Friday, February 24

Review: Wicked Beast by Nazarea Andrews

Title: Wicked Beast
Series: Wicked Ever After #2
By: Nazarea Andrews
My Copy: Ebook from Publisher
The bookWhisperer's Rating: 

James “Beast” Lutz isn’t like his friends.
He doesn’t crave control the way Charm and Mal do, and he doesn’t play the games Wolf thrives on.
He lives on his knees, all of his strength bent to the will of his Domme.
He’s never regretted that, until now.
Now, when he’s trapped in an arrangement serving a Domme who can’t keep a sub.
Now, when he’s not sure how to trust a woman wrapped in mystery and less sure he wants to.
But the more he gets to know the Domme everyone knows as Beauty, the more Beast realizes everything he thought he knew was wrong.



Beast absolutely stole my heart in this series.  His sweet, loving, and giving ways just filled me up with joy.  To go out and make a deal with Beauty so that his best friend can reunite with the woman of his dreams shows you what a caring heart Beast possesses.  He walked into the deal knowing what kind of Domme Beauty was but still saw the beauty and the potential in her. Oh, he was perfect!

I think that what got me was Beauty…and it killed me not to like her. Beauty and the Beast is my FAVORITE Disney movie of all time.  However, I had a really hard time liking her with Beast.  To me, she wasn’t good enough.  It was hard knowing the love that Beast needed and deserved and hardly got because all Beauty could give was luke-warm affection.   Granted, feelings grew but she never really softened like I wanted.   

So in the end Beast was amazing and Beauty made me want more from her and her relationship with Beast. 


But with all of this said, I still love me some Nazarea Andrews and always will.

Monday, February 20

Release Day Blitz: Wicked Beast by Nazarea Andrews

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Today we are sharing the release of WICKED BEAST, the second book in the Wicked Ever After series by Nazarea Andrews! This is an erotic, fairy-tale novella series! Get it now for just .99 cents!

You can sign up for Nazarea's newsletter for exclusive materials and information on the series.



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WICKED EVER AFTER SERIES BLURB:

It’s the dirtiest fairy tale of all….
Charm. Beast. Wolf.
Everyone in the Kingdom–an exclusive, decadent BDSM club–knows the three friends and business partners.
But no one has ever gotten close enough to touch them.
Sex is easy, even when it hurts. It’s all any of them wanted.
Love is off the table.
Love is the thing none of them ever saw coming.
In the Kingdom, control is everything. Who wields it and who surrenders.
But some things even they can’t control.
Welcome to the Kingdom, where every happily ever after hurts in the most wicked of ways.



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WICKED BEAST by Nazarea Andrews

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Blurb:

James “Beast” Lutz isn’t like his friends.
He doesn’t crave control the way Charm and Mal do, and he doesn’t play the games Wolf thrives on.
He lives on his knees, all of his strength bent to the will of his Domme.
He’s never regretted that, until now.
Now, when he’s trapped in an arrangement serving a Domme who can’t keep a sub.
Now, when he’s not sure how to trust a woman wrapped in mystery and less sure he wants to.
But the more he gets to know the Domme everyone knows as Beauty, the more Beast realizes everything he thought he knew was wrong.




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WICKED CHARMING (Wicked Ever After, #1)

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Blurb:

He’s at the top of the world.
He’s rich, sought after, and in control.
And he’s bored.
A string of one-night stands have left Samul Charming increasingly dissatisfied. When his mother pushes him to settle down, his best friends come up with a brilliant plan:
Audition the submissives at The Kingdom.
The problem is, Charm knows who he wants: the only girl to challenge him, while submitting as naturally as breathing.
But he can’t have her.
With the entire club watching and his parents expecting him to marry soon, Charm decides to settle.
But love in the Kingdom is never simple and it is never painless.
And Charm is about to be reminded of that.








WICKED WOLF (Coming February 27)

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Blurb:

Charles Wolf Blackwood likes the game. He likes chasing a new girl every week, loves seducing them and earning their trust. He doesn’t like to keep them.
Until he meets Scarlet.
The chase has never been quite as intoxicating as it is with her, the feisty sub with an innocent streak a mile wide. And for the first time, he wants to keep her, but Scarlet already has a Dom, and Hunter has no intentions of giving her up.
Both Wolf and Hunter are in for a surprise when they realize Scarlet doesn’t want one of them.
She’s playing to keep them both.


