synopsis

Secrets.
Everyone has one.
Some are bigger than others.
And when secrets are revealed,
Some will heal you …
And some will end you.

Kate Sedgwick’s life has been anything but typical. She’s endured hardship and tragedy, but throughout it all she remains happy and optimistic (there’s a reason her best friend Gus calls her Bright Side). Kate is strong-willed, funny, smart, and musically gifted. She’s also never believed in love. So when Kate leaves San Diego to attend college in the small town of Grant, Minnesota, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with Keller Banks.

They both feel it.
But they each have a reason to fight it.
They each have a secret.

And when secrets are revealed,
Some will heal you …
And some will end you.

My Review

Have you ever read a book with your whole being that it’s feels all so real, so raw, so heartbreaking that you wake up after finishing it at 1am not being able to sleep till about 2am because you are that heartbroken THAT WAS ME with this book!!!!

Iv got to be honest and tell you that I’m glad I was blindsided with this book because if I had known, I would never of picked it up!!! I’m all for heartbreak but I’m all for HEA’s too!!!!

As I’m writing this review I have big fat tears rolling down my face, it’s just that painful, but so beautiful!!!

Katie, Kate, Katherine, Brightside (what ever she is called by her friends) gave me a lesson in life during the story

DO EPIC

BE BRAVE

I have to say Katie is hands down the best heroine i have had the pleasure of meeting ( I know I may have said this before) but I’m telling you after you have read this book, you will not only believe me, but she will be yours too!!!

Ive always been pretty good at accepting the whole of someone,the good with the bad. I see it all, but try not to let it cloud my judgement. People are complicated, life is complicated!!!

She was infectious, all her friends loved her and wanted to be around her, she was called Brightside for a reason!!!

Gustov what an amazing best friend, iv got to be honest I didn’t get their relationship like Keller didn’t. Keller makes a comment in the book about friends with benefits, he was spot on with the truth!!! Even though they wasn’t friends with benefits, but… Gustov was not only Bright side’s best friend, he was her brother too!!! Their relationship was passionate and beautiful, they were two peas in a pod and when they played together the emotions!!!

Then there was Keller, I loved him from the very first moment, he just had it all, I guessed his secret and what a beautiful secret it was!! Keller was only 22 and had lived more pain than most people in a life time!!! He hide his pain, he hide his secret, he hid that he had parents that had a hold over him, he hid it all just for that little bit of normal!!! He also hid his heart, until the moment that bell chimed and then Katie brought him alive!!!!

What in the hell just happened? I feel like iv been a sleep for years and I’ve only just woke up?

I keep crying when I think about him!!! I just want to rewrite his whole life!!!

I know some people found the first 70% ok, I loved every second of it!! It’s what I love to read boy meets girl, girl meets boy and how they have all these obstacles!!! They overcome Keller’s with flying colours…. But Katie’s I really believe they would even when I knew they couldn’t, I still prayed but surely life won’t be that cruel!!!!!

One-in-a-million they said. But they were MY one in a million

66% onwards I was a sobbing mess there is no other way to explain it!!!! Katie throughout it all stayed the same she was always Brightside!! There is just one moment when Brightside cracks and my goodness I was shouting with her!!! I was crying with her and I felt her fear!!!!

Life is so cruel, so unfair and pain can happen to people more than once, we pray it doesn’t and we pray it won’t but life doesn’t work like that!!!

Why do some people get it lucky and some people don’t, it’s not fair is it?? This book screams not fair!!!!

but as I keep thinking about this book I also keep thinking am I glad I read it, is the pain I’m feeling worth the story I now know?? It’s like life isn’t it!! Would u prefer to be in pain and lived live or not given yourself the chance to live life because you may get hurt!!!! Keller was given this lesson and even though he tried to stay the same just walking through life it’s hard when the person who steps in your way happens to be BRIGHTSIDE!!! But I’m so glad I read this book!!!!

I’m going to leave my review there because I don’t want to give it away but please take a chance at having your heartbroken because Brightside will give you one hell of a lesson in life DUDE

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synopsis

• This novel contains mature content and it not intended for younger readers.

This is the beginning of a story… the story of two people who were meant to be together. Why? Because unknown to them, they shared terrifying pasts and the cruel circumstances of their births doomed both of them to a life of hell.

Two strangers … one night … one accidental meeting that changed their lives forever.

