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Thursday, February 4, 2021

✯Release Review✯The Sacrifice (The 4 Horsemen #3) by Elena Monroe




Title: The Sacrifice
Series: The 4Horsemen #3
Author: Elena Monroe

Genre: Dark Forbidden Romance
Release Date: February 4, 2021


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KHAOS 
I’m not living under any kind of false pretenses here. I know I’m basically a rapper’s attitude with R&B feelings and a pop star’s bank account. 
There were a lot of ways to describe my unconventional lifestyle of part time cult member and full time showman. 
Risk taker. 
Exuberant. 
And my personal favorite adjective: undomesticated. 
I surrounded myself with people who liked a good time but left after they served their purpose of making sure I felt nothing but top shelf feelings. 
I wasn’t about to be like my brothers who let the darkness eat away at their vindication. The only crime I had ever committed was waving the glory of being invited, of saying I came and conquered around like a badge of honor. 
Spoiler alert: None of that earned me respect. 
There’s only one girl who managed to rob me of my fake smile...and my watch. 

GRACE 
I was a throw away, street trash, a child abandoned and scooped up by the bad people you only hear about after they get caught. 
I was hard in a way people found uncomfortable and determined too much work to rehabilitate into society again. I was found guilty over and over enough to let the bad things become who I am, blurring the lines between freedom and a jail sentence. 
Fraud. 
Thief. 
And my least favorite: fake girlfriend to a scary ass kingpin. 
Forced out of a childhood I was surrounded by darkness, evil, and the kind of cutthroat loyalty that landed your body so mutilated they wouldn’t be able to tell who you were if you fell out of obedience. 
They accepted me like family and there’s no quitting your family. 
I had the respect to match my rap sheet. 
There’s only one guy who managed to exonerate me… and my invisible wings.


✯✯5 Romeo & Juliet Filled Stars!!✯✯


Elena Monroe is three for three for me!! This is the 3rd book of hers that I’ve read and I promise you I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon!!


In the previous 2 book’s Khaos is the Happy go lucky one outta the 4Horseman. He’s got a skate ramp in both his office and backyard. You have to pick a hand and you’re either getting a starburst or a riddle. You never know with Khaos. 


We learn Khaos isn’t what meets the eye. He’s definitely putting up a front so nobody will know what scars he’s hiding behind. 


After his high school girlfriend who crushed his heart he won’t let himself fall and get hurt all over again. It’s why he has 25 girlfriend’s on retainer. One for every letter of the alphabet with the exception of G. 


When Birdy walked into Khaos’s life his world started to spin off its axis. Khaos has lived by his own rules for so long and never wanted to change. Birdy is making it where he’s breaking all his own rules and he isn’t even sorry about it. 


Grace AKA Birdy hasn’t had an easy life. Going from group home to group home. She ended up living on the streets and started pick pocketing to earn cash to survive.  


Birdy ended up in juvenile detention until Dove got her out Bc her stealing abilities was something he wanted to use that for himself. 


Dove didn’t have an issue laying his hands on Birdy when he didn’t get what he wanted outta her. Whenever he got to ruff she’d go to her friend Justice and her husband Vic. 


Birdy was just given a new target by Dove. Khaos. Dove wasn’t expecting Birdy to fall for Khaos and to not do her job to to his standard’s. 


Birdy can’t help herself. Khaos makes her feel thing’s she’s never felt in her entire life. Birdy will do anything to save Khaos from Dove. 


Khaos is in a cult and Birdy’s in a gang. These two shouldn’t work but they really do and will fight other’s and their inner demons in order to keep the other safe and to stay together. 


There wasn’t much cult ad the first two book’s but it was just as good!! My heart hurt Khaos with him and his anxiety and panic attack’s. The same with Birdy dealing with the beating’s she received. These two are everything. 


I’m SO looking forward to Bowen’s story next!!!








