Goodreads reading challange

As some of you may know goodreads.com has a reading challenge each year. Each person can challenge themselves to read as many books as they want. You have to enter the amount of books you want to read that year as a challenge.  I wanted to read a 100 books this year and I did!!  So far I've read 114/100. These are the books I've read so far and how many stars I rate them.


My Rating System 

Did not rate

Didn't like it

It was oke

Liked it

Really liked it.

It was amazing!


Books I've read (so far)

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Dark Surrender by Rachel van Dyken

Pretty Lost Dolls by Ker Dukey and K. Webster

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by
 J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

Dollar by Pepper Winters

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Pretty Stolen Dolls by Ker Dukey & K. Webster

Preppy: The Life and Death of Samual Clearwater, Part one by T.M. Frazier

The Bachelor Auction by Rachel van Dyken

Rule by Jay Crownover.

Thief of hearts by L.H. Cosway

The Silent Waters by Brittainy C. Cherry

The Hooker and the Hermit by L.H. Cosway and Penny Reid

Showmance by L.H. Cosway

The Fire between High and Lo by Brittainy C. Cherry

Killer Queen by L.H. Cosway

Nearly Undone by Devon Ashley

Sparrow by L.J. Shen

Laws of Attraction by R.C. Boldt

The Matchmaker's Replacement by Rachel van Dyken

Hearts of Fire by L.H. Cosway

Ball Peen Hammer by Lauren Rowe

Painted Faces by L.H. Cosway

Rusty Nailed by Alice Clayton

Willing Captive by Belle Aurora

The way back to my by Anne Mercier

Pennies by Pepper Winters

The Vet and the Vixen by Katy Regnery

Torn from you by Nashoda Rose

Torn by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Spin by C.D. Reiss

Ignite by Tessa Teevan

The Hurricane by R.J. Prescott

Breaking Her by R.K. Lilley

Breaking Him by R.K. Lilley

Come by J.A. Huss

Cruel and Beautiful by A.M. Hargrove and Terri E, Lane

Pucked by Helena Hunting

Sins & Needles by Karina Hale

Making Faces by Amy Harmon

Six of hearts by L.H. Cosway

The Professional by Kresley Cole

Wallbanger by Alice Clayton

Beauty from surrender by Georgia Cates

Beauty from pain by Georgia Cates

The Hook Up by Kristen Callihan

Boarded by Love by Toni Aleo

Sovereign by Celia Aaron

Magnate by Celia Aaron

Counsellor by Celia Aaron

The problem with forever  by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Six by K.I. Lynn

