taken up by hot and sweaty writhing instead of showing us WHY the characters wanted to writhe together, ya get me? (Also, it seemed like Yulia really took a back seat with both MC's, which is odd because April was hired as a NANNY not a personal HOOKER for Yuri....)

~ BUT WAIT! I am not saying I did not like the book. I did enjoy the story and I felt like it had a lot of potential. It just felt rushed and I think that there could have been a lot more development of the characters and it would have improved the story by at least a star and a half!

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Untouchable by Sam Mariano
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So, I was very dubious when I came into this book. I found it when going through friends recent updates and being that it is normally one of my absolute favorite Tropes, I was naturally very drawn to it, but I saw some less than stellar reviews by some of my fellow good reads friends.

Here's me: Read synopsis... "Yes! I LOVE this type of story!! CAN'T WAIT!!!"
See friend's 1 star reveiw....



I am not one to let bed reviews dissuade my interest in reading a book (unless there is major Cheating between the MC's or lots of descriptive OW scenes, those are pretty Hard Pass for me).

I am SO GLAD I read this one!

SOME SPOILERS AHEAD!!

"I love being the place he puts his darkness. I love being the keeper of the secret of who Carter really is. I love him, dammit. I didn’t entirely mean it when the words slipped out that night in a post-orgasmic bliss bubble, but God help me, I do. I love Carter Mahoney, and that means I am well and truly fucked."

If you read any reviews at all you will know that this is a dark and gritty read with a H that is pretty morally fucked up. Some people had a big problem with his character's actions in the beginning of the book. (view spoiler)[ the basically Rape-y scene. Forced BJ by hero with his friends in the room. (hide spoiler)]

~ Personally, I thought this scene was completely unnecessary. He could still be the anti-hero the story needed without going as far a he did in that scene. It was almost strange because in most parts of the book between their banter back and forth and his easy going charm, he almost felt like totally different character. Almost a totally different book from the beginning. He wasn't nearly as awful throughout the book as the first scene would have led you to believe.

~ I REALLY wish we had some Carter POV chapters. I really feel like it would have helped the readers who hated him connect to him a little more. It would have help us to accept his behavior a bit within the context of the story.

I WANT TO CLARIFY, I AM IN NO WAY CONDONING THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR IN THE REAL WORLD. I THINK SEXUAL ASSAULT IN ANY FORM IS COMPLETELY DEPLORABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE AND SHOULD BE APPROPRIATELY PUNISHED.
HOWEVER, this is a work of fiction and a work of fiction in the Dark Romance genre. The point of a fictional novel or story is to create circumstances and plots that would not be plausible/acceptable in the real world. Dark Romance is full of anti-heros and characters who do awful things and are awful people but somehow we end up rooting for their success.
Carter was a bad kid who had a severely skewed moral compass, but he did grow as a character within the story. He learned to care for someone other than himself and Chloe, and he did allow Zoey to influence him in positive ways. He went through some tough stuff in his childhood that really messed with him mentally and helped to create the monster we see here.
Zoeywas as unbelievably strong and caring as she was self admittedly deeply flawed. Any sane girl would have run far away from this guy ASAP after the things he had put her through, but Zoey has this curiosity about him. Even more than curiosity, I think she had a yearning to help him even from the beginning. She could see that he was closed off and isolated even though he is the "golden boy" with a million friends and more wealth than he knew what to do with. Even though she knew it was cracked of her to be intrigued by him, she couldn't stop it.

"You keep trying to sell yourself on this narrative that I’m not serious about you, Zoey, but it’s wrong. I am serious about you, more serious than I’ve ever been about anything else in my life.”





As messed up of a couple as they are their chemistry was OVARY EXPLODING ... Those neck kisses tho.... Jeysus!


I liked how the book also didn't follow the average plot line of - ' MC's Meet - fall in love - H changes bad ways - argument and break up - happy ending make up '. It was filled with emotional ups and downs and kept you craving the next thing, flipping pages like a maniac!

I really like this book and in all honesty I will probably read again in the future. It reminded me a lot of Fear Me by B.B. Reid and I freaking LOVE that book.
Stats - (view spoiler)[ HEA , Ne real cheating , no OW action , There is a separation but no intimacy with others during that time. (hide spoiler)]

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Review: JOCK

JOCK by Jacob Chance
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So I have discovered that I really love this author!

I dove into this series really mostly because I was drooling over the cover and figured whats inside can't be that bad if the outside is THAT TEMPTING! I am happy to say I was very happily proven right


~ Owen was one of my favorite Heros in this series. From the other books I expected him to be the same playboy jock we are used to reading about, with a little black book that has more pages than the bible, and a smug attitude. He pleasantly surprised me though, he was sweet and kind and accepting. Just the perfect book boyfriend for those of us with a little sweet tooth and are in need of a slight cavity ;)

Eliza was a very interesting character. I really liked her strength as a person. She never really let her circumstances stop her from achieving her goals (view spoiler)[ and trying to complete college and be a single parent is so hard, even when you have help. It is emotionally taxing as a parent to have to be away from your child so often (hide spoiler)]. She was sweet and caring toward Owen and seemed to be so understanding of the whole pesky situation that started off their relationship.

I really liked this book for what it was and I love how Jacob can introduce twists that still surprise me in a genre that seems to usually follow the same generic plot lines.
Looking forward to the next in the series with Nolan and again...
PLEASE JACOB!!! TELL ME YOU ARE WRITING A HOCKEY SPIN OFF WITH CLANCY!! I NEED IT IN MY LIFE!!!

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