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November 28, 2014

FMR REVIEWS: Undesired Lust by Eden Summers


Title: Undesired Lust (Reckless Beat, #3)
Author: Eden Summers
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Synopsis:
They used to be the perfect team. 

Two years ago, songstress Sidney Higgins ruined her life by sleeping with not one, but two of the famous Reckless Beat men, Mason Lynch and Sean Taiden. Their night of intimate celebration turned into a worldwide sensation when the video Mason vowed to keep private was uploaded to the internet, destroying her squeaky-clean reputation and turning the world against her. Now she’s broken and left without hope, trying to find the one thing that can get her back on her feet.

A mistake neither one of them is willing to forgive. 

When the sex tape went viral and his best friends held him accountable, Mason bore the stigma of asshole with pride. Now, bitterness has destroyed him, driving away his muse and making him worthless in the industry he loves. There’s only one option left to reclaim his creativity, but that would mean collaborating with a woman who wants to castrate him with a plastic knife.

A palpable chemistry even hate can’t diminish. 

Forced to work together, neither one of them is prepared for the undesired lust which immediately takes hold. The lies fade away, exposing the truth; however, it also awakens a threat from their past. The person responsible for tearing them apart is back to ensure they don’t rekindle a spark. With their safety in the balance, Sidney and Mason need to determine what they’re willing to risk to reclaim a relationship they wish they’d never lost.
 

Review by: Leeann

Well I think this is my favorite book from the Reckless Beat series so far! 

I found myself often thinking 'how much can one couple take' often throughout this book. Mason and Sidney were torn apart once before over a huge miscommunication. Or maybe a lack of communication is more accurate. Years later they are reunited and Mason is the only one who is happy about it.
See, Mason is very self Centre.  In his life everything revolves around him.. or so it appears. The reality couldn't be further from the truth.  When he lost Sidney the first time he never really recovered.  He became a shell of himself and created a party boy/ man whore persona for the public and his band mates. 
What tore them apart completely destroyed Sidney. She lost her friends, her family, her self respect and her work. All she had left was her best friend Justin.
When the truth comes out about the past, it puts both Sidney and Mason in danger. They need to work harder than ever to get their happy ever after.

This book is full of sarcastically funny moments. There are also some serious moments that Wil,  have you thinking their relationship is all but over and hoping they bounce back. There were some moments where i wanted to jump in and hit Mason over the head with a frying pan! Some of the things that came out of his mouth were at the most inappropriate times which added to the drama and entertainment. Sidney has to try really hard not to react to Mason and doesn't always succeed. This makes for some volatile but funny interactions!

I am so glad I got to read this and see a different side to Mason then we have seen in the previous books in this series. He really grows up a lot during this book and he realizes how much he loves Sidney and how much he is prepared to do to keep her in his life. 
Sidney also grows up a bit, although she really was the victim from the fallout years ago, she has always been protected by Justin, but now, she is really learning to stand on her own two feet and to look after herself.
It was lovely to watch both Mason and Sidney evolve and come into their own before they decide to give their relationship a proper go and not let fear hold them back.

If you love reading about sexy rock stars and their women, then check out this latest installment of the Reckless Beat series. You won't be disappointed!
Oh and if you haven't read any of this series! I really recommend you do, you will be captivated by each of the band members that Eden Summers has brought to life to tell their stories!

5 Stars

About the Author:
Eden Summers is a true blue Aussie, living in regional New South Wales with her two energetic young boys and a quick witted husband.
In late 2010, Eden's romance obsession could no longer be sated by reading alone, so she decided to give voice to the sexy men and sassy women in her mind.

Eden can't resist alpha dominance, dark features and sarcasm in her fictional heroes and loves a strong heroine who knows when to bite her tongue but also serves retribution with a feminine smile on her face.

