Title : Without Me
Author : Chelle Bliss
Cover Design : MC Book Covers

Coming back to the Gallo family certainly feels like coming home x

We all know that the bigger they are the harder they fall and Anthony has been really big and really bad for a long time. So it comes as no great surprise that when he finally finds a woman that can take him on he falls hard and fast, and she wants nothing to do with him!

It is great the way Chelle has managed to embed us in this family, I could almost be sat at the table for Sunday dinner myself, while keeping the individuals individual. We have a full view of everyone here and the trials and tribulations they have all gone through to get to where they are. I love how this has opened up to include another family as we delve a little deeper with ma and pop Gallo too.

This book had a slightly different feel to the other books and Max certainly keeps us on our toes! It would have been nice to see more of the fun side to both Max and Anthony, we know it’s there from their friends, but this was quite a serious time for them both. It’s a fab ending however and I’m looking forward to reading the next book!

Well its Monday again and time for our next look into the life and love of Ashton Scott. Unfortunately and fortunately Nina Levine has been super busy with getting everything ready for the launch of her new book Steal My Breath at the end of this month which means we haven’t been able to get another episode from us this week.

Just another chapter, a little tease to keep us on the hook ready and waiting for some more to come our way 🙂

I love Lorelei, I think she’s a great character, and drunk Lorelei is a right laugh! I think we can all relate to the things going on in this weeks chapter which makes it so much nicer, she is such a normal down to earth girl it really helps to keep you meshed with the story.

Here’s a little taste of what is to come in Steal my Breath

I let him steal my breath and I want to give him my heart too.
But it’s complicated.

Internet dating and Callie St James do not go together.

25.
Desperate for sex.
Earns shit money waitressing while desperately trying to get a publishing deal.
Only does yoga to keep core muscles strong—trust me, guys thank me.
Reads too much because gets no sex.
Did I mention desperate for sex?
She’s about to give up on love when the guy she’s been lusting after for a year breaks her three month sex drought.
Luke Hardy.
Mysterious, moody and all alpha, Luke is hiding a secret—one that Callie never saw coming.
The secret, however, is nothing compared to the discovery she makes about Luke’s family when she starts a new job at the local paper. Callie finds herself caught between her morals and her desires. Whichever path she chooses, someone will lose. Is she ready to give up the man she’s just found or will she go against everything she believes in so she can finally have the love she’s always dreamt of?

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So I’m definitely in book hangover at the min! Gonna give myself the day and wait for Nina Levine and Ashton Scott arriving tomorrow and start my week with his bossy self. Then on to Chelle Bliss and Without Me and Honor Me 🙂

I have never really been one for reading romance novels. I have always preferred crime thriller and other world novels, the likes of Ian Rankin, Michael Connolly and Terry Pratchett – how’s that for a random combination!

Like a lot of women I was introduced to the infamous 50 Shades of Grey and that opened the door for my reading romance novels. There had to be something out there staring someone more my kind of man than Mr Christian Grey, and there was!

I asked a friend what she was reading and she pointed me in the direction of Beverley Hollowed and Krissy V, neither of which I thought were very good or my cup of tea. I kept on searching, what had other people bought that was similar? What could Amazon suggest for me? I eventually landed on Consumed by Skyla Madi and it was love at first read! I read all three books in the series and couldn’t get enough. I loved the writing style and reading about a fighter ticked more of the boxes for me – my husband is a 2nd Dan Shotokan Karate instructor so I like a fit man who knows how to use his body!

I plowed through everything that she had written that I could get my hands on after that series, The Unfortunates being a big favourite as well as The O Intention. Reading through the books you can almost see the development of her as an author on the pages in front of you. Not all the books were to my taste but each drew you in to their tale and let her imagination play out infront of you.

When I eventually ran out of things to read again I stumbled into The Knights MC with River Savage’s Incandescent and found a whole group of people reading books like me! Not just hiding away in their Kindle reading while their baby is feeding or once he is asleep like I was but reading and enjoying as part of their life.

