New Release by J.R Ward

I'm just slightly late on this post but I think everyone will forgive me. 

The beautiful and wonderful J.R Ward has released her newest book in the amazing Black Dagger Brotherhood series. 

For those who like Paranormal Romance or hell if you just like Paranormal books this is the series for you. 

J.R Ward is having a signing event this weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio that I will sadly not be attending. I wish everyone that is going, a great time and I can't wait to see pictures. 

The woman is not only a genius with words but she's also hilarious. I loved seeing her at the Karen Marie Moning signing a couple years ago and I can't wait to be able to go to another event again. 

HAPPY READING EVERYONE!!!!

Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost

After I got done the last Inside Out book I decided that I needed a slight change. Plus, the new book for the Night Prince is out now and I wanted to re-read all the books so I could read the third one when I got it in. 

It's a very good duology but the second one cliff-hanged a bit so I was really happy to hear that there was going to be a third one before the series ended. 

Before I get too ahead of myself here, lol, if you like paranormal romance then you'll like these books. 

Here's the synopsis:

"She's a mortal cursed with a dark power...

After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: a terrifying ability to channel electricity and to see a person's darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude...until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world's most infamous vampire...

He's the Prince of the Night...

Vlad TEpesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all--but whatever you do, don't call him Dracula. Vlad's ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires in existence, but his enemies have found a new weapon against him--a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When Vlad and Leila meet, however, passion ignites, threatening to consume them. It will take everything they have to stop an enemy intent on bringing them down in flames."

I'm about half-way through this one and I look forward to posting again. Please enjoy :)

Revealing Us-Lisa Renee Jones The Complete Overview

Seeing as I complete this book in record time lol this is a whole overview instead of pieces.

Sara has decided to drop everything and go to Paris with Chris. He's so much a part of her that she has to try and make this relationship work. If going to Paris is what it takes for Chris to open up about his past and inner demons, then going to Paris is exactly what she'll do.

This whole book focus on Sara's best friend, Ella's, disappearance and the unveiling of Chris's secrets. The whole trip keeps getting turned upside down for them because Sara is going through emotional hell right now.

Not even a day after they had arrived in Paris, Sara gets a call from the detective back in San Francisco that Ava is trying to pin Rebecca's murder on her and blacked-mailed Mark into getting her position at the gallery. We all know that's not true but Ava's lawyer had to find a defense for the psycho somewhere I guess.

On top of that accusation, no one can seem to get a bead on Ella and it's driving Sara crazy with worry. Lets add one more thing, Sara keeps running into Chris' past everywhere she goes yet he won't open up to her yet.

That's enough to drive any reasonable person insane. If he wanted to test Sara's love for him, taking her to Paris was the way to do it. However, Chris does spill his secret and it has to do with his parents death, and the death of his friend Amber's parents.

See, he was visiting his parents' graves with Amber and her parents when they had walked out there was a 16-yr-old with a gun in his hand. Chris had looked into this boys eyes and seen what he needed to see. If Chris hadn't pulled the trigger and killed him first, he would have killed them all without a second thought.

His regret. Chris' demon that still haunts him, is the fact that he couldn't pull the trigger before the boy killed both of Amber's parents. After that she followed Chris down the wrong path. Using pain to get rid of pain.

A few days later, is the anniversary of his parents death. He laid out his coat and opened a bottle of wine for them. They just sat there and took sips. Wine isn't Chris' thing because that's how his father basically killed himself. Drowning his sorrows in wine.

Instead of letting Chris even think about the whip and trying to get rid of pain with pain, Sara takes him in the house and becomes the dominant for all of two minutes before he snapped out of his wallowing mood. When Sara had woken up she found a map on her pillow to where he was.

Now usually I would tell you the end because it's such a cliff hanger but this time, if you want to know the end you'll have to read it yourself. It was the most sweetest end that I could have imagined. If you don't read it then you'll find out when I finally get the other book lol.

I will say that there is a small epilogue. Ella is alive and in some serious trouble.

Stay tuned lol. You wouldn't want to miss the fun.

Being Me- Lisa Renee Jones....DONE!!!!!

