Favorite Picture of the Week

 

I took a lot of sky pictures this week because we had a lot of clouds most of the week. 

Book Review: Nosedive by Torri Heat

 

Book Description

Cam’s a dragon shifter with a secret. He prefers his own company to that of his pack’s, until one day he stumbles across a saucy Supe named Charlie. She’s hiking alone, and looks as lost as he feels – perhaps they could keep each other company.

Except Charlie’s got secrets of her own, and she’s not ready to share them with some too-handsome-to-be-real, shifty shifter. Cam might be good for a laugh, maybe a hot one-night stand… if she can let her guard down long enough to enjoy herself.

But the next day, right when Charlie’s about to cut him loose, their worlds collide in a twist of fate, forcing them to work together to save themselves – and each other. To do so, they’ll have to expose the parts they’ve kept hidden for far too long… or risk losing everything to the darkness surrounding them.

Nosedive is a standalone, fast burn paranormal romance.

My Review

Charlie is a witch and she's running from her coven because they are bad people. Cam is a dragon shifter and he left his dragon family because the alpha set rules he didn't like. But his dragon family finds other supernatural females and kidnaps them and then forces them to mate the male dragons so their offspring will be more powerful. Cam is not ok with this and so he doesn't go home very often. So when some of his family come looking for Charlie because they can feel how powerful she is, the only thing he can do to save her is claim her as his mate. The others are not happy about this but the Alpha goes along with it as long as they stay for the mating ceremony so he can be sure they actually mate. 

Charlie isn't sure she can trust Cam but he seems to be trying to save her from one of the other male dragon shifters who she can tell would not be nice to her and only wants her for her power. There's some power plays going on behind the scenes that includes the Alpha and Cam and that causes some chaos with him and his people. 

I like how this ended and I really liked Cam and Charlie. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

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Happy Raturday!

 

"Did you have a Lite Brite when you were a kid? I like mine."

*All pictures this week are courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #396

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.

Monday morning there was a high speed chase on my street. The guy in the white truck who got arrested, was speeding down the street away from the cops. He sped up the street, the cops on his tail, made a U-Turn and speed back down the street. Finally the cop in the police tactical truck was able to make him crash up on the side walk and he was pulled out of his car and arrested. I was outside walking Falcor across the street and saw the whole thing.

There was a buttload of cops out here for this guy. 

You can see how his truck was up on the sidewalk. That was more excitement than I wanted to see for a morning walk. 

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It rained so much on Tuesday that parts of my courtyard flooded. 

A large puddle in the middle of the rocks. 

I had walked over to the grocery store next door Tuesday morning right and got home right before the rain started pouring from these clouds.

The high this week was 64F/17C

The low this week was 45F/7C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.

Saturday Vittles

 

6 Ingredient Dinner Rolls

With Thanksgiving coming up in the US soon, I thought I would share my recipe for dinner rolls. These come out crumbly not flaky. If you've ever used Bisquick to make biscuits, these come out that texture. There is no yeast, no kneading or rising. Just mix everything together and bake. But they are so good and the easiest dinner roll/biscuits I've ever made.

You will need: 

2 cups flour

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2 tsp baking powder

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2 tsp of salt

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1 cup milk

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4 tablespoons mayonnaise

4 TBSP sugar

What to do: 

Preheat oven to 350 F

Mix all the ingredients together. Liberally grease 8 muffins tins. Make you grease really well because they will stick. You can use muffin liners if you like. 

Fill all the way to the top, I like to have a little bit of a muffin top on my dinner rolls. If you want smaller dinner rolls, fill each tin to about 3/4 full. 

Bake for 12-15 minutes or until a fork comes out clean when you check them. 

Each dinner roll is about 350 calories and 60 carbs. 

More Sky Pictures

 

*Click on pictures to enlarge them*

Since I didn't get any freebies this week I thought I would share some more of the sky pictures I took. This might be my favorite picture that I've ever taken. Tuesday night had a stunning sunset. It had rained a little during the day and the ground was wet in the parking lot next door. It just looks so cool!

I stayed out there for a few minutes to get more pictures as the sun set.

The sky looked like it was on fire.

The big clouds were in abundance this week.

So many clouds but no rain.

As these clouds got over us, we did get a few sprinkles for a few minutes.

I was in our alley and noticed all the clouds off in the distance.

I turned around in the alley and saw all these big clouds.

It was a day of clouds. 

The clouds looked pretty off in the distance.

As the sun got ready to set, we had a blanket of clouds overhead. 

I hope you enjoyed your week as much as I enjoyed all these clouds.

Book Review: Nailing The Alien by Ava Ross

 

Book Description

Can I resist my grouchy orc boss?

Desperate to escape the clutches of the alien lizard mafia, I accept a spur-of-the-moment job offer on a distant planet. A monstrous, grumpy alien is building a new home in a distant colony, and he’s looking for an assistant.

