Review: Cutlass by Ellis Leigh

 

Book Description

These aliens have been looking for love in all the wrong solar systems…

Cutlass never thought he’d be stuck on some backward planet in a solar system with only one sun. Earth wasn’t his home, but he’d find a way to survive there if it meant finding a mate. He could put up with their ancient mechanical devices and a name that wasn’t his own for the right woman.

Chloe never imagined she’d sign up to be some sort of modern-day mail order bride. But too much wine and an internet connection were a bad combination, especially when the life she imagined seemed so much greater than the life she was living. Everyone stretches the truth on those dating websites, right?

One ad in a space station, one night of too much drinking, and one hotel room that will never be the same. What would you do if you found out the man from your fantasies was actually the man from your science fiction?

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CUTLASS is a sci-fi romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Ellis Leigh. The story is a standalone rom-com with wit, snark, aliens, and more than just flirting.

My Review

Chloe works in a diner and lives in a makeshift warehouse with others who don't have enough money to rent a real apartment. One night while with her friend, she writes a letter about herself for the IG dating agency. 

Cutlass is from another planet, he's an alien on Earth looking for a mate. His friends talk him into going to the IG dating agency to have them set him up with a human female to hopefully be his mate. 

Chloe and Cutlass both are nervous after the dating agency tells them that they found a match for them and the way their dating agency works is they have two weeks to get to know each other and get married. If they don't match they will put their names back into the pool and try again. When the woman at the dating agency tells Chloe that they are to spend the two weeks in the same hotel room getting to know each other, poor Chloe is freaking out inside but decides to go through with it. She can always call it off if there's no attraction or sparks between them. 

One look at Cutlass when he walks through the hotel room door though and Chloe knows she's going to give it a chance because he's tall, sexy and muscular. But it's the fact that English doesn't seem to be his first language and he doesn't understand everything he's saying or some of what she says. This book had me laughing so much! He gets the phrasing of some things wrong which leads to some hilarious situations. There's a pause in their relationship right as things look like they're going good because she finds out somethings about him that scare her but I really like how this book ended. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Happy Raturday!

 

"I has sketti on mai fingers"

"I'm just hanging out today." 

*All pictures today are courtesy of www.martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #243

 

This is a new weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 22 years that we'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 23 years here in a weekly blog post. 

This week I spotted the police at the other end of my street. I don't usually see a lot of police down at this end but the officer had this guy handcuffed and after a few minutes he put him in the back of the police car and drove off so I am guessing the guy was arrested for something. 

And then the next day I saw that the crazy woman who stomped across my table and chairs outside was being questioned by police. But after a few minutes they let her go. You can see the police car right over the hood of the white car. It's a little blurry for some reason.

The only other news is there was a crazy fight across the street at 10pm one night. A woman was chasing after "Justin" and screaming that he was going to go to jail for sex trafficking her. But he was walking away from her trying to get away and she was following behind him. Then she turned around and said she was going back to his house. "I'm going back to your house, Justin. What are you going to do about that?" 

I haven't seen either of them before but I doubt it will be the last time I see them. 

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

Review: Close Liaison's by Anna Zaires

 

Book Description

For college student Mia Stalis, the invaders—the beautiful, mysterious Krinar—are only stories on the news. Rumors about them abound: about their impossible strength and speed, their intentions toward Earth… their vampiric tendencies. None of it concerns her, though—until she catches Korum’s eye.

Powerful and terrifyingly seductive, the Krinar leader will stop at nothing to possess her. Helplessly drawn to her magnetic captor, Mia is plunged into the dangerous, secretive world of the Ks and forced to choose between truth and lies, her people and her lover… her freedom and her heart.

My Review

When the Krinar showed up on Earth, they left no room for a fight. Earth and all of their people would let them be here because they were out gunned by a lot. Life on Earth it seems began as an experiment by the Krinar many years ago. The aliens are kind of like vampires as they can drink blood but don't need it anymore since they have evolved past that but they still enjoy drinking blood. 

Most humans didn't think anything about the Krinar being here because they weren't really invaders. They had Krinar centers and really didn't affect the lives of humans all that much. Though they had made a few changes like telling humans that meat and dairy in their diets was bad and a lot of farmers had to switch from animals to growing fruits and vegetables. Mia hadn't met any of their people and was sitting in Central Park one day when she caught the eye of Korum. 

