Light in the Shadows by A.Meredith Walters

How do you keep going when you feel like your life is over?

Maggie never thought she’d see Clay again. So, she attempts to put her life back together after her heart has been shattered to pieces. Moving on and moving forward, just as Clay wanted her to.

Clay never stopped thinking of Maggie. Even after ripping their lives apart and leaving her behind to get the help he so desperately needed. He is healing...slowly. But his heart still belongs to the girl who tried to save him.

When a sudden tragedy brings Maggie and Clay face to face again, nothing is the same. Yet some things never change. Can the darkness that threatened to consume them be transformed into something else and finally give them what they always wanted? And can two people who fought so hard to be together, finally find their happiness? Or will their demons and fear drive them apart for good?

The thing about love, is even when it destroys you, it has a way of mending what is broken. And in the shadows, you can still see the light.

Review

I'm happy with this book. I can really see a change in Clay. He' s growing up and he's working on living with his problems.

I like that the book is written in a dual point of view. I'm happy that we can see what Clay it thinking and what it going on in his life. I found that really interesting. 

I didn't think Maggie changed much. She is still much the same. She did learn from her experience and relationship with Clay but she is still a bit blindly in love. On the other hand there relationship has changed.  I know I said she hasn't changed much, her personality didn't but she was a bit more cautious the second time in her relationship with Clay. I'm happy with that. It's gotten a bit more mature. 

What is this book all about

Well, this book takes of where the last one ended.  Clay has been admitted to a psychiatric facility and he's getting better and better. No, his problems wont disappear over night, and he will have many hard years ahead of him but he's healing. And healing takes time. 

Maggie is trying to deal with her broken heart, but moving on is more difficult than she thought. She still loves Clay and she is mad at him for leaving her. 

Due a family matter Clay is going home. Altho he is getting better, he isn't better yet. He finds it difficult to control him self, control his problems around maggie. During therapy  he found out that Maggie is one of his triggers which makes him lose control. 

Even after all that's happened Clay and Maggie still love each other. And there willing to give it an other chance. But this time they take it more slowly.

What did I love

I loved to read about Clay's healing procces. He really didn't have it easy and i'm proud of him for working on it instead of running away like he used to. On top of having his own problems, he has hateful, crappy parents which left him with serious self-doubt and self-esteem issues. That with having bi-polar personality disorder it's difficult for him. But I found him easy to love. Yes he isn't easy to handle but I really felt for him.

I liked that Maggie didn't just jumped back into the relationship and ignored their problems like she did before. She really made an effort to work on it. 

I'm really happy with the way this story turned out. It was very interesting and I read both the books in one sitting. I just had to know what happened next.  

Find you in the Dark by A. Meredith Walters

Maggie Young had the market on normal. Normal friends, normal parents, normal grades.. normal life. Until him. 

Clayton Reed was running from his past and an army of personal demons that threatened to take him down. He never thought he had a chance at happiness. Until her.

Maggie thought their love could overcome anything. Clay thought she was all he needed to fix his messy life. That together, they could face the world. But the darkness is always waiting.

Sometimes the greatest obstacle to true love is within yourself

Review

This is such an emotional, complex story.  Walters really took an heavy and difficult subject for this book but yet managed to include romance, love and happiness. The main character Clayton aka Clay really struggles with major personal problems and disorders and Maggie the female characters learns that just because you love some one that doesn't mean that you can safe them.

What is this story all about

The story is about 17 year old Maggie Young. Maggie is your average student. She has a A- average at school, two loving parents, and two amazing best friends.  But to her this sounds a bit boring. She want's more excitement in her life. 

Clayton or Clay just moved in this small town to live with his Aunt and her Girlfriend. Clay is a Quiet guy, who likes to keep to himself. He isn't much of a people person. He can act like a real jerk sometimes but that doesn't stop Maggie to find herself drawn to Clay. He is after all a tall guy ,with dark hair, and abs to write home about. He is hot, and underneath that mask of distance he is wearing, there's a whole other person that Clay shows to maggie. 

