mignon mykel { reviews }: review || HATE F*@K pt 1

Saturday, February 28, 2015

review || HATE F*@K pt 1

Hate F*@K by Ainsley Booth

Publisher: Amazon Digital (2/17/2015)
Series: Horus Group, book 1
Genre: Romantic Suspense serial
Source: NetGalley
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Rating: ★★★★★

Warning: This is just the start. This doesn't end well. And it's going to get much worse before it ever gets better.

Cole:
I push her buttons. I want to push them in the good way. Dirty, up-against-the-wall, my-hand-in-her-pants kind of way.

But that’s not possible, because I’m dark and she’s light, and we both know it.

So I push her buttons in the bad way, making her hate me.

Hailey:
If a genie granted me three wishes, I’d ask for Cole Parker to never look at me again, that I’d forget the dark promise in his eyes, and that just once, before he vanished from my life completely, that he’d push me up against a wall and fuck me.

Then I’d go wash my mouth out with soap.

{ review } .

I am that self-proclaiming reader who hates serial romances...

...at least I hated the ones I got my hands on in the fall. PLAY ME I figured I only liked/dealt with because I had all the books in the serial at my hands. When I read ROCK & RELEASE: VIP, I was less than thrilled. And then there was ONLY FOR HIM... and I loved it -- but I attributed that to the author.

After some hemming and hawing, I decided I really wanted to read this one, and pressed 'Request' and so far?

So flipping good.

Hailey wants nothing to do with her family. NOTHING. Her last name has done nothing for her but ruin her chances for anything good. After her sister performs some... less than honorable acts with the Vice President. Both her father and sister have made national news in the last six months, and not the good kind. As she says, she's just had the misfortune of being born into a fucked up family'.

As such, she gets herself a nifty little 'body guard'... not that Cole is nifty or little in any sense.

She and Cole do not get along.

On the flipside, though... they're both terribly attracted to the other.

Cole enjoys pushing her buttons -- mainly because of said attraction.

If I can't have her bent over my bed, I'll take her spitting fire at me. Not nearly as satisfying, but it's something. -- Cole

As for Hailey, she has a difficult time with her attraction to the man that's on her father's speed dial because she can't control him, nor put him in a box with a pretty bow on it.

I can't put Cole in a box. There's no duct tape strong enough. -- Hailey

...I had to add that little blurb. It makes me chuckle.

I absolutely loved these two. When Cole lets his guard down and isn't the tough-assed man... he's pretty sweet on Hailey -- but don't let him hear that. And the end?

...I think that Hailey has is allll wrong.

...but I get where she's coming from. Trust is something she doesn't give easily, if ever at all.

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Dirty Saint: A Secret Baby Sports Romance by Vesper Vaughn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book almost failed to get my attention. Why?

The hero.

He is the exact public person I despise. You know the type -- all biblical with publicized praying and verses all over his public persona. Great. Good for you. Bet you're not like that behind closed doors...

Which is exactly what Esther thinks of him.

Saint and Esther attend the same super religious college. Esther is on the fast track to becoming a nun, and no I do not kid, and Saint, given name Francis, can do just about whatever he wants, because he is the star athlete and the school knows he has connections. What in the world can these two have in common? The actions of their parents.

But where Saint does what his father says, usually, because his father is pushing him toward a pro-football careers, Esther follows her parents (father) because if she didn't... Her life would literally be a living hell.

I really enjoyed these two, once we started to get to know Saint a little bit better. My only drawback with the book would be the last half goes by in super-fast time. While it helped to keep the story moving, I would have liked to see more of that time drawn out so the feelings and emotions of our two characters felt more genuine and real -- rather than simply a two month courting that their lives demanded.

I'm giving the book the full 5 stars because it came out of left-field for me. It was a book that I didn't expect to like, but the author wove it in a way that I fell hard for our characters both as individuals and as a couple. I liked watching Esther grow and find her voice in life, just as I liked watching playboy, always for the chase Saint, settle down and find a person to be terribly protective over. I loved him most in the last two chapters.

*ARC received in exchange for an honest review

Everything by Erin Noelle
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Here's something you may know about me if you've followed my reviews -- I'm an epilogue reader. I will almost always read the epilogue first. Call me a spoilsport or no fun, or whatever but that's how I've been reading books for years. It's no wonder that when I write books, I tend to have the epilogue all figured out before I even start with "Once upon a time...".

That said... I read this epilogue and while I liked it, I just couldn't get past the ages of our characters. Couldn't do it. So I read the beginning. Still... If anything, the age of our characters was even more pronounced. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to read this. You see, I have an issue with "Happily ever after" and the hardly-twenty crowd, let alone an eighteen year old.

But that's my hang-up.

Another thing you may know about me? I will sometimes read a book in what I call a inside-out fashion. I jump all over the place until I find a snippet of story that absolutely grips me. And people -- there are a few of those parts in Everything. So because I found those gripping parts, I put my faith in Erin Noelle, and I started from page one -- and I gave Everett and Belle a chance.

And I'm so glad I did.

Everett and his twin sister have been making music forever -- literally. They're the children of a rockstar; music has always been their life. When their father's group decides to get back together (dad always said he'd go back when the twins were done with school), Mason tells the label -- if you take me, you're taking my kids: thus, giving Everett and Ashlynn the opportunity to take their music to a larger level than they have before.

Along the way, with a local gig, Everett meets Belle -- and so begins their story.

This is a story about growing up. This is a story about following your heart -- be it for a person or a career, or even both. It is about learning to trust the person you are giving your heart to, and about taking the ever-looming jump into unknown feelings. When you put your life, your wants, your desires in someone else's hands, the world opens up -- and it certainly does for Everett and Belle.

The part I most appreciated was that the author made Everett true to his age and situation. Belle was too, yes, but it was Everett and his new lifestyle that had me wanting to see true characterization for. He's a guy; he's a musician; he's new to love. He makes mistakes. And for those mistakes, I truly got on board with this story.

Everett and his Tinker Bell were incredibly cute. I liked that there's a decent time jump at the end, further allowing -- you guessed it -- growth of our characters. I'm excited to watch more of them when (if?) Ashlynn's story comes out.

*ARC received in exchange for an honest review

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