Indecent Exposure by Tessa Bailey 5 ✭

Title: Indecent Exposure
Author: Tessa Bailey
Series: The Academy
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Genre: New Adult & College, Romance, Contemporary Romance
Advanced Reader Copy: Yes
Total Pages: 384
Ages Recommended: 18+ Available in Paperback & Kindle Formats
My Rating: ✭✭✭✭✭

Indecent Exposure is a prime example of how I think a New Adult genre book should be composed. When I think of New Adult & College books, I expect to feel hopeful for love or the chance of falling in love, almost still like you're in high school. When you read it, you want to feel like the characters are mature enough to be confident or at least responsible in their lives as if they are finally beginning their life as an adult. Tessa Bailey has captured the time of being hopeful to fall in love and the maturity of having more confidence in yourself and the responsibilities of being an adult.

The characters are still young enough to be naive, and they can learn and grow as the story goes. The character development is impressive. I will say that I feel like the focus is more on Jack Garrett and his past rather than Katie. However, Katie is the perfect counter to his problem. 

Let's just say that at the start of the book Jack comes off as a typical twenty something male who is smoking hot and he knows it. He is always out bar hopping just to make the day go by. As the story develops you realize that it is more than that. Jack is a young man with a problem that he himself isn't even aware of. He is broken but oblivious to how broken he actually is. Katie is innocent and witty. I fell in love with her to a little. Jack at one point notices that she has a sense of humor but doesn't use it to flirt. That felt like a key attribute about Katie McCoy to me.


This was my first book to read by Tessa Bailey. I was #blessed by the books gods with getting an ARC to read, and I do mean blessed. I am looking forward to reading more by Tessa Bailey. This is a book that I would willingly buy no matter the cost and the cost is worth it. I was beyond happy with this read. Thankfully there is more to the series as this is the second book in the Academy series. So far there looks like there is going to be three books.

I absolutely recommend this book to anyone who loves a good romance. This was a charming romance that made me feel like my heart was invested in the characters and the story. I think what made the whole book so lovable was that it was written as such an amazing new adult book. However, it does have mature content obviously, it is not a young adult book. So I would say the reader should be 18 or older.

TL;DR Version - BUY THIS BOOK! It is a real book and not just a happily ever after romp read.



Other current books in the series:
Books One: Disorderly Conduct by Tessa Bailey
Release Date: August 29, 2017

You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone…Police academy cadet Charlie Burns can’t believe his luck when the gorgeous blonde he meets in a bar murmurs those magic words: “Nothing serious, ’kay?” Mind-blowing, no-strings sex with Ever Carmichael—it’s the holy grail of hookups for a guy who’s too busy following in his law enforcement family’s footsteps to think about getting serious. Charlie’s all about casual…that is, until Ever calls it quits and his world tilts on its axis.
Ever knows that when you control the relationship game, you can’t get played. But for the first time, she wants more than short-term satisfaction. Step one: end her fling with commitment-phobic Charlie. Step two: sacrifice herself to the ruthless NYC dating scene. Yet everywhere she turns, there’s Charlie, being his ridiculously charming self. No online match or blind date compares to the criminally hot cop-in-training, but they’re over. Aren’t they?
If love is a four-letter-word, why does the idea of Ever seeing someone else tie Charlie up in knots?  Now he’s desperate to win her back…and a little date sabotage never hurt anyone, right?

The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts by KC Tansley 5 ✭

Title: The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts

Author: KC Tansley

Series: The Unbelieveables

Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Supernatural

Publish Date: August 1, 2015

Pages: 258

Ages: Teen

Rating: ✭✭✭✭✭

I am convinced that this book could totally be a movie. It can either be really creepy or it could even be made out like one of those CW teen dramas that could easily hook the masses. I received a copy from NetGalley for my unbiased opinion from the publisher. I am seriously hoping that I get approved for the second book in the series which just came out October 2017. It is just so cool. This book did a really great job in combining an unsolved murder mystery, time travel, spells and curses.

