Bad boy, frat parties, obsessive stalkers, secrets, this story has a bit of it all.
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Someone Like You is a sweet romance, with a touch of sizzle. The drama keeps you engaged, to find out how things play out. The humor pops up in random bursts to give you a good laugh. The love fills your heart.

The characters were easy to care about. I loved learning more about Ally & meeting Morgan. While this is the second book in a series, it can be read as a stand alone. However, if you don't read Someone to Love first, this book may contain minor spoilers.

I simply adore Addison's writing style, poetic prose, and sense of humor. She's yet to disappoint me as a reader & fan. (and I seriously doubt she ever will.)
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On the night of McKenna's 29th birthday she stumbles across a room of senators, judges and very high ranking men in a scandalous situation. Luckily she escaped but not without letting them know that she saw what they were doing. Now on the run from these men, she goes to the one place she can think of that will hide her. When she was young, her grandmother introduced McKenna to her friend and grandson, Will. She remembers that summer vividly and in hopes of escaping the men chasing her, she goes to the one person who she feels can help her, Will.

These two characters were very interesting to read. Will was once an NFL football player but has since taken over his families horse ranch. He also has a venomous ex-wife who is still trying to sink her claws into his money. However, when the girl from his childhood shows up in his town, he is smitten all over again with her but he has no idea that she's on the run. I think I liked McKenna since she came from Syracuse (my hometown) and throughout the book wears Syracuse sweatshirts. HaHa

I also enjoyed the secondary characters as well. You see, Keeneston, Kentucky is a small town where everyone knows everyones business. So when McKenna shows up everyone is curious who the newcomer is. She quickly makes friends with the Rose sisters who run the bed & breakfast and local diner, as well as a local woman, Motahdi "Mo" Ali Rahmen, and head of his security, Ahmed. I really liked Mo's story and his character as a whole. He is royalty and must marry a woman soon before his father chooses a handful of girls for him to pick a bride from. At first he pursues McKenna but when she and Will start dating he steps back and is content with being her friend. He is also pretty protective of her. So when Will breaks her heart, he is there with a plate of chocolate chip cookies and is there with all of her friends in town to take her out for a night of drinks and dancing. As well as when the bad guys find her, he uses his power to find a way to keep her protected. I just really gravitated to Mo. He reminded me a lot of Vlad from The Night Huntress series.

I did have to take 2 stars off because this book was not perfect. There were a lot of grammar issues. I can overlook when there are a few mistakes but they were all over the place. I also felt like a lot could have been cut out of the story. You actually spend the day with McKenna while she is at work. I didn't really feel like the court cases were relevant to the story at all and found myself skimming over it. There was also a lot of senseless chatter that didn't really help further the story either. And last but not least... it was very anti-climatic. Now don't get me wrong, it's a good story and I will definitely be picking up the second book in the story since it's Mo's story but it would benefit greatly by going through an editor.

-Book Sniffers Anonymous
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Wow this story is packed full of drama and hot scenes. Two best friends separated as children find each other in college. Miranda has a secret that could change everything. Troy is a sweet guy but is nave in certain areas. Their immaturity shows through as they both deal with very adult and life changing issues.
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What could be more disastrous than following your high school boyfriend to college only to have him tell you he no longer loves you. Depressing and sets you up for a crash, right? This is what happens to Ethan and he schemes to get his boyfriend Blake back. Until he meets Blakes roommate Wyatt.
At first Ethan tries to use Wyatt to spy on Blake but as time goes by he falls for Wyatt instead. Ethan, whose POV carries this story, begins thinking less and less about Blake and more and more about Wyatt. But can he get Wyatt to feel the same way?
Wyatt, whose POV we never quite capture, is a loner and a kind of shadowy character. Wyatt is not fitting in entirely into the college scene but the reasons for that are not clear initially.
Part of Ethans small coterie of friends are Makayla and Conner, who are good enough friends to Ethan to let him know when hes off track.
This is clearly a character-driven story and boy do these characters drive it. I loved them very much and was rooting for Ethan and Wyatt from the first time they met. The sex is hot and the men are hotter. This is a long novella or a short novel and the timeline for relationship building seemed a bit compressed. Even so, I enjoyed the story very much.
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A Bridezilla, a serious of seeming accidents, backstabbing bridesmaids, and an ex who suddenly reappears at the bachelorette party sounded all sorts of fun to me so I leaped at the chance to read this one.