This all may sound like your average happy teenage love story but that's far from it. Clay has some major psychological problems and he doesn't deal with that very well. I'm not going to tell you what it is because I don't want to spoil anything more. 

Maggie tries to help clay by loving him with all that she has but love doesn't heal all. Maggie is willing to put everything aside for clay. As an outsider you can see that it's not working but Maggie is almost blind on love. No, maybe not blind, she does she the problems but choose to ignore it because Clay loves maggie. 

What did I love

I love the accurate the writer is about the struggle Clay haves. It's really hard to write about those problems and they are a rollercoaster ride indeed. 

I really feel for clay and the way the writer writes about him really makes me connect and care for him. 

I find maggie a bit naive sometimes but I guess that if you really love someone you'r willing to try anything to help them and love them. 

I was warned that the ending was heartbreaking and alto I found it sad, I kind of felt happy about it because Clay was getting the help he needed. It's sad that Maggie suffered because of it.  But i'm sure it will work out in the end. 

Little conversations by Sibylla Matilde

Eighteen-year-old Devin McKay is a complete and total emotional wreck. Fresh out of high school and on her own for the first time in her life, she’s reeling from rejection of a relationship gone very, very bad. Emotionally battered and tormented by the pull of her narcissistic first love, she wants to make a clean break in a small mountain town where he is everywhere... with his new girlfriend. 

Ronin Andrews is still battling his own cataclysmic ghosts. He recoils from anything heartfelt, choosing instead to work hard and live wild. Outside of his job, parties and causal hooks-ups are his life until Devin walks in. With her short skirt and her sad green eyes, he can’t help but want her… badly. His protective streak wants to provide her with a haven, to shelter and sustain her. 

Through a flash of torrid intensity, they struggle to be friends... just friends. She relies on him to nourish her shattered soul and shield her heart from the clawing, gnawing loss that has consumed her. Before long, the attraction proves too tenacious, and the passion between them becomes undeniable. But will the shadows of the past prove too much to overcome?

Review

You could really tell that Devin was just eighteen years old. I don't have anything against eighteen year old but devin was really immature and whinny. And she was so brainwashed and had such a low self-esteem.  Normally that's something that I could have a connection with maybe but not this time. I really didn't like her, like at all. And the just friends thing she pulled with Ronin I could kind off understand but on the other hand totally now. I mean Jake treats her like a piece of shit and only goes to her when he sees fit. And the shit he keeps telling her makes me feel mad. But what gets me furious is that she just drops everything, including her selfworth, for jake. 

Ronin, ronin was like a saint to me. You could tell he was older than Devin and handles things very differently. He was very patient and kind. I did like him. To bad Devin kind of ruined it all for me. 

What is this story about 

Well this story is about eighteen year old devin that lives somewhere. I forgot were. The story was kind of phage. I didn't get what was going on most of the time. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention. 

But Devin has a boyfriend called Jake that treats her like shit. She knows he is cheating on her but she just things if she loves him enough he'll choose her and come back. And he does come back to her, but then he also goes back to his other girlfriend. He told her he love melanie ( the other girlfriend ) too and she just accepts it.  She just takes him back every time. He is controlling, manipulating as hell. He tells her she's lucky that he loves her and that nobody else ever will, he tells her who she can and can't hang out with and when his friends are nice to her, he tell her that they only do it because the want to have sex with her because why else would they be nice to her. I was like omg your such a shitty friend. Maybe your friends are kind to her because she's your girlfriend and they respect that. 

Well Devin and Jake finally break up and Devin convinced herself that she is trying to move on. But in reality she isn't . 

She meets Ronin and they hit if off right from the start. I don't really know why. And I don't know what he sees in her. He just kept saying he wants her and needs to protect her and stuff. 

