REVIEW: Perfectly Imperfect by Harper Sloan

Perfectly Imperfect by Harper Sloan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Body image issues. I have them, you have them, I'm pretty sure every woman I know has them. Doesn't matter your size, it's like it's embedded in your DNA only you don't think anyone else suffers from the same type of issues about their own body.

So when one of my favorite authors introduces me to a new story that demanded she write it because it hit so close to home for her personally, I didn't think, I just pre-ordered that puppy and said to myself "You WILL read this."

From the first page, I couldn't put this book down. The hashtag #IAmWillow was evident from the first page. Willow was beaten down for so long that it was only a matter of time for her to snap. Kane's there to see it and doesn't get it. He sees the beauty that she is and is on a mission to get her to see that and claim her for himself.

This was a beautiful story which includes some Kane drama too that Willow handles beautifully.

But beneath it all, the strength and the beauty Willow finds in herself brings out the beauty that every single one of us women have.

This is a story that was very powerful for me and will be re-read many, many times. I encourage everyone I know to read this story and tell me you don't see a little of Willow in you.

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Blurb

Mirror, mirror ... who's the fairest of them all?

I still cringe when I hear that line. A fairy tale that had girls pretending they were the fairest, the most beautiful, and the most entitled. A fairy tale most couldn't grow out of turned my haunted childhood memories into a living nightmare. Girls who grew up believing that pile of garbage became the meanest of all 'mean girls.'

And those mean girls were right - it was a line meant for all the beautiful people in the world - and I knew the answer would never be me.

The women with long legs, flat stomachs, and perfect chests.

The type of women Kane Masters gravitated toward.

Well, that's definitely not Willow Tate.

No. That will never be me.

Because I'm completely imperfect.

And ... I hate myself.

I have no idea what Kane could possibly see in someone like me when he could have them.

Excerpt

“Are you nervous right now?”
I nod.
“Tell me why.” His demand, steady and calm, gives me the courage I need to tell him. To open a vein and bleed my insecurities.
“I’m not perfect,” I whisper.
“And neither am I, Willow. I don’t want perfect. What so many see as perfect, to me, is fake. Perfect isn’t achievable naturally. No one, and I mean no one, is perfect.”
I’m shaking my head before he’s even done speaking, but one long finger comes up and presses against my lips before I can speak.
“No, let me finish. There isn’t beauty in perfection. It’s as fake as the image the word projects. Beauty is found in imperfection, Willow, because to admit you’re not perfect means you’re admitting you’re not whole and absolute. When I think of myself, I see someone willing to admit he’s as far from complete as it gets because, in order to get to that perfection, I need to find the other part of me who will make my life better. To take all the faults I have and fill them, and only then will I be there. You see, the way I see it, the only way to become perfect is to find that perfectly imperfect person who brings it out of you.”
When he stops, I swear I might have stopped breathing. How am I supposed to respond to that?
“Do you trust me?” he asks, his voice strong and sure.
“Yes, Kane. Nerves or not, I do.”
“Then let me show you what I see when I look at you.”
He brings his hands up, framing my face once again in a way I’m quickly becoming addicted to the feeling of. His warm eyes implore, begging me without words to let him continue. I do not intend to stop him, regardless of the butterflies currently taking over my system. I’m all in.

About the Author

Harper lives in small town Georgia just a short drive from her hometown of Peachtree City. She (and her 3 daughters) enjoy ruling the house they dubbed 'Estrogen Ocean', much to her husband’s chagrin. Harper has a borderline unhealthy obsession with books; you can almost ALWAYS find her with her eReader attached. She enjoys bad reality TV and cheesy romantic flicks. Her favorite kind of hero--the super alpha kind!

Harper started using writing as a way to unwind when the house went to sleep at night; and with a house full of crazy it was the perfect way to just relax. It didn't take long before a head full of very demanding alphas would stop at nothing to have their story told.

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Blurb

Mirror, mirror ... who's the fairest of them all?

I still cringe when I hear that line. A fairy tale that had girls pretending they were the fairest, the most beautiful, and the most entitled. A fairy tale most couldn't grow out of turned my haunted childhood memories into a living nightmare. Girls who grew up believing that pile of garbage became the meanest of all 'mean girls.'