November 27, 2014

Unlikely Venture by Kristen Luciani ~ BLOG TOUR & REVIEW

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Unlikely Venture by Kristen Luciani The Venture Series 
Publication Date: November 10, 2014 
Genres: ContemporaryRomance

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Synopsis:

After learning Jessica's been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, her fiancé bolted out of her life as if he was on fire. She finds solace in her career--no distractions or romantic entanglements there!
But the universe has its own agenda. Three thousand miles away from home and in the most unlikely of circumstances, Jessica meets Silicon Valley rising star James Callahan and her world is instantly turned upside down. Things go further awry when she encounters a ghost from the past. That one night of reckless abandon is back to haunt her and the control she fought so hard to regain is now in the hands of another. Plagued by betrayal and guilt over his dad’s untimely death, James left Cambridge in search of a new beginning. With laser-focus, he built a cutting edge technology company now on the brink of financial success. Romance is the last thing on his mind…until he meets Jessica. Fate brought them together, awakening their dormant emotions. But Jessica’s scandalous secret consumes her and threatens the very happiness she feared she’d never find with another man. Can James handle the truth about her past? Or did she pick the wrong guy yet again?

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Review by: Heidi

Jessica is the ultimate girly girl! When told she has MS her world starts to crumble. Only she is one tuff chick! She doesn't let anything stand in her way even the ass fiancĂ© that dumps her after she was diagnosed. So, she focuses on her career. After a one night stand she goes away on a business trip and meets hotty James and then runs into the one night stand who doesn't forget her. Now all Jessica has to do is figure out if she wants to go down that path again and risk her heart with someone that might leave her again. Will she tell them about her illness? This is a great book! With just the right amount of hot liven!

5 Stars 



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Kristen Luciani
Kristen Luciani is a self-proclaimed momtrepreneur with a penchant for Christian Louboutins, Silicon Valley (the place, not the show), plunging necklines and grapefruit martinis. As a deep-rooted romantic who prefers juicy drama to fill the lives of anyone other than her, she tried her hand at creating a world of enchantment, sensuality, and intrigue, finally uncovering her true passion. No pun intended…





The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon ~ RELEASE DAY PROMO


Title: The Law of Moses
Author: Amy Harmon
Release Date: November 27, 2014

Synopsis:
If I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear. You will know its coming, and it will hurt. But youll be able to prepare.

Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him Baby Moses when they shared his story on the ten oclock news the little baby left in a basket at a dingy Laundromat, born to a crack addict and expected to have all sorts of problems. I imagined the crack baby, Moses, having a giant crack that ran down his body, like hed been broken at birth. I knew that wasnt what the term meant, but the image stuck in my mind. Maybe the fact that he was broken drew me to him from the start.

It all happened before I was born, and by the time I met Moses and my mom told me all about him, the story was old news and nobody wanted anything to do with him. People love babies, even sick babies. Even crack babies. But babies grow up to be kids, and kids grow up to be teenagers. Nobody wants a messed up teenager.

And Moses was messed up. Moses was a law unto himself. But he was also strange and exotic and beautiful. To be with him would change my life in ways I could never have imagined. Maybe I should have stayed away. Maybe I should have listened. My mother warned me. Even Moses warned me. But I didnt stay away.

And so begins a story of pain and promise, of heartache and healing, of life and death. A story of before and after, of new beginnings and never-endings. But most of all...a love story.

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Amy Harmon knew at an early age that writing was something she wanted to do, and she divided her time between writing songs and stories as she grew. Having grown up in the middle of wheat fields without a television, with only her books and her siblings to entertain her, she developed a strong sense of what made a good story.
Amy Harmon has been a motivational speaker, a grade school teacher, a junior high teacher, a home school mom, and a member of the Grammy Award winning Saints Unified Voices Choir, directed by Gladys Knight. She released a Christian Blues CD in 2007 called What I Know” – also available on Amazon and wherever digital music is sold. She has written five novels, Running Barefoot, Slow Dance in Purgatory, Prom Night in Purgatory, the New York Times Bestseller, A Different Blue, Making Faces and most recently, Infinity + One. Her newest book, The Law of Moses releases November 27, 2014.

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The Shape of My Heart by Ann Aguirre ~ FMR REVIEWS




Title: The Shape of My Heart (2B Trilogy, #3)
Author: Ann Aguirre
Release Date: November 25, 2014


Synopsis:
Some people wait decades to meet their soul mate. Courtney Kaufman suspects she met hers in high school only to lose him at seventeen. Since then, Courtney's social life has been a series of meaningless encounters, though she's made a few close friends along the way. Especially her roommate Max Cooper, who oozes damaged bad-boy vibes from every pore. 

Max knows about feeling lost and trying to move beyond the pain he's been on his own since he was sixteen. Now it's time to find out if he can ever go home again, and Courtney's the only one he trusts to go with him. But the trip to Providence could change everything because the more time he spends with Courtney, the harder it is to reconcile what he wants and what he thinks he deserves. 

