Book Review: Walking In A Witchy Wonderland by Juliette Cross

 

Book Description

Getting hexy for the holidays!

Mischief and mayhem dominate the holiday season for the Savoie sisters of New Orleans. Five sexy stories set in the STAY A SPELL world you don’t want to miss.

Bewitch You A Merry Christmas: Always the peacemaker, Evie conjures Christmas magic between a hexed hottie and his witchy neighbor, while Mateo and Alpha plan to do whatever it takes to get some alone time with their girl.

Rockin’ Around The Hexmas Tree: A Dirty Santa gift with a very special hex boosts Devraj and Isadora’s sex life from sizzling hot to scorching.

Jingle Bell Jock: On New Year’s Eve, a new man puts the moves on Charlie. Tired of pining for his best friend, he’s ready to move on. Fortunately, JJ’s jealousy is just the right ingredient to move them well out of the friend zone.

You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grim: Her first glimpse of grim reaper Gareth Blackwater evokes a major case of insta-hate in Lavinia. In that same moment, Gareth is hit with insta-lust. Fate is playing with them both, and neither one is happy about it.

Jingle Spells: Nico and Violet laugh their way through their first babysitting adventure. But laughter turns to lust when Nico’s “dad” vibes tug on Violet’s maternal heartstrings.

My Review

This book is a holiday anthology in the *Stay A Spell* series. So it would be best to read these books in order and to read this after you've read the first few. This is essentially a small continuation of the characters and couples lives that we've read about in the books already in this series. 

Getting a little look into what's been happening with the Savoie sisters as well as their friends and people they know. There are 5 short novellas in this anthology that let us check in with characters and couples we already know, couples we have been wanting to know more about and a new couple who it looks like will get their own book, hopefully next. 

I already love this series so reading this and seeing characters that I have grown to love was so much fun. Getting new love interests and seeing how the sisters are doing in their relationships was so much fun. I'm definitely looking forward to the next book now. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Disclosure: I was given an E-arc via NetGalley but all thoughts and opinions are my own. 

Happy Raturday!

 

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

Apartment Life #272

 

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 go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 24 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 24 years here in a weekly blog post. 

One of the people that went down to drug dealers apartment couldn't trade their cart full of garbage for drugs so instead of taking their cart with them wherever they were going they left it parked right in front of my door. I had to shove it away from my door when I took Falcor out for a walk. The porter pushed it out to the alley when he came through so the guy with the truck who collects all the stray carts could get it. The cart guy then takes the cart back to the stores and get paid for each cart he brings back. So the carts always get picked up from around here.

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A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the druggies from drug dealers apartment were coming and going from an apartment across from them. The guy that lives there though is very private and doesn't usually talk to anyone. I hadn't seen him for a few days so I thought it was weird. The next day I noticed the maintenance man was changing the locks and nailing plywood over the window  so the druggies couldn't break into the apartment so I thought he just moved out and the druggies had broke into his apartment. 

A few days later I noticed a few guys moving the furniture, tools, and other belongings out of his apartment. One of the guys said hi to me so after saying hi I took the opportunity to ask how the guy who lived there was doing. He said his brother got sick and passed away while in the hospital. It surprised me, I gave my condolences and left. So one of my neighbors passed away and the druggies from drug dealers apartment broke in and were using the place as their own for a few days until a family member called the apartment manager and asked them to secure the apartment until they could get here.

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My daughter's boyfriend took a video of one of the tweakers in his courtyard climbing the fence to get in the pool and scooting the trashcan around. The pool has been closed for a couple of years but the pool guy comes every couple of weeks to maintain it. My daughter said her boyfriend told her that this week when the pool guy came, this woman pushed him out of the way when he unlocked the gate and jumped in the pool fully clothed. The pool guy shook his head, packed up his stuff and left without cleaning the pool. I guess he wasn't dealing with any of that. *laughing*

The high this week was 95F/35C

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

Recipe: Birria Tacos

 

My daughter saw a recipe she was wanted to try so she bought all the ingredients and made them. They came out really good. So I thought I would share this recipe so you can make them too. She changed her recipe a little so I am sharing her recipe. 