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:


nazareaandrewsNazarea Andrews (N to almost everyone) is an avid reader and tends to write the stories she wants to read. Which means she writes everything from zombies and dystopia to contemporary love stories. When not writing, she can most often be found driving her kids to practice and burning dinner while she reads, or binging watching TV shows on Netflix. N loves chocolate, wine, and coffee almost as much as she loves books, but not quite as much as she loves her kids. She lives in south Georgia with her husband, daughters, spoiled cat and overgrown dog. She is the author of World Without End series, Neverland Found, Edge of the Falls, and The University of Branton Series. Stop by her twitter (@NazareaAndrews) and tell her what fantastic book she should read next.

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Friday, February 17

Review: Riveted by Jay Crownover

Title: Riveted
By: Jay Crownover
Series: Saints of Denver #3
My Copy: Ebook from Publisher
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Everyone else in Dixie Carmichael's life has made falling in love look easy, and now she is ready for her own chance at some of that happily ever after. Which means she’s done pining for the moody, silent former soldier who works with her at the bar that's become her home away from home. Nope. No more chasing the hot as heck thundercloud of a man and no more waiting for Mr. Right to find her; she's going hunting for him...even if she knows her heart is stuck on its stupid infatuation with Dash Churchill.

Denver has always been just a pit stop for Church on his way back to rural Mississippi. It was supposed to be simple, uneventful, but nothing could have prepared him for the bubbly, bouncy redhead with doe eyes and endless curves. Now he knows it's time to get out of Denver, fast. For a man used to living in the shadows, the idea of spending his days in the sun is nothing short of terrifying.

When Dixie and Church find themselves caught up in a homecoming overshadowed with lies and danger, Dixie realizes that while falling in love is easy, loving takes a whole lot more work…especially when Mr. Right thinks he's all wrong for you.



I freaking love Jay Crownover.  Her books, her characters, her writing makes me so happy inside my heart and soul.

Riveted was extremely riveting! (oh, I just did that!)  I was captured in the first page by Dixie, whose light and wonderfulness just jump off the pages.  Knowing her parent's and sister's beautiful love stories made her crave her own, so much so that she put herself out there online to find Mr. Right, even though her Mr. Right was working at the same bar that she currently waitressed for.  Church only interacted with Dixie if customers got too rowdy but that didn't mean he didn't notice her beauty and positive personality. 

This story is light verses darkness; Dixie being the light and Church being the darkness.  He feels that all of those that he has loved have passed away and that Dixie’s light should never ever be blown out so he stays back.  While he pushes her away, Dixie fights to show him just how much he is worth because she can see that his heart is pure and capable of loving; that he just needs a little light and a push in the right direction.  After being called home, Church asks Dixie to attend to solidify the lie he told to his family but he realizes that he bit off more than he could chew. This is when the story gets more interesting.  Church feels the pull of Dixie’s goodness on his heart and he is finding that it is harder and harder to resist.  But he tries to resists even more when he realizes that somehow both of them have found some dangerous times.


On a personal note, Church, wowzers!  I want to clone him and make him my own.  In fact, where are beakers because that is exactly what I am going to do!

Cover Reveal: Say I'm Yours by Corinne Michaels

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From New York Times Bestseller, Corinne Michaels, comes a new second chance standalone romance.

I spent twenty years waiting for Trent Hennington to open his eyes and see me. But it was all for nothing. He chose to keep himself guarded and let me walk away, proving that my time and efforts were wasted.

I'm done being invisible.
It's time to move on.

A single dance sets my new reality into motion, and I welcome it. After all, Cooper Townsend is perfect. He's kind, sexy, and attentive--everything a girl could want.

I thought I got it right this time.
That my heart could mend, and I would be happy.
Apparently, some things really are just too hard to walk away from.

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Corinne Michaels is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of The Salvation Series and Say You'll Stay. She's an emotional, witty, sarcastic, and fun loving mom of two beautiful children. Corinne is happily married to the man of her dreams and is a former Navy wife. After spending months away from her husband while he was deployed, reading and writing was her escape from the loneliness.

Both her maternal and paternal grandmothers were librarians, which only intensified her love of reading. After years of writing short stories, she couldn't ignore the call to finish her debut novel, Beloved. Her alpha heroes are broken, beautiful, and will steal your heart.

