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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

✯Release Review✯Explosive (The Houston Defiance MC Series #1) by K.E. Osborn

Title: Explosive
Series: The Houston Defiance MC Series #1
Author: KE Osborn
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: August 24, 2020
Cover Design: Designs by Dana Cover Model: Kevin Creekman
I couldn’t walk away.
It’s not who I am.
The moment I saw Rayne broken and bloodied, I knew I wasn’t leaving without her.
As the president of the Houston Defiance MC, my job is to protect. And there’s no taming the rage building inside my body, screaming at me to shield her from the husband who’s beating her day in and day out.
Taking her was never in my plans, but plans change.
I don’t care if she’s married.
Or that her husband’s a cop.
Our connection is explosive, it’s dangerous, it’s intoxicating.
And I’m fast being swept up in her storm.
It’s something I can’t ignore.
I thought the enemy was clear, and I was ready to fight.
But maybe there’s a threat we didn’t see coming?
Maybe there’s someone closer to us than we ever could have imagined.
Someone who could be the destruction of us both. 


✯✯5 Zero & Cherry Bomb Filled Stars!!!✯✯ 

OMG what a way to start a spin-off series to one of my favorite series. Chicago a Defiance MC Series had me hooked, line and sinker since the very first cover reveal. It’s legit in my top 3 favorite series covers. Plus, from reading that series we’ve been introduced to Zero and his guys a bunch of times and Zero definitely had my attention from the beginning. 


We start off with Zero the VP of the Houston Defiance with his dad the President. Zero will takeover after his dad has groomed him and showed him all the ways to be a good President. 


Zero learns that time isn’t on his side. The club is at a stand still with the militia. They’re trying to come to a truce that both sides will accept. Then, the militia barrels into the clubhouse and they’re not looking to talk. 


The militia showed up with a mission. Zero watched his parents die right in front of his eyes. Zero took out the guy who ended his parents, the guy in charge of the militia. 


Change is coming for Houston Defiance. Zero will do whatever he has too to make his dad proud.  Minutes later Zero’s life gets another zap. His sister Prinie grabs their younger brother Koda and runs away from Zero and the Defiance MC. 


Rayne’s life isn’t all that she wants. She’s in a loveless marriage to a guy her parents chose and he uses his hands on her everyday. Her father made her go to school to become a pharmacist. Rayne absolutely loves being a pharmacist. 


One night Rayne‘s husband got mad at her while they were out to eat and he takes her out to the back ally and beats the life outta her and leaves her there.  He’s a cop so she can’t call anybody to help. 


When her Uber driver pulls up and finds her beaten pretty bad she offers to help her. Meeting the Uber driver, Prinie ended up saving Rayne. They’ve become best friends and Rayne’s not sure what she’ll ever do without Prinie. 


It’s been a year since Zero lost both his parents and siblings. Zero has done a lot to make things safe enough that his sister will feel safe enough to comeback with their brother. He’s had eyes on them the whole time. It helps that they ran away to Chicago and are actually living in the Chicago Defiance clubhouse. 


Zero and his brothers get there just in time as Chicago needs them as their clubhouse is being ambushed. If you read that series you’ll remember that scene playing out lol. 


Zero convinced Prinie and Koda to comeback to Houston with him. But, Prinie insists on saying goodbye to her best friend. 


Zero was unprepared for what was going to happen when they showed up at Rayne’s house. 


Zero walks into Rayne’s house and she’s beaten to a pulp. Seeing Rayne’s house destroyed from her being thrown around and one look in her eyes and Zero knows he can’t leave Rayne at that house with that husband of hers. 


Zero and Rayne are extremely attracted to each other. Like they never have been before. Zero has such deep beliefs that bc she technically is married and from what she just lived through he wants to stay away. Rayne hates her husband. There’s no love lost. Zero makes her feel things she’s never felt before and just wants him to make a move and not hide. 


Zero wants to give Rayne everything even if he can’t give her him. With Rayne being a pharmacist and Chills being there and a Dr. Zero opens a pharmacy for Rayne to operate and it having a walk-in clinic that Chills will run. 