He needs me to hold his hammer. I get it. It’s a big hammer.

He's a lonely barbarian brute with a gruff exterior, but I soon learn that inside he's hiding a squishy center. When he unexpectedly enters his mating frenzy, there’s no one around to handle the job . . . except me. He gives me two options—return home or stay and help him with a whole different kind of nailing . . .

Pick up this spicy story where a grouchy orc meets his fated mate in a smart-mouthed Earthling who gives it back as fast as he deals it out!

Nailing the Alien is Book 1 in the Beastly Alien Boss Series. Each features a brutish alien who can’t resist falling for his fated mate.

My Review

Cora goes to the intergalactic job agency to get away from the lizard mafia that thinks she owes them money that her cousin actually owes. She takes a job helping an orc do some construction in a town. Cora is just hoping to be away from Earth long enough for the lizards to forget her so she can go back but Kreel is interesting and after a while Cora starts feeling things for the big alien. 

He wants to send her back immediately because she's female but she refuses to go so he lets her stay and starts to get used to her. She is sunshine to his grumpy nature and the people in town come to like her a lot because she's more friendly than he is. Slowly Kreel starts to warm up to her, taking social cues from her in order to get along better with the people in town. 

When Cora ignites Kreel's mating frenzy, he thinks there's no way she will want to stay with him and help him through it, so he gives her a choice, go back to Earth or stay and help him, which means have sex with him. He's astounded that she chooses to stay with him but I'm glad she did because he really didn't know what he was going to do if she left. 

The humor in this book made me laugh on more than one occasion. Kreel didn't know what to do with Cora and her antics. She said things that he didn't understand but these two lonely souls were so good for each other. Each of them really needed someone in their lives. They were so good for each other. 

The ending was great, and I plan on reading more of this series. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

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Favorite Picture of the Week

 

There was a big, dark cloud filling the sky on Friday afternoon last week.

And then on Saturday it rained on and off all day long. The rest of the pictures are all from Saturday when it would stop raining so a few minutes so I could take Falcor out. 

The sun was setting which made this cloud look really neat to me. 

On Tuesday it rained so much that parts of my courtyard flooded.

Book Review: Alexiares by N.J. Walters

 

Book Description

From New York Times bestselling author N.J. Walters comes the tale of Death’s second son…in this energetic, paranormal small-town romance that’s deadly irresistible!

Some find redemption. Others land in it.

One moment, Alexiares Blackwell was reaping yet another human soul and gunning through New York City on his Harley. The next, he’s dropped into the path of an oncoming car in the small town of Redemption.

It turns out his dear old dad—the Grim Reaper himself—has decided that Alex needs a crash course in humanity. Literally. Now he’s stuck in a nowhere town with nothing but his motorcycle and some serious parent issues.

But no one messes with Death. Not even his sons.

Stripped of his powers, Alex is trying to figure out what his father wants from him—all while attempting to resist his increasingly complicated attraction to inn owner Cilla Wainwright. Alex can’t risk anything that resembles feelings…not even when she surprises him with a kiss that unravels him in ways he still can’t figure out.

Because Alex has a job to do.

And it’s starting to look a lot like the next soul he’s supposed to reap…is hers.

My Review

Alex is the son of Death- The Grim Reaper. He's a reaper himself and has reaped all the souls he's been told to. He's done his job for thousands of years. His dad has always pit he and his other brothers against each other in challenges. So, when his dad tells him that he's sending him on yet another challenge it doesn't surprise him. It does anger him when he's thrown directly in front of a woman and causes a small car accident with her. Alex has no idea what he's supposed to be doing so he waits to see if his dad will send him some signs. While waiting, he starts to fall for the woman who he crashed into, Cilla who owns a bed and breakfast that he's now staying at for a few days. 

When he realizes that he thinks he's supposed to be there for Cilla when she dies so he can reap her soul, he knows that it will hurt but if he doesn't do what his dad wants, he'll be punished. While he's staying around the bed and breakfast, he watches how Cilla's brother and ex-husband push her around and try to bully her into selling the bed and breakfast she owns. She won't budge and Alex thinks that's how she's going to end up dying. She's gotten in their way, and they aren't taking no for an answer. 

Alex isn't willing to give up Cilla though now that he's found happiness. He knows there will be consequences; he just hopes that Cilla isn't the one to get punished along with him. 

I really liked seeing Alex's brother, Sam. I was really hoping that they would make contact and get to know each other a little better. I can't wait to read the next book in this series and see what happens to these brothers. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Disclosure: I was given an E-ARC of this book via NetGalley but all thoughts and opinions are my own. 

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Happy Raturday!

 

"Just enjoying this giant cookie."

"I has a pamcake"

*All pictures this week are courtesy of martymousehouse.com*