I see you by Ker Dukey and D.H. Sidebottom

Come away with me by Kristen Proby

Beneath this mask by Megan March

Perfectly Imperfect by Sloan Harper

The Allure of Julian Lefray by R.S. Grey

Fear me by B.B. Reid

Fear you by B.B. Reid

Revelry by Carmen Jenner

The fall up by Aly Martinez

Priest by Sierra Simone

A pound of flesh by Sophie Jackson

Promises hurt by Elle Brooks

Forgotten Promises by Elle Brooks

Je suis a toi by Pepper Winters

Until June by Aurora Rose Reynolds

Just Breath by Rachel Brookes

Ten below zero by Witney Barbetti

Porn Star by Laurelin Paige and Sierra Simone

King by T.M. Frazier

Tyrant by T.M. Frazier

Hush by E.K. Blair

Scarred by C.M. Steele

Soaked by Stacy Kestwick

The matchmaker's playbook by Rachel van Dyken

Plunge by Heather Stone

The Air he Breathes by Brittainy C. Cherry

Corrupt by Penelope Douglas

Hunter by Blaire Drake

Lev by Belle Aurora

Up in smoke by Tessa Bailey

Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

All of you by Christina Lee

Thicker than water by Brigid Kemmerer

No Attachments by Tiffany King

Her forbidden hero by Laura Kaye

Foreplay by Sophie Jordan

Sleeping with the boss by Marissa Clarke

Suddenly Royal by Nichole Chase

Take your time by Leddy Harper

Transcendent by Shevaun Delucia

Platinum by K.A. Linde

Mayhem by Jamie Shaw

Sweet Peril by Wendy Higgins

Sweet Reckoning by Wendy Higgins

Time and Space by Rachel Robinson

Dazzled by Jane Harvey-Berrick

Reign by M.N. Forgy

Break even by Lisa de Jong

Mystery man by Kristen Ashley

Slave to Love by Julie A. Richman

Taste the heat by Rachel Harris

Defenseless by Corinne Micheals

Reason to breathe by Rebecca Donovan

Fighting Solitude by Aly Martinez

Last Second Chance by Casey Quinn

Twist into me by Devon Ashley

Charade by Nyrae Dawn

Review "Dark Surrender by Rachel van Dyken"

* ARC provided in exchange of an honest review*

I grew up as a prince...
And lead the life of a King.
There isn't anyone or anything that doesn't want me, that isn't attracted to me. They can't help it. And I sure as hell don't want them to. I live for their lust, I crave touch like an addiction, I make them beg on their knees for one, simple, caress.
As a male siren it's my job to feed off emotion.
And I was happy to do it.
I am happy to do it.
What I'm not happy about? Being told I have to mate with some withering human and stay loyal to that one person for the next few centuries. There's a war coming and being the idiot I am--I offered to take one for the team in order to help a friend.
Now my sexual appetite is taking a freaking kick in the nuts.
And I'm left wondering if it's worth it.
If she's worth it, with messy hair and dirty human hands.
But I have a world to save.
A job to do.
Now, if only, she would just let me do it rather than fighting me at every turn. I've lived lifetimes as the most irresistible being on the planet.
Only to meet my match.
With one.
Measly.
Human.
They say hells hot. They're wrong.
Because Hope, my little human, is way hotter.
And before this is over--she may just singe me alive. 

Review
I want to start this review with saying that I absolutely adore the author, Rachel van Dyken. She is a fun person to know and hang around. I really love her Eagle Elite series but I sadly didn't love this book. Maybe I wasn't in the mood for it. I read the first book but not the second. Maybe that didn't help either.
Anyway the reason I didn't like this book to much was because the story didn't have a nice flow for me. It all felt a bit rushed and random? I felt like there were pieces missing. I really liked the concept bu the connection between the H and h felt a but forced and rushed at one point.
I waited with my review till well after the release day to give the books a good chance.
Overall, this book felt oke for me. Didn't love it, nor hate it.  Please don't let my review keep you from reading this book!

What is this book all about 
This book focuses on Alex. Alex is a siren and if you've read the first two book you'd know who he is. Anyway it's time again for one of the elders (like Ethan in the first book) to get a mate in order to keep the species going. Anyhow a couple of people were called to meet with alex so that he could pick his mate. That's where he meets hope. In the beginning she seems to have a bit of a resistance thoward  him. Ofcourse that intrigues Alex. Who is this little human being that seems to be his match?

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Never met a male siren before?

You're about to....

I grew up as a prince...

And lead the life of a King.

There isn't anyone or anything that doesn't want me, that isn't attracted to me. They can't help it. And I sure as hell don't want them to. I live for their lust, I crave touch like an addiction, I make them beg on their knees for one, simple, caress.

As a male siren it's my job to feed off emotion.

And I was happy to do it.

I am happy to do it.

What I'm not happy about? Being told I have to mate with some withering human and stay loyal to that one person for the next few centuries. There's a war coming and being the idiot I am--I offered to take one for the team in order to help a friend.

Now my sexual appetite is taking a freaking kick in the nuts.

And I'm left wondering if it's worth it.

If she's worth it, with messy hair and dirty human hands.

But I have a world to save.

A job to do.

Now, if only, she would just let me do it rather than fighting me at every turn. I've lived lifetimes as the most irresistible being on the planet.

Only to meet my match.

With one.

Measly.

Human.

They say hells hot. They're wrong.

Because Hope, my little human, is way hotter.

And before this is over--she may just singe me alive.

Excerpt

To say I was pissed.

To say I was angry

To say I was intrigued.

