Favorite Song of the Week

 

The Boyz- Watch It

As I've said before I like some KPOP and this is one of those songs. I hope you enjoy. 

Wild Flowers

 

Today is supposed to be Freebie Friday but I didn't get any freebies this week. So enjoy some wild flowers. My courtyard was alive with these tiny yellow wild flowers. I have no idea what they are. They lasted about a month before the groundskeepers came and weed whacked them away. 

 They are still popping up all over my street though. The flowers are super tiny. 

Book Review: Seduced By The Sea Lord by Starla Night

 

Book Description

Tattooed warriors are climbing out of the secret depths to claim their soul mates and save their race!

Determined warlord Torun must claim Lucy, who mistook him for a shipwreck survivor and pulled his injured body from the ocean. She is his soul mate. Now she must join with him and give him a child.

Lucy can’t believe the words coming out of this dominant male. Her destiny is to become a mermaid queen? Too bad “destiny” forgot that Lucy’s a broke divorcee who can’t even have a child. It really is too bad, because Torun’s gorgeous, and his iridescent gold tattoos shimmer beneath the water as he flexes those broad, hard pectorals...

But Torun's in more danger than a bump on the head, and Lucy is the only one who can save him. Their choices will forever change the endangered race of mermen - or destroy it!

Dive in to the first novel in the bestselling Lords of Atlantis series. This complete novel with a happy ending features steamy shifter love scenes, underwater gun fights, and a giant female octopus named Mr. Huggles.

My Review

Lucy's ex divorced her because she couldn't have children. But she's determined to make a name for herself by finding opal's in the ocean. While out on the ocean in her boat, she spots Torun's body and thinks he's deceased. But she can't just leave him there knowing his family would want closure so she pulls him aboard only to find he's very much alive. But once he recovers, she finds he's a bit strange and thinks it's just because he's from a tribe far away. He is in fact from far away, under the ocean because he's a merman. 

Torun knows that she's his mate right away because he can see a light coming from her and it's bright. He convinces her that he's a merman and that she'll be able to breathe under the water if he can just find an elixir that she can drink so they can go find more opal's. But his people are outraged that he's brought back a human as a mate and a long battle between he and his people start. 

Torun was a little weird at first because he really doesn't know a lot about humans on the top side. So he's learning and it was fun to watch. He's very protective of Lucy and wanted her to be happy with him. The things she sees while under the water was sometimes fun like the octopus she called Mr. Huggles and sometimes scary like when Torun's people found out she was there. 

Learning about the people, culture and things under the sea like their life tree was fascinating and made for a fun read. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

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Favorite Picture of the week

 

There was a huge rain cloud that came through, mostly over the mountains. We did get a few sprinkles out of it but just a few. And yes, before you ask, those are bullet holes in the block wall by the trash can. They have been there a while and it happened a couple of years ago when someone shot at the trash can. I wrote about it in this post. 

This cloud blew by really fast and then it was gone. 

Book Review: Long Distance Wolf by Rose Bak

 

Book Description

He’s the right wolf at the wrong time…

Connie Lucero has just turned eighteen and is looking forward to escaping her small-town, going to college in the big city, traveling the world, and having adventures. When she meets her fated mate at a party, she knows she had no choice but to reject him before she ends up mated and pregnant.

Andy Galina moved to the shifter town of Greysden for a new job, but it’s not long before his wolf locks onto the beautiful younger woman they’re meant to be with forever. He’s stunned when Connie tells him she has no interest in being his mate. He knows that his independent mate needs some time to find herself and make her own way in the world, but his wolf has other ideas.

Can their love survive a long separation?

“Long Distance Wolf” is a prequel short story that’s part of the “Bite-Sized Shifters” paranormal romantic comedy series. Each book in the series is standalone that can be read in a few hours, and features a mature couple, steamy scenes, a lot of fur and claws, and a guaranteed HEA.

My Review

Connie is just now 18 years old and she knows what she wants to do with her life. The most important thing is to go to college and get her degree and nothing is going to stop her, not even meeting her mate. Connie and Andy are both wolf shifters and after they meet each other, Andy thinks he can just decree that she is his mate and they will live happily ever after. But that's not what Connie wants and she rejects him as a mate. 

