Make Me made me swoon! I’ve been eagerly anticipating this book since the end of Need Me. I love this cast of characters and I couldn’t wait for Russell and Abby’s book.

When I read the synopsis of Make Me, I thought, friends to lovers. But I don’t know if I could actually call it that because I don’t’ believe Russell and Abby were ever really only friends. There was this simmering desire between them that until they got brave enough, didn’t boil over. But when it boiled over, it had the Tessa Bailey scorching hot touch. Boy did they combust.

Tessa Bailey is known for her books being hot. Make Me did not disappoint in that aspect at all. But this book was so much more. Watching the fight between Russell and Abby of whether or not to be together. In a lot of ways there were opposites. But opposites attract. And there had been an attraction between them since day one. Russell knew it, Abby felt it. But Abby was so in experienced that she didn’t know what she was feeling. She found comfort in Russell. She couldn’t imagine her life without him. And Russell felt the immediate need to protect her. From everything.

There's this feeling I get when I start a new Abbi Glines book. This feeling of complete giddiness and pure excitement. Going into Until Friday Night, I wasn't sure where it would lead because it's YA. I've been all about Rosemary Beach these last few months, so I was intrigued to step back into young adult with Glines. It was exactly as I had hoped it would be. 

While every release by Glines can be described in certain ways, this one just had a touch more of...something. Some element that I'm not sure I can pinpoint, even a week later. Maybe a smidge more moving than normal? I was a bit more invested in the characters? Whatever it was, I found myself much more addicted than normal, which says a lot considering her books are usually pretty dang close to unputdownable as it is. As mentioned before though, there are always those Glines-like characteristics that you can bet on and this was no exception. It's your classic romantic yet angsty, can't-go-wrong love story, although the storyline itself is quite unique. 

What do you say in a review when all you REALLY want to say is, “I loved this book!” That’s my current predicament. I can’t stop smiling. Like honest to goodness, can’t and I don’t want to. It has been a very long time since I’ve enjoyed reading as much as I have over the last 24 hours. I planned my weekend around Heart-Shaped Hack, because I assumed I would love it. It’s Tracey Garvis Graves - Of course it would be phenomenal. I had no idea that not only would I love it, but that I would also get that “first time feeling” back from years ago when I began reading this genre. It just made all of the warm fuzzies come to the surface, and now I’m soaking it all in.

The most impactful aspect of Heart-Shaped Hack came in the form of an ingenious, creative storyline that I have yet to read anywhere else. It’s fun, quirky, and completely irresistible. These characters are so… so… perfectly imperfect. Their relationship is a bit weird, if I’m being honest, but it more than works. The course their relationship takes, from the very beginning through an explosion of emotion, left me speechless in the very best way. They just really are made for each other, and you can feel it in every single interaction. It’s an unconventional romance but that quality caused me to fall in love with them much more than I ever expected.

Nicole Edwards did it again. I’ve come to the conclusion that she can do no wrong. Never Say Never is classic Nicole. It’s everything you love about Nicole’s writing but each time she gives you more. With Sniper 1 Security, you get more suspense. You get more mystery. And with Never Say Never you get two men you have been circling each other for a very long time. And now it’s time for them to give in. 

RT and Z are two guys who have known there was an attraction between them. Z is a very patient man. He knows what he wants, he knows that RT wants him but he also knows it needs to be on RT’s terms. And just because he is waiting, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t nudge RT here and there. 

I think one of the best things about Nicole’s writing is that you can feel the tension between her characters. The sexual tension between RT and Z is burning. You feel it. You want to push them together. And when they finally get together, it’s combustible. 

There is a lot of denial in this book. Denial of feelings. Denial of relationships. Denial of worth. Denial that it’s time to take the leap and just fall. And you can feel all of that come off the page. The emotions. The feels. 

I have no clue on how to write this review. I’ve been sitting here on my computer for hours trying to put into words how much I love Bella Jewel and Hard to Fight. I feel like every single review I write for Bella Jewel sounds the same. But really, she hasn’t written a book I haven’t loved. Yes, some more than others, but Hard to Fight is my absolute favorite. 

Hard to Fight had me laughing at times and it had me yelling at my iPad at times. It had me swooning and holding my breath because of the suspense. Bella Jewel hit so many emotions and reactions from me. The story wasn’t rushed either. It was well developed and gave me time to connect with Raide and Grace. She had me rooting for them from the very beginning. 

This story was also unique. I haven’t read a book anything like this before. A women bounty hunter? So cool.  And Gracie was super cool. She was super badass too. Reading about her taking down the people she was after. SO awesome. She is so in control of her emotions until she meets Raide. She knows. She knows this is going to end badly. She knows she shouldn’t. Her internal conflict is heartbreaking. But it’s real. You, as the reader, knows she shouldn’t go for Raide but you, as the reader, knows she should. I had the conflict too. I rooted for them. Hard. But I knew it wasn’t right. 

I usually start off my reviews with my first reaction after finishing a book, but with Kick, Push that would be very inappropriate. I cursed her. Very badly. Very very badly. And I’m mad at her. But that’s besides the point. 

Jay McLean ripped my heart out, put it back in, put a band aid over it, made it grow a scab, ripped it off, stomped on it, and left it hanging waiting to beat again.  She had me laughing with the characters, laughing at the characters, crying for them, wishing with them and hurting for them all within the pages of one book. She played with my emotions and made me wish for things that right now, didn’t come true. But in the end, she wrote one hell of a book, that like Where the Road Takes Me, are in my top 5 of 2015. And very much in my top 10 of my all time favorite books. She is the puppet master to my emotions. And she plays with them very well. 