Birria Tacos

2 lbs Pork Short Ribs

8 cups water

1 Red Bell Pepper sliced

1 white Onion sliced

1 Tomato sliced

5 Dried Guajillo Peppers- de-seeded and sliced

1 tsp Cumin

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp garlic Salt

2 tsp Chicken Bouillon

2 tsp Minced Garlic

5 Bay Leaves

1 cup shredded Pepper Jack cheese

2 limes cut into quarters

oil for cooking

8 Corn Tortillas

Instructions

Cut the tops off of the dried Guajillo Peppers, slice them open and dispose of the seeds. Add them to a large pot with a lid. Add water, short ribs, bell pepper, onion, tomato, cumin, salt, garlic salt, chicken bouillon, minced garlic, and bay leaves to the pot. Cover with a lid and cook on medium low heat for 3 hours. 

Take pot off the heat and let cool for 20 minutes. Remove the ribs from the pot and set aside. Remove the bay leaves and discard them. Add the rest of the mixture in the pot to a large blender and blend until smooth. Strain the mixture and add to a sauce pan. 

Shred the meat off the bones and discard the bones. 

Get a frying pan heated with 2 TBSP of oil, dip a corn tortilla in the sauce mixture, making sure both sides get dipped, shake off excess, add to the frying pan and quickly add a little meat and cheese to one side of the tortilla and then flip the empty side over top of the meat and cheese. Fry each side for 3 minutes or until crispy. Each time you add a tortilla to the pan add a little more oil. Repeat steps for all tortillas. 

Serve with a small bowl of the sauce for dipping the tacos. Squeeze a little lime on the tacos before eating. 

I added some lime juice to my sauce before I dipped my tacos and that was really good. Let me know if you've ever had these tacos or if you plan on making them. 

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 some Men's Cologne samples from Macy's. 

I cashed out a $50 Amazon gift card from Pinecone Research. 

The cologne samples smelled pretty good. 

It took me 6 months of taking surveys to cash out a $50 Amazon gift card but they only send surveys about 2-3 times a month so it really wasn't that hard. I was on a waiting list for a few months before they let me sign up. You have to wait for spots to open up in order to sign up. If you get the chance to sign up, you should if you like taking surveys. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Halloween Decorating

My daughter and I love Halloween but she likes it even more than I do. So much so that she couldn't wait for October to start decorating. This is our living room window during the day.

This is what it looks like at night with the lights turned on. 

This is the shelves and cabinet. There's a little Halloween tree in the middle there.

One of the corners in the living room. 

Another corner of the living room. 

I made that pumpkin tree a few years ago. I bought all the supplies at Michael's and glued it all together. I think it's cute.

The wall above the couch.The spiders hanging down from the ceiling are attached to a plastic web that goes from one end to the other of my living room. 

This is the wall that leads to the hallway, bathroom and bedroom. 

The monster over the bathroom door, 

Some of the statues light up. This is what it looks like at night.

My grandson painted a pumpkin that we put on the cabinet. 

My daughter added lights to the Halloween tree on the cabinet. 

Do you decorate for Halloween?

Book Review: A Prime's Passion by Shiloh Walker

 

Book Description

Eyes down, little wolf. 

In her world, the strong were broken young or they didn’t survive. Eyes down, little wolf, Zee’s father would say. You aren’t strong enough yet.

Zennia Day kept her eyes down and stayed quiet, knowing that one day, she’d escape.

When her chance comes, she finds herself on a road that takes her far from Massachusetts, all the way to North Carolina.

She has her eyes on the future…until she meets Niko, a dominant Therian male and future Prime. When she looks at him, instead of a challenge for dominance, Zee sees a promise of forever.

Niko charmed her, teased her…and stole her heart. Mere days later, after making a public, permanent claim, he crushed that same heart in his fist, tossing her aside in front of the entire world and casting her out of pack lands.

Ten years later, she's an outcast, living  far from her own when she gets word her father is dying.

She can do nothing—she was banned. Violating Niko’s order was to court punishment, even if it was just to tell her father good-bye.

“Day is dying.”

The blunt words almost had him on his knees until Niko realized his second-in-command wasn’t talking about Zee, but her father.

No Therian is ever left to die alone, so Niko sent orders the Day family to come home.

Niko is unprepared for Zee’s message. I have no pack. I have no home.

The words leave him shattered.

Realizing what he’d done in his rage, Niko pushes harder for answers. It doesn’t take long to discover that what he’d heard a decade earlier had been based on lies. Because of those lies, he’d thrown away the love of his life.

Zee’s been paying the price ever since.

Now he must mend a heart he’d broken...and convince her to give him one more chance.

My Review

Zee left her pack after the Prime's son rejected her. But she's made a life for herself with the Mer people and is content with her life. 

Niko did a bad thing when he rejected the love of his life and she left the pack. Now he's looking for answers to questions and realizing that he made a horrible mistake years earlier. 

