Review "The Moment of Letting Go by J.A. Redmerski"

You can follow the rules or you can follow your heart...

Sienna Murphy never does anything without a plan. And so far her plans have been working. Right after college, she got a prestigious job and gained the stability she'd always craved - until work takes her to the sun-drenched shores of Oahu and places her in the path of sexy surfer Luke Everett. For the first time, she lets her heart take control. Drawn to his carefree charm, she makes a spontaneous and very un-Sienna-like decision to drop everything and stay in Hawaii for two more weeks.

Luke lives fast and wild. When he meets Sienna, he's convinced that some no-strings-attached fun is just what she needs. As their nights quickly turn from playful to passionate, Luke can't deny the deep connection he feels. But there's a reason Luke doesn't do long-term. He can't promise Sienna forever, when the enormity of his past has shown him just how fragile the future can be . . .

Title: The Moment of Letting Go
Author: J.A. Redmerski
Publisher: Piatkus
Amount of Pages: 411
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Date Read: 25-06-2018 - 27-06-2018

Favorite Quote: ""Most of people never let their feet leave the ground, whether they're afraid of heights, or afraid of hospitals, or they stay in the same place all their life because they're afraid of change. So many people go through life on the ground and die without ever knowing that they can fly."

“We’re all stronger than our weaknesses. Sometimes we just need someone else to help us find that strength.”

Review:
I really liked this book. It's a sweet and easy read and it's well written.
They went from strangers to head over heals in love a bit fast but it didn't take away from the flow of the story.

What is this book about:
This book is about Sienna and Luke. Sienna is a young woman that works for a high end event cordinator. She's on a job in Hawaii when she meets Luke.
Luke seems the opposite from Sienna. Where she is stressed he is relax. Where she is worried about money, a carreer, he isn't. She is afraid of hights and he definitly is not.
Initially Sienna was only suppose to stay in Hawaii for 3 days. Luke ends up convicing her to stay for 2 weeks (finally taking a vacation from her high stressed work) and relax and spends time with him.
They end up spending two weeks with him, learning to let go of her stress and fears and learn to enjoy live again. Will she be able to leave after the two weeks are up? Will Luke let her go or will Lukes past destroy any change they'll have?

What did I like about this book
I like the setting. It was easy going and it sounded beautiful. It fits what I imagine Hawaii to be like. 
I liked the characters. They had nice banted and where well rounded characters. They were aready well developed and continued doing so.

Rating:

Review "Mixed Up by Emma Hart"

Dirty cocktails, deadly enemies with a red-hot attraction, and one big, crazy, Greek family--what could possibly go wrong?

Hiring my brother's best friend was not on my to-do list.
Neither was he.
Expanding my dirty cocktail bar into food was supposed to be easy, except finding a chef in my little town of Whiskey Key is anything but.
Until Parker Hamilton comes home--bringing his Michelin starred chef's hat with him.
He has no work. I need someone like him in my new kitchen.
There's just one problem: I hate his cocky, filthy-mouthed, sexy-as-hell guts.
Even if I might want him. Just a little...

Working for my best friend's sister? Not on my to-do list.
She's another story.
Whiskey Key was supposed to be a relaxing vacation, except I haven't reached the heights I have by lying in a hammock drinking cocktails. So when Raven Archer is desperate for a chef, I offer up my skills.
I'm bored. She needs what I can give her.
Except there's a problem: I've always hated her.
Her and her big, blue eyes, sassy mouth, and killer curves.
If only I didn't want her.

Title: Mixed Up
Author: Emma Hart
Publisher: Createspace
Amount of Pages: 271
Genre: Adult, Romance, Humor

Date Read: 27-06-2018 - 28-06-2018

Favorite Quote: “Life would be so much better if it were acceptable to drink something stronger than a mimosa for breakfast. Seriously.”

“I’d spent my entire life hating her, yet now, here I was, falling in love with her.”

Review:
I liked this book. I kinda figured I would because so far I've always liked Emma's writing. This book was a funny, easy read and i really enjoyed reading it. 

