Apartment Life #296

This is a weekly blog post thatI'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.

The police were blocking off the end of the street on Tuesday but because of my awful camera on my phone you can't really see the police car at the far end of the street. But you can see the other police car driving down the street. 

I enlarged the picture a little bit. They were driving up and down my street for a few minutes and stopping anyone from walking to the end of the street where the other police car was. I think something was going on at the apartment complex at the end of the street but I couldn't see what. It wasn't at my complex this time but they were patrolling my street quite a lot for a few hours after this that day.

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Last Saturday (I forgot to add this to last week's post)  my grandson and I heard gunshots. A little while later I was outside taking Falcor for a walk and watched 3 cop cars pull up at the end of the street, where the next apartment complex down from mine is. It was at night and my phone camera doesn't take pictures at night but the police were in the same place as the first pictures I added up top. 

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As I'm coming back into my courtyard after walking Falcor, I spotted something on the walkway.

As I got closer I realized it was the guy I saw at drug dealer's apartment earlier.

After visiting drug dealer's apartment, he passed out on the walkway in my courtyard. He's not homeless, he has an apartment across the street. I guess he was too high to walk back home.

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Some guy I didn't know walked up to me on Wednesday and asked me if I was Mary Kirkland while I was outside with Falcor. I said yeah and this was the conversation. 

Him: I used to live around here and someone has been getting my checks and cashing them. 
Me: Well, I haven't received anyone else's mail. 

Him: You live in #3 right?

Me: How did you know my name and apartment number?

Him: The mailman told me to talk to you that you might have got my mail but you're in 3 and I was in 5.

Me: 5 has been occupied for a few years and I don't remember you ever living in this courtyard. 

Him: You be living by yourself?

Me: No, I'm married. 

Him: You ain't gotta lie but I get it. You got a cigarette?

Me: No, I don't smoke. 

Him: I'm gonna talk to #5. 

I watched him walk past #5 and go straight to drug dealer's apartment. 

Then a few hours later my daughter was sitting outside in one of our chairs and this idiot comes up to her trying to flirt with her and asks her for a cigarette. She said no and ignored him and kept scrolling on her phone and he walked away. 

He's never lived here. I don't know what kind of scam he was trying to pull but I tell you what, I was mad at the mailman giving some strange guy my full name and apartment number. That's ridiculous. My daughter told her friend that some guy was flirting with me and he said, "Well, your mama still got IT." 

If 'IT' is a creepy guy attractor, I don't want it. 

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The high this week was 81F/27C

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.

Favorite Song of the Week

Sorry today's post was late. I kinda forgot. My brother is having surgery in a couple of days and I forgot to do a few blog posts. You may have already heard of Lindsay Sterling but if you haven't I hope you like 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:

The Daily Goodie Box (Which I reviewed yesterday)

A $25 CVS giftcard from cashing out my points on e-Rewards survey site.

Tom Ford perfume sample. 

Vicks Pure Zzzs melatonin kids gummies 

My grandson takes Melatonin at night to sleep so these came in handy. He's usually asleep within an hour after taking a melatonin gummy and he says they taste good. These worked the same so that's great. 

The Tom Ford perfume sample smells good. 

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?

Rejuva Minerals - Loose Foundation- I wear loose setting powder everyday and I like it so I figured I would like this too and I was right. It's such a nice, smooth, lightweight foundation powder. I did have to reapply it later in the day because I have oily skin but it worked well.

North Coast - Strawberry Apple Sauce + Probiotics- I like applesauce but apples and strawberries? Great mix for sure. This tasted great. 

Banana Wave - Chocolate Banana Milk- I tried the regular banana milk last month and liked it. I like this better though. It's a chocolate banana milk. It just tastes like chocolate banana juice.

ShiKai - CBD Cream with Borage Oil- I'm willing to try just about anything that says it will help with pain. So I tried this on my knee's and hips since I have Osteoarthritis in both and am in constant pain. I used it for a few days and saw no difference in pain at all. I still think these CBD creams are a scam.

