Serial Hottie by Kelly Oram 4 ✭

Title: Serial Hottie

Author: Kelly Oram

Genre: Teen, Young Adult, Contemporary Romance, Mystery, Humor

Publish Date: June 5, 2012

Pages: 405 - Fast read, was able to tackle in seven hours.

Ages: This book is appropriate for a younger age, I would say even 13. 

Rating: ✭✭✭✭

Being a fifteen-year-old girl is hard enough when you're a tomboy who plays hockey like one of the guys. Add in a really hot neighbor and first real crush with confusing teenage emotions, and a local serial killer and you have one heck of an amusing story. 

Ellie has seriously always been one of the guys. She is just a normal teen who is only interested in playing hockey. The guys have always treated her like one of them, they tackle her, get into fights with her, she smack talks with them, and dresses like them. Her sister Angela is her older sister and she is the typical girlie girl and doesn't understand Ellie because of how different they are.

Then a hot California boy moved in across the street. Ellie is intrigued by him and she wants to know more. So what does a teenage girl who has no idea how to even begin interacting with boy do? Spy on him from her bedroom window duh. Ellie starts to learn his routine, and when he does his workouts shirtless in his garage. Soon, they meet and things get weird. He's a little obsessive. He likes to tease her and aggressively flirt with her which she has NO clue what to do about. So obviously she runs from him constantly. She is so confused when he even tries to hold her hand because what he makes her feel is so out of the normal from the way other boys have ever made her feel. His aggressiveness begins to freak her out, and when she sees his skills with knives that he can throw with deadly accuracy. She begins to panic at every site of him from both fear and what she doesn't know is desire.

Meanwhile, there is a serial killer on the loose. The murders started around the time that Seth moved into town. The "Saturday Night Slasher" is what the media calls the killer who is killing girls that look identical to Ellie. One is almost a perfect doppelganger for Ellie. So murder on the loose, a knife wielding neighbor with is obsessed with Ellie, and Ellie's new emotions and feeling lead to an amusing adventure.

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Just a note

I have a busy weekend ahead of me. My best friend and her husband are coming to visit us for a couple days. I love our time together. We only get to see each other three times a year. We have been friends since 2004, and as far as our kids are concerned we are family. She's my kids' aunt and I am her four kids aunt. Thankfully, her four kids are not coming. I love her kids but my house is WAY too small for another crew of six people here with our little two bedrooms and family of four.

Family doesn't always mean blood.

The only problem is the cleaning you have to do to prepare for them to come in town. You know, washing the guest sheets, giving the bathroom an extra scrub down, the things like that. The extra corners that have that dust you have been avoiding because no one goes in that room.

There must be no dust. Lol

Needless to say, I am probably going to be a little behind on some of my blogging goals. My current goals are set to blog at least three days a week. I am trying to work up to daily reading but my one and three-year-old like to challenge that during naptime lately.

My Currently "attempting" to read books are:

1. Indecent Exposure: The Academy by Tessa Bailey - I am SUPER excited about this book because I got an ARC copy of this to read from the publisher, HarperCollins. This book is going to be released January 30th, 2018. So keep an eye out for my review in the future to see if I think you should pre-order your own copy. (Paperback Pre-order Link)
2. Wife by Wednesday by Catherine Bybee - This I picked up because it seemed higly rated, it was a Kindle Unlimited book, and it also had audible included with the Kindle Unlimited. I really wanted to try out the audio part of it. I hadn't listened to a book in a while so I wanted to do that.
3. Serial Hottie by Kelly Oram - This I picked because I need round out with a young adult type book. I have read and reviewed a book by Kelly Oram and loved the book. This is also a Kindle Unlimited book. The book from before was Cinder & Ella which was a new telling of Cinderella. It was more current day and I really liked it. It may be why I really wanted to start a blog.

I will say that there is a good chance I may add or remove books before I actually get reviews out for all these. So keep your eye open for future posts.

**Post Edited: 7/14/17 to remove a book from my list. I am no longer interested in reading that book.**

Paper Love by Aubrey Wynne 5 ✭

A sweet and pure romantic read about a woman and her sister as they start over in America after a family tragedy. Joss struggles with her mother's death and after being back in the United States she learns very quickly not all men can be trusted. Her friend invites her to a party at her brother's house and that's how she meets Ben. Ben will do anything to regain Joss's trust. I really like how he had to work for her affection and it wasn't just an instant happily ever after type of book. 

This is for anyone who loves sweet romance and not a smut read. You feel for the characters and you develop a relationship with them that makes you root for them. This is a really great pure type of romance. I adore this book and I feel like it's something I would pick up off the shelf at the store just randomly walking by.  This was a pretty quick read and it's something I would definitely read for a quick summer read on the weekend.

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Cinder & Ella by Kelly Oram 5 ✭

Absolutely Emotional

Cinder & Ella is a great Happily Ever After book. But you know what, honestly even if it didn't have the struggles of young love, it still would have been an amazing book. Take out the sweet cute Cinderella story aspect (which was done really great) and you have this story that breaks your heart and builds you back.

Short and sweet version... Ella was a normal girl who lost everything. She didn't even have herself anymore, she was alone and her body was walking physical torture. She gets back into school and then begins the verbal torture. It's a but how she grows from rock bottom and works through all the ups and downs. A new family, loneliness, all that. She breaks down a few times and you feel for her. If you put yourself in her place you feel the anger, the sadness, the utter despair with her.

Moving on to the love story aspect, this was done really good. He wasn't the typical movie star boy that was just bleh. . . He had goals for himself, and his own storyline that ran with Ellis obviously. But what got me is he GREW as a character. He went from a teen heartthrob who did as he was told and changed to be the man in command.

I would recommend this book for sure. For a teen and up. What pulled me was what the story was gonna be about, and this beautiful unique cover. Yes, the cover got me. It didn't feel like the typical copycat covers you see everywhere. This book is in fact, currently a Kindle Unlimited read! So if you have Kindle Unlimited you need to totally check this out!

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