Good afternoon everybody. I hope that you have all been enjoying my blog so far this year. I am making a better effort to be on here more. This series though has me enthralled.

As of this afternoon, before my family had even gotten home from grocery shopping today, I finished Being Me. I think this is a record for me, even when it comes to the first time I read Fifty Shades of Grey. I started it at around 8:30 last night and finished around maybe 1;30 or 2 this afternoon.

The ups and downs and twists and turns really got to me to keep reading. Can you see why I love my husband so much now? I totally shut him out for a book lol.

Everything at this time seems fine in Sara and Chris' relationship and things are even ok with her and Mark. Lines have been drawn and Mark swore he won't cross them.

Sara even gets Mark's blessing to go to Los Angeles with Chris to his charity function for cancer. It's there that she meets the little boy that has captured Chris' heart. Dylan has leukemia and there is no doubt that he is dying. The most they can do is make him comfortable and keep his spirits up.

Usually I wouldn't mention sad facts like that except this is a turning point for both Chris and Sara. At the gala function, Sara runs into her ex, Michael. The things he says to her are awful and he tries to blackmail Chris to get Sara to go home with him. It's the past that she wasn't ready to share yet rearing it's ugly head.

Of course Chris sees more than he should when it comes to Sara, so when she runs off to the bathroom he follows her and has two of his female friends keep a look out for him while he tries to talk to her. Bawling her eyes out on the floor of the bathroom she tell Chris. Two years ago she was feeling weak and Michael was being kind and she let him in her door. From that point he forced himself on her. She had said no but then ultimately gave into him and did exactly what he was asking her to do. Sara thought for sure that Chris would hate her after that confession but no, he actually confessed that he loves her.

I was so shocked lol. It's a good thing that I don't really read in public because all eyes would have been on me when I started squealing and laughing. It was a point that you shouldn't laugh and be happy but the moment itself was so sweet that you just can't help it.

Chris took care of her that night and the information didn't change how he thought of her. As he put it, one night doesn't dictate a lifetime. That night had made love to her like never before and it was so sweet.

The next turning point was Chris' turn. It was only a few days after they had returned home that Sara received a call from Dylan's mother. Dylan had just passed away but she was worried about Chris because when she told him, he didn't take the news too well.

Now here, this is where we see the side of Chris that Sara was never supposed to see. The dark side of this protective man. Unlike Fifty Shades of Grey and even the Crossfire Series, Chris does not revel in giving pain. He's not the dominant that we are all used to seeing in other series or even in this one. Chris likes pain.

Mark to her to his club to try and pull Chris back from the edge of the abyss. He honestly thought that Sara was the only one that could and it needed to be done because Chris was pushing limits that were way past safe. When Sara walked into the room and saw that Chris was chained up to some poles and being beaten she was shocked.

That would be enough to shock anyone but she got him to stop....at a price. Broken inside and bleeding on the out, Chris was in agonizing pain that she saw him like that and told her it was over. Chris was trying to protect her from himself and forced her away.

It was a week, I think, that she had just stopped eating. Sara wasn't even sleeping. Mark gave her some more to do in her new client's apartment building that was being built. Seeing as the owner, Ryan, and Mark were friends it was easy to convince Ryan to let her do the work. However it was after the opening night that Sara figured things out. Mark and Ryan offered her a way out of the pain she was drowning in. Master and submissive. Sharing. Everything that Rebecca had done with no feeling whatsoever.

Sara never wanted that life. Not even the pain she felt over Chris could make her choose that life and she ran out. To her surprise, Chris was waiting outside for her. Not one word from him and now all of a sudden he shows up. It's funny. Chris pushed her away and yet drove himself insane without her. Two broken people that NEED each other to pull out of the darkness. Now that is something that doesn't seem to change in any book.

It was that night that they decide to try and work through this and figure it out more. No more secrets, no more shutting each other out. Then there's one other little secret that Sara finds out. Packing to go see Chris' god parents, Sara finds Chris' paint brushes.....that match the one that Rebecca had kept.

That leads to a fight that takes Sara to Mark's house. At the time she knew that she was interrupting something but didn't know what. That is until Ava, the girl she thought that she made friends with and owned the coffee house next to the gallery, came stomping out in only a shirt and with Ryan in tow.