And those mean girls were right - it was a line meant for all the beautiful people in the world - and I knew the answer would never be me.

The women with long legs, flat stomachs, and perfect chests.

The type of women Kane Masters gravitated toward.

Well, that's definitely not Willow Tate.

No. That will never be me.

Because I'm completely imperfect.

And ... I hate myself.

I have no idea what Kane could possibly see in someone like me when he could have them.

About the Author

Harper lives in small town Georgia just a short drive from her hometown of Peachtree City. She (and her 3 daughters) enjoy ruling the house they dubbed 'Estrogen Ocean', much to her husband’s chagrin. Harper has a borderline unhealthy obsession with books; you can almost ALWAYS find her with her eReader attached. She enjoys bad reality TV and cheesy romantic flicks. Her favorite kind of hero--the super alpha kind!

Harper started using writing as a way to unwind when the house went to sleep at night; and with a house full of crazy it was the perfect way to just relax. It didn't take long before a head full of very demanding alphas would stop at nothing to have their story told.

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REVIEW: November 9 by Colleen Hoover

November 9 by Colleen Hoover
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I finished November 9 by Colleen Hoover last night. The woman effin tore out my heart several times, spread the pieces in places I still can't find, and mended most of it back together again. I loathe/love when she does it, but now I have another damn book hangover and yet another damn book boyfriend. I don't care what the frack you're doing right now. You need to read this book. I need you to read this book. I need you to share my awe, my laughter, my angst, my anger, my tears, all MY FEELS as well as your own. Why? Because both Ben's story and Fallon's needs to be breathed in, absorbed, and shared with everyone.

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COVER REVEAL: The Last Round by Emmy L. Montes

Hey all, I have a cover reveal for you and let me tell you, I cannot WAIT to get my grubby hands on Julian! #TheLastRound by Emmy L. Montes is releasing #Dec28th #AfterTheHappilyEverAfter #BoxersLife #EpicLove

REVIEW: Deacon (Unfinished Hero Book #4) by Kristin Ashley

Deacon by Kristen Ashley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I am so used to the alpha male being all ALPHA from the get go that this slow build up for me had me wanting to quit the book rather than keep reading. I'm glad I kept reading.

This book is a much darker book than most of the books I read. I wanted to read it because I enjoyed the first three Unfinished Hero books and I really enjoyed the Rock Chick series.

Cassidy follows a dream and buys some cabins, fixes them up, and rents them out. At first, she has the help of her boyfriend, but when that goes south and he goes packing, she continues working and renting the cabins. She's content in her life and when the mysterious and brooding man rents one of her cabins several times over the course of a few years, she tries to get to know him, but each time, he pushes her away until one night and then slowly the walls begin to come down for him and for her.

Yes, to me, this book has a cliffhanger. Do you need to read the other three books before this one? No, it can be read as a standalone, but if you enjoy Kristen Ashley, then I suggest reading the other three, preferably in order before reading this.


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REVIEW: Locke (Corps Security #6) by Harper Sloan

Locke by Harper Sloan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have been waiting for Maddox Locke's story since he first appeared in Axel (Corps Security, #1). Tough, alpha exterior but the way he was in Axel, I was instantly taken by him and cursed Harper Sloan every time the next book in the series wasn't about Locke. However, she indeed, saved the best for last (although Axel gives Locke a run for his money in my heart).

So we meet Locke and Emmy in early stories (you really should read this series in order, but you don't have to. I just say DO IT [I'm so demanding, aren't I?]), you won't regret it. Back to Locke and Emmy.

Emmy has loved Maddox Locke throughout the series but Locke keeps playing a dance with her, keeping her at arms length and pushing her away. After an incident that occurs, she leaves the gang and heads back to the past she ran away from to begin with.

Of course the man goes after her and brings her back and the dance continues for a while of this push and pull between the two before everything comes to a head and when it does, you pull for them both and it's wicked.

If you want to believe those that leave the 1 and 2 stars then go ahead, but remember, like my review, their review is their opinion. If you love the Corps Security gang then read this book. You get your Sway moments, the moments with the other guys and Cohen too, as what is a Corps Security book without the gang, but you really and finally get Locke's story and that is what I was waiting for.