Gabriella Martinelli, Manhattan psychiatrist had only one goal in life—to help abuse victims avoid the horrors she’d experienced herself. She worked late, volunteered, and donated her services to anyone who needed them. Life was good … until her nightmare resurfaced. He found her, and began stalking her, and she knew he wouldn’t stop until he destroyed every ragged piece of her.

Kolson Hart, Manhattan’s most eligible bachelor, was ruled by his dark past. He liked control, from the boardroom to the bedroom and didn’t care to be involved with someone whose life was just as screwed up as his was. But one look at Gabriella short-circuited everything. Want … desire … need … will sometimes drive a man to do things he swore he never would.

He freed her from a life of fear … When he couldn’t even save himself.

My Review

I thought the storyline was really good and had some really good scenes that had me wanting more!!! The connection between Kolson and Gabriella was lovely and to watch them heel each other was lovely to read!!!

Kolson was mysterious, loyal, woman loved him but couldn’t get close to him!!!

Gabby was beautiful, shy and kept herself to herself!!!

So what happens when they want to forget their days and they end up in the same bar!!! Gabby gets so drunk that she can’t even stand and Kolson becomes the gentleman that she didn’t even know exists!!!

This stranger becomes the strength and protection that Gabby needs when the past comes to get her!!!

All through the story you see that in fact she is helping him with his demons just as much as he is helping her!!!

I struggled a little reading this book purely because I don’t tend to read books from the third person and it threw me a little and at times was a bit confusing when I was reading from all different peoples views!!!

I will say that I can’t wait for the next book… Maybe because it’s end on a cliffhanger just as we were finding out about the past of Kolson Hart

4 stars

A.M Hargrove Bio

One day, on her way home from work as a sales manager, A. M. Hargrove, realized her life was on fast forward and if she didn’t do something soon, it would quickly be too late to write that work of fiction she had been dreaming of her whole life. So, she rolled down the passenger window of her fabulous (not) company car and tossed out her leather briefcase. Luckily, the pedestrian in the direct line of fire was a dodge ball pro and had über quick reflexes enabling him to avoid getting bashed in the head. Feeling a tad guilty about the near miss, A. M. made a speedy turn down a deserted side street before tossing her crummy, outdated piece-of-you-know-what lap top out the window. She breathed a liberating sigh of relief, picked up her cell phone, called her boss and quit her job. Grinning, she made another call to her hubs and told him of her new adventure (after making sure his heart was beating properly again).

So began A. M. Hargrove’s career as a YA/NA and Adult Romance writer. Her books include Kissing Fire, Edge of Disaster, Shattered Edge, the series the Guardians of Vesturon (Survival, Resurrection, Determinant, Beginnings and reEmergent), Dark Waltz, Tragically Flawed, Tragic Desires, and Exquisite Betrayal.

Other than being in love with being in love, she loves chocolate, ice cream and coffee and is positive they should be added as part of the USDA food groups.

(If you’re wondering, it didn’t happen EXACTLY that way, but….)

You can also find her on Goodreads as Emerson St. Clair. Her novella series, Dirty Nights, is available and those are a little dark, a little erotic and a lot sexy

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syponsis

He’s twenty-four. She’s eighteen.

His life is exactly the way he’s always wanted it to be…stable.
She’s quite possibly the very definition of unstable.

Noah saved her.
Georgina never wanted to be saved.

Growing up, Noah Clark was passed from one relative to the next until he
finally ended up living with his abusive, alcoholic uncle in Kill Devil
Hills, North Carolina. Thanks in part to the unwavering love and support of
his best friend, Ellie Turner, Noah survived those years, escaped his
uncle, and grew into the man he is today. Now he runs his own business and
lives a pretty normal, no-nonsense life—one where he maintains a high level
of control.

Georgina is Ellie’s younger sister. Four months ago, Noah saved Georgie’s
life, but he thought that was where his involvement with his friend’s
sister would end. Now Georgie has returned home from the recovery facility
her parents sent her away to and Noah, still haunted by the night that
connects them, can’t stop himself from continuously trying to protect this
girl he barely knows. But is he willing to give up all of the control he’s
worked so hard to build in his life and risk everything for her? Even more
importantly, would she do the same for him?

My Review

In love with the front cover!!! Really pretty!!!

Noah was lovely, loyal but a loner. It took me a while to warm to him because of the long hair (I’m sorry but I can’t help it) Noah was known as a freak at school!!

Georgina was this fun loving girl, who had the popular boy, the friends and the life she loved and then one day it was all gone!!!

