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Susi Reviews Undeniable (Undeniable #1) by Madeline Sheehan

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The synopsis:

Warning: This is not a “typical love story”. This is an all-consuming, soul-crushing, tear-your-heart-into-pieces story. It’s intense, gritty and raw, dark and disturbing, and it doesn’t happen overnight. This is an epic love story that knows no boundaries and has no time limits. It grows and develops—with hurt, sacrifice, and heartache—over the span of a lifetime.

Eva Fox is the princess of the Silver Demons Motorcycle Club. Growing up with bikers in the club lifestyle is all that she knows. When she’s a young girl, Eva meets the reason for her existence. Deuce West is the sexy, biker bad-ass of the Hell’s Horsemen Motorcycle Club. Like Eva, he was born and raised in the club—but that’s where the similarities end. Their first meeting is innocent, but as Eva matures into a woman, their chance reunions evolve into a fit of lust and love. Fate continues to bring them together time and time again, but their twisted journey is filled with pain, betrayal, and bloodshed that could tear them apart. Eva sees in Deuce what he cannot see in himself—a man worthy of love—and Eva spends her lifetime proving to him that her undeniable love is the one thing he can’t live without.

This is Eva and Deuce’s story.

It wasn’t easy.
Nothing worth doing ever is.
And love is worth everything.

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Susi Reviews: White Trash Beautiful (White Trash # 1) by Teresa Mummert

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The synopsis:

A word-of-mouth bestseller that’s captivating readers with its honesty, grit, and headstrong heroine, White Trash Beautiful is a story for anyone who has ever felt trapped in life, cheated by love—and longed for something more . . .

Cass Daniels isn’t waiting for her knight in shining armor. She knows that girls like her don’t get a happily ever after. Not if you live in a trailer with your mom, work at a greasy spoon diner, and get leered at by old men. Maybe that’s why she puts up with Jackson—her poor excuse for a boyfriend, who treats her like dirt. Cass has learned to accept her lot in life. That is, until he walks into her diner. . . .

His name is Tucker White, and he’s different from any man Cass has ever known. Tall, tattooed, and bad-ass gorgeous, he’s the lead singer of the rock band Damaged. From the moment they meet, Tucker sees something in Cass he just can’t shake. Something beautiful. Something haunted. Something special. And he’s determined to find out what it is—if only he can get her to open up and let him in. . .

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Illustrated Temptations: The Perfect Game by J. Sterling

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Take a look at the photo teasers I made for The Perfect Game by Jenn Sterling. I absofuckinglutely loved this book so much that I rated it with 5 blazing stars that sparkles with a shimmmiiiing sound in the background.;) Why? Because the story is realistic. It makes me laugh, cry, mad, disappointed and name every single kind of emotions that you have to deal with everyday. It’s there. Talk about sports, love, relationships and life… you should definitely grab this book. I fell in love with the characters because of the strong personalities they project. Jack F’n Carter is a bad ass womanizer baseball player with abandonment issues while Cassie is a cheeky strong and a kick ass woman with daddy issues so trust is kind of a hard issue for both. Jenn wrote it from Jack and Cassie’s POV so you get the whole picture in your head. I just love and adore how she executed it perfectly without me wondering whose POV I was reading. This is not a story of a mushy goo kind of a perfect relationship, it is the real thing. The drama it entails when you fall in love. It’s about love-yes, but it’s also about a devastating heartache. I wonder how I was able to handle it all. LOL

All I know is that you must give it a try, you might like it too, and then let me know. ;)

You can also check out Susi’s review.

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Tamie Reviews: Cursive by Phoebe Lane

The synopsis:

The past pulls. The future shoves. The present just begs for a time-out.

Aislynn Currington is searching for an escape from her tumultuous past, one that includes a severely broken heart and a very complicated relationship with a mother who uses criticism as her preferred mode of expressing love.

Jace Quinn is a driven businessman who, even after surviving a serious life-changing event, remains hell bent on avoiding any form of serious attachment.

Some define insanity as doing things repeatedly while expecting a different outcome. What will Aislynn and Jace need to do to break this endless loop?

With the help of their undeniably intense sexual attraction, witty banter, and love for high-end coffee machines, Aislynn and Jace learn to bravely battle through the challenges of falling in love at the most inconvenient time, in a place they did not plan to be, and with the person they can’t seem to stop running into.