What is this book about:
This book is about Raven and Parker. Raven is a hot successful mixologist and owner of a cocktail bar named Dirty. She grew up knowing Parker because he is her brothers best friend. And for reasons both of them don't know, they always hated each other. They went after each other like no bodies business. 
Parker is a hot, successful 3 Michelin star chef. He has been away for a few years while working in New York. He decided to come home for a summer after leaving his job. 
Raven is currently trying to add food to her bar but can't seem to find a proper chef, and her menu kinda sucks as well. Raven rather gets pocked in the eyes by a hot spear than ever ask Parker for help but desperate times call for desperate measures. She needs a chef now more than ever because her Greek family is coming over and they want to eat at her bar. 
Will Raven and Parker kill each other before the summer is over or will they find out they don't hate each other as much as they used to? 

What did I like about this book:
I liked the banter, the sarcasm, the snark. It was hilarious, Emma is really good at writing great banter. I liked that both Parker and Raven are strong characters, that non changed for the other. 
I really enjoyed reading this book, it did however remind me a bit (not much) of Sin (Vegas Nights #1) also written by Emma. 
One thing I also loved that the smut! There was enough of it and it was oh so hot. The build up was just as hot as the actual sex. 

Rating:

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Parker & Raven

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Disgrace, an all-new romantic and emotional standalone from Brittainy C. Cherry is LIVE!

Each day I prayed for my husband to love me again.

After fifteen years together, he walked away from me, and into the arms of another.

I didn’t know how to cope. I didn’t know my worth. I didn’t know how to exist without him by my side.

All I wanted was for him to come back to me.

Then, Jackson Emery appeared.

He was supposed to be a distraction for my mind. A summer fling. A confidence boost to my bruised heart.

We were perfect for one another, because we both knew we wouldn’t last. Jackson didn’t believe in commitment, and I no longer believed in love. He was too closed-off for me, and I was too damaged for him.

Everything was fine, until one night my heart skipped a beat.

I didn’t expect him to make me laugh. To make me think. To make my sadness somewhat disappear.

When our time was up, my heart didn’t know how to walk away.

Each day I prayed for my husband to love me again, yet slowly my prayers began to shift toward the man who wasn’t right for me.

I prayed for one more smile, one more kiss, one more laugh,one more touch.

I prayed for him to be mine. 

Even though I knew his heart wasn’t destined to love.

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My lies? Impeccable.

My heart? Cold as ice.  

My only job? To convince her what we had was as real as the diamond I intended to place on her finger.

The battle was someone else’s. I was merely a soldier, recruited by a wealthy stranger who made it

unapologetically clear that my future—

and everything I’ve ever worked—for depended on the successful completion of this mission.

I was prepared for war.

But I wasn’t prepared for Love Aldridge …

Jude

“You know she’s way too good for you, right?” Lo says, rocking Ellie on her hip as she stands in my kitchen.

“Yep.”

“Like … way.” She laughs through her nose, studying my outfit. “It’s weird seeing you like this.”

“Like what?”

Lo rolls her eyes. “You know. No ripped jeans or vintage Ramones t-shirts. Hair actually combed for once.”

I know I look like a schmuck with my pressed slacks and cashmere sweater and shiny Italian loafers and hair parted on the side and slicked with brill cream, but this is all part of Hunter’s master plan.

“If you want to hook Love, you have to use the right bait,” he’d said, comparing his ex-wife to a fucking fish.

“God, this place is amazing,” Lo says, carrying Ellie from the kitchen to the living room, where she hones in on the kind of view we only ever dreamed of.

“Sure beats our fourth floor walk-up.”

She smirks. “Yeah. Just a little.”

“I Venmo’d you the rent money this morning,” I said. “Next six months are covered. There’s some extra for food and Piper’s meds.”

Lo turns to me, her smart-ass expression fading. She’s tough as rocks, but I swear I see a hint of tears brimming in her eyes. She doesn’t have to say a word. I know what this means to her. After her deadbeat ex was hauled off to prison a couple years back for running drugs (unbeknownst to all of us), she found herself a twenty-three-year-old single mother with a toddler and a newborn, no job, and no way to feed them.

At the time, I’d been out of the Army for a few years, had just finished my plumbing apprenticeship, and landed a decent job at Premier Plumb and Supply in Brooklyn. As soon as Lo finally admitted to me that she was struggling and about to become evicted, I found a hole-in-the-wall two-bedroom above a pizza shop and moved them in, vowing to help her get on her feet.

