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: 

Two $10 Amazon gift cards from FB giveaways. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: Finding Her Minotaur by Evangeline Priest

 

Book Description

Welcome to New York...

It figures that on my first day away from home, I’m taken by an invisible force and dragged to the secret underworld called the Minotaur’s Labyrinth. Not only do I discover that monsters and aliens exist, but I’m also about to be sold to the highest bidder.

However, I find that not all monsters are monstrous.

And one of them in particular makes it his mission to destroy anyone of them that lays a hand on me.

Finding Her Minotaur is a sweet and spicy monster romance novella set in the Obsidian Rift Universe, which is full of monsters and aliens who are obsessed with their mates.

My Review

Karis travels to New York to her boyfriend but he tells her she's too needy and wants some time apart. Left alone and without any money, she could call home but she decides not to. She helps a woman who was being assaulted by a guy and he runs away. But just moments later they are both kidnapped by an invisible force. The other woman is able to get a text to Bronn right before she is taken and he's on his way to save them. 

Creatures from other planets have taken them and they are about to go on the auction block. When Bronn and his teammates infiltrate the auction, he spots Karis and knows she is his mate. Bronn and Karis have to hide from those after them and while hiding they get a lot closer. Bronn is described just like he looks on the cover and I wasn't sure what his personality would be like, but dang I love him. He'd do anything to make sure his mate is safe and well taken care of. This was a quick novella but I didn't feel like the story went by too fast or was missing anything. This was a lot of fun to read. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

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Book Review: Finders Keepers by PG Forte

 

Book Description

Sometimes finding what you want is the easy part.

Caleb is a bionic soldier with little-to-no memory of his past. Aldo's an undercover cop who's searching for the man who got away. Then there's Sally, an ER physician who used to be married to Aldo's late partner, Davis. Sally's just looking for a reason to keep on getting up every day.

This holiday season, chance will bring them together and give them an opportunity to help one another find what they each want most. But every gift comes with a price. And keeping what they've found once they've found it? Yeah, that's gonna be the hard part.

My Review

Sally meets Caleb in the ER and he's smitten with her so he asks her out but things don't go as planned when they go back to her place. Her husband passed away just a year before and her home still looks like he lives there so Caleb takes off before they do anything. So she calls her best friend, Aldo who had been her late husband's police partner. Even though Aldo had feelings for her late husband, things never went beyond that. And even though Sally has feelings for Aldo she knows they can never be a couple. 

Turns out that Caleb is working with Aldo on a case and Aldo can't seem to stop thinking about Caleb in erotic ways but Caleb is giving him mixed signals. When Aldo notices a scar on Caleb that looks very similar to one that that his late husband had because of the wound that killed him and he finds out that Caleb can't remember most of his early life because of the implants and experiments he signed up for, Aldo is suspicious that he knows more about Caleb than Caleb knows about himself. 

Aldo doesn't want Sally alone for her first Christmas without her late husband so he invites her to his cabin and also invites Caleb when he finds out they both have feelings for each other. Aldo has some ulterior motives for inviting Caleb though and secrets get revealed as the days go on with all of them there. 

Once the truth is revealed and everyone's emotions and feelings are revealed, there's really only one thing they can do. While things are a little confusing and slow in the first few pages, it quickly picks up and had me on the edge of my seat. I had a feeling what was about to be revealed but I had no idea where this story would end up and I loved it. All three of these people had been hurt and were in need of some love. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

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Everyone Has A Story, Here's One of Mine

 

I've been thinking of writing an autobiography or memoir but it just never comes together for me but I figured if I write one story at a time and post it on my blog maybe once a month, I can do that. Maybe one day I'll pull all the stories together and put them in a book but for now I'll just share some stories with you about my childhood. Some of the stories will be happy, some sad and some horrific because that was my childhood. But they will all be real, things that actually happened. If it seems like something that people enjoy reading maybe I'll keep it going. These stories will not be in any kind of order, I'll just write them as they come to me.

Christmas with my dad and step mother in 1988. 

Late in 1988 I went to live with my dad and step mother for a few months. I was 18 years old and had just left one of the mental hospitals that I had been in for a couple of months (That's for another story) and my dad asked me to come stay with him for a little while. I think he thought that he could help me and he felt bad that I had ended up there in the first place. My step mother however, did not like me and didn't want me there and she never stopped letting me know it. 

