BOOK REVIEW - BLANE'S TURN by TIFFANY SNOW - KATHLEEN TURNER # 1.5 - MONTLAKE ROMANCE - CONTEMPORARY CRIME ROMANCE

By: Tiffany Snow

Published By: Montlake Romance

Released: Available Now

Details: Kindle purchase, 321 Pages

RATING: 4.5 KADE AND BLANE STARS!

Goodreads: Blurb

Blane Kirk is a Navy SEAL-turned-attorney with old money and an even older pedigree. High powered and aggressive, he plays the field, changing women as often as he changes his ties—but he’s had no complaints so far. He has only two rules: don’t date employees, and don’t get emotionally involved. These are rules he can easily live by…until his runner, an employee in his law firm named Kathleen Turner, does an unexpected face-plant into his lap.

Kathleen’s too young and innocent for Blane, and much too vulnerable. After her friend is murdered, Blane knows she could be next—and he knows that keeping her alive means keeping her close to him. Kathleen’s like no woman he’s ever met, and protecting her could be the one thing to change his life forever. He may be able to keep her safe from the killer…but can he keep her safe from himself?

Blane’s Turn is a companion novel to No Turning Back, Book One in The Kathleen Turner Series.

BOOK REVIEW:

So you might think you are gonna read the same story but flipped from Blane’s pov, but you do get so much more.

I adored reading the bits with Kade in the flashbacks from Blane and I liked how Tiffany gave the reader more than just a flipped version of No Turning Back.

I personally thought this was a must read and not to be skipped in the series.

I really enjoyed knowing more about Blane and Kade.

#team?? 

They are both so yummy.

*face plant*

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BOOK REVIEW: NO TURNING BACK by TIFFANY SNOW - KATHLEEN TURNER # 1 - MONTLAKE ROMANCE - CONTEMPORARY CRIME ROMANCE

By: Tiffany Snow

Published By: Montlake Romance

Released: Available Now

Details: Kindle purchase, 440 Pages

RATING: 4.5 BLANE & KADE STARS!! GIDDY UP!

Blurb: Goodreads

Being a bartender by night and law firm runner by day helps make ends meet for Kathleen Turner. Mostly. Being 23 and single in Indianapolis wasn’t exactly a thrilling adventure, but then again, that’s not what Kathleen wanted. At least, not until she met Blane Kirk.

Navy SEAL turned high-profile attorney, Blane is everything a woman could want. The only problem? He’s her boss.

Blane is known for playing the field and the last thing Kathleen needs or wants is to get involved with him. But when her friend is murdered and it seems Kathleen will be next, she may not have a choice.

Now Blane is the only thing standing between her and people who want her dead, including assassin-for-hire Kade Dennon. Beautiful but deadly, he’ll kill anyone who gets in his way, even the woman who makes him question everything he’s become.

The deeper she sinks into the web of lies and murder, the more Kathleen realizes she can trust no one if she’s going to survive. No one is innocent. Not even Blane.

BOOK REVIEW:

I’m a little late to the whole Kathleen—and her men, Blane and Kade—triangle, but damn once I started I have not come up for air… literally for 5 books!!

Now granted I read the first three books in the Kathleen Turner series and then rather excitedly jumped to the Risky Business series with Sage and her men—Parker and Ryker. ( I don't recommend doing this as I got a spoiler crossover. Poo me!) 

Is it just me or is there a very, very, very similar theme in both series and also the names!!! Ryker and Parker. Blane and Kade. The dudes are almost, rhyming.

Anyhoo, I must stay focused on No Turning Back. Well… if I am not addicted! And do my teams keep flipping sides!

OMG one minute I am #teamBlane… the next #teamKade.

@()#*)@(*)@(#*)@(*@)(#*)_)(!!!

We got Blane, the hot-shot lawyer who is partner in Gage, Kirk & Trent, sitting up in his office and Kathleen has come on as the office runner. Literally she runs about town dropping files off and such. And she also works at The Drop, which is a cool sounding bar. She's got bills to pay, dudes! 

Anyhoo, shizzle my giggles, there is this attraction ( that word is meant to come out sounding like a purrrrr) and then Kathleen starts getting herself—mostly accidentally—involved in stuff she shouldn’t and more attraction (on a purrrr) and THEN KADE shows up.

*face plant*

This is where my teams get fuzzy. I got no clue still after 3 books, one being the #1.5 ( I had to hear it from Blane’s head), which simply stuffed my teams up even more.

Truly!

