July 2013 in Review

This month I read way to much and reviewed a lot of books, but the best part was definitely the holidays. No college and sleeping late almost everyday. Busy life in July.

I loved most of the books and even got to finish some novellas too, they are not my favorite because the story is always rushed and way to fast but sometimes is fun to just enjoy the moment and the free books.

Memes and other things I participated this month:

Summer Lovin’ Read-a-Thon

Seriously Series ‘Sessment

Top Off Tuesday #70

The New Look of Entangled Indulgence

Top Off Tuesday #71

Top Off Tuesday #72

Brazen Bash!!

Top Off Tuesday #73

Doin’ It Dirty 3.0 – Goals and Updates

Stacking the Shelves #47–July Edition

Top Off Tuesday #74

Reviews on the blog:

• Romance Review: A Brother’s Honor by Brenda Jackson

• Erotica Review: Mustang Sally by Jayne Rylon

• Young Adult Guest Review: Pivot Point by Kasie West

• Romance Review: The Cowboy’s Triplets by Tina Leonard

• Romance Review: Playing the Part by Robin Covington

• Paranormal Review: Isle of Night by Veronica Wolff

• Paranormal Romance Review: Pleasure Unbound by Larissa Ione

• Romance Review: Against the Wall by Rebecca Zanetti

• Paranormal Review: Fated by Rebecca Zanetti

• Young Adult Guest Review: Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

• Urban Fantasy Review: Bitter Disenchantment by Shawntelle Madison

• Paranormal Review: Claimed by Rebecca Zanetti

• Romance Review: Tall, Dark and Divine by Jenna Bennett

• Paranormal Review: Hunted by Rebecca Zanetti

• Paranormal Romance: Delicate Freakn’ Flower by Eve Langlais

• Young Adult Guest Review: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

• Paranormal Review: Jealous and Freakn’ by Eve Langlais

• Paranormal Review: Consumed by Rebecca Zanetti

• Romance Review: When Snow Falls by Brenda Novak

• Paranormal Review: Already Freakn’ Mated by Eve Langlais

• Paranormal Review: Provoked by Rebecca Zanetti

• Romance Review: A Royal Without Rules by Caitlin Crews

• Romance Review: One Night Heir by Lucy Monroe

• Romance Review: Under the Covers by Rebecca Zanetti

• Young Adult Guest Review: Mind Games by Kiersten White

• Paranormal Review: Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione

• Romance Review: A Baby Between Friends by Kathie DeNosky

• Paranormal Review: Jungle Freakn’ Bride by Eve Langlais

• Erotica Review: The Mistress by Tiffany Reisz

• Paranormal Review: Human and Freakn’ by Eve Langlais

• Young Adult Review: Midnight Frost by Jennifer Estep

• Romance Review: Canyon by Brenda Jackson

Romance Review: Canyon by Brenda Jackson

From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson comes a new trilogy starring three Westmorelands...
Years ago, Canyon Westmoreland let misunderstandings come between him and Keisha Ashford. But when Keisha returns to town with a two-year-old son, it's time to settle things once and for all. A blazing attraction still burns between them, and this time around, nothing will stop Canyon from claiming what is his-his woman and his child!

Title: Canyon

Author:  Brenda Jackson

Series: Westmorelands

Publisher:  Harlequin Desire

Format: ebook from NetGalley

ISBN: 1460316711

Genre: Romance
Release date: August 1st 2013

Number of pages: 192

 

Another Westmoreland fighting for the girl, this is exactly the reason Canyon can’t let go the fact Keisha returned to town and it’s always running from him, but he discovered something intriguing and I really liked the way he handled a baby.

 

After a few years away Keisha returned and now Canyon found out about the baby. I do have to say I didn’t liked her and neither her reasons, because Canyon has always been a nice and very right guy, but after one night that she caught him with another women is like her world changed and she can’t see reason.

 

Canyon was so sweet with the little boy and everyone in the family accepted her with a open mind, but I can’t shake the feeling she hid the children because she wanted too, especially after being raised by a single mom, and knowing everything about the Westmorelands, she chose everything that happened.

 

I loved Canyon and the rating is all because of him, Keisha was just not my thing.

