Release Day Blitz : Shameless by Brynley Bush (Black Brothers Trilogy #3)

 

Title: Shameless (Black Brothers Trilogy Book 3) Author: Brynley Bush 

Release Day: 02/10/2015 Release Day Blitz: 02/12/2015 

Hosted By: SBB Promotions

Sheltered good girl Victoria Raine has always wanted to be a little bad. Tired of living life safely on the sidelines, she summons the courage to forge a new path for herself and applies to the FBI, looking for adventure and something to fulfill her vague longing for something…more. She gets more than she bargained for with her first undercover assignment—posing as the girlfriend of country music’s bad boy, Drake Maddox, a lone wolf with a reputation for having singularly erotic tastes. Hoping to catch a serial killer that’s targeting women close to Drake, Tori’s job is to convince the public, and the killer, that she and the wickedly handsome superstar are an item.

Although their relationship is a sham, there’s nothing fake about the hidden desires the sexy as sin cowboy awakens in Tori. As the killer draws closer, Tori finds herself falling for the one man she can’t have. **Shameless can be read as a standalone novel**

Each book in the Black Brothers Trilogy focuses on a different brother and his story and can be read independently, although the books interconnect.

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Fearless (Black Brothers Trilogy Book 1)

         

Fiercely independent and newly single mom Emmaline Hart has spent the last thirteen years putting everyone’s needs before her own. Secretly afraid that her ex-husband’s assertions that she’s too uptight are right, Emma nonetheless keeps her life, and her emotions, firmly under control, fearful of getting hurt again. However, when she meets the dangerously attractive Beckett Black on a job assignment, the way his casual touch sends her pulse racing forces her to acknowledge her growing need to move beyond her fear. When Beckett offers her a job writing the memoir of his father, a renowned cancer researcher, Emma jumps at the career opportunity and the chance to get to know Beckett better. Emma spends her days with the renowned doctor, who has spent his career studying a plant in the Amazon that has the potential to cure cancer, and her nights with Beckett, who slowly pushes past her fears and breaks down her barriers, introducing her to a passionate and forbidden love that surpasses her wildest fantasies. As the doctor’s story of secrets and cover-ups unravels, so does Emmaline’s view on everything she thought she knew about herself and the power of surrender.

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Matchless (Black Brothers Trilogy Book 2)

             

When her boss asks for her help on a high profile intellectual property case, the last person attorney Mila Kingston expects to walk into her office is the gorgeous stranger she had an unforgettable one night stand with on her birthday. Navy SEAL Griffin Black has been upfront since the beginning that he's not looking for love or commitment, which is just fine with Mila, who's focused on her career and certainly doesn't have time for a charming playboy. However she can't pass up the opportunity to represent Griffin and his brother in a landmark trade secret case involving a plant from the Amazon with the potential to cure cancer and the greedy woman who will stop at nothing to possess the rights to the research.

Although Mila's determined to keep him at arm's length, the more time she spends with Griffin, the harder it is to resist his easy going charm and his promises of forbidden pleasures. Before long, Mila is entangled with Griffin in a battle for the rights to medical research that could change the world of medicine, as well as her heart.

 

**Matchless can be read as a standalone novel**

Each book in the Black Brothers Trilogy focuses on a different brother and his story and can be read independently, although the books interconnect.

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Brynley Bush writes the kind of books she likes to read: steamy contemporary romance featuring smart, sassy heroines with a sense of humor and the strong, dominant alpha males who love their women a little feisty. Brynley loves rainy days, books (and more books!), worn-in jeans, hot coffee, traveling to new places, and happily ever afters. She lives in Texas with her husband, three children, and an assortment of pets.When she's not writing, she loves to read, spend time with her family, and travel.

Contact Brynley at brynleybush@yahoo.com

Manga Review : Dark Night Light Path by Takagi Shigeyoshi

Title: Dark Night Light Path

Original Title: Anya Kouro

Author: Takagi Shigeyoshi

Artist: Takagi Shigeyoshi

Year of Release: 2009

Genres: Drama, One Shot, Romance, School Life, Shoujo

Status: Completed

Chapters (Translated in English): 1

Volumes & Chapters: One Shot

Mangafox – Goodreads

Summary

Akimoto Yae is a cheerful – and sometimes exceedingly loud – girl who secretly always watches her sempai Ayase, who rides the same train as her. For some reason, Ayase always sits in the same seat, holding the same book, opened at the same page. His hand never try to turn the next page.

One day ayase accidentally drops the book, which comes as a change for Akimoto to talk to him, much to her surprise, he isn’t interested in having the book returned, and gives it to her.

As Akimoto tries to overcome her mild aversion for printed texts – which causes her to sleep if she doesn’t read the lines aloud – and read the book, she hopes to get closer to Ayase, who reasons of his own to be aloof. 