Mia was afraid of Korum at first because of all the rumors about the aliens being vampires and since they were much stronger than humans, he could do whatever he wanted and she wouldn't be able to stop him. He turned out to be an ok guy and just wanted to get to know her and take her out, date her. He made the fact that he wanted to be intimate with her very clear and she's not sure she wants to have her first time with an alien but he makes her feel things when she's around him. Being inexperienced, she doesn't really understand how to react to him or how she's feeling about him. She's scared that he won't take no for an answer if she tells him she's not interested even though she is kinda interested but he's very bossy and overbearing. So instead of telling him no, that she just wants to get back to her life...she decides to go to his apartment and give herself to him. Thinking that once he has her, he'll be tired of her and move on to someone else and she can have her life back. It was at this point that the story became a little too unbelievable for me. I mean would a woman really act like that? Maybe, or maybe I'm too outspoken to think that could happen. 

When the resistance comes to her and asks her to spy on him, she agree's. They tell her things about him and his people and she believes them. For the most part I didn't like Korum, he's overbearing and tells Mia what she can and can't do. He knows that she's been told that his kind keep humans as sex slaves and he doesn't tell her any different so it's really no wonder that she ends up helping the resistance even though she's practically living with him and sharing his bed. I felt bad for her because on one hand she feels like she loves him but on the other hand he's so darn bossy that she doesn't feel like her life is her own anymore. A lot of the hard feelings could have been resolved if he had just taken the time to talk to her more and let her know more about his people and his plans. It's hard to really like a book when throughout 99% of the book you don't like the hero. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

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 throw pillow from Walmart Spark Reviewer. 

Philosophy Turbo Booster b3 and Booster b5 from Influenster. 

I like the throw pillow that I got. It's a nice one and my couch can always use a new pillow. As I've said before, Walmart Spark is by invitation only so I can't give you a link to sign up. 

Influenster sent me the Philosophy Turbo Booster powder that you mix with your moisturizer. I haven't seen any difference but I'll keep using it. If you would like to sign up for Influenster, you can do so here. They send out free products that you get to keep after you've written an honest review for them. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Review: Daily Goodie Box- March

The Daily Goodie Box has been around since about July of 2016. I signed up for an account right after I heard about them. They are 100% free, you don't even have to pay for shipping. And for a free box it's a nice sampler box of products.

What was in the box?

Gloss Leaf - Collagen Iced Tea- I wasn't a fan of the taste of this at all. I've tried several collagen drinks and don't like them.

NEATGOODS - NEATwipes 30-Count Handwipes Pouch- I like these. It's hand sanitizing wipes. They smell like alcohol just like liquid hand sanitizer does.

Trilipiderm - The Essential Body Regimen Trial Box- This is a moisturizer for the whole body. I received several pouches of it and it was enough for a few days. It's a good moisturizer.

Bitsy’s - Oatmeal Raisin Good Cookies- Oh these cookies are good. They just taste like oatmeal raisin to me.

Paavani Ayurveda - Mint Pulling Oil- I didn't even try this. I'm not swishing around some mint oil in my mouth. Nope.

Pickle Power - Pickle Juice- My daughter was so excited when she saw this in the box. I don't want to drink pickle juice so she got it and liked it. 

Space Case Cosmetics - Eye shadow- This was a nice brown shade. Goes on easily, blends nicely and stayed on all day without a problem.

The Narwhal and the Manatee - Whipped Sugar Scrub- Ohh this smells like grapefruit and I love that scent. I really like this a lot. 

All they ask you to do is try the products and leave reviews for the products you got in order to be eligible for more Free Goodie Boxes. As you guys already know, I'm a fan of all these types of boxes. I love all the different subscription boxes and it's really nice to be able to try new to me products for free. This is a great box to try for.

Oh and one more thing, if you visit their FB Page, they give away Goodie Boxes to people who interact with their posts. So if you've tried before and weren't able to get a Goodie Box, there's even more ways to get one now.

Daily Goodie Box. It's more than just Free Samples!

Have you signed up? Have you received one of these boxes?

I'm a fan of subscription boxes and love trying new products for free so this was a huge hit with me. New products+free box = Fabulous!

Disclosure: I was given and free box in exchange for a review but all opinions are my own.