Rowdy Bar - Snickerdoodle Protein Powder- I tried this protein powder in a shake I made and it did have a nice, sweet taste to it. I don't really drink protein shakes but this didn't taste bad. 

Tipson - Organic Turmeric Ginger & Cinnamon Tea- I like tea, I drink tea everyday but unfortunately this really didn't have much of a taste at all. 

Auromere - Cinnamon Ayurvedic Toothpaste- I've tried this brand of toothpaste before but the last flavor I got was a black licorice one. This one is cinnamon and I love it. I really like cinnamon flavored things so this was a hit with me. 

ICE CHIPS® - Berry Mix Xylitol Candy- I've had this candy before and I was so excited to see this in the box again because I love these. Every flavor I've tried has been so good so far. This was definitely my favorite thing in this month's box. 

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.

Do You Collect Anything?

 

Apparently I collect Lip Balms. But it was totally by accident. I have 26 of them but some were given to me as gifts, some came in beauty boxes, some were in Blogger prize packs, and a couple I actually bought. I don't think I've used an entire lip balm in a couple of years. I certainly won't ever have to buy anymore. lol 

Have you ever accidently collected something?

Book Review: The Dragon King's Mate by Harlow Blaze

 

Book Description

Who’s more dangerous, her stalker or her king?

Ava

Dancing in a rowdy nightclub isn’t most girls’ career plan, but Ava makes it work. Bump, grind, flirt—easy as pie.

Her life shatters when she’s marked. A human that can have dragon shifter babies is a prize worth killing for, and her stalker is ready to be a dad.

When her apartment burns down, Ava learns a fun fact. Stalkers don’t like being rejected. And hers will stop at nothing to claim her as his own.

One man can help her.

Baz—King of the Seattle dragon shifters and definitely not a gangster. Despite the warnings to stay away from him, his protection is her only hope.

But Ava has a problem. Powerful and sexy as hell, Baz sets her soul on fire.

Literally.

Baz

Baz doesn’t have time to help humans. His sister has a target on her back, and family always comes first.

Everything changes when a dancer crashes into his lap, desperate for his protection.

Ava’s sweet scent and feisty temper drives his inner beast wild. The need to mate is irresistible, but his pretty, new roommate is already running from one dragon. Seducing her for himself is, at best, morally gray.

But Baz has always been a bad boy, and rules don’t apply to the king.

At first, having her in his penthouse is delicious torture. But the longer Ava is around, the more Baz starts to soften.

And when you’re king, being soft isn’t an option.

My Review

Baz and Ava are so fun together. They meet at the club she works at but once Baz meets her, it's hard for him to just leave her alone because she's been dragon marked, which means she can mate with a dragon shifter if she finds one she likes. Since there are more male dragon shifters than females, the males will fight over the female humans who have been marked. 

Ava seems to have a stalker as well so when her home burns down, Baz brings her back to her place where she'll be safe. But in keeping her safe, they spend a lot of time together and before Baz can sort his feelings out for her, his little sister let's the other male dragon's know that she's around. It's the kick in the pants that Baz needed in order to realize that he wants her for himself. But she's still in danger from her stalker and I liked watching as the stalker got closer and finally came out to get his prize, Ava. 

Ava is no shrinking violet and she's smart. So when she finds herself in danger she acts smart until Baz can help. I really liked the ending and seeing how things turned out for them and knowing that there's yet another dragon marked female that's going to need help. I can't wait to find out who it is and who her Dragon will be. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Disclosure: I was given a free e-ARC via BookSprout but all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Happy Raturday!

 

*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 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 loud neighbor who plays the porn, slams his door and yells all day had his sister come to his place this week. My daughter and another neighbor were sitting outside and she came to talk to them and let them know she was sorry for all the noise he's making that he has mental problems and he stopped taking his meds. But that so many people have complained that the apartment manager is trying to evict him. While she was at his place, she made him take his medication and he called the police on her. They got into a big fight and she called the police on him. So the police came but didn't stay long. 

I enlarged the picture so you can see the police car. I kept the original picture because with that huge sound wall, it makes me feel like I'm in prison surrounded by a high wall. lol The palm tree's are pretty though. 

