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Thursday, March 26, 2015

review || HATE F*@K pt 2

Hate F*@K pt 2 by Ainsley Booth

Publisher: Self-Published (3/23/2015)
Series: Horus Group, book 2
Genre: Romantic Suspense serial
Source: NetGalley
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Rating: ★★★★★

It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it’s business as usual.

Cole:
I screwed up, but I can fix this.

Hailey:
This can’t be fixed.

Part two of a three book serial about a bad-ass alpha male and the curvy woman he can't give up.

Hate F*@k: part one is now available!
Hate F*@k: part three will finish the serial in April 2015

{ review } .

....and I thought I liked PART ONE.

Ha. Jokes, I tell you... Jokes.

Because Ainsley Booth came back with Part Two and it gets a 5-star, yet I liked it so much more than Part One, which was every bit worth it's five stars.

Ah, so what about Part Two can I share...

Well, first off -- we left off with Hailey seeing Cole being paraded to a cruiser, arrested, just hours after he was in her bed. Let me remind you, girlfriend was furious. In that book, I wasn't entirely sure where her anger was coming from, but it was laid out bare in this one --

--she felt he was using her as an alibi.

Well, the boys of Horus Group stated he should do the same.

The one person who wants to keep her out of it?

Yep, Cole.

You see, Cole has a severe soft spot for Hailey, and it just comes out in spades in this book. The hardassed, big muscled man is growing feelings for Hailey, and it was just lovely to watch unfold. He's always hidden behind a wall of disdain when it came to Hailey, but it's been a way to keep her separated from his life. Now that he's had her, though, he can't stop going back. Even when she threatens it to be over or states that it didn't mean anything, he puts his foot down.

"Last night wasn't a mistake."

My breath hitches in my throat.

"Tag is going to follow you home."

I nod.

"And we're not fucking done." -- Cole

When he doesn't get a chance to see her for days on end, the first person he goes to see is her. He starts to question his shades-of-gray world, and where he and Hailey fit in it.

I'm not giving up on the mission because of Hailey, but I can't pretend my loyalty isn't divided.

It's divided as fuck. And if push comes to shove, she wins.

I'm not even sure she likes me, unless I'm naked in her bed, and she still wins. She'll always win, because the only thing I've truly believed in in years, is her goddamn earnestness.

I just absolutely loved him in this book. I loved how he wanted to earn the right to be in Hailey's arms, to have a second and tenth date. He even goes against group request and asks her to go on his mission trip to Miami with him.

In this book, we see even more of how different Hailey is from her family, as well as get to know the other men of Horus Group. Perhaps we'll get to play around in their heads someday, too. Until then, I will be waiting anxiously for the conclusion of HATE F*@K. Well, anxiously awaiting and dreading, because a) I'm excited to see Cole go all protective mode on Hailey, but b) sad their story is concluding. Surely there's more we can see of them, right?!??

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GOODREADS updates

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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