BOOK REVIEW : DROWNING TO BREATHE by A.L. Jackson

 

The danger in pretending is it becoming real…

Sebastian Stone, Sunder front man and guitarist with a rap sheet about ten miles long, escaped to Savannah, Georgia, to get away from the trouble he’d caused.

 Not find more of it.

The moment he saw Shea Bentley, he saw beneath all her sweet and innocence to something that went deeper.

Darker.

Their relationship was built on secrets; their love built on lies.

Sebastian never imagined how deep her secrets went.

When the past and present collide, Sebastian and Shea find themselves fighting for a future neither believed they deserved. Their passion is consuming and their need unending.

Now, holding the truth in his hands, Sebastian is faced with sacrificing everything he’s come to love to protect Shea and his family.

Two pasts intertwined.

Two lives bound.

Will their demons drown them or will Shea and Sebastian finally learn to breathe

The book starts exactly where A Stone in the Sea ends. I have to read the last chapter in order to feel the emotions Shea and Sebastian during that time Martin took Kallie with him, with the rain pouring it sets the best scene of this book. 

With Kallie gone and Sebastian's finding out that he is truly no idea who Shea is and he felt betrayed and lied to he took off leaving Shea crumbling and helpless. These two characters are dealing with a lot of emotional baggage from their past and it is hard for them to truly be trusting and opening up themselves. Amy wrote her words with that level of professionalism as an author and making us feel emotions with so much class. You are probably wondering what the heck im talking about. You see, i support up and coming authors and I get to read books by first time writers. I am a huge fan of them and i really admire the courage and effort they put up. But you see, different authors have different styles of writing and im trying to say is that Amy is just one of the legit ones. Her words are deep and raw and it makes you stop reading and you feel you need to exhale and take it all in. 

This book is one of my much anticipated one, Shea and Sebastian's story is too good to be in just one book. I just love they way Sunders members look out for each other and the conversations are hilarious and just natural. I also love the redemption of Shea's mom, she became a heroine some sort in this book. and i just love that no matter how rude or mean a person can be love can really make a difference. 

Sebastian became the hottest rocker dad for me, his love for Shea and Kallie is something im in awe. He really took the high road and show so much maturity and leadership in this book. He may be a hot headed one but i think it is his nature to become protective of his family. 

 

Amy created a bunch of book worthy characters that I am dying to know their stories.... and il be on stalking mode again for the next release of her works!

I rate this book 4.5 (5 star for Sebastian's monkey tat)!!!!

A.L. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Take This Regret and Lost to You, as well as other contemporary romance titles, including Pulled, When We Collide, If Forever Comes, Come to Me Quietly, and Come to Me Softly.

She first found a love for writing during her days as a young mother and college student. She filled the journals she carried with short stories and poems used as an emotional outlet for the difficulties and joys she found in day-to-day life.

Years later, she shared a short story she’d been working on with her two closest friends and, with their encouragement, this story became her first full length novel. A.L. now spends her days writing in Southern Arizona where she lives with her husband and three children. 

Website : http://www.aljacksonauthor.com/ 

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REVIEW : CHASING RIVER by K.A. TUCKER

Armed with two years' worth of savings and the need to experience life outside the bubble of her Oregon small town, twenty-five-year old Amber Welles is prepared for anything. Except dying in Dublin.  Had it not been for the bravery of a stranger, she might have. But he takes off before she has the chance to offer her gratitude.

Twenty-four-year-old River Delaney is rattled. No one was supposed to get hurt. But then that American tourist showed up. He couldn't let her die, but he also couldn’t risk being identified at the scene—so, he ran. Back to his everyday life of running his family’s pub.  Only, everyday life is getting more and more complicated, thanks to his brother, Aengus, and his criminal associations. When the American girl tracks River down, he quickly realizes how much he likes her, how wrong she is for him.  And how dangerous it is to have her around. Chasing her off would be the smart move.

Maybe it's because he saved her life, or maybe it's because he's completely different from everything she's left behind, but Amber finds herself chasing after River Delaney. Amber isn’t the kind of girl to chase after anyone.

And River isn't the kind of guy she'd want to catch.