The high this week was 72F/22C

The low this week was 38F/3C

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

 

So just like last week I wanted to share one of my favorite violin instrumental covers. I also found this on TikTok the first time I heard it. I think the song is so pretty and he plays so well. I hope you enjoy the 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: 

Vichy Mineral Prebiotic face serum. 

Costa Brazil face oil. 

Vitafol Prenatal gummies. 

I've used the Vichy face serum before and love it. So I snatch it up every time I see a free sample available. 

I'm not big on face oils except for the dry oils that soak right into your skin but if you only use a little of this at night and this wash your face in the morning it seems to be a good moisturizer at night. 

I signed up for the prenatal gummies samples because I take Folic Acid and Vitamin D since I'm deficient in both of them. These gummies have those and more. They are essentially just a multivitamin gummy which is great. So that worked out well for me. They taste pretty good too. 

Did you receive any free samples this week?

Book Review: Firefighter Bear by J.K. Harper

 

Book Description

His to protect. Hers to challenge. Theirs to dare.

A woman trapped by the stigma of the past...

Fox shifter Everly always ends up cornered and cowering. Growing up shunned by more dominant shifter species taught her there's no such thing as real community—or true love. But she's always secretly longed for the sexiest, most dominant bear shifter around...even though he almost destroyed her family.

A bear shifter who can't forgive himself...

Wildland firefighter Slade Walker battles mountain flames for a living and throws punches on the fight circuit for a release. Despite his easygoing, joke-cracking ways, this wounded bear is still plagued by a terrible decision he once made—a decision that also ruined any chance he had with foxy, fascinating Everly. Yet he can't imagine life without the sweetly sensual vixen by his side.

A shifter town on the brink of change.

But when the sins of the past rise up to threaten Everly, neither her hidden courage nor Slade's powerful defense can keep her safe. The wild heart and bold hope of an entire town of shifters must rally together for the protection of all, and to allow two battered hearts to finally dare claim what they need most: each other.

To the reader: This story is filled with heart-pounding romance, page-turning adventure, and some awesome hawt times. If you love big ole grizzly bear shifters who have a soft spot for their fated mates, the charming and funny details of a shifter-filled small town, and the beautiful power of true love to always save the day, this book is for you.

My Review

Everly had a hard time when she was younger since she and her family were shunned by the other shifters who thought they were better than her. She is a fox shifter and finally got away from that pack. She had been treated so badly for such a long time that she still thought some of the other shifters looked down on her and she looked down on herself as well at times. But people in this town actually liked her and didn't look down on her, now if only she could make herself believe that. 

Slade is a firefighter and a bear shifter. For the past two years he'd kept himself away from Everly even though he knew she was his mate because her brother went missing and he was sure that she blamed him for that as much as he blamed himself. 

When Slade finds a letter from her brother and gives it to her, things change between them rapidly. The letter tells Everly what she needed to know but she drinks a bit too much that night anyway and when she see's Slade again, she let's him know that she has feelings for him if he would just stop hiding from her.

I really liked watching these two reconnect and then having the secrets behind her brother's disappearance come to light and how they decided to come together to fix the problem. This was such a fun shifter book to read. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

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Book Review: Eros by K. Cantrell

 

Book Description

Looking for Love on all the Wrong Planets Penelope Boswell needs a fake boyfriend to save her from her meddling family. But when the Intergalactic Dating Agency matches her with a sexy alien willing to play pretend in exchange for her help assimilating to Earth culture, she gets way more than she bargained for: Eros is seductive, pushy and has no intention of faking anything, least of all their relationship…

My Review

Penelope meets a matchmaker but doesn't realize until she decides to use her services to get her family off her back, that the matchmaker is making matches with aliens from other planets that need green cards. In order for Penelope to make this match work she will have to marry the alien she's been matched with so he can get a green card and she can help him blend in as a human until he learns better English and our customs. 

But right from the start Eros (John Smith) just wants to make out and have sex which got on my nerves. I think he thought that Penelope would fall in love with him if they were intimate. But because he doesn't understand our culture, our language or how things really work here, he's like a child...who wants to have sexy times with Penelope. 

