Review: ACE: A Bad Boy Romance Part 1

For this review, I chose ACE: A Bad Boy Romance Part 1 by Frankie Love, which is the first book I have read by this author.

I received a copy of the ebook for a honest review of this book.

Here is a brief description from Goodreads:
❤️PART ONE OF A STEAMY NEW SERIAL❤️ 
ACE 
I don't take women to bed.
I take them against the wall, hard and fast, and when I come I make sure they remember.
They always do.
I'm cocky as hell, but sh*t, I've got reason to be. I own Spades Royalle, the sexiest casino in Vegas. F*ck, the sexiest casino in the country.
I'm gonna keep building my empire all on my own - my ties with the mafia are in my past, buried with the bones of my family.
I like my money clean and my women dirty.
That is until I met Emmy Rose.
She says she doesn't want a bad boy.
I guess I'll have to change her pretty little mind.

EMMY ROSE 

F*ck. My. Life.
I made one rule when I moved to Vegas two months ago - I would not screw bad boys. Or asshats. Or really anyone I met on the casino floor. And the thing is, I've made good on my promise.
I'm here for one reason, and one reason only: it's a f*cking job.
Landing in Vegas was never my plan. But plans change when your sister is in a coma and you don't know who put her there.
If only she'd wake up and I could get some answers.
Until then, I'll do everything in my power to avoid men who have a past as shady as my own. (less)

Wow!  This was a great book!  I love how the author sets it up with the point of view of Emmy and Ace.  I loved that.  It was one of my favorite things in this book.  Another is how fast paced it was.  I did not realized I was at the end until I was there.  I was so disappointed and wanted a lot more.  The last thing is that this book is hot!  Great chemistry between Emmy and Ace.

I can not wait to read the rest of the books in this series.  According to Goodreads, there are 3 books.  This book was released January 11, 2016.  Part 2 was released January 15, 2016.  Part 3 was released January 20, 2016.

☆☆☆☆☆
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Recommend this book? Yes! Author? Yes!

Read more from this author? Yes!

Happy Reading!

Melissa 

Review coming next: Incognito by Morgan Kay

FTC Disclosure: The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company has provided me with a copy of this book for review or I have purchased the book with my own funds.  The opinion I share about the story are mine and have not been influenced by the The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company if received for review

Review: Horse Play! 25 Crafts, Parties, & Activities for Horse-Crazy Kids

For this review, I chose Horse Play! 25 Crafts, Parties, & Activities for Horse-Crazy Kids by Deanna F. Cook & Katie Craig.

I requested ARC copy of the ebook through Netgalley in exchanged for a honest review.

Here is a brief description from Netgalley:
A treasure trove of fun for every horse-loving girl! Horse Play! is packed with great activities and projects, from crafting a mini barn and pasture to designing your dream horse, sewing a pony pillow, making a shelf for model horses, and coloring a pull-out poster. Quizzes, checklists, and fill-in-the-blanks invite you to test your knowledge of horses, breeds, riding, and horse care. And this kit-in-a-book also includes stickers, a stencil, pop-out cards, and complete plans for a Horsing-Around party with games, invitations, a horse pinata, party grub, and must-watch horse movies!


When I saw this book available to review on Netgalley, I knew I had to see if I could get it.  My daughter, Ashleigh, is a huge horse lover.  

My favorite craft is the horse shoe.  I want to do this for my daughter's room above her door.  The pony poster would be cute colored and framed.  The bookmarks are great for kids who love to read.  The horse party time is great and I wished I saw this before my daughter's 13th birthday party.  We had it where she rides horses.  All of her friends loved riding.  Some even for the first time.  Ashleigh has asked for another party there.  We have never done a theme movie night.  I love this idea that the movie night theme is about horses.  


I wished this book had more crafts, but we loved it.

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I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

Recommend this book? Yes! Author? Yes!

Read more from this author? Yes!

Happy Reading!

Melissa 

Review coming next: ACE: A Bad Boy Romance Part 1 by Frankie Love

FTC Disclosure: The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company has provided me with a copy of this book for review or I have purchased the book with my own funds.  The opinion I share about the story are mine and have not been influenced by the The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company if received for review.

Review: Porcupette Finds a Family

For this review, I chose Porcupette Finds a Family by Vanita Oelschlager.

I requested ARC copy of the ebook through Netgalley in exchanged for a honest review.

Here is a brief description from Goodreads:
Porcupette Finds a Family, is a story about how a baby porcupine (called a porcupette) finds a new family after losing his mother. He wants to have an attachment to the bear family he finds, but is afraid his “bear” mother and “bear” brother and sister will leave him too. This causes him to act out his fears in
ways that jeopardize acceptance from his adopted family. However, with the understanding and help of Mother Bear, Porcupette finally accepts that he is truly loved and wanted despite, or maybe because of, his differences. 