KA Tucker takes us to Dublin, Ireland where American tourist Amber Welles (yes, remember Jesse Welles sister from Burying Water?) have 2 years worth of savings ready to explore the world outside her small town in Oregon. While trying to catch her tour she took a path across a garden and everything changed when an explosion happened and sexy, hot, mysterious Irish pub owner/bartender River Delaney came out of no where and saved her. 

I love this style of writing of the author, i mean her books are my favorites I think they are well written and well researched. I have nothing against those books with lots of steamy scenes with a hot badass guy I love them and I read them but what set KA Tucker apart is that her style is unique and she always elevate her books and that makes her stories exciting you dont know whats gonna happen. This series is involved with some illegal stuff but it is considerably light yet will still give you a thrill. 

I am a happy ever after girl and i just wish i know if River can go to the US or Amber will finally decide to move in Ireland. Im hoping for a novella or like an epilogue. 

But still a 5 star rating for me!

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 K.A. Tucker is the USA Today bestselling author of 11 books, including Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water.
Born in small-town Ontario, K.A. Tucker published her first book at the age of six  with the help of her elementary school librarian and a box of crayons. She is a voracious reader, and currently resides in a quaint town outside of Toronto with her husband, two beautiful girls,  and an exhausting brood of four-legged creatures.

 

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COVER REVEAL : CANNON : A Step-Brother Romance by SABRINA PAIGE

Cover Reveal Title: CANNON : A STEP-BROTHER ROMANCE 

Author: SABRINA PAIGE 

Genre: Contemporary Romance Release Date: Early June 2015

     Hendrix Cole is nicknamed "Cannon" because of the weapon he's packing between his legs. Too bad he's an arrogant, controlling, domineering jacka**. A dirty-talking, sexy-as-f**k, damaged, smokin' hot ex-Marine. He's also my stepbrother. His father thinks he's the perfect solution to my problem. I'm a country singer in the spotlight, and after a recent scandal, I'm screwed if I don't stay on the straight and narrow. Hendrix needs a job – apparently, one that involves making sure I behave. I hate him. And now I'm stuck spending every waking moment with him. The problem is, I just want him to fire that huge cannon.

 

  

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BOOK REVIEW : KYLAND by MIA SHERIDAN

KYLAND by MIA SHERIDAN

 

Dirt poor. Hillbilly. Backwoods hick. Mountain folk.

Tenleigh Falyn struggles each day to survive in a small, poverty-stricken, coal mining town where she lives with her sister and mentally ill mother. Her dream of winning the college scholarship given to one student by the local coal company and escaping the harshness of her life, keeps her going.

Kyland Barrett lives in the hills, too, and has worked tirelessly—through near starvation, through deep loneliness, against all odds—to win the Tyton Coal Scholarship and leave the town that is full of so much pain.

They're both determined not to form any attachments, but one moment changes everything. What happens when only one person gets to win? When only one person gets to leave? And what happens to the one left behind?

Kyland is a story of desperation and hope, loss and sacrifice, pain and forgiveness, but ultimately, a story of deep and unending love.

MY REVIEW:

I always felt that reviewing a Mia Sheridan book by me is not needed. I guess this is my way of saying my gratitute to her by giving us the story that will hit us with so much emotion and you will feel that...yeah that happened to me and she understands my feelings. 

I wonder how Mia will write her next novel after writing Becoming Calder and Finding Eden, and I wonder how can I write a review for her. I just wanted to say that when I read this book, Im really having a difficult time dealing with my father's passing away. so I wana relate my review to what Im going thru.

Kyland and Ten were teeanagers falling inlove and competing for something they both wanted but they know in the end only one can have it, that one will leave
and that one will get his or her dream and one will be left. i certainly know that how to feel the struggle to sacrifice that thing you wanted most and finally letting
it go because that what real love is. love is sacrifice. love is sacrifice for the people you love. love is giving without asking for anything in return. this hit me hard
and i know must be all the readers who had to let go of something or someone. and at the end of the book you found out how that one person sacrificed you will
cry your hearts out i certainly did. 

While i was reading the book i found the word that PERFECTLY describes Mia Sheridan's characters.... HONORABLE! if you are a fan of her, you will know that. that is something we want for the characters that we dream of, fantasize about, admire and desired! you need to read this review and be convinced that you need to get this book. the author speaks for herself. its a no brainer that if Mia releases a book... you should get that asap! 