It was almost Christmas and my dad asked me what I wanted so I told him that I really liked one of the purple sweaters that my step mother, Catherine had. I was trying to make nice and said she looked really nice in it and would like something like that. I tried to be nice to her but she was a nasty woman and still is. I didn't know it at the time but both she and my dad were doing speed (Amphetamines) and that really changed their personalities a lot. On top of that they both drank. 

For Christmas, my dad did indeed buy me a crocheted, purple sweater and I really liked it. I bought my step mother a horse statue because she liked horses. I was trying to be nice. My dad got a box of sausage, cheese and crackers since that was his favorite thing in the world. A few days later my step mother "accidentally" dropped the horse statue I bought her and it broke. I actually think she did it on purpose so she wouldn't have to keep it. A few days later I put my sweater on again and this time it had 2 cuts in it and the yarn started to unravel really quickly. It had been crocheted and I had no idea how to fix it. I showed my dad who showed my step mother who said she could fix it. But all she ended up doing was unraveling it further to the point that all I could do was throw it away. I can't prove she did it but I had worn it a couple of times and it was fine when I put it in the closet. That woman has always been very malicious and spiteful. She still is. 

Links to other stories: 

January 2023

February 2023

March 2023

April 2023

May 2023

June 2023

July 2023

August 2023

September 2023

October 2023

November 2023

Happy Raturday!

 

"I tried on my new elf outfit."

"Just doing a little shopping with my baby"

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

Apartment Life #295

 

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.  

The police stopped across the street and were talking to each other for a minute before they both got out and went to the apartment complex across the street. They weren't there for very long and it didn't look like anyone was arrested so that's good. 

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This is a makeshift shelter made of wood, cardboard, blankets and a plastic tarp. I usually see them on the sidewalks around here when the homeless make their shelters at night but this one was right out in the middle of the street in a corner/turn. Everytime a car came around that corner I expected the shelter to get hit and there were several close calls. The police saw it so many times but didn't even stop to tell them to move it to the sidewalk. it wasn't until a week later when a Marshall stopped and told them to get it out of the street was it moved to the sidewalk. 

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On Wednesday my daughter and I heard screaming coming from an apartment 2 doors down. Thier next door neighbor started pounding on her door and window yelling to see if she was alright then she said she was calling the cops. We almost called the police too but then we saw the woman's boyfriend leave the apartment, get in his car and leave. This isn't the first time this has happened and she keeps letting him come back. She lives there with her brother but he was at work. The brother wants to kick this guys a$$ so bad. 

The high this week was 61F/15C

The low this week was 49F/9C

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

 

Sleep Theory - "Fallout"

I'm pretty sure I've posted another song from Sleep Theory but I'm not sure. But this is such a good song. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. 

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: 

I cashed out my points on Valued Opinion Surveys for a $10 Amazon gift card. 

I also cashed out my points on Just Play for an Amazon gift card. 

And on the Fetch App I cashed out my points for a $13 Amazon gift card. 

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If you'd like to try Fetch,  It’s the app I use to turn my shopping receipts into free gift cards. It also gives me personalized offers for my favorite brands, stores and restaurants. It's really easy to use, you just snap a picture of your receipt and get points. 

Sign up for free with my referral code (UUV83C) and we'll each earn points when you snap your first receipt.

Click here to sign up. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: Feral by Trish Heinrich

 

Book Description

Humans and Werewolves do not mix. I tried that once and all I have to show for it is a broken heart. No thanks.

When I have to pretend that Daphne is my mate in order to find the mystical artifact threatening my clan, I know it’s going to end badly. But I’ll do anything to save my family, so I decide to act like the cheerful bookworm with the body of a goddess doesn’t affect me in the least.

Which was a big fat lie even before I discovered the one thing that would make all of this ten times more complicated. You see Daphne is my true mate.

Now every day that I spend with her is a special kind of torture. Her very touch makes my body burn with desires I’d buried a long time ago. I need to claim Daphne, to make her mine.

But I can’t, I won’t. She may accept that I’m a Werewolf, but Daphne doesn’t know the dark beast that lurks under my skin. If she did, she’d run screaming.

So I’m going to keep my distance, for both our sakes. And when the mission is done, I’m setting her free. Even if I have to tear my heart out to do it.

