REVIEW - There's Something About Molly (Mommy Wars #2) by Christina Hovland

 The Book

Release Date: 20 September 2021

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Molly Princeton hasn’t met the right guy. Yes, she’s a dating coach. But she’s also a single mom with a rocky relationship history. She may be able to help others find love, but she doesn’t really need it in her life. Happiness doesn’t require falling in love. Winning a matchmaker competition however requires being part of a couple. And darn it, she needs to win this one. That’s when she sets her sights on Gavin Frank—the one man she would absolutely never fall in love with.

Gavin is her nemesis, her best friend’s ex, and yeah, okay, he’s sexy as sin. He’s also off limits. But she’s out of other options. Plus Gavin could use a fake relationship to keep his meddling mother from setting up blind dates with every available woman in the Mile High City. There’s no way he’d fall for Molly. None. Nada.

The two quickly learn there’s a thin line between hate and love, and she finds herself tipping onto the wrong side. For the first time, she doesn’t have all the answers. What the heck is she supposed to do next? Lucky for her, Gavin realizes there’s something about Molly he can’t resist…

My Review   5 STARS

**My thanks to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing LLC for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

Molly is a single mother to an 8 year old boy and his best friends are the twins of her best friend Rachel and her ex-husband Gavin who has made some questionable decisions in the past, therefore on principle Molly has never liked him.  However when Rachel gets married to Gavins brother, things take a change when he dives into a lake to rescue her son when he is trying to be a stuntman.

While Gavin is currently on a voyage of self discovery after his fiancee left him, Molly is a MyTube influencer who gives dating tips online and gets paid with ads and online views.

Molly soon discovers that there is more to Gavin than meets the eye after she spends time with him and actually gives him a chance as a decent person.  Gavin admits his faults and that he is trying to be a better person and may still mess up.

Mollys friends are a great support and she has the support and love of her landlady Agnes who has been like a mother to her and a grandmother to her son.

I really enjoyed the journey of this pair and the supporting roles of the friends and family that they have and I am really looking forward to Aprils story.

REVIEW - LORD KING (The King Series, #7) by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

 

The Book

Release Date: 19 November 2021

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From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a Paranormal Suspense, Lord King.

A curse he cannot break without her…

KING

Before I became evil, I was king of a great people. Now I am cursed to walk the earth until I pay for my misdeeds. After three thousand years, I have much to answer for. 

Then along comes Jeni, further complicating matters. She claims to love me, though I could never reciprocate. Her loathsome people placed me in this predicament, and frankly, I gave my heart to another woman long ago. 

But I am about to discover that meeting Jeni is no coincidence. 

Our true connection will shock even me. 

A power she didn’t know she had…

JENI

I am what they call a Seer, an ancient people with unusual gifts, and I’m the last of my kind. Surprise! Because up until recently, I thought I was a regular person. 

But meeting King changed everything. He opened my eyes to the world around me, filled with more darkness than I could’ve imagined. And King? He’s the darkest of them all. 

That’s why I can’t wrap my head around my feelings. With every moment we spend together, I’m falling for a man who can never love me back. His heart belongs to his dead wife. 

That’s when I meet Ansin. The only man on earth who could rival King for darkness and ruthless ambition. Like me, Ansin is the last of his bloodline, which is why he demands I marry him and give him children. 

Do I get to choose, or has fate already chosen for me?

My Review

**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

In this book we start with Jenni going back to Kings office to help him with his tasks, but she is hiding a secret.  She is pregnant with his baby.  She wants to help him end the Ten Club so that he can die and be with his family, but she is also conflicted as she likes King.

Enter Ansin, when he rescues Jenni when she is attacked after King goes in to kill another member who had killed her mother.  He lets her know that he wants her and will kill King.

Eventually Jenni has to decide for her self who she trusts, King, Ansin or the Seers or none of them.  She does not know whether she trust what the Seers are telling her, Ansin will help her when she needs it, but for a price, and King does what he needs, but will protect her and the baby.

There are a few twists and turns in this book, however I did not see the ending of this book happening, it certainly gave me a surprise.

I am now really looking forward to the next book to see what the author will bring out of the bag and what twist and turns will happen for King to get a happy ending.

REVIEW - The Dead King (The King #6) by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

 The Book

Release Date: 21 January 2021

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From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a Paranormal Suspense, The Dead King.

When a large metal box washes ashore after a hurricane, Jeni Arnold’s construction crew has no idea what to make of the dead guy inside.

Who put the poor man in there? Was it murder or something else? All questions for the police to solve. Unfortunately, their hands are full, dealing with the hurricane’s fallout.

Then Jeni is attacked leaving work. She knows the perpetrator, but not the mysterious man who stops him dead. All she knows is that his otherworldly beauty and piercing blue eyes haunt her.

But Jeni is about to learn that her rescue comes with a price.

Everything with King comes with a price

My Review  5 STARS

In this book we have the return of King, a man we all though could not come back, but we were wrong of course.  At the beginning he does not know who is is as he wakes up in the safe after being washed up after Hurricane Mia.

Jenni works as part of a clean up crew and after the box is found she is attacked by a colleague, but rescued by a man who does not remember who he is.  She knows that he is dangerous though.  

King has been in the box at the bottom of the ocean for the last 25 years, but now out he needs to find out who he is and Jenni is the one he sees that can help him, with a little bribery. When a woman goes to Jenni and gives her a bracelet to help him with her memories, Jenni is a little suspicious, especially as the woman says she will be back in a few days to kill him.

King certainly uses her and her resources, and although I am not sure on this new romance, he does sleep with her. Jenni knows she feels a connection with him, but does not know why.

King goes to places that he has memories of and Jenni follows even if some of the places creep her out, but it is only when he sees the date on a newspaper does he actually put on the cuff to get his memories back and she gets a message from the Seers that King needs to clear up Ten Club so that he can die.