The reality is that, for 90% of the book, that Devin will drop everything for Jake. 
In the end Devin pulls her head out of her ass and wipe the shit out of her eyes and finally sees what a jackass jake  is. 

What did I like

Well there wasn't much I liked. The story was odd. The writing style was oke, the Idea was oke but I just didn't have a connection with the story. It just didn't suck me in and made me love the characters. I just felt pity for them and eventually I didn't even feel that anymore. I just didn't care much

I do like ronin, he was just a very good guy with an amazing good heart. 

Oh and I really like the cover. Who doesn't like a half naked guy with only a towel ;p

Even tho the story wasn't what I was looking for don't make that stop you from reading it. You might like it

I give this book 2 starts. I hate giving low ratings but I just can't give more.

Rebel by Elle Casey

Teagan Cross, college senior, rebel, and wiseass extraordinaire, goes from princess to pauper in a single phone call. Overnight, her life of privilege becomes one of survival, and no matter where she turns, it seems like the world is out to get her. She's not going to fall apart, though. She's a rebel and she's strong … determined to live life on her own terms … and nothing's going to stop her from getting things done and making things right. But when a twist of fate brings her to the doorstep of a different kind of Rebel, she's forced to figure out when something's worth fighting for and when something's worth letting go

Review
I loved, loved Teagan.  She was very funny, sassy, witty and just awesome. She had allot of shit handed to her and i'm amazed with how she handled it all. 
I liked Rebel to, but I didn't love him as much as I loved Teagan. He was a bit of a silent brooding type. And very mysterious. I really liked that about him but I would loved to learn a bit more about him. I like his brothers as well, alto it took me awhile to realize who the brothers were.   

What is this story about
The story is about Teagan, a senior in college.  Her father is very rich and helps her out on the money frond but that's about it. Teagan is very sassy and a smart ass. I really liked her for that. She's so funny. I wish I could come off with witty comments like she does.  
Teagan and her best friend Quin are really alike.  Quin is also a bit sassy, not as much as Teagan but I still thought she was funny.
Well Teagan's life goes from good to worse. Her father dies and she is completely cut of from everything. Her stepfamily just left her on the street.  Not letting it take her down to much, she does for job hunting.  But that's easier said that done.  On top of that she also needs a place to life, so apartment hunting without money or a job it is. 
So after having a really hard time she forces herself on a job in a car shop. She was really desperate for the job and sexy, brooding, silent, hot, mysterious Rebel didn't say no, but he didn't really say yes either. 
Soon after getting a job, Teagan finds herself the most shitty apartment ever but she has no choice. 
She starts liking Rebel more and more but he stays really silent and mysterious. But he seems to grow a serious liking for Teagan. 
There relationship started off a bit weird and rocky but grew really fast. 

What did I like 
I loved the beginning. I thought this would be a solid 5 star read but the ending seemed really out of no where and I wanted more. I was like, that's it, it over, that's how it ended. It wasn't a bad ending but a bit abrupt.
I really loved Teagan and I liked rebel. I didn't feel much for mick or a.k.a hellion. He was and oke side character and I didn't mind him. I did like Colin. He seemed like a cool guy, with a lot of trouble but still a cool fun guy.
I just wished there was more.  

Twisted together by Pepper Winters

“After battling through hell, I brought my esclave back from the brink of ruin. I sacrificed everything—my heart, my mind, my very desires to bring her back to life. And for a while, I thought it broke me, that I’d never be the same. But slowly the beast is growing bolder, and it’s finally time to show Tess how beautiful the dark can be.” 

Q gave everything to bring Tess back. In return, he expects nothing less. Tess may have leashed and tamed him, but he’s still a monster inside. 

After surviving the darkness, a new dawn has begun. Twisted Together wades through black to grey, chasing the light of true love to banish the shadows forever. 

Pain is a requirement, connection a necessity. But ultimately Q and Tess must face their demons, before they can embrace their future.

Review

Love love love the cover. It's very sexy. I couldn't wait till read this book. It is an amazing emotional roller coaster ride. It's a very good ending for this amazing series. 

