Rule and Tempt Me

Product Description
I loved Rule Archer since the first moment I ever laid eyes on him. He was everything I shouldn't want and the only person I went out of my way to not try and please. He only saw me as a brat, as an entitled, stuck up princess but worse than that all he saw when he looked at me was his deceased twin brother's girl. It broke my heart because as much as I had loved Remy Archer there was never anything romantic between us and no matter how hard I tried to convince myself that loving Rule was a terrible idea, my poor heart just wouldn't listen. We tolerated each other, barely. We forged an uneasy alliance until one night I had too much to drink and changed the way we were forever. Suddenly life long secrets were no longer hidden and the one thing I always wanted for myself seemed obtainable as long as I was willing to go through hell to hold onto it.

Shaw Landon was a class act and I had no idea what to do with her. She was tied to my family, tied to the person that was my other half so I tolerated her and her haughty attitude because I didn't have any other choice. What I didn't know was that a short skirt and too many cocktails on her birthday was going to change my outlook on her for the rest of my life. Some people thought I hid behind all my tattoos and piercings, that I tried to distance myself from my dead twin, Shaw saw through it all and wasn't scared of what was underneath.
We weren't supposed to be together, weren't supposed to be anything except uncomfortable acquaintances but that all changed in the blink of an eye. Now I had to figure out just how a girl like her and a guy like me were supposed to be in love without destroying each other. Add in her custom made ex and two disapproving sets of parents and the whole situation sounded to me like it was more trouble then it was worth.

My Thoughts

This is a very typical love story, its how most of them seem to head, two people who seem very different fall in love.

This story doesn't stand out from the rest of them but isn't the worst I've read. Its cute, heads in the direction you think it will and even the secrets are very easy to work out.

The characters were great I really liked them, none of them seemed fake or acted out of character.

If you want a easy read I would give it ago, its not great but not bad.
2.5/5

 

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Product Description

Nina Valentine is done with New York. After spending the last year struggling to make it as a painter, all she has to show for it are bills she can't pay. Out of money and sick of struggling, she decides it's time to pack it up and head back to her hometown in New Hampshire.

When she meets Ian Sinclair at her going away party, Nina's instantly attracted to his dark, smoldering looks and lean athletic body. When he asks her back to his apartment, she's willing to overlook the fact that he's a high-powered lawyer. It's just for one night, and guys as gorgeous as Ian don't come around every day.

Ian has never had a problem getting women into his bed, but after his hot night with Nina, all he wants is more of her. So he makes the curvy painter a deal - stay in the city for a few weeks and he'll take care of everything.

Nina agrees, even though she knows better than to get attached. He's a rich corporate suit, she's a struggling artist. But as the connection between them deepens and Ian takes her to places she's never been - both in and out of the bedroom - Nina doesn't know how much longer she can resist.

Tempt Me is a 28,000 word steamy romance novella.

My Thoughts

I got this with it being free and a short story. The way they hooked up I get, but the things that progress from this point seem so unreal. Nobody would act this way even if you were lusting after someone, I found myself cringing with the choices she makes going from feeling like a whore to acting like one, but saying she doesn't want to be one. Eurgh! I finished the story so it wasn't that bad, but there are better short stories like this around. Its free and wont take up too much of your time, but I wasn't a fan.

 

The school gates, Nicola May

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Product Description

At 3.10pm every weekday, parents gather at Featherstone Primary in Denbury to collect their children.

For a special few, the friendships forged at the school gates will see them through lives filled with drama, secrets and sorrows. When Yummy Mummy Alana reveals the identity of her love-child's father, she doesn't expect the consequences to be quite so extreme. Ex Czech au-pair Earth Mummy Dana finds happiness in her secret sideline, but really all she longs for is another child. Slummy Mummy Mo's wife-beating husband leads her down a path she never thought possible, and Supper Mummy Joan has to cope when life deals her a devastating blow.

And what of Gay Daddy Gordon? Will he be able to juggle parenthood and cope with his broken heart at the same time?

Four very different mothers. One adorable dad. And the intertwining trials and tribulations that a year at the primary school gates brings

My Thoughts

I really enjoyed this book. I really liked all characters, and they were all very different. Everyone had there own problems and was nice to see different friendships develop. Didn't take me long to finish I was really into the story.
The big problem was keeping up, sometimes I couldn't remember who was who, as the story just changed from one family to the next without any notice, wish it was made more clear. As I would read a good chunk of the book thinking it was one person and turns out not to be that person at all. I was more confident who I was reading about around half way through the book, but it shouldn't take this long, it took a lot of the enjoyment out of the book. Its not like you can go back to double check as it will just change from one paragraph to the next.
I think I would enjoy this book if I read it again, being more familiar with the characters. But while I liked the book I wont be reading again.
Its such a shame as the story is great, just a huge let down the way it was put together.