Series in Order

#1 – Delaney’s Desert Sheikh
#2 – A little Dare
#3 – Thorn’s Challenge
#3.5 – Tis the season… for romance
#4 – Stone Cold Surrender
#5 – Riding the Storm
#6 – Jared’s Counterfeit Fiancée
#7 – The Chase is On
#8 – The Durango Affair
#9 – Ian’s Ultimate Gamble
#10 – Seduction, Westmoreland Style
#11 – Spencer’s Forbidden Passion
#12 – Taming Clint Westmoreland
#13 – Cole’s Red-Hot Pursuit
#14 – Quade’s Babies
#15 – Tall, Dark… Westmoreland!
#16 – Westmoreland’s Way
#17 – Wrapped in Pleasure
#18 – Hot Westmoreland Nights
#19 – What a Westmoreland Wants
#20 – A Wife for a Westmoreland
#21 – The Proposal
#22 – Feeling the Heat
#23 – Texas Wild
#24 – One Winter’s Night
#25 - Zane
#26 – Canyon
#27 – Stern

 

Top Off Tuesday #74

What better way than to top off a good book than with a GREAT Cover!

Amanda from On a Book Bender, Christi from Smitten with Reading, and Felicia from Geeky Blogger's Book Blog want to see the covers that made you swoon!  Feel free to play along and show us your favorite covers. Button made by Missie.

New Year and I decided to continue with my harlequin books. I think they deserve to be exposed, now look if those abs could ever be hidden.

After a daring, headline-making rescue, basketball star Naomi Venable accepts Zack Keathley's invitation to spend a week recuperating at his sprawling country estate. The sinfully sexy millionaire could have his pick of any woman in the world. But once he sets his sights on Naomi there's no way she can resist this rugged alpha male's charms....Zack owes Naomi for coming to the aid of his baby sister. But grateful isn't all the driven developer feels for the sleek and sultry pro athlete. And once he makes up his mind, there's no stopping the aroused penthouse playboy Caught in Naomi's seductive spell, can Zack convince this fearless sorority sister that their passionate paradise is meant to last forever?

Romance Review: A Baby Between Friends by Kathie DeNosky

What Are Best Friends For?
More than anything, Summer Patterson wants a baby. What she doesn't want is a husband. Thankfully, her best friend, Ryder McClain, makes the perfect sperm donor. Ryder is loyal, undeniably sexy and the one man she trusts—the only reason she agrees to conceive their baby naturally.
When baby-making nights with Summer blaze like the West Texas sun, Ryder feels the heat. He never expected Summer to say yes to sharing his bed. Now he's falling for her—and the prospect of fatherhood—while hiding a secret that could destroy her faith in him forever.

Title: A Baby Between Friends

Author: Kathie DeNosky

Series: The Good, The Bad and the Texan

Publisher: Harlequin

Format: ebook from NetGalley

ISBN: 0373732554

Genre: Romance
Release date: July 1st 2013

Number of pages: 192

I usually love a book with friends falling in love and this one even had babies, but I just didn’t liked this couple, maybe is because Ryder is acting all fine and suddenly he changes. Anyway, not my favorite book by far.

 

Summer is actually a nice girl and I understand her fears and her reasons for wanting a family, but Ryder was not the best person for her. The couple didn’t showed a lot of sparks and he helped her, but the relationship felt a little bleak for me.

 

The know each other for years and there way too many secrets between these two. He never even knew she didn’t had a house for Pete sake. Doesn’t sound like best friends to me at all.

Series in Order

#1 – His Marriage to Remember
#2 – A Baby Between Friends

 

Top Off Tuesday #73

What better way than to top off a good book than with a GREAT Cover!

Amanda from On a Book Bender, Christi from Smitten with Reading, and Felicia from Geeky Blogger's Book Blog want to see the covers that made you swoon!  Feel free to play along and show us your favorite covers. Button made by Missie.

New Year and I decided to continue with my harlequin books. I think they deserve to be exposed, now look if those abs could ever be hidden.

Still stung from her ex-husband's betrayal, Dominique King has vowed never again to let a man play her for a fool. But everything changes the night she meets flat-out gorgeous Marcel Benoit. With one smoldering glance and that sexy accent…Dominique's hooked. And for the first time in her life, she's letting passion rule her heart—and loving it!From the moment he opens the door to Dominique, Marcel knows he has to have her. The ambitious Ph.D. student may be new to the U.S., but that doesn't stop him from pursuing the stunning, sassy banker. Sharing kisses on a sun-drenched tropical beach, Marcel and Dominique's dream of love is almost within reach. But long-held secrets threaten to darken their paradise. Unless they can learn to trust in themselves…and in each other….