At some point I even felt sick to my stomach because I was shocked, nervous and there was so much anticipation. It was killing me. 

I needed to put this book away some times because my brain needed time to wrap itself around the events that happened. 

It has been a while since I read a book with this type of sexual inercourse in it so I needed to get use to it. 

There were some things in this book where I was like, omg really, and why why would you do that, or I would just stare, nut sure what to say. 

One event in this book didn't really needed to happen I think. I wouldn't like it happening to me. I can understand why it happened but still I wouldn't want it to happen to me. But jeah i'm not that into the kinky stuff Tess and Q are in. 

What is this story about ( I'll try to not spoil anything. But you will be warned before hand) 

Well this book takes off when the second one ended. Tess is rescued from Brazil by Q. But it's far, far from over. Tess really struggles with fear for pain and with terrible nightmares ( they sounded more like night terrors to me but still) And Q doesn't really know how to deal with it. 

There is so much going on and happening in this final book that is't hard for me to write it all down, while not turning this review into a full blown essay.

Well first of all Q does everything in his power to safe Tess from her demons. This does mean that he comes very close to losing his control on the demons off his own.  Q does succeed in helping Tess heal and move on. 

I think it's very realistic that Tess is struggling with the problems that she does. Just because she was saved doesn't mean it was over for Tess. 

After Tess started to really move forward and heal a bit. I thought the book would be over.  I was wrong. So, so wrong. Of course it wasn't over. Tess being tortured by her past and actions wasn't enough. Q has to suffer as well. 

Some of the human trafic lords, people is pissed at Q and want revenge. Poor Q does threw an incredibly amount of torture. It was really horrible. And Pepper cut the chapter off before you could find out if he would pull threw. It was horrible

I was like

. The chapters off his torture and the anticipation after was what made me almost sick to my stomach. I was reading like a possessed women. I needed to find out what was going to happen. 

Pepper didn't let me down. There is so much that I could say about what happened but that would spoil things. 

What did I love

Well of course I love Q and Tess. There amazing, and very strong people. They had awful things happen to them but in the end they came out stronger.  

I love that there were things in this story that seemed very realistic. The emotions were very real. And human traffic and sex slaves and stuff like that does happen in real life and that's terrible. I find it amazing that Pepper could include romance, lust, love, happiness and joy into a story with such a hard and difficult topic without losing the seriousness of that topic. 

I'm very happy with the ending of this book. It does this series justice.

Q:

 Tess: 

Dominic by L.A. Casey

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WARNING: If you don't like a leading male that is a possessive pr**k, Dominic is NOT for you. If you don't like a leading female that is a stubborn bi**h, Dominic is NOT for you. If you don't like over the top drama and characters who have bad tempers, Dominic is NOT for you. Most of all, if you don't like characters who CURSE A LOT and sayEXACTLY what they feel and are thinking without sugar coating it then Dominic is REALLY NOT for you.
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After a car accident killed her parents when she was a child, Bronagh Murphy chose to box herself off from people in an effort to keep herself from future hurt. If she doesn't befriend people, talk to them or acknowledge them in any way they leave her alone just like she wants. 

When Dominic Slater enters her life, ignoring him is all she has to do to get his attention. Dominic is used to attention, and when he and his brothers move to Dublin, Ireland for family business, he gets nothing but attention. Attention from everyone except the beautiful brunette with a sharp tongue.

Dominic wants Bronagh and the only way he can get to her, is by dragging her from the boxed off corner she has herself trapped in the only way he knows how...by force. 

Dominic wants her, and what Dominic wants, Dominic gets.

Review

I love, love, love dominic. I love me some slather brothers. In the beginning I wasn't sure what to like because I didn't get the main female Bronagh. She was very aggressive and a bit rude while she describes herself as a quiet girl. I was like where is this quiet girl you speak off. She was a loud mouthed angry aggressive Irish lady. But she grew on me really. She just uses all that as a defense mechanism. And I think it runs in her family. Her sister was just as trigger happy as Bronagh was but less angry. Or so she seems. 