Review: The Warrior King by Abigail Owen

 

Book Description

Meira Amon is the most reserved of the phoenixes, finding computers easier to deal with than people and their messy emotions. But she wants revenge against the Rotting King Pytheios for the murder of her parents just as much as her sisters. Offering herself as a queen for their ally, dragon shifter King Gorgon of the Black Clan, only makes sense.

Just one problem…

Samael Veles worked his lowborn ass off to become the fiercest warrior of the Black Clan. He has pledged his life to protect his king at all costs. Yet somehow, in the middle of war, he took one look at a woman in a reflection and gave up his heart. When that woman turns out to be the phoenix promised to mate his king and help bring peace to their kind, he has no choice but to accept it.

Until her fire unexpectedly destroys the king after they’ve wed. Now Samael must choose between his loyalty to his clan and protecting the queen who might be his mate from his people’s wrath, one of which will unlock a destiny no one could have ever imagined…

Each book in the Inferno Rising series is STANDALONE:

* The Rogue King

* The Blood King

* The Warrior King

My Review

Everyone wants revenge against The Rotting King, Pytheios. So to Meira, it made sense to align herself to Gorgon and marry him. But things go terribly wrong and he dies after they are wed. 

Samael first spotted Meira in a mirror, like he was seeing a ghost because she wasn't in the room. His dragon knew right away that she was their mate but he could do nothing since he had no idea who she was. Once he did see her again she was about to marry Gorgon so he let it go. But now he has to try and protect her, both from his people and from himself. 

After Pytheios's witch, Rhiamon had been killed I really thought that would be the end of The Rotting King but I was wrong. Instead he sacrificed his own son and that of Rhiamon to bring her back to life. She was not happy and very unstable. Pytheios wasn't so sure that he could count on her anymore to bring him paranormal creatures in order to drain to give him more power to stay alive. So he and his brother came up with another plan to make sure he kept the throne of High King. This twist was great! I never would thought such a thing was possible but this series has shown that so many things are possible. 

While Samael and Meira are on the run and trying to figure out what to do next, they finally give in to what they feel and realize they really are true mates. That's when they get hit with another twist that really shakes things up. The twists don't stop there and I swear one had my mouth dropping in shock. I was not prepared at all. The journey was long and the danger was great. The heartache I felt watching this story unfold was profound but I really liked the ending and am really looking forward to the next book. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

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

Review: Bull In A Tea Shop by Zoe Chant

 

Book Description

His second chance is her salvation ...

Big, tatted-out bull shifter Maddox used to work as a thug for hire, but now he's a drifter with his old life in ruins. All he knows is that he wants to be better than he was. When he hitchhikes into the small town of Silvermine, Arizona, he's not planning to stay. But first he helps out a teenager in trouble, and the next thing he knows, the kid's alluring aunt walks into his life, and runs away with his heart. For the first time in his life, Maddox has something of his own to protect.

Blind tea-shop owner Verity has been caught up in a dangerous struggle with the town's corrupt sheriff and a greedy landowner trying to force her to sell. First Maddox saves her niece, and then he offers to help her save her business. Teaming up might be the solution she's been hoping for, but Verity has spent her life learning not to believe in happy endings.

And with a sheriff who would break every law to stop them, it'll take all his strength, her wits, and their courage to get out of this alive ...

My Review

Maddox Murphy walked away from a life that was dangerous and less than satisfying only to find himself in the town of Silvermine. He finds two teens in way over their heads and a sheriff who works for a guy trying to buy up the homes and businesses in the town and he's not being nice about it. 

Verity owns a tea shop where she lives and has no plans on selling to the slug who keeps pressuring her to sell her place to him. Verity is blind and is raising her teenage niece, Bailey. 

Verity is a strong heroine and the idiot buying up the land really doesn't think much of her but she shows him that she shouldn't be overlooked just because she's blind. So when Luke and Bailey bring Maddox back to her place after the first incident with the sheriff and his boss, Verity knows right away that something is up and ends up helping Maddox because he helped her niece and Luke. 

Maddox is a bull shifter but he and his other half aren't getting along because of something that happened a while back. We don't find out right away what it is but it makes sense when we do. Because he and Verity find themselves in a lot of danger because of the sheriff and his boss, Maddox decides to run for sheriff which puts them in even more danger but he's doing it to help her and the town. 