The book entertained me and that's all that matters to me. I loved it and I'm going to miss the gang as just starting life out with their significant others, but Harper has begun the wonderful Hope Town series about the kids of the Corps Security gang and the first one is about Cohen and Dani (Axel's daughter). WOOT WOOT WOOT!

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REVIEW: Cain's Identity (Scanguards Vampires Book 9) by Tina Folsom

Cain's Identity by Tina Folsom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What do you do when you have no memory of who you are except for vivid dreams of late and a feeling that you shouldn't be taking orders from anyone? You become defiant and combative. Then someone shows up claiming they know who you are and that they've come to take you back to claim what's rightfully yours?

If you're Cain, you cautiously agree to go "home" before you're legally declared dead. However, Scanguards sends some of its crew with you and what ensues is one entertaining, exciting, and tantalizing book. Not to say the book is without it's flaws as I'm partial to two or three other Scanguards vampires; I found myself drawn to Cain's story immediately despite him and his really cocky Alpha attitude. Besides, I've been waiting for his story for a while so I just HAD to read this book.

While I wasn't a fan of Cain's defiance of authority at first, when John comes into play to take him home, my attitude changed. We're taken away from San Francisco and taken down south and introduced to a whole different Vampire world.

Cain's Identity has its comedic moments, its tender moments, and a few battle scenes. Then ending could have been more epic and battleworthy to me, but it does not deter from how much I enjoyed this book.

If you have never read Tina Folsom's Scanguards series, I highly recommend it. I would start with Samson's Lovely Mortal, Book 1 and then read the series in order to experience the build up to Cain's Identity.

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REVIEW: Dare To Submit by Carly Phillips

Dare to Submit by Carly Phillips
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I will state this forever - Kelly Ripa introduced me to one of my favorite authors. Period.

Carly Phillips is an author I one-click, no questions asked, no need to look at the cover or read the synopsis. She writes, I buy. Period.

While this can be read as a stand alone, I highly suggest and recommend that you start reading the series from Book 1 - Dare to Love. Carly Phillips' writes you a world that you feel a part of from page one of every book she writes and while Dare to Submit is no exception, the build up from one book to the next is just as exciting as one-clicking just because Carly has a new book up for my reading enjoyment.

Dare to Submit is more racier than Carly's previous works and in it, she introduces us to Decklan Dare and Amanda Collins. Decklan may be a hot alpha male, but he's not the over-the-top alpha that I have read in a lot of books lately.

I'm trying to avoid spoilers here so forgive me - Decklan and Amanda are members of an elite BDSM club. One night, Decklan finds himself coming to her aid in the club and ends up taking her home. Decklan, who isn't looking to fall in love, ends up waking up the next morning with her gone and him missing her.

Amanda is from out of town and only comes to the city every few weeks for a night at the Club. She returns home and back to work where her boss encourages her to pursue Decklan as well as tell him the truth about herself.

If you want more, you really need to read the book.

I highly recommend Carly and all of her books, however, Carly now has a Kindle World based on the Dare world. Here you'll meet many different authors and be lost in that world for hours upon hours!

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REVIEW: Hardline by Meredith Wild

Hardline by Meredith Wild
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Okay, I want to read more books by Meredith Wild. This series just gets better and better. I think I need to meet this author just to thank her for writing Blake and Erica and giving me all the feels that I didn't have with other series that I felt I should have.

I'm sad though... this does have one helluva cliffhanger and at the time of my first read of this book, I didn't know this was going to be a five book series.

Alas, I have to wait to read the remaining two books but from the reviews I've read about them, the books are fantastic.

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REVIEW: Hardpressed by Meredith Wild

Hardpressed by Meredith Wild
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Hardpressed is book #2 in the Hacker series. The story continues for Erica and Blake.

You know how the second book or movie of a trilogy is usually a let down and not as good as the first book? Hardpressed just soared past Hardpressed from the turn of the first page. It wasn't slow for me, it flowed and kept me reading. I couldn't put it down. The characters continued to be well written, flaws and all. I couldn't find any discrepancies between the first and second book and that made the book even more for me.