MY RATING: 

5 Exceptional Stars!!!

**** ARC provided by Author in exchange for HONEST review****

I dedicate this review for my Dad. He left us suddenly and while Im heartbroken I wanted to write this and I wish he can read this. He is my huge fan he is very proud of me and my interest in reading. I got it from him. People might not get to know how he sacrificed for us and how amazing dad he is but he is my dad and Im proud of him. I love him so much and Il miss him everyday. Il forever remember him and even it pains me to remember the times I wont be able to share with him, Il treasure the times I spent with him. 

BOOK REVIEW : FINDING EDEN by MIA SHERIDAN

 

REVIEW

 

The book began with Eden waking up and finding her at the home of Felix the owner of the jewelry shop she went into at the beginning of Becoming Calder. Felix surprised me with his kindness of offering his home and a job for Eden.

 

Then we found Calder consumed by guilt and grief but somehow found a way to survive with the help of his brother/best friend Xander. He convinced Calder that there must be a reason why he didn't die in that tragic flood in Acadia. He then told Calder to start drawing again and it might help him heal in some way.

 

 

I was so looking forward to the reunion scene, I honestly cant imagine how someone would write such scene with so much emotions coming from the characters. Believe me when I say Mia wrote the "perfect" reunion scene for Calder and Eden... i totally cried like crazy .... I felt like I was there witnessing Calder and Eden stare at each other not caring for the people around them. sooo good it hurts!!!

 

 

The characters are just amazing. There is an equal balance between the characters we love and characters we hate. I felt Mia wrote a realistic approach in terms of the characters reaction to a scene they are presented with, the emotion whether its hate, anger, love, protectiveness, longing, lust and desire. You are reading it and feeling like it is you talking, you listening, you acting each scene it is that intense and it is that beautiful and I love it.

 

 

I have to say my curiosity about cult leaders lead me to searching features and stories about them. Im totally devastated on how they were able to manipulate educated adults including their children and made them belief outrageous claims...someone even claimed he was Jesus and lived for 2,000 years. How insane is that. I just felt with what happened in the book is not far from reality and it pains me that those people might not be as lucky as Calder, Eden and Xander. Mia gifted us with a story that will make us realize how blessed we are ... in so many different ways.

 

 

How do you review a book written by an insanely good author with consistent high ratings? I mean really how do you review a Mia Sheridan book ? She never fails to surprise her readers with her talent and her stories. and to answer my previous question in my Becoming Calder's review.... reading another Mia Sheridan's book is the only way you can satisfy your need and want to sustain emotions that you will certainly be looking for after reading a book of hers. Her books are the true testament on how authors should be writing...its gets more epic each time. She always exceeded readers expectations and stunned us with stories we never bother to mind and raise our awareness.

 

The good news is both Becoming Calder and Finding Eden will be available October 5, 2014. So please clear up your calendar, ready your bed or couch for these books. Mia Sheridan is that generous to her readers not making them wait any longer for the second book. I don't think I can wait months.... I will go crazy!!!

This book deserves more than the star ratings I can give. I mean I will give my 5++ stars in an instant although I felt it is not enough. So, im gonna hand out by BEST 2 BOOK series of 2014, my EPIC read for the month and I may have gone crazy with my teaser pictures....read the book and trust me... you be making your own and hello picmonkey!!!

 

*ARC provided by Ms Mia Sheridan in exchange for an honest review***

BOOK REVIEW : BECOMING CALDER by MIA SHERIDAN

BLURB

There is a place in modern day America with no electricity, no plumbing, and no modern conveniences. In this place, there is no room for dreams, no space for self-expression, and no tolerance for ambition.

In this place, there is a boy with the body of a God and the heart of a warrior. He is strong and faithful and serves his family honorably. But he dares to dream of more.

In this place, there is a girl with the face of an angel and a heart full of courage. To her family, she is the vision of obedient perfection. But she dares to want that which she has been told can never be hers.

Becoming Calder is the story of good versus evil, fear versus bravery, and the truth that the light of love has always found its way into even the darkest of places... From the beginning of time, to the end of the world.

THIS IS THE FIRST PART IN A TWO-PART SIGN OF LOVE SERIES INSPIRED BY AQUARIUS. THE SECOND PART, FINDING EDEN, WILL RELEASE SIMULTANEOUSLY. New Adult Contemporary Romance: Due to strong language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.