I think this was the first time I've read a story with a bull shifter but I really liked it. With all the danger they find themselves in, they also had time to get to know one another. Watching the romance bloom between two totally different people was a lot of fun. You wouldn't think they would be a good match but they really were. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Happy Raturday!

 

"I'll take two more servings of whatever this is."

"Turn on the cheese hose!"

"Ma'am, whatever you have on your fingers is delicious."

*All pictures today are courtesy of www.martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #242

 

This is a new weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 22 years that we'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 23 years here in a weekly blog post. 

I forgot to tell you last week that the liquor store next door to me is open again and the owner is out of jail. I don't know if he made bail or what but he's back in business. lol 

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I was out with Falcor at 7am on Tuesday and watched as a police car pulled out of the alley for the apartment complex across the street and then watched as this police car disappeared down the street. I figured they were just patrolling after last week. But I was wrong.

A few minutes later I saw this police officer walk from the alley to the front of the building and as police cars were driving up the street he was pointing around the corner where the alley is and they started driving in there. In all I watched 3 police cars go to the alley and park. I don't know what they were doing or if it had anything to do with last week but they were there for about an hour.

All the while this officer stood out front directing police cars to the alley when they came and talking on his phone. I didn't see any of the police in the courtyard across the street or going into the apartments over there so they must have stayed in the alley. Maybe they were searching someone's car. I don't know. 

While I was walking Falcor I spotted this sign where the people sit and do their drugs. I think these boxes are transformers or electrical boxes. To the left of the picture is the path that I walk Falcor on next to the sound wall.

I enlarged the sign so you can see it better. It says, "Clean up yalls trash!! You dirty lil ass goblins."

I probably laughed way too hard at this. 

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

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.

I received: 

Malin and Goetz Vitamin b5 moisturizer. 

RX Bar-protein bar. 

I gave my daughter the RX bar because I don't like these protein bars. The moisturizer is a good one. I've been using it. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Product Review: St. Tropez Self Tanning Spray

The directions for this spray say to spritz on your face for a glowing self tan. But before putting something like this on my face, I decided to try it out on my arms to see what the color would be and if it would be streaky. The first day I used it, nothing happened. So I used it everyday for 3 days and I finally saw some tanning happening but it was so streaky and the color was more orange than tan. The directions didn't say to rub it at all but just spraying it on and letting it dry made it really streaky. 

As you can see on my arm, it was a streaky mess. I used it a few more days and even rubbed it all over my arm but that didn't help at all. I'm glad I didn't just spritz this stuff on my face because that would have been a nightmare. I stopped using it and threw it away. It took about a week before the orange streaking finally faded from my arms. 

So my verdict is not to use this. The color is more orange than tan, it's streaky no matter what you do and this would be terrible to spritz on your face and have patches of orange show up. 

Review: Her Vampire Prince (Midnight Doms book 3) by Ines Johnson

 

Book Description

Cari

How hard is it to die?

Don’t ask me. I’ve been failing at it for a year.

My father lost his life in a fatal car wreck while I walked away without a scratch.

Now I taunt that bastard Death on a daily basis.

Volcano hopping. Street racing. Skydiving.

But then Death comes for me.

Hadrian

For centuries, I’ve been a dead vampire walking.

No warmth, no feeling. No reason to live.

Then she bursts into my life.

A mortal daredevil with a carefree laugh.

She literally falls from the sky and into my arms.

She’s got a death wish and I’ve got a hunger only she can slake.

She’s my prey, but she wants to leave?

No way. She’s mine. And I’m never letting her go.

My Review 

Cari is feeling lost and numb since her father's death so she does more and more adventurous stuff just to feel something. But this time while sky diving, her parachute and backup parachute do not open and she's heading toward a messy death when she splats on the ground but when Hadrian jumps up to catch her before she can meet the ground, she's not sure she's even alive at first. 

Hadrian has seen and done some really awful things because those torture devices he has are not replica's, they are the real thing and he's well versed in what they can do. But when he saves Cari from an awful death, something blossoms inside him, something he hasn't felt in a long time. 