It started out so simple. One misfit helping another. Now Max will do anything to show Courtney that for every heart that's ever been broken, there's another that can make it complete.

Review by: Amy

This book was a 4 star read for me. I didn’t realize that it was book 3 in a series, not sure how I missed that one, but after the first chapter it really didn’t matter. The book spiraled back and briefly covered themes in the previous books therefore making it seem pretty fluid. I easily read it as a standalone and enjoyed it.
I really fell in love with the theme of the book “racing sorrow” and felt connected to it throughout the book.  “Every morning we get up, racing sorrow, and telling ourselves this is the day we put it behind us for good”. This was a great storyline for the characters to live and work through. It was great to see the characters move from one sorrow to another seamlessly as though trying to fit pieces to a puzzle together.
The characters were great. I like the college scene in books and this one didn’t disappoint. So many auxiliary characters made this dynamic work well. I was easily brought into the main characters lives as separate individuals, couples and friends. The author did a great job meshing personalities and interests and there were no holes left unfilled.
This book was an easy read and an enjoyable one. I appreciated the spiral of events from the first 2 books since I did read this as a standalone. I recommend the book and hope to read more of Ann Aguirre’s work.

4 Stars

Review by: Tracy

Not sure what to say about this book other than it was good, not bad, not great but good. It had its funny moments with the main female character being funny and very easy to relate to. "If my life were a romantic comedy, I wouldn't be the star. I'd be the witty, wise-cracking friend, telling the Reese Witherspoon character to follow her heart, and I'd be played by America Ferrera, Hollywood's idea of an ugly duckling." We have all been there, feeling like the ugly duckling. You couldn't help but root for her in her quest to find love. 

Then there's Max. The super hot, tattooed, sweet lovable lead male character. You couldn't help but fall for him and his sweet talking, charismatic ways. Who wants his best friend Courtney to be happy, even if it means its not with him. 

So my honest opinion? Like I said before, I wasn't great but wasn't bad. You could take it or leave it. 

3.5 Stars

Review by: Heather

Shape of My Heart in the third book in the 2B trilogy, though it can be read as a standalone, I suggest you read this series in order.
I have to start by saying I fell for Max in book one, I fell even harder in book two so I could not wait for his story!  In the first two books I seriously fell in love with Nadia, Max, Lauren and Angus- the roommates in 2B.  The first two book were so good that I seriously high expectations for Max’s story and I hate to say this but I was somewhat disappointed.
First of all, Max is amazing! I adored him from the beginning and still am completely enamored by him. He is this big, tattoo covered, motorcycle riding teddy bear. He has such a huge heart despite his past. Max had been on his own since he was 16 and never really had a sense of family until he went to college and met his roommates.  In the first two books Max is portrayed as a man-whore and I was very happy to see that he was nothing like I thought he would be. He had a bit of ego but beneath that was a vulnerability that made him so much more human.
What was disappointing about this story was our heroine (I don’t even want to call her that), Courtney. I found her to be whiny, irritating and just not likeable and that made me seriously sad because I adored all the other female leads in the previous books. I really felt disconnected from her and I also felt like Max could do better than her. I cannot even explain it but I really would have liked more with this character. I wanted to like her, I tried to like her, I talked to other Grinders who were reading this and talked about the character in hopes of finding some sort of redeeming quality in her but I just couldn’t.  I felt like I knew Max better than Courtney so I would have liked her to be a bit more developed.
The story line itself was pretty good but again I felt like I have read it before. Two people from different lifestyles and sordid pasts find each other blah blah blah. What really saved this for me was Max’s story line with his family. What happened in his past was heartbreaking. The support that Courtney had for Max when he was forced to return home was maybe her only redeemable moment but it was sweet and written extremely well.
Courtney’s past and what happened to force into moving in with the roommates when Lauren moved out fell short. The only thing I can really say is that I just wanted more.
The banter between the characters was laugh out loud funny and the sexy times where oh so sexy.  I don’t want to discourage anyone from reading this series because it actually is very good. Not everyone reads the same book and maybe my expectations on this were a little too high.