In the world this author has created, humans and preternaturals or preterns all live together in a sort of peace, although not everyone is happy about it. There had been a war between the preterns and humans and now there was a kind of peace between them. Niko goes to get Zee because her father was dying but what he finds is a broken shell of what she once was because of having no contact with her pack. He realizes that he acted rashly because of a misunderstanding but it's going to take more than sorry for her to trust him again. 

For ten years Niko had thought that Zee was with her old pack and was fine but turns out she's not had that at all and was far from alright. Without the pack to give her the physical touches a wolf shifter needed, she's actually in physical pain from lack of physical touch. Niko thought she had moved on maybe with another wolf but because of a misunderstanding, no other wolf would touch her because she was off limits. So when Niko shows up where she's made a life for herself with the Mer people, he's not met with open arms. Right away her friends have her back and let her know they will throw him off their land if she wishes it. But Zee doesn't want to cause problems between Niko who is Prime now and her friends or their people so after a bit of talking with him, she goes back to his pack for the funeral and wake for her father. 

Because Zee is so touch starved and Niko has made it obvious he still wants her to be his mate, they end up together. Her excuse is so that she isn't so on edge and in pain when she's around his pack but they both wanted to be together. While they're trying to deal with the past, trust issues and them being mates...there's also a group of humans trying to kill them off. When one of the pack gets shot, Zee finds a way to tap into her other half and get help. Zee isn't just a wolf shifter, she's something more and it was great to watcher her start to figure out what that meant. There's a lot more to Zee than even she thought. 

I liked how they found out who was behind the attempts on their lives and what the group had planned. 

Watching the pack not know what to do with her now that she's back but when Zee finally shows how strong she is, some of the pack respect her show of strength. Niko and Zee were really great, it's just sad that it took so long for them to get back together but I do love a second chance romance and this was such a good one. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Disclosure: I was given a copy of this book via NetGalley but all thoughts and opinions are my own. 

Review: Mile High With A Vampire by Lynsay Sands

 

Book Description

In the latest Argeneau novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands, an immortal and her mortal pilot are on the run from hungry vampires...and discover they’re life mates along the way. 

Jet Lassiter likes being a pilot for Argeneau Inc. Perks included travelling to exotic locations and meeting interesting people, even if they are the blood-sucking kind. He’s living the good life, until his plane goes down in the mountains and four of his passengers are gravely injured. They need blood to heal... and Jet is the only source.

Quinn Peters never wanted to be immortal. Once a renowned heart surgeon, she was turned against her will and now she has to drink blood to survive. Before she can ask how her “life” can get any worse, she’s in a plane crash. One of the few survivors, Quinn is desperate to get the mortal pilot to safety before her fellow immortals succumb to their blood lust and drain Jet dry.

But hungry vampires are the least of their worries—the crash wasn’t an accident, and someone is trying to kill Quinn. Will she and Jet find their happily ever after as life mates, or will her assassin find her first? 

My Review

Jet and his friend pilot the plane but when a crash happens and Jet's friend dies in the crash while he was unconscious, he can only thank the guy for getting most of the plane down in one piece. 

Quinn and other immortals (think vampires but they don't like being called that) are on the plane when it crashes. Jet is a mortal and some of the immortals are hurt really bad, they are in desperate need of blood so that their nanos can repair their bodies. So Jet is in real danger from them because at this point they are little more than mindless killers. Getting the mortal to safety while the immortals are trying to get at him for his blood is really tricky but Quinn is there to help him make it to safety.

Once they finally get to safety, it's time to figure out what happened to cause the plane to go down. At first everyone thinks it's just an accident but little by little they piece together an entirely different situation. While they are investigating who might want to kill someone who was on the plane, a huge secret is uncovered and now one of them is in serious danger. Quinn and her sister had something terrible happen to them when they were kids but Quinn has packed those memories away and has a kind of amnesia about the whole thing. Once the veil is lifted from her mind and the bits and pieces come flooding back, her whole life started to make more sense to her. 

All the while the investigation into the plane crash is going on, Quinn is trying to piece together her memories and some super secret, ancient group is out to get revenge...Quinn and Jet are trying to make sense of the feelings they have for each other. 

This book was a continuous line of danger, action and romance, time and time again. The danger was real and had me on the seat of my chair as I didn't know how or if they were going to find a way to safety each time something bad happened. But the romance was sweet and hot! This book was hard to put down, so I didn't and devoured it in one sitting. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

I received an e-ARC via NetGalley but all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Amazon

Happy Raturday!

