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This is a sexy, hot, fun read with the butcher, the baker, and the guy that works for the Electric company.
These 3 little pigs ,they are not really pigs they are guys... Im waiting for the guys are all pigs jokes to finish I'll be patient .. take your time.
ANYWAYS
these 3 guys live in fairy tale cottages across from the house that Farrels father left her are all hot, sexy, and causing oh so much confusion for the new girl in the small town
This book will have you fanning yourself in places and giggling out loud in others.
I reacted out loud in many places in this book laughing yelling tears etc when that happens you know the characters are well written.
I did not hate the our leading lady, which you know for me is a big deal. I like that she is sexually free and not tying herself down looking for Mr. Right or Mr. Marriage material: she wants to have her fun and not have the messy stuff that goes with committed relationships. SHE is not ready to commit she does not feel she is mature enough for it.
HURRAY! A girl that is realistic about her own expectations of her life!
ALSO:
none of the men in here are super wealthy dudes.
The money talk is not in there, there is no massive trauma involved in this story; there is a foursome, a mystery, and LOADS of hot sexin'!
I am even forgiving the darling Sommer for using one of my no-no words in sex a scene she used the word nub!!!!!
For use of the word nub
You all know that one annoys me and usually pulls me out of the story. I bet Autumn is so proud of me for not going with the pull out joke here because I do indeed have sex gifs for that!{ed. note: I am, Sue, I really am. That must have hurt, not to use them ;D}
This time it did not (yes I highlighted where she used it) but it did not destroy the sexy in the scene.
for the word nub not ruining the sex
This book was very enjoyable! If you like lots of sexin in your book then this is a book for you. These are very horny characters. This book is porn--some plot, and then some more porn thrown in there. It has silly dialog, cute characters, hot guys, a hot woman who KNOWS she is hot but is not all vain about it.
Let me introduce you to the gentlemen:
First up we have Deke, the first guy she meets when she moves to this town.
who I see as Deke
of course Sommers view point cannot be denied her Deke
Let's just say that when Farrel and Deke meet they share way more than just a friendly handshake.
Then we have the sweet darling man who gives her some "nice to meet you, welcome to the neighborhood, you have a nice ass" donuts.
I put in hot baker in google I get this I accept
Yes, there is a hot, sweet, shy baker boy Google will not
give me picture of hot, shy men holding donuts or kneading bread so you will have to use your imagination. or just look at this :
the candlestick maker
Finally we have our third little pig, Hot fella, who is oh so naughty. He is tricksy one--can't really tell good guy bad guy or what. because if I say more I will spoil and if you listen to me tell the story you will miss out on how she tells is and you WANT to read this you WANT to you really really do! What is a girl to do? how can she choose? WHO will she choose?
There are so many neat things that happen in this one, my dears--you have to give a shot!
As you can see I enjoyed it a great deal! I give it 4 stars
This is probably the first of this "genre" book I have read (Amish romance), so going into this please know that my knowledge of this culture and its practices is no greater than the average person.
I requested this book from NetGalley because the title interested me I wondered if it would be like Taming of the Shrew and once I read the synopsis I knew it would be. Since Taming of the Shrew is my favorite of Shakespeare's comedies I had to get it.
I was not disappointed in its similarities to one of The Bard's greatest comedies. This book has a shrewish girl, but she is not shown in the usual way.
What I liked about this is that the book is from Cate's perspective. We feel empathy toward her. We see the world and how annoying it is through her eyes and how the people around her just do not understand her.
I like that because of the POV we get to see the love between the sisters; this is not something that tends to come out in other versions of this type of story and rarely comes out in a stage production.
I like how the sweet love develops and how suspicious she is of people. She knows she has trust issues, but she has been hurt too many times that she closes herself off
Because this is an inspirational romance, the reader will have to expect some religious stuff that fits the characters and their faith.
I really did not feel hit over the head with it--it came off as inspirational rather than preachy (and it makes me want to dig out my old Bible to read the story Esther).
The more I think about this story, the more I want to give it another half a star so 4 1/2 stars for taking my fav type of story (Taming of the Shrew) and making it better.
The only thing I would have wanted to see more of would be more of Cate and Pete together, holding hands and talking, walking arm in arm... Thsee little bits in the story were breathtaking.