What a transformative experience! Everyone read 50 Shades of Grey, even my mum read 50 Shades of Grey but after that it went quiet … men had decided that these women were obviously not busy enough if they had time to read that smut. That there can be no enjoyment in reading if it has sexual content, it must just be porn on paper and so demeaned did it become. I was suddenly reading these books on my Kindle on the way to work hoping that no one could see what I was reading, thinking I was just some book slut, only to find a whole community of women reading without fear! What on earth had I been doing? Not talking about these books with friends because however much I enjoyed them, people would just think less of me? Stuff them! I now had all these people who loved these super HOT, super SEXY, tattooed, muscle clad men as much as I did and it was AWESOME!

Not long after that I found Storm by Nina Levine and found another MC to submerge myself in. Some more hot alpha’s and their sassy women to keep me on my toes!  Another group of women, openly enjoying romance novels – when did it become so taboo? By this point I had stopped work with my first child to be a stay at home mum full-time and this gave me a much needed outlet back into world, separate from being a mum and a wife, and a community of people to connect with.

There were other authors in there too though! Suddenly the traipsing through Amazon recommendations was gone, in these two interlinked reading communities there were authors, and people who could recommend other books! Chelle Bliss, Max Henry, Gillian Jones and Christine Bell were all found in here, through The Billionaire Banker Series, Eraser, Samantha Fontein and Nicky Charles before coming to a stop.

I needed something different, a change. My sister recommended JR Ward, she had the set I could borrow, bargain! I was now heavily pregnant with our second child and  spending more time parked on the sofa while daddy played with our eldest and I could enjoy a good old paperback 🙂 I plowed through all 14 books of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and moved onto the Covet series of 6  once again running out. What a fantastic world she created! How amazingly detailed, the way she eases you in through the first books, drip feeding the society through these seriously hot alphas and the strong women needed to keep them in check. I’ll be reading them again at some point, of that I’m pretty sure!

With tiny baby hands about I went back into my Kindle to Aly Martinez, Kit Rocha (another amazing series of books and a fantastic way of opening their world to you that draws you in and keeps you fighting with them) and Erin Noelle. Eventually finding the Men of Inked by Chelle Bliss and losing myself in the highs and lows of this family.

I decided, just less than two weeks ago, that I’ve really enjoyed reading these books, and wouldn’t it be fantastic to be able to share that with other people? To be able to put down on paper what I love and why. So, I started this blog. To do exactly that!

It’s been an emotional book week!

I spoke with the first woman who captured my heart in romance novels – Skyla Madi, she sent me an ARC and promoted my blog! What an amazing experience! I have dived through the heart wrenching experience of The Unfortunates (The Unfortunates Review) and The Fortunates (The Fortunates Review). I absolutely love Kade as a character and to be able to see the good underneath slowly be resurrected and drawn from within him is a sight to behold.

Only to then be plunged into the emotional rollercoaster that is Hetch by River Savage (Hetch Review). It takes some serious balls to tackle such a depth of emotion and this really got me and dragged me through the wringer, in a way that only River Savage can do. Those who have spent time in The Rebels will be able to see the little glimpses of herself scattered throughout the book, I laughed and I cried and she took my broken heart and completed it again. I can’t wait for the next book in this series and am really looking forward to seeing some more of Fox!

Needless to say I have a serious book hangover! I am looking forward to some more of the fabulous Ashton Scott on Monday from Nina Levine and Steal My Breath coming out later this month (also Nina Levine). Until then, I have Without Me and Honor Me by Chelle Bliss to read and The Beyond series by Kit Rocha to re read before Beyond Ecstacy is released (date pending).

Thank you all for coming on this journey with me x

I’ve just signed up to the release blitz for the first book by the lovely Golden Czermak 🙂 hitting kindle on June 10th, looking forward to it, keep an eye out for more information soon.

Here’s the blurb to whet your appetite.

The entire world is on the brink of finding out that nightmares are real.

An army of demons known as the Noctis is growing in strength. They control all manner of foul beasts and if not stopped soon, cities will burn, lives will end, and hope will be lost.