3.5 Stars

About the Author:

Ann Aguirre is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author with a degree in English Literature; before she began writing full time, she was a clown, a clerk, a voice actress, and a savior of stray kittens, not necessarily in that order. She grew up in a yellow house across from a cornfield, but now she lives in sunny Mexico with her husband, children, and various pets. She likes all kinds of books, emo music, action movies and Doctor Who. She writes all kind of fiction in multiple genres, both YA and for adults.


November 26, 2014

Retrace by Sigal Ehrlich ~ BLOG TOUR & REVIEW

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Title: Retrace
Author: Sigal Ehrlich
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Genre: New Adult Romance
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Nia Martins believes a fresh start will help her leave her traumatic past behind. Moving to a different country, she seeks to shake off her demons by doing the one thing that sets her free from her destructive thoughts – teaching dance. But change doesn't come easy, and all Nia really wants is to take the next breath without the perpetual suffocation that follows. Reeves Mitchell has looked death in the eyes so many times it’s become habitual. That is, until his best friend's life was on the line. When the one thing he feared the most turns into reality, all he can do is pick up the pieces of his loss. As Reeves tries to live with the constant thought of “what if” gnawing at the back of his mind, he persistently and steadily builds a thick wall around himself. Their solitary lives are all they have—until fate brings them together. Nia and Reeves’ new friendship helps make life, shadowed by the ghosts of their past, more bearable. But as their relationship deepens and new, suppressed feelings emerge between them, are they willing to retrace their steps back to where wounded hearts can be broken once more?

 
Review by: Tatia

Heartbreak. Mourning. Pain. Blame. Guilt.
These are all of the emotions that I felt in just the epilogue. If that was just the first few pages, I knew this book was going to be a roller coaster ride of emotions. I was not wrong.

Reeves and Nia's first encounter was memorable if nothing else. Mistakingly given the same hotel room, it's a meeting neither will forget. A random encounter between two beautiful strangers. Only, what is it called when you keep running into that person? Chance encounters between two people that turn into so much more.

Nia is strong, confident, beautiful, funny- only she's been a shell of herself because of her life-altering past. She moved away from home thinking that would help her move on. Dancing - that's her true escape. She just has to stay busy outside of the studio. That's so much easier said than done.

Reeves is every girls "G.I. Joe" fantasy come to life. When he's not away working with a client, he's helping his friend, Jake, around his bar. He doesn't lack attention from women throwing themselves at him either. They temporarily help him forget his painful past that often seeps into his present. It's something that he'll never be able to forget or un-see. Little does he know that someone is about to walk in to his life that will end up being the best distraction.

Retrace is a wonderful story about two people helping each other move on from a guilt-bearing past over situations they really had no control over. Thinking they could have prevented what happened, how do you move on from something of that magnitude?

"It's her - my best source of escapism, in all possible ways."

This story doesn't lack steaminess either. They're so good together, but sometimes it's impossible to see what is right in front of your face. They're both stubborn and hard-headed. Will Nia and Reeves be able to look past everything that is holding them back from being happy together? Sigal Ehrlich did a another fantastic job creating an emotion, angst-filled story that you won't be able to put down.

5 Stars


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By teen age, Sigal already lived in three different continents where she was lucky enough to experience and visit varied places, meet unique people, which only helped fuel her overly developed imagination. Currently, Sigal calls Estonia home where she lives with her husband and three kids. Not exactly sure where they will end up next…  

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Bet On Us by Rachel Higginson - BLOG TOUR




SYNOPSIS
All Ellie Harris wanted was a life of her own.

In a shortsighted decision, she follows her high school boyfriend to college, only to get cheated on and then dumped. And to add insult to injury, her overprotective family is suddenly clinging to her again, fighting to control every part of her life.

Bad luck follows her hasty decision and when her roommate steals her identity and leaves town, Ellie is left to clean up a gigantic mess.

Fin Hunter insists Ellie owes him seven thousand dollars from an online poker game and he won't stop until he collects it. Determined to keep her family out of her life, Ellie agrees to work for Fin in his illegal online poker operation. He's given her six weeks to pay off the debt.

Soon sparks are flying between them and the only thing keeping her from falling for him is the debt she still owes and the money she doesn't have.

At the end of those six weeks, Ellie will have to pay the mistaken debt or bet that her feelings for Fin will be worth more than the money.
                                   
This book was previously titled Bet in the Dark.




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