Top 14 Books of 2014

There have been many awesome books this year but these are at the top of my list!

14. Cold-Blooded Beautiful & Brutally Beautiful by Christine Zolendz  my reviews

13. Love, in English & Love, in Spanish by Karina Halle  my reviews

12. Little 'Ol Me & Seeing Red by Laurel Forte  my reviews

11. Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover  my review

10. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover  my review

9. Statistic by Dawn Robertson  my review

8. Phenomenal X by Michelle Valentine  my review

7. Not Your Choice & Not You by Emma McCoy  my reviews

6. Monster in His Eyes & Torture to Her Soul by JM Darhower  my reviews

5. Easy Virtue by Mia Asher my review

4. Black Lies by Alessandra Torre my review

3. Giving In & Always In by MR Joseph  my reviews

2. Bang by EK Blair  my review

1. 53 Letters for my Lover  by Leylah Attar my review

Cold-Blooded Beautiful - review

Cold Blooded Beautiful is the second book in the Beautiful series by Christine Zolendz. I absolutely loved this book just as much as Brutally Beautiful.

Kade Grayson and Samantha Matthews are trying to move forward and start a new life together.  When Samantha's past comes back to haunt her, she discovers the secrets that have been hidden from her all these years. Her ex, David is sick, twisted and pure evil. He's also a very powerful man that will stop at nothing to destroy anyone and anything standing in his way.

This book was dark, gritty, raw and took me on one hell of a ride. I love Christine Zolendz and her books! Can't wait for more!

Sexy Sunday 1/19

Brutally Beautiful's Kade Grayson as seen on the blog page of Christine Zolendz.
http://christinezolendz.blogspot.com/

Brutally Beautiful - Review

Let me begin by saying that I absolutely love Christine Zolendz! Her books are awesome and this is another one that adds to her stellar writing reputation!

Brutally Beautiful was not your happy go lucky love story. It's dark and brutal yet funny and sexy. After a tragic event, Kade Grayson has shut himself off from the world, expressing his feelings through books that he writes. Samantha Matthews is on the run from her past. With her best friend and a new name, she is attempting to leave her old life and start anew.

When she meets Kade, he captivates her in a way no one else can and she may just be the person to break down his walls and save him from the monsters that haunt him.

“I think the truth is that we are in love with the fantasy of being that one person who could inspire, arouse, or affect someone who is so untouchable to the rest of the world.  It makes us feel special; like we’re the diamond in the rough, the one in a million, the one that everyone else couldn’t be, and do what everyone else couldn’t do.  Imagine being that significant to someone?  To never have to doubt that he loves you, or needs you, or more importantly, wants you more than any other.” - Christine Zolendz

This book is 5 brutally beautiful stars!  

Top 13 of 2013

In no particular order, here are my top reads of the past year. These books were my favorite, stuck with me and are the reason I continue to blog! 

13. Stealing Harper - Molly McAdams MY REVIEW

12.  Watch Over Me - Tara Sivec MY REVIEW

11. Epilogue - CJ Roberts MY REVIEW

10. Scars and Songs - Christine Zolendz MY REVIEW

9. Tangled - Emma Chase MY REVIEW

8. Letters to Luca - MR Joseph MY REVIEW

7. Collide and Pulse - Gail McHugh COLLIDE REVIEW PULSE REVIEW

6. Present Perfect - Alison Bailey MY REVIEW

5. Arsen - Mia Asher MY REVIEW

4. Pieces of Perfect - Elizabeth Hayley MY REVIEW

3. Wicked Beat - Olivia Cunning MY REVIEW

2. Thief - Tarryn Fisher MY REVIEW

1. My Now and Forever and My Today - HJ Bellus 

    MY NOW AND FOREVER REVIEW  MY TODAY REVIEW

Sexy Sunday 6/30

Body shot off of Shane Maxton?!  Yes please! The lead singer of Mad World is like heaven on Earth. Thank you Christine Zolendz for such a great series!

Scars & Songs (Mad World #3) - review

After reading Scars and Songs I am definitely loving Shane Maxton even more than humanly possible! 

“You want to be my first, Shane?”
“No, baby, I’m going to be your last.” 
- Grace and Shane

Scars and Songs is Fall from Grace and Saving Grace retold from Shane's point of view. If you haven't read those books then you are missing out! This book adds to the already excellent series. You will love the characters and the storyline from the very beginning of time! There is so much angst, sexual tension and a holyfreakinghotness factor going on!

Shane Maxton, lead singer for Mad World is a swoon-worthy, bad boy rock star who isn't what everyone thinks he is. In this book we get to see his fall from grace, his innermost thoughts and just what he will do to get the girl he's been looking for for over 2,000 years.

A perfect ending to a phenomenal series! I dare you to not fall in love with Shane Maxton! Good luck ladies, he is heaven on Earth!

Saving Grace - review

"There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desireable." - Mark Twain

Saving Grace wall all sorts of holyfreakinghotness!  For over 2,000 years Grace Taylor has been looking for the angel that she was forbidden to fall in love with. She finds him in the hot, tatooed rock star known as Shane Maxton. He is all sorts of sexiness! I thought I loved Shane before, now I'm pretty sure the temperature just turned up about 100 degrees!  The problem is that the archangel Gabriel wants Grace for himself and will stop at nothing to get his way.

"Dear God, there is something about this man that makes you want to stick your panties in his pockets and tell him you're halfway there.." - Grace Taylor

"I want to lick him like a freaking cherry ice pop, let him melt in my mouth, get all sticky and lick my fingers clean." - Grace Taylor

I loved this book as much as the first. There is so much sexual tension between Grace and Shane that you feel it heating up the pages.

"I was a complete dripping, hot disaster, falling into pieces, wanting him to fill me and put me back together" - Grace Taylor 

Thank heavens that we get the release and a happy ending! And a book written from Shane's point of view is going to be released soon! Yay!

Fall From Grace - review

This book was excellent and it was free for me when I got it. I believe that is still pretty cheap and worth the dollar or two that it costs.

Grace has a secret that only her best friend and her brother know. Now that her brother has died she is back in New York and living with her bff when she meets the one and only Shane Maxton! He is so much like Kellen Kyle, (just a few years older), hot, sexy, bad boy, rockstar that it's hard not to fall in love with him! There is so much sexual tension between him and Grace since she absolutely refuses to be another notch on his belt.

I really couldn't put this book down and pretty much didn't. It ends with a paranormal twist and huge cliffhanger. Luckily there is a book 2 in the works and my only hope is that it doesn't completely change it's tone but I sort of think it will. Guess we'll find out!