I couldn’t decide which emotion was going to win out, which made her all the more exciting. Sirens, for the most part, kept their physical appearance at a five. On a scale of one to ten, a five meant that you were clearly above average but not to the point that a person would literally sell a kidney and spleen in order to sleep with you.

No, the selling of body parts came at six.

Seven meant they were willing to commit a crime and sell body parts.

Eight was when they neared the wailing stage. I typically called it bartering, where they asked what they could possibly do in order to gain just one taste, anything, anything at all!

Nine was a rarity. I was a nine when I was tired, when I wanted a piece of ass from someone hot, and I didn’t want to make a big fuss over it. But a nine was dangerous because showing myself at a nine made it easier to wipe the individuals’ memories. Meaning I was more than likely cursing them to a life where they would never settle down because they’d be stuck comparing me to some sad human male with a beer gut, and he’d always fall short.

Even the Toms fell short.

Tom Brady.

Tom Hardy.

You get the picture.

In my entire existence, I’ve pulled a nine maybe four times. And each time I felt regretful — after all the sex had never been worthy of ruining some pathetic human’s chance at love.

And tens?

Tens weren’t done. To become a ten in front of a human would be the equivalent of a human discovering the sweetest tasting sin, the most physical and emotional ecstasy known over and over again. Add that in with good looks that made women, men, plants, atoms — you get the picture — full-on weep, and it just wasn’t done.

Never.

In fact, some might say it was forbidden.

I’d never been tempted.

Until five minutes ago.

I was currently at an eight, flirting with a ten, and she’d finally succumbed enough to fall to her knees, but when she glanced up, she blinked a few times then stood. “Sorry, I don’t know what happened.”

The hell?

I did a double take, my eyes narrowing as she shuddered before me, but still, nothing. No weeping. No sudden burst of adoration.

Nine, here I come.

I exhaled as I allowed my hair to go pure gold and my eyes to turn a shade of amber that looked like a never-ending ring of fire around my blue iris. I released waves of energy that I could see pulsing from my body with each exhale, and I was aware that she was being assaulted with my scent, a mixture of rain, fresh air, and finally a deep sweet chocolate.

The most addicting scents known to mankind.

The most cleansing scents to a human.

Her eyes widened as she gulped and then squeezed them shut and covered her face with her hands, her knees knocked together as she swayed.

“Open your eyes, human!”

“I-I’d rather not,” she said in a weak voice.

“Now!” The walls of the room shook causing a shriek to explode between her lips, and suddenly she was moving towards me and launching her plump body into the air.

Directly onto mine.

Mine.

My body.

Without any other option, I braced myself for her impact. Not that she could physically harm me, it was more of a mental brace of, oh shit the woman might be plump, but she moved with the speed of a torpedo.

I caught her in my arms.

The shaking stopped.

Her hands clung to the front of my shirt, her breathing was unsteady, her body sweaty, hot, and curvy.

I appreciated all types of beauty.

Even hers.

I would have preferred a small mate, one that I could terrify into submission — one I had no risk of falling in love with.

Because a siren in love — was a dangerous thing.

And a part of me wondered if that was what Cassius had planned all along. In order for me to be at my strongest, I needed to be in love.

Something I’d never experienced in all of my years of living, screwing, and toying with males and females alike.

“What.” I gave her a menacing glare. “The hell, do you think you’re doing?”

“I’m scared of earthquakes,” she whispered, licking her lips repeatedly until I thought I was going to go mad with the motion of her tongue sliding across the pink of her mouth. “Terrified, actually.”

“This is Seattle.” I was still holding her, for reasons beyond my realm of understanding.

“They say the next earthquake is going to be really big and half of downtown is going to slide into the Puget Sound, so excuse me for being scared!”

“And you live downtown?”

“Well… no.” Her brown eyes focused in on mine.

“Then you must visit there often?”

“No.”

I sighed impatiently. “So your fears are completely unfounded and illogical. Simply stop fearing it.”

“Easy for you to say.”

“I tire of holding you, human.” The lie fell easy; in fact, I had forgotten I was holding her until she fidgeted in my arms like she was the offended party, when I was the one who had just been assaulted. “The only thing you need to fear is me.”