The story opens with Angie Lawson reluctantly attending the bachelorette party of her best friend's bride to be and just wishing it was all over.  The cutting words because she doesn't fit in with all the girly girls, two of the bridesmaids can't stand each other's guts, and the bride's moods and dictates driving everyone crazy and the strip club is so not Angie's thing.  Then she can't believe her eyes.  The ex that broke her heart and left her over a year ago making it clear that her confident, aggressive bedroom manner and her less than feminine looks and behavior drove him away, is one of the strippers and he has his sights set on a lap dance with Angie.

Cole Foster is undercover trying to dig up information on one of the bridesmaids.  He has had them under surveillance so he is well aware that Angie is part of the group.  He needs to be close to the wedding party and Angie is the only way he can do it though if he was honest, he just wants to be close to Angie again.  She's the only woman he'll ever love, but he can't be with her because once she got to know the real him, she'd dump him anyway.

Angie reluctantly agrees to help Cole and as she feared, it stirs up her tamped down emotions again.  She still loves him, but its not enough and Cole still hesitates to trust Angie with the truth about his past.  Meanwhile, deadly accidents are happening within the wedding party and Angie may be on that list as well.

Okay.  That is the word I would use for this story.  I couldn't get into it.  It wasn't awful, but it wasn't very engaging for me either. There was some humor to it all though the antics generally fell on the heavy-handed side for me.

The group of characters did not endear themselves to me.  Cole and Angie were both pretty insecure and made a habit out of misreading words and motives.  I just didn't get into them.  I will say that I was a bit intrigued by Cole since he is one of those rare beta heroes.  I didn't hold that against him and actually don't mind that type personality for a change.  Angie's dominant nature wasn't a problem either.  It was just the back and forth stuff that got old.

Then there were Angie's so called friends.  Her best friend let his awful bride (he lost points right there marrying that beastly woman) rip Angie a new one when he knew she didn't deserve it.  That's one of the most distracting things about the story- that wedding.  It totally upstaged the romance plot much of the time.  I was so distracted by the thought of anyone marrying the nightmare bride, Brittany and I honestly couldn't figure out why all those people jumped through the fiery hoops over alligator infested waters for her.  By all rights, she should have been left alone with her signature pink bubblegum Brittini drink to hopefully get plastered and mellow.

All in all, its an okay read that had its funny moments, its sexy times and offered a second chance romance for two tentative people.
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There's a whole lot of sexy mixed with mystery, secrets, lies and...murder.

You're either in or out, Faith. I'm all in. (I've paraphrased what Nick said).

Faith finally reveals everything exposes herself. She sees the secrets in his eyes and actions. Neither is truly all in until it's all on the line, and then it may be too late.

There are so many connections to preceding books. Mark's club. Rebecca's favorite coffee shop. Chris and Sara's gallery. It all ties together and adds wonderful dimension to Nick and Faith's love story.

Secrets aside, I think many women want a man who would do just about anything for his woman; a man who proclaims his love so profoundly. And even those secrets, as much as they could destroy them, he withheld selfishly at first, and to protect the "us" they were trying to build.

Provocative and Shameless are wonderful additions to the story that all began with a woman trying to solve the mystery she discovered in a diary. This series, with all the inter-related stories keeps me on the edge of my seat, turning page after page, and falling for each alpha man and their strong and sassy heroine. All are damaged but together are whole.
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Vanessa Frost is a woman born into wealth who works for her family's charitable foundation. She truly believes in assisting the people in her community, she cares. Her reputation is very important and must remain pristine so as not to hurt the foundation and prevent her from taking over when her great uncle retires. She needs the deed to a piece of land that Constantine Leahy owns but needs him to donate it to remain within her project budget. Facing Con won't be easy for two years before on one drunken night, she had a one night stand with him and the morning after was far from pleasant. It was a night that she has never forgotten for no other man has made her feel the way that he does.

Constantine (Con) Leahy was adopted by a rich couple when he was young who were murdered, the perpetrators were never caught and he still seeks them. He owns a tattoo parlor and a few other less than reputable establishments. He's the sexy tattooed bad boy that women want to play with but he's also a good man whose known darkness. He remembers Vanessa, she was from the other side of the tracks, unattainable for the likes of him yet he'd always wanted her. Fate granted him one night with her years ago that he doesn't remember because of the amount of alcohol he'd consumed. He lost his shot with her but still fantasizes what it might have been like. When she comes to him showing desperation for the deed to land that he doesn't need he makes a deal with her, or rather blackmails her to get his second chance.

