Debbie

Initially I was going to give this four stars...Only because this one didn't have my type of killer. I know that sounds weird. LoL. HOWEVER, with the twists I got in the second half and the cliffhanger...i had to five star it. Very much looking forward to the next book. VERY MUCH.

3.5 stars ( this rating may change)

This series is reading like a slow burn, and to be totally honest, I wasn't expecting that at all so I'm not really sure how to feel other than I don't hate it.

We get to know Scarlett and Gabriel more and not just them but who they surround themselves with. Gabriel has his own small tight group that he trusts but he keeps that circle small. Scarlett also has a small circle of women who are fierce and loyal (and at the very least for two of them I smell a story). Separately I like them both. Together the sex is hot. But I can't say that I'm in love with them as a couple...but I don't hate them either. ( I'm going to be real here...Lachlan and Keira Mount are my #1 March couple UPON WHICH ALL OTHER MARCH COUPLES ARE JUDGED UPON. Sorry not sorry).

I read it relatively fast but I don't feel like much happened until the very end...but I wasn't bored because I read it in about a day...plus I kept reading it....but I guess that's where the slow burn part comes in. And someone save me from this awful review lol.

I know I should have waited until the next one was either out or closer to being released but I needed more NOW lol. This has been a great foray back into comics after idk how many years. It's darker than I remember Batman being..and I remember him being pretty dark. So I'm loving that. And that cover....ugh..i love it. But I'm a Harley fanatic. That ending left me thirsty for the next book.

This wasn't what I was expecting at all. I expected Max to be way more Alpha male-y/ asshole. He wasn't at all... Although Harper wouldn't have agreed with me in the beginning LoL. Not that that would have put me off in the slightest... It's just that personality wise I felt this didn't go the way of the norm. I liked it. It's my first Louise Bay book and I'm ready for more.

3.5 stars

We have reached the end of the Legend trilogy.
Overall this was a good series. I like Legend and Scarlett as individuals. Scarlett is a lovely woman, who has a passion for the company she's built, raised by a woman who taught her well, and she grew to be a good person, in spite of having a father who's a piece of shit. Having grown up with everything she could have ever wanted at her disposal didn't make her spoiled or nasty. On the contrary, she saw the beauty in all things. Gabriel came from quite the opposite. And he literally fought his way to earn his own slice of something legit. He blamed himself for something that happened when he was young and he spent a long time trying to make amends for it.
As a couple, they were just okay for me. They didn't ignite in me any feelings of YES. I didn't hate them....they were okay. They certainly deserved their happy ending. And I'm glad they got it. Their relationship didn't really go through any conflicts within since neither character was really hotheaded. Their issues all came from outside sources.

This book was definitely more action packed then the first two as everything was drawing to a close. And it was a good read. I hate that I'm not 5 starring it across the board because Meghan March is one of my absolute favorite authors and she probably always will be..unless she starts kicking babies in the face or some crazy shit like that. So while I didn't LOVE it doesn't mean it's not worth the read...Just not one of the ones i'll reread to death.

Side note.... I'm keeping an eye out for Q and Flynn.

I did not like this book at all. Right from the beginning. I couldn't stand just about any character. The main character, Kim, was probably the closest one I came to not rolling my eyes as much. Her husband I disliked immensely. I wasn't buying Melody as an assassin for hire. Not even a little bit.

The plot is there. The twists are there. It has the makings of a good thriller but i just couldn't fall into the story. There were some parts that did give me some hope that maybe it was going to get better for me and I wasn't just forcing my way through the book but sadly that hope died away. Honestly, If i hadn't won the book in exchanged for a review and had purchased the book on my own...I wouldn't have continued reading it and just counted it as a loss.

3.5 stars.
I wish I had known before I signed up for the giveaway for this ARC that it wasn't the first in the series (it doesn't say it's part of a series here). Maybe that's why I wasn't connecting really with the characters... However I signed up because I thought the plot seemed right up my alley.
All in all a good book. Some parts for me dragged a bit but it's worth the read.