While it isn’t necessary to read Where the Road Takes Me before Kick Push, it is where we first meet Josh. You learn his background story. Maybe not in depth but you know that he is a single teen father to Tommy. And Tommy is his life. I admired Josh a lot when I first met him. But after reading Kick Push, Josh is the strongest male character I have ever read. What he has gone through and what he continues to go through, throughout the entire book is very real life. Is it fictionalized? Of course. But it is something you could very much see happening. 

These are the type of reviews I hate to write. I want to love everything I read. I want to connect with and fall in love with the characters. But that just didn’t happen with Curve Ball.

When I read the synopsis for Curve Ball I got really excited to read it. Not only was it M/M but it was a baseball book, 2 of my favorite subject matters. But then I started reading. From the beginning I had a hard time connecting with Jason and Cam. It wasn’t that I didn’t like that or like them together. I just didn’t connect. Part of the issue could be that I felt that the book was very jumpy. There were times where the timeline and even some conversations jumped. It didn’t have a natural feel to it. It didn’t flow easily.

The storyline has a lot of potential though. There was a uniqueness that you don’t see in a lot of M/M books. Having the setting be within a major sports team isn’t something you read. Seeing a character do something that is very much a current event was awesome. While I haven’t heard of a gay baseball player, I’m sure there are. Reading about the atmosphere within the clubhouse gave me a bit of an insider's view of what is or could be happening.

I haven’t been into reading rocker books in a while. In fact, I was so not into them that I didn’t even want to read Chaos. But when it came down to the wire for this review to be written, I had to read it and my first thoughts after starting were, what the hell took me so long?

I loved Mayhem and Riot, the first two books in the series and I’m still not sure why I didn’t just jump into Chaos. It was a very idiotic thing to do because Jamie Shaw can write the blank (please fill in with the appropriate curse word, Amazon wouldn’t let me post it if it was there) out of a book. She draws you in with simple words but the wrap around you and make it impossible to put the book down. I started Chaos last night at 12:30. I couldn’t sleep and thought, I might as well dig in. I stopped reading at 3 am why my iPad died. I was back up at 7 and didn’t put it down until I finished. And this wasn’t the first time I lost sleep over one of Jamie’s books. That’s how awesome she is.

Chaos isn’t your typical rocker book. In fact, I don’t think I’ve read one like it. This isn’t bad boy rocker meets good girl and she makes him change his ways. Kit and Shawn are in the band TOGETHER. They knew each other in the past, hooked up (there’s a lot more to that story but you’ll want to read it for yourself) and now 6 years later, she auditions for his band. And what was there 6 years earlier, is still there. It’s stronger. They’re both older. And now is the time for it to work.

I’m going to be honest with you, I just don’t know how to write this review. I desperately don’t want to give anything away, yet in the same breath, I want to tell everything. But if I did, that just wouldn’t be fair. Souls Unfractured is a book that you need to experience with no spoilers. With no information. Just go in it blind and feel.  

This is not a standalone. You must read the previous books before this. While it has it’s own couple, the events that happen and the people in it are carried over from the first two books. This is not one of those where you can read it without reading the previous books. 

It took me until about 30% to get into this book. Not because it was bad or that I didn’t connect with the characters. It was just so intense. I had a lot of interruptions and I just couldn’t concentrate. And then last night around midnight, when my house was quiet, I picked it up again. And I didn’t put it down until it was done at 6 am. It’s been a long time that a book held me so much that I didn’t even doze off while reading throughout the night. But I couldn’t put this down. I had to just invest and read. Because that’s what happens with this series, and especially with this book. You get invested. Your eyes open up to what is going on in this world. And even though you ache deep inside you reading about what two incredible strong but broken people go through, you can’t put it down. 

I’m positive I do this every time I write a review for Aleo hockey, but can we take a second to have a little fangirling fit? Seriously, how does the woman do it?! Every time, she writes compelling, addictive storylines that not only tug on your heartstrings, but she rips them out effortlessly and I look forward to it. Overtime is just another example of Aleo’s brilliance in building storylines and characters that are not only leaps and bounds, but also mountains greater than many others. Mountains, I tell ya.

I think the first thing that comes to mind when I consider Overtime as a whole is how much deeper it was. The seriousness of the subject matter and the struggles that are endured throughout the story, between not only Jordie but also Kacey, seems to move it away from the normally fun yet emotional tales of the Assassins. We all know what to expect from Aleo. There’s always a complication that must be beat, but this one caused… more. More heartbreak, more anticipation, more hope, more fear. It took a toll on my emotions, my heart, and my mind. I anxiously (while terrified, if I’m being honest) waited the moment that all hell would break loose. I won’t tell you if it does or not, but just know that this story isn’t light and fluffy. It’s… it’s something else entirely.  

Dark and mysterious versus light and loving. That is Strong Enough by M. Leighton. Heart racing versus heart swooning. That is Strong Enough by M. Leighton. Suspenseful versus sexy. That is Strong Enough by M. Leighton. I was taken on such a rollercoaster reading this book. It was all over the place but in a way that made perfect sense. This one a imperfect love story. 

Jasper is dark, brooding and a killer. Muse is light, airy and an artist. He was sent to save her but she ended up saving him. To watch Jasper be so conflicted about falling in love when you saw that’s exactly what was happening. It was very much his destiny. From the first time he saw her and she saw him, you knew that what was going to happen would change both of them and not necessarily for the better. But in the end, love. Pure love. And the epilogue was perfection. It showed the transformation. It showed Jasper coming out of the dark and into Muse’s light.