In a nutshell: two ridiculously yummy men, one girl, and the villains and a lot of team swapping on my behalf.

*throws hands in air ready for book #1.5 aptly titled Blane’s Turn*

There is the sexual tension that ripples across the pages…or if you are reading on a device, your device will quiver.

Both lads are written very well.

I simply couldn’t come up for a breath.

There were some awesome quotes, but again, I couldn’t stop to mark them.

Bugger me! I was addicted!!!

There are some twists you won’t see coming and some that are pretty laid out and predictable, but eh, I was in it for the lads.

Truly!

Hot damn!

I won’t go into much more other than to say, normally I am really not a fan of triangles. 

I REALLY AM NOT.

But damn if I wasn’t sucked into this series like a straw in a Coke. (did that make sense?)

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BOOK REVIEW: BEAR TO THE BONE by TERRY BOLRYDER - BEAR CLAW SECURITY # 1 - PARANORMAL ROMANCE

By: Terry Bolryder

Published By: Terry Bolryder

Released: Available Now

Details: Kindle Box Set purchased, 306 Pages

RATING: 3.25 CAGE STARS!

Blurb: Goodreads

Cage McCann and Carrie Miller go way back. As kids, they meant everything to each other. But Cage left town years ago to escape his future as leader of the local motorcycle gang, the Aces, and though he promised to come back, Carrie has given up on seeing him again. Until he shows up at her bar and pulls her into a sensuous, soul-shaking kiss and back into his life, which is currently full of danger and secrets beyond what Carrie can imagine.

Cage has never forgotten Carrie. After serving in the special forces and then starting up a private security company, he has just been waiting for the right time to go back, claim her as his…and tell her that the man she has always loved can actually shift into a bear. But when Carrie is in danger from the very biker gang he tried to escape, Cage drops everything to protect her. The only problem? In order to make sure she is never in danger again, he has to go undercover as an Ace.

Making Carrie fall in love with him while wearing Ace leather isn’t going to be easy, but if Cage blows his cover, he risks losing his chance to rid the town of the Aces once and for all. Now Cage will just have to prove that the Aces may be bad to the bone, but Cage is bear to the bone, and no one messes with what a bear holds dear.


BOOK REVIEW:

This is my first Terry Bolryder read.  I really love shifter stories, and this one was a little light on depth of lead characters and plot for me, but I did enjoy it enough to keep reading.

Cage McCann and Carrie Miller first met when he was a bear and she found him caught in a trap when she was eleven-years-old.

I liked the introduction and the innocence of both characters.

Fast forward seventeen years and throw in a sprinkle of back story and we are caught up. I would have really loved Cage to have had a stronger reason for coming back to the town of Winter Falls. I say this only because when you feel you have found your mate—waaaay early and then you leave—eh…that doesn’t really hold onto me for a true mate in the world of shifters. I can understand if he was in prison and no way to get back to her…but…

Even though there are 300 plus pages to this story, and I do classify it as an okay read, I felt the pages could have been used better to give me some depth. The reasons for things in this first instalment are just on the surface, rather than giving me—more.

This is of course my personal opinion, as I have read a lot of shifter stories, and I can see there are a lot of five star satisfied readers for this one, and that is marvelous.

I didn’t mind they were both virgins at twenty eight…ish, but again, a guy like Cage being a virgin…eh. I did scratch my head at the plausibility of it. Nothing wrong with a hunky, spunky guy being a virgin, but…something wasn’t right with it in this story. Maybe also the lack of emotion surrounding the cherry popping as well.

If he had been in jail, it adds more strength to the why of him leaving, entering the military and then going to New York and starting up a security business with his other hunky spunky friends. Aannnd then decide to come back to Winter Falls to do some unfinished business and claim the chick behind the bar, who didn’t happen to date a soul while he was gone.

I am just having a little trouble with the plot strength in this story.

But that is on me as so many readers loved it and that is cool!

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***NEW RELEASE*** ENTWINED by EMMA JAMES - HELL'S BASTARD # 4 - DARK SUSPENSE

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Series: Hell's Bastard # 4

Author: Emma James

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EDGE

 Not once in all the thoughts going through my mind did I guess what Doc’s secret was. 

Not f*cking once. 

WHISPER

 I need to cocoon myself from my reality. Whisper is broken. 

My name is Sara. 

SARA 

Edge hurt me. 

He helped me. 

He saved me.

 I’m very confused.

 FILIP 

They think they are free to walk away. 

Their own naïveté will be their downfall.