Romance Review: A Royal Without Rules by Caitlin Crews

The most debauched man in the kingdom of Kitzinia— if not the entire world!
Royal PA Adriana Righetti is no stranger to scandal. But Prince Pato takes it to a whole new level. His infamous liaisons make for exceptionally disreputable reading!
Her latest assignment, keeping the playboy prince out of the headlines before his brother’s wedding, is mission impossible. Particularly as Pato is intent on ruffling her seemingly uptight feathers!
But when the cameras aren’t looking, Adriana sees behind his careless facade, and wonders—is there more to this rebel royal than the world knows?

Title: A Royal Without Rules

Author: Caitlin Crews

Publisher: Harlequin

Format: ebook from NetGalley

ISBN: 0373131704

Genre: Romance
Release date: July 23rd 2013

Number of pages: 192

 

I feel a little conflicted about this book, mostly by the way people treated Adriana. Even Pato used her and got away to easy for the fact afterwards. She’s such a sweet girl and everyone judged her by some legends from the past.

We can clearly see she’s trying to break free from all the drama surrounding her family and the way people think of them as dangerous. She never did anything wrong and was always found guilt, but the way her father treated her was the worst for me.

I liked this couple together and even understand Pato reasons for using her, but it was way to low and they should at least have consulted her before.

Pato was the bachelor and was way to happy to pretend and show the world this side of him, but Adriana discovered things were deeper than that and she made him be so good. For their relationship and the changes this book earned the 4th star.

Paranormal Romance: Delicate Freakn’ Flower by Eve Langlais

Dammit, just how many toes was she going to have to stomp on before people realized she was a Delicate Freakn’ Flower?
Naomi doesn’t want to follow tradition and settle down with a violence-loving, chest thumping shapeshifter. She grew up in a household with five, testosterone laden brothers where none of the dishes ever matched, the ugly-as-sin furniture could withstand any catastrophe, and where crazy glue was bought by the case.
When fate—with a snicker—makes her meet not one, but two mates, Naomi digs her heels in and refuses to do what her wolf—and her body—demands. No way is she voluntarily allowing herself to get hitched to a pair of dumbass—totally hot and muscled—lacrosse players.
Can Ethan, the towering Kodiak bear, and Javier, the sexy, tanned jaguar convince this she-wolf that life with them won’t be all chaos? And can this delicate freakn’ flower unbend her prejudices enough to recognize she needs a pair of men who can handle her thorns—and her passion?
Warning: this is a hot threesome story where all the focus is on her with pleasurable consequences.

Title: Delicate Freakn’ Flower

Author: Eve Langlais

Series: Freakn’ Shifters

Publisher:  Createspace

Format: ebook

ISBN: 0986915432

Genre: Paranormal/Menage
Release date: July 1st 2011

Number of pages: 255

 

Advice:

Due to its strong sexual content, this novel is recommended for readers older than 18.

 

This is not my first book from Eve, but I realized after reading this one that her werewolves are super hilarious. It was fun and super hot following Naomi and her two mates. They are all shapeshifters, but each one is a different animal. I especially liked the bear shifter, it’s so fun seeing these other animals and how much they are still feared, even in this different society.

 

I liked Ethan, the bear, he’s more quiet and has a little fear of the people reactions because he’s so strong and is difficult to settle in, but Javier on the other end, is super fun and loving with sassy words and more than enough sexiness to share. They have shared woman before, but they are one hundred percent straight. It’s amazing the way Ethan discovered his mate and Javier went along for the ride just to she the special girl, discovering that she was her mate too.

 

I liked the fact these two did not fight over the mating deal and were even okay with the poliamourous relationship, the only one with a problem was Naomi, because she was the youngest and wanted a quiet and normal relationship with an human, just to escape the insane family of her. She thinks all shifters are like her family fighting everyday and destroying the house, but Ethan and Javier are different and they needed a week to show Naomi how right their relationship would be. I really liked I really liked this family and this series has so much potential.

Series in Order

#1 – Delicate Freakn’ Flower
#2 – Jealous and Freakn’
#3 – Already Freakn’ Mated

#3.5 – Jungle Freakn’ Bride

#4 – Human and Freakn’