Review: Wildfire Gospel (Santeria Habitat #3) by Kenya Wright

I am so freakin' excited to be posting this review. I know I am excited all the time when it comes to reviews...but this one...
This book is one that I have been waiting for and I lucked out in getting to edit it! Dream come true, for real. 
SO here is the cover and a bit about the book...

LANORE'S TO-DO LIST
#1- Set Dante on fire until he’s nothing but smoke and ash.

#2- Find Nona and Mother Earth, tie them to a tree, and create the biggest bonfire Santeria has ever seen.

#3- Find out if there is anybody higher in Mother Earth's psychotic chain of command.

#4- Burn anybody else to a crisp if they get in my fucking way.

Lanore destroys her old beliefs of nonviolence. Flames of revenge now fuel her movements forward. Too many of her loved ones have died, and she's done shedding tears. Sadly, she can't boil Dante's blood just yet. He has the resources to help her and Zulu. Discovering Mother Earth's whereabouts is proving more difficult than expected. She's not what they thought she was. She's something more.

Meanwhile, Lanore's father is missing. Normally, that wouldn't trigger stress, but whispers are spreading around the habitat like a wildfire. A Demon with feline eyes and fire-spotted cheetah skin appeared at the Masquerade Ball right after MeShack was killed. Lanore hopes her father will have some answers.

Is this Demon only a coincidence? Is Lanore just grasping at a last bit of hope that somehow MeShack is alive, or should she face the truth of his death.




My Review:

Since this book isn't out yet I won't be posting any spoilers (even though I freakin' want to.) I've decided that instead of writing a full on review, I'm going to let the gifs speak for me.
This is how I felt at the end of the last book.


How I felt reading Wildfire Gospel.

 


















My overall final reaction:


Kenya Wright is an evil mastermind. This book is EVERYTHING I wanted it to be, and at the same time it was nothing I expected. 
So go and read it...if not, I will get Lanore to burn you. ;)

Rating: 
FIVE AWESOME STARS!

Review: Broken by Megan Hart

It's 1am and I'm writing a review. Not because I'm bored, but because I couldn't wait until morning to share how I feel about this book. Seriously. 

Broken by Megan Hart

This month my name is Mary. My name is different every month—Brandy, Honey, Amy…sometimes Joe doesn't even bother to ask—but he never fails to arouse me with his body, his mouth, his touch, no matter what I'm called or where he picks me up. The sex is always amazing, always leaves me itching for more in those long weeks until I see him again.

My real name is Sadie, and once a month over lunch Joe tells me about his latest conquest. But what Joe doesn't know is that, in my mind, I'm the star of every X-rated one-night stand he has revealed to me, or that I'm practically obsessed with our imaginary sex life. I know it's wrong. I know my husband wouldn't understand. But I can't stop. Not yet.

My Review:

I would like to start off my review with this gif. 

This is exactly what my face looked while reading Broken. (Yes, I wore this ridiculous O face for more than twenty-four hours. The people at the grocery store looked at me funny.) 

I purchased the book because I thought the blurb sounded awesome. Like, super awesome. But the book...it ended up being so much more than I could ever even begin to explain. That sounds corny as hell, like a first date that won't have a second... but seriously. Broken is AMAZING. I previously read Dirty by Megan Hart. I liked the book, BUT I didn't love it. This book is on a totally different wavelength. 

I'm not kidding. 8% in my mind was blown. Literally splattered on the wall. 

(Yes, I seriously just got that graphic). 

Megan Hart does something with her characters that I can't even begin to describe. The detailed sexual encounters that Joe has from the POV from all different women is off the chain and completely genius. 

She makes you love the characters. Especially Adam. I spent most of the book in turmoil, because I loved Adam's character. 

Even though there were times when I didn't want to love him and I wanted to love Joe. Hart does a spectacular job of making you feel the same emotions that Sadie feels throughout the book. 

This read is raw, full of emotion, and so real there were times I could taste it. I cried. I laughed. I loved. Hats off to Megan Hart. 

This book deserves more than five stars.

I purchased this book on Amazon.

Review: Damaged by H.M. Ward

Review day? Don't mind if I do!

This week I read Damaged by H.M. Ward. Before I say anything about the book I would like say that I love the cover. Definitely a good image of Peter. Props to the cover artist. 

Now about the book itself...

I picked up this book because I loved the premise--A college student falls for her hottie professor. UMMM YUM. Lol, this is SO my kind of story, which is why I was pretty bummed out when it ended up being not what I thought it would be. *sigh*

I liked both Sidney and Peter BUT more often than not I found myself thinking--What the heck? Sidney seemed to keep doing things that were totally off from the way her character is presented. For example: She hates to be touched, yet she is an all-star swing dancer. How does that happen?

Also--the whole book deals with the sexual temptation Peter presents to Sidney and how forbidden it is. Sidney is so tempted by him that she can't keep her hands off of him, yet at the end of the book she lays in bed with Peter (the man who she has already admitted that she loves!) and claims to have no sexual desire for him what-so-ever. 

I'm sorry, what? 