Just a note to my usual readers: this is a YA Christian book. If you are looking for something steamy you need to check out my other reviews. This one does not fit that category,however it is a very enjoyable romance
Happy to be
here at So You Think You Can Write (I do! I do!) to talk about Along Came Trouble,
which released on March 11 from Random House / Loveswept. Along Came Trouble is the second novel in my Camelot series, though
it can be read as a standalone.
It’s a
“bodyguard book,” but it’s a little different, too. I see it as a novel about what
happens when a woman meets the right man at the wrong time and has to decide
how much of herself to give him when she doesn’t feel like she’s got any
self to spare. And most of all it’s about how hard it is to find a
balance between dependence, independence, and interdependence—and how love can
lift our burdens and help us become better versions of ourselves, if we are
brave enough to let it.
To give you
a taste, I’m including this excerpt, which is in the heroine, Ellen’s, point of
view. Ellen is having her first long conversation with the hero, Caleb, and
finding herself far more curious about him than she wants to be. As she talks
to him, we listen to her thoughts and get an idea just where her resistance to
intimacy and dependence comes from:
She fought back all the other
questions she wanted to ask. How big was his family? Did he have brothers and
sisters, nieces or nephews? A girlfriend?
Her curiosity had no shame. She
couldn’t remember the last time she’d cared so much about the mundane details
of someone else’s life. There was nowhere this intense wanting-to-know could
lead that she had the freedom to follow.
“It sounds kind of nice,” she said.
“To have all that family around.”
He laced his fingers behind his
head, resting his elbows against the chair back. “It has its moments. Does that
mean you don’t? Have family or somebody around, I mean?”
“Just Jamie, when he comes to visit.
And my ex’s mom, I guess. She takes care of Henry a few days a week. She’s sort
of family. Both of my parents are gone.”
“What about the ex, does he help
out?”
“He’s an alcoholic.”
Caleb made a pained face, a standard
response to her confession about Richard. He was probably thinking the standard
thoughts and would soon offer one of the standard platitudes. What a shame.
How hard for you.
It had been hard, but the
alcohol had been the least of her problems when she was married to Richard.
One time, she’d embarrassed him at a
dinner party by admitting she’d never read Ulysses. He’d had a few too
many drinks, and he’d launched into a monologue that began with a few witty
jokes at her expense and ended with a dissertation on her shortcomings. It went
on so long that she’d fantasized about standing up and dumping her dinner in
his lap. She’d imagined herself walking out, hiking half a mile home in the
dark in her heels. Locking him out of the house until he sobered up.
She’d done nothing. Not that night,
and not for days afterward. Finally, when it seemed possible it could be funny,
she’d told Jamie.
Verbally abusive, Jamie had said. Never good
enough for you. You should leave him.
But those were all Jamie’s words,
and she hadn’t been able to absorb them, to believe them. Part of her had
understood the logic behind her brother’s hatred for Richard, but she hadn’t
known how to make it her own logic, her own hatred. Not until Henry came along.
In the divorce, she’d gotten the
house and a custody agreement that allowed Richard three hours’ supervised
visitation with Henry each week. Richard had gotten everything else. Ellen
considered it a victory.
Caleb leaned forward, resting his
elbows on his knees. Ellen waited for his sympathy, but it wasn’t what she got.
“No boyfriend?” he asked.
Surprised and grateful, she made a
snorting sound of dismissal, the sort of accidental pig noise she was always
embarrassing herself with. “No.”
Caleb rubbed his finger and thumb
over his jaw, looking ponderous but with mischief in his eyes. “A girlfriend,
then.”
“Come on, I’m not gay,” she
protested. “Just, you know, divorced. A mom.”
“You say that like it’s the same
thing as ‘washed up.’”
It is.
“Camelot’s a hard place to be thirty
and single,” she pointed out. “All these college girls running around are tough
on the ego.”
“They’re kids. They could hardly
compete with you.”
When she glanced over, he was
smirking at her. Served her right. She’d fished pretty deep for the compliment.
Caleb’s smirk was dead sexy.
Her libido growled and started
pacing back and forth across her lower belly.