The chemistry between these two is steamy but there is a lot that they don't know about each other, preconceived notions that are broken down as they spend time together in secret to protect Vanessa's reputation. The more they learn about each other the more they like and care for each other. But there are forces at work to undermine what they have, forces that cause distrust between them bred from their own insecurities. Can Vanessa go against society's notions of the type of man that she should be with? Can Con bring her in to the darkness that he deals with; dare he sully her?

This book had good mystery and suspense unraveling alongside the romance. I really liked the main characters, how their relationship progressed and how they challenged each other. I did not guess the identity of the true villain and was surprised that the character that I thought was the bad guy who I hated wasn't and actually had some redeeming qualities even if his ethics were a bit twisted and his actions questionable.

This was the first time that I have read this author who has a good story imagination but the style of the writing (over propensity for word omissions) was difficult for me to read, the constant missing words (especially the word "that") in the writing was extremely distracting and halted my reading (231 items noted).
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I wish I could give it 4.5 stars. Here is a story of college sweet heart finding out her man is not common as she thinks. He is royaltiy and he kept the secret from her all during their time at college/university. When it comes out she ends the relationship. Now years later they meet again. Her work directing a scholarship foundation forces her to meet with the lost love of her life. Armand has regreted the decite now he wants to know if Anna will welcome him back. He devises a plan to get her back. But there are twists and angst that happen when outside forces try to tear them appart. Will she leave again? And tear his heart out forever. Or will they finally work together and stop the bad guys from trying to kill them? I will be going back and get the first book to see what I missed there. This one sounded more intresting at first. Way to go Heather Long.
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Eva has always had this strange pull on people. It's why her foster parents locked her away. Finally she has her chance to escape. Somehow, she's been accepted into Rothmore College on a full scholarship. She just has to get there. Once she does, she finds herself in a whole new world. Finally free, she starts to make new friends and learn new things. Can she really trust these new people in her life though?

This is the first book in The Fated Wings series and I was very intrigued by it. Eva is a bit of an odd duck. She's been locked away for so long that she's not up on social cues. She doesn't seem to notice the amount of attention she gets or when she does, she doesn't understand why. She meets Damon, the football star, who is drawn to her. While he's a bit obsessive, he's trying to play it cool and takes things slow. Mason pops in next. He's the rockstar. Meeting Eva turns his world upside down. Then there's Beckham. We only get to meet him for a second but boy does he make an impression! I will say this as a small warning for some, these boys are not innocent little angels when she meets them. They are downright dirty rotten scoundrels when it comes to women. However, Eva seems to be the thing to tame these wild boys.

So we know that the guys are some type of paranormal. We just don't know what. We know that they are best friends who like to live in the spotlight and soak up all the attention they can get. That they've been around for a very long time. Everything else is all a mystery. One that I hope we will unlock in the next book after that jaw dropping ending.