 

The Ice Cream Jail Blues from last week continues this week. 

"We were able to make a phone call from jail to call mom to help us out."

"But she just brought us soap on a rope and told us we had to see the judge about stealing her ice cream."

"Locked behind bars, waiting for our court date."

"The judge let us off the hook since it was our first offense. Next time we'll just ask mom real nice for the ice cream"

"The judge said our records got sponged" 

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

Apartment Life #271

 

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 go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 24 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 24 years here in a weekly blog post. 

My daughter was outside and she spotted a car crash. Here's the video she took of it. 

The police showed up and were making sure everyone was ok.

But it sure looks like the cars are totaled.

There were two cars, this red one and the black one in the video. Looked like both people were fine though.

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If you follow me on FB or Twitter (@scarymary66) you might have seen me mention the new lady and her kids that just moved in. She had 2 small kids older is maybe 7 while the younger is probably 4. Well, she's made quite the impression on everyone around here. Her youngest has been seen outside several times in nothing but his underwear. The kids run around unsupervised all the time. The youngest almost got hit by a car last week when he ran into the street and a car had to slam the brakes to stop from hitting him. No supervision at all. And the kids are loud, screaming while running around. Open door and window season is just around the corner so this should be fun. Maybe the kids won't be outside so much when it gets cold. People tend to stay inside when it's cold around here. 

Last week I noticed that she had two large packages delivered and left outside her door while she wasn't home. Most people around here know better and she found out why. Later that day I noticed the packages were gone while I was walking the dog. I walked around the corner and saw the boxes hidden by one of the bushes. They had been opened and the empty boxes left by the bushes. The lady got home a little while later. So I'm guessing that one of the local homeless or druggies saw the boxes and took the and stole whatever was inside. I wasn't about to take her boxes and save them for her. People get accused to stealing for doing things like that. Plus it's a lesson about the kind of neighborhood she just moved into. Most people ask a neighbor to keep a lookout for packages and bring them inside if they aren't going to be home because of just this kind of thing.

The high this week was 100F/37C

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

Review: Walmart Beauty Box- September

 

The Walmart Beauty box is a subscription box that comes out 4 times a year. You sign up for it and it comes automatically every 3 months. They did increase the price of the box a little bit. So instead of $5 it's just a couple of dollars more. These boxes are free and you just pay for tax for shipping, mine came to $7.48.

What was in the box?

Real Techniques Miracle Airblend Sponge

Alaffia Authentic Black Soap All In One

Burt's Bees Squeezy Tinted Lip Balm

WoodWick Mini Hourglass Candle

Hello Extra Freshening Mouthwash

Bliss Clear Genuine Clarifying Cleanser

Cleen Beauty Lavender Chamomile Night Cream

This months box was so much better than the other boxes I have received. 

The WoodWick candle by itself would be $16.00 if you bought it alone. I love these candles and this one smells so good. 

The tinted lip balm is a nice color that I can wear. The mouthwash is one I've used before and has a good taste to it. Nice minty and fresh tasting. 

The cleanser and night cream are really nice. I like that the night cream isn't oily at all and seems to disappear into my skin leaving nice and moisturized. 

The Black soap is just ok in my opinion. It does clean my face well but it's very drying. 

I love trying out new makeup sponges and this one works great. I like the shape of it and it doesn't soak up a lot of extra foundation as I'm using it. It works well and is a good size for the job.

I think for the price, this month's box was really good. I love being able to try new to me products and this is a great way to do that.  

Did you get this box?

One problem I wish they would work on is their website. I haven't been able to log into my account in months which means I cannot cancel unless I email them and even then I'm not sure I could. I have emailed them about not being able to log into their website and they just send me back the same BS "The problem is now fixed" email each and every time. No, the problem is not fixed. 

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:

2 Samples of Hit Balm. 

Loreal Toning Gloss for Hair. 

Beautiful Magnolia perfume. 

Dove spray deodorant. 

2 perfume card samples. 

5 piece Pioneer Woman mixing bowls with lids.

Hit Balm is a pain relieving cream. I have Osteoarthritis in my knees and hips so I didn't mind trying this. It did help my knee one night but it did nothing for my hips at all. 

I've received the Beautiful Magnolia perfume before and loved it so when I saw a free sample available again I got it. 

I like the Dove spray deodorant. I can always use that. 

I used the Toning Gloss, it's meant for people who color their hair and I don't but it's a nice conditioner. 