Don’t look at him, Ellen told herself, but her
furtive eyes snatched tidbits to catalog. Shoulders so broad, he just about
filled the whole chair. His throat where he’d unbuttoned his shirt. The shadow
of stubble on his neck and jaw.
Here was a species of man she had no
experience with. She’d always gone for the Heathcliff types, men with wild hair
and deep thoughts. Army guys didn’t do it for her. Or they never had before.
Oh, not good. Not good at all.
She couldn’t have him. There was no
room in her life for any man, let alone one this . . . big. Even if she had the
feminine wiles to capture his attention, what would she do with him?
You’d roll right over and let him
take charge.
And then she’d be back at square
one, weak-willed and malleable, chained to the whims of another man who didn’t
want or respect her enough. No, thanks.
About the Book
Along Came Trouble by Ruthie Knox
Camelot
series, book 2
Releases
March 11, 2013
Ruthie Knox’s Camelot series
continues in this sizzling eBook original novel, featuring two headstrong souls
who bump heads—and bodies—as temptation and lust bring nothing but delicious
trouble.
An accomplished lawyer and driven
single mother, Ellen Callahan isn’t looking for any help. She’s doing just fine
on her own. So Ellen’s more than a little peeved when her brother, an
international pop star, hires a security guard to protect her from a prying
press that will stop at nothing to dig up dirt on him. But when the tanned and
toned Caleb Clark shows up at her door, Ellen might just have to plead the
fifth.
Back home after a deployment in Iraq
and looking for work as a civilian, Caleb signs on as Ellen’s bodyguard. After
combat in the hot desert sun, this job should be a breeze. But guarding the
willful beauty is harder than he imagined—and Caleb can’t resist the temptation
to mix business with pleasure. With their desires growing more undeniable by
the day, Ellen and Caleb give in to an evening of steamy passion. But will they
ever be able to share more than just a one-night stand?
Ruthie Knox
graduated from Grinnell College as an English and history double major and went
on to earn a Ph.D. in modern British history that she’s put to remarkably
little use. She debuted as a romance novelist with Ride with Me—probably the only existing cross-country bicycling
love story yet to be penned—and followed it up with About Last Night, which features a sizzling British banker hero
with the unlikely name of Neville. Other publications include Room at the Inn (a Christmas novella)
and How To Misbehave, book 1 in the
Camelot series. She moonlights as a mother, Tweets incessantly, and bakes a
mean focaccia.
Like most writers, I have a very clear idea in my head about
who my characters are. Zory Korchagin, one the characters in my novel THE TRAJECTORY OF DREAMS, is no
exception. I could see him—
“Are you here alone?” he asked.
“If you are, may I sit with you? I hate to eat by myself.” His words held the
rich vowels and guttural syllables of a heavy Eastern European accent, similar
to the owner and wait staff but different in a way I couldn’t quite name.
[…]“I am Zory,”
he said, his back erect in the unnaturally perfect posture of an electric
chair.
“Lela,” I muttered. Something
nagged at the back of my mind, like a word balancing precariously on my tongue.
“Thank you, Lela.”
I nodded again. The broadness
of his chest was intimidating in that way that only strong men can be, bringing
to mind the warnings Dad had always drilled into my head as a teenager.
[…] The man cleared his
throat. My head jerked up, eyes now focused on his angular chin. Light brown
goatee and mustache, neatly trimmed.
I memorized the shape of his razor-edged nose
and elfin ears. The gray eyes—just the color of the barrel of a gun—peered
beneath bushy eyebrows.
That
should give you a taste of Zory. He’s a Russian cosmonaut on loan to NASA, and
he has a strange fascination with Lela White, the narrator of THE TRAJECTORY OF DREAMS. He’s a sweet
man, loves his family, is fairly superstitious. I should confess that I had a
slight crush on Zory as I was writing him. It’s hard not to fall for him…just a
little bit. Part of it is that accent, but part of it is that he’s just, I
don’t know, open and honest.
As much as I
had a picture of him in my mind, though, it wasn’t until recently that I
discovered the perfect actor to play him in the imaginary movie version of the
novel. I was watching an episode of CSI: New York, and there he was: Johann
Urb.
Seriously.
Throw a goatee on the guy, give him some gray contact lenses, and he’s Zory.
Better yet, he’s Estonian, which means he wouldn’t even have to fake the accent
that much.