Warning: Feral is a steamy standalone monster romance in the Monsters & Artifacts series. It has a grumpy Scottish Werewolf, a sunny bookworm, primal chases, outdoor ‘fun’, size difference and enough fake relationship angst to keep you up all night. It definitely has an HEA. CW include body image issues, emotional abuse, biting.

My Review

Daphne works at the artifacts warehouse called The Archive. They track down mystical artifacts and keep them safely away from anyone so they can't harm anyone. But the last person in charge was horrible so a bunch of the paranormals who used to work there quit and want nothing to do with her boss or this place. But The Archive is the only place that can help when an artifact gets loose.

When Fraser's pack ends up having some issues that he needs to help with, he asks The Archive for help and Daphne is assigned to help but she has to pose as his mate and that means Fraser has to bite her. The only problem is she really is Fraser's mate and it's killing him to be around her and not touch her how he really wants. But he's been in a relationship with a human before and it ended with his heart being broken and he doesn't want that again so he tries to keep an emotional distance from Daphne which isn't easy since she is sunshine, bubbly and smiles. He on the other hand is a bit grumpy but I liked it. A grumpy, Scottish, werewolf hero? Yes, please. But holy hot werewolves, Batman! Fraser is every werewolf fantasy I've ever had, all rolled into one. *Did I say that out loud?* Ha! 

They are having trouble keeping things professional between them after he gave her the mating bite so she could accompany him back to his clan but they have to act like they like each other and when all that acting turns into real life feelings, it's all they can do to keep their hands off each other while they look for the artifact they came to find. The bite created a mating bond which just added to the feelings they were already having. Fraser was such a sweet guy and Daphne was so smart and fearless. I loved them together.

This is a true monster romance as he's not human at all, Fraser's true form is pretty much what you see there on the cover, a monster. But he can use a magical glamour to look like a human so he doesn't scare the mundanes ( humans). So when he and Daphne had their spicy time, he was in his true form. So if that prospect bothers you, you might not want to read this one. I loved it though. 

This was such a good book so you know I'll be looking for the next book in this series. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Amazon

Book Review: Dragon's Oath by Sophie Stern

 

Book Description

A woman in danger…

A lost baby…

A long journey home…

Peggy is nothing special. As the night janitor at Westbridge High, she just wants to finish cleaning so she can hurry home and work on her art. For Peggy, nothing makes her feel more alive than when she’s standing in front of a canvas. Then one night, everything changes…

A woman in trouble runs up to Peggy and gives her a child. She begs Peggy to take the child to Fablestone where the baby will be safe. From what? Peggy doesn’t know. All she knows is that the two agents who show up on her doorstep the next day aren’t with the FBI, and she’d bet anything they’re scientists who want to get their hands on dragon’s blood.

That’s not going to happen.

Not on Peggy’s watch.

Peggy doesn’t have a choice. She has to get the baby to the Fablestone clan before the full moon ends. She has to reach Fablestone before it’s too late.

The fate of the clan is resting on Peggy, and she swore a dragon's oath to return the child to its rightful home.

She'll do whatever it takes, even if it costs her everything.

My Review

When Peggy gets off work, a woman holding a baby comes out of the dark and begs her to take her baby and bring the child to Fablestone. She makes her a promise to do so and then the woman grabs her arm and bites her. She's shocked by what transpired but she brings the baby home to think about what to do. She isn't sure if she should just bring the child to the police but something in her tells her not to and then two people knock on her door and question her if she's seen a woman with a baby. Peggy knows they aren't real authorities so she lies and says no. Peggy knows she has to keep her promise and bring the child to Fablestone so after some internet searching she sets off to this place with the child. 

Once there she encounters a dragon shifter who knows who the baby is but because Peggy is a human, he doesn't trust her at first and that costs him precious time that he ends up finding out they didn't have. Once we find out who the woman was, who she was running from and why, we're off on a race against time to save the woman and others. 

This was a great story about a race to get a child home, find her mother and save her. The romance between Peggy and the dragon shifter who saves her was a bit in the back of the story as they have other things they need to worry about. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon 

Book Review: Dragon's Masquerade by Dawn McGraw

 

Book Description

Get stuck in a snowstorm with this sexy dragon for a trick-or-treat with some heat!

A short romantic Halloween tail from the DRAGONDELL Series!