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Ms. James pieces together a very complexed, dark and gritty story where nothing was left out. I was completely consumed from the very first page to the very ending. Her writing left me at the edge of my seat, cringing, crying and fist-pumping at every page. The character development was amazing and on point. Each character had a major role in this story and I enjoyed getting to know every twisted moment. This is a dark story but one that is well worth every ounce of emotion I experienced. The details and the timing of events in this story fit perfectly and left no question as to why and where things came into play. I really can’t wait for the next part of this series to come out because this book was just so good.

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BOOK REVIEW - THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT by KATEE ROBERT - THE O'MALLEYS # 1 - PIATKUS - CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

By: Katee Robert
Published By: Piatkus
Released: Available Now
Details: Paperback from library, 315 Pages

RATING: 4.25 TEAGUE & JAMES STARS

Blurb: Goodreads

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert begins a smoking hot new series about the O'Malley family-wealthy, powerful, dangerous and seething with scandal.

Teague O'Malley hates pretty much everything associated with his family's name. And when his father orders him to marry Callista Sheridan to create a "business" alliance, Teague's ready to tell his dad exactly where he can stuff his millions. But then Teague actually meets his new fiancée, sees the bruises on her neck and the fight still left in her big blue eyes, and vows he will do everything in his power to protect her.

Everyone knows the O'Malleys have a dangerous reputation. But Callie wasn't aware just what that meant until she saw Teague, the embodiment of lethal grace and coiled power. His slightest touch sizzles through her. But the closer they get, the more trouble they're in. Because Callie's keeping a dark secret-and what Teague doesn't know could get him killed.



BOOK REVIEW:

Three Boston mob families make their debut in The O’Malleys, The Marriage Contract.

Teague O’Malley is gorgeous and hits it off pretty quickly with Callista Sheridan, another mob daughter. He loves his siblings and wants to bring peace among the other Boston mob families.

Things are pretty sticky from the very start with something that goes down, and secrets must be kept. But secrets have a way of leading you down a path that has only one way out. Callista discovers this—the hard way.

Oh, my! I am a little giddy up with James Halloran (the other mob family). At first I was, meh, but then… *waggles eyebrows*

This is quite a light mob story. I have read some dark ones, but I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to James’ book.

*waggles eyebrows*

He made quite the impression on me.

A great start to this series and I will be continuing it.

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RACING THE SUN BY KARINA HALLE - ATRIA - SIMON & SCHUSTER - CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

By: Karina Halle

Published By: Simon & Schuster, Atria

Released: Available Now

Details: Paperback from library, 321 Pages

RATING: 4.25 DERIO STARS!

Goodreads: Blurb

It’s time for twenty-four-year-old Amber MacLean to face the music. After a frivolous six months of backpacking through New Zealand, Australia, and Southeast Asia, she finds herself broke on the Mediterranean without enough money for a plane ticket home to California. There are worse places to be stuck than the gorgeous coastline of southern Italy, but the only job she manages to secure involves teaching English to two of the brattiest children she’s ever met.

It doesn’t help that the children are under the care of their brooding older brother, Italian ex-motorcycle racer Desiderio Larosa. Darkly handsome and oh-so-mysterious, Derio tests Amber’s patience and will at every turn—not to mention her hormones.

But when her position as teacher turns into one as full-time nanny at the crumbling old villa, Amber finds herself growing closer to the enigmatic recluse and soon has to choose between the safety of her life back in the States and the uncertainty of Derio’s closely guarded heart.


BOOK REVIEW:

This is my first Karina Halle read. I have quite a lot on my Kindle, but haven’t cracked them open yet.

I really enjoyed Racing the Sun as my first KH read. I felt like I was in Capri and walking around the streets.

Desiderio Larosa or Derio shortened, which is less of a mouthful, is a captivating character in the early stages of the book. He has lost so much and he drinks, and broods, he locks himself away and behaves in all those ways that make us want to know more and get below the surface.

Amber and Derio… My-oh-my do they have some toe curling sexual encounters in the most beautiful scenic places.

I absolutely loved Derio’s character…da …da…da…daaaaaa—until…

It was like a whiplash to my heart. Interesting change in direction KH went with his character. It felt kinda odd.

It didn’t stop me enjoying the story. It just felt a bit sudden and not in line with his previous behaviour, considering Amber’s situation and job title and his relationship to the children. I get what she was doing, but at the same time…

A wonderful start to my KH reading journey. I am looking forward to cracking open some more of her works.

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