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EXCERPT

“You don’t know me. You’ve never known me because you chalked me up to be some useless brat you constantly fix mistakes for. I let you all define me. I’ve always just been whatever the fuck you all needed: funny Khaos, quiet Khaos, the Khaos that pushes you right into love when you’re too fucking blind. You don’t see how much she means to me because you don’t fucking see me. No one sees me except her.” My fingers were fisting the material so hard I wondered if I ripped his shirt when he cracked a smile.
His smirk bothered me instantly when he said, “I was testing a theory. Either way you’re becoming a blood donor tonight.”
Letting go of his shirt, I slumped down in the chair still riddled with anxiety and anger. I let myself fold over trying to get centered even though this wasn’t my adult tree house or a bathroom floor like I preferred.
“You’re a fucking psychopath.”
Vic folded his arms over his broad chest, “I had to make sure she meant something and wasn’t just part of your fucking antics... she’s a good person, not part of your fucking reverse harem plot.” A small pause between thoughts he spoke again, “Clave knows that video exists even though we buried it by giving Rodriguez a raid. She's the new price of you missing an event, dumbass. That’s DuPonte’s only rule and you broke it.”
He wasn’t wrong. The Clave doesn’t do well with broken rules and if you’re lucky enough to survive the punishment then it means you lost crucial parts of your life.
Loved ones mostly.
Considering I was the most unattached, the Clave would find a way to hurt me and being caught on tape with the girl I love was as good as me forking over the truth on a silver platter for them.
Hurt me here, please.
We both joked around the idea of us being forbidden because of who we belong to but nothing was more honest.
Star crossed lovers doomed by our loyalties.
“What do you want me to do, Vic? Get on my knees and beg you to make it better? Keep smiling because it’s easier for you guys? I fucked up but I can clean up after myself.”






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AUTHOR BIO


Elena Monroe grew up in Florida scribbling down stories from a very young age. These stories were really just wavy lines filling the paper, but she knew each word, each emotion, each character's name, and there was no tricking her into forgetting what each line signified. Just like her unconventional way of writing as a toddler Elena is setting her own rules and just telling stories. 

Much like her debut novel, The Best Years, life certainly imitated art. Transplanting from the South to the East Coast, Elena currently lives in Connecticut with husband, reformed bad boy. 

Find her on her social media through Twitter at @elenamonroe, Instagram at @elenamonroewrites, Facebook at @elenamonroewrites, and more


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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

✯Release Review✯ Luring Light (Royal Bastards MC: Tampa, FL #2) by K.E. Osborn

๑۩♦️۩๑ NEW RELEASE ๑۩♦️۩๑

இ ☠️ Luring Light ☠️ இ

Author: KE Osborn

Series: Royal Bastards MC

🔥 Tampa, FL Chapter Book 2 🔥

Cover Design Jay Aheer Simply Defined Art

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What if the life you had was a lie? That the virtuous person you tried to convince yourself you were, isn’t anything like the woman you are deep inside. What if the one person you thought could bring out the darkness inside you, fought hard to keep your light instead?  

But then again, what if he’s fooling himself? What if I’m not so innocent, and he’s the one who should be scared… 

Luring Light is a part of The Royal Bastards MC Author Collaboration and is book two in the Tampa, FL Series.


✯✯5 Void & Toxin Filled Stars!!!✯✯ 


I KNEW when I read
 Defining Darkness that Nycto’s VP Void and Eva’s younger sister Ivy were going to be good together and man was I right. 

We pick-up pretty much right where we left off. 


When Ivy was kidnapped in Cuba she didn’t know what would happen to her and her sister Eva. When Nycto took her sister and her by default she wasn’t sure what to expect. It ended up being the best thing that could’ve happened to them. 


Ivy lives in the cellar of The Royal Bastards MC surrounded by decaying bodies and weed. You’d think that would bother her but nope she’s absolutely comfortable being there. 


Ivy’s in-charge of growing the product with the help of Dash and she takes care of bricking those who’ve crossed the MC. 


Ivy loves being apart of The Royal Bastards. The one thing she wants more is Void but he continues keeping her at arms length. There’s one reason he does and it’s bc she’s never been with a man before and he can’t look past it. Ivy wants Void to look past that part and see she’s not all pure and light but she has a darkness in her. Ivy won’t give up on Void no matter how hard he tries. 


Void didn’t have an easy childhood. He was raised in a cult with his father at the tippy top spot and he raised Void to be emotionless. Void was able to see clearly enough and get out. 


Void’s the VP of the MC and takes his job seriously. Ever since they rescued Eva and Ivy from being sold to who knows Void finds himself attracted to Ivy. He can’t seem to stay away from her. 