When Prinie goes and gets mad she crosses a line that nobody in the Houston Defiance should cross and it could cost everybody in Defiance with their lives. 


There is one thing the militia want that will make things even. But, Zero will need Rayne to cross a line. Use her chemistry and pharmacist skills in order for everybody to come out alive. Zero doesn’t know what Rayne will do since she was married to a cop. Rayne does care for the club and ESP about Prinie and Zero and she’ll do anything to help them. 


Zero knows he cares about Rayne more then he has about anybody. They know until they figure out what to do about her husband they’ll have to be careful to keep her safe and the MC off the radar of the cops. 


Zero and his brothers thought they knew who their allies were and who their enemies were. Then they see the side of somebody they thought they knew and their socks are knocked off. In order for Zero to make sure his brothers, siblings, the club and Rayne are all safe, secure and alive he’s gunna make a phone call he never thought he’d make. Zero’s hoping and praying he’s making the right decision for everybody he cares about. 


OMG this book is everything!!! I100% forgot Chains, Chills, baby Kobe, Luc and Ruby went to Houston but I’m loving seeing them and their story continue. 


Zero is even more then I’d imagined and trust me I imagined all about him lol. Rayne is the perfect match for my man Zero!!


I’m dying for a Prinie and Wraith’s story bc lemme tell y’all. These two have intense chemistry. Some frustrated chemistry that they need to bang out. I just hope they get it before Zero tears Wraith apart limb by limb lol. 


I start moving toward the exit. My chest heats so fucking much it’s like I’m on fire. I don’t know what the hell’s happening right now, but having Rayne in my arms, knowing while I’m holding her, and no fucking person in the world can touch her, it has my body flaming in adrenaline.
This woman is bad news.
Real bad fucking news.
Her eyes linger on me as I walk with her from the bedroom, down the hall, and outside to the waiting van. Having her right up against me like this is not doing my cock any favors. She smells like peaches and fucking sunsets.
How the fuck can someone smell like a sunset? It’s like I’m going out of my damn mind right now.
She’s invading my senses as I help her inside the van, placing her in the rear seat.
“I don’t understand why you’re helping me?” Her eyes lock onto mine.
My protector mode rears its head yet again as I lean over her grabbing at the seat belt to pull over her. Our faces come in line with each other.
Rayne scrunches up her face, reaching for the seat belt. “I can put on my own seat belt.”
I jerk my head back as she removes it from my grip while trying to gain control of the situation. I pull it back from her and click it into position. “I’m sure you can, but I need to ensure you’re taken care of. Can’t get you out of this situation and have you injured on the way into the club because you’re not buckled in properly.”
Her eyes widen. “There are so many things wrong with what you just said. One, you think I’m incapable of something as simple as doing up a seat belt. And two, you believe your driving is so bad I’m going to be injured on the way to wherever it is you’re taking me?”
“That’s not what I meant—”
“Then you need to think about how you word shit, ‘cause you’re coming across as an arrogant ass.”
I glare at her smug, insolent, beautiful face. “You have an attitude problem, cherry bomb.”
She snorts. “And you think you can control me because I get beaten up by my husband? He might walk all over me, but you…” she tilts her head smugly, “… not so much.”
Hmm. She has a feisty side.
I lean in closer. Her eyes widen, and her breathing hitches. She’s affected. “I like your fighting spirit, Rayne. You are a wild one.”
She leans in closer, we’re only an inch apart, the smell of peach surrounds me. It takes every ounce of strength I have not to rush forward pressing my lips to hers. My eyes stare into her incandescent emerald green eyes, they’re so alive, so alight with fire. She has so much fight in her. As she licks her bottom lip, my cock twitches when she whispers, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.”
A low hum vibrates from my chest as I exhale, backing away from Rayne slowly.
She’s trouble with a capital ‘I’m screwed.’ 
Australian author K E Osborn was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. With a background in graphic design and a flair for all things creative, she felt compelled to write the story brewing in her mind.
Writing gives her life purpose. It makes her feel, laugh, cry and get completely enveloped in the characters and their story lines. She feels completely at home when writing and wouldn’t consider doing anything else.
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Friday, January 3, 2020

