Review: Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren

Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren, published May 13, 2014 by Gallery Books, $7.59 Kindle on Amazon, Romance

I was given access to Sweet Filthy Boy via an ARC and below is my review of the book.

When Mia and her friends graduate college and spend a weekend in Vegas the last thing on her mind is romance. But then again romance isn't what Vegas is about. After a whirlwind night on the town Mia finds herself married to one of the rowdy foreigners across the hall. Not just herself married but her friends all paired up with the other foreign men. Mia marries Ansel the french lawyer, who for some reason she is quite comfortable with telling her life story. And for Mia that is big.

Ansel begs Mia to come with him back to France, instead of returning home. And after one night at home with her parents dreading starting college again in the fall for a career she doesn't want - she books a flight. Ansel was impulsive and now that he is home and back to being rigid lawyer he isn't sure how to handle Mia in his life. And it's not as easy as it was for them in Vegas. But how can it when Ansel is working most of the hours a day holds? Eventually with the help of a little out of the way store, they get close again and time flies. But what would a romance be without conflict? And Perry is that in spades.

Christina Lauren have done it again with this brilliant beginning to a new series. Sweet Filthy Boy gives us enough background on all three couples that we are hooked to continue reading. I can't wait to read the next book and more from this duo of writers.

Upcoming Reviews

I still have to review the Beautiful Bastard series by Christina Lauren on here - but they are all good in my book. ;) I also have a ton of ARC's to review and even more to read. I'm working on posting a review a day or every other day to catch up. One upcoming review I'm excited about is Sweet Filthy Boy that I am on a Blog Tour for. I'm scheduled to post on May 30th, so please be on the lookout for that.

For Wallbanger fans out there - I've got an ARC of Rusty Nailed by Alice Clayton in my hot little (well not so little but anywho) hands!!!!!!!! Be on the lookout for my Blog Tour review of this July 8th!
*Edit to fix title of ARC from Alice Clayton. In my excitement I called Rusty Nailed - Screwdrivered which is the book the follows. OOPS!*

Other ARC's to review include Divided by Elsie Chapman, The Here and Now by Ann Brashares, Whisper To Me by Christina Lee, The Art of Arranging Flowers by Lynne Barnard, We Are The Goldens by Dana Reinhardt, I have four Seal Team Six books by Don Mann, and many more.

Review: Whatever It Takes by L. Maretta

Whatever It Takes by L. Maretta, Published Dec. 2013, Romance, $3.99 Kindle on Amazon

What happens when you have the perfect everything and one little secret ruins it all? Emma finds out the hard way when her husband tells her he cheated the month before. That it was with his ex that he was engaged to in college makes it ten times worse. And you would think that would be the end of it for Emma and Gavin. Despite the cheating they try to make a go of it. The monkey wrench is that the ex is still trying to contact Gavin, and says they belong together.

While this story is not typical of what happens after a spouse cheats, it gives hope that it could be. It's written in a way that we get the current story intermixed with their relationship back story. It makes it easier to understand Emma's reasoning and not only her decision but Gavin's as well.

Review: Inked Armor by Helena Hunting

Inked Armor by Helena Hunting, Published May 13, 2014 by Gallery Books, $7.59 Kindle on Amazon, Romance

After reading Clipped Wings I knew I needed to be on the blog tour for Inked Armor by Helena Hunting. I had to know what happened next with Tenley and Hayden. First let me tell you that there is a novella called Between the Cracks ($0.00 on Amazon) that takes place between Clipped and Inked. This novella covers the gap of what happens since Inked doesn't pick right up where Clipped left off.

Tenley discovers that her dick of an almost brother in law is holding papers she signed while heavily drugged and in pain over her head. He wants the house his parents gave to Tenley and his brother as a wedding gift. When she discovers what he is trying to do and he becomes physical with Tenley, she seeks her lawyers to fight him. Once everything is taken care of she gets a call from Hayden that freaks her out enough to cause her to leave earlier than she was planning and head home.

Hayden meanwhile is not stable and freaking out that she hasn't contacted him. He continues to have nightmares about his parents murder - nightmares that only Tenley helped keep at bay. When Tenley comes home and heads to the Dollhouse in search of Sarah, Hayden is called to handle the situation that comes up. He is overly cautious with her and unsure, causing him to be a dick and not allowing them closure right away. But it does eventually come for them and for Hayden about his parents murder.

Helena's continuation of Tenley and Hayden's romance in this Clipped Wings series shows that love isn't always easy. That things you thought were buried can rear their head at any moment and sometimes closure is a long time coming. I highly recommend you read this series in it's entirety starting with Cupcakes and Ink before Clipped Wings for the complete story. Also be on the look out for her next book Crack in the Armor - it focuses on Chris and Sarah's story. Available for pre-order on Amazon $0.99 now, publication date June, 23, 2014.

Review: The Word Exchange: A Novel By Alena Graedon

The Word Exchange: A Novel by Alena Graedon, Fiction/Sci-Fi & Fantasy, $11.99 Kindle on Amazon, Published April 10, 2014 by Random House LLC

Imagine that there is this device that not only can be used as a phone, but also a computer, translator, dictionary, e-reader, tablet, read your moods and dispense medication as needed. Now Imagine that the more you used this device the more you became sick and lost the ability to speak properly. In this book it's the Meme and Anana is finding this out the hard way when her father disappears.

Anana and her father, Doug, work for NADEL, one of the last hold outs that still makes actual print copies of dictionaries. Bart is Doug's assistant and hopelessly crushing on Anana forever. When Doug disappears and Anana finds a note telling her to not trust Bart, she doesn't know what to do. A chance encounter with the Diachronic Society helps her to navigate the troubles she faces. The Meme is being taken over by a virus and causing Word Flu. And what slowly starts as someone stumbling over their words quickly turns into an epidemic of people not only talking incoherently but dying from the Word Flu. There is a cure but only if you can find people who know about it - the Diachronic Society.

I struggled getting into this book as first. When Anana narrates it is very wordy and descriptive. Being that this is a book about dictionaries there were words over my head at times. But I kept reading and was quickly drawn in by the story of what could go wrong if we were to cross modern technology and bio-engineering. Alena Graedon weaves a story like no other sci-fi/fantasy that I have read. I loved the idea that something we use everyday for everything under the sun could cause us to become sick. This is her first book and I look forward to more if they are in this genre.

Life and reading

Lately life has thrown me a lot of curve balls. I've been dealing with work and family issues for over the past month and a half. Unfortunately it has kept me to a bare minimum with web related things. It's not kept me from reading though and now I have a backlog of books to review on here and post. Instead of posting them all today I think I will schedule them to post over the next week. Something I can do and still keep actively reading and blogging. Oh how I wish I had thought of this before.

Now this doesn't mean that I won't come in and post as I finish books. No, those posts will go up as I finish in hopes that I will not get behind again. *Crosses Fingers* I thank all of you who are coming out and checking my blog and reviews. It means a lot that what I am saying about books is getting out there. Now I'll post this and get back to what this blog is about - writing reviews!