I
won’t say much about what happens in THE
TRAJECTORY OF DREAMS between Zory and Lela—there are too many opportunity
for spoilers. Rather, keep Johann Urb in your mind when you read the novel and
let me know if he’s your Zory, too!
Publishers
Weekly calls THE TRAJECTORY OF DREAMS (Bitingduck Press,
ISBN 9781938463440) a "skillful mainstream examination of a psychotic
woman’s final descent into insanity." The novel exposes the chaotic inner
life of Lela White, a sleep lab technician and mentally ill insomniac who
believes she has been tasked with protecting the safety of the revitalized U.S.
space shuttle program. She breaks into the homes of astronauts to watch them
sleep, and she is prepared to kill to keep those with sleep problems from the
shuttle launch. Her delicate grasp on reality becomes more tenuous when
annoying co-worker Trina Shook insists on moving into her house and visiting
Russian cosmonaut Zory Korchagin inserts himself into Lela's life. Korchagin's
increasing interest puts her carefully-constructed world at risk of an
explosion as surely as he does his own upcoming launch. Lela's tragic childhood
unfolds throughout the novel, revealing the beginnings of her illness and
long-buried secrets, and as Lela’s universe unravels, no one is safe. Buy a
copy of THE TRAJECTORY OF DREAMS at
your local independent bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or anywhere books
are sold.
THE
AUTHOR: Nicole Wolverton fears many
things, chief amongst them that something lurks in the dark. From ghosts to
stalkers, her adult and young adult fiction plays on the mundane and not-so-mundane
things that frighten us all. THE TRAJECTORY
OF DREAMS is her debut novel. She is a freelance writer and editor and
lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband, dog, and two cats.
Dear readers I want you to picture here an incredible fancy contest entry form for you to fill out to enter Nicoles contest
sadly as usual I am experiencing technical difficulties
TO ENTER you can just comment below say anything you want I'm easy
Magazine writer Keri Daniels is asked to get an exclusive interview with the very private, famous author Joe Kowalski. Sounds like a dream come true, but for her it is a nightmare. Joe is her ex boyfriend from high school. No real pressure, right? Keri just has talk her ex into giving her an exclusive that he's refused everyone, when the career she left him for is on the line. Best of all, if he does not give it to her he gets to screw her over like she screwed him over.
I love a good book--make me giggle and I am yours! This start to a series about a quirky family is about as good as you going to get.
Joe had his heart broken by Keri when she left to chase her dreams of making it big in journalism. He'd dreamed of the two of them living in the town they grew up in, but he was disappointed..
closest body I could think of for Joe still not quite right
Now she's back and she wants him to save her career by giving her an interview.
He agrees on a few conditions:
1) She has to allow him to approve the questions;
2) No information that he does not approve goes into her article;
3) She has to go camping for two weeks with him and his entire family, and fully participate in ALL activities.
What follows is some of the sweetest, funniest, saddest, most awesome real-life drama, with a mature crowd of characters (all out of college and living real lives). I adore Joe. He is funny, smart, and not hell-bent on revenge (even though it seems that way at times).
Now I have to share a few comments:
Joe had a 78 Grenada
Mine was green
I had one, too. It was a great car--never complain about the Grenada that is one fine piece of machinery!
In my twisted fangirl mind, this is a sign that Joe and I were meant to be (sadly he is not real).
I also have to comment on this piece of brilliance. It is a side story within this story, about Joe's sister, Terry, and her separation from her hubs, Evan:
Mom to Terry: "It just makes me sad," she said quietly against Terry's cheek "that you wont fight for him. I know you love him." And she did. But she didn't have the strength to drag Evan home and then spend the rest of her life wondering every single day if that would be the day he left her again. "Sometimes love's not enough."
There are so many gems in this book just like that, things that will make you laugh, or cry, or just sigh with happiness.
just one of those camping family activities she has to do
One more example, or I will just end up quoting the whole darn book !!
"He wanted to stop the world from spinning, to freeze time and hold on to this moment forever. This was the life he wanted. It was the life that once upon a time he'd thought he'd have. Right now it was as if Keri had never left- as if she'd been a part of his family all along."
