Sunday, 11 August 2013

Unexpected Angel by Sloan Johnson

***REVIEW***
 
Unexpected Angel
by
Sloan Johnson
 
 
 

Synopsis

Tasha Skinner finally shed the baggage of a failed marriage. Now, she’s looking forward to a night of margaritas and man-bashing. Tasha’s friends have other plans, including Leather, Lace and liberation.

Dylan Caprese didn’t want to go to Marquee, but he and his friends were on a mission. They took it upon themselves to make sure things didn’t get out of hand when wannabe Doms mixed alcohol with playtime at the monthly Leather and Lace night.

From the moment he set eyes on Tasha, he knew there was something different about her. She wasn’t some bondage babe who thought she knew what it meant to be into BDSM. She was much, much worse; she was innocent and trusting. He can tell she is something precious.

When Tasha’s past threatens to destroy her, Dylan begins to realize that while their paths have never crossed, their lives most definitely have. Will he be able to save her before it’s too late?

My View

Those that know me, know I am a complete sucker for a hot book cover & let’s face it it’s a hot book cover.  In fact most of you visiting my blog today aren’t here to read my review, you are just gawping at the picture, am I right?  Yep thought so. 

But hey *clicks fingers* bear with me for a minute because my review is worth reading.

Dylan, Dylan, Dylan *sighs*, 6 foot 6 inches, shaved head and tattoos.  Shall I leave you to think about that for a minute?  Ok you back with me? He’s 34 so he’s not a boy and he knows what he likes and what he wants and that is somewhat refreshing in a book. He was honest, spoke his mind and went after Tasha to make her his but he was mature enough not to rush her, given her past history.  He was a Dom with a heart.

Tasha is still finding herself after a messy divorce, she needs to get back out there and with the help of her best friend Holly that’s exactly what she does.  She has lost her self-confidence and Dylan is just the guy to restore it.

This book will keep you guessing, it does not answer all your questions as you go, so be patient because it’s worth it and I love a good male POV, and Sloan switches well between Tasha & Dylan’s POV.

We meet Dylan’s friend Zeke who exclaims upon seeing Tasha for the first time “Holy Angel of Fuckdom” and I think then I knew I was going to like him.  And I did.

Dylan & Tasha’s relationship moves fast, but not unrealistically so. Some scenes are recalled as a memory of what happened rather than in real time, so when Tasha was recalling certain experiences from the night before she got caught out daydreaming at work – well girls we’ve all done that right?  Getting ourselves a little flustered recalling the details – yep been there!  And she had some hot experiences to daydream about.

I could have spent so much more time with Dylan & Tasha but before I knew it I was coming to end of this journey with them, I felt happy & sad at the same time but satisfied with where they were.  But if Ms Johnson should wish to give me more Dylan and Tasha I certainly wouldn’t say no.

At the end of this book we get a taster of Book 2 in this series, Holly’s book (Unexpected Protector) and given what happened in this book I think we really need to learn her story so I for one cannot wait.

So now you may go back to drooling over the cover but please do make the time to read it too, you’ll want to get to know Dylan that I can promise you.
 
 


 

Tuesday, 6 August 2013

****Happy Release Day**** A Divine Life by R.E. Hargrave


*New Release*

A Divine Life

By

R.E. Hargrave
 


BLURB:

Over the past year of being Jayden Masterson’s collared submissive, Catherine O’Chancey has worked through the mental terrors left behind by her old Dom — she thinks. To celebrate their collar-ing anniversary, Jayden organizes a special day, during which her final limits and fantasies will be realized. Will it prove to be more than she can handle? Can she endure the erotic onslaught her mind and body will experience and survive unscathed?

While Catherine faces dark shadows and pleasurable highs, Jayden finds his own inner strength being tested. He has come to realize that, somewhere along the way, Catherine has taken possession of his heart, mind, and body. Now he faces his biggest challenge ever; he must let go of all his submissives but one: his jewel, Catherine. Can he leave his philandering ways behind? Has he made the ultimate mistake by putting his jewel into the hands of others?

 




AUTHOR BIO:

R.E. Hargrave lives on the outskirts of Dallas, TX where she prides herself on being a domestic engineer. Married to her high school sweetheart, together they are raising three children from elementary age to college age. She is an avid reader, a sometimes quilter and now, a writer for Renaissance Romance Publishing.



