Train Wreck by Elise Faber

 

4 Star

Pepper O’Brien may be Hollywood royalty, but her life is a mess.  All the money in the world can’t buy her any amount of grace and poise.  If something can go wrong, it does.  After her most recent disaster she decides to move across the country to start over away from everyone who saw her humiliation.  Where she runs into her older brother’s best friend and her high school crush Derek Cashette.  She is determined to fix her life without any help from anyone even Derek’s help.  However, Derek will be helping her whether she likes it or not.  When she finds out why he’s helping will she be able to forgive him.

I can relate to Pepper.  I am the world’s biggest clutz.  Lucky for me no one sees my goofs.  Pepper is very relatable and when she finds out about Derek you want to smack him upside his head.  I enjoyed reading the story.  It flowed nicely and had an interesting romance.  I did like how Derek makes it up to Pepper.  Good first book to a series.

Book 1 Life Sucks

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Sweatpants and Spells by Keira Blackwood

 

4 Star

Remi’s life is changing drastically.  She was at her ex-stepdaughter’s wedding when her ex-husband kidnaps her and bites her.  What she doesn’t realize is she’s the reason he started on fire.  Now that she has magic she needs to learn all about what that means and how to use her powers.  She will have to work with new people to

I loved this story.  It was incredibly funny.  I loved Remi and her best friend Jen.  It was fun seeing her come into her own and finding her forever man who supported her.  The book is part of a larger series, and it looks like it builds on each other for an overarching bad guy who wasn’t really taken out in this book but one bad guy was taken out.  It was nice to see an older woman find her happy ending.

Book 1 Midlife Magic in Marshmallow

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Trusting Molly by Susan Stoker

4 Star

Molly has always had bad luck.  When she’s in Nigeria she’s kidnapped with a hundred schoolgirls.  Shoved into a hole and left to rut she doesn’t expect to get out alive.  When Mark “Smoke” Chamberlin and his team go into Nigeria to rescue the schoolgirls he literally falls into the hole with Molly.  Once they had rescued everyone Molly finds out her only family had died while she was being held hostage so she opts to go home with Mark to figure out what she should do with her life.  As they get closer there’s someone else out to get her.  Will Mark be able to keep her safe?

I really enjoyed this book.  I enjoyed Molly’s inner dialogue and how she does pick herself up to keep moving.  It was interesting to see how Molly and Mark would work out with her stalker.  One of the best parts of the book is that Molly saves herself.  Overall, it fits well within the series and I enjoyed it a lot.

Book 3 Silverstone

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Cliff’s Descent by Dianne Duvall

 

3.5 Star

Cliff has been working with the Immortal Guardians for years and he is slowly succumbing to the vampire’s insanity.  Everyone is working hard to find a solution to save him, but nothing is working.  When he saves Emma from mercenaries, she is enthralled with him.  She helps keep the voices at bay and gives him more happy days until it’s not helping anymore.  He is ready to ask Sebastian to end it all when some immortals are kidnapped, and he volunteers to go in and do whatever he can to save them.  Will they be abled to save him?

I’ve been waiting for this book for years and was incredible excited when I saw it was going to be coming out.  The writing for this book was like all the other books.  I think my biggest issue with the book was it reused parts of previous books without really expanding on things I’ve already read.  It did make me cry through several parts.  I also had issue with the side stepping of how to help the vampires.  The way Cliff was saved is a one off and I still want some of the other vampires to be saved and we are still waiting on that solution.  Overall, it is a good book.  It builds on all the other books in the series though you can read this one without reading all the other books. 

Book 11 Immortal Guardians

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Crashed by Elise Faber

 

4 Star

Fanny thought she had it all until she didn’t.  She was engaged to the love of her life and then he is diagnosed with a brain tumor.  The first time it took him a week to remember her.  When it came back and months later, he still didn’t remember her and was falling for someone at the hospital she walked away.  Now years later he remembers everything and wants her back.  She is gun-shy to believe it will work out this time.  Will she be able to get past their history and fine their happy?

This one was just heartbreaking.  The book fit within the series, and I loved both Fanny and Brandon.  I felt for both of them.  They were dealt a crappy hand and it tore them apart just to come back together later.  I loved the whole story.  I also liked that Fanny is the one who screwed up and she does make it right with Brandon.  Definitely a good addition to the series.

Book 12 Gold Hockey

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Love Next Door by Helena Hunting

 

4 Star

Dillion left town to go to college and thought she would never come back other than to visit.  But when her brother gets into an accident, she loses her job, and her boyfriend now is the perfect time to go home and regroup.  She is hoping it will be a quick visit and then back to Chicago what she isn’t planning on is getting an eye full of her neighbor Donovan.  They got off to a rocky start but soon can’t live without each other.  But they are both dealing with their own drama in their personal life.  Will they be able to get passed the problems to find their happy ending?

This was a very fast read for me and I enjoyed the light romance.  I liked the give and take in the relationship between Donovan and Dillion.  The fights between them were very amusing.  Another part of the book I liked was when he fucked up, he does make it up to her.  Overall, it was a quick lighthearted read with parts of hot and funny bits.

Book 1 Lakeside

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Dude in Distress by Helena Hunting

 

4 Star

Nevah is on the way to see her sister when she sees a car broken down on the side of the road.  Thinking it's a woman she pulls over to help. Instead of a woman in need she finds Lawson. He wasn't planning on having his car die on him

This was a short and sweet story with some super-hot moments between Nevah and Lawson.  The connection to the shacking up series is there but is so small you don't need to have read the series to understand what's happening in this book.

Audio Book:

 Rose Dioro and Jacob Morgan did an awesome job narrating this book.  I really enjoyed both of their voices.  Even at a faster speed there wasn't any issues.  Super fast listen since it was a short story.

Short Story in the Shacking up series

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