As problems went, she was a very small one...

But Farryn didn’t have time for problems; he was a dragon on a mission.

Izzy’s Halloween already sucked before the hot guy tried to lock her in the closet…

Why were all the sexy ones crazy?

When Izzy finds herself stuck in a snowstorm and accidentally crashing a masquerade wedding, this little human is in for a dragon-sized surprise.

If you love steamy, instalove, dragon shifter romance, with guaranteed happily ever afters between alpha males and their fated mates, then you won’t want to miss this action packed adventure.

My Review

I haven't read this series but this short novella looked fun so I read it and it was a fun one. Izzy gets stuck on the road after her car breaks down. She wonders into a masquerade party on Halloween and hopes to just stay in from the cold until she can find a phone or a charger to charge her phone. But the party is full of dragon shifters that she thinks are wearing elaborate dragon costumes.  When one of the dragon shifters tries to lock her in a closet for her own safety, she's having none of it and Farryn comes to her rescue. 

Farryn can't let the little human be locked in a closet so he takes care of her so she'll blend in with the rest of the partygoers and she ends up feeling safe with him. Some of the other dragon shifters aren't as nice and want to cause problems. So while Farryn and Izzy are getting closer and getting to know each other, he has to try and stop his rival from messing things up. 

This was such a cute, quick novella. I really liked Farryn and Izzy. Who wants to find their fated mate at a Halloween costume party full of dragon shifters? *raises hand* I offer myself as tribute. I want to go back and read this series now.

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Happy Raturday!

 

"Having Thanksgiving Leftovers" 

"Waiting for the food to be done was the hardest part"

"Good thing I had a camera to take a few pictures"

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

Apartment Life #294

 

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.  

On Monday night the fire truck and an ambulance showed up. They brought someone out on a stretcher and they were taken away to the ER. 

A friend told me about an APP called Pulse that you can download and see why the fire department is in your area. They don't cover all places and they don't have the police on there but now I can see why the fire department is in the area. All it says is "Medical Emergency" but that's more info than I had before. If there's a fire, it will say that as well.  This was listed as a medical emergency. 

On Tuesday an ambulance showed up right across the street. 

When the fire department showed up a minute later I looked on the Pulse App and it said they were there for a medical emergency. It doesn't give much info but I'll know if it's a fire at least. 

Later on that night the police were at the end of my apartment building with the lights on. Right before they showed up the police helicopter was flying really low around my apartment complex. Then several police cars pulled up across the street but those pictures didn't come out good. There were about four police cars in all plus an ambulance that showed up but left soon after. The fire truck showed up for a couple of minutes but they also left soon after. I went outside to get better pictures but one of the cops yelled at me and told me to go inside. They don't like it when you're trying to take pictures.

Like I said the pictures didn't come out so good because they were three buildings down from mine but still in my apartment complex. I took the dog outside and tried to get better pictures that didn't happen. There were at least 4 police cars out there and you can see the bright lights from their cars down the street. Several of the police cars were where that tiny blue light is. They were out there for about 2 hours but I have no idea what was going on. 

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When the fire dept. showed up on Wednesday, I looked on the Pulse App and it said "Structure Fire" It was in my courtyard and there was no smoke, no fire. The fire department only stayed about 3 minutes. I thought someone was burning the turkey for Thanksgiving. lol  I guess it can't be right every time. lol 

This is what the Pulse App looks like when you pull it up. I circled where they came out for Wednesday. And since probably 75% of my blogger friends already have my address, I'm not worried about posting this. lol  If someone really wanted to stalk me, I doubt it would be too hard to find me anyway. 

Thursday the police showed up for a domestic fight going on in my courtyard. One apartment had a bunch of people over and they had all been shouting at each other. It was Thanksgiving so that really doesn't surprise me but no one was arrested. Is it really Thanksgiving without a family fight where the police show up? lol

It was a full week. 

I don't think the police, fire department and ambulances have ever showed up this much in one week. And these are just the instances that I noticed. There might have been more that I didn't see. 

The high this week was 67F/19C

The low this week was 35F/1C

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

 

Taemin- Guilty

I've told you guys that I listen to all kinds of music so this week's video is a little different. If you like KPOP you might like this one. His voice is so nice and when he is whispering, well, it's very sexy. *smirk*  I hope you enjoy this song. 

