The Stranger: Just One Night Part 1

I really enjoyed this book and I'm already craving the next to find out what happens!! The way Kyra Davis started the book draws you in and makes you want to keep reading it without putting it down. Who hasn't wondered what it would be like to meet a stranger and share something special with them then leave and never have to worry about it again right? Well close but no dice, Kasie goes to Vegas with a friend and does just that, meets a sexy stranger and shares a special night with him. Then goes home to her boyfriend of six years who thinks they should get married  Just like that her life is turned upside down. She is then confronted by the fact that the stranger has hired her firm to work for him and wants her to be the lead on it. The story goes on with some sexy love scenes leaving you wanting more and thoroughly disturbed by the fact that she can't just be herself and get rid of the idiot she has been with for so long. I am so EXCITED to read the next installment and don't know if i can wait!!!

Sighs Too Deep For Words

I have to say I have some mixed feelings about this book. One half of me enjoyed the whole screwed up mess of it and the other half of me was pissed off through the whole book. I went into this book with my eyes open knowing what it was about but still I was a little disappointed with it. A man in prison falls in love with a pen pal. So much so that when he gets out of prison he goes on the hunt for her. He meets some strange people along the way and meets who he thinks is a cousin of this woman but is unable to find her. He gets a place to stay in town and a job as well working at an old Chevron for a man named Mr. Otis. He finds out that the preacher is the one that had been writing letters to him and it was him that he fell for. Then this is where it gets tricky, he acts like its such a big deal that the preacher is a man but then he agrees to go to this party with the people he met that drove him into town and the sister wants him but he turns her down but then....he has sex with her brother! A man! I don't get how that turned about but anyway to carry on, we find out he was in love with someone he calls Little Ray who was his lover in prison. Then the story goes off onto some other peoples lives and I don't really get it. The rest of the book just left me wanting something else to be honest but the ending, well the ending had a nice touch to it as Little Ray shows up and surprises Lester. I'm sure they will live happily ever after. I rate this book a three out of five simply because I just didn't get it.

The Trouble With Charlie

This book was at times a murder mystery and at times just confusing and aggravating! It;s about a woman Elle who is in the middle of a divorce with her husband Charlie, she goes out with a friend to the bar after three months of depression and boredom to meet a man named Joel who reminds her of Charlie. She goes home and smells her exes cologne and feels a caress on her neck. She freaks out running around the house like a loon thinking Charlie is playing mind games with her then she finds his dead body in her den. With no memories of what happened before going to the bar she is the number one suspect in his death. She doesn't think she killed him but not being able to remember she starts having nightmares about his murder with her as the one with the knife. While she is arranging his funeral she goes to his new apartment to get clothes for him to wear and is attacked by a man she doesn't recognize and again develops amnesia about what happens. When she wakes up she sees she has killed the man. Now the police really are focusing on her and this is where it starts getting silly. She is constantly going in and out not remembering shit and doing stupid things. Someone is trying to run her over with a bicycle and she is injured twice. She goes on a date with Joel and thinks something is off about him. She finds a flash drive with child pornography on it and hides it at first then her lawyer calls her stupid and explains this may help the police look elsewhere. Well things don';t go according to plan and she finds out she has a stalker the woman who Charlie had an affair with. She sends her dead mice and instead of going immediately to the police she googles the woman's address and goes to confront her. She instead finds the woman dead and wipes away her fingerprints and leaves. She eventually goes to confront Charlie's business partner about everything and that is when Joel shows up. She realizes she is in deep shit and tries to run away only to be knocked unconscious  She comes to only to hear Derek and Joel discussing getting rid of her making it look like a suicide  They think she really did kill Charlie so she knows they didn't do it but she has no idea what is going on. They take her to her house to kill her and make it look like a suicide and that is where she escapes and hides while they are looking for Charlie's gun. She is in a place under the stairs in some sort of closest and Charlie comes to her and shows her how to use the gun that is hidden there with her. She comes out and shoots Derek who is running at her only to see he has been stabbed in the back like Charlie had been. Then she comes to see Joel and Tedd her brother in law. The truth comes out that Tedd who needed and wanted Charlie's money had killed Charlie and that is when Charlie's ghost kills Tedd. I liked how it all fell into place but the whole thing where she spaces out all the time is really freaking annoying. I would rate this book a three out of five.

The Demon Lover

Even though this book was published in 2011 I had never heard of it until a little while ago when I requested to read it at NetGalley. I am so glad the title called to me and I was able to delve into a secret world of witches, fairies, brownies, and even some vampires.