Cursive’s multiple layers of drama, romance, passion, and humor are tightly bound together by an unforeseeable major twist that will keep the reader engaged and connected until the very end.

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Tamie Reviews: True by Erin McCarthy

The synopsis: 

When Rory Macintosh’s roommates find out that their studious and shy friend has never been with a guy, they decide that, as an act of kindness they’ll help her lose her virginity by hiring confident, tattooed bad boy Tyler Mann to do the job…unbeknownst to Rory.

Tyler knows he’s not good enough for Rory. She’s smart, doctor smart, while he’s barely scraping by at his EMT program, hoping to pull his younger brothers out of the hell their druggy mother has left them in. But he can’t resist taking up her roommates on an opportunity to get to know her better. There’s something about her honesty that keeps him coming back when he knows he shouldn’t…

Torn between common sense and desire, the two find themselves caught up in a passionate relationship. But when Tyler’s broken family threatens to destroy his future, and hers, Rory will need to decide whether to cut her ties to his risky world or follow her heart, no matter what the cost…

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Mags Reviews: Saviour by Lesley Jones

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The synopsis: 

When we meet our heroine, Lauren, she is at a crossroads in her life; she knows she has to make some difficult decisions, decisions that will have a huge impact on her life and that of her family. Lauren is an attractive but otherwise average housewife in her 40’s. To friends and family she appears to have it all, a beautiful house, children and a happy marriage.  However, her husband’s years of verbal and physical abuse have taken its toll on her and she is about to leave him.  On a girl’s night out filled with the revelations about her marriage her world is turned upside down by a chance meeting with Gabriel Wilde. Gabriel is a tall, handsome typical Aussie bloke and women fall at his feet.  But neither Lauren nor Gabriel was prepared for what happened next.

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Susi Reviews: Bound Together by Marie Coulson

The synopsis:

Layla Jennings is a fiery, independent and level headed nineteen year old. Always playing by the rules and doing what’s right, she has been the apple of her father’s eye and her mother’s treasure. But moving to college in Long Beach is about to turn Layla’s world upside down. With the gorgeous, pierced, guitar playing, wannabe rock star Oliver living across the hall, Layla finds herself thrown into a world of music, money, torn friendships and blood simmering sexual tension.

But on taking a job in a local coffee shop she meets the deliciously handsome Jared Garrett. Convincing herself that he is a waste of oxygen she tries to put the young successful business man out of her mind. But when he continues to show up she finds herself constantly thinking of him. Dazzled by his boyish good looks and discovering a whole new world of carnal and erotic pleasures, Layla finds herself falling head over heels in love but with Jared hiding a vital secret can she ever truly trust him?

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Elena reviews: Hopeless by Colleen Hoover

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Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies…

That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of just one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past that she wishes could just stay buried.

Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever

My review:

I have to thank my friend Tamie for recommending this book to me (you can find Tamie’s review here). To say that I was blown away by this book would be an understatement. It’s now on my top 10 books list of all time, and this tells you how much impact it had on me. Wonderful writing, gripping story line and amazing characters? A combination that makes Hopeless one of the greatest books around.

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Tamie Reviews: Lady: Impossible by B.D. Fraser

The synopsis: 

Meet Lady Emilia Pembroke, only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Silsbury. Sharp-tongued, well educated and pretty, she arrives in London to spend the summer with her flighty mother, only to find a new addition to the household in the dashing form of Blair Baxter. Handsome, debonair and not yet thirty, this new butler scarcely fits the senior servant stereotype and seems to harbour secrets of his own. Before Millie can recover from the shock, her mother drops another bombshell: twenty-eight and unmarried – it’s high time Millie was sent to a matchmaker.

The problem is, it’s 2012, not 1912, and Millie sees little reason to rectify both her difficult attitude and her marital status. It’s only when her interest in Blair quickly gets out of hand that she agrees to be set up with charming investment banker Oliver Paten-Pryce. However, the spectre of family scandal remains omnipresent and, torn between rumours of financial strife and duty to her family, Millie is forced to face the perennial question – is money the be all and end all?

Set during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year, ‘Lady: Impossible’ is a cheeky tale of love, sex, status and privilege, told with as much of Millie’s clever, irrepressible wit as a Kindle can handle.

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