Title: Amazingly Broken

By: Jordin Williams

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Life threw Elana a curveball...
Her mother died in Iowa and Elana was left to fend for herself with an abusive and drunken father who couldn't care less about her well being. After years of heartache and pain she graduated from high school and moved to Florida to go to college with her best friend Tiffany.
A new beginning...
That’s where she met Jaxon. He was everything she didn’t need. He was a cocky, tattooed, and a beer drinking musclehead. He was the type of guy that she normally would have avoided given her circumstances but when he offers her a bed to sleep on she can't say no.
She never thought that she would discover they weren't much different from one another and that he had his own secrets and scars he didn’t want revealed to anyone...

Amazingly Broken is a wonderfully intoxicating read. Elana is just trying to make her own path in life. After a plethora of sad and tragic developments in the past few years; she is just hoping for a calm and productive stent in Florida. Attending college she has one purpose, and that is to be successful in her studies and just maybe finding a job that will help make this dream a little more possible. Upon her arrival she is homeless, and having to lean on her long time friend for a place to stay. This is alleviated shortly when Jaxon enters the picture, and offer a place to stay that will allow her an actual bed. With her dedication to her dreams it should be easy to avoid the toxic player, and move on quickly when the housing department finds her an dorm. Only the lines become very blurred when she finds that there is more to Jaxon’s character than whoring around. This story has just the right amount of suspense, and keep me on the edge of my seat. There is just something about good guys in disguise that rock my world. Jaxon is everything dangerous from his tattoos to his violent behavior, but as the story unfolded there was way more than what met the eye. He is layers upon layers of personality, and it was so much fun peeling each on away. So unlike anything that I have read lately I kept waiting on the drama to hit. While over half of the book was accompanied by the fiction filled reluctance of these two characters it is traditional to have a falling out that almost shatters there dreams. This book just simply did not have that. Yes, it does have a moment of turmoil into their relationship, but it was easily maneuvered and resolved. Likewise, this story also did not have a ending cliff hanger. Williams created a story that was perfectly developed, and concluded with the story wrapped of nicely. As her debuting novel, Williams totally knocked my socks off. If this is how she has chosen to start out; I can’t wait to see what she will have to come.

Title: Release Me
By: J. Kenner
Series: Stark Trilogy #1
My Copy: Ebook from Netgalley
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Title: A Moment

By: Marie Hall

Series: Moments #1

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Ryan Cosgrove and Liliana Delgado are on a collision course with destiny. They don’t know it yet, but before the night is over their lives will be forever changed.
Spending Valentine’s Day at a burlesque bar, hadn’t been Liliana’s ideal way of spending a Friday night. She’d much rather be back on campus doing homework… until she meets Ryan. Tall, athletic, and gorgeous, Lili can’t keep her eyes off him, and despite his gruff manners and drunken disposition she’s intrigued.
Ryan’s got demons, and they’re deep, dark, and eating him alive. Regardless of his attraction to the petite brunette he’s tired of fighting, of pretending the last fifteen years haven’t been a daily struggle just to get out of bed every morning. That night he decides to end his pain, to leave it all behind and float away into the blessed darkness of oblivion. But fate has other plans for him, Lily finds and rescues Ryan, determined she’ll not only save his body, but his soul too.
This is their moment…

This story was a full force punch to the gut. Ryan is damaged, but understandably. How can anyone overcome such abuse and neglect? It is terrible to see this knowing that things like this happen every day. I was an immediate fan of his character, and determined that this story would lead him to recovery and a happy ending. A Moment, was my first experience with works from Marie Hall. She is quite a talented author, and tremendously strong emotional author. I was so absorbed into this emotional rollercoaster it was almost reassuring to see it come to a close. I also felt that some of the reassurance was also due to the pace of the mid story. Being so talented it must be incredibly difficult to determine what is enough. That was evident with Hall dedication to the detail in the middle of this story. It almost seemed like she was so determined that every read feeling the emotion leaking out of the pages, and in doing so she ended up maybe dragging it out just a little further than was necessary. Rest assured with such a wonderful novel this does not alter the excellence of the story, but will leave readers ready for the end. A Moment is one of those story that doesn’t really leave you craving for me. It was so wonderful and enjoyable that as the story is winding down it leaves you with a comforted feeling of HOPE and LOVE. I look forward to seeing what other Moments Marie has for the series.

Random Acts of Crazy
By: Julia Kent

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I never intended to pick up a naked hitchhiker wearing nothing but a guitar. A guitar. Really. I don't collect guys like that (don't ask what kind of guys I do collect), but when you spot a blonde, tanned, sculpted man with a gorgeous smile and his thumb poking up and practically begging you to stop - you stop.
And I definitely never thought I'd be staring into the bright blue eyes of Trevor Connor, the lead singer for Random Acts of Crazy, an indie rock star I followed like the slobbering fileshare fangirl I am. How he came to be nude and lost six hundred miles from home is quite the tale, but how we fell in love is even more unreal.
Because someone like Trevor Connor, headed to Harvard Law next year, isn't supposed to want someone like me, a rural Ohio chick majoring in Boredom at Convenience Store University who is all curves and frizzy blonde hair and manners so unpolished they have sharp edges that make you bleed.

But he did.
When his best friend, Joe Ross, the bass player for Random Acts of Crazy and a man who makes Calvin Klein models look like Shrek, drove eleven hours through the night to rescue him, though, it got real complicated. It's one thing to like two different guys and be torn.
What do you do, though, when maybe - just maybe - you don't have to choose?
As my Aunt Josie says sometimes, "It's always complicated."
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"It was funny and irreverant like Wallbanger, but deep and moving like Barbara Elsbourg's Strangers. That is a tough mix to pull off. I should warn you though, this book should come with a surgeon general's warning: 'Do not start this book if you have any where to be, anything to do or need to pretend to be remotely interested in conversations with breathing human beings that are not currently also reading this book.' Enjoy!" -- Amazon reader review

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"Be warned, this is not your mother's romance. It's hard and gritty and smacks you in the face like that burst of heat when you first open an oven door, which is exactly what makes it a  refreshing change from a typical sticky sweet love story." -- Featured Staff Pick from Cat at All Romance eBooks