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Excerpt
“So, how does that work? I mean, how does one draw the line between Master and husband?” Was such a complicated relationship possible? Could Jayden see her that way? Just thinking his name caused a funny feeling in Catherine’s chest. Her thoughts continued, now on overdrive . . .
No. Master didn’t do personal relationships. He’d said as much when they’d first signed their con-tract together. They’d both agreed to the understanding that this was nothing more than a sexual relationship. Hell, he was fucking two other people besides her that she knew of. If there were a chance that he wanted something more with her, he wouldn’t have handed her over to complete strangers today. Would he? Oh, God. Sir Jonathan’s offer to take Catherine on repeated itself in her memory, along with the knowledge that she had more sessions today with an unknown number of Doms. Was that what today was? Had the ‘inspection’ Sir Jonathan performed not been part of the scene? Was Sir Jonathan looking her over as a potential acquisition? What about Miss K offering to take her on back in February? Catherine’s stomach soured again.
“No. No, please, no. I — I can’t,” Catherine mumbled and began to shake.
 
“Erin?"
Her world began crumbling around her, and panic took root. Catherine gasped for air, wrapping her arms around her mid-section.
“Erin! What’s wrong?”
Paige’s shriek snapped Catherine to attention, and she raised her watery eyes to meet her new friend’s.
“Paige,” Catherine started to cry. “He figured it out. I tried to be so good, so careful. He knows, and he’s going to get rid of me!” She thought she’d done so well at hiding her secret over the months, protecting her heart.
Paige had wrapped her arm around Catherine and was rubbing slow circles on her back. With a wince, Catherine became quite aware of every lash mark from Sir Jonathan’s whip. They now burned to her core when Paige’s soft hands brushed over them. Catherine flinched away from her.
“Shh, Erin,” she said in a calming voice. “Who knows what, sweetie? What are you talking about?”
Turning wide eyes on her, Catherine choked out, “Jay . . . Master. He knows I’ve fallen in — in love with him. I wasn’t supposed to. He found out, and now he’s interviewing me with strange Doms to get rid of me. I broke the rules and he —” she swallowed a sob, “he doesn’t want me anymore!”
 

Monday, 5 August 2013

Cover Reveal: Craving Constellations by Nicole Jacquelyn


*Cover Reveal*


CRAVING
Constellations

Debut Novel
By

Nicole Jacquelyn



Nicole Jacquelyn's debut novel - Release date: August 28, 2013

 


 
BLURB:
"How is it, that someone can make decision after decision attempting to get away from their past and somehow end up right back where they started?"
When Brenna decided to leave the only life she'd ever known, she never thought she'd ever be back. Now, five years later she's running from her clean cut husband straight back to the motorcycle club that raised her... and the man she left behind. She left with a secret, and as soon as she returns the truth will break her carefully constructed life wide open.
 
 
 
AUTHOR BIO:

Nicole Jacquelyn is a single mom of two little girls and a full time college student.
She hasn’t watched television in well over a year, she still does things that drive her mother crazy, and she loves to read. At eight years old, when asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she told people she wanted to be a mom. When she was twelve her answer changed- to author. By the time she was eighteen, when people asked her what she wanted to do with her life, she told them she really wanted to be a writer- but the odds of that happening were so slim that she’d get her business degree “just to be safe”. Her dreams stayed constant.
First she became a mom, then she went to college, and during her senior year- with one daughter in first grade and the other in preschool, she sat down and wrote a story.

 


 
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photo/cover design credit:
Cover Photographer: Kara Pesznecker with The Sensual Photographer
Cover model: Mandy Stockholm
Cover Design: Sommer Stein with Perfect Pear Creative

*****BLOG TOUR & REVIEW*****
 
Craving Constellations will stop by
Bare Naked Words
on
27th August

Saturday, 3 August 2013

Blog Tour Stop: The Mistress by Tiffany Reisz

 


 
Bare Naked Words
Blog Tour stop today for
The Mistress by Tiffany Reisz
 




Book Synopsis:
There's punishment-and then there's vengeance.
Nora Sutherlin is being held, bound and naked. Under different circumstances, she would enjoy the situation immensely, but her captor isn't interested in play. Or pity.
As the reality of her impending peril unfolds, Nora becomes Scheherazade, buying each hour of her life with stories-sensual tales of Søren, Kingsley and Wesley, each of whom has tempted and tested and tortured her in his own way. This, Nora realizes, is her life: nothing so simple, so vanilla, as a mere love triangle for her. It's a knot in a silken cord, a tangled mass of longings of the body and the heart and the mind. And it may unravel at any moment.
But in Nora's world, no one is ever truly powerless-a cadre of her friends, protectors and lovers stands ready to do anything to save her, even when the only certainty seems to be sacrifice and heartbreak…
 
Excerpt



 

Author Bio:
Tiffany Reisz lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her boyfriend (a reformed book reviewer) and two cats (one good, one evil). She graduated with a B.A. in English from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and is making both her parents and her professors proud by writing BDSM erotica under her real name. She has five piercings, one tattoo, and has been arrested twice.

