Hush (Black Lotus #3) - review

I read Hush about a month ago and I'm still disappointed in the final book of the Black Lotus Series.

After reading Bang I was completely addicted! To say that I loved Bang is an understatement. It was awesome, intense, different and kept you on the edge of your seat, not to mention the cliffhanger, ugh! 

And then there was Echo. Good but nothing as good as Bang. I swear the series just went completely downhill slowly. 

I hate to write a bad review especially since I love EK Blair but it just wasn't where I saw this series going at all. I can't wait to see what Ms. Blair delivers us next!

Crow's Row - review

I have had this book on my "to read" list for about a year and I finally got around to reading it. It was not what I expected at all.

Crow's Row was about a girl who witnesses a brutal murder, is kidnapped and falls in love with the leader of a gang. While she is dealing with her new surroundings, she learns a lot more about her brother's death and who the people she is living with really are.

I'm really torn on how I feel about this book. On one hand I really liked it because it was different, forbidden and twisted and on the other hand, it didn't really grab me as much as I wanted it too. Not sure if it was the fact that I waited so long to read it and my expectations were extremely high or what. All in all it wasn't a bad book. 
Maybe I should read it again!

Apolonia - Blog Tour

We would love for you to join us in celebrating the release of   </ span>APOLONIA by New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jamie McGuire!

Title: APOLONIA

Author: Jamie McGuire

Age: NA

Genre: Sci-Fi Romance

Publisher: Jamie McGuire LLC (October 6, 2014)

Cover Design: Okay Creations, Sarah Hansen

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Blurb:

“They killed me, but I survived.”

Three years after Rory Riordan foiled her own murder, she still trusts no one. Not Dr. Z, the eccentric college professor who has taken her under his wing, not Benji, the endearing, attractive classmate who insists on following her around, and certainly not Cy, the beautifully dark and mysterious boy who sits on the first row in Dr. Z’s Astrobiology class and asks far too many questions.

When Rory witnesses Cy being abducted by soldiers in the middle of the night, she finds herself submersed in a world that holds even more secrets than she could imagine--even darker secrets than her own.

From #1 New York Times Bestseller Jamie McGuire, experience the perfect combination of her bestselling books Providence & Beautiful Disaster. This New Adult Sci-Fi Romance is an action-packed, whiplash-inducing roller coaster ride. Page after page, this unpredictable, dark and sexy nail biter will keep readers guessing until the very end!

MY REVIEW: 

This is the first sci-fi book from Jamie McGuire that I've read and I really liked it. It's no Beautiful Disaster but it's still good.

I loved the opening of this book. It definitely draws you in and it gave me really high hopes. Rory was a dark character who is learning to live again amongst a secret world and the real world. When the two worlds collide, secrets are sure to explode!

I will read anything that has Jamie McGuire's name on it and look forward to more of her books!

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About the Author:

</ div> Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, OK. She attended the Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center where she graduated with a degree in Radiography.

Jamie paved the way for the New Adult genre with international bestseller, Beautiful Disaster. Her follow-up novel Walking Disaster debuted at #1 on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. She has also written apocalyptic thriller Red Hill, a novella titled A Beautiful Wedding, and the Providence series, a young adult paranormal romance trilogy.

Jamie lives on a ranch just outside Enid, OK with husband Jeff and their three children. They share their 30 acres with cattle, six horses, three dogs, and Rooster the cat.

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Crossing Stars - review & Blog Tour

I love Nicole Williams so of course I had to read this book once it came across my path. Crossing Stars is a modern day Romeo and Juliet with a mafia twist.

When Josette Costa, daughter of the head Italian mobster Blue Krait, crosses the line into Irish territory, she runs into trouble only to be saved by Rylan. Call it love at first sight or lack of knowledge but the two can not keep away from each other. With both of them being heirs to the major crime bosses in the city they come across numerous challenges yet plan their escape to run away together.

This is the first  book in a series and while I love the idea of it, I had a hard time connecting with the characters. I'm sure I'll finish the series just to see what becomes of their forbidden relationship and because I'm a sucker for Nicole Williams books and Romeo & Juliet.

New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release: May 7, 2014
“This book quite simply stole my heart.“
- Natasha Is A Book Junkie on Lost and Found
New York Times Bestselling Author
A modern day Romeo and Juliet story with its own flair.

 
While the city of Chicago sleeps, a war wages in the streets between two powerful families. In a time when the public assumes organized crime is nothing more than a chapter torn out of
America’s history, the Costa and Moran family battle for territory and domination.
 
Caught up in the middle of this sinister world is Josette, the only child of Salvatore Costa, the ringleader and notorious godfather of Chicago’s Italian mafia circle. After an assassination attempt when she was a child by the Irish Moran’s, her parents have hidden her from the outside world, barricading her behind the walls of their sprawling estate and keeping her contact with outsiders to a minimum. But now Josette’s eighteen and starting to question if living a long life locked behind walls is worth trading for a potentially short one filled with excitement and adventure and all the things she’s only lived in her dreams. Up until now.
 
On the night she decides to risk becoming just another face in the crowd, Josette realizes that death isn’t only a possibility if she leaves her protected walls,it’s a certainty. Yet when a young man comes to her rescue, the turbulent waters between life and death are further muddied.
 
Rylan is everything Josette isn’t . . . and she’s everything he isn’t. She’s sheltered, he’s worldly.
She’s thoughtful, he’s hot-headed. She’s sweet, he’s rough around the edges. She’s harmless,
he’s dangerous. Despite all of their differences, there’s one that shadows them all. One difference that means they can never be together unless they’re ready to accept they’ll be hunted by the entire underground crime world as long as they live.
 
She’s a Costa. And he’s a Moran.