REVIEW

 

I never claimed im an epic reviewer or have thousands of followers that will be able to read my review. But when I finished reading Becoming Calder, I wish im one epic reviewer and had a thousand reader followers that can read this review and so I can give justice to this latest Mia Sheridan book.

 

The book started with a girl roaming around hungry with no money with her, she was looking for a jewelry store so she can sell the locket she had but in an unfortunate situation she knocked into a vase shattering into pieces and she had no choice but to give the locket as payment for the vase, she left the store with no locket no money. she then walked into a shelter home only to find out its only for men. but the owner of the jewelry store followed her and when he approached her she lost consciousness. (I know right? amazing prologue!!!!)

 

We then meet in the first chapter of the book 10 year old Calder meeting a very young future wife of their leader named Eden. Calder belongs to the "working class" and Eden is royalty for them. but somehow the two of them developed a friendship that will literally change both of their future.

 

that's the only part of the book I will discuss.

 

Forbidden love is the best of all.... only this time Calder and Eden was so right for each other. I don't want to spoil anything about this book because im telling you every word in every chapter of this book is worth it. I mean I honestly admit I have read books that somehow some of the parts/scenes can be deleted but let me tell you this.... in BECOMING CALDER.... every word is important! its like when I started this book (I only took necessary break) I was stuck in the story and I just could get out, couldn't stop!!! its THAT AMAZING!

 

I am a HUGE Mia Sheridan fan, I mean when I read her first book Leo.. I was like im totally loving this author then came Leo's Chance im inlove, then she wrote Stinger im totally amazed with her talent to write .... then came Archer's Voice, totally ruined me ....... and now BECOMING CALDER, it was like she woke up and oh I wana write about this sign Aquarius that came into my mind. it was that easy for her and wow how can you describe a more epic book to the previous epic one she wrote? I mean she keeps writing these stories and its not just good nor better it totally brings readers to another level, meaning how can you read another book after this? you will have like tremendous expectation to match up the emotion you have. because i'm like that, when I read a book that totally messed up my emotion I need a book that can sustain that... so Im waiting to read Finding Eden... because I don't think someone can read Becoming Calder, finish it and not asked to have Finding Eden the second you read the last line of Becoming Calder.

 

 

i don't know if my review made sense ..... BUT PLEASE WHOEVER READ THIS... MIA SHERIDAN deserve your undivided attention to read her book/s. i mean you will not regret reading her works! its always had something fresh to offer, athough i have to say i really like how she made her male lead with great teeth, Calder for a guy who loves butterscotch candies, come on babe tell us ur secret on how you keep those great teeth!!! i love a guy with great teeth and clean nails.... (don't judge me...LOL)

 

so can i give 10 stars? yeah i totally can... i can give 100 stars and nobody will ever question me why!

 

***ARC provided by Mia Sheridan in exchange for HONEST review***

COVER REVEAL : LOVE, IN SPANISH by KARINA HALLE

 

RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 11, 2014

“She sat beside me on the bus – and she changed my whole life.”

Successful, wealthy and absurdly handsome – Spanish ex-football player Mateo Casalles seemed like he had it all. A high-society wife, an adorable little girl, and flashy apartments in Madrid and Barcelona only sweetened the deal. But there was more to Mateo than met the eye – a life of uncertainty and regret that colored his black and white world.

That was until Vera Miles came into his life like a shooting star. Tattooed, wild and young, Vera seemed like Mateo’s polar opposite at first. But you can’t choose who you fall in love with and the two lost souls did everything they could to be together, all while suffering the grave consequences.

Now with Mateo divorced and living in Madrid with Vera, there is a whole new set of challenges and setbacks facing the couple and rocking the foundation of their star-crossed relationship.

Unfortunately for them, the brighter the star, the faster they burn.