Kat is a college student who has done her best to be an unbeliever and she has done a great job at it for eight years. However as she delves deeper in to her research for her professor she starts letting the unbelievables in unwillingly.  She is part of a team of four people who are looking into the mysterious murder and disappearances that happens 129 years ago at a castle. Kat is special because she use to see ghosts as a child and she never had a problem until one tried to possess her eight years ago. Luckily another ghost named Toria helped Kat into no longer believing in ghosts so that she could no longer see them. As the team of students get ready to continue their research by going to the castle, Kat finds out that the ghost that possessed her and the ghost who helped saved her are both people who were at the castle at the time of the murders they're looking into.

Kat and one of her research partners end up falling through a mirror into the past. Right into the bodies of their past ancestors. Their ancestors were key people during the time of the murders that they're looking into. As they live inside their ancestors for a few days shows them how confusing the events really were. You start seeing jealous lovers, people who are a forbidden love, and some loves that wish to be. The castle has its own secret passages to add to the intrigue of who killed the newly weds that lend to generations after being cursed. The curse is basically the first born male in the one of the family lines either dies on their 23rd birthday or if that same son gets married before then, he will die on his wedding night.

This book is written so well that all the events, as chaotic as they can be, flow naturally. It is easy to read and feels super full of story that you don't feel like your rushing through. I would love to continue this series or even see it produced into live action. It is 100% something that I am going to  read because it has one of those cliffhangers that doesn't frustrate you but just makes you more interested.

Lucky Little Book Mom

So I just recently realized that I have a new badge for my NetGalley reviews. I am so excited. I mean it's only that I have done 10 reviews for their site but it is exciting for me. I love being able to do reviews for these sites. I get to read a bunch of books and provide my perspective of the book. I'm still a total rookie in the whole blogger thing and I don't even know if anyone even reads them. It's just really a fun thing for me to do. I love this.
Seriously, this is like a gift for me to me. I have successfully stuck with their site and been lucky enough to receive that many books. Reading is something for me that helps me get over stress, or get through events in my life. I love just getting lost into someone else's world. Someone else's imagination has created this thing that you just want to have a piece of it.

NetGalley and Edelweiss are the two websites that I use the most to request ARC or eGalley copies of books. No you do not get paid for reading these books. So it is literally like getting a gift. Somedays I just like taking a look at what they have on their sites just to see what things may be getting released in the future. Only bummer I have with Edelweiss is I don't think they have any "sharable badges". Then again it is harder to get your book requests approved if you are like me and just starting out.

I guess the whole point of my post is that I am excited that I keep getting these opportunities to read. To feel like I am contributing to anything is fun. I am just happy and wanted to share.


** Edit: I hit publish and not save before I was done.

Breaking the Rules of Revenge by Samantha Bohrman 3 ✭

Title: Breaking the Rules of Revenge
Author: Samantha Bohrman
Series:  N/A
Genre: Teen Romance Comedy
Publish Date: September 18, 2017
Pages: 222
Ages: Teen & up 

Rating: ✭✭✭

I ate this book up like it was candy. If I were a teen, this exactly would have matched my type of book. This has that whole sweet innocent girl who is clumsy and feels completely invisible. It also has the cute bad boy that is focused on her. This is fun and maybe a little goofy book from Entangled Crush. It is a good book but I'm not sure if its one that will stick around for me personally. 

Mallory is an innocent normal bland teenager. However, her twin sister Blake is almost like a superstar. Blake is super athletic, popular with the boys, outgoing. Mallory has asthma, is in the band, and always has her face in a book. Blake gets in major trouble from pranking this one specific boy and her choice is go to prison, or summer camp… Or option number three beg your twin sister to go for you. Obviously since this story is about Mallory you can tell Blake went with option number three.

Ben Iron Cloud is the one guy in school who isn't interested in Blake. Not in the slightest. They have been total enemies all school year. The final prank that caused him to get suspended for the last bit of school was pushing it. His mother sends him to a summer camp because she thinks he needs to get away from his friends who have a bad reputation. The first day of camp he sees his enemy, Blake, show up and he decides that now is the time for revenge. He doesn't know that it is actually Mallory the meek. 

I would pick this book up again, just to see if it interests me more down the road. I think it deserves a re-read. For now I will say it was a good book and if you are a teen, or have a teen this is totally appropriate and really fun to read.

