Title :              Our Chance

Author :           Natasha Preston

Series :            Chance Series #2

Release date :   April 12th 2015

Rating :           3 Stars

Blurb : Nell Presley believes that no good can come from love. Her grandparents screwed it up, her parents screwed it up, so why would it be any different for her? She would rather keep it casual and protect herself.Damon Masters was happy with casual through university but his feelings for Nell develop and he now wants more.With the aid of Nell’s best friend, Chloe, Damon sets out to smash down the wall Nell’s built around her heart and show her that not all love is doomed to end in disaster. But is Nell be strong enough to let someone in or will Damon end up getting his heart crushed?

Review : If I am totally honest – I somehow could not relate to Nell at all. The first part of the book it felt strange how she was acting all against relationships, because she is not the first person in that position. Later after receiving more informations about her background I should have been able to relate better with her but it felt throughout the whole book that we got off on a bad start and unfortunately that did not change. 

Still this author has an enganging writing style and I am sure others will love the story and it is just me being the odd one out here … therefore I would still like to recommend this book to you.

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Title :              Always For You: A Small Town Georgia Romance 

Author :           Tawdra Kandle

Series :            Always Love #1

Release date :   November 24th 2015

Rating :           3 Stars

Blurb : Come back to Burton! If you fell in love with this quirky Georgia town in THE ONE Trilogy, you’ll want to return for this trilogy and catch up with your favorite characters . . . Maureen Evans has had a crush on Smith Harrington since they were in college together. She always knew he didn’t see her as anything more than his best friend—just one of the guys—but that didn’t stop her from weaving sexy fantasies about him. Now, after years of maintaining a long-distance friendship, Smith’s moving to Burton, Georgia, Maureen’s hometown, to become her partner at the veterinary clinic. After all this time, she should be able to handle working with him without getting hot and bothered. Or maybe not. The more determined Maureen is to maintain their just-friends bond, the more Smith seems intent on testing those boundaries. And when flirting crosses the line into something more, it ends in a night neither of them can forget. When friendship is no longer enough, there’s always love.

Review : It seems my luck in blindly choosing a random book to read when I have time to read something besides my blog assignments is getting worse by the minute.

Most probably totally nothing is wrong with this book because obviously a lot of people read it and felt good about it.

And it seems that I have been repeating myself when saying “am I the odd one out here”.

But this story was just too sweet for me to nice to polished – so please if you like sweet romances go ahead you will probably love it but I actually cringed at how soft and fluffy everything felt … so sorry … but those are my thoughts

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Title :              Stoner & Spaz

Author :           Ron Koertge

Series :            Stoner & Spaz #1

Release date :   January 5th 2004

Rating :           3 Stars

Blurb : For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft — a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an overprotective grandmother — the closest thing to happiness is hunkering alone in the back of the Rialto Theatre and watching Bride of Frankenstein for the umpteenth time. The last person he wants to run into is drugged-up Colleen Minou, resplendent in ripped tights, neon miniskirt, and an impressive array of tattoos. But when Colleen climbs into the seat beside him and rests a woozy head on his shoulder, Ben has that unmistakable feeling that his life is about to change. With unsparing humor and a keen flair for dialogue, Ron Koertge captures the rare repartee between two lonely teenagers on opposite sides of the social divide. His smart, self-deprecating protagonist learns that kindred spirits may be found for the looking — and that the resolve to follow your passion can be strengthened by something as simple as a human touch.

Review : While I really like the plotline I had a really difficult time with the writing style of the author and therefore my rating is on the lower side. But I still would like to recommend the book to other readers as I feel it is just me being again the odd one out here

Give it a try and judge for yourself

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Title :              Awake

Author :           Natasha Preston

Series :            n/a

Release date :   August 4th 2015

Rating :          3 Stars

Blurb : Scarlett Garner doesn’t remember anything before the age of four—but a car accident changes everything. She starts to remember pieces of a past that frighten her. A past her parents hid from her…and a secret that could get her killed.

Review : Never would I have expected the twists and turns of this novel. It fascinated me from beginning to end and the suspense towards the end made it a page-turner that I could hardly put down. Yep I know you are now looking at the star rating I gave and you are thinking … “I wonder if she made a mistake” when giving only 3 stars.

Sadly not – I really liked the plot, my problem was more the way it was written. A story with this much content and anticipation needs more feeling and that was what was missing for me.

I could not feel with the leading characters. There was so much happening and to me as a reader it was like a newspaper story … it did not involve me … and what might be alright in a newspaper story does not work for a novel. But still a good read …  

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Title :              Breaking Him

Author :           Sherilee Gray

Series :            n/a

Release date :   September 5th 2016

Rating :           3 Stars

Blurb : Folks in town call him a monster—say he’s dangerous. But I know him simply as Elijah Hays, the quiet, gentle giant who works with the horses on my ranch. I can feel him watching me, that steady intense gaze making me crave things I don’t quite understand, burn in a way that frightens me. He’s always kept his distance…until that night.I remember him coming to my rescue, me following him into the barn, giving him his first taste of a woman, and his inexperienced yet barely reined touch turning me to ash.Now all I can think about is exposing the dark desire I see deep inside him—having him turn those dark desires on me. That low, gritty voice rasping orders in my ear. Those huge, rough hands holding me down when a storm blows in.I want his surrender. His control. I want to break him…and have him break me…

Review : Wow… Breaking Him by Sherilee Gray is really one hot book.

Well actually maybe a little TO HOT. Its not that I can not handle a good portion of HOT and STEAMY in a book (and before you tell me that I must be wrong. And that I have no idea what I am talking about – check my reading lists – I can handle a lot including dark romances, BDSM and other kinky stuff), but I need to have a certain structure in a book.

That includes a foreplay and real “stuff happening” – until it gets hot and steamy and somehow I was missing that in this book.

The relationship between the character developed at a pace that I would have expected in a short story with Insta love, which left no space for me as a reader to get connected to the characters.

You do not really get to know the characters which is a shame – since I would have liked to meet Elijah.

Also I am always expecting a little cliché in a book which can be a really good thing but somehow I personally feel that along the way of the hot sex the storyline became a victim of cliché.

Which actually is again a damn shame as this plot had real potential.

But at one point I was really expecting someone to light a house of fire for the committed sins (little exaggerated but sorry I was really thinking that).

I am truly sorry that I could not get engaged with the characters OR the plot development – I realize by the up to now given ratings that I must be the odd one out here but still I cannot help myself to admit that this book was not for me.

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