✯Release Review✯Far from Home (Far Series #1) by Kate L. Mary

Title: Far From Home
Author: Kate L Mary
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Zombie
Publication Date: January 3rd, 2020
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR
Blurb:
How far would you go to survive the apocalypse?
As the only child in an upper-middle class family, Rowan has had it easy. Doted on by a mother who never wanted anything but a child to love, she's never wanted for anything. Kiaya’s life, however, has been anything but easy. Parents who didn’t want her, followed by being torn away from her only sibling by the foster care system, she knows what it means to have to work hard for the things she wants.
When a deadly virus sweeps the country, Rowan and Kiaya are away at college and far from everything they love. Desperate to make it home, they team up, but as the world around them dies, an unexpected detour leaves them stranded in Vega, Texas where they make a shocking discovery. The virus isn’t just killing people. It’s changing them.
When former cop, Devon, sweeps in to save the day, it looks like their luck has shifted. With hundreds of miles left to cross and the dead taking over, the trio is determined to do whatever it takes to get home. Traveling historic Route 66, Rowan, Kiaya, and Devon fight for survival as they struggle to come to terms with their changing world.


✯✯5 Zombie Filled Stars!!!✯✯

Woohoo Kate L. Mary is headed back into the zombie apocalypse world!!! I read her Oklahoma Wastelands and I’m kicking myself for not knowing about her Broken World Series until after it was finished. 

Rowan is away for college. She was adopted and her parents are very involved in her life, ESP her mom. Which is why she chose a college so far away. 

There’s a deadly virus spreading across the U.S and people are dropping like flies. Rowan just wants to go home and be with her parents even though they’ve told her to stay there bc it’s safer. Rowan decides to take matters into her own hands. 

Rowan gets cleared for traveling. Then she meets Kiaya and Kyle and together they start their travel home.  Kiaya’s very quiet and Kyle seems to be the talkative one. Until he starts getting sick and they’re forced to pullover in Vega, Texas and get a hotel room. 

Almost instantly Rowan meets Devon and she def doesn’t want anything to do with him. Rowan and Kiaya take turns looking after Kyle until he passes away. 

Rowan gets some helpful information from a stranger and it gets her thinking things are definitely going to get worse before they get better. It’s a matter of survival of the fittest. 

Before they can gather supplies and get outta there they learn the dead are coming back from the dead as zombies. Luckily for them Devon was there just in time. 

They’re three strangers trying to survive. They agree to travel together. The plan is go get Kiaya’s younger sister and go to Rowan’s house and then they’ll figure out what’s next afterwards. 

Getting to the endpoint is proving harder then they ever thought possible. Who can they trust on their travels. 

OMG!!! I’ve read a decent amount of apocalypse and zombie books. Every book it’s happened awhile ago, some their entire lives. This is entirely different then every book I’ve read!! 

You see the first zombies along with Kiaya and Rowan. See how they go from doing things by the book to “stealing” supplies. Learning just how to survive and to trust complete strangers. 

Kate L. Mary did such an amazing job writing this story. She has such an amazing way of writing that you find yourself wanting to be friends with the characters. Which is crazy bc they’re fighting zombies but Kate’s just that good of an author. 


 I read it in one day bc I was hooked from page one to the ending. By the last chapter I was crying right along with Rowan. I’m invested in Kiaya, Devon, Rowan and their friends getting their HEA. I hope book two releases soon bc I’m dying to know what happens next. 
Kate L. Mary is an award-winning author of Adult, New Adult, and Young Adult fiction, ranging from Post-apocalyptic tales of the undead to Speculative Fiction and Contemporary Romance! Her YA book, When We Were Human, was a 2015 Children’s Moonbeam Book Awards Silver Medal winner for Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fiction, and a 2016 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal winner for Young Adult Science Fiction. Her book, Outliers, was a Top 10 Finalist in the 2018 Author Academy Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction, and a First Place Winner in the 2018 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction.

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Monday, April 22, 2019

✯Release Review w/Giveaway✯Pieces of Us (Confessions of the Heart #3) by A.L. Jackson


A second chance stand-alone romance in A.L. Jackson's Confessions of the Heart Series.