My Thoughts

Review covers 1 chapter

One of the many one shots that I’ve fallen in love after reading only once. I guess up till now, I’ve read it about 10 maybe even more times. However, it never loses its charm to me.

When I first read the story, it had a really big impact on me. I really loved both characters. It may have been only about 20 or so pages, but you could see that character development. I really am a fan of Takagi Shegeyoshi’s works; I think I’ve read everything I could get my hand on. You can’t say that his drawing style is that amazing, but all of his characters have this sharp facial features and you may seem they are extremely cold, but then they either smile or open their eyes and warmth is spreading all over the page and you. It is quite an amazing feeling.

The last pages of the story are quite heartbreaking, though it does end happily there is a question regarding the relationship between the main characters. For me, it didn’t seem that he really accepted her feelings or something, neither did he stated his own, but well, he did say that from now on she has to read books aloud to him. The story mostly follows the Yae’s point of view and we do not really see the pain that Ayase feels, however when he tells Yae his secret, everything can be seen through his bittersweet smile. It’s really heartbreaking, well it was for me. I do encourage you to read this short story, it really is amazing. Enjoy it and if you do read it, please share your thoughts with me.

XOXO

Katie 

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Cover Reveal : Tempring Bad by M. Robinson

Title: Tempting BAD

Author: M. Robinson

Release Date: TBA

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Brooke:

     I’ve come from a privileged life and an even more privileged upbringing. My parents taught me right from wrong and everything in between… except I wanted the gray area. I wanted to live life on the edge with the possibility of falling over. I didn’t care about the consequences because I had no heart…

     I left that on the floor of my parent’s bedroom door, shattered.

     And never went back to pick up the pieces.

Devon:

     Family first.

     I learned the meaning of the word hate.

     I learned that life is a battlefield and I stood frontline.

     I learned that praying doesn’t work and God doesn’t listen.

     And I learned how to be a man…

     All at the receiving end of my father’s fists, my mother’s tears, and my sisters screams.

     Youcan’t run away from your past…

     It will always find you, especially when you’re asleep.

Warning: Book contains adult situations.

Sex/language. Mature readers only.

I looked around the room and although it was classy and refined, it didn’t feel homey. It felt cold and detached and I made my way over to stand in front of the bay window. The view was breathtaking.
It was then that I realized this wasn’t a place to sleep.
It was a place to fuck.
“Thisisn’t your home, is it?”
“No,” she murmured in my ear, behind me.
“I see.”
“It’sMadam’s.”
“Where do you live?”
She handed me my drink and took hers down in one gulp, placing the empty glass on the table. She moved to stand in front of me and leaned against the bay window. The lighting made her look like an angel.
“Don’t worry about it,” she stated, reaching up and unclasping her hair. It flowed loosely and she shook it out, making it fall right in front of her face. I knew she did it on purpose.
Hiding.
I let her have her security.
For now.
“I thought you want to play, Devon?”
I laughed. “Bambi, I couldn’t afford you,” I blurted without thinking and her eyes widened with a mixture of hurt and confusion, but just like before it was gone before it even fully appeared.
“What if I don’t want you to pay?” she offered surprised with her own words.
“Does it work like that? Kinda like a drug dealer, huh? Give the first sample for free and have me coming back for more?” I teased, trying to break the intensity of our stares.
Now it was her turn to laugh. “Something like that. So are you going to take me up on my offer?”
“What’s in it for me?”
“The time of your life.”
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M. Robinson loves to read. She favors anything that has angst, romance, triangles, cheating, love, and of course sex! She has been reading since the Babysitters Club and R.L. Stein.
She was born in New Jersey but was raised in Tampa Fl. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D in psychology, with two years left.
She is married to an amazing man who she loves to pieces. They have two German Shepherd mixes and a Tabby cat.

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Manga Review : Paradise Kiss by Yazawa Ai

Title: Paradise Kiss

Original Title: Paradise Kiss

Author: Yazawa Ai

Artist: Yazawa Ai

Year of Release: 2000

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Josei, Mature, Romance, Tragedy

Status: Completed 

Chapters (Translated in English): 48

Volumes & Chapters:

Volume 1 Chapter 1-10

Volume 2 Chapter 11-20

Volume 3 Chapter 21-30

Volume 4 Chapter 31-38

Volume 5 Chapter 39-48

Mangafox – Goodreads

Summary

Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-styled fashionistas calling themselves "Paradise Kiss." Yukari suddenly finds herself flung into the roller-coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire. In a glamorous makeover of body, mind and soul, she is turned from a hapless bookworm into her friends22 own exclusive clothing model.
In this manga we meet characters from Gokinjo Monogatari like Mikako (and her little sister, Miwako - she's in "ParaKiss" staff) and Arashi father (only poster, but still) and new like Isabella.