I read this book to my son, who will be 7 in a few days.  We both loved the illustrations and they so colorful and my son's attention during the entire book.  I loved the theme of this book.  Porcupette lost his mother and was worred that the Bear Mother would not accept him because he was different from the bear siblings.  

Great book and I would love to read more books with my son by this author!
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I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Recommend this book? Yes! Author? Yes!

Read more from this author? Yes!

Happy Reading!

Melissa 

Review coming next: 

Horse Play! 25 Crafts, Parties, & Activities for Horse-Crazy Kids by Deanna F. Cook & Katie Craig

FTC Disclosure: The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company has provided me with a copy of this book for review or I have purchased the book with my own funds.  The opinion I share about the story are mine and have not been influenced by the The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company if received for review.

Review: Love in Plain Sight

For this review, I chose Love in Plain Sight by Nana Malone.

I received a copy of the ebook for a honest review of this book.


Here is a brief description from Goodreads:
FBI Agent Dylan Donovan is a man with a plan. Or at least he was. He had the girl, the job, the family until a split-second decision, to trade one life for another, turned his whole world upside down. With nothing left to lose, he’s ready to course correct…until he’s assigned to protect the impetuous and free-spirited Serafina Justice. 

Sera is off men. With an overbearing mother and a bad news ex-boyfriend, all the lifestyle brand manager wants to do is focus on her job. She finally has a chance to be taken seriously when she’s chosen for a high profile project with a non-profit that helps troubled young girls—like she used to be. And she’s not going to blow it. What she doesn’t count on is one smokin’ hot, broody FBI agent trying to control her. 

Good luck with that… she knows just how to handle bossy and overbearing—and there isn’t a man alive who’s going to mess up her plans.


I absolutely loved this book.    FBI Agent Dylan Donovan was called to protect Sera by her mother, who is a Senator, as a favor for the Senator.  So Dylan meets her in a bar.   Sera has sworn off men. Sera wants nothing to do with her mother and has been on her own for many years.  When Sera needed her mother, she was not available.

The characters were believable and the chemistry was hot between FBI Agent Dylan Donovan and Sera.  This is well written.  It has mystery, suspense, and romance all mixed together with a bit of family drama.  I love how strong Sera is and does not allow anything to stop her.

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I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Recommend this book? Yes! Author? Yes!

Read more from this author? Yes!

Happy Reading!

Melissa 

Review coming next: Porcupette Finds a Family by Vanita Oelschlager

FTC Disclosure: The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company has provided me with a copy of this book for review or I have purchased the book with my own funds.  The opinion I share about the story are mine and have not been influenced by the The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company if received for review.

Review: For Seven Nights Only

For this review, I chose For Seven Nights Only by Sarah Ballance.

I received a copy of the ebook for a honest review of this book.

Here is a brief description from Goodreads:
Kelsie Reed is over bad luck and bad men. Newly dumped, she’s now the pathetically single maid of honor in her sister's wedding—and her ex is the best man. Her bad luck continues when a plumbing meltdown in her apartment sends her sexy neighbor running to her rescue. He’s got "serial dater" written all over him, which is unfortunate because the man is hot.

Sawyer Chase loves women, but settling down? He’ll leave that to his brothers. But when Kelsie confesses she’s a dating disaster and is about to become the laughing stock of her family wedding, Sawyer takes control. He's got one week to teach her how to land the man of her dreams, and he’ll do it on her terms: no touching, no kissing, and definitely nothing more.

But some rules need to be broken, especially when, for once, there’s something on the line worth fighting for…

I loved this book.  It was not the normal he/she meet, have a relationship, then one does something to mess it up and they make up.  Kelsie is having issues with men.  Her ex has her messed up.  Mainly her self esteem is bad.  Now Kelsie has her sister's wedding where her ex is the best man and she is the maid of honor.  She has to find a date.

With a plumbing mess, her neighbor comes to her rescue.  Sawyer is gorgeous and a womanizer, who lets the woman know it can not go anywhere.  He comes to her rescue to help her land the man of her dreams.  7 dates.  Anything could happen during these 7 dates!

My favorite part of this book is the banter between Kelsie and Sawyer.  Their chemistry is hot, but they both are fighting it.

☆☆☆☆☆
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Recommend this book? Yes! Author? Yes!

Read more from this author? Yes!

Happy Reading!

Melissa 

Review coming next: Love in Plain Sight by Nana Malone

FTC Disclosure: The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company has provided me with a copy of this book for review or I have purchased the book with my own funds.  The opinion I share about the story are mine and have not been influenced by the The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company if received for review.