Now, during the day, Lo stays home with the girls. At night she waits tables at some exclusive restaurant on 67th Street, heading into the city shortly after the girls go down for the night. Tips are decent and the hours are shit, but she doesn’t complain because this has always been temporary.

The plan was for her to start nursing school at Touro, and she was going to start this summer. But I lost my job a few months back due to cutbacks, and one of us had to make sure the rent was still being paid.

“You sure you want to do this?” Lo asks, biting her lower lip as Ellie runs her chubby fingers through her hair.

Piper is seated in the cognac chair across from the TV, messing with a remote that I’m pretty sure belongs to the fireplace.

“What choice do I have?” I’d spent the last three months applying for jobs, but all the ones I could find had shitty pay, zero benefits, or shady reputations. I booked every music gig I could find, playing at any bar that would so much as take me for an hour or two at night, but it didn’t make up for the lost wages, and most of it went toward Piper’s meds anyway.

“We could always move,” she says.

“It costs money to move, Lo. And we don’t have that right now.” My tone is short and I don’t mean to come at her that way, but I don’t need to be reminded that what I’m doing is nothing less than heartless. “As soon as this is over, we can look into moving somewhere cheap and safe. With good people and even better schools. All this stress, this bullshit? It’s about to end.”

Taking a seat at a kitchen bar stool, I slump my elbow on the counter and exhale.

“She seems really nice,” Lo says. “Sweet.”

“I know.”

“And she just went through a divorce,” she adds. “She’s probably already heartbroken. And you’re just going to come in and—”

Fuck. “I know.”

Lo doesn’t manage our finances. She doesn’t see that we’re one rough month away from being out on the street, one unexpected bill away from Piper not having her EpiPen or inhaler when she needs it.

A million dollars and a record deal.

That’s what this deal is worth to Hunter LeGrand, that’s what he laid on the table. And before I had a chance to so much as think it over, he was elaborating on the fact that he’s “well connected” and he can “make shit happen” and he has no qualms about “blacklisting people like you” should they deserve it. He also felt the need to remind me that singer-songwriters like me were on every street corner in Manhattan, that I could always make a living busking in the subways or singing covers on YouTube if this deal didn’t pan out because he’d personally see to it that my name would never be in lights.

“The girls are probably hungry,” I say to Lo, checking my watch. “Let’s grab something.”

My sister moves Ellie to her other hip, her eyes snapping to the floor. “It’s okay. We should get going so we can catch the five.”

“I thought I was taking you guys out for lunch … made us reservations at Serendipity III.”

“I’m sorry, Jude. After seeing her … it just doesn’t feel right spending your blood money on frozen hot chocolate.”

My sister can be so fucking dramatic sometimes.

“It’s not blood money, Lo,” I say, half-chuckling. “No one’s getting offed.”

“You know what I mean.” She speaks quickly and her gaze moves to mine. “Come on, Pipes. Let’s go.”

Piper places the fireplace remote on the table where she found it and slides off the leather chair, dashing across the living room toward her mother, her dark pigtails bouncing.

A second later, the three of them head to the door, only before they leave, Lo turns to me. “The place is great and all, Jude, but don’t get too comfortable in case this whole thing blows up in your face. Because it will. And when it does, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

They leave before I have a chance to respond, and I’m left with my kid sister’s words echoing in my head, resonating off the deepest fragments of my conscience and all the parts of me that wish I never walked into Blue Stream Records that random Tuesday in May, flash drive demo in hand, and crossed paths with the CEO himself in the elevator lobby.

I should’ve known when Hunter said, “I don’t normally take unsolicited demos, but you seem like exactly the kind of act I’m looking for right now,” that he wasn’t talking about music.

Not at all.

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Moonlight Seduction: A de Vincent Novel from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout is available NOW!

The de Vincent brothers are back—and so is the intrigue that surrounds them—in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout’s sizzling new novel . . .

Nicolette Bresson never thought she’d return to the de Vincents’ bayou compound. It’s where her parents work, where Nikki grew up . . . and where she got her heart broken by Gabriel de Vincent himself. Yet here she is, filling in for her sick mother. Avoiding Gabe should be easy, especially when so much of Nikki’s time is spent trying not to be stabbed in the back by the malicious hangers-on who frequent the mansion. But escaping memories of Gabe, much less his smoking-hot presence, is harder than expected—especially since he seems determined to be in Nikki’s space as much as possible.

