Ransom – Rachel Schurig – 2*

Daisy and Daltrey have been friends since they were 5. The book starts with their first meeting and the jumps ahead to when they are 19. They haven't spoken in over a year because Daisy cut him out. It takes a while to find out why she cut him out which is probably the only reason I continued to read the book.

Spoilers!!!!

Daisy dated a guy from school after Daltrey left for Hollywood. He took compromising photos of her and shared them around school. She was then bullied by pretty much everyone at the school and the school wouldn't do anything to help her. She did something she regretted and is trying to get back from that. With all the drama in her life she didn't want to bring Daltrey down.

My issue with the book is the timeline does not make any sense what so ever. Daltrey and Daisy are the same age. It is said a number of times in the book that they are the same age. Yet it should be his senior year and he leaves for Hollywood when all of Daisy's drama goes down. What happened to school? And what 18 year old has a year of high school left? If only a year has gone by since he left how did Daisy finish high school and get a year of college done all while being in a mental hospital. It seems like there should have been two years between the time Daltrey left and when they see each other. Why couldn't the author have said that two years had gone by. That would have made sense. When something like a timeline doesn't match I can't enjoy the book because I'm trying to figure out how this all works.

I will not be reading anything else by the author.

Hell’s Chapel – Lauren Creed – 3*

I wanted to love this book. It started off really well but by the end it fell flat. You have this all powerful woman who is the niece of Satan and has 5 fathers. Each father is the leader of their species and she gets a little from each of them. Because of this she had just as much good as she does bad plus a ton of power.

What worked for me: it wasn't just Caith having adult relations. Some of Kyle's books that is all they are (nothing wrong with that) but this had a plot to go with the relations. I also liked the fact that Caith kick major behind and she didn't apologise. She's also a bit odd and funny.

What didn't work: the ending at all. I believe another reviewer said it depressed them and I agree whole heartedly. She defeats the bad guy but loses everything. Not cool. I read books to find an escape and I want a glimmer of happy life and you don't get this with this book. I also felt the plot needed some fleshing out. She has instalove with Sam but he isn't quite ready to fall so they date. By date I mean they go on one epic bad date where his ex shows up and causes drama. She comes back later and drama again. It felt like she was meant to be the red hering bad guy but there also seemed to be a point to her and it's never addressed.

Over all I loved the humor and the kick butt females. I will still buy and read the next one BUT it will probably sit on my tbr stack until I get around to it.

Maid for the Rock Star – Demelza Carlton – 1*

The main guy was the biggest piece of scum ever. He was all about using inappropriate terms for her body from the very moment he met her. He was demanding and when Audra didn't cave and a new maid came into the picture he slept with her and thought Audra sent the new maid as a gift. I loved Audra until she slept with him. She was reaching for her dreams and doing what she could to help (sort of enable) her family.

Finding Margo – Susanne O’Leary – 1*

This was a book with a bunch of characters who have no redeeming qualities. The main character Margo is married to world's biggest jacka@@. Her verbally abuses her until she has enough and leaves him at a gas station. She hitches a ride into Paris with a horse trainer who was probably the only awesome character in the whole book. When she gets to Paris she plans to stay with supposed friends. I say supposed because they are jerks to her and take her husband's side even though they are supposedly friends. Instead of confronting them or her husband for that matter she just takes off again. She acts like a spoiled child who when she isn't given permission (she's 37) to do something instead of being an adult and saying I'm out of here she waits until the "adults" aren't looking and she runs off. Grow up already.

Spoiler

She ends up having an affair with a Frenchmen who is the watered down version of her husband gets pregnant. When she is a couple months into her pregnancy she FINALLY confronts her husband who is still at a conference (who knew conferences lasted months) where she finds out he's been lying to her (she can't have a baby and an affair) and says she is done with him. Couldn't you have done this BEFORE months had gone by. It was just a bad book. There wasn't one redeemable character you could latch onto and hope they succeeded.

Reed – Anna Hackett – 4*

I would rate this a firm 4. The story was interesting and the characters were developed and interesting.

Natalya was an interesting character. I liked that she called Reed out on his behavior towards her. She was also very smart and was trying to find ways to fight the enemy with her strengths. She wasn't afraid to put herself out there. I also felt her reaction to finding out about the big twist was pretty much how all of us would react.

Reed was definitely an alpha male. He was very protective of Natalya. However, one of my issues with Reed was when Natalya needed his support the most he waffled. He soon makes up for that but it still was a disappointment.

While I read this one I wanted them to resolve all the problems and have a HEA but there are more books in the series and I cannot wait for the next one.

Marcus 3.5
Cruz 4
Gabe 3.5
Reed 4

Gabe – Anna Hackett – 3.5*

This is the 3rd installment in the series. I enjoyed this book but not as much as the second book. I felt there were more issues with this story line then the other two books. I would give it a 3/3.5

The reason for the 3/3.5 was I really didn't like the Emerson or some of the things Gabe was doing.

Gabe was trying to work through his grief of losing his twin brother but breaking into Emerson's room for adult relations just doesn't sit well with me. It was completely consensual but it was the fact that it was more of a wham bam thank you mam. He wouldn't really acknowledge there relationship outside the bedroom. He also kept putting his entire team and risk. Not so much a criticism on Gabe's part but more so with the Marcus. Why wouldn't they have put him on desk duty or something when he continued to disobey orders.

Emerson just irritated me. She was a workaholic which was fine with what they were going through. My issue was in the second book she was held for an hour with the enemy where she was beaten. In this book she continues to have flashbacks to what happened but it is never explained what she went through. She also puts up with a lot of Gabe's hot and cold behavior without even blinking. It is what it is. When she finally stands up for her self after he dumped her, he says oh wait I'm not done with you and she caves and takes him back. She even caves with her patients. There was one person who was rescued in the last book who refused to be examined and she was ok if you don't want to make sure you're OK it's fine. I don't know many people who could just opt out of a follow-up visit to make sure they are ok.

One of the big plot twists in this book I figured out in the last book so it wasn't a great surprise when it came up in this book. This didn't make me give up the series but it was close.

Marcus 3.5
Cruz 4
Gabe 3.5

Cruz – Anna Hackett – 4*

This is the second in a series. I gave the first a 3.5 due to backstory and character development. With this book you had more backstory and character development. I enjoyed this one more than Marcus.

Santha was an amazing character. She kicks butt. My one big criticism of her is she goes off half cocked when she needs to stop and think before doing. Cruz is a good balance for her because he tries to get her to stop and think before doing.

My one big criticism is there parts of the book that were very predictable. One part of the book I guessed would happen as soon as the backstory was told. I was also able to guess some of the plot points in future books.

Marcus 3.5