Review: Forbidden

For this review, I chose Forbidden, which is Book #1 in the Her British Stepbrother series, by Lauren Smith.

I requested ARC copy of the ebook through Netgalley in exchanged for a honest review.

Here is a brief description from Goodreads:
Kat has always been a good girl. She studies hard and never stays out too late. But when sitting in a pub on her birthday, she realizes she's a nineteen-year-old virgin who's never really lived. And she wants tonight to be the night that changes.

Then she sees him walk in. He's tall, dark, handsome, and straight out of her deepest fantasies. His voice makes her knees feel weak, and when he smiles, she imagines him doing wicked things to her in bed. From the look in his eyes, she knows he's imagining it too. So when he asks if he can walk her home, she hears herself whisper yes . . .

This book was wow!!  I kept thinking this is different then I have read before, but I could not put my finger on why it was different.  I still can't.  Maybe it is different for me because I have not read a stepbrother romance, but I do not think this is why this book was different for me.  

Kat has always been a good girl.  On her birthday, she promises herself to have some fun and live a little bit while out celebrating her birthday with friends.  Kat sees Tristan walk in.  Tristan is a playboy, but there is something about Kat that he can not get out of his mind and he wants her more than anyone else.

Tristan is not technically her stepbrother yet.  They met before they even kew all the details.  Is this wrong?  I have to say no.  It is not like they grew up together as step-siblings.

This is a 3 book series.  Book #2 is called Seduction.  Book #3 is called Climax.  I can not wait to read the other 2 books in this great series.

☆☆☆☆☆
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Recommend this book? Yes! Author? Yes!

Read more from this author? Yes!

Happy Reading!

Melissa 

Review coming next: For Seven Nights Only by Sarah Ballance

FTC Disclosure: The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company has provided me with a copy of this book for review or I have purchased the book with my own funds.  The opinion I share about the story are mine and have not been influenced by the The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company if received for review.

Review: In Deep with the FBI Agent

For this review, I chose In Deep with the FBI Agent by Lynne Silver.  This is the third book in the Alpha Heroes series.

I requested ARC copy of the ebook through Netgalley in exchanged for a honest review.

Here is a brief description from Amazon:
PASSION UNCOVEREDTo Casey, Montgomery Prep isn't just DC's most prestigious private school-it's her alma mater, the place where her fondest memories were made. It's also her current employer and the target of a dangerous cyber criminal. But even more shocking than the crime is the sexy FBI agent who comes to investigate . . . 
With his six-plus frame and gym-sculpted body, no one would suspect FBI special agent Sam Cooper was once an awkward teenage computer geek-no one, that is, except Casey, the gorgeous girl who captured his heart on the first day of high school and held it for the last fourteen years. When a hunt for a hacker brings Casey back into Sam's life, his long-denied desire becomes impossible to ignore. He knows just how to make her forget the boy he was . . . and show her the man he's become.

Book 1: HOT NIGHTS WITH THE FIREMAN

Book 2: IN BED WITH THE BODYGUARD


Once again, Lynne Silver did a great job with this book.  I was hooked from page 1.  I can not believe I am going to say this, but this is my favorite book in this series (so far if there are more.....hint hint!!)  I loved book #1, Hot Nights with the Fireman, and thought that was my favorite book, but I was wrong.  I loved all the computer tech talk, the cyber hacking, and the chemistry between Sam and Casey.

Let's go back a step.  Sam and Casey met at orientation at Montgomery Prep in their Freshman year.  They sat beside one another for the entire 4 years (due to alphabetically order).  Sam had a major crush on Casey, but Casey was not so nice to him.  He left notes in her locker, etc, but did she keep them?  

Lots of people say that the geeks in high school are the ones to be HOT when they grow up.  Not sure if that happened with my high school.  I have never gone to a reunion.  Now 14 years later, Sam is HOT and Casey is thinking she should had been nicer to him back in high school.

Casey is working for her alma mater, Montgomery Prep.  Sam asked her questions if they have been hacked.  There is a lot of suspense on who did it.  I loved that added into the book.  The chemistry between Sam and Casey is hot.  It was nice to see the 2 couples from the first 2 books. 

I hope there are more books in this series.  I will definitely read them.

☆☆☆☆☆
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Recommend this book? Yes! Author? Yes!

Read more from this author? Yes!

Happy Reading!

Melissa 

Review coming next: Forbidden, which is Book #1 in the Her British Stepbrother series, by Lauren Smith

FTC Disclosure: The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company has provided me with a copy of this book for review or I have purchased the book with my own funds.  The opinion I share about the story are mine and have not been influenced by the The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company if received for review.