This was more enjoyable than I was expecting it to be. I've been in a book slump and picked a book at random that wasn't even on my tbr list. I was scrolling through Prime Reading and just went with it and I don't regret it tbh.
It could be a tad more fleshed out. Charlie is the MC but she has cousins who also have skills so I'm hoping to get a bit more back story to the family as the series goes along. I'm okay with not getting every last drop of background straight out the gate...but I don't want it dragged out either. But they do talk about having a witch background so that's a start. I enjoyed the ghost story itself. Not necessarily original but that doesn't mean it isn't good. I would like to see Charlie and the detectives relationship grow. So all in all a good book that seems to have gotten me out of book slump.

I love when a series starts off well or simply okay...and gets better. This one was meatier than the first. The supernatural story line part was good...again not original but still good. Charlie is coming more into herself in terms of her skills/powers. There was a surprise twist that bumped it up for me and that perhaps Charlie and her family are more than they are aware that they are. I think that I would have 5 starred it if I actually got scared at some point. But these books aren't really giving me that vibe. Even though I was initially looking for something with a gothic horror type of feel...this isn't it...I'm happy with the way this is going. Onward to book 3!

I really wanted to like this book and it started off very promising but it simply didn't hold up. It jumps all over the place. The parts that seem to start to grab you fall flat. I found myself very bored many times. If I wasn't reading this to leave a review and just bought it myself I wouldn't have read the entire book and just counted it as a loss. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I read this book earlier in the year....before it was up on Goodreads to be able to review it while it was still fresh in my mind so bear with me. The character growth in the series is on point. So much so that the ending caught me way off guard. It's not something that I see Damien from book one doing. VMP has done a great job with not just showing Damien growing and changing as a character, especially as a detective, but also all side characters and those relationships. This series goes up there with some of my favorite detective series.

2.5 Stars

I finished this book last night and I'm still mad at it. Even though couldn't stand the main character ( I seem to have a problem with a lot of Coates MC's), halfway through I was super into it...and even better I was a bit spooked. I want to say I've read most of Coates “The Haunting of ...” books and I DO like how she sets up a great scary atmosphere. Which is probably why I keep going back to her books ( One time I said I wouldn't anymore and clearly I had to eat my own words LOL).

So why the 2.5? With roughly 1/3 left to the book...shit went sideways. Even for a ghost story it was weird and unexplained. Not to mention that the ending was a bunch of bullshitty ass bullshit. My other half was quite taken aback when I yelled EFF THIS WHOLE BOOK once I was done after repeatedly telling him some parts were kind of spooking me a bit lol. If I had liked the end more I'd have at least given it 3 stars because even with a slow start I WAS enjoying it. But no. NO.

When I first read the synopsis on Bookish First I knew I'd be using my points to get this. One of the main characters, Veronica, suffers from blinding migraines as a result of a brain tumor and as someone who suffers from chronic daily headaches and chronic migraines I had already formed a small kinship.
Veronica and Sawyer are two teenagers who should be on the verge of starting their next stage of life...instead Veronica has a brain tumor that seems to be growing and Sawyer is supposed to be the golden boy with the golden future but his life is anything but golden.
A school project brought them together and set them on a course neither one saw coming at all. This YA contemporary romance was as beautiful as it was sad and haunting ( and not just because Veronica can see ghosts).
I found Veronica to be an incredibly brave and beautiful young woman and while her story was sad, Sawyer's broke my whole heart. These two should have been 17 going on 18 not 40. Making decisions that are hard to make as an adult, but it was that maturity that came into play when they both had to make those hard decisions.
This book will stick with me for a while and will be one that I recommend fully.

Audiobook Review

Book one ( Once A Myth) was such a tease. This one though..it kicked up all the emotions more. More passion, more anger (Sully is completely losing his shit and his anger in my headphones as I adult works for me let me tell you), more raw energy. Never mind that there is something going on behind the scenes off the isles. That is something I hope plays out more in the next books.

Eleanor is making Sully lose his mind and she's not even trying. She's not trying to lure him in or trick him. She doesn't kowtow to him and she's certainly not afraid of him. She feels something for him that she knows she shouldn't. It doesn't stop her from wanting to or trying to get off the island.

I enjoyed getting background on Sully and some of how he became who he is now. I also like that so far the books start right where the last book ended. Because at the end of this one I feel like Eleanor fucked up BIG TIME.

