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Summary from Goodreads

Winter
doesn’t
really have anyone in her life. She works a crappy job that pays just
enough for her to get by on a good day. She has seventy-six days before
she graduates college and finally leaves this life behind her and
hopefully start fresh until Cade Maxwell pushes his way into her life…

Cade Maxwell is studying to become a chef. He loves his sister and his
niece dearly and thinks he has to support them. When he spots Winter, he
can’t help but find himself drawn to her to her. Maybe
it’s
something about the emptiness
in her eyes? Either way, when a man get

‘s too grabby with her while
she is doing her job. Cade steps in thinking he could save the day,
instead it didn’t quiet turn out the way he wanted it.

Interesting story. At the beginning it really took off, with fire and bickering
and the attraction clear and then it got repetitive and then a bit
stale in the middle. I
didn’t
know what to think of
Winter’s
behavior when she
didn’t
take
Cade’s
money in the beginning, but I guess I
could understand where she was coming from. Her pride
wasn’t
going to allow anything to get in the way.

The cat and mouse game was cute at first and so was the pacing. I liked the pacing at the very beginning
of the book better but it withered out by the middle. I still found
myself engrossed in this book,
don’t
get me wrong but I think this largely contributed to Cade and his
sister Tessa. I loved Cade, I thought he was wonderful. How he
wouldn’t
give up on Winter, how he thought he needed to take care of Tessa and
his niece. The dream goal he set for himself. He was just  amazing.

Could not connect with Winter at all… Sometimes I just had a hard time understanding
her. I guess
it’s
because I never been through the same things she has, so I
wouldn’t
know how my behavior would show my decisions if that was the case.
Thought the pasts of both characters where mentioned briefly and played
apparently a large part in the
character’s
behavior, I guess I was a bit surprised it
didn’t
dig deeper into it.

Both Winter and Cade struggled with school once they got together, and
poor Cade almost let his dreams slip away. I liked how the ending
wrapped up with all the drama, hurt, anger and then finally healing.

The next book is
Tessa’s
and I am looking forward to it. I did enjoy
Walsh’s
writing, I do think she is a wonderful storyteller and I did really
like Tessa, so hopefully.. Hopefully, I will enjoy the next book more.

Summary from Goodreads

Oh my goodness! I was so excited when I opened up a package and found
the next installment of Charley Davidson series staring back at me, that
I might have made my husbands ears bleed. Seriously, that excited!

Charley
is back in a whole next chapter of her life, and boy did this chapter
put a spin on her life. With the twelve hounds of hell chasing her and
wanting nothing more than to shred her to little pieces, Charley can’t
just ignore her other duties when they are thrown at her. Ah, the life
of a grim reaper. Now she must do it all without her favorite coffee to
keep her going, and a very sexy, dark and dangerous fiancé who insists on following her every move. You know, for protection.

I
absolutely love this series! Charley is just amazing. I love her sense
of humor and how she takes everything in stride. Her personality is both
endearing and amusing. I love that she is so human, despite knowing
that she is so much more. Well, as she slowly learns more about her
powers and heritage, her ego hasn’t yet exploded out of the pages, which
is a good thing. I enjoy how the story has progressed, how Charley
herself has progressed. Her growth both in her character and conquering
her abilities - even thought at times it felt like she learns them too
quickly after getting frustrated that everyone else just tells her to do
it.

I also love that each book kind of picks up from where the
other one left over. So we don’t have a large space of time missing at
the beginning that we wait to see what happened between the first
incident and present day.

Charley’s friends and side-kicks are
always just as amusing and fun. I love Cookie, I think she is an awesome
best friend with a lot of heart and her relationship with Charley’s
uncle Bob is so cute. Swoopes
will always be one of my favorite characters and I am so glad that he
is a regular part of Charley’s life, more so now. The Dealer is an
interesting addition, and as much as Charley trusts him, I am with Reyes
on this one - I feel like he will have quiet a role in the end either
in Charley’s life or Beeps ;) As well as Amber, who suddenly seems more important than just being the daughter of Charley’s best friend.

Charley
is also being haunted by her ex-best friend who made her life a living
hell when her and Charley were children. Adding to the ever-growing
headache piled on top of everything and you got the day in life of
Charley the grim reaper extraordinaire.

Oh and don’t forget Reyes..
Can never forget Reyes. I am so excited he is now a more regular
addition. He is just… I love him. His character is amazing, and I have
a feeling he too will play a huge part and as things unfold in the book
they leave me with lots of questions and guesses where this is all
going to go.

Darynda
Jones doesn’t disappoint. Her books are a great comfort to me and I
always find myself devouring each piece of Charley Davidson series. I
enjoy her writing and her characters and so very excited for the next
part to this series. Now I don’t know if it’s just me thinking, but it
looks like she might actually be setting up the entire series for a
spin-off, unless the series plans to skip a couple of years into the
future. But this is Jones we are talking about. No matter what she
chooses. I know I will be following Davidson until the end.