Gabriel spent years beating himself up over his last encounter with Nikki. He’d wanted her then, but for reasons that were bad for both of them. Things have now changed. Gabe sees more than a girl he’s known forever; he sees a smart, talented, and heartbreakingly beautiful woman . . . one who’s being stalked from the shadows. Now, Gabe will do anything to keep Nikki safe—and to stop the de Vincent curse from striking again.

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He moved forward, maybe a foot or two, but stopped like one would if they were approaching a rabid dog. A heartbeat passed. “Your hair . . .” He tilted his head to the side. “It’s different.”

“Yeah, it is.” Her hair used to be a rather dull medium brown, but then she found this amazing hair stylist in Tuscaloosa and turned her brown hair into this array of blondes and browns, using some weird technique called balayage. “It’s basically just highlights and stuff.” “Stuff.”

His gaze flickered over the bun. Uncomfortable, she scanned the kitchen. “And my hair is longer. A lot longer.”

His brows lifted.

Was she really telling him the length of her hair? This was the most strained conversation she’d ever had in her life. And that was, well, it was sad. She peeked at him. It used to not be this way. Back before . . . well, before she ruined everything, he’d be teasing her and asking about her college. He’d be talking to her like he could actually stand being in the same room with her.

She needed this conversation to be over like it was yesterday and she also needed to figure out how she could work here and not run into Gabe. The house was big enough that it should be possible. “I need to get back to—”

“Planting your face against the over door?”

Her shoulders slumped. “Actually, I need to finish the potatoes. So, if you’ll excuse me.” She started to turn away, praying that he’d just leave.

“That’s it? That’s all you have to say to me? Because I have a lot I need to say to you,” he said. “Never in a million years did I think I’d see you here again.”

Nikki’s spine stiffened like steel had been poured into it. Oh God. Her throat spasmed.

“We need to talk.”

“No we don’t,” she said quickly. “We do not need to talk about anything.”

“Bullshit,” he snapped, and his voice was so much closer that she turned to him on instinct.

Gabe was now at the edge of the massive island, only two or three feet from her. She stepped back into the counter. Her heart thundered in her chest as her gaze flicked to the kitchen door.

“No one is coming near here,” he said as if reading her mind. Her gaze flew back to his. “Dev is in his office on the second floor, in a meeting and your father is out with the landscaper. No one is going to hear us.”

A weird mixture of sensations assaulted her. One was a chill that skated down her spine. The other was a tight, hot shiver that danced over her skin.

Gabe kept coming at her, not stopping until he was right in front of her, separated by a few inches. She sucked in air, catching the crisp, clean scent of his cologne. It reminded her of storms, of that night.

That was the last thing she wanted to be reminded of.

Like his brother, he was a good head and then some taller than her, so right now, her eyes were fastened to his chest.

Thank God he was wearing a shirt.

“I . . . I don’t want to talk,” she managed to say.

“I do.”

“Gabe—”

“You owe me this.”

Her body jerked as she pressed her lips together. He was right. She owed him a conversation. “Okay.”

There was another beat of silence and then he asked in a voice so low she almost didn’t believe she heard him right.

“Did I hurt you that night?”

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# 1 New York Times and # 1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Charles Town, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki. In early 2015, Jennifer was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic disorders that involve a breakdown and death of cells in the retina, eventually resulting in loss of vision, among other complications. Due to this diagnosis, educating people on the varying degrees of blindness has become of passion of hers, right alongside writing, which she plans to do as long as she can.

Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Tor, HarperCollins Avon and William Morrow, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her Wicked Series has been optioned by PassionFlix. Jennifer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Reviewers Choice Award for Wait for You, the 2015 Editor’s Pick for Fall With Me, and the 2014/2015 Moerser-Jugendbuch- Jury award for Obsidian. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA. Her adult romantic suspense novel TILL DEATH was a Amazon Editor’s Pick and iBook Book of the Month. Her young adult contemporary THE PROBLEM WITH FOREVER is a 2017 RITA Award Winner in Young Adult Fiction. She also writes Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

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Nicolette Bresson never thought she’d return to the de Vincents’ bayou compound. It’s where her parents work, where Nikki grew up . . . and where she got her heart broken by Gabriel de Vincent himself. Yet here she is, filling in for her sick mother. Avoiding Gabe should be easy, especially when so much of Nikki’s time is spent trying not to be stabbed in the back by the malicious hangers-on who frequent the mansion. But escaping memories of Gabe, much less his smoking-hot presence, is harder than expected—especially since he seems determined to be in Nikki’s space as much as possible.