What is this story about

This story is about a 18 year old girl named Bronagh. She is Irish and she isn't your typical skinny girl. She is a curvy girl with bigger hips and a big ass or arse as she might say. She has dark hair with pale grey eyes and pale skin. Due the death of her parents she is scared ass hell of losing people she loves , so she doesn't let people get close to her.  Dominic doesn't care about that. Like the summary said what dominic wants Dominic gets. 

Dominic is a muscular guy with rocking abs and a tattoo. He has silvery eyes and is very handsome. He can be quite charming when he wants to. I really like him. He is really, and I mean really persuasive. I could see he was just teasing Bronagh but poor inexperience Bronagh didn't see it that way. So she really hated him from the start.  They both were really sassy and had some amazing fights. Even tho they don't get along that well, Dominic is really protective of her. He got himself suspended over fighting over her. But no matter what Bronagh did or said and no matter how angry he got, he never gave up on her and I love him for that.  There aren't many guys who would put up with some of the stuff Bronagh did. 

Bronagh and Dominic both lost there parents and where raised by an older sibling. While Bronagh only had her older sister Branna, Dominic has four siblings. Damien (his twin brother), Alec, Kane and Ryder. Ryder being the oldest and Damien and Dominic the youngest. 

What did I love about this story

I loved the writing style. It was really captivating. The cussing really didn't bother me that much.  I don't know what that might say about me.  But the bad temper did bother me a bit in the beginning. I came to understand it a bit and accepted that Bronagh is just a bit trigger happy. I really don't see her as a quiet girl. Never did. She has a big enough of a temper for that. 

I also loved dominic. I really like how he was with Bronagh and that he really showed her to live a little. And he is sexy as fuck. I really liked hearing him talk a bit dirty. 

It didn't feel like the setting was high school. Bronagh  and dominic only being 18.  It felt like they were much older. Not always that mature but hell i'm 21 and sometimes i'm far from mature to.

loved the character development and the side characters. I liked the story and world building. I can't wait to read the other brothers story's and hopefully see more off Bronagh and Dominic  

Wanted by J. Kenner

For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey, Bared to You, and Release Me comes an all-new erotic series of three enigmatic and powerful men, and the striking women who can bring them to their knees.

He is everything I crave, all I desperately want—and he is everything I can’t have.

Evan Black embodies my every fantasy. He is brilliant, fierce, and devastatingly handsome. But he is also headstrong, dangerous, and burdened with secrets. 

My family warned me to stay away, that I could never handle Evan’s dark dealings or scarred past. Maybe I should have listened. Maybe I should have run. But our desire is undeniable, and some temptations you just can’t fight. 

And from the moment we touch—the passion between us consuming us both—I know that I will never be the same. 

Review

It was an light read. It had allot op potential but it wasn't just there. The book was fast phased and the chapter building needed some time to get used to. But this book is what I wanted very light. No emotional rollercoaster  and I don't think it will stick in my head for a long time but I enjoyed it still. 

What is the story about

Well it's a bit difficult for me to tell because there wasn't much dept or structure in this book. But it is about Angelina or Angie or Lila who's had a bit of a troubled past. Loving a rush and trouble isn't the best way to be if your the senator's daughter. After Angie's sister died she cleaned up her act, but by doing so she wasn't staying true to herself. 

She has a very good relationship with her uncle, who unfortunately passed away in the beginning of the book so we don't get to meet him, But we do get to know allot about him. While staying with her uncle some times during her childhood she met three boys. Cole, tristan and evan. Angie is immediately attracted to Evan but he doesn't seem to notice her that way.

A view years has past and Angie still can't get over her"lust" for evan. But it seems that evan what's her as bad as she wants him. 
Everyone keeps telling Angie that Evan is bad news, even evan himself keeps saying that. But Angie just can't turn away.