Summary from Goodreads

Welcome to Hope, a small town with a big heart and dreams. Molly’s
sister Emma is finally getting married and that means that Molly finally
has to come home after leaving  many years ago due to a bad
heart-break. The one thing Molly had hoped to avoid was the man who
shattered her heart, Carter Richards, who is now all grown up and no
longer the boy she remembers.

Carter is now a successful business man who works as a mechanic in his
own garage and owns a small chain of them. He is very involved in Hope’s
community and has a great relationship with Molly’s family despite what
happened years ago.

I have to say I was very curious about this black cloud that hung over
their heads and even though the situation was heartbreaking I wasn’t
sure it really called for her to run for as long as she did. They were
both young and things got uncontrollable and Carter’s actions may have
been a little harsh, but in the end you cannot help but feel for the
bot.

So when Molly’s mother falls and suffers a few breaks. Molly has no
choice but to stay behind and help take care of her. Avoiding Carter
this time might not come as easy as she had imagined. I found myself
rooting for them I really did. I thought they seemed like a sweet couple
once together, but Molly doesn’t want to suffer another heart-break
with a man who has the capability to cause a lot of damage to her heart.

I like Burton’s writing. The story seemed simple enough, with well
rounded characters. Lot’s of heart-warming relationships, friendships
and setting. The story felt like I was after the character’s
everyday life, but it was done tastefully and still entertaining
enough. 

The chemistry between Molly and Carter was clear, and I like how it
grew as the story went on. If you are looking for a simple romance, with
a bit of heart-breaking background, healing and strong sexually
chemistry, this book is probably right for you.

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cade

“Okay,
now add the flour, but—” It’s too late, a puff of white
exploding in Winter’s face before I can get the words out or reach
to flip the switch. “You need to turn the mixer to low.”

She spins around, her cheeks
covered in random white spots, some of the flour dusting her hair.
“You couldn’t say that before, ‘Now add the flour’?” Her
voice is low, her eyes narrowed, and I take a step back.

“Well, yeah, I guess I
could’ve, but I just sort of figured you’d know enough not to add
loose flour to a wildly spinning mixer.”

“Oh, you figured I’d know
enough for that, huh? Even after I told you I’ve never made cookies
before? Even then?”

She’s advancing on me now, and
I shouldn’t be retreating like a scared animal. I have more than a
foot on her, a hundred-plus pounds, but she looks pissed. And that
glint in her eye tells me she’s up to something. I glance down at
her hand, seeing a measuring cup half filled with flour, and I
realize what she’s going to do a split-second before she does, but
not soon enough to dodge it.

A cloud of white powder hits me
straight in the face, and I cough as I inhale some. Wiping away the
dust from my eyes, I say, “I can’t believe you did that.”

“Oh, well, I just figured you’d
know enough to duck.” She shrugs and offers me a saccharine smile.

“I don’t think you want to
start this with me, baby.”

“In case you missed the flour
in your face a second ago, I already started it, baby.”

I stare her down, then reach
over, grabbing the bowl of melted chocolate—my mom’s secret
ingredient in her cookies—and dip my fingers into it. Winter
narrows her eyes at me and takes a step back. “Don’t you dare.”

“Where you goin’? I thought
you wanted to get messy.”

“No, I wanted you to get
messy. I didn’t have a choice with this,” she says as she
gestures to where the flour hit her. She darts her eyes down to the
bowl of chocolate, then back up to my face. “Don’t, Cade. You’re
going to get me dirty, and I have to be at work soon.”

“You maybe should’ve thought
about that before you threw a scoop of flour in my face.” I don’t
wait for her response before I smear the chocolate down her cheek to
her jaw, then all the way down her neck and into the deep V of her
shirt, stopping when I feel the swell of her breasts. “Whoops.”

“You did not just do that.”

“Looks like I did.” I shrug,
putting the bowl back on the counter before I lick the chocolate from
my fingers. She focuses on the act, her lips parted. I lean closer to
her, drop my voice, and gesture to the spots of her skin that are
covered. “You want me to clean you up, too?”

Glaring, she gives a jerky shake
of her head, but a flush works its way up her chest to her neck—one
of the tells she’s getting turned on.

I step closer, backing her into
the corner until she’s pressed against the cabinets behind her.
“Sure about that? It wouldn’t take much. Just a lick or two.
Maybe a couple sucks. We’d probably have to take your shirt off,
though, and your bra, too. I really got down in there.”

Her head’s tilted back as she
stares up at me, her chest rising and falling in quick succession
from her labored breathing.

I lean into her space, lick up a
path from her neck to her ear. “I think you do. I think you want my
tongue all over you, don’t you, baby? I got you all dirty. Seems
only fair I clean you up.” Before she can respond, my mouth closes
over her shoulder, my tongue tracing along the chocolate I smeared
there. By the time I’ve dipped into the neckline of her shirt, my
tongue in the valley of her breasts, her nipples are pressed tight
against the material, and she’s got a white-knuckled grip on the
countertop behind her.

“Want me to stop?”