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: 

Two books from a blog giveaway. 

I received a sample size mascara. It works well so that was nice. 

Falcor received a sample size of Lil' Plates wet dog food and he liked it. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: A Demon's Touch By Ella Jade

 

Book Description

Demons aren’t supposed to have feelings. But I do, and that’s what made being condemned to earth my own personal hell.

As the only empathetic sex demon in history, being surrounded by emotional mortals is absolute torture. All I want is to get out of here.

Until I meet Harper Whitmore.

The last thing I expect is to fall in love with her. But just when I decide life on earth might not be so bad, Hell decides they want me back. And they’ve just put a bounty on her head to make me comply.

I have two choices: walk away from the woman I accidentally fell in love with...or fight for her, allowing her to discover that I’m nothing more than a monster. Either choice will condemn me to a life of misery, but for the first time in my life, I just want to do what’s good.

If only I knew what that was...

My Review

When Harper's uncle dies, Angelo decides that Harper will fill his shoes and become his new lawyer. But Angelo is a very rich, very secretive client that has very specific requirements for his lawyer. The most important one is that the lawyer has to come to his house because Angelo doesn't go to them, in fact he rarely goes anywhere except for business. This entire situation is very strange to Harper but she needs the job she has so when her boss tells her to go, she goes. 

Meeting Angelo is intimidating not just because he's super rich but because he's very serious and sure of himself. What Harper doesn't know is that Angelo is a demon, a sex demon to be exact. But he's not a bad guy which was surprising. When some angels fall from heaven he will give them a place to stay and helps them as long as they help him. So Harper has no idea that the women at his place are fallen angels and when Angelo realizes that they are making her feel uncomfortable, he makes them all move out. Right away his people are seeing changes in him because of Harper and some of them are quite jealous. Of course that's going to be a problem that Angelo has to deal with eventually. 

Angelo isn't all bad because his mother was an angel, like actual angel. His father was a demon so he's a bit of both bad and good but seemed more good than bad unless someone got on his bad side then all bets are off. Oh man, I loved Angelo, I love being able to root for the supposed bad guy who really isn't all that bad at all. 

When Angelo's demon father starts taunting him to come back to hell and putting Harper in danger when he refuses, things start to ramp up and Angelo knows he's going to have to find a way to stop his demon father once and for all. I really enjoyed this book and am looking forward to the next book in this series now. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Book Review: The Dragon King by T.B. Wiese

 

Book Description

The Dragon King is a spin-off novella with characters from The Elemental. While it's not necessary to read The Elemental first, it will make the cameo appearances more enjoyable.

This is a dark paranormal romance with dragon shifters.

KEMREMIR

I am the King of the Dragon Shifters. I love my people. I love my kingdom. My abnormal strength, unique molten fire, and inky shadows helped me win & hold my throne. There have been many challengers after the crown, and I’ve fought and killed each one. This latest challenger will be no different.

But I have a new and unexpected motivation to win this time ... HER.

When Tatha walked into my castle, my dragon fire raged through my body ... calling to her.

My Mate.

TATHA

The Mountain has been my home my entire life. My clan prefers solitude, and we shunned our human forms centuries ago. Living as my dragon is all I've ever known. Yet, here I stand before the King, as a woman ... for the sake of my dying father.

Yet my body responds to the King. My dragon calls to him. But with a challenger after Kemremir's throne, I fear I may be the one vulnerability the king can't afford.

My Review

When Tatha visits Kem at his castle to ask a last request for her dying father, she never expected to find her mate but that's exactly what she finds. Kem knows right away that Tatha is his mate but she's there to help her dying father so he grants her request. But as they spend time together it's quite apparent that they can hardly keep their hands off each other. So while Kem is trying to give her space to grieve her father, he's also keeping her close because he doesn't want to lose her or for her to refuse him as a mate. 

While all that is going on someone also challenges Kem to a fight for the throne but he's not worried since he is fierce and has beat all the other challenges. But this time they plan to cheat and Kem has someone that he cares about so it's not as easy as he thinks it is. 

This book starts off a bit slow as we get to know all the parties involved and watch Tatha mourn her father. They are all dragons shifters so their customs are a big part of this story. I really liked Kem, he was gentle when he needed to be, gave her time to mourn her father while also making sure she knew he wanted her as a mate. But was a fierce King and had these neat shadows/smoke around him that none of the other dragons shifters had which made him very unique. 