"I absolutely adored all of the sweet emotion, angst, and just all of the feelings “Pieces of Us” inspired. The characters and their growth had me hooked from the first page. Read it. You will not regret it.”
~NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author Kylie Scott
My loves!! PIECES OF US IS LIVE!!! I am so freaking excited, I can hardly stand it! This book is EVERYTHING!
✓ Second-chance romance
✓ Sexy AF hero
✓ All the feels
DETAILS: 
TITLE: PIECES OF US
SERIES: A Confessions of the Heart Stand-Alone Novel 
RELEASE DATE: April 22nd, 2019
Maxon Chambers has a way of stealing all the attention.
All my affection, and all my dreams.
What I needed to remember was he’d stolen my good judgment and my virginity, too.
When he broke up with me, I ran across the country and swore I’d never return to Broadshire Rim.
But here I am, thirteen years later. 
Maxon is all grown up.
Sexier than sin and more tempting than ever.
A detective on the Charleston force, he lives on the outside of safety, devoted to protecting the people of his city.
But with the way he’s looking at me now? I’m pretty sure what needs protecting is my heart.
Can we mend the pieces of us? Or will he leave my heart shattered forever . . .


✯✯5 Bird & Dragon Filled Stars!!!✯✯

A. L. Jackson lives to pull on my heartstrings. Every book, every story, every character and their lives play out in front of me as I’m reading about them. This is the last piece to the Confessions of The Heart series. All three are standalone books but def read the first two. 

We’ve met Mack in the beginning of this series. He’s a big part of this series. Jace and Ian are his best friends, his brothers, his family. He’d do anything to protect them. Mack’s glad they’ve found love, have their families and finally settled. Mack doesn’t ever see himself settling down. He did once but he let his one chance go. Let his little bird fly away and he’s hoping she’s happy. 

Mack hasn’t seen her in over ten years. But, he’s thought of her everyday. When doing an errand for Ian he runs into his bird. Izzy. And, she’s as beautiful as the last time he saw her. Mack’s not sure what she’s doing back in town but he’ll do anything to get her back. 

Izzy fell in love with Mack before she knew what falling in love meant. He was her best friend, her protector, her dragon. Their lives couldn’t be anymore different but when they were together none of it mattered. Right before they were due to leave Mack broke up with her. Broke her heart, said she deserved better than him. Izzy left town and never planned on returning. Until she had no choice. 

Izzy still cares and loves Mack. She always will but things aren’t the same. A lot has happened since he broke her heart and she left. They’ve both got secrets, both done things that they’re not proud of. But, did what they thought was right at time.  Izzy’s petrified of Mack learning her secret bc she’s afraid he’ll hate her and never forgive her. 

Oh. My. Goodness!!! Talk about a true second chance romance. This gave me chills multiple times. Mack and Izzy are amazing together. They love and support each other no matter the circumstances. It’s a shame they lost on all those years. 

One of my favorite things that A. L. Jackson does with her stories is how she puts the characters past in the book.  Gives you the characters past. Gives you a piece of them that’s effected their lives in the present, what makes them feel the way they do. She’s a master at really making you fall in love with who you’re reading. 

It was nice seeing Jace, Ian and their women and children again. ESP the beginning with Ian you’ll lol bc I did. Meeting Izzy’s family was a great added plus. Loved her mom. 

I really wish this series wasn’t ending. I totally fell for this trio of guys and their ladies. But, damn what a way to end this series. A. L. Jackson really did save the best for last. But, shhh don’t tell my guys Jace and Ian I said that. Can’t wait for the next book A. L. hits publish on. 


Don't miss the awesome giveaway for the Pieces of Us release! It's the first two books from the Confessions of the Heart Series + Kindle Fire + Polaroid Camera + All the Goods! 
Ahhh I can't wait for you to experience this story! I'm so insanely proud of it! I can't wait to hear what you think!
xoxo ~ 
Amy 


A.L. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad.
Her bestselling series include THE REGRET SERIES, CLOSER TO YOU, BLEEDING STARS, and FIGHT FOR ME novels. Grab A.L. Jackson’s latest novel, PIECES OF US, the third stand-alone novel in her brand-new CONFESSIONS OF THE HEART series.
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