3/5

 

Short Stories

I have to say short stories are my guilty pleasure, you dont have to concentrate too much and they get to the point, I spend a lot of Sundays reading short stories. I have recently come across Lisa Scott

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She does have some free short stories, I got a few and enjoyed them so much I bought the bundles. If you like romantic movies that you know 100% where the story is heading, no matter how corney and cheesey you know its going to be but love it anyway, you might want to give these shorts a try. If you try out the free ones, there all along the same lines, not too much difference they all seem to head the same way, but I love them all the same.

With my body

Well to start I found this book hard to get in to, the chapters are short and I found this distracting, each chapter starts with a quote or lesson, I did read them at first but didn't bother by half way through, again found them distracting and pointless.
I started to get past this towards the middle of the book, but took a long time to adjust.
The main part of the story is a housewife who loves her husband they have 3 boys, but life is getting on top of her, and she isn't the person who she thought she would be and is loosing herself. She frustrated, restricted and feels like she is loosing control of her life. She keeps thinking about something/one in her past.
The first part of the book, I found her to just be moaning constantly and instantly didn't like the character if it was a bit more subtle then I would get it, you can feel lost when everything is about your children, but the way she was carrying on I just wanted to tell her if that's the only thing she has to worry about life is too good to her.
Now I started to get into the second part about her childhood it made the first part make sense, I started to get into the rhythm of the book, and I wanted to know where it was leading.
But then the middle (meant to be a sexy book) I found odd and disturbing, a school girl with an older guy, a lot older. Really unsettling, I don't know if you were meant to feel sorry for Tol but I feel he got what he deserved in fact he should of been locked up.
I liked the end of the book, I thought it was heading in a different direction, but I'm so glad it ended the way it did.
I wont be reading again, and I'm not going to recommend, I think there are better books out there and the abuse in the book really puts me off, just felt so wrong as I was reading, I'm not sure if that was the intension.
 2/5

Still on the short reviews.

Description

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.
 

My Thoughts

Fantastic book, would recommend. I loved the characters and loved the way they interacted, felt so natural. This book deals with serious issues and might even change your point of view on the subject. I found some of it hard to read through crying so much, i read it in one night i couldnt put it down at all i was up till 4am reading this. Will be reading again very soon as i want to soak it all up. 5/5

Description

She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed. He is seventeen; gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future. And now they have fallen in love. But...they are brother and sister. "Forbidden" will take you on an extraordinary emotional journey. Passionate and shocking, this is a book you will remember long after you have put it down.
 

My Thoughts

 

This book is really well written, and it was unexpected the way I would feel at the end of this book. I like the way you had 2 main characters and got to hear both of there views on the situation. Altho I found Lochan more realistic, he seemed more tormented and distanced from having a normal life, where as his sister who seemed more normal and also didn't resist so much to what was going on. Its a really good book a real page turner and I didn't expect to feel so much sympathy for the situation, and things could of been so much different if it wasn't for there mother, and I didn't expect the ending at all not even just before it happened it totally shocked me. 4.5/5
 

 

 

Description

The Girl You Left Behind is a hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible new weepy from Jojo Moyes, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller, Me Before You.


What happened to the girl you left behind?

France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions. And from the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie's portrait - painted by Edouard - a dangerous obsession is born, which will lead Sophie to make a dark and terrible decision.

Almost a century later, and Sophie's portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston, a wedding gift from her young husband before he died. A chance encounter reveals the painting's true worth, and its troubled history. A history that is about to resurface and turn Liv's life upside down all over again . . .

In The Girl You Left Behind two young women, separated by a century, are united in their determination to fight for what they love most - whatever the cost.

 

My Thoughts

Wow, I have just this second finished this book, tears still in my eyes. It was fantastic, so emoitional im worn out from reading it, sometimes i was having to catch my breath.
It was like watching a film I could imagine everything so clearly, and didnt want to put it down, I love both parts of the story.
I think the best way to describe this book is captivating. I could read this book over and over.
I loved the caracters,and they all had so much depth. I will be telling everyone about this book I thought it was amazing.

I dont know if its just me but from time to time, the writing would be Liv said or Liv did then change to She said or She did which sometimes i thought it was a different person, only for a spilt second while my brain caught up. 5/5

 

 

These are my own reviews pulled from another site, I know they are short and I intend to do longer reviews, depending on time. I don't know which is better lots of small reviews or longer more detailed reviews?

These are my thoughts on the books its doesn't matter if you loved a book I hated or vise versa, everyone's different and I love discussing books so feel free to leave a comment with your views.

More short reviews

Gone Girl , Gillian Flynn

Description

'What are you thinking, Amy? The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?' Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife? And what was left in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel, marriage truly is the art of war...

My Thoughts

 

I did like this book, but part one dragged for me, took me weeks to get through it, normally takes me 3 days to a week to finish a book. But once I hit part 2 that was it did the rest in one sitting.
I think the first part dragged on so much was because I didnt care, I didnt care about the charaters, i didnt care about what happened at all.
But once we got in the second part is where it took an interesting turn, I sort of had a feeling about what was going on I was right, but the way it was done was fasntastic and very clever.
The end was fab as well, I didnt think it would end like that I thought it would follow the flow but it took another turn for me.
I just wish I stuck out the first part and got through it quicker I would of enjoyed it more but because it took so long to read i still have a feeling it dragged alot.
4/5

 

Description

One fateful summer morning in 1986, two eleven-year-old girls meet for the first time and by the end of the day are charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside town when her investigation leads her to interview funfair cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day when they were just children. But with new lives - and families - to protect, will they really be able to keep their wicked secret hidden?