This was a very interesting and different dragon world from what I've read before so it was fun to learn about them and watch the romance blossom between Kem and Tatha, all the while people are plotting behind him to overtake the throne. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Book Review: Dragon Fever by Elsa Jade

 

Book Description

He must find the heart of his dragon treasure. She will be the treasure of his dragon heart. The Nox Incendi dragons are dying. In a mysterious faux castle on the outskirts of Las Vegas, Rave Dorado has been struggling for centuries to find a cure for the creeping cold that is slowly turning his dragonkin to stone. Until his fiery gaze falls on a curvy, plucky female whose purity of spirit lights a flame in his icy soul… Piper Ramirez knew a girls’ night out with her two best friends at the world’s most exclusive casino would be beyond belief…but she had no idea just how far. Inexplicably drawn to the dark and sexy Rave, she’ll roll the dice and take a chance giving him her body, though he is too much of an enigma to truly trust. But the Nox Incendi shifters aren’t the only one with secrets in Sin City. Piper will have to open her eyes to a strange new world and Rave will have to open his heart if they want to survive the dragon fever.

DRAGON FEVER is a standalone dragon shifter paranormal romance with a Happily Ever After for the heroine and her hero. Although we suspect there maybe be more brooding dragon lords longing for their mates! 

My Review

This books starts off with Piper and her two girlfriends going on a night out to a Las Vegas casino where she has a bit of a fight with her friends who leave her at the bar. Rave is watching the cameras and spots Piper alone and he is pulled towards her. She has no idea who he is when he introduces himself to her and buys her a drink. Since he owns the casino he can order the good stuff for them. They feel a pull towards each other and she ends up following him back to his lair, yes lair because he's a dragon shifter but she doesn't know that. 

After spending the night together Rave goes back to his lab where he finds he has found a cure for his people turning to stone or he thinks. But things are not that easy because Piper is his mate and there are others who put her in danger. 

Secrets are revealed and truth's have to be realized which can be hard to swallow. 

While this started off a little slow, I'm glad I stuck with it because it got a lot better. I really liked that it was set in Las Vegas where I live. There was dragons, bad guys, romance, danger and a curse that hopefully will be healed once all the brothers find their mates. I'm looking forward to reading the next book now. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Happy Raturday!

 

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

Apartment Life #293

 

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. 

Trigger Warning: There are a lot of bugs in this post. 

This past Sunday afternoon I walked past my bedroom window while walking Falcor and saw spots on the wall by my bedroom window. I got closer and was just shocked.

There were so many roaches, flying roaches, water bugs and who knows what else on the wall and all around my bedroom window because once again the raw sewage was leaking out of the overflow.

I went out there with the bug spray and there were so many more hiding near my window than I thought there was. I used damn near an entire bottle of raid on their asses. There are about 200 dead bugs out there after I was done. I sprayed a big one and it FLEW at me. I almost tripped and fell down getting away from it.

My neighbor was in her car with her husband and when I was walking back she and her husband were laughing their butts off at me. LOL

I felt like I was starring in a Horror movie that I never auditioned for...It's a Bug's Life: Horror Edition! 

I kept checking to make sure more weren't coming. I was so completely disgusted. And of course it was on A Sunday so I couldn't even call maintenance. And the tenant portal is down for updates so I couldn't make a work order for the raw sewage leaking all over the place. 

The video isn't great so here's some pictures in case you couldn't make out what was on the video. 

As I walked by I just saw a bunch of little dark spots on the wall near my bedroom window. I didn't realize they were roaches, water bugs and flying roaches until I got closer. And there were so many more on the ground than on the wall. 

All those black spots right under my window sill were roaches from the sewer. I used almost the entire can of Raid killing all of these damn bugs. There were so many more hiding around my air conditioner that I didn't see until I started spraying and the ones on the ground started crawling frantically as the bug spray drifted down on them.

If you couldn't make this out in the video. There are a bunch of them on top of the cap to the pipe and around the pipe on the ground. Believe me, I didn't want to be out there doing this but I'm the only one here to do it so just call me The Terminator. 

Well, that's enough for this week. Ugh

The high this week was 75F/23C

The low this week was 48F/8C

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