Hadrian and his brothers have a vineyard and like to make wine. They aren't birth brothers but blood brothers who were all turned by the same vampire back during the Spanish Inquisition. Their sire was a sadistic jerk who took out her frustrations on all of them in different ways but Hadrian believes that he loved her and misses her. The brothers were also all torturers during that time and Hadrian is know and the Prince of Pain for a good reason. 

Cari has a series of accidents while on her adrenaline adventures and Hadrian is beginning to think he knows who is behind the mishaps but he is so wrong and the twist this story took when the real person was revealed was quite the shock. 

I really liked Hadrian, at first I thought he was going to be some sadistic neanderthal who got off on hurting his mate but that couldn't be further from the truth. He turned out to be a really nice guy and great for Cari. They made a really good team and I really liked how great they were together. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

Review: Chasing Charis by Lynn Best

 

Book Description

Three smoking hot alien brothers who all want to mate with me. Whatever is a girl to do?

No matter what they tell you, alien abduction isn’t like what you see on TV. 

First, I’m rudely abducted and knocked unconscious. Second, I wake up to an alien monster who wants to... er… “mate” with me, but he’s got huge claws, huge fangs, huge… everything. 

I realize I’ve been taken by a race of sexy humanoid men. The bonus? They look like fitness models and they can conjure my deepest fantasies out of thin air.

The catch? I’m supposed to woo their prince and future king, and give him an alien baby. The problem is I’m more attracted to his brothers, and the dirty fantasies they show me.

On Earth, I was a good girl, but these aliens show me just how naughty I can be. 

****Content warning: For readers 18 years and older. Contains explicit sexual situations, and sensitive subjects. Despite this, the story ends with a Happily Ever After. 

My Review

Charis is dragged to a party she doesn't want to be at by her friend, Ginger. She talks her way out and waits outside for a ride home, only it doesn't come and instead she's kidnapped and held onboard a space ship. 

Han, and his 2 brothers all have the same father but different mothers. Han is first in line to become the new King if he can find a mate and provide an heir. But if either of his brothers can secure a mate and provide an heir, they will become King first. 

Han isn't at all seductive, or caring to Charis at first so when the 2 brothers try seducing her, she falls for both of them until she is abruptly shown the truth of the situation. Han isn't like his brothers, he's actually a nicer male but with his crazy, abusive mother's influence, he's slow to show how much he cares for Charis. Leaving her to believe that he really doesn't want her, she finds herself drawn to Han's brothers. 

I was a little confused from the cover because I thought this was going to be a menage romance but it wasn't. I did like the story though and the ending was pretty good. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

Happy Raturday!

 

*All of today's pictures are courtesy of www.martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #241

 

This is a new weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 22 years that we'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 23 years here in a weekly blog post. 

On Wednesday the police showed up in force. 2 men down the street were shot in the head and the gunman fled on foot back to his apartment right across the street from me. One was just a superficial wound the other guy was taken to the hospital in critical condition. They were here for hours looking for the gunman.The police were knocking on doors and telling people they had to leave because of an armed suspect. So this lady got her 5 kids out and left in that car right there.

I took a little video when the police arrived across the street from me on Wednesday. The lady who came and got her kids out of one of the apartments is in the car right there and she left. You can also see a man holding his kid come out of another apartment. They made all the residents in that building vacate their apartments for hours, I'm assuming because they thought an armed suspect was in one of the apartments. 

The lady got her kids in the car and left.

There was one officer outside this apartment building for a while and other officers were walking around the back where the alley is.

Here he is walking to his police car with his rifle.

There were a bunch of police cars here.

At one point a bunch of the police were standing outside and other officers were in the back in the alley on the loud speaker asking the people in one of the apartments to come out with their hands up. I took a little video and uploaded to my FB of the police on the loudspeaker if you wanted to listen to it. There were around 6 cops standing around for hours, first searching for the gunman, questioning a guy and then trying to get into all the apartments. At first we were told that they caught the gunman but they later let him go and I talked to him when I had Falcor outside. He was mad because the police thought he was involved and questioned him but they let him go and kept looking around here for the guy.

One of the police officers told my daughter that the guy who had been shot in the head was still alive when they ambulance picked him up but they weren't sure he was going to make it. 

I think they caught the person they were looking for because I started seeing people going back to their apartments and they were letting people walk around outside again. 

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

Review: Her Vampire Master (Midnight Doms book 2) by Maren Smith

 

Book Description

I take my pleasure where and when I please.