Check out a free sample below of Breaking the Rules of Revenge. Won't have to leave the page even. 

Destined to Crave by Setta Jay 5 ✭

Title: Destined to Crave
Author: Setta Jay
Series: Descended of Guardians
Genre: Romance, Erotica
Publish Date: August 30, 2017
Pages: 150
Ages: 18 + 

 Rating: ✭✭✭✭✭

I have not come across any of Setta Jay's books before and I feel like I am missing out on an amazing author. In the super short 150 pages I was able to feel fully invested in a giant world that is a mash of all kinds of supernatural and fantasy characters. It also feels like it is done so right. The different types of creatures that were built into the world, whether they are Gods or mermaids feel like they all belong together.  I am completely serious when I say that I feel compelled to read all the books written by this author because to achieve such a strong story in a tiny little novella is impressive. Not to mention that this is book isn't even part of the main series she wrote but this is like the side series that comes from the originals. With a quick Amazon prowl if you have Kindle Unlimited it looks like the Guardians of the Realms series are mostly available to read for free. Score! I personally will be doing this once I catch up on some of my to be read pile.

Now about Destined to Crave itself. This was not a joke about it being sexually charged but the plus side it didn't feel like one of those short reads that was just writing a romp. This has an ending that leads you further down the rabbit hole wondering where the story is going to go from here. Eirykr is descended from some pretty powerful beings, like his grandfather is Hades kind of powerful. Most of the named characters that you meet are very similar. They're all strong and full of powers. Even one of the side characters in this books has some mysterious power that no one knows about really. This makes me really love to read her book if she gets one. In this collision of worlds people have mates. True mates, the one and only, the kind that you find it and its like this ridiculous pull and a mating ritual type thing. Rykr has a mate named Lucy and they actually grew up together. She even held him as a baby. Yep, she is a little older than him. Age is really nothing but a number here since these are immortal beings. They can't be together because of a curse that was put on Rykr right after Lucy banned him from her side. Now there is all this tortured arousal floating around and they can't do anything about it. 

This really great short book that I feel will be actually pretty memorable to me. For me, it was an amazing introduction to a new world that I really want to get into and start reading.

You should really click below to read the free preview of Destined to Crave without leaving the page. 

Stolen Kisses by Annie Rains 3 ✭

Title: Stolen Kisses
Author: Annie Rains
Series: A Blushing Bay Novel
Genre: Romance, Women's Fiction
Publish Date: October 10, 2017
Pages: 238
Ages: 18 + 

Rating: ✭✭✭

With friends developing into lovers you would think this would be a thrilling read, however even though I was near the end it took me three weeks to decided to finish this little romance. I think the overall of this book was that it was an ok read, that might hit for someone better than it did me. It wasn't overly predictable until you got to the last 5% or so when it's building into its happily ever after. It has a few sweet moments near the end where you felt sorry for the characters, but you were able to quickly move beyond that when the end was ten pages later. (It felt like)

Krista is a nurse who has had a plan in life. She knows what she has always wanted to do with her life, and what she wanted out of it. She loves working with people and healing people. She has had a best friend her whole life (Noah) who she has been completely in love with in secret only to him. So she's been waiting around focused on her career and her friends and family. 

Noah has been a mess most of his life until when things change when he was in college and send him running for the hills to be with his family to live a life of a bachelor's dream. He lives in a boathouse, he is on the water fishing for a living, and is the Captain of his own boat. He was the baby of the family and everyone seems to know him as "that guy". He has his weekly dinner with his best friend Krista who he sees as one of the guys. He even says it when he brings a date to their get together one night and it sets off the chain of events that lead to the entire book. 

I guess for me personally I didn't feel interested in the characters much. Well, Krista was a little interesting, but as being one of the guys she didn't come across like that. She came across more like someone's kid sister that ended up being part of the gang (sort of). I guess that's part of why it didn't reach me as much. I have been one of the guys and I feel like Krista doesn't fit like that. Not a bad book and I enjoyed reading parts of it. I just sort of stalled out with reading it about 80% (thank you kindle) of the way through.

Check out a free Sample below to see if Stolen Kisses is your type of a read below, without leaving the page.