Ava threatened that Mark wasn't going to do the same thing with Sara that he did with Rebecca. She would kill her first before that happened again. Which she did try to do.

In that moment everything happened so fast. Ava had a gun on her and Chris was riding his Harley down the street to get there for her not even knowing what he was walking into. Ava fired a shot that sent Chris crashing and somehow the police got called. Thankfully they arrested her but it put Sar and Chris' relationship on rocky ground.

Chris hated that she turned to Mark for the facts instead of trusting him but even though he vowed it would be over if he found her here, he was giving her another chance. It was that evening that Ava confessed. She had killed Rebecca before she could take Mark back again. Very nearly killed Sara for the same reason except that's never been the relationship between her and Mark.

Ella is still missing and there's a gaping void in Sara's heart at the distance that Chris has put between them. Sara spent that night in Ella's empty apartment. Chris showed up for all of five minutes with another one of his little tests. He's leaving for Paris in the morning and he wants her to go with him.

There were no fluttery words, no romance just a simple if you want to know all of me then this is where you'll find it. Just leaving her there and the book in an emotional turmoil.

Does she go and risk her heart again for this man or does she stay and try to make a life for herself again?

Being Me- Lisa Renee Jones

Book two of this year is the second book in Lisa Renee Jones' Inside Out Series. I have become thoroughly addicted to this series, much like with Fifty Shades and Crossfire.

I never expected it to be this good when I started reading this series but the mystery of it has me completely wrapped up.

Before I give too much away I want to provide the synopsis from the back of the book. With the first book I just jumped into it and never gave anyone time to make their own assumptions or draw their own opinions.

"Sara McMillan is still searching for Rebecca, the mysterious woman whose dark, erotic journal entries both enthralled and frightened her. Tormented by a strong desire to indulge the demands of her new boss while also drawn deeper into her passionate bond with the troubled artist, Chris Merit, Sara must face a past as deeply haunting as Rebecca's written words. In one man's arms, Sara will find the safe haven to reveal her most intimate secrets and explore her darkest fantasies. But is safety just an illusion, when the truth about Rebecca has yet to be discovered?"

So there is the back of the book. What are your thoughts?

If I Were You- The Middle to End

I last left you with Sara going to the art gallery the night of the Alvarez showing.

That night she met two different men that left her breathless. The first was Chris Merritt, though she didn't know at the time she was talking to the amazing artist. The other was the owner of the gallery, Mark Compton.

Showing off her skills with art by selling a painting to a couple that couldn't make up their mind between two Chris Merritt paintings. Doing this earned her Rebecca's job during the summer. It's hard for Sara to be around Mark because he's so intimidating.

Mark has that air of it's mine and so are you. Every time they meet, there's an underlying tone that Mark wants Sara but he never says it.

Chris on the other hand knows that he wants Sara and doesn't keep it a secret. Go figure the bad boy artist is who she's leaning to.

The problem is that Mark and Chris know each other and every time they're around each other it feels like she is just a pawn in a game that the two men are playing. She remembers what it's like to just be a pawn and she never wants to be like that again.

Chris just seems to know how to push all of her buttons and in the right way. He's honest and dominant. Sara hates taking orders but the first order he gave her she was too hot and bothered to care.

Sara is trying to stay guarded because she knows that Chris will eventually leave but he's throwing off hints that he wants to be together more officially yet he won't actually say it.

One night they go to her apartment, against her wishes might I add, and Chris finds Rebecca's journals on her coffee table. She spills her secret about looking for her and he explodes for a few minutes because of what he's read in the journal.

It was an entry about being bound and making this master of hers happy but she was confused by it as well. At the time we don't know but infer that this is what Chris is into. Everything that he's done, warning her away and how he's so dominant in the bedroom (or wherever lol), this is what he does.

However he doesn't want Sara to go into this alone for fear of her safety. Chris surprises her and says that they will hire a private detective to find out what's going on.

When she goes into work the day after that, Mark shows her the video of the tape showing Chris pushing her against the wall and kissing her in the art gallery. He is trying to make her see that Chris is just manipulating her and that he owns her. None of this is sitting right with her and Chris is leaving the next day.

