Swans Book Review

Well well well! What do we have here with this story? Is it a love story, is it a trade or is it MURDER! I'm kidding, I'm kidding, there's no murder here. Avery Adams wants adventure. She wants to push herself outside the norm and experience life instead of just existing. This came about when she survived a kidney transplant that saved her life, but it's also a ticking time bomb that can explode at any time. With her resolve to experience life, Avery did the most logical thing and got a job as a guide in the local adventure lodge in her rustic Sierra Nevada Town. She was excited for her new job until reality slapped her in the face.  Instead of getting the training she needed in order to become a guide, she's stuck in the office, managing the business as best she can. What makes this situation worse is that the business is failing and the owner is so set in his ways that he refuses to change anything to fix it.  Frustrated with the way things were, hel...

It took me a long time to read this book.  It took me a few months and I have now completed this book.  This is mostly in part because the book did not turn out the way I thought it would have and it bored me with its weirdness. Here is what I mean. Hannah Daniels does not find it weird to sit and read an erotic book whilst waiting for her clothes to wash in a public laundry-mart. Hannah was just getting to one of the good parts of her current book when a handsome stranger distracts her.  He was very handsome and she felt a connection the only thing that stopped her from liking him is the wedding ring on his finger. Disgusted by him, Hannah quickly leaves the Laundry hoping to never see the lying bastard again. Mason McNally cannot stop kicking himself for the major screw up with the girl of his dreams.  He was wearing a ring to help his brother with a study of his and she misunderstood. Needing to find her again, Mason looks high and low but cannot find ...

Marina Adair is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.  The description of the book was spot on and if you have been with my blog for a while, you know that I adore book covers with animals on it. "We're still married." Those were the words that turned Charlotte Holden's entire life, upside down. She thought that her secret marriage with the town's bad boy, Jace McGraw, was over and down with years ago and did not anticipate nor need this kind of complication in her life. Nursing her broken heart was tough enough and having poured all her energy into creating the Grow Clinic in her small hometown of Sugar, Georgia, Charlotte does not have any room for a secret ex-husband. Having this secret come out would not only ruin her reputation in Sugar, it might also ruin her chances of Hosting the best Founder's Day Parade to pursue a big-city donor into investing into the Grow Clinic. Charlotte's only choice is to get an annulment and fast, but ...

Not my boyfriend was the perfect title for this book. The emotional roller-coaster that resides in this book will bring you on an unbelievable journey of the heart.  And I really mean unbelievable. Max is stuck at a co-worker's retirement party and he has appointed himself the designated driver of the group since his colleagues are all well into their cups. Max sits at the bar in frustration since he has given up one night stands and right now he is in a six month dry spell looking for Mr. Right. But Mr. Right can wait when he sees intense brown eyes and a devilish smirk from across the room. When Mr. brown eyes comes over and offers him some hot gratification in the bathroom, Max just could not refuse. Karson is only looking for pleasure.  He gave the love thing a shot and when his no-good ex cheated on him, Karson closed himself off from love, refusing to be hurt again. He has rules to avoid the trap of love again that include never more than once and...

This book was, how should I put this, neat and tidy.  It had not conflict, it had no heat, it was just a bunch of words on a page.  Plus, the cover reminds me of Cupcake and Crushes by Keri Ford. Jesse Oliver had had a rough time his entire life.  Being a medic in Afghanistan has thought Jesse to be alert at all times and his training came in handy when the pipes in his apartment  suddenly burst, flooding the entire apartment. It seemed that not only Jesse's apartment was the only unlucky one.  All the pipes in every apartment exploded, including his hot neighbor who lives above him. Due to the pipes bursting, everyone in the apartment must now find a tempory place to stay until the landlord can do repairs, the only thing is, Jesse has no other option than to sleep in his car. Luck is finally on his side when a buddy of his who was also a medic in Afghanistan gave him permission to stay at his lake house in exchange to fixing the place up a bit. ...

What do you get when you combine Betty Boop and Daffy Duck?  Unexpectedly you get the fourth of July.  Well with all the fire-works going off, I thought it was the fourth of July.  Michele Summers wrote an amazing story that had me a little disappointed at the end.  Read on to find out why. Bertie Anderson is an interior decorator with her own business who has the determination to get out of her home town. Even if that means quitting her business and accepting a lowly position at a firm in the city of Atlanta, the design capital of the South. Everything was going as plan until Keith Morgan walked into her life. He's talented, handy and hot as fire and Bertie thought he was gay and made the mistake of telling him that.  Let's just say that Keith did not take kindly to being called gay, especially not from the ridiculously well shapely Bertie Anderson. Keith Morgan went to see a man named Bert, that his aunt recommended, to redecorate his new home. ...