When not under arrest, Tiffany enjoys Latin Dance, Latin Men, and Latin Verbs. She dropped out of a conservative southern seminary in order to pursue her dream of becoming a smut peddler. Johnny Depp’s aunt was her fourth grade teacher. Her first full-length novel THE SIREN was inspired by a desire to tie up actor Jason Isaacs (on paper). She hopes someday life will imitate art (in bed).
If she couldn’t write, she would die.
Twitter: @TiffanyReisz  https://twitter.com/tiffanyreisz

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Cover Reveal: Patch Up by Stephanie Witter




Genre: Contemporary New Adult novel with a slow building romance.

Due to some shocking scenes, this novel is not intended for readers under 18.





Blurb:
Skye followed her long time boyfriend to Seattle for their first year of college, but he dumped her after only a week. The relationship brought only pain and destruction in Skye's life, and yet, she can't bring herself to open up and live her life.

"What if I am already broken into pieces?"

She hates to be touched, hiding under her oversized shirts and behind her wild frizzy hair. Even her bubbly roommate can't reach her. And yet ...

"I'm the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they're cut and bleeding."

The tall, handsome, and tattooed TA in her psychology class changes everything when he literally collides with her and confronts her. For the first time in a long time, she wants to try and open up to this guy whose dark, intense eyes can't hide his own pain despite his dazzling smile getting to her.

However, just when she's starting to live again, her ex-boyfriend comes back, breaking her time and time again, making it all the more complicated.

She wants to fight for herself and for this building thing with the TA, even when he pushes her away, but can two broken people patch each other up?

"I never thought colliding with someone could change lives, but it is possible."




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Excerpt:


(The first meeting)


Without paying attention to my surroundings, I turn to my left to walk toward the row closer to the door where a seat is available. I take a step and collide with a hard body, almost toppling me over on the ground for the second time in less than an hour. A strong hand grips me firmly by the forearm. My body stiffens and my breath catches in my throat. It’s as if I can’t move besides yanking my arm free without looking up to see who I collided with.

“Are you all right?” he asks me in a deep and calm voice.

My eyes wander from my red Converse to his dark boots. I have to calm down. I’m being ridiculous. Calm down. I take a deep breath and look up slowly. Long, muscled legs in beat up dark blue jeans, an old black leather jacket open over a dark grey V-neck sweater that showcases an impressive tall body with broad shoulders and finally, longish and messy black hair, perfect straight nose, full lips, high cheekbones and expressive soft dark eyes that lock with my bluish-greyish ones. He looks older with his goatee perfectly trimmed. A perfect hot mess many girls would say. I’m just intimidated by this stranger, though.

“I’m fine,” I reply, my voice even. I push away some of my untamed locks and curse my auburn frizzy hair that is always all over the place.

 
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Friday, 2 August 2013

Cove Reveal: Safe (Conquering #1) by Ryan Michele





Release Date:  August 2013

Cover Artist:   Melissa Gill at MGbookcovers

 
Book Synopsis:

Moving to Williamsfield, Georgia is not what she wants … it’s what she needs. An escape—from him.

After being brutally abused for years, Sadie seeks sanctuary and safety. But can she ever be safe when evil has his eyes on her from afar.

Landon doesn’t want a relationship. He’s been burned too badly to want anything more from a woman than the physical, but one look at Sadie and he’s rethinking everything. 

Can trust be formed when it’s been so beaten down? Can love conquer fears? What happens when evil doesn’t give up? Can Sadie ever really be safe?
 
 
 
 


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Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Ryan_Michele    @Ryan_Michele
 
Blog:  http://ryanmichele.blogspot.com/

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Add Safe to Goodreads:  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18190234-safe

Giveaway:

Ryan is giving away a $10 Amazon Gift Card.  (open internationally)
 
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