It's hard to get to know a character when he can't communicate or understand well. I thought the premise was great but Eros was very one dimensional for most of the book which made it hard to really like him because I couldn't get to know him. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

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Book Review: Dreams of Darkness by Eve Langlais

 

Book Description

Warning: This dark urban fantasy contains scenes of violence. Reader discretion is advised.

Waking with horrific injuries in a hospital, Adara can’t recall her past. Who is she? And more importantly what is she? Her only hints come during her nightmares.

Dark dreams that are forgotten when she wakes.

Having amnesia doesn’t stop danger from stalking her. She attracts the attention of a werewolf and a vampire. As events spiral out of control she wonders if she’s losing her mind.

Magic and supernatural beings can’t exist.

Her mind says ‘Forget.’

But she wants to remember. However, if she does, will the truth shatter her?

My Review

Adara wakes in the hospital after having sustained horrible injuries but she has amnesia and doesn't remember who she is or how she got hurt. The doctor puts her in the mental hospital and somehow messes with her mind and puts her on medication. After a while the doctor sets her up in a run down apartment and a job in a bad neighborhood. He makes her call him all the time to check in and he keeps track of her but it's not because he cares. 

Logan is a werewolf and the head of his pack. He's out patrolling one night when he realizes a zombie is attacking someone in a store so he steps in and dispatches with the zombie. He's not sure whether to kill the human girl or not but once he gets close to her, all thoughts of killing her go out the door. He helps her and follows her home to make sure she's alright. But more zombies attack her so he brings her to his house.

Titus is a vampire and the cabal leader. He can hear Adara's cries for help when she's asleep and having horrific nightmares. He rushes to Logan's house only to find that Logan has somehow been pulled into Adara's nightmare, literally. Once she's awake and they realize that she's suffered horrible pain at the hands of others they decide to work together to find out who and what Adara is because she's not entirely human. 

I liked the premise of the story but it was a little slow to begin and there isn't much to this story. I can see there's going to be a love triangle between these three but there's really no spark between them. Titus and Logan don't like each other and are fighting to win her in their own ways like she's some trophy to win. 

And then this book ends in a cliffhanger. This book might tell us what happened to her and by whom but not really why. I didn't like how it ended and it didn't keep me engaged enough to read the next book. 

I give this book 2 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Happy Raturday!

 

*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 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.

The police were across the street on Monday morning. They were walking up and down the street talking to people but I took this from my bedroom window so I wasn't outside for them to talk to me so I have no idea what they were asking people. They left after about an hour.

I took this picture about a month ago and didn't post anything about it because I wanted to see if maintenance was going to do anything about it. But of course they didn't and now it's been over a month. What you are seeing is raw sewage once again. If you've been around for a while you know we deal with a raw sewage problem at least a couple times a year. This is the clean out drain from the end of the apartment building across from me. Each building has one at each end of the building so when the plumbing gets backed up the plumber has a way to get his snake into the pipes. 

The hole has a plug on it that tightens down with a screw type of thing. So it's supposed to stop the raw sewage from coming out the end and instead go down the pipes inside the walls like it's supposed to. But it looks like the water/sewage has eaten through the cap they put on this end and the water is coming out the end anyway. I've watched maintenance walk right by this mess several times and see it but they haven't done anything about it. I've emailed the office and gotten no response. I haven't said anything to the one maintenance guy I see around here most of the time, personally because he doesn't like me for some reason. I've said hi to him a few times and he just stares at me and I know he understands me because I've heard him speaking to other people. 

I've also started spotting used needles again. The homeless traffic has gotten worse because there's a person across the street that is selling drugs from one of their windows. I'm going to try and get a video of people walking up to the window and knocking on it and exchanging money for something small (drugs). But I don't want them to see me filming them. You just never know who has a gun around here. But they are definitely dealing from their window across the street and that has brought a lot more druggies to my street. 

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My neighbor from last week who was watching porn was singing this week and saying rude, weird things really loudly. He did this for about an hour last Sunday. 