This was a nice book, but it did not live up to my expectations.  The last two books in the series that I read which are The Scandalous Adventures of the Sister of the Bride (which was my first book ever by Victoria Alexander) and  The Shocking Secret of a Guest at the Wedding .  Those two books were amazing and this one left me wanting. Lucy Merryweather engagement has finally broken from her fiance of many years. They both knew, deep down, that they did not wish to marry each other and that they were just following their parents wishes. While her ex-fiance celebrates his freedom by going off on his own adventure, Lucy decides to go on one of her own. Armed with a list od adventures she inherited from her great-aunt as well as her fortune, Lucy has set out to finish what her great-aunt did not even got a chance to start.  She was able to accomplish a few things on the list until her guard dog was discovered. Thinking that her fun was about to be spoi...

WARNING! Do not read this book unless you have about five boxes of tissues by your side. Maybe I was hormonal when I was reading this book, or maybe I related to Emma, the main character, and her pain. I don't know, all I know is, I cried, A LOT. DO NOT READ THIS BOOK IF YOU DO NOT LIKE A GOOD CRY! Emma Tyler is a beautiful woman. With her long blonde hair and delicate features, she has every man in a five mile radius lusting after her. Even though she is beautiful on the outside, on the inside she has a train wreck of a life.  Emma can't seem to control her mouth in any situation.  She always says what she thinks; normally that may be a good thing, but people always seem to take what she says the wrong way. Because of how broken she is, Emma only targets older, fat men who only wants her for her body.  Feeling disgusted with herself after the deed is done, Emma takes something of each of her "conquest", something that the person would not miss that she k...

Meet the Girls of Mischief Bay.  This book centers around the lives of three women, who happen to be friends and the problems that are facing them in this part of their lives. This book was boring until it wasn't.  Let me tell you what I mean. Nicole Lord wants to be a good wife, but there's a difference between being supportive and supporting her husband, who quit his job to write a screenplay she's never seen. He won't even help take care of their son, leaving Nicole to run the house and work full-time at her Mischief Bay Pilates studio. Can she say enough is enough without losing the man she loves? Sacrificing a personal life for her career is how Shannon Rigg rose to become vice president in her firm, but she wonders now whether she made the right choice. An exciting new relationship with a great guy convinces her that it might not be too late—until he drops a bombshell that has her questioning whether she can have it all. And if she can, does she want it?...

This was a very fun read. The characters were just... and the story line was like.....I have so much to say but I don't know where to start. Emma Sinclair is a survivor. After being left at the alter and betrayed by the people she loved, she left her town of  North Carolina and made over her image. Emma trades her blushing bride-to-be persona, for that of the untouchable ice queen of the Manhattan dating scene. She made new friends at the magazine she works at called Stiletto.  As much as she loves her friends, Emma never had the courage to tell them all that had happened back home and how it destroyed her at one point. She has been keeping that secret for years until an assignment from work has her dredging up demons from her past.  Especially the sexy, no good, liar who left her at the alter who, as a twist, is her boss. Having to give up his dreams of being a pro soccer player, Alex Cassidy hung up his cleats for good and decided to move on with his live....

Enter the Dare To Love world created by Carly Phillips with this steamy story by Kelly Jamieson! Celebrate the Dare To Love Worlds novellas with the hashtag #DoYouDare. Blurb: A Kelly Jamieson story set in New York Times Bestselling Author Carly Phillips' "Dare To Love" Kindle World! Love hurts…even when you don’t believe in it… Interior designer Micki Arnott is anticipating her boyfriend’s marriage proposal with excitement. She and prominent businessman Garrett Caulfield have been seeing each other for over a year and they’re in love. Okay, maybe Garrett hasn’t actually said those three little words, but Micki knows he feels them. But instead of a diamond ring, Garrett hands her a contract... Garrett wants Micki to move in with him, to commit to him and only him, but he doesn’t believe in love and marriage. After watching his parents cheat and hurt each other all while proclaiming their love, that’s not what he wants his life to be. A contract seems like...

This is my second book of  +Eloisa James  and I now can confirm that she is an author  I would very much like to hear more from.  I loved this book, especially the heroine. Emilia Carrington, when she was a young girl, had the misfortune of learning that the boy she was in love with, was nothing more than an insensitive toad. Years later, after claiming that she would never marry him, even if he was the last man in England, she finds herself, asking him to marry her. Evander Brody cannot believe that this little scrap of a girl dared to propose marriage to him, a Duke.  After he refused her, she pulled out the big guns which, if exposed, would revoke his title. Vainly thinking that this is some pay back for what happened all these years ago, Vander tries to shock her enough to back out of this foolish idea. When that did not work, he thought he would deny her what she wants, and only allows her four nights a year to go to bed with him and only if sh...