Void doesn’t want to ruin or hurt Ivy. Void’s afraid he’ll do something to hurt Ivy so he keeps her at arms length as much as possible. But, whenever he sees her with Dash the prospect it makes him feel anger and jealous. 


If fighting with himself over his feelings for Ivy wasn’t enough. Nope! The club was waiting for whoever originally bought Ivy and Eva to pop up looking for them. 


Well they’ve shown up looking for Ivy, it’s 110% not what I expecting and I’m all for it. That’s def not the end of things.  The MC is being tracked and they’re coming for Void and Ivy and won’t take no for an answer. Void cares and loves Ivy too much to let anything to happen to her. 


Nycto sets up a safe house for Ivy and Void to hideout at. This might give them time to get closer then ever but it’s not as safe as they all thought. 


Holy cow!! I fell for Nycto quick but man there’s something about Void. Him and Ivy really are perfect together. They both have the right amount of light & dark in each other to fit together like two perfect puzzle pieces. 


Dash was in this story so much that it left me wanting his book bc he deserves his HEA. 


K. E. Osborn ended this story where I was jumping up & down bc I was LOVING where Ivy was in all her places/positions. She 100% deserves what she’s gotten. 

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Thursday, March 21, 2019

✯Review✯The Book of David by Kate L. Mary

Blurb
Neglected by her mother, abused by her stepfather, and trapped in an oppressive cult, Willow Sands has lived the past three years with the shadow of her fifteenth birthday hanging over her. That was the day her mother handed her over to David, the son of their leader, promising her a future even more bleak than she’d ever imagined. Now, with her eighteenth birthday and the day of her wedding fast approaching, she’s almost come to accept her fate. 

Hope was the last thing Willow expected to feel this close to her wedding, but that’s exactly what she finds in Jared. The more time she spends with him, the more haunted she becomes by the freedom she let slip through her fingers all those years ago. She knows if she wants a real future she’ll have to break free of the crushing grip the cult has on her, and the more she gets to know Jared, the more determined she becomes to gain her freedom once and for all. 

Trigger Warning: This book deals with the subject of rape and may be disturbing to some readers.



✯✯4 Willow Filled Stars!!!✯✯

Kate L. Mary continues to prove over and over again why she’s one of my favorite authors. All her female characters are fighters. Doesn’t matter if their fighting zombies, post apocalyptic life, weird cult life or men thinking their word is final.  They find a way to survive and come out on top. 

Right before Willow was born her father and brothers died in a car accident. Her mother couldn’t handle loosing them and she found The Church of David. It’s the only life Willow knows. She knows nothing of the life outside the compound. 

When girls turn 15 they are betrothed to their future husbands by Father David. Willow doesn’t know exactly what goes on other than it’s God’s will. The betrothed couple get one night together until the girl turns 18 and then they’ll be married. 

Willow is betrothed to David. The son to Father David. That night was the start of a living nightmare for Willow. David takes advantage of his power. He rapes and beats Willow.  

Afterwards instead of going home Willow ran away. She found a couple who took her in. Those few weeks were the best she ever had. Willow saw and learned things she’d never heard of before. She wanted to stay with them forever. One night Father David, David and a few of the elders found her and dragged her home. 

Father David punished Willow. He let her know if she did anything out of the rules the women must follow or try to escape again, her mother will pay for it. She was to keep her head down, follow the rules and marry his son when she turns 18. 

Willow laid low. Try to stay out of trouble. The closer to her 18th birthday the harder it’s becoming for Willow. She knows there’s more to life than what Father David says. She got more love when she escaped than her 18yrs from her mom. 

Willow refuses to marry David. She just has to figure out her plan. Then one afternoon she meets Jared. One look at Willow’s life will never be the same. He looks, talks and treat her better than anyone ever has. The more time she spends with Jared the harder it’s getting for her to know what to do. She does know that she doesn’t want to marry David. But, she can’t figure out a way out of it. 

I read this book in two sittings. I don’t have triggers. Even saying that there were some parts that had me flinching. So dive in with a warning. 

Kate wrote this story and did an amazing job. I can totally see this as a Lifetime Movie. I’m glad she decided to hit publish this story that she’s been pushing for awhile bc Willow’s story needed to be told. 

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