I think this was a good start to this new, slow burn, paranormal series. Another one where the ending has you screaming for the next book
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I received this ebook in exchange for an honest review. All comments are my own. This was a different kind of book for me. It's a combo of thriller and drama, and crime, all mixed together. The story takes place within a 24 hour period. The chapters are separated into timeframes. Things happen continuously minute by minute. What results in a group of college age guys reuniting after several years turns out more than what each expected. Time does change people. The author nails the young-male POV perfectly. I felt like a fly on the wall during their conversations and adventures. There is language, bad attitude, and did I mention murder. I won't say anymore, but that I enjoyed the story.
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Hot, steamy and charming. Taylor is an escort, handsome and smart - the prez of his frat. Somehow his long time friend Allie,keep crossing his path until the friendship turns to passion. Din't miss it.
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This is a rather steamy book, with the "f" word rather prevalent: I think I would have liked it a lot better without so much of that.
That being said, once I got used to just reading over the overwhelming number of those, the story is well done.  The two main characters take turns narrating, using the first person.  Conveniently, their best friends are the other's siblings, and roommates.  Also conveniently, they all seem to have more than enough money.  While the two guys have jobs, the women are in college.
The book begins with Gabby in love with Cam, from the time the were a lot younger.  Just another case of females mature faster than males, really.  However, he seems to still think she is just his best friend's sister.  In the meantime, he thinks she's off-limits, because she is....his best friend's sister.  (I have never actually seen this happen, but it is prevalent in books.)
In true romance fashion, she tries to make him jealous, either consciously or subconsciously, by dating another guy.  He tries to ignore her by sleeping around, big time.  Eventually, they do realize that they love each other.  She breaks up with the other guy.  And then the best part of the book starts.  There is a certain amount of tension that develops due to the ex-boyfriend, who turns out to be a real problem type.  Drug dealer, and user, with a Texas-size streak of mean, and an inability to understand small words, like "no".
The author does an excellent job of bringing out the fear a stalker can create.  She should be commended for trying to bring this issue forward in a way people can see it.
Hopefully, this will allow more people to understand the fear that stalking victims feel.  In addition, this book may help people understand that stalking doesn't necessarily end. with watching.
The book does have an excellent ending, and I confess, in the last couple chapter, I shed a few tears.
If bad language puts you off, this book won't work for you.  There is also a lot of graphic, sometimes rough sex, with descriptions that would be clinical except for the use of slang for body parts most of the time.
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Main characters: Georgia and Tristan
Supporting characters: Silas, Drew, Gavin, and Kyle
Silas was Georgia's gay guy friend. Drew was her best friend. Kyle was her boyfriend. Gavin was Drew's boyfriend. Tristan was Gavin's friend and business partner.

Georgia bought a summer house to fix over the summer and invited her friends to help. Georgia's boyfriend stayed in DC while she spent time at the beach.
When Gavin showed up with Tristan Georgia knew she was in trouble. Tristan was going to be a difficult temptation that was hard to ignore. Especially with having to listen to Gavin and Drew in their bedroom.
Georgia continued to remind herself he was a playboy and that she had a boyfriend back home. Tristan was reminded and warned that Georgia was off-limits. Even with all the reminders as to why being together was a bad choice it still felt too good to not give in.

Georgia and Kyle had a very forgiving relationship. Georgia relied on Kyle for comfort and support. Kyle was the bond she needed to get through her past.
Georgia and Tristan blossomed while spending quality time at the beach house. The love, comfort, and emotional connection that grew was electric and full of a commitment that meant more than just a summer fling. Georgia and Tristan began an unconventional fling that turned into a crazy turbulent whirlwind of love and pain.

The story was driven by several topics: the reoccurring nightmare, choosing between two guys, and healing. Georgia held onto some deep dark secret that Kyle, Silas, and Drew were privy to. Georgia stayed with Kyle out of comfort, for him helping her cope with this secret. Torn between two men. One man was a risk offering uncertainty to his one night stand way of life and another man who offered comfort and stability with little attention.

There were a few common elements to the story Thoughtless by SC Stephens. First the character name Kyle, the D-bags were mentioned, the morning coffee sessions, being torn between two guys, and the questionable womanizing ways of one guy. Although, I'm biased since I've read Thoughtless, I felt these two stories shared common elements with some differences that still made for a great read. For awhile the similarities were uncanning. I appreciated the similarities because it allowed fond memories to filter through.

The story focused on the many different ways these characters showed love and the many different coping mechanisms to eradicate pain and loneliness, and the varied bad choices that led to a variety of different outcomes and consequences. To the very end poor decisions were made.
I'm not sure I needed so many incidents to prove the love these two characters had for each other. It had a tendency of dragging on a bit too far with the endless amounts of poor decisions that continued to plague the bounds of love.
Georgia may have made poor decisions but when faced with life altering decisions she became indecisive. Rather then make a decision she either ignored the situation or fell back to her safe place. It was a tug a war between resolving issues between each past mistake and overcoming them altogether.
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Between three and four.  Some of the characters I loved, others I hated.  This book contains many secrets and lies, much good and bad.  This book is set in the midwest state of Illinois, for the most part, one chapter is in Italy, another in Maine.  There are nine chapters, different characters.  Family relationships, mothers and daughters, parents and children.  Noone knows what goes on in families, behind closed doors.  Neighbors talk, speculate, and gossip.