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"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."   I turn in my chair and give Vera a curious look. Yet another English saying that I don't know. "I'm afraid I don't understand."   She gives me a soft but tired smile and sits down on the arm rest. I immediately wrap my arm around her waist and pull her down into my lap, where she comes to a rest with a giggle, her hair obscuring the impish smile on her face. No matter where she is, I can never stop touching her and now more than ever I need her to relax, to feel safe, to know I'm going to get us out of this.   "Explain," I demand. "Or I will punish you with kisses."   She raises her brow. "Followed by punishment by penis?"   I shrug. "That can be arranged. Now, tell me my Estrella."   She sighs and buries her lips into my neck. I can't help the small moan that escapes from me, nor my hardness building beneath her plump, round ass. I close my eyes and fight the urge to pick her up and take her to the bedroom, the only other way I know how to make her feel safe and sated, the only way I know how to escape.   "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," she says against my throat, "is a saying. I don't know where it's from but it means, well, nothing is scarier than a pissed off bitch." She pauses, sucking in her breath and I know she fears she's said the wrong thing. "Sorry," she quickly adds and I feel her body tense up beneath my fingers. "I didn't mean that Isabel is a bitch."   She is still so skittish over her words, the way she blurts things out, but it's one of the reasons why I love her. I cup the back of her head with my hand and let the softness of her hair sink over me. "I know you didn't," I assure her. "And, well, she is being a bitch."   "Can you blame her though?" she asks, her voice rising a pitch and when she pulls away from me, her eyes are wet. It breaks my heart. I'm getting tired of my heart breaking and I know that this isn't going to change anytime soon. Every day there is another weight on us, another crack appears.   "No," I tell her honestly. "I cannot blame her."   A silence lapses over us, heavy like a wool cloak. It does this sometimes. What we've done, it coats us.   Finally she clears her throat. "She's going to hurt for a long time," she says. "She's going to be angry. This isn't going away. I thought everything was behind us now, that she'd move on. You've been divorced for a year, if she's still this mad a year out..."   "She is mad because I am going back to Atletico," I tell her. "She is mad because of the paparazzi, the way they are hounding us again. She is mad because she feels she is being made to look like a fool. If I had just stayed with my head down, she wouldn't be doing this."   "But you can't live your life in fear, Mateo," she tells me.   I smile at her and brush her sunset hair from her face. "And neither can you."   She settles back against my body, sinks, conforms, melds. She is second skin. She is a part of myself I can't bear to separate from. I pray I never have to. I pray we can survive whatever is coming our way.   And I can feel it coming, that tension, that storm rolling in the weeks and days.   I pick her up in my arms and for all her pillowy curves, she weighs nothing more than a feather. I take her down the hall to the bedroom, throw her on the bed. She glows in the afternoon sun that streams in through our window and it isn't long before we are both naked and I am climbing over her, pinning her arms above her head and drinking in her body like the most beautiful, decadent wine.   I will devour her until all of this is gone.   I will consume her until we are all that's left.   I push inside her and let my hunger take over.    

 

He’s thirty-eight. I’m twenty-three.He speaks Spanish. I speak English.He lives in Spain. I live in Canada. He dresses in thousand-dollar suits. I’m covered in tattoos. He’s married and has a five-year old daughter. I’m single and can’t commit to anyone or anything. Until now. Because when they say you can’t choose who you fall in love with, boy ain’t that the f*#king truth. *** To a restless dreamer like Vera Miles, it sounded like the experience of a lifetime. Instead of spending her summer interning for her astronomy major, she would fly to Spain where she’d spend a few weeks teaching conversational English to businessmen and women, all while enjoying free room and board at an isolated resort. But while Vera expected to get a tan, meet new people and stuff herself with wine and paella, she never expected to fall in love. Mateo Casalles is unlike anyone Vera has ever known, let alone anyone she’s usually attracted to. While Vera is a pierced and tatted free spirit with a love for music and freedom, Mateo is a successful businessman from Madrid, all sharp suits and cocky Latino charm. Yet, as the weeks go on, the two grow increasingly close and their relationship changes from purely platonic to something…more. Something that makes Vera feel alive for the first time. Something that can never, ever be. Or so she thinks

 

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With her USA Today Bestselling The Artists Trilogy published by Grand Central Publishing, numerous foreign publication deals, and self-publishing success with her Experiment in Terror series, Vancouver-born Karina Halle is a true example of the term "Hybrid Author." Though her books showcase her love of all things dark, sexy and edgy, she's a closet romantic at heart and strives to give her characters a HEA...whenever possible.Karina holds a screenwriting degree from Vancouver Film School and a Bachelor of Journalism from TRU. Her travel writing, music reviews/interviews and photography have appeared in publications such as Consequence of Sound, Mxdwn and GoNomad Travel Guides. She currently lives on an island on the coast of British Columbia where she’s preparing for the zombie apocalypse with her fiancé and rescue pup.

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