Now I'm not trying to be a total sour puss (really I'm not!) I understand that Sidney has issues in her past and so forth, BUT the entire book built on this hot sexual tension of them dancing and working together in close confines that makes their relationship impossible and ever so tempting--just to end with Sidney's suddenly absent sexual appetite. 

Like seriously.

Which means... yes you guessed it. There is NO sex in this book. 

Now I know how that makes me sound, BUT it should have happened. Poor Peter puts up with a lot of crap when it comes to Sidney. He needs to get laid. Plus the WHOLE book is built on sexual tension. Did I mention that already? Right, I did. 

*sigh*

With all of this being said I didn't hate the book. It just wasn't right for me and seemed to have a lot of character flaws. 

I give Damaged 2.5 Stars.

Review: Spartan Nights by DJ Lysander

It's been awhile since I've posted a book review, so today is a good day for one. Don't you think? 

This post is going to be a little different than some of my previous book reviews. This one is about a book named Spartan Nights. A book I edited. Now, I don't usually review books I edit--not because I hate them all and they suck. (I'm not that evil, guys. Come on cut me some slack!)

I don't usually do it because I am up in the air about whether or not I should do it based on editing etiquette 101. Should I review a book that I edited and didn't particularly care for? Should I review only the ones I liked? Should I review none of them? 

These are all questions I ask myself before saying something along the lines of: Fuck it, I'm going to take a nap or play a ridiculously monotonous game on my phone that lowers my brain-cell count by the second. 

All of that aside, I have chosen to review this book for one reason and one reason only. I liked it. 

That's right. I've liked other books I've edited as well, though not all of them have reviews. Why? Please refer to my earlier internal argument. I feel like reviewing this book. So here it is. 

Isn't the cover cool beans? One of the fun parts of editing is getting to see the cover after you've edited something. I think the artist did a great job on this. He definitely resembles Spartan. 

My Review:

This book is different than most erotic romances that I have read. This novella is told solely from a man's POV, though there is plenty of women in the story-line. The Spartan wouldn't be the Spartan if there weren't women flocking to him, lol. The Spartan is very interesting character and in spite of the cover, the story is set in present day about a man who dresses up like a Spartan to go to comic book conventions. That's right ladies, he's nerdy, he's hot, and he's an asshole. My favorite kind of hero. (Seriously).

The author takes the reader on an interesting ride where we get to experience life solely through the eyes of a guy who is used to getting his way when it comes to women. For those of you who don't particularly like male's with this sort of outlook on life, I still think you would like this book. You end up rooting for the Spartan in the end, not to mention left with a dropped jaw at the ending. I am looking forward to the sequel.

Definitely go check it out.

I give Spartan Nights 4 stars!

Review of Temptation with a Giveaway!

Today I am hosting K.M. Golland and her book Temptation. I had the pleasure of reading this book, so please check out my review below. ALSO, check out the bottom of the post for info on a giveaway! Thanks for stopping by!! 

Sometimes being happily married and completely content is not at all what it seems.
This is what 35 year old, happily married mother of two, Alexis Summers finds out when she decides it is time to return to work. After being a stay-at-home Mum for the past nine years, Alexis now realizes a complete career change is just what she needs.
She becomes a Concierge Attendant in a prestigious hotel in Melbourne, working for the owner, Bryce Clark. He resides in the penthouse, is extremely hot, and is a man who always gets what he wants, and what he wants is Alexis. She does a relatively good job at resisting Bryce at first but the undeniable chemistry, sexual tension and playfulness between the two of them is intense. He has copious amounts of money, sex appeal and above all else, is a genuinely nice guy. Bryce has been waiting for his one true love to come along, and he is positive that one true love is Alexis.
There is one problem, she is happily married to Rick, and no matter how strong her feelings are for Bryce, she is adamant she will not cheat. She draws a line in the sand but finds it increasingly hard not to cross. Will she succumb to Temptation?

Buy Links:

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My Review:
I was very excited to read this book, especially after I discovered what it was going to be about. I love books that have to do with powerful sexy men that stop at nothing to get what they want. With that being said I was concerned that this book would be pretty much a re-make of another popular book (Fifty Shades). It wasn't at all though, in fact it was very different, with a much different dynamic. It is not everyday that you read a romance about a woman who is happily married with two children. 
There were numerous times in the story where I thought, 'How in the world is this going to work out? Who is she going to choose?' 
Alexis's character is very relate-able in how she feels towards both of the men in her life. It is one of those crossroads situations that people come to, though I think it's safe to say that Alexis comes to a very sexy intersection, lol.
I definitely recommend this book and hope you will all go check it out!

I give Temptation FOUR stars!

I was given a free copy of Temptation in exchange for an honest review. 

About the Author:

K.M. Golland was born and raised in Melbourne Australia. She studied Legal Practice for two years, and worked as a Land Conveyancer for four years before putting her career on hold to raise two beautiful children. She always had a love of reading, and decided rather than returning to the Legal Industry, she would become a Writer, publishing her debut novel Temptation (Book 1 in The Temptation Series).

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/temptationseries
Good Reads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6860161.K_M_Golland
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KellyGolly

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