He's so confused and surprised that his mate rejects him that he goes to talk to her and they decide to stay friends for now and she'll go off to college and hopefully one day Connie will feel differently about him. 

This is a very short novella prequel for the Bite Sized Shifters series and after reading this, I will be reading more of this series. This book definitely intrigued me enough to want to read more of this series now. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

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Happy Raturday!

 

"We watched the eclipse but we liked the donuts more."

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

Apartment Life #314

 

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 25 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 25 years here in a weekly blog post.  

I heard cars racing down my street and wasn't able to get the police cars because they went by too fast but I snapped a picture of this ambulance as it raced past. I didn't even have time to open my window and had to take the picture through the window screen. It was at the end of the street, someone was arrested and someone went to the ER in the ambulance. 

So last week I noticed a little construction going on in our alley. A few days later I noticed these. Looks like charging stations for electric cars. I've looked to see if any of the cars that are parking there are charging and none of them have been so far. lol I seriously doubt that anyone who lives here has an electric car. It was about 5am when I took this picture which is why it still looks dark out. Watch this place raise the rent because of the "upgrades" they made this year when it comes time to renew our leases.

The police showed up for a domestic dispute on Tuesday. One man was arrested. I was across the street and was able to get a picture of the police cars parked near the courtyard behind the office. 

Then later that night the police and ambulance were back in that same courtyard of my complex and another guy was arrested for having a gun. A lady was taken away in the ambulance. I have no idea what happened to her. 

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You might remember that at the end of last week's Sunday post I told you that we heard 5 gunshots that sounded really close. 

Well I think I figured out where those gunshots came from. This is a metal sign that is right next to my apartment building. As you can see there are 5 gunshots in it. One or two of the holes is on the bottom edge of the top sign. 

This is the front of the sign and you can really see the bullet holes from this way but you sure can from the back. That walkway to the right is the sidewalk to my apartment building. It's just a couple of feet away. So when I said last week that it sounded close, I wasn't wrong. 

The high this week was 88F/31C

The low this week was 54F/12C

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

Favorite Song of the Week

 

Dead By April- Break My Fall

I love this band and when I heard this one I really liked it. I've been listening to it for a while now. I hope you enjoy it too. 

Freebie Friday!

 

Welcome to another weekly Freebie Friday post, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a "Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

  You can find links to great samples at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.

This week I received: 

A perfume sample and two Vichy face serum samples. 

The perfume smells so nice and the face serum made my skin soft so I'd call that a win. 

Did you receive any free samples this week?

Book Review: Legion by Tia Didmon

 

Book Description

A Dragon. A Druid. A Disaster.

Art student Mara Krane has no time for the sexy 'dragon' in her dreams, even if he insists she is the key to saving humanity. But as her dormant magic emerges, she can no longer ignore her immortal mate.

Trusting him will make her a target in a war that has lasted for millennia and unearth a long-buried family secret, concealing the betrayal of a former life.

As she faces an ancient adversary set on her destruction, will her hopes burn to the ground, or will she discover that love hath no fury like a dragon scorned?

My Review

Legion is a dragon shifter that lost everything in a war. Adara used her magic to be reborn into another and when Legion found out that she was his mate, he was mad she never told him. Now years later Adara's magic is being awakened into Mara as she reaches her 23rd birthday. When she unknowingly reaches out telepathically and hears Legion talk to her, she thinks she's going mad until he walks into her shop and tells her all about dragons, druids and magic. 

Things really start happening pretty fast after that because Mara's magic is about to turn on full power and she has no idea how to use or control it. Mara starts to remember things about Adara and secrets are revealed because secrets always have a way of coming out. As Mara and Legion become closer, they realize that they really are meant to be together but the black dragons will do anything to have Mara because she's a druid and a seer and her blood gives them what they want. 

So while they are fighting the black dragons, trying to stay ahead of the danger, Mara is also learning to use her powers, they are learning about each other and getting closer. It was a fun read. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

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