Taken out of context it looks cheesy but trust me, this one won't have you reaching for a Lactaid to handle it. It will have you saying AWWWWWWW.
You really root for these characters here, and I LOVE a story that makes me do that. I want to like them and honestly, you learn to love all of them. At least I did
Keri starts out as kinda stuffy, but time spent with a family she grew up with loosens her up.
The rest of the family is a well rounded group that are like real people.The descriptions and their interactions with the main characters flesh them out so well no one is caricature. They are just regular folks.
I hope you give this one a try and me know know what you think!
I really do not know how many stars to give this. I liked it a whole lot--so much so that I bought the next couple of books in the series and then requested another one on Net Galley. Since I liked it so much and I still think about it and rec it to people I think I'm going to have to go with 5 stars! It does not happen often, but I really enjoyed this one.
Zombies and Romance
Two things I never thought I would EVER be talking about at the same time.
This story is told from the POV of the Zombie, which is very ambitious of this author. It could have gone VERY wrong! When I heard about this book, I figured I would be reading many pages that would be similar to a conversation with my husband after a long day of work:
SUEHUBS
Hi! How goes it ?
uggghhhh
Oh. Well how was your day ? ughhhhhh
ummm OK. Anything interesting? uhh
Yeah. See? Not so fun.
THIS BOOK was great (No moaning conversations!)! Really! The conversations and running commentary of our male lead, R, were witty and sweet.
worlds cutest Zombie
So we have R.
Yes, his name is R--he cant remember the rest. He is an above average zombie--he does not look as decrepit as the rest of them and after his kills he cleans up and washes himself a bit in puddles.
What I love about this book is how it took what is usually a mindless horror character and humanized him. The zombie has a name, he has thoughts he has feeling,s and when he eats the brains of a particularly tasty human he experiences strong flashes of life.
These flashes along with encountering 'the dead humans surviving girlfriend, Julie, spark something in him, and he begins to travel back toward humanity.
Nicholas Hoult is a very cute young man(damnit)
I recommend this book strongly, not just because the movie is now out and is starring an adorable young hottie, Nicholas Hoult (who I only look at as a cute boy because is so young and to do otherwise would be creepy ...damnit), but also because even if zombies creep you out like they do me you will find this a nifty take on the Romeo and Juliet story.
NOTE:
Ignore any promo photo similarities NOT TWILIGHT I swear
It is notTwilight with zombies!
There is more to this book than that silly story. It was a fun read and so much more than a romance or a horror.
My reason for reading this book starts out like many things
One day I was hanging out on twitter, and in my timeline I saw someone say something to someone else about beards.
Those that know me know that I have an extreme fondness for the manfur. I do not like waxed bodies,or baby faced boys unless they are Channing Tatum. he is the one rare exception and that has everything to do with his business sense and his dancing skills
I swear it really does!
I got to chatting with this author so I bought her book. Like others have said, it is a low angst funny read. It grabbed me from the start and right up to the end it was an "awwww that is so sweet" kind of a story.
I giggled especially at his reaction to her redecorating his house with plants. I do that to hubs all the time--I buy plants, I propagate the ones we have, and most of the time the house looks like a jungle.
not my plants but they are pretty
This is a short book only 10 chapters
It is a feel good romance between a snarky in control grown up woman who has some mild insecurities (she is not debilitated by them, she does not need hours of therapy or massive doses of meds) which keep her from trusting people.
Our Hero, Beardy Marcus, is amazing--swoony and manly and never fails to put city slicker Ami in her place.
Yes, there is more to know but for me this is a big one: this book makes my love of beards not look like a strange fetish for those of us who live in the north.
It explains why kissing a man with a beard is not as bad as many think.
(GOOD PLACE FOR BEARDY GUY PIC,SUE)I agree Autumn, I agree.
Marcus is also intelligent and sweet and goes toe to toe with Ami He does not hold back.
The banter.
OH the Banter!
Foreplay with words.
I like this book very much because it does not add tons of unnecessary drama to drive our people together instead it gives you sweet lovin fun realistic romance
the kind of story you might hear from friends when asked "so how did you two meet?"
You will indeed fall in love. I know I did. This is a feel good book. I hope you like it as much as I did !
I know this is a short review but if I say anymore I will spoil things and you really want to be able to experience this one for yourself!