Gabriel spent years beating himself up over his last encounter with Nikki. He’d wanted her then, but for reasons that were bad for both of them. Things have now changed. Gabe sees more than a girl he’s known forever; he sees a smart, talented, and heartbreakingly beautiful woman . . . one who’s being stalked from the shadows.

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Review: "The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken"

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that had killed most of America’s children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they could not control.

Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones. When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. She is on the run, desperate to find the only safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who have escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents. When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at having a life worth living. 

Title: The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds #1)
Author: Alexandra Bracken
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Amount of Pages: 488
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction

Date Read: 21-06-2018

Favorite Quote: "The darkest minds tent to hide behind the most unlikely faces."

Review:
I really wanted to like this book because they synopsis and the first few chapters sounded really interesting. I however didn't like it. I found the timeline confusing sometimes. I'm not sure it it was intentional or not but it would have helped if the authors put a headliner or something in the begining of the chapter, to give the reader an idea at what period in time were talking. For example we started with a (what I'm guessing) present day chapter. Then we head back in time, wich is oke. Then for a few chapters its bounces back and forth between certain times, then out of the blue we continue where the present day (1 chapter) started. It took me a second to realize what was going on. 
I also felt like the setting wasn't that clear, as if the authors wasn't sure herself. I thought we were talking about a dystopian kind of land. Everything went to shit anyway. But then the characters were driving through, what seemed, like a normal suburban area ( without children ofcourse) and then stopped at a waffle house (or other kind of restaurant) bought some food (with money I have no clue how they got because they've been stealing food before). So did everything go to shit or not? There is no money so how can there be a waffle house/restaurant. It's one of the things that stood out to me. 

Another thing that bugged me is that the parents never, ever questioned what happend to their children. No one followed up or tried to visit that we know of. They send their kids of and called it good. I know some parents are scared of their kids, or hated them, but that can't be that case of all of the parents can it. You never heard about them again. 

It could have been just me, but the writing style didn't suit me much. 

What is this book about:
This book is about Ruby. She was 10 when she got send to a camp. Children all over the country are dying of a disease and those that don't develop certain kinds of powers. To "protect"those children they are send to camps and the parents where told that they would get help etc. This is the opposite, the children are being worked to near death. Or they are being tortured. And some are being turned into weapons the government can use. Ruby spend 5/6 years in that camp before she got broken out. She realizes quite quickly that the person that "helped" her had an agenda of their own so she ran away from them. There she met a few other kids, Zu, Chubs and Liam. Together they try to survive and to find a person called the slip kid to help them find their parents/family or just a save place. Will the save camp the slip kid set up be all what they are told it will be or will there be more than meets the eye? 

What did I like about this book
I liked the idea of this book. I liked the first few chapters and I did like some of the characters. Liam and Chubs were solid characters. You got to know them a little bit but not enough for me to form a connection. 
Ruby was all over the place. What bugged me is that she went from a scared wounded kid (wich i got) whom was scared of her own shadow and definitely her own powers to I am to only one that can protect them, they need me. To being back to scared to I need to train, and back to i can do nothing, well you get the idea. I couldn't get a grip on her as a person. 
There are a few other things I mentioned not liking above. Certain things didn't fit, it didn't work. The phase and the flow of the story were off. 

I was curious to see if the books were getting better without diving in immediately so I looked up some summaries and what it seems is that the next two are quite similar to this one. There doesn't seem to be much change, and more of a continuation of what I've read so far. So after reading those summary's I decided not to read on in the series. I know how it ends now and got the gist of what happens, and that's good enough for me. 

I really hoped to like this book but it just wasn't for me. That ofcourse doesn't mean it's not for anyone. There are tons of people that like this book. So I suggest to read it for yourself if you are interested and form your own thoughts on it 

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