The best thing I've done this year is listen to a reviewer who said listen to the audio book as opposed to reading the book. I've never been into audiobooks in the past. I've tried and it just didn't work. And I realize it's the narrator not the story. I also realized that I could listen to Jenifer Lewis talk all day.
She's very blunt and real..but not cruel..and very extra. So so extra and theatrical. And I love it. It's a memoir so it's her life story, so far anyways, and some of it is hilarious, some sad and everything else in between. It doesn't seem like she held back. This is her. The good, the bad and the ugly. Being bipolar, her sex addiction but also all the fantastic people she's worked with ( she named dropped A LOT. But I feel like maybe she meant it more as an appreciation for all the talent she's gotten to work with over her very long career. But it can be a bit too much). MAYBE I'd have rated it on star lower if i had read the book instead of listening to it.. All I know is that I do not regret at all finally sitting through an audiobook this time.

I almost didn't accept this ARC because I was already reading two of them and they weren't going to be 5 stars and I wanted to get to some other books I was more hype for (doesn't help that I'm a mood reader)...and if I hadn't it would've been a huge mistake on my part. HUGE. This book was 100 percent right up my alley. I loved the characters and the world building. There's magic and court dealings and intrigue galore.

Keira was kick ass from page one and I'm all for a bad ass female assassin. I'm here for it all day. Dorian is a very powerful master seider who doesn't rememer Keira from many years before...but she remembers him. I'm even interested in the side characters because there's so much story going on behind those scenes.

The ONLY reason I didn't finish this quicker is because I spent the past two nights with a migraine so reading was a no go. If not this would have been done days ago. I've never read any other Marie Robinson book but I'm ready to dive in to whatever else she has.

Audiobook Review

I'm going to start this by saying that the endings of these books give me life. Luckily the series seems to be almost completed so I don't have to wait.

This is book three and it's still going strong. Sully and Eleanor battling their feelings for each other is still good because Pepper Winters ( cool fucking name fyi) knows what she is doing. It's not drawn out and she's not milking it. There are so many layers that you can't be bored.

About halfway through ( I think it was halfway

Audio book review

This is the fourth book in and Pepper Winters had managed to still keep me on the edge of my seat. This has been a wild ride and I'm sad to see that the next book is the last but I'm also hoping Eleanor and Sully some time to actually build on their relationship.

Make no mistake, Sully is a villain who has done villainous things..but seeing him fight and lose the pull of Eleanor has softened me to him. I want him to finally have a happy ending. I also want him to kill his brother who is absolutely a sociopath and shouldn't be left around any living thing.

Let's not leave Eleanor behind though. She is stubborn, brave and still absolutely regal. She isn't blind as to who Sully is and makes no excuses. In a short amount of time she knows him better than he knows himself and has no problem calling him out on his bullshit. I love her LoL.

The two narrators have done a fantastic job once again. This one had a bigger cast especially towards the end. But not once did they take me out of the story with the voices. ........also Sully's voice is hot.

3.5 stars.

This was an enjoyable quick read. Hannah is a self aware character in an author's mind. She's essentially locked away at a farmhouse since the author doesn't know what to do with her. Trevor is very much not self aware and your stereotypical action here. Picture Gerard Butler in the Fallen movie series (absolutely no shad to Mr. Butler or those movies. I love them LOL). Wanda is a very real person who is quite depressed and her life seems to be spiraling.
The parts with Hannah and Trevor are quite funny. The parts with Wanda were a bit sad. Yes, she's a published author but she's kind of cranking out books using the same formula so they've lost their shine. Her boyfriend is the douche bag to end all douche bags. She's supposed to be ghost writing for another series ( that's where Trevor comes in) but she's stuck in a pot induced fog.
All in all a pretty original story. I initially wanted to read it because it started off funny but got a bit of a serious read too. I think I'm going to have to check out the rest of Andrew Diamonds work.

I struggled with the rating for this book. It was a solid read. I was never going to go under a 3 but I struggled enough that I will keep it at a 3 instead of 3.5 or 4. The main reason for the struggle is because the blurb for the book kind of doesn't fully match the book. It's almost like that was written first and then the book shaped itself later on.

