Tuesday, May 30, 2017

RELEASE DAY REVIEW ~FOUND UNDERNEATH BY KL KREIG~

Title: Found Underneath

Author: K.L. Kreig
Series: Finding Me #2
Release Date: May 30, 2017

My Rating: 5+ STARS!

It began as a ruse.

Take a girlfriend. Divert the press from the fucked up mess that’s my family until my father is re-elected. Stage a public breakup. Move on.

Only that brilliant plan went straight south the moment I set eyes on Willow Blackwell.

I found her.

My center. My future. A soulmate with the will of a mule and the mouth of a harpy.

I now want things I never wanted before. Permanent kinds of things.

Only Fate—and her ex—have other plans for us.

In some sort of cosmic impossibility, our lives unknowingly intersected years before when tragedy befell both our families. Once the devastating truth is finally revealed, the future I’d found in her will come crashing down around us and for the first time in my life I’m completely helpless.

I may very well lose the only woman I've ever loved to a past neither of us saw coming.

*warning: 18+ only. Contains foul language, explicit sex and a hot alpha (or two, or three). NOTE: This is NOT a standalone. It’s the conclusion to LOST IN BETWEEN, which MUST be read first.
This ridiculously amazing, frustrating, stunning book! I have SO MANY FEELS. Quite possibly ALL the feels. KL Kreig has surreptitiously slipped into my top favorite reads of the year, and settled solidly in the top 3. This duet is equal parts heartbreaking and downright sublime.

Shaw and Willow had their work cut out for them from the get-go, but with the news Shaw receives along with the further troubles in Found Underneath I had my sincere doubts this could all come to a satisfying closure. But that'll teach me to doubt Queen Kreig.

What was crafted from the shambles left in book one was a modicum of sexy trysts to an almost obsessive level of chemistry between Shaw and Willow, a lot of heart, hurt and forgiveness, and most of all a story that curved in so many directions yet came to the hilt in the utmost of provocative (thought-, feeling- and sex-wise) fashion. I will never not love this duet in all its angsty and sexy glory. If you haven't met Shawn Mercer, WTH are you waiting for? He's a dominating alpha with an almost pure heart of gold when it comes to Willow. And let's face it if it was 100% he wouldn't be nearly as fun, relatable or sexy. And what you'll find in Willow is one of the strongest, vulnerably relatable characters I've read in quite some time. To say it's a must-read would be an understatement. So you'll just need to read it for yourself to find out why I'm so obsessed!



Title: Lost In Between
Author: K.L. Kreig
Series: Finding Me #1
Release Date: February 20, 2017

We all have one.

A price.

That magic number that will get us to agree to do anything, be anything.

Don’t sit on your gold-plated high horse and say you don’t because you do. Everyone does. Each of us has something we covet enough that we’d sell ourselves to have it.

What’s my tipping point, you ask? Apparently a cool quarter mil will do the trick.

What does one do for 250 large, you wonder? Anything the infamous, gorgeous playboy of Seattle wants. For the next four months I’ll be Shaw Mercer’s arm candy, his beck and call girl, his faux girlfriend. I’ll be his to command, mold, push and pull in any direction he sees fit.

I’ll fight falling into bed with him. I’ll fight falling in love with him even harder. I’ll fail at both. And when my past and present collide in the most unexpected of ways, I’ll learn that while one man’s love for me has never died, the only man’s love I really want will never be mine.


I’m just a regular ol’ Midwest girl who likes Game of Thrones and am obsessed with Modern Family and The Goldbergs. I run, I eat, I run, I eat. It’s a vicious cycle. I love carbs, but there’s love-hate relationship with my ass and thighs. Mostly hate. I like a good cocktail (oh hell…who am I kidding? I love any cocktail). I’m a huge creature of habit, but I’ll tell you I’m flexible. I read every single day and if I don’t get a chance…watch the hell out, I’m a raving bitch. My iPad and me: BFFs. I’m direct and I make no apologies for it. I swear too much. I love alternative music and in my next life I want to be a bad-ass female rocker. I hate, hate, hate spiders, telemarketers, liver, acne, winter and loose hairs that fall down my shirt (don’t ask, it’s a thing).