My Thoughts

Review covers all chapters 

I actually stayed up all night to finish this manga. Why I chose it? No idea, I was roaming on youtube some of my favourite videos and somehow the video about thi manga came up. I liked it, and because it was made as an anime I made a tick in my brain to watch it some other time. Howeve, after getting back from my friend’s place at about 1 a.m. and starting with absolutely different book to read, something clicked in my brain and I said, I want to read this one right now. I started it, and when I finished it, it was already 7 in the morning.

Even though this manga was written about 15 years ago and depending that all old mangas have a really specific drawing, this one had a quite modern approach to many facial features. The story is about a girl who has nothing special and then she gets asked to be a model for a group of very extravagant cloths designers. The story has many ideas which are great for teens. It covers that period of our lives when we have no freaking idea as to what we want to do, and everyone is just saying: “Study, study, study, get into a uni and you’ll figure it out”. But what if we do not know what we want to even study? Well, meet our heroine – Yukari, she is just like all of us who did not know what we wanted to do when we were 17 or 18.

If you have read at least 2 shoujo mangas, there is a specific patterm. The girl always stays with the very first guy she falls in love with. Well, here’s your disappointment. The first time I saw breaking of that pattern in “Daytime Shooting Star”, but then I read Paradise Kiss and to my utter disappointment she doesn’t stay with George. But then here what I tried to think, wasn’t he her second love? Then the pattern wasn’t broken right? However, the first guy – Tokumori, he only saw her when she got pretty or something. So we can’t really say anything. And well even though I like the Yukari and George pair, somehow George was not a really boyfriend material if you ask me. I think I’m getting tangled up in my thought.

Why I think thus us a good manga? It teaches us, that not all of us know what our dreams are, and that we should not be discouraged by that. We can find them in quite abnormal situations, but my advice to you: If you found something that you like and want to do it your whole life. Try making that dream into a reality, but try not to go overbroad, but be who you are.

I hope you will get your own copy and it will give you some insight into a lifestyle of a highschool girl. It may seem that you will find yourself in Yukari. Enjoy 48 chapters of amazing life portrayed by Yazawa Ai.

XOXO

Katie

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Book Review : Beholden to You by Carlie Sexton

Summary (from Goodreads)

Title:  Beholden To You

Author:  Carlie Sexton

Publication Date:  December 28, 2013

Publisher:  CarlieSextonRomance

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Summary:

 On the heels of tragic loss, the stunning and innocent Natalie Mason, meets handsome business mogul Mac Carter. As Natalie attempts to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, circumstances beyond her control draw her and Mac into a situation she wants kept secret. The two are a matched set having both experienced immense loss in their lives. Uncertain of what she should do, she decides to give fate a chance, opening her heart to Mac, who just wants to love her. 

But the past, who often times takes no prisoners, rears its ugly head in a double dose. Mac’s ex-girlfriend cannot accept that their love affair is over and takes drastic measures through deception and blackmail to ensure that Mac will be hers. 

Natalie, on the other hand, has to face the one responsible for her sister’s death. As her journey begins to bring justice and closure, the past transports to her feet an unexpected surprise—a long lost love desiring to posses her as his once again.

Will Mac and Natalie’s newly blossoming love be able to endure what the past has delivered or will the victors of their hearts be the old flames who are staking their claim?

My Thoughts:

So how many of you have seen “Once in Vegas”? Well, the plot is kind of the same here, but it takes amazing twists and in the end you are heartbroken because you need to say goodbye to some amazing characters, but at the same time you are happy because everything ended just fine. The book is based on very interesting characters with their heartbreaks betrayals and some very raw emotions. Somehow all characters are at sync with each other. And even though, I would have wanted to know more about some of them, after finishing the book, I was just full with emotions. I liked all pages, all banter and interaction between characters and I definitely felt their pain. Maybe I wasn’t exactly living the book, but I had a very strong and undeniable connection with Natali and Mac.

The story follows Natali, a young and beautiful woman. She has lost her parents, her heart has been crashed by her first love and her sister was just killed in a car crash. But no matter what Natali puts the happiness of her two best friends- Kate and Charlie before her, and she attends a engagement party/weekend of both of them in Vegas, but unexpected happen, and one morning she wakes up near Mac, a best friend of her bff-s fiancés and well they are married. From then all the “fun” starts. Both of them like each other, and they understand each other’s grief. So now it is only up to them to live together or have an annulment. What will they choose? And most interesting, how will they react when their past is again coming after their lives? Will they open up their hearts to be left broken again, or will they achieve their happily ever after? It’s all up you-reader to know. You can either grab your copy now and share some of those emotions with amazing characters, or keep guessing. Your choice.

I hope you are scrolling up the post to buy links, so well. I won’t jeep you waiting, happy reading. And don’t forget to share your thoughts.

XOXO

Katie

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