The book begins with Tommy Guptill who had been quite wealthy, but a fire burned his home, his barns, all his possessions and left him poor.  He had to take a janitors job, but was never bitter, a kind man who tries to help others, as is his wife.  He worries about a man he knew since this man was a child, a strange man, a recluse, who lives alone in a run down house and tries to stay away from people.

The book continues with Patty Nicely, the youngest and nicest of the Pretty Nicely girls.  She has recently lost her much loved husband.  She is a high school counselor who calls a young girl into her office, a foul mouthed youngster from a poor family.  She tells the girl who is a good student she will get her into a good college.

Not all the characters are good, there are some mean, some evil.  One woman with teenagers has a brief affair with a male teacher.  Her husband finds out, throws her out of his home and of his life.  A man, a grandfather, tires of his wife, meets up with a prostitute, gives her a lot of money, his wife finds out and throws him out of the house.  A middle aged woman is angry and bitter about her mother who four years ago, left her wealthy, abusive husband to go to the man she loved.  This daughter's anger aabout her mom is destroying her life and her marriage.

A lady who owns a bed and breakfast meets a couple, a doctor with a big ego and his mousey wife who stay at her bed and breakfast.  While the doctor is attending meetings, the wife tells Dottie the story of her life with all the details.  She is embarrassed about the way she rattled on.  She and her husband, at night in bed, make fun of Dottie who overhears.  I heard a lady say to another woman "talk all you want about me, it means you're leaving somebody else alone."

Three grownups, from a very poor childhood,  have strange eating habits.  Brother and sister don't like to eat too much.  They are skinny.  Other sister can't stop eating.  She is obese.  One lady, who is a seamstress, makes her niece pretty dresses, but her own two daughters get none.  A young woman becomes an actress, her family disapproves of this way of life and are indifferent to her success.  Her grandmother loves her, is interested and excited about her plays. She must tell Grandma about her actress life.

The book is depressing, most of the characters unlikable, but so true to life.
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This whole story is written from a guys perspective. There is some raunchy, some boasting, some sexy, some erotic & some self deprecating humor. This type of book may not be for everyone, but for me, I enjoyed this book immensely. Good plot, likable characters and hot erotica. Well worth reading.
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4 Nero Alpha Stars

I will admit I was intrigued with Nero because of the storyline. I love a mob boss kind of theme read and you throw in an alpha Hero, Im all over that. There were a lot of high notes with Nero and despite the length (it was a tad bit too long for my taste), it was overall a pleasurable read.

Summary

Elle is a loser and only has one best friend, Chloe. Elle would do anything to protect Chloe, even if that means Elle gets beat up and teased instead of Chloe.

Nero is the alpha on campus. Hes rich, good looking and rules the school. He only cares about two things, his family and enjoying women.

One night Elle witnesses a murder and its Neros job to find out how much Elle knows and if she will tell anyone.

Elle

I liked Elle. Shes the damsel in distress Heroine I love to read, but I found it very hard to believe Elle would do almost anything for her best friend Chloe. Its almost as if Chloe should have been a little sister. Chloe is so scared in life she walks behind Elle, yeah its hard to believe, but I went with it.

Nero

Im mixed with Nero. Yes, hes alpha, yes hes this big tough guy and he isn't scared of anything, but somehow it was hard for me to imagine him as someone would be part of a mob. Maybe because of his age or maybe here wasn't much interaction with the family and Nero. Im not sure. I would say, the last half of the read, Nero really picks it up a notch and I started to really like him.

Overall

The first few chapters will really capture you. The beginning kind of sets up the characters and you can see over time how they development into different people. Elle is this scared little girl who doesnt want to die because she witnesses a murder, but she also is trying to survive high school, but its hard when shes always bullied and teased.

The first half the book is very young adult, theres mild flirtation between Nero and Elle and I really like the banter. Of course I wasn't a fan of Nero at first because he has witnessed Elle being teased for over three years and never really did anything about that (yeah kind of stinks), but like I say, I like the banter and Elle doesnt just drop everything to get with Nero.

The second half really picks up and I like the direction it goes, its more New Adult. Yes, the middle was a tad bit long and descriptive and I did take a break from reading, but the ending really rounded out the story.

If you are on the fence with this one, I suggest its a nice read.
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The Private Club, is HOT. It will have you counting down the days until the next release. It has a bit of a mystery too, and will leave you guessing.