The book opens with a very powerful chapter and it leaves you a little emotionally scarred, Georgina can’t get over Noah saved her life, even with the big age gap and Noah being Georgina’s big sisters best friend they are trying to keep their feelings in line but can’t.

Georgina has many problems with trying to fit back in but at the same time doesn’t care because she is falling in love with someone that is so opposite to what she has always known is a breath of fresh air!!!

They think they can hide what they feel but can they really hide what goings on…

It’s sweet and there is a water bed involved quite a bit

I thought it was beautiful read and touches a hard emotional subject!!!

Georgina thinks Noah is saving her but is it really Georgina saving Noah

4 stars

it’s only £1.00 in the UK at the Moment, but may change soon

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synopsis

When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.

Never ask about the past.
Don’t expect a future.

They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.

Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.

My Review

CoHo only went and blooming did it again!!!!!

I feel in love with Tate as soon as I met her she was a breath of fresh air!!!! I had all my heart devoted in her!!!

Then I met Rachel and I was like WTF is going on here!!!!

I was just wanting to get to the present chapters with ever past…but then as the past chapters became more intense I just couldn’t take my eyes of the page!!!

The book had me on the edge of my seat because I knew he loved tate, as we all know actions speaker louder than words!! No matter what miles said his actions betrayed him!!

“Don’t ask about my past” he says firmly “and don’t expect a future”

We all wanted what she wanted, we wanted whatever had happened to him to be healed by her!!!! I wanted him to really say he loved her and the emotions I felt for her and him were overwhelming!!!

The first time I cried was a moment that wasn’t really a major scene but I thought the conversation was beautiful and will always be one of my favourite scenes in a book

“remember when we were Kids and we wished our superpower could be to fly”

“Yeah I remember” Corbin says

“You have your superpower now. You can fly”

Corbin smiles at me in the rear view mirror

“Yeah” he says “I guess that makes me a super hero”

Then they go on and talk about the sunrise!! I was in tears I thought this is one of those moments that if it happened in real life, you would always remember where you were, what you were wearing and how you felt in that moment!!! Then I love how the sunrise comment became such a important moment, because I know that when I read that scene that I saw it for what it was a beautiful moment that Miles never forgot, that me as a reader will never forget!!!

The pain in my chest got worse and not to give it away but the scene with Rachel on the floor in her house O MY GOODNESS…. My heart shattered I was a mess…

My heart always belonged to Tate, no matter what I thought about his past, about Rachel!! Tate was always at the front of my mind!!!!

I won’t say what happens because it’s so beautiful that it’s perfect going in blind and not knowing where the hell it’s going because it gives you emotions, that honestly not many books could ever give you…

5 massive stars

ALL OF THIS by Lexi RyanReleasing August 4, 2014 New Adult Contemporary Romance

ALL FOR THIS is book three in the Here and Now series. It is not a stand-alone and it’s intended to be read after LOST IN ME and FALL TO YOU

**ALL FOR THIS is book three in the Here and Now series. It is not a stand-alone and it’s intended to be read after LOST IN ME and FALL TO YOU.**

What if you would never remember the day you made the most important decision of your life? That’s what they’re telling me about the day of my accident—the day I put on Max’s ring and chose him over Nate. I’m counting on the wisdom behind a decision I don’t remember making. Max is amazing—sexy, sweet, and kind. I was starting to believe happily-ever-after might be in my future after all. Then the unthinkable happened and my world imploded. If I’m going to make this work with Max, I need my missing memories, or at least answers from about those five days before my accident. But what does my future hold if those answers aren’t anything like I imagined?

About the Author

Once a college English professor, I now write full time. I live in rural Indiana, where, when I’m not writing, I get to hang out with my husband and two kids–a six-year-old boy and a two-year-old hellion, er, girl. Not surprisingly, reading and writing remain my favorite activities, though both come in bits and pieces these days, not the big hunks of time I enjoyed before I had children. When I’m feeling virtuous, I like to go running (I use that word liberally. I’m really, really slow) or do yoga. Don’t worry, I’m always careful to balance out such activities with a hearty serving of ice cream or a chocolate martini. Website | Facebook | Twitter

Krystle’s Review

Me and nat couldn’t wait for the this book!!!

Who will she pick Nate the Rockstar?????
Max the perfect guy on paper???

I never ever can’t pick a team and the first two books I just didn’t get max but book 3 I loved him but I loved Nate more!!! Normally I’m all or nothing so this was hard!!!