Monday, May 29, 2017

RELEASE DAY ~CRAVE ME BY STACEY LYNN~

Title: Crave Me
Author: Stacey Lynn
Series: Luminous #2
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Chloe

I know I shouldn't covet my sister's ex-boyfriend.

She may have wanted nothing to do with his BDSM lifestyle, but I'm a born submissive. And the only place I want to be is under Simon's command.

But he won't go near me. Not with the memory of her so close.

That leaves me no choice. If he won't touch me when he knows who I am, I'll have to come to him in disguise.

He's worth the risk. I'm meant to be his. Now I just have to prove it to him.

Simon

Being a Dominant cost me my first love, but I can't deny who I am. I won't. Control and power are everything, and the way I keep mine is by playing only with experienced subs. No exceptions.

Until I met her.

She wore a mask, but I knew the moment our lips touched she was meant to belong to me. Young, new to the world of BDSM—I knew training her would be a risk.

I didn't know it would destroy me.



Stacey Lynn currently lives in Minnesota with her husband and four children. When she’s not conquering mountains of laundry and fighting a war against dust bunnies and cracker crumbs, you can find her playing with her children, curled up on the couch with a good book, or on the boat with her family enjoying Minnesota’s beautiful, yet too short, summer.

She lives off her daily pot of coffee, can only write with a bowlful of Skittles nearby, and has been in love with romance novels since before she could drive herself to the library.

Friday, May 26, 2017

RELEASE DAY REVIEW ~DISGRACED BY NATASHA KNIGHT~

Title: Disgraced

Author: Natasha Knight
Series: Amado Brothers #2
Release Date: May 26, 2017

My Rating: 5 STARS!
Disgrace: the condition of one fallen from grace.
She is my forbidden fruit. The one temptation I cannot resist.

The first night…

I rescued her from an attack in the seedy underground of New York City.

The second night…

She told me the first of many lies.

She thinks she can keep me out of her world, but she’s in over her head. Watching her, being near her, it gives breath to something dark inside me. Something primal and forbidden. Forbidden to me.

Because in six months, I’ll be an ordained priest.

And she complicates things.

She thinks she is my disgrace. Truth is, my fall had begun the moment I’d laid eyes on her.
Sexy. Unpredictable. Emotional. And above all else... disgraceful (in the BEST way possible). Natasha Knight is fast becoming the author I turn to for the gritty, dark, emotionally draining books that I love and NEED to get lost in.

Every once in a while I need a book that puts me out of my comfort zone and offers something more... something that's not all rainbows and sweetness. DISGRACED is exactly that. It's intense. Lina and Damon are that couple that shouldn't be, but had to be. He saved her, just as much as she saved him, even as she was tempting him into sin.

It's just an amazing, twisty, erotically-charged terrific novel that will have your heart racing!

Happy Reading!
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review* 

Title: Dishonorable

Author: Natasha Knight
Release Date: March 14, 2017

My Rating: 5 STARS!
Sofia

I knew little of Raphael Amado’s history with my family, but when he turned up on our doorstep demanding restitution, my grandfather quickly conceded. That restitution? Me.

Six months later, on my eighteenth birthday, Raphael came for me. He stole me from my home, taking me to his Tuscan estate, where from the crumbling chapel to the burnt-down vineyard, to the cellar that haunted him, the past stalked him like a shadow. It waited for him, hid behind corners for him and trapped him at every turn.

As much as Raphael’s cruelty terrified me, his darkness seduced me. But in the end, it was his tenderness that devastated me.

Raphael

Sofia came to me like an offering. Like a virgin to be sacrificed at the altar. But truth was, her grandfather betrayed her. I guess we had that in common. He’d screwed me too.

I knew hate. I'd vowed vengeance. This was never supposed to be about anything else. But in the end, her innocence broke me. The very thing I would destroy, destroyed me.

USA Today Bestselling author Natasha Knight writes dark romance as well as spanking romance in a variety of genres including contemporary, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction and fantasy. She is a #1 Amazon Bestseller in multiple categories forever searching in every story for that single most important element of love. All of her stories contain at least one kinky Alpha male, lots of dirty talk and a well deserved happily ever after.