The same guy who is singing in the video also left sushi in front of his door. He's also the guy who left the hotdogs in front of his door a few weeks ago. He lives two doors down from me, so I can hear him really clearly when he starts shouting.

I enlarged it so you could see it better. I don't know what is up with this guy, he might have mental problems. I can only hope he moves out soon.

The high this week was 81F/27C

The low this week was 39F/3C

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

 

I like all kinds of music as I've told you before. But sometimes I really like a well played instrumental too. When malls and sidewalks have a public piano and someone who can really play starts playing and surprises people standing around watching, that's one of those things I love too. So here's one of those songs that I first found on TikTok. I think he might be a professional but it's one of the best piano covers I've seen. I hope you enjoy. 

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 won a blog contest and all of these books from Rachel at Waves of Fiction blog. 

I'm looking forward to reading them all.

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Book Review: The Dragon and the Singer (Made for Each Other: The Dragon Shifters Book 1) by Renee Carr

 

Book Description

A dragon king. An aspiring singer. A vicious murderer.

Nathan, the Dragon King, knows he bears great responsibilities, but none are as important as maintaining the peace between dragons and werewolves. Unfortunately for him, one dragon has gone rogue and, if not stopped soon, his murderous rampage will ignite a war.

Ivy dreams of finally making it big, but the most significant moment of the singer’s life may be the night she meets Nathan. Little does she know their mutual attraction will be the least complicated part of their courtship.

When she’s threatened by another dragon, Nathan is convinced it’s the murderer. Now, he has even more reason to root him out and stop the carnage once and for all.

Will the Dragon King prevent a war and also protect the woman he loves?

A sexy fated mates shifter story, set in another world, along with a mystery!

This is a standalone story with no cliffhanger!

My Review

Nathan lives on another planet but comes to Earth at times. Humans don't know about the aliens that visit here and his people want to keep it that way. Nathan is a dragon shifter and the king of his people after his brother who had been the king, died. 

Ivy is a singer hoping to make it big one day but for now she plays gigs in places that pay her. Nathan meets Ivy and finds himself drawn to her so he asks her out and she agrees. They only go on a couple of dates before all hell breaks loose for both of them. 

There's a rogue dragon shifter that has been killing werewolves and in order to stop a war between his people and the wolves, Nathan will have to figure out who the killer is. But before he can make any headway in that case, the killer targets Ivy and it's only her quick thinking that saves her from being killed as well. 

I wasn't sure how Ivy was going to react when Nathan tells her what he is and where he's from but she takes it better than some might think. Poor Nathan has a lot of his plate with a killer on the loose, his sister in law being very sick and trying to look out for her as well as finding Ivy who might be his mate and trying to tell her who and what he is and what she means to him. It's a lot. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars.

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Book Review: Draekon Conqueror: A SciFi Dragon Shifter Romance (Rebel Force Book 2) by Lili Zander and Lee Savino

 

Book Description

I’ve lived an eternity. I’ve killed thousands. Destroyed worlds.

I thought I’d seen everything. I didn’t think there was anything left in the galaxy that could surprise me.

Then I met her. Lani Dennison. A human woman. My mate.

My mission was simple. Find Lani Dennison.

Zorahan scientists tortured her. I killed them, of course.

Okaki pirates abducted her. I tracked them down and infiltrated their ship. Routine stuff. Nothing that presented a problem to a trained soldier that could shift into a fire-breathing dragon.

I expected her to be smart. You’d have to be, to survive the Okaki pirates.

I didn’t expect her to be lovely.

I didn’t expect her to make me laugh.

And I definitely didn’t expect her to be the one woman I was destined to be with, the missing piece of my soul. 

My mate.

Now what?

My Review

Ruhan had been in stasis for 1000 years but once he woke up and is tasked with infiltrating a Zorahn ship to find two human females that have been kidnapped, he figures this will be an easy job. He's not expecting to find his mate though and when he finds Lani, he finds his mate. 

Lani was kidnapped, and she keeps herself alive by giving the aliens something they want. She is smart and that's the only reason she's still alive. So when Ruhan says he's there to save her, she's not sure she can trust another alien but he gets her off the ship so that's one plus for him. 