But nothing’s sweeter than the taste of a submissive woman--one who wants revenge.

She’s smart, brazen, fearless when she ought not to be.

I’ll teach her the monster living in the shadows can and will hunt her back.

But the creatures who killed her sister want to take her from me.

I won't allow it.

She belongs to me now.

Only by me.

Forever.

Note: Her Vampire Master is a standalone romance by USA Today Bestselling Author Maren Smith starring a dominant vampire and the human he comes to crave. No cheating, HEA guaranteed. It is book one in the Midnight Doms series, a spinoff of Renee Rose and Lee Savino's bestselling Bad Boy Alpha series.

My Review

Merris had a twin sister, Jez but they were separated when their parents died when they were children. They were put in separate foster homes and that's when Merris started having dreams of what her sister was going through. So when Jez dies, was murdered, Merris is sure she knows who did it because she got glimpses in dreams about what happened to her sister the night she died. 

Aleron is a vampire and frequents Club Toxic but he's a little shocked when he spots Merris who is the spitting image of her now dead sister, Jez. 

When Merris goes into Club Toxic she doesn't know that it's a BDSM club for vampires. All she knows is it's the last place her twin was seen alive. Because she's had dreams of who her sister saw on the last night she was alive, she knows Aleron is who she has come to see when she spots him in the club. Aleron is shocked to see Merris but knows moments after the shock wears off that she has to be Jez's twin sister because she's a little different and he can tell that she already hates him which amuses him. 

Aleron motions Merris over to his table to find out what she wants and after speaking her and taking her into the dungeon because she wanted to see everything her sister did with him, he drinks her blood, wipes her memory of him and sends her home. But Merris isn't going to forget everything, she has visions of the future so she's shocked and so is he when he comes to her aid outside the club and she has a vision of what he really is a short time later. Aleron has no choice but to help her since someone tried to shoot and kill her. She knows what he is but she's still attracted to him and he finds her more interesting than any other woman in a really long time.

Keeping her and himself safe is no easy thing especially when the Vampire King's mate thinks Merris might have had something to do with the slaughter of a bunch of shifters. But keeping her safe is a good way for them to get to know one another better. He fell for her so fast and she fell for him after getting over the shock of finding out that vampires exist. Finding out who wanted her dead, why and what Aleron would do about it seemed to come to a conclusion really fast. But this was a fun book to read mostly because I liked watching Aleron and Merris get to know each other and realize that they were meant to be. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

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 received quite a few perfume samples from Macy's. 

I keep finding the sign up forms on either FB or Instagram. So I keep signing up and they sending them to me. So keep your eyes out for the free samples on those sites. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Review: Chaser by Brittany White

 

Book Description

A STAND ALONE PARANORMAL ROMANCE!

Sage West is on the run from her own demons. Exhausted and broke, she sets up camp in the small town of New Loveland where she wants to sell her finer things in a small gift shop. Although she decides what she really needs is some peace and quiet, her new landlord keeps coming around to check on her. And she can’t deny her attraction to him.

Davis Weathers is a lion with no pride. After spending five years as a loner in New Loveland, his temper tends to get the best of him, but as he finds himself in the midst of the lovely Sage West, he knows that only she can help ground him again.

But Sage has had experience with shifter lovers before, and she knows they only end badly. Will Davis be able to change her mind before she has a chance to run again?

WARNING: This ebook contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.

My Review

 Sage left her ex-fiance, packed up all her belongings and moved to a small town where she could sell her things in a little shop. Her ex was a shifter and she knew better than to get involved with a shifter again. 

Davis is a lion shifter and the owner of the apartment and shop downstairs that Sage had rented. He was gorgeous and made no qualms about letting her know he was also available. 

All Sage wants is a new start somewhere she can live independently. She's not interested in dating again and definitely not a shifter. But her new landlord is gorgeous and she keeps running into him. She can't keep her eyes off him or her mind from wandering when he's near. 

I don't like the insta-lust type books all that much but I know that when reading paranormal shifter romance that there's a chance they might find their mate right away and fall for each other fast. But I still didn't like that she fell in bed with him so fast after just getting out of a bad relationship with another shifter. But other than that it was a quick, fun little romance. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

Review: The Alpha's Redemption by L.E. Wilson

 

Book Description

This book was previously published with the title "Fae Hunter".