The 2 perfume cards had just enough scent on them for one application each and they did smell nice. 

I am loving the mixing bowls. They all fit together so it's easy to store. They are heavy so they don't move if I use an electric mixer which is nice. The lids have a really pretty flower pattern on them too. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: Gray Card by Cassandra Chandler

 

Book Description

Is he after her heart or her planet?

Evelyn Chambers is a nerdgirl and proud of it. When she finds out that her drop-dead gorgeous best friend is an alien general with only three days left on Earth, she has to wrap her head around too much at once. Aliens are real, and if she wants to keep hanging out with one, she'll have to marry him!

Adam Smith has never seen a planet as beautiful as Earth or a woman as enticing as Evelyn. His government wants him to re-enlist, but when Evelyn suggests marriage to help him stay, Adam realizes that what he really wants is her—and he'll sacrifice everything to be with her.

Can he convince his government—and Evelyn—that he's looking for more than a Gray card?

My Review

Evelyn and Adam are best friends but they both really like each other. So when Evelyn realizes that Adam is sad about something she asks what and when he tells her that he has to go back home in three days, she's shocked. But the bigger shock is she proposes to him not realizing he's an alien. But Adam loves her and she loves him and doesn't want him to leave. Evelyn has a lot of come to terms with in a short amount of time. When Adam tells the liaison that he doesn't plan on going back to their planet with him, he tries to break Adam and Evelyn up by telling her exactly who Adam is. 

When she confronts Adam about it, it's not the way he wanted her to find out but she takes it pretty well. But the liaison doesn't stop there, making things worst for them. But Adam isn't going to give up and enlists the help of others to put a stop to whatever nefarious things the liaison seems to be doing. 

All in all this was a fun, quick read. I really liked Adam and Evelyn and hope that more aliens show up on Earth. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Book Review: Wildfire Hellhound (Fire & Rescue Shifters: Wildfire Crew Book 5) by Zoe Chant

 

Book Description

He knows he's always been a wolf.

He's wrong.

His past is gone, dead and buried.

It isn't.

And nothing, nothing, is more important than pack.

Until he meets her.

This is Fenrir's story.

My Review

Fenrir is a hellhound shifter but he's been stuck in his animal form for a long time. His Hotshot firefighter team doesn't know his entire story because he doesn't remember it all. There's something between he and Lupa and when he comes face to face with her, he lets her escape and then he runs off and his team can't find him. 

Darcy is a private investigator and while out on an assignment she finds a naked, unconscious man. She brings him back to her place and warms him up but he speaks very strangely and then a strange woman knocks on her door asking about him. He asks Darcy to call his firefighter team right before he passes out and by the time they get there, he's turned back into his animal. 

It takes Darcy a few minutes to realize that the very large wolf and the man are the same person after his team gets to her house. It's not until Fenrir shifts into his hellhound form that Darcy accepts what she's being told. The fact that Fenrir knows Darcy is his mate just makes things more interesting. 

Fenrir and the rest of the team try to track down Lupa and her gang and find her but she gets away. Fenrir wants to serum that Lupa uses to make him human again but they can't figure out how to make it for him and he can't figure out how to shift from his animal back to human on his own. And because of this he can't mate with Darcy which really depresses him. 

Darcy and his team try to figure out his connection to Lupa, why he was stuck in his animal form for so long and why he can't remember what happened to him when he was still human. It was a great story full of twists and family secrets. The romance between Darcy and Fenrir was heartbreaking because they knew they had an uphill climb to be together but it was still really great to watch it happen. 

I liked finding out more about the evil that's been tracking them and trying to attack them and why. We find out a lot in this story so this series is best read in order since the overarching storyline would be confusing otherwise. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Book Review: Wildfire Pegasus (Fire & Rescue Shifters: Wildfire Crew Book 4) by Zoe Chant

 

Book Description

The baby isn’t the biggest secret…

Diana never even knew his name. One impulsive, out-of-character night with a smoking hot firefighter, and now she’s a struggling single mom. She may have had to give up her dreams, but she’s determined to give her precious baby Beth everything...including a chance to know her biological father.

When a twist of fate lets Diana track the firefighter down at last, she’s braced for him to run screaming—not sweep her into his arms and hold her like he’ll never let go. Yet she can’t escape a nagging feeling that it’s all too good to be true. Is it just her anxiety disorder…or something more?