“Because you…” She sighed. “You’re going to sacrifice me?”

I tried to hold the laugh in.

But it was all too ridiculous.

“Yes.” I nodded seriously, my lips twitching with the urge to smile. “The process will be painless. I’ll tie your hands and feet to the bedposts — strip you naked, and then plunge an immortal sword into your heart. You’ll need to repeat the words ut animam meam and then once you drink my blood — if it accepts you, you will live.”

Her face paled as she struggled to get out of my arms.

And then I lost it, dropping her back to her feet, laughing so hard I felt my body shook with it.

“I don’t even remember the phrase!” Her wild eyes darted between me and the bed, clearly not catching on. Joke. It was a joke.

“Well,” I lifted a shoulder and shrugged. “Then I guess you die.”

“But—”

“Better do it quickly, less pain that way.”

“What about the plants?”

My smile froze. “Either you’re extremely simple minded or mentally ill. What the hell are you talking about?”

“The—” She tugged at her low ponytail. “The plants, you know, around the grounds. I take care of them and Cassius—” Her eyes lit up. “Cassius said I was getting a promotion, so sorry, but you can’t kill me.”

I grinned. “Okay.”

She frowned.

I was still confused how she was shielding herself from my essence, but already I was mentally drained from the energy it took to get her to worship me — instead I returned to my normal everyday state and held out my hand.

She stared at it.

“Take my hand.”

“No.” She swallowed. “I think I’ll just wait for Cassius.”

“He’s already mated.”

Her eyes narrowed. “I’m not mating him.”

“No.” This, this was my favorite part, watching humans try to logically put together all of the pieces of the puzzle only to realize their brains were too small to comprehend the different parts they held, the angles, the colors, “You’re going to mate with me.”

I expected her to cry.

Maybe throw something.

Instead, she froze and then with a scream ran head first directly into my body sending me sailing backward against the marble floor.

I was caught unaware.

Meaning, I barely had time to stop myself before my head slammed back against the hard ground.

She tried to run toward the door.

“Cat and mouse.” I sighed from my position on the ground. “I always did like foreplay.”

She jerked against the doors with fervor, I’d give her that, but they wouldn’t budge.

Not until she was mine.

Not until the doors sensed my blood running through her veins.

“Why won’t it open?” Her voice was strangled as pieces of her hair fell out of its restraint and brushed against her shoulders. “You can’t keep me here forever.”

“I can.” I yawned. “I will.”

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Review "Pretty Lost Dolls by Ker Dukey & K. Webster"

Benny had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick. 
Just like him, his dolly needed darkness as a fix, fix, fix. 
So they tormented and hunted and played tricks, tricks, tricks. 
Together their sins a lethal mix, mix, mix. 

Until Benny missed his dolly who was lost, lost, lost. 
He needed to find her and love her at any cost, cost, cost. 
Not wanting him and his dolly to be alone, lone, lone. 
He made plans to bring his dirty dolly, home, home, home. 

Have you ever touched another’s soul with the essence of your own, breathed them in so they become apart of you? 
I have. 
Finally starting to live, feel and fall in love, amongst all the chaos surrounding me. 
Dropping my guard and letting another into my heart. 
I left my soul open. 
I left my heart open. 
I left the door open. 
And he stole me. 
Dillon…I’m sorry. 

Review
I really liked this book. It starts right where the first one, pretty stolen dolls, ended.  Jade is once again in the claws of Benny. But this time she isn't a little girl anymore. She is a grown strong police woman. She also isn't alone anymore, Dillion will try and protect her at any cost. So it's not hard to imagine how devastated Dillion is when Jade is taken. He'll do whatever he can to find her. 
This book will have a massive plottwist in it that I didn't see coming. The authors did a pretty good job hiding that fact. 
We find out more about Benny an his past. Wich was pretty fucked up. I can see now why he is the way he is. Not that that condones is but it makes it a bit understandable. 
I really enjoyed this book. It was really trilling and a pretty fast paced book. There were some parts in this book that felt a bit weird for me. But over all I really enjoyed it.