Sara cancels dinner with Chris to stay late at work, just to think about what's going on. She's falling for this guy even though logic says not to and it shouldn't be love yet. When she finally leaves, Chris is waiting for her.

This is where the big secret is revealed. Yes, Chris knew about the camera. No, he didn't put on a show for Mark, he just forgot about it because all he saw was Sara. No, he's not sorry that Mark saw it because he knows exactly where Mark wants Sara.

To prove it, Chris takes her for a ride to a place that Mark owns. It's a BDSM palace. All Chris does is get a room with a live feed in it to show her what Mark wants to do to her.

That wakes Sara up in a horrible way. Now she has it in her mind that she can't be what he needs because she can't be what was in that room. Chris is generous and gives her space to think.

Sara wakes up the next morning, remembering Chris has left early that morning and now it's a full week of just thinking about her choices. To her surprise though there is something waiting for her.

Chris drew her when she was pressed, naked up against the glass the first time they had sex in his apartment. It had a little note saying "You're all I Need". Now if that isn't sweet, I don't know what is.

Sara's ready to admit that he's her drug right now and that she misses him terribly. However she's been neglecting to try and find Rebecca which is the whole point of her being in the world.

Sara makes calls to Rebecca's building manager and a few other contacts that she found but none of them are helpful. The last thing she decides to do for the night is go back to the storage unit and see if she can hunt up more clues.

Lisa Renee Jones leaves us with the fact that there is someone else in the unit with Sara.

Literally lol, that is the end of book one.

It's Here FINALLY IT'S HERE!!!!!

You guessed it right!!! Today is the official release of the much awaited fourth book in the Crossfire series, Captivated by You.

If you have read the first three books like my mother in law and I then you know why this is such a huge deal. Like Fifty Shades of Grey this series was highly addictive, so when Sylvia Day left the third one the way she did, it upset a lot of fans.

If you're like me you waited until all the books came out to read it. My mother in law warned me that I would get addicted to them, that's why I waited. But then Entwined with You left me hanging and it was a whole nother year for this one.

Thankfully I pre-ordered the book so I will get my copy by the end of the week. If you've already read the book no spoilers lol.

Facebook has the first three chapters on there. I read those and now I'm even more itchy for the book now.

Ready to be Bitten...Again

So in my facebook exploration I couldn't find anything in reference to the series Bitten that was adapted into a TV show from the series by Kelley Armstrong.

I was lucky enough to catch the last few episodes before it went off this year and I have to say it was a good show. No, I will not be reading the book just yet but I really want to.

Ok so, I didn't find anything on facebook like I said, however I did find in a google search that Sci-fi is picking the show up.

Supposedly next year Sci-Fi will be airing Bitten season 2 for all of us followers to see and I for one am very excited.

Hopefully my husband loves me enough to get me the first season so I can catch up on everything before the second season comes on lol.

Who is a fan of this series by Kelley Armstrong?

The Bloodlines are Finished

Lol, I know, interesting title. However it refers to the book that I've been reading called Bloodlines by Richelle Mead. I know that I have been off of here for a while and really it was because I got busy and stopped reading for a few days.

As of last night though, I finished Bloodlines with a smile on my face. Through all the peril our Sidney Sage had faced she's feeling things that she shouldn't be feeling towards a Moroi and facing the fact she herself may be magical.

A lot for a girl like her to take in. Think about it, a girl raised to believe there are no good vampires, they're all evil and that all magic no matter what kind is unnatural and tainted. Then you find out that the Moroi are actually decent, almost like real people and one of them makes you feel emotions that gives you butterflies in your stomach and makes you blush.

If that's not bad enough the one thing that scares you and you just can't wrap your head around is the one thing that you may be....magical.

Towards the end of Bloodlines, there's a lot of information to take in. A lot of things have changed in about five chapters and the people that you're reading aren't the same ones that you saw in the beginning of the book.

It's an interesting read and is just the first in a very good series. Sadly my attention span just doesn't extend to the second book lol. I'm starting a new one from a different series and author.

Stick around, you may find something you like ;)