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Thursday, February 16

Review: Wicked Charming by Nazarea Andrews

Title: Wicked Charming
By: Nazarea Andrews
My Copy: Ebook from Publisher
The BookWhisperer's Rating: 

He’s at the top of the world.
He’s rich, sought after, and in control.
And he’s bored.
A string of one-night stands have left Samul Charming increasingly dissatisfied. When his mother pushes him to settle down, his best friends come up with a brilliant plan:
Audition the submissive at The Kingdom.
The problem is, Charm knows who he wants: the only girl to challenge him, while submitting as naturally as breathing.
But he can’t have her.
With the entire club watching and his parents expecting him to settle down, Charm decides to settle.
But love in the Kingdom is never simple and it is never painless.
And Charm is about to be reminded of that

We all know of my love for Nazarea Andrews and you might not know of my love for fairy tales so if you take the two and smush them together, whadda get? Happiness.  Pure happiness.

Wicked Charming tells the tale of Samul Charming, the heir to the pharmaceutical throne that he wants nothing to do with.  His specialty is dominating in his co-owned club and his dream is to collar the perfect sub.  So who is to show up, our very own Cinderella but with a dirty twist.

At only a novella length, N does a wonderful job setting up Samul and Celeste's characters.  Something about Samul and his longing for the perfect girl, and once he finds her, she runs through his brain non-stop, made me want to just love him.   Something else about his naughty behavior made me love him even more.  And Celeste is just as adorable as one could be.  She intrigues Charming more than any other woman he has ever met but she feels as though she would never be enough for him.

N also perfectly gets us hooked onto the other gents that co-own the club with Charming: Beast and Wolf (yep, more fairy tales!)  Seriously, these dudes seem hot!  We get enough information about them to make them mysterious and intriguing but not enough to spoil their upcoming stories.  N, oh how I hate you and love you (but love you way more than hate :) )


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teaser

WICKED EVER AFTER SERIES BLURB:

It’s the dirtiest fairy tale of all….
Charm. Beast. Wolf.
Everyone in the Kingdom–an exclusive, decadent BDSM club–knows the three friends and business partners.
But no one has ever gotten close enough to touch them.
Sex is easy, even when it hurts. It’s all any of them wanted.
Love is off the table.
Love is the thing none of them ever saw coming.
In the Kingdom, control is everything. Who wields it and who surrenders.
But some things even they can’t control.
Welcome to the Kingdom, where every happily ever after hurts in the most wicked of ways.



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WICKED CHARMING (Wicked Ever After, #1)

PURCHASE ON AMAZON

Blurb:

He’s at the top of the world.
He’s rich, sought after, and in control.
And he’s bored.
A string of one-night stands have left Samul Charming increasingly dissatisfied. When his mother pushes him to settle down, his best friends come up with a brilliant plan:
Audition the submissives at The Kingdom.
The problem is, Charm knows who he wants: the only girl to challenge him, while submitting as naturally as breathing.
But he can’t have her.
With the entire club watching and his parents expecting him to marry soon, Charm decides to settle.
But love in the Kingdom is never simple and it is never painless.
And Charm is about to be reminded of that.




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WICKED BEAST (Coming February 20)

PRE-ORDER ON AMAZON

Blurb:

James “Beast” Lutz isn’t like his friends.
He doesn’t crave control the way Charm and Mal do, and he doesn’t play the games Wolf thrives on.
He lives on his knees, all of his strength bent to the will of his Domme.
He’s never regretted that, until now.
Now, when he’s trapped in an arrangement serving a Domme who can’t keep a sub.
Now, when he’s not sure how to trust a woman wrapped in mystery and less sure he wants to.
But the more he gets to know the Domme everyone knows as Beauty, the more Beast realizes everything he thought he knew was wrong.






