Penny Reid ... LOVE HACKED

Oh Lord PLEASE give me more Penny Reid!

Love Hacked was amazing. Simply amazing!

Penny has quirky, fun, interesting, and neurotic characters you can't help but fall in love with.  I NEVER have loved a book where the heroine was older.  People all the time recommend them to me and I NEVER read them.  I just can't envision it, and just have trouble adjusting.  THIS BOOK hooked me before I knew the age difference and then I simply didn't care.  These two people love each other for all their quirks and faults. These two people fit each other.  With AMAZING chemistry, awesome banter, you will be hooked.
Who doesn't love characters that can have foreplay laced with sarcasm?

Do yourself a favor and get this book.  FIVE STARS READ THIS BOOK!

Jill Shavis... amazing

Though thier isn't anything amazeballs about these books, they reached something inside me and spoke to me.  In the Animal Magnetism books (which is just a hint that the books are full of animal lovers) Jill Shavis has won me over.  I have fought enjoying her books, b/c they are kind of pricey, but man I have loved living in Sunshine, Idaho the last couple of days.  

The characters are real and developed.  The writing is amazing.  The details are there but not so detailed that you feel like you miss the story (my issue with the Inns of Boonesboro trilogy by a certain other more popular author), and the relationships take shape naturally and without any love triangles or unnecessary drama.  

Please read this series!  You'll be happy you did!  (Even if the books are much pricier than the typical 2.99 books on Amazon.

One Sweet Ride -- Jaci Burton

Jaci Burton is at it again!

Whew this book had more steamy romance than any of her other books combined!  Grayson Preston and Evelyn Hill are a heady combination.  Evelyn Hill is a political guru helping Mitchell Preston succeed at his bid for Vice President...to do that she's been assigned to garner the support and control the social media for Mitchell's son Gray.  Gray's a stock car racer (NASCAR???) with a pension for stacked blondes with little to know expectations.  So when Evelyn Hill shows up, he dismisses her immediately, Gray wants NOTHING to do with his dad and therefore nothing to do with her.  Over the course of the book Gray and Evelyn battle how to have a relationship with such vast careers and commitments along with being honest with what they want from the other.  

I wish there was more from Alecia and Garrett (previous play-by-play characters) but overall this book was off the charts and a really quick read.  

Definitely READ IT.

Relentless Pursuit - Kathleen Brooks (Blues Brothers)

This book is part of the Blue Grass Brothers series and it's the most recently released as of 05.2013.    The characters are fantastic..  This story features Pierce (the youngest Davies brother) and Tammy.  As with all the Blues Brothers books, we have some loving, some crime, and a happily ever after.  The only thing that kind of bothered me.... Pierce's realization of his love for Tammy.  But I remember that in all Mrs. Brooks books (say that three times fast) the men seem to make the realization they are in LOVE and claim it.  I really like that about here men, however for some reason Pierce's change from super play boy to not just didn't seem as seamless to me. 

Either way...this book is a definite TO READ!

Extreme Love -- Abby Niles

So ladies (and possibly gents) I will be honest here and say that I loved the premise of this book!  As a fellow chub battling to lose weight, I loved watching the heroine Cait transform.  None of the jumps in her character where unrealistic and I felt like her character's transformation happened naturally.  Also -- who doesn't want to think some hot MMA star would enjoy a curvy size 12 and not some size 4.  The hero/MMA fighter is super hot and boy does he pursue Cait!  

Overall, I enjoyed this book but.... there were some parts of the story that just felt odd or like something was missing. 

So to read or not to read?  Borrow it first.. it's $4.99 on Amazon.. if you love it..buy it AFTER you read it. (if you can't borrow it... I did like it.. but .... well like I said..I'm not sure)

I just couldn't resist -- Toni Aleo -- Empty Net

Ladies let me start with this...my Capitals lost last night...so I reveal in the fact that Tate and Audrey do not lose in this amazing book!

Toni Aleo (all hail the amazing hockey queen) hit one out of the park with this book.  I laughed, cried, and screamed YUPPP with Tate and Audrey.  This book starts with Fallon's sister Audrey.  Audrey hates her job, accepts any love she can find, and rejects the idea that she is a whole woman due to issues involving her inability to get pregnant.  Introduce Tate, the next door neighbor she keeps not meeting and Lucas's best friend.... and did I mention Audrey's one night stand?  Tate is complex and scarred but still amazing, confident, and sweet.  Tate knows what he wants..and it is most definitley Audrey!  There is one scene in here that had me BEGGING to be Audrey for a couple of moments (and that's saying something since I am hopelessly devoted to my awesome husband) but seriously....Tate STANDS UP WITH AUDREY...well you'll just have to read to see what I'm talking about.

This book also deals with minor and major physical abuse (not by Tate obviously) and Mrs. Aleo does a wonderful job of depicting the lies women believe for the love of the wrong man.

Also -- let me just say that until this book I was always against girls who dated younger guys..it just freaked me out for some reason...but Audrey and Tate converted me!  AND Tate made me rethink my stance on men with gaps!  (again read the book, you'll completely understand!)

This is a definite TO READ!

True by Erin McCarthy

Erin McCarthy -- I'm new to her so bare with me.

This is the first book I've read by Ms. McCarthy and I did 'enjoy' the book for the most part.  This is difficult for me because I have never poured myself out into a work and can't imagine having people criticize it ..but that's the point of blogging so here it goes.

I felt the characters were interesting but kind of flat.  The heroine, Rory is a introvert premed student studying to be a coroner who is way more sass then she leads on.  Tyler is studying in the EMT program, and is a bad boy to the T (including some happy place piercing and tatted up with symbols all over his body) except his image is way different than the boy...he carries around a library card for crying out loud and explains A Street Car Named Desire to Rory.  It had the makings of a great book, but somewhere between the typos (that normally I am able to read over) and the anti-climatic make up scene, I just wasn't feeling the book.  Also -- some of the other characters seemed forced and underdeveloped (like Tyler's friends Nathan and Rory's friend Kylie) but I assume they will be more developed in the their own books.

It was a quick read and had a good plot, I just wish the characters were a little more ....I don't even know..just more.  Tyler is full of passion yet shows none of that really when he and Rory make up.  Rory is so analytical that it makes sense for her to just accept Tyler but Tyler's response doesn't really click with me.  Also, the almost English teacher in me cringed when I saw it was published by a division of Penguin publishing with SO many simple errors.  But again, I shouldn't say much as within this blog there are more errors than I'd like to admit!

Over all on my scale of to read or not to read I'd say:

Borrow it first to make sure you click with it....then buy it if it's something you would read again!