Lexi just draws you in each chapter and your just back and forth what’s going to happen, who will she love, who did she have sex with, who/how did she fall!!! It’s all happening and it’s a page turner all the way through to the end!! nat and I were chatting all the way through it we were gripped!!!!

I guessed the who did it from book one but nat was shocked!!! We were both happy with her choice even tho it was so annoying that she couldn’t pick!!! I know we always find the girl the annoying person in books, but I don’t normally!! This book was different I know she had her reasons but it was so back and forth, that I felt sick!!!!

Over all a brilliant series and the perfect ending

4 amazing stars

Natalie’s Review

Spoilers ahead if you’ve not read the first 2 books !!!

I couldn’t devour book 1& 2 fast enough, so to say I was slightly excited about this book was an understatement.

I loved both men, couldn’t actually say I was 100% one team.Lexi writing is so special she pulls you in from the first page,Wanting more and more as the chapters go.she pulls you into Nate & Max’s heart.
Begging Hanna to make a decision. If I’m totally honest Hanna bugged me in the end! Felt myself screaming ” make a bloody choice”,stop being a prick tease” the books are filled with angst, twist, turns, laughter and tears.
Had a huge smile on my face reading the last page.Lexi Has done a fabulous job finishing this amazing series.

After falling in love with this series I’ve downloaded Lexi Ryan’s other books.

4 stars this book was four me!!!

Natalie and I will say that book one and two were epic and we were panting for more they were both MASSIVE FIVE STAR reads for us!!! The reason book three got 4 stars is because the back and forth was just a little annoying but then there are big reasons for this that when you read the series you will understand!!!

We all know Natalie is hard to please so you all know how good this series has got to be for Nat is devour it!!!!!

Synopsis

Spencer Jacobs thought his life was pretty damn perfect. He had a good job, a long-time girlfriend, and a bright happy future ahead. That is, until that fateful night when he walked in and saw the ultimate betrayal between the woman he loved and his own twin brother. After having his heart ripped open by the two people he trusted most, Spencer fled his hometown in search for a new life.
Befriending Tucker Wade in this sleepy town had proven to be a good thing. Tucker had given him a job and a new beginning. He thought he needed time to heal, but even after the two years, he still hadn’t gotten over the pain of what that night had cost him. Spencer doesn’t believe that he will ever be able to trust anyone again with his heart, let alone to ever love again. That is, until the fateful day Lexi Allen walked in his life. The spunky redhead had the ability to bust down that fortress he had built around his heart, leaving him questioning everything he thought he ever knew about himself.
Lexi Allen has never been in love. She has always held out for that special person, that special someone that she can give her whole heart to. The day hunky Spencer Jacobs walks in her life, she quickly realizes that he just may be that person. The only problem is, he’s broken and he can’t offer her anything more than a good time.
Will Lexi and Spencer ever find someone to love?

MY REVIEW

Spencer is a man With a broken heart and the hurt is still too raw to let go!!! Even though he wants a new life and he has made a new life, he just can’t let go!!!

Lexi is a spunky Redhead who has no worries in the world!!! She just wants to have fun and is holding onto her heart and not giving it to anyone not worthy of it!!!

So what happens when the beautiful carefree Lexi mets the awkward handsome Spencer!!!! Feelings happen and limits are tested to the max!!!!

I just loved reading this book it was beautiful and so easy to read it’s a beautiful love story!!!!

Then something happens and it’s one of those moments that you can see it happening but just can’t stop it!!! I was like O No!!! But you know that saying thinks happen for a reason yep that totally happens and it makes spencer realise that Lexi totally knocked that big wall he had up!! It’s beautiful to read and I can’t wait to read the rest series!!! It’s just beautiful and heartfelt

5 beautiful Stars

About Riley Rhea

Riley Rhea is your typical country girl, born and raised in the Bluegrass. In the last 30 something years, she has successfully brought into this world 3 children, which may or not be claimed by her, depending on their behavior.

Riley enjoys reading, spending time on the farm and quiet afternoons when those who call her mom leave the house. Riley also loves country music and drools over Luke Bryan. Riley’s biggest fears are crickets and banks.

Not just an avid reader, Riley is an active blogger and reviews many books during the span of a week when she isn’t writing about her loveable and sexy country boys.

She’s always had a background in writing, her mother being an author, and one day, out of the blue, 2 characters popped into her head and wouldn’t shut up. After some advice from a good friend, Remember Love was born.

Thank you all for taking time to get to know Riley a little better. You can always find her on Facebook if y’all want to chat a little more.

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