I liked this story. It was sexy and light.  The plot was oke, could have been great. There could be more structure in the build up of the story and there could be more depth to the character. But I still liked it and Evan sure is hot. 

Bad things by R.K. Lilley

Danika hasn’t had an easy life. Being insanely attracted to bad boys has never helped make it easier. 

One look at Tristan, and every brain cell she possessed went up in smoke. This man was trouble with a capital T. It was a given.
She knew better. Bad boys were bad. Especially for her. Considering her history, it was crazy to think otherwise. So why did crazy have to feel so damn fine?

For as long as she could remember, Danika had been focused on the future with single-minded purpose. Tristan came along and taught her everything there was to know about letting go, and living in the present. She fell, hard and deep. Of course, that only made her impact with the ground that much more devastating.

Review

Well they are a train wreck for sure. When I started reading this book I absolutely loved it. I hope it would be a funny, witty, sexy, steamy, light love story. It was, for the most of it. But it is everything but light. I like some drama in a book but danm it was allot in this one. Such over the top strong emotions. I thing I also ruined it a bit for by self by taking a view sneak peaks in the other books. 

I  don't say this often about a couple but Tristan and Danika are bad for each other as much as they are good for each other. Tristan has a bit of an addictive, a bit of a masochistic personality and Danika has a bit of a codependent personality.  Danika is more in love with the idea of love together with the fear of being alone and not loved together. If that makes sense.

I loved the two of them in the beginning, They were such good friends and they were funny and light, and enjoyable to read about but the further I got in this book the less light and funny they became. It was more possessive and jealous and angry. They both have problems with dealing with there emotions and they express it in kind of extreme actions.  

So I don't think I will read the rest of this series right now. I'm not in the mood for such drama but I will in the future. ( I do know how there relationship will end and I know some of the major things that will happen in the series and let me say it's messed up. But don't worry all will be well ) 

Like the summary say, dannika is attracted to bad boys and it's not good for her. It's not like the bad boys are bad for her. I've read about plenty bad boys that were perfectly able to have normal relationships. It the guys with major issues, well not even that, well that with here need for love that doesn't work for her.  And considering the past she has had, I can understand where it comes from but I think she needs major therapy to learn how to deal with her emotions and not be codependant and need for a relationship. 

Don't think that it's all danika's fault. Tristan has some issues as well but he blames it on anyone but himself. On top of that he doesn't know what to do with his emotions, and he definitely has some anger management issues. 

The both have very loving personality, and I did see them in the beginning. That's what made me read one and love them but they have major problems underneath it and they just don't know how to deal with it correctly and healthy. There in a bit of a circle. 

So enough about the bad stuff and let me tell you what made me love them in the beginning. What is this story all about

Danika  is a sweet, caring, sassy, beautiful girl. She work's as a live in made and she does a good job. Danika doesn't have friends her own age and doesn't rarely let go. She is a student but I've never read about her going to school actually. I can't even tell you what she study's. She is also an amazing dancer. 

Tristan is drop dead gorgeous with dark hair and tats everywhere. He is funny and seems care free. He really is a good cook and I thing he would be an amazing father someday. Tristan works as a club promoter and is the lead singer in a band. 

They both are easy to love and to like. 

From the first day they meet, they have a strong connection and there really good friends. There relationship began to be a bit toxic after they had sex together. But I have talked enough about that. 

Well the story starts of when Danika meets Tristan. Tristan is in between residences and her boss has offered him a place to stay. 

They become good friends and get along great.  Of course there's some major attraction between the two off them but because they don't want to ruin there friendship they won't have sex. They kept that up, up until 1/4  or 1/2 part of the book. 

There are also some really amazing supporting characters in this book.  

This books is a series but I think you can also read this as a stand alone.  In the beginning this book was a solid 5 starts but now i'm doubting between 3/4. I think I will go with 4 because I loved the beginning.