Being the alpha isn't always easy.

 

Keegan McRae is the leader of the Austin werewolf pack. And sometimes, for the good of all involved, a male has to make choices he wouldn't normally abide by. Like allowing the Faerie you're sweet on to be the main attraction in a rodeo. Not as the cowgirl, but as the livestock.

Stubborn as a bull and just as fearless, Bitsy caught his interest the first time she flipped him off. But before he had a chance to make things right with her, she got loose. And though his wolf howled in protest at the loss, he had no choice but to let her go.

 

Bláthnaid (Bitsy) Dunn swore she would never again set foot in the hell hole that was Texas. Or anywhere near the arrogant shifter who was the main reason she hated it so much. The last time she'd seen him, his well-worn boots had stomped all over her hide—and her pride. Yet, here she was again.

This time, however, she's here on her terms. Keegan needs her help to infiltrate the Fae world, and she needs him to help her find her father. His green eyes are full of remorse, and his easy smile is hard to resist, but forgiveness is not part of the deal.

 

However, Keegan is used to fighting for what he wants. And he wants Bitsy. This time, she won't be getting away.

My Review

Keegan is a wolf shifter and the alpha of his pack. His pack had started tracking down Fae and holding them in the 'rodeo' that they held. In reality the rodeo was just a way to torture and hurt the Fae and let the wolves get out some of their aggression so they didn't turn on each other. What they didn't know was there were different kinds of Fae and some of the Fae were innocent people who never hurt another living being. But the wolves all thought they were all the same so they treated them all the same. 

Bitsy is one of those innocent Fae so when she and her family get caught and brought to the rodeo, it's really awful for them. Keegan seems to know somewhere in the back of his mind that they are different but he doesn't do anything to help them because he doesn't want his pack to turn on him. So when some guys from another pack comes to save some of the Fae, there's a fight but they get away. Now living with wolf shifters that understand her and her family, she is shocked when Keegan asks for her help. 

Keegan has an ulterior motive for asking Bitsy because not only does he want her help, he wants her. Keegan has something of hers that she wants back so she agrees to help him. But just when things are going well for them a huge twist in this story happens and the worst thing that could happen... happens. 

I really thought it was all over for them at that point. This book made me sad and mad at the same time. The rodeo was wrong on so many levels and the fact that Keegan was okay with it made him a big jerk in my eyes and I couldn't forgive him. The book ended well but it's hard to really enjoy a book when you don't think that the hero deserves a happy ending. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

Review: Accidental Abduction by Eve Langlais

 

Book Description

Big, bad and purple.

It was supposed to be a simple job. Grab some specimens from Earth and sell them on the interstellar black markets. In and out, with no one the wiser, except Tren accidentally abducts a human.

A barbaric female, who doesn't know how to be quiet and obey. That will affect her selling price especially since she only possesses two breasts, and a single mouth. Yet, in spite of her shortcomings there is something about her spitfire nature that intrigues him.

Maybe he should keep her. He's definitely not keen on getting rid of her after he seduces her. A space pirate doesn't usually fall in love, but when an enemy decides to take Megan, Tren realizes he will do anything to get her back.

My Review

Megan fell for a guy that ends up pushing her off the boat they go out on and leaves her in the water to die. All this guy wanted was her money and whatever else he could get from her. 

Tren is over the ocean of Earth in his ship collecting some aquatic specimens when he accidentally scoops up Megan in his tractor beam. 

Once Megan gets aboard the ship and stops herself from being sealed up in a tube with the fish, she falls and breaks her leg. The ship lets Tren know that a specimen has gotten loose but when he goes to check out what happen he finds Megan passed out on the floor. After putting her in the medical machine to fix her leg, he decides to keep her and sell her at the next place they land. But she isn't making things easy for him at all. He's not used to a mouthy female but can't help but be intrigued by her personality. 

Little by little Megan wiggles her way into his heart and even though Tren is a big purple alien, Megan begins to feel something for him as well. When they face danger and she finds herself in a bad situation, she didn't expect to be saved but she is. I loved Tren. He might be a big, scary alien and ex-mercenary but he ends up being a great mate. 

Megan made me laugh so many times. Her smart mouth and sarcastic come backs are hilarious. These two are total opposites but they sure make a great couple. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.