I wait a second. Two. And when
she gives the slightest shake of her head, I take. Gripping her face
in my hands, my mouth covers hers, my tongue slipping inside. She
groans into the kiss, her hands finally coming up to clutch my
forearms.

“Wait.” She wrenches her
mouth from mine, turning her head to the side. “Cade, wait. Your
sister.”

I focus on licking every stray
ounce of chocolate I can find, her hands a counterpoint to her words
as she holds me close. “Not home. Gone till four.”

“Shit! Four. I have to be at
work at four!”

“We’ve got time. Now stop
talking.”

I peel her jeans and panties off,
then lift her onto the counter, desperate to feel her around me. With
one hand, I fumble with the button of my jeans, the other busy
between Winter’s thighs, rubbing soft circles around her clit,
getting her ready for me. She’s moaning, her head resting back on
the cabinets, and the sight of her there, half naked in my kitchen,
is too much. Too fucking much, and I can’t get my goddamn jeans
off.

When she notices, her hands are
there, opening my jeans and yanking my boxers down just far enough to
pull me out. Her hands are around my cock, pumping slowly, and I need
inside her now.

Author Bio:

Brighton Walsh spent nearly a
decade as a professional photographer before deciding to take her
storytelling in a different direction and reconnect with writing. She
lives in the Midwest with her husband and two children.

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Summary from Goodreads

After reading Fall from India Place and absolutely falling in love
with Samantha Young’s storytelling, I knew I had to get my hands on
Echoes of Scotland Street the moment I saw the book pop up on my screen.
Plus, this was Cole’s book, and I loved him and wanted more of him in
the last book.

I don’t know how to go about this
review. It took me a few days to wrap my hand around how I felt after I
finished the book. I wouldn’t say I am disappointed, but I wasn’t very
impressed. The writing is still beautiful, Samantha Young really knows
how to weave her story and capture the audience attention. Despite me
having some issues with this, I found myself devouring the book within
two days, unable to put it down.

I loved how the story
opened up, with a little flash back showing us exactly how Cole and
Shannon met as children. Forward a few years later and Shannon is back
in town, looking for a second chance in life and finding a job in a
tattoo shop. Cue Cole, a sexy tattoo artist that really made the book
dazzle for me. Really, if it wasn’t for Cole I probably would have given
up on it. I couldn’t stand Shannon, I really couldn’t. We got off on
the wrong foot from the start, and she continued to get under my skin. I
did not like the way she treated Cole (protective much eh?), and I did
not understand where her accusations stemmed from (yes yes, I get it,
she had a bad past and all). Just by looking at him, without knowing
him, she accuses him of being a playboy bad boy. Erm, hello… What? It
was obvious he remembered her, and was a little taken with her because
of the connection the two shared when they met as children. But how does
him doing that and being a tattoo artist automatically make him a
playboy bad boy? So she keeps accusing him, and calling him that, and it
keeps getting old until she says something really hurtful to Cole and I
did my best not to let my emotions to get the worse of me….

Cole
saved this one for me. But I guess when you become so invested in a
character with emotions that’s also part of good writing, that it also
makes you hate the other for being responsible for their actions I guess
could swing your opinion either way.

The one other
thing that took away from this for me is that I felt the story probably
could have ended at 50%, the rest was kind of mundane and slow. I kept
waiting for something big to happen, and even thought there was a fight
because of Shannon’s stupidity (hurting Cole again, surprise surprise)
it felt like the story really could have wrapped up a bit quicker than
it did. Regardless, I enjoy Young’s writing, and did enjoy Cole in this
book. I am glad he finally found him happy ending, even if I don’t
particularly like Shannon, even now.

Summary from Goodreads

 

Oh gosh I didn’t know where to start the review. The story was, cute. Kyle Morgan has been in love with his best friend for many years. He never moved on his feelings for the fear that she might reject him and their relationship will spiral down the drain. The last thing Kyle want’s to do is loose her, even if it means never acting on his feelings. But then Cecelia shows up on his doorsteps, pregnant, vulnerable and confused. Kyle’s protective side kicks in, and soon he finds it even harder to hide his feelings and he might not be the only one with control issues.

It was cute. I didn’t understand why now of all times Kyle choose to act on his feelings, since they have been friends forever and it sounds like he has been in love with her, forever. The story had a theme going, and it sounded repetitive. Basically it consisted of the two rehashing their feelings, how attracted they are to one another, how they wish they could act on their feelings, how scared they are to ruin their friendship and Cecelia begging Kyle to help her with her past. Over and over again, pages after pages, chapter after chapter, this was all basically that the book was about. If I heard one more reason why she couldn’t be with him, I think I was going to go nuts. It’s like, you obviously love one another. Isn’t it harder when you both know this fact, but can’t act on it? Why would you go through life torturing yourself and watching the other person with someone else?

That made no sense to me…

Luckily, it turned out for the best. Kyle was wonderful, patient and protective. He is holding a secret from Cecelia that might threaten their entire relationship, secret about her past that she so desperately wants to know. So when it blows up in his face, I cannot help but feel sorry for him, understanding why he done it.

Nonetheless, it was a cute read and I did enjoy it.