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WICKED WOLF (Coming February 27)

PRE-ORDER ON AMAZON

Blurb:

Charles Wolf Blackwood likes the game. He likes chasing a new girl every week, loves seducing them and earning their trust. He doesn’t like to keep them.
Until he meets Scarlet.
The chase has never been quite as intoxicating as it is with her, the feisty sub with an innocent streak a mile wide. And for the first time, he wants to keep her, but Scarlet already has a Dom, and Hunter has no intentions of giving her up.
Both Wolf and Hunter are in for a surprise when they realize Scarlet doesn’t want one of them.
She’s playing to keep them both.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:


nazareaandrewsNazarea Andrews (N to almost everyone) is an avid reader and tends to write the stories she wants to read. Which means she writes everything from zombies and dystopia to contemporary love stories. When not writing, she can most often be found driving her kids to practice and burning dinner while she reads, or binging watching TV shows on Netflix. N loves chocolate, wine, and coffee almost as much as she loves books, but not quite as much as she loves her kids. She lives in south Georgia with her husband, daughters, spoiled cat and overgrown dog. She is the author of World Without End series, Neverland Found, Edge of the Falls, and The University of Branton Series. Stop by her twitter (@NazareaAndrews) and tell her what fantastic book she should read next.

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Tuesday, February 14

Release Blitz: The Cad and the Co-Ed by Penny Reid & L.H. Conway

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The Cad and The Co-Ed, an all-new romantic comedy from Penny Reid & L.H. Cosway is LIVE

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THE CAD
Bryan Leech is a cad.
Or, he *was* a cad.
No one is quite certain.
Once the quintessential playboy, Bryan claims he’s done with wild parties and weekend benders. No more one night stands leading to mornings he can’t remember; no more binges and blackouts; no more exploits plastered all over the tabloids and rag sheets. According to Bryan, he’s cleaning up his act.
The only problem is, no one believes him.
THE CO-ED
Eilish Cassidy never thought she’d be a mother at nineteen or still in college at twenty-four. Cut off from every member of her family except her favorite cousin, she’s finally managed to put her life back together. Stronger and wiser, Eilish enters her last semester of university determined to stand on her own. Now she just needs to find an internship.
The only problem is, her best option—by far—places her directly in the path of her son’s father, and he doesn’t remember her at all.
THE PLAN
Bryan is determined to prove he’s changed. Eager to settle down with the right woman, he’s got his sights set on the gorgeous redhead who seems terribly familiar.
Eilish is determined to hide her secret. She’ll do anything to keep her child safe, even if that means ignoring her own wishes and desires.
But what happens when Bryan starts to remember? And what will it take for Bryan to convince the girl he forgot that she’s unforgettable?
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pennyreidauthorpicPenny Reid is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the Winston Brothers and Knitting in the City series. When she’s not immersed in penning smart romances, Penny works in the biotech industry as a researcher. She’s also a full time mom to three diminutive adults, wife, daughter, knitter, crocheter, sewer, general crafter, and thought ninja.






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Meet L.H. Cosway:

L.H. Cosway has a BA in English Literature and Greek and Roman Civilisation, and an MA in Postcolonial Literature. She lives in Dublin city. Her inspiration to write comes from music. Her favorite things in life include writing stories, vintage clothing, dark cabaret music, food, musical comedy, and of course, books.

She thinks that imperfect people are the most interesting kind. They tell the best stories.

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Monday, February 13

Release Day: Wicked Charming by Nazarea Andrews

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Today we are sharing the release of WICKED CHARMING, the first book in the Wicked Ever After series by Nazarea Andrews! This is an erotic, fairy-tale novella series! Get it now for just .99 cents!

You can sign up for Nazarea's newsletter for exclusive materials and information on the series.



teaser

WICKED EVER AFTER SERIES BLURB:

It’s the dirtiest fairy tale of all….
Charm. Beast. Wolf.
Everyone in the Kingdom–an exclusive, decadent BDSM club–knows the three friends and business partners.
But no one has ever gotten close enough to touch them.
Sex is easy, even when it hurts. It’s all any of them wanted.
Love is off the table.
Love is the thing none of them ever saw coming.
In the Kingdom, control is everything. Who wields it and who surrenders.
But some things even they can’t control.
Welcome to the Kingdom, where every happily ever after hurts in the most wicked of ways.



wicked-charming-final

WICKED CHARMING (Wicked Ever After, #1)

PURCHASE ON AMAZON

Blurb:

He’s at the top of the world.
He’s rich, sought after, and in control.
And he’s bored.
A string of one-night stands have left Samul Charming increasingly dissatisfied. When his mother pushes him to settle down, his best friends come up with a brilliant plan:
Audition the submissives at The Kingdom.
The problem is, Charm knows who he wants: the only girl to challenge him, while submitting as naturally as breathing.
But he can’t have her.
With the entire club watching and his parents expecting him to marry soon, Charm decides to settle.
But love in the Kingdom is never simple and it is never painless.
And Charm is about to be reminded of that.