This book is about a woman named Cailleach (pronounced Kay-lex) who is offered a job at a college in Fairwick. During the course of her job she learns she is not only descended from a line of witches but she has fey in her as well. She is a Doorkeeper to the door to the fairy world. All her life she has had dreams of a shadow man. She has never seen his face but he has been there with her through the death of her parents at a young age and even as an adult. After moving in to a house that basically called to her he comes to her again this time in a sexual nature. The way this author wrote her love scenes really draws you in and makes you want her to be with this dream lover or incubus as we later find out. There is ssomething at the college that is draining the energy of the students and faculty and Cailleach is trying to find out what it is along with finding out who is behind the curse of Nikki's family. Nikki is a student at the college and Cailleach comes to care for her and wants to help her. After driving the incubus away with a spell she meets a gorgeous man Liam who she starts to fall for. He saves her a few times from some winged bird that keeps attacking her at night and they begin to have deeper feelings for each other. Along the way there is some heartbreak as well as love that really made the characters more real. When she realizes that Liam is really the incubus in disguise and she sets out to banish him back to the fairy world which is hard because she realizes she almost loves him. If she loves him he can become human and be with her forever, but at the last minute he banishes himself back to the fairy world because he tells her he won't let her sacrifice herself for him. That is true love if you ask me and it broke my heart to have him leave her. I was so sad during that point. She was sad as well and moped around a bit until she finds out who the bird is draining everyone and decides to send it back to fairy as well. She has some help in the end and the book leaves us waiting anxiously for the next book to let us continue reading about her adventures and to find out if her and the incubus can be together or not. I'm hoping for it to work out. I would rate this book a five out of five stars and cannot wait for the next one.

Wild Children

When I am going through books and reading their descriptions to see if it is something that might be of interest to me I look for things that grab my attention and pull me in. This is that book, the one that in just the first two sentences of it's description made me wonder what all would be within the book. " Bad children are punished. Be bad, a child is told, and you’ll be turned into an animal, marked with your crime.
How could this not bring your curiosity around? We are forever told by our parents that if we make a face it might get stuck that way right? Well, this is like that except your sin is what you are likely to become. There are Wolf Children, Jackal Children, Donkey Children, Cat Children and Dove Children, there are actually an animal of every kind but the ones most spoken about in the book are these that I named. The book starts off about a girl named Jenny who meets a Wild Child as they are called for the very first time and he is a Wolf Child named Wolfgang. She is drawn to him as a child might be drawn to something different and exciting. We read about her struggles of becoming something she was never meant to be and what she later becomes. The book has five different stories in it all of them relate to the other in a way.

I really enjoyed reading about this world where children are changed into animals because of their sins and the way they are treated differently is really the same we treated slaves back in the days of old. The pretty ones are surrounded by the rich and taken care of as pets whereas the "uglier" ones are resorted to pulling carts or cleaning or cooking or just fetching things. There were times when reading I wanted to yell at the people for what they were doing, but that is what makes this book so interesting. The fact that I can get lost in it and not remember that even if I yell at someone they cannot hear me is what I love about reading. To get lost in another world and enjoy it this much is what makes me rate this book a five out of five. I cannot wait to read more books by this author. 

The Devil You Know ( NIck Eaglebrechet No.1)

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and cannot wait to read the next installment of it. The main character is Nick who just happens to be the devils son and the next in line for that throne in hell. There is something going on in the world and God has stepped down from his throne causing a huge disturbance everywhere. It has always been angels vs daemons but there were always rules they each had to live by but now there are no rules. Nick meets the beautiful Vivian who it turns out is similar to him in the way that she is part daemon. He falls helplessly for her which I'm not so sure is a good idea I can see this infatuation leading him into some very tricky places.

I love the character Malach who is an angel who isn't site whose side he is in anymore just that he knows the world is going to hell. I wish we could of seen more of him in this novel but I'm hoping there will be more of him in the next one. Overall I would rate this book a 4 out of 5 because the excitement is intense and really makes you want to turn the page and never put it down. 

Starstruck Romance and Other Hollywood Tails

Ok to start out with, this book is a sequel to Sleeping With Dogs and Other Lovers, the first book was ok but had some really silly parts. The sequel is just downright ridiculous  the main character Cynthia was all about Max in the last book and this book he is basically a distant memory until he shows up and then there is drama between her, a movie star named Jack and some guy named Pete who we find out she had feelings for in high school, and whom she hinted down on Facebook them stalks him and has sex with him. She almost has sex with Jack and does " help him out", then more drama ensues. Max comes in he's been having an affair with Molly the hosts wife for five years, he's at the party with Lolita, who is insane if you ask me, Cynthia tries to leave the drama and ends up getting a call from Pete who isn't leaving tonight as he expected and wants to see her again.

It just seems to jump all over the place and my brain just couldn't handle the drama and constant confusion I guess. The characters are totally unrelateable unless you know dogs that can appear out of nowhere anytime. A woman who practically has sex with any attractive male that comes along, or a man that has sex on the brain nonstop and is a male slut really.  I would rate this book at about a two and a half simply from the drama that made me continue to read it.