This is the second book in the series but the first book that I've read. I didn't really feel lost so you can read this as a standalone but I plan on going back and reading the first book since this one was very interesting and I want to get to know his brothers. 

Ruhan was so much fun to get to know. I have a soft spot for shiters but an alien who is also a shifter? Sign me up. He was so great with Lani, since he knows that she's gone through a lot in the time she's been held captive he takes things really slow with her. 

Lani was a very smart woman too. She gave her captors something that they wanted in order to stay alive, she told them stories. I love that about her, she's very witty and creative but also smart and strong. These two really made the best couple. When they run into danger, they realize how much they care for each other and that made the story even better. 

I give this story 4 out of 5 stars.

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Book Review: Phantom Game by Christine Feehan

 

Book Description

wo predators collide with unbridled passion in this intoxicating GhostWalker novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.

 

Jonas “Smoke” Harper has watched his brothers find their perfect mates, never imagining he’d actually meet someone who complements every part of him—even the monster that lurks within. But his instant connection with Camellia goes far beyond wanting the intelligent, beautiful, and lethal woman in his bed. They are two parts of a whole, linked to each other and to a larger network that exists everywhere around them.

 

Camellia has lived on her own for a long time, relying on her unique psychic abilities to keep her safe. She knows that Jonas was literally made for her, and that makes their addictive connection more dangerous than a thousand enhanced super soldiers. Once the larger threat looming over them is dealt with she’s going to get far away as fast as she can. Life has taught her that the only one she can truly trust is herself.

 

Jonas can sense Camellia is going to run—and the hunter inside doesn’t want to let go. Not when he knows how good they’ll be together. So he’ll just have to use all of his considerable skills to convince her to stay....

My Review

The GhostWalkers were men who had volunteered to be enhanced psychically so they would be more use to their country. But Dr. Peter Whitney also performed experimental gene coding on them without their consent or knowledge. But because of his connections and the government who wanted his enhanced soldiers, he was untouchable and continues to experiment on people. Whitney had also experimented on girls and used in vitro to make designer babies he could experiment on. he ended up making enhanced females that were the other half of a pair to some of the enhanced men he had experimented on. The enhanced pheromones in the pair made them attracted to each other. 

Jonas and two of the other members of his GhostWalker team had headed into the forest because one of them had a gut feeling something was off in that direction. But Jonas came across more than he could have imagined. An enhanced female who had escaped Whitney's experiments had run and camouflaged herself in the dense mountains. Only another GhostWalker or enhanced person who had very specific gifts would have been able to find her and Jonas ended up being one of those people. 

Camellia had been hiding for a while and she knew that GhostWalkers and some of their wives had made their home in a building not far from her. But they had no idea she was there and she had no plans to make herself known to them. So when Jonas was able to find her house and came to talk to her, she wasn't wanting to have anything to do with him but she knew he wasn't going to leave until she did. 

At first Camellia had thought that Whitney had sent the GhostWalker team to find her and bring her back to the labs and she didn't trust anything Jonas said. But then they both realized they were a bonded pair and that attraction made her want to talk with him. They could both hear lies so while neither of them trusted the other at first, after talking a little and hearing no lies, they sat down and talked a bit more. Jonas had thought the feeling that he and his team were feeling might have been Camellia but she felt the dangerous threat as well so they knew it wasn't her. 

When she, Jonas and his team realize there are other men on the mountain, they go scout to see who they are. They quickly realize that these men are the reason they all have been having bad feelings about a dangerous threat. She helps Jonas and his team find out who they are and why they are there and it's bad news, really bad news. More teams of soldiers are on the way to attack the building where Jonas and his team and families are living. When they find out why the teams of soldiers are sent they think they have it all figured out but secrets are revealed, feelings are hurt and the team realizes they've been betrayed by someone close to them. But then there's a pretty good twist and more questions are raised. All the while Camellia is getting to know Jonas better and they are falling for each other. She is much more than she seems and is able to help out Jonas and his team during the attacks that happen. The action in this book was great.

I've really been loving liking this series but this was definitely one of the best books in the series so far.

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.