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.

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Boomerang Boyfriend by Chris Cannon 3 ✭

Title: Boomerang Boyfriend

Author: Chris Cannon

Series: The Boyfriend Chronicles

Genre: Young Adult, Romance

Publish Date: September 11, 2017

Pages: 210

Ages: Teen

Rating: ✭✭✭

In any teen drama you need a few things. Family conflict, emotionally charged kids, and some average problems that seem like totally so much worse. This book hits all key items for this teen drama where the little sisters bestfriend and the older brother start to fall for each other. This is one of those taboo teen things. You don't fall for your bestfriends brother or sister. It can just become too awkward. Even just being regular friends can be tough if the siblings are just little kids. I've seen it happen with my brother and his girlfriend, they broke up and not only broke each others heart but also our little sisters.

The characters were interesting in this book because they weren't made to sound so overly dramatic that teens tend to be. Jack is a mostly content kid who from time to time deals with his grief over his father and grandfather by lashing out at those closest to him. Delia is Jack's little sister Zoe's best friend. She's an artsy type that pretty much lives at Jack and Zoe's house because her parents are always away working nights. So she is mostly alone.

I did receive a free e-copy of this book from the publisher so my review is going to be based off that.

This was a nice story to read, but I do feel like there are some things that could be improved upon. One thing is the scene changes feel clunky and snapped into place. For an example Jack was upset at one point and he just walks off. He doesn't notice anyone else around him. It's like Jack "blah blah…" and he walks away. There's was nothing like "he noticed the sad look his mother gave him as he turned away" or anything like that. As an adult reader I can assume because of the mothers feelings being expressed in other scenes of the book but I feel like things like that could have added so much more to the story.

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Final Fall by Heather W. Petty 4 ✭

Title: Final Fall

Author: Heather W. Petty

Series: Lock & Mori

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance

Publish Date: November 28, 2017

Pages: 208

Ages: 14 & up

Rating: ✭✭✭✭

I want to be completely honest here. I never read the first two books in the series. Oh my god. Do I wish that I did? Heck yeah. I mean at first, I was totally confused because I had no clue who the perspective was coming from and why they were imprisoned. But you know, you roll with it because it's interesting. This person who is caged in is kind of bad ass and smart. I think when I was halfway through my copy from the publisher is when I had to shop around for the first two books in the series. I am kind of disappointed that this series didn't seem to have the presence in the public that I felt it deserved. I feel like this should have already been on my radar. 

I think this is a great crime solving book for teens and up to read. There are masterminds behind masterminds it seems in this series. That really has made me feel like I have missed out on not reading the first two books. Mori is a strong, smart, and maybe a little crazy. She uses her own brilliance and fierce determination to accomplish her goals. I am not sure if I would call her a role model, but I would definitely agree with aspects of her being admirable. 

I feel like Lock is a key player in this book but in the background. Always there but not. This is mostly a result of the things that have happened in the previous books. I wish that I could have gotten to know his character some more but I was able to get a good feel for his character. I think that this series could still live on with the kind of person Lock is. That would be pretty cool to read. 

If this had been the first book in the series I would have said that it shows promise of a good series and a future with awesome characters. It's the end of the series according to Amazon's blurb, but I am bummed out because I would really be ok for it to continue. I have to read the whole series to get a full feeling for the series as a whole. If I were my pre-teen self, this is a book that I would absolutely enjoy and get hooked into.

Disorderly Conduct by Tessa Bailey 3 ✭

Title: Disorderly Conduct

Author: Tessa Bailey

Series: The Academy

Genre: Romance

Publish Date: August 29, 2017

Pages: 354

Ages: 18 + 

Rating: ✭✭✭

I read the first and second book backwards. It didn't really change much for my perspective of how much I like Tessa Bailey's writing and her characters. I think she does an excellent job of writing characters who develop relationships that feel completely natural. It's not just trying to mash two archetypes together and turn out a book.

This book was a fun ride. I wouldn't call it the best. I loved the second book in the series a he'll of a lot more. It had characters that develop and grow through the story and they actually change. While Disorderly Conduct makes you think they may have grown and they really don't they just stumble into the realization they've been ignorant and immature. I guess I just wasn't super into this one as the others. I delayed on writing my reviews because of the thanksgiving holiday time frame and it really gave me a better idea of how I felt.

Ever comes from a line of family with this really weird idea that they are mistresses who should just use men for sex and have no emotional entanglements. Ok so your mom having a sex talk is one thing but having your mom say just bone that's it... weird. generations go one by accident it seems. However, Ever is an interesting person. She is nice, she is stable in her career, she has a hood sense of humor and determination. I liked her, just not this weird background.

Charlie is an obsessive stalker, but it's written in a way you want to almost forgive him. I guess the theme for this book could be determination. He was determined to have Ever. Charlie not only comes across as a stalker but also like an immature school boy. He's like running around town sabotaging Ever' s dates and stuff.

So both Ever and Charlie are like immature kids who are products of their upbringing. Neither have a clue what a relationship is or how to approach it. So obviously there with be misunderstandings, conflicts, devastation, betrayal, swooning, yada yada. Not a bad book at all. I liked it.

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