1. Rescue mate

2. Claim mate

3. Catch newfound daughter (who turns into an adorable, alarmingly fast pegasus) yet again

…were not on Callum’s to-do list for the day. Now he’s flying blind without a plan, and only one thing is certain. Diana and Beth are his, and he’ll do anything to keep them.

Even if that means hiding the truth.

It’s not just that he’s a pegasus shifter (though that’s hard enough to explain). How could Diana trust him to be a good father if she knew about the crippling curse of his special power? Or the hidden pain in his past? And as if his personal demons weren’t enough, there’s the literal demons stalking his fire crew...if Diana knew any of it, she’d bolt even faster than little Beth.

Especially if she discovered the biggest secret of all…

He might not be Beth’s father.

My Review

Diana had a one night stand with a man she didn't know and had no way to get a hold of once she found out she was pregnant until she spots him giving an interview on tv. After finding out where he is, she drives to him to let him know about their baby. 

Callum is a pegasus shifter and Hotshot firefighter. He's also an identical triplet so when Diana finds him and tells him they have a baby together, he's not sure he's the father but he knows Diana is his mate.

Because of a set of crazy circumstances, Callum doesn't remember a night he might have spent with Diana but that doesn't stop him from claiming the baby as his own and claiming Diana as his mate even though one of his brothers could be the father. Hearing about how she met Callum and maybe his brothers was actually really funny.

The evil from the last few books in this series is still after the Hotshot crew and they are still trying to communicate with the thunderbird. But we do get a little more information about the thunderbird so I'm looking forward to seeing where that leads. 

Callum and his two other brothers haven't always gotten along but there's been a lot of miscommunication along the way so when they all come together to figure out who the father is, it's a real mess at first. Once again if they had just talked, things could have been resolved so much easier. Diana takes all the information that gets thrown her way pretty well considering it's quite a bit. But Callum and Diana were so great to watch together. 

The evil is still after the team so we get to see Lupa again who seems to be in charge, kinda and her flying hellhounds. Fenrir, who is one of the Hotshot teammates but who is stuck in his animal form is a hellhound so it was really interesting to see how he reacted to Lupa when he got a good look at her. Fenrir's book is next and it's the one I've been looking forward to the most because he's such an interesting character. 

This book was so much fun and so many secrets came out in this book, so I'm really glad I read it. This series is best read in order because of the overarching storyline.  This series has been so much fun that I've been binge reading the books. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Happy Raturday!

 

"Mom wouldn't gib me any ice cream, so I stole some"

"I would share but it's just big enough for me"

"We decided to steal some of our brothers ice cream. Hope we don't get caught"

"If we do get caught, it was totally worth it"

"Oh no. We got caught. Gonna go to jail for stealing the ice cream"

The Ice Cream Jail Blues will continue next week. 

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

Apartment Life #270

 

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 go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 24 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 24 years here in a weekly blog post. 

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I saw the police cars patrolling my street again too. They didn't stop but it seems like every time I step outside these days I spot them in the alley, on the street or going down side streets. I think they would see more if they stopped, got out of the cars and came into the courtyards. That's where most of the drug dealing is going on and where most of the druggies are laying around or sitting in front of people's doors waiting for the drug apartment to be open for business in the morning. 

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One night while my daughter was coming home from work she spotted this ax sitting near a tree outside my apartment complex.

Then she noticed that there was also a knife stuck in the tree right beside it. She decided not to touch either one in case something weird was going on. The next morning they were both gone.

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There's a new tweaker woman in my neighborhood who has been hanging around down at the drug dealers apartment. And then on Tuesday Tweaker Lady was on the other side of the chain link fence and she stops and looks at me and says, "You're big. You're huge! There will be justice." And just kept on staring at me as I walked home. o.0

She's been spotted walking down the middle of the street waving her hands and yelling at people as well as yelling at no one. I think she might be mentlly ill maybe suffering from schizophrenia. 

Wednesday morning my daughter tells me that Tweaker Lady and friend were sitting in our chairs in front of our apartment making a bunch of noise. My daughter confronted then and asked them to leave and they continued to sit there making noise for a while before they got up and left. I told my daughter to wake me up next time and I will make them leave. They won't ignore me. I'll throw a bucket of water on them, I don't care. Sorry, I'm just trying to clean my chairs and didn't see you sitting there. 

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Friday morning my daughter heard gunshots close by, maybe in the alley of our apartment complex. No one ever calls the police for that because it happens so often. I didn't hear it because my bedroom AC was on and it's loud and muffles any noise from outside. 

The high this week was 105F/40C

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