 

My Thoughts

A really good read. I love the way its written, finding out bits as you went through the current story. Another book that made me feel a different way than I thought I would towards the main characters. The ending felt very justified and fitted in really well.

Description

Growing up in the Seventies, we were on the brink of the modern age. But despite a brave new world of Casio hand-held calculators and digital watches, one thing remained the same: the family holiday. For the Seventies child, summer holidays didn't mean the joy of CentreParcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home and a bucket for the necessities, we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves.For Emma Kennedy, and her mum and dad, disaster always came along for the ride no matter where they went. Whether it was swept away by a force ten gale on the Welsh coast or suffering copious amounts of food poisoning on a brave trip to the south of France, family holidays always left them battered and bruised. But they never gave up. Emma's memoir, "The Tent, the Bucket and Me", is a painfully funny reminder of just what it was like to spend your summer holidays cold, damp but with sand between your toes.

My Thoughts

This book is the funniest thing I've read. If you have ever been camping or a disaster of a holiday this book is for you.
This book brings back so many funny memories, some parts remind me of my mum, some of me. I laughed all the way. 
I would never of picked up this book, but a friend told me to read it and I'm so glad I did. 
I recommend this book to everyone, funny from the start, and i really enjoyed it. 4.5/5

Description

The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate percentage of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance between her and the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend America, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand. Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the charming college co-ed. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his charms, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’ apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.

 

My Thoughts

 

I enjoyed reading this book, I really like the characters and how they developed. But I did find a lot of the story unrealistic like her family and the Vegas stuff seemed a bit far fetched and was disappointed as I was hoping her past story might of been more interesting. If you don't take it too seriously then it is a fun enjoyable read, but wont be rushing to read it again. 3/5

Well lets get started I guess

I thought I would give a go to reviewing or at least giving some idea about the books I've read, and maybe you will find something you like also.
This is my first shot at anything like this, I tend to read free/cheap books from the kindle library, For this first post I thought I would post some short reviews I have put on another site just to start things rolling.
I'm currently half way through a book which I will give a review on when I'm finished all though I'm finding hard to get into this book.
I apologize for spelling/grammar mistakes I'm a reader not a writer. :p

The End of Everything
Megan E. Abbott

Book Description

A close-knit street, the clink of glass on glass, summer heat. Two girls on the brink of adolescence, throwing cartwheels on the grass. Two girls who tell each other everything. Until one shimmering afternoon, one of them disappears. Lizzie is left with her dread and her loss, and with a fear that won't let her be. Had Evie tried to give her a hint of what was coming, a clue that she failed to follow? Caught between her imaginary guilt, her sense of betrayal, her own powerful need, and the needs of the adults around her, Lizzie's voice is as unforgettable as her story is arresting. This is no ordinary tale of innocence lost . . .

My Thoughts

This was an OK read, I was interested and I did want to know what was going to happen, But I thought it would of left more of an impression on me (having a daughter myself).
Not sure why but I didn't really feel the story, don't get me wrong I felt sorry for the girl after she told her story of what happened, but I didn't care for the girls they just didn't feel real.
It was a good idea but it was maybe too long winded I'm not sure why but at the end of the book it was just OK, nothing amazing, but not bad either. Im not sure what was going on at the end. 2.5/5

The Secrets Between Us
Louise Douglas

From the Back Cover

A chance encounter

When Sarah meets dark, brooding Alex, she grasps his offer of a new life miles away from her own. They've both recently escaped broken relationships, and need to start again. Why not do it together?

A perfect life
But when Sarah gets to the tiny village of Burrington Stoke, something doesn't add up. Alex's beautiful wife Genevieve was charming, talented, and adored by all who knew her. And apparently, she and Alex had a successful marriage complete with a gorgeous son, Jamie. Why would Genevieve walk out on her perfect life? And why has no one heard from her since she did so?

A web of lies
Genevieve's family and all her friends think that Alex knows more about her disappearance than he's letting on. But Sarah's fallen in love with him and just knows he couldn't have anything to hide. Or could he?

A mesmerising novel reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca - a passionate love story and a haunting page-turner that will keep you gripped to the very last chapter.

My Thoughts

Finished this book last night, read it in 2 days. Real page turner couldn't put it down. Its a really good mystery/who done it type book. Normally I have these figured out rather quickly, took me awhile with this one. I really enjoyed this book. The only problem I would say is the beginning, I think the situation happened to quickly while I understand why this was, but it wasn't very believable. I know she was running but I don't think she would of done so quickly and for him to want a stranger with no qualifications in childcare to look after his child unsupervised. I got over this quickly, the book was very well paced, very interesting. Is she going mad? Can she trust him? Can the police be trusted? All the questions I had while reading, and the reason I couldn't put it down.
4/5