I have enjoyed this book and the turn that the book has taken and I really look forward to see what is going to happen next.

REVIEW - Knocked Up by the Rockstar (Mile High Rocked, #2) by Christina Hovland

 The Book

Release Date: 10 December 2021

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The only thing music publicist Courtney Lincoln dislikes more than knock-off sugary breakfast cereal is Dimefront’s lead singer—Brennan “Bax” Baxter. So when she discovers she’s pregnant following one teeny, tiny, mind-blowing morning with her nemesis, her world tumbles upside down.

Dimefront is on the rocks. Again. Bax is ready to move on. But following the implosion of his engagement, he makes a slip-up that ties him to Courtney as unlikely co-parents. He doesn’t like Courtney. Doesn’t care for how she’s able to see straight through the façade he’s painstakingly curated. But he’s always wanted a family and he’s being offered that chance.

Now the band is mending fences, there’s a baby on the way, and feelings start getting tangled. Maybe Bax isn’t really such a jerk? Perhaps Courtney could be the woman of his dreams? Or, maybe, just maybe, they were right all along…

My Review  5 STARS

**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

Courtney is Linx's little sister and the publicist with the band.  However even though Courtney and Max used to get on as children, something happened to them whilst on tour and they have been like enemies ever since.

This book overlaps the first book a little, but when Bax finds himself in trouble after his girlfriend cheats on him, he needs a place to lie low and their manager gives Bad to Courtney to look after.  The first night at her place and things take a major turn, leading Bax to skedaddle.

Unfortunately this one time leads to consequences.  Courtney finds out she is pregnant and has to let her family know, this is turn results in Bax knowing and Line and Bax having a confrontation.

Bax does his best to turn things around and man up, doing his best to be calm and non-confrontational with Courtney which she finds strange, but he does his best not to fuck things up and to be there for Courtney and the baby, there is a little miscommunication, but as ever we get a lovely ending and the beginning of a new couple on the scene.

I really enjoyed this story and I am really looking forward to the next story in the series with this band.

REVIEW - A Billionaire Wolf for Christmas (Heart of the Wolf #26) by Terry Spear

 The Book

Release Date: 25 September 2018

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USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear delivers plenty of Christmas magic and mystery in her Billionaire Wolf shifter series, the perfect paranormal Christmas romance to curl up with, featuring: 

Billionaire beasts who really just want to help everyone A frightening illness that threatens to ruin the holidays for all wolves The mysterious she-wolf who might have the key to finding a cure A Christmas miracle that could save them both
Wolf shifter Dr. Aidan Denali has been working day and night to find a cure for werewolves' alarmingly sudden decline in lifespan. The key to the problem eludes him. But when Aidan grudgingly leaves his work to do some holiday shopping, he meets a remarkable she-wolf whose mysterious pack could bring him one step closer to the answer.

Dr. Holly Gray is thrilled to meet the wolf who's been working so hard to help others. Now, it's her turn to help him. But while their attraction is sizzling, the packs are at odds, and the danger is increasing. It's going to take everything they've got for Holly and her wolf to get themselves?and their loved ones?out of this alive...

Praise for Terry Spear's action-packed Silver Town Wolf series: 
"A perfect read to get into the right mood for the coming festivities... fun, sweet, steamy."--Fresh Fiction for Silver Town Wolf: Home for the Holidays
"Another awesome paranormal romance from Terry Spear."--Night Owl Reviews TOP PICK for Silver Wolf Christmas
"Terry Spear weaves paranormal, suspense, and romance together in one non-stop roller coaster of passion and adventure."--Love Romance Passion for Destiny of the Wolf

My Review  3 STARS

**Copy Provided by Netgalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for an honest review**

This is the first book that I have read by this author and although  the story was good, nothing really stood out about it to make it special in my case.  However I may have read some exceptional books lately.

Dr Aiden Denali is a trying to help wolf shifters like himself battle a change in their DNA which means they are aging faster than they were and he is trying to fins out why and getting as many packs as he can to help them.

Dr Holly Gray wants to help but so far has been denied by her pack leader, when a chance meeting in a mall with Aiden gives her his number she decides to help anyway, especially as she finds out that he is only near them at present to find and help a banished member of her pack.

The story moves quickly, there is drama, some sexy scenes, that just fell a little short for me, and a decent ending.  I feel something more could have happened with the pack leader Ronald and his brother Jared, but I can see how it would resolve better how it did.  I just feel his bad behaviour was suddenly gone far too quickly.

The book was decent and had a fairly solid story, the character were mostly ok, but for me it just lacked a certain spark, which does not mean that this could be a good book for you.

REVIEW - Virgin Tribute by Delta James

The Book

Release Date: 30 May 2019

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I was not asked. I was chosen. Every year, the creature who keeps our community safe requires a virgin as tribute, and every year she is thoroughly ravaged and then returned ruined for any other man. No one will tell me exactly what is in store for me, I only know he's not going to be gentle.

But the elders underestimated me, and when they left me in the sacred clearing I took the chance to escape. Now the beast hunts me, and if he finds me I can only wonder what he'll do to me...

Publisher's Note: Virgin Tribute includes spankings and rough, intense sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don't buy this book.

My Review  2 STARS

This is the first time that I have read anything by this author and even though I was not the greatest fan of this book, I would like to try another of her books.

The world building in general was good, but the story itself was a bit of a let down.  We have a feisty female who wants to get out of where she is and questions everything around her, but when she is finally forced to be the virgin tribute, although she makes an escape to run, she very quickly becomes obsessed with the dragon and having sex with him.

It was not quite insta love as she tries to escape once after meeting the dragon, however she gives up far too quickly for my liking.