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WICKED BEAST (Coming February 20)

PRE-ORDER ON AMAZON

Blurb:

James “Beast” Lutz isn’t like his friends.
He doesn’t crave control the way Charm and Mal do, and he doesn’t play the games Wolf thrives on.
He lives on his knees, all of his strength bent to the will of his Domme.
He’s never regretted that, until now.
Now, when he’s trapped in an arrangement serving a Domme who can’t keep a sub.
Now, when he’s not sure how to trust a woman wrapped in mystery and less sure he wants to.
But the more he gets to know the Domme everyone knows as Beauty, the more Beast realizes everything he thought he knew was wrong.






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WICKED WOLF (Coming February 27)

PRE-ORDER ON AMAZON

Blurb:

Charles Wolf Blackwood likes the game. He likes chasing a new girl every week, loves seducing them and earning their trust. He doesn’t like to keep them.
Until he meets Scarlet.
The chase has never been quite as intoxicating as it is with her, the feisty sub with an innocent streak a mile wide. And for the first time, he wants to keep her, but Scarlet already has a Dom, and Hunter has no intentions of giving her up.
Both Wolf and Hunter are in for a surprise when they realize Scarlet doesn’t want one of them.
She’s playing to keep them both.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:


nazareaandrewsNazarea Andrews (N to almost everyone) is an avid reader and tends to write the stories she wants to read. Which means she writes everything from zombies and dystopia to contemporary love stories. When not writing, she can most often be found driving her kids to practice and burning dinner while she reads, or binging watching TV shows on Netflix. N loves chocolate, wine, and coffee almost as much as she loves books, but not quite as much as she loves her kids. She lives in south Georgia with her husband, daughters, spoiled cat and overgrown dog. She is the author of World Without End series, Neverland Found, Edge of the Falls, and The University of Branton Series. Stop by her twitter (@NazareaAndrews) and tell her what fantastic book she should read next.

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Thursday, February 9

Review: A Thousand Letters by Staci Hart

Title: A Thousand Letters
By: Staci Hart
My Copy: Ebook from Publisher
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Sometimes your life is split by a single decision.
 
I’ve spent every day of the last seven years regretting mine: he left, and I didn’t follow. A thousand letters went unanswered, my words like petals in the wind, spinning away into nothing, taking me with them.
 
But now he’s back.
 
I barely recognize the man he’s become, but I can still see a glimmer of the boy who asked me to be his forever, the boy I walked away from when I was young and afraid.
 
Maybe if he’d come home under better circumstances, he could speak to me without anger in his voice. Maybe if I’d said yes all those years ago, he’d look at me without the weight of rejection in his eyes. Maybe if things were different, we would have had a chance.
 
One regretted decision sent him away. One painful journey brought him back to me. I only wish I could keep him.
 
What a glorious book!  Everything about the characters, the plot, all of it; it was just glorious. 
 
I felt the love, the hatred, the passion, and the resentment oozing off the pages when Elliot and Wade were in the same room.  All the emotions one could have were felt regarding their past relationship and their broken one now.  This doesn’t include the tear-jerking story of Wade’s father sudden illness.  This throws Wade in Elliot back into each other’s lives and releases all sorts of chaos; some bad and some beautiful.
 
I would say that my favorite part throughout the book was the development of Elliot and her strength.  So sweet and loving, Elliot cares for her niece and nephew and stands by her friends through thick and thin but she has one (somewhat) flaw…letting people walk all over her (I’m looking at you Mary and her dad.)  And this (somewhat) flaw is so necessary to the story.  Reading that Elliot realizes that it is the problem of the person, not her, that puts her down really struck a chord with me.  Why fight when nothing is going to change a person and slowly Elliot realizes that fighting doesn’t have to happen but making your voice be heard does have to happen. I literally cheered!
 
Such a beautiful story is contained within these pages and I encourage to you read them. To give you a little push, I leave you with this:
 
“My heart has been yours as long as it’s been beating.  It’ll be yours until its beats its last.”

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