I tried hard to like Megan more..but she made that very difficult. She had not only danced ballet but then she went on to be a climber..and was very good at it. Having sponsors and all. How bad ass is that? But her running every time something bad happened ( and a couple of times it was literal. She legit just ran out the door and left.) was very off putting. Even when I tried to put myself in her mindset. She is 17. She has some trauma. But it just happened on time too many so i was over it. I liked Liam. I liked his character growth as the book went on. Bellamy remained a mystery from beginning to end. Does he have magic? I feel like he used magic at the beginning. But then he just seemed different for lack of a better term for the rest of the book. but no magic. BUT I REALLY FEEL LIKE THAT WAS MAGIC? I don't know.

The book kept a pretty steady pace through out. Something was always happening to keep it flowing. I didn't get the killer at all. I thought I did but I was way wrong and it was good. I really liked how it ended because again...Bellamy. He is a puzzle that I'm not sure I want solved. And I mean that in a good way.

I bounced between a 3.5 and 4 star rating but the more I read the more I found myself really into the story HOWEVER sometimes I felt myself putting the book down. I felt like some scenes were just a bit too long but I did go back for more. I really like Dyna, more than i thought I would by the end. I like my females MC hardcore and sassy and bold...she had an internal strength that was very admirable. She's very young and untested in the world since she lives in an isolated village but she went off to do what needed to be done so that nobody else in her village would die (She'd already witnessed her parents and brothers death). That may seem naive and gullible but when the elders are literally doing nothing to stop what is coming, you take matters into your own hands.

It's not only told from her POV. There's also Zev and Cassiel. Cassiel is definitely a favorite. So sassy is our winged prince LOL. Definite slow burn romance...and I mean SLOW BURN. I'm okay with slow slow burn if done right and while I felt like it was...I'm not going to lie... I want it to be kicked up a notch in the next book. And I absolutely want the next book after that cliffhanger!

Victoria M. Patton did in 166 pages what some authors can't do in double that. You may think that a standalone psychological thriller novella wouldn't work because the one thing you need in that type of story is the time to build up the suspense. Not if you're VMP.

Chandra is a painfully shy, newly successful author. She is convinced she has a stalker while the few people around her think that it's just her shyness and apprehension at being the center of attention that has her paranoia acting up. She even tells herself she's being silly....but is she??

I need to take a second to talk about the ending. Holy. Shit. Snacks. That's all I'm going to say about it.

It seems that the Vardan siblings can't stay out of trouble. Book one , Xandra was running to help Dede. Now it is Val. Not to mention the political mess she is in, coming to terms with her new identity, new relationship, PLUS she's the main suspect in a murder investigation. Xandra has a lot on her plate and she needs to get her shit together ASAP. Luckily she has people in her life who remind her that 1. Not everything is about you and 2. It's time to shit or get off the pot.

The books isn't without flaws(What book is though). It gets a bit repetitive and thus, Xandra gets a bit too whiny. But I don't care. I repeat I DON'T CARE. I love this world, the characters, the storyline and I want to be in it forever.

Side note: Vex is still perfect. Good day.

My review is for the audio book. I read this book a while ago ( several times) and I love it. This is more for my foray into audiobooks.

The story is told in two POVs in alternating turns. So Lance Greenfield did Hixon's chapters in it's entirety ( including the female voices) and Erin Mallon did the same for Greta's chapters. And I really enjoyed it. I got to experience this book again in a new way and it kept me company while I was busy adulting. I didn't think I'd be able to love it the same as when I read it, but I was wrong. All of the same emotions were there even though i know the story well. It almost felt new in a way. I'll know now to keep an eye out for these narrators.

This is another review for the audio book. I tried a different KA audiobook that I had read and loved and decided to continue that pattern. The Hookup is another books of hers that I love so I decided to go with it. I already knew from the previous audiobook that I liked Lance Greenfield. Now I can add Stella Bloom to the list. They aren't just dead pan reading. All the emotions that need to be there are. And I've heard plenty of audiobooks where I swear a robot was reading it. Which is why for years I never bothered.

Not much else to add. Just a newbie audiobook listener trying to cram books in her face at all times. Even when she doesn't have a minute to sit and read.