I don't like comparing books or series of books to others, however, for me, the series was as intriguing to me as the Crossfire series by Sylvia Day.

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REVIEW: Hardwired by Meredith Wild

Hardwired by Meredith Wild
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

First read in 2014 and then again early in 2015 after I learned this was a five book series, and not a trilogy.

When I first started reading this series, one of my fellow book nerds said that this was a trilogy. She was certain of it. And since all three of this trilogy were out, I would devour this series in the course of a weekend. And I did because she lent the first three of this series to me.

I instantly was wrapped into Erica's world because of her determination to make her way on her own. She's such a strong, sexy, and smart character on her own. Blake brings conflict - good and bad, lust, love, and hot sex.

The trials and tribulations they face apart and together had me more enthralled than I was believing they would but Meredith Wild wrote two characters that I couldn't help but fall in love with.

If you have yet to read this series, I suggest making sure you have all five so that when you finish this book, you start the next because going on to another book is just so wrong when there's more Erica and Blake to read and discover and absorb.

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REVIEW: Taming The Storm by Samantha Towle

Taming the Storm by Samantha Towle
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Read in 2014

A dual POV book.

Tom, the cocky bandmate and friend of Jake from The Mighty Storm. Man slut and he wears it well. Becomes the tour manager for a newly signed band with a female lead singer.

Lyla, unfiltered, passionate and determined to keep Tom at arms length. She's a firecracker.

I fell in love with Tom in the first two books of this series and now, I love him even more with his fight for Lyla. These two cracked me up and gave me FEELS.

While this can be read as a stand alone, I would suggest reading the series in order.

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REVIEW: Sharing You by Molly McAdams

Sharing You by Molly McAdams
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Read in 2014

Let me start by saying I love Molly McAdams and loved, loved Capturing Peace. I wasn't prepared for this story about Brody and Kamryn at first and actually read the book twice. See, Brody's in a loveless marriage and I happen to think his wife is crazy and that he should have left her a LONG time ago but alas, because he's married, I guess you could say this love triangle is also an adulterous one. When I finished the first time, I was angry at Brody for not trying harder with Olivia. But when I read the book a second time, I realized that sometimes staying in a marriage out of obligation because you want to help someone isn't what is always best for you or for them.

I don't normally even fathom reading book triangles that have adultery in them... don't know why, it's just not my thing, I still would recommend this book to everyone.

Don't rust through the book though. Read it, read between the lines, and try to understand where Brody is coming from. Where Kamryn is coming from. Even Olivia. I still loathe Olivia though. In the end, the book is worth it. It moved me, it got me thinking, and in the end, I was entertained.

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REVIEW: One Night: Promised (The One Night Trilogy Book 1) - Jodi Ellen Malpas

Promised by Jodi Ellen Malpas
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Read in 2014.

Are you a fan like I am of The Lord of the Manor? Well, get ready for a man who is even more Alpha than he is. He is OCD driven and has to have "his thing".

The first of a Trilogy and it ends in a cliffhanger so be prepared. It helps that the rest of the series is out now unlike when I read this and had to wait for each additional book (the wait was WORTH it though)

This is the story of Olivia and "M". Both with their own demons their fighting and while I had my suspicions about "M"'s occupation, I still ended up shocked when Olivia figures it out and tah-dah - cliffy.

This is a great start to the trilogy. Olivia's backstory helps you to understand a bit ab out why she is why she is. Her grandmother is a witty and spry elderly lady whom I would love to know in person.

I couldn't put my finger on "M" through the first half of the book... something was egging me on and then when it hit me at how after the chocolate in the kitchen and Olivia had fallen asleep he just had to go make the kitchen spotless, I was like --- OCD much and yup... he is. Very. He's demanding, very Alpha, and has caring moments... the book had me captivated and when it ended in the cliffhanger, I was like --- GAH! I NEED THE NEXT PART NOW.

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REVIEW: Captivated By You (Crossfire Series, Book 4) - by Sylvia Day

Captivated by You by Sylvia Day
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

To the Amazon commenter that let me know I left the wrong review... thank you... I'll republish soon!

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