The only thing standing in the way are the Journeymen; humans and supernatural beings united against the darkness.

There is one known amongst men and the supernatural alike that you don’t f**k with; unless it’s on his terms.

His name is Gage Crosse and he’s the best damn Journeyman around.

These are his adventures

Title: Hetch

Author: River Savage

Cover: LM Creations

Well I think it’s safe to say if you ever wanted to know how to write a first kiss – this is it! That’s got to be the hottest first kiss I’ve ever read! There are some hot scenes in this book but, for me, the kisses in here are the best! They way River draws you in to the moment – you could almost be there yourself.

There are some really feel emotional moments in this book and I had to take a break part way through as it really resonated with me. It takes a special something in a writer to be able to tackle some of the topics in here without losing your audience. To be able to not only broach the subject but kick is ass on the way is something else.

There is a great mix of fun and flirty, hot and heavy and deep connection in this book – another amazing read from the beautiful River Savage 🙂

Well I’ve got both Honor Me by Chelle Bliss and Hetch by River Savage arrive on my kindle this morning so I’m not really sure which to pick first! I’ve got Without Me, which is book 5 of the Men of Inked series to read before Honor Me so I think tonight I’ll be starting Hetch by River Savage. Keep an eye out for the review on here soon 🙂

Title: The Fortunates
Author: Skyla Madi
Published by Limitless Publishing, first edition, May 2016

Well firstly I have to say, DO NOT pick this up first thing in the morning while the kids are running about underfoot! By 7% in I was hooked and busily burning the toast for my breakfast LOL

I have been looking forward to this for some time and it most certainly didnt disappoint! Skyla takes us back into this hard, segregated world at a pivotal moment for our heroine.

When I picked up The Unfortunates I thought this was ‘just another’ happy ever after romance book, how wrong was I? To leave us on that cliff and have to wait for this book has been so hard. To go back in at this point was great. You are straight into the thick storyline and emotional termoil. Skyla has a way of drawing you in and really allowing you to seep into the pores of the characters.

If you put coal under pressure you can make diamonds, if anyone would know that it would be a Sario; our resident gem mine owner. We saw the human underneath the Fortunate in Kade in the first book, what happens when he is put under pressure? Does he turn to dust? Charcoal? a Diamond? Can our closet humanitarian survive the loss of his lover or his friend?

What an amazing story and a fabulous link through into the next book, this book has sucked me in, chewed me up and spit me out. I wasn’t cut out for their world, I am too soft! I love the strength and resiliance in the characters, the way they turn to one another in times of need but are still able to stand on their own two feet. I loved seeing how someone can come back from the ashes of their life and move forward, change and become more than they ever thought possible.

This story is full of twists and turns and is gripping from the get go. Once you start you will not be able to put this down! I’m giving myself a break and then I’m going back in for a second read because I’ve got a serious book hangover and I know there are bits that will be so much better second time round.

Definately a 5**** book!

Title: The Unfortunates
Author: Skyla Madi
Published by Limitless Publishing, first edition, August 2014

Another amazing read from the fabulous Skyla Madi!

I absolutely loved this book and can’t believe she has left us on this ledge waiting for the second book!

What an amazing way to introduce us into this new world! Fortunate and unfortunate are the two classes in this new society and they couldn’t be more different, or could they?

The fabulous Nine takes us on a journey from the Unfortunate camp into her new life in Freeport, she is sold into one of the infamous founding families where her life takes on a new meaning.

This curious, happy, young woman hidden below her unfortunate exterior has the potential to get her killed. What will become of her when she meets her new master? Will her hidden light be extinguished?

I love Kade! He is so alpha; commanding, confident and sexy. He knows what he wants and he’s gonna get it, one way or another!

The way the two mould to each other is fantastic, how he shapes her world as much as she shapes his, slowly and subtly getting under each other’s skin. I love how the author really manages to embed you in their emotions, not just their world’s but also their hearts and minds. This is a real rollercoaster of a ride and an ending like no other.

I’ve recommended this to everyone I know it’s an amazing read and um really looking forward to heading into the next book!