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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

review || ANGEL'S HALO : RECLAIMED { release blitz } by Terri Anne Browning

Anna Henson | January 12, 2016 | Contemporary Romance
Angel's Halo MC, book 4
★★★★★

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Felicity Bolton finally feels like she has moved on with her life. She misses her friends and family back in Creswell Springs, but now she has new friends—a new family. She has found the peace that she lost the night she lost her unborn child. She would do anything to protect her newfound family, even if that meant facing the devil himself.

The minute Jet Hannigan walks back into her life that’s exactly what she has to do.

Jet Hannigan is officially a free man. With his parole lifted he can finally do what he's been aching to do, go after the only woman who will ever own his heart. He's known where she is for months and has been impatiently waiting for the day he could reclaim her. What he wasn't excepting was to have to pull out the big guns and blackmail her into returning to Creswell Springs with him. With everything going on with Flick's boss, and the media circus surrounding the chaos, Jet thought the safest place for her was home where he and his brothers could protect her.

Instead he brings her home to a war zone.

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Terri Anne Browning is the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Rocker...Series. She started writing her own novellas at the age of sixteen, forcing her sister to be her one woman fan club. Now she has a few more fans and a lot more passion for writing. Reese: A Safe Haven Novella was her first Indie published book. The Rocker That Holds Me changed the tables and kicked off The Rocker... series featuring the sinfully delicious members of Demon's Wings. The Rocker... Series has since expanded to OtherWorld with Axton Cage and his band members. Terri Anne lives in Virginia with her husband, their three children, and a loveable Olde English Bulldog named Link.

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Finally, Jet and Felicia...

While I read most of this series for more Raven and Bash (book one stopped on a little bit of a cliff where their story was involved, and their story was continued to be told through the series -- makes sense as the big rule of this MC is "No one touches Raven" and the one person who did, was 'punished', and eventually still won her over, was Bash), it was also Felicia's leaving that had me ~~reading~~ scouring through the next books. Flick and Jet's story was one that was built up and up and up throughout the series, until finally their HEA was told in this book, ANGEL'S HALO: RECLAIMED.

So while I felt that all of the books held the same character development and plot line, the writing was extremely consistent... this one is getting the 5-star because it wrapped up a line that started at the beginning, and tied up some other lines in the process (not all the Hannigans are doubled up though...).

Putting Jet and Flick aside for a moment... I definitely felt that Hawk shined in this story. His protectiveness and big-brother-ness for Raven and Flick was great -- even when he battled that with Flick. But it was his relationship with Gracie, and the line with Gracie in this book that definitely stood out the most for me. If you didn't fully care for Hawk before, this book will definitely do it for you.

Jet and Flick certainly had a lot of past and trust to work out, but their story was definitely one worth waiting for. However, thinking back on the book, I did feel that a lot of the story was them apart. We get a lot of the other storylines and Felicity with her "rocker family", but I wish we had a little bit more with her and Jet. And then there's the big moment in their past that essentially broke them the first time around -- while it's talked about, I wish everything went into more depth. As it was, it almost felt like an oversight, or something that wasn't meant to hold a ton of importance.

Now I just have to know... does Colt (& Kelli? Or maybe there'll be a plot twist and it'll be Quinn......??) get a story? What about Raider? I hope we learn sooner than later.

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I absolutely loved Raven and Bash's story. Raven was the daughter of Angel's Halo MC's now-deceased president, but with her older brothers around, she's still the club princess -- not that she acts entitled. I found her to be extremely down to earth for her life style. Was she rough around the edges? Sure, but that was the way she'd grown up. She didn't take anything from anyone -- and she wasn't afraid to punch the person out who dared to call her something she was not. The club had one major rule, and that was that no one was to touch Raven -- Bash dared to, and he certainly paid the price for that. But he left, and in doing so, left Raven behind. Now he's back to take the interim president position...

And Raven can't quite keep away.

I loved these two. This was a sweet-ish second chance romance with side stories from other Hannigan family members and their friends. I enjoyed getting to know everyone and while I do prefer minimal view point changes, I felt that it worked well in this (and the subsequent) book(s).

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Next up? Willa and Spider! This one wasn't my favorite of the bunch, but it wasn't necessarily lacking -- Willa just was a bit this or that for me. I enjoyed her friendship with Bash and the semi-feud, if you will, between her and Raven was just... It simply felt a bit young at times (the disagreement) -- but then again, there were multiple times throughout the series that Raven acted extremely young.

So yes, I was reading mainly for Bash and Raven insights, but I was pleasantly surprised at the way Spider took over the pages. I enjoyed reading about their past (the book starts 'four years ago') and watching them jump the hurdles, allowing them to be together now. Their pasts, as well as Willa's sister and of course the whole Willa-Bash-Raven non-thing, was a big driver of the story, but I felt it was set up well and was easy to get lost in.

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Another Hannigan! This time we have Hawk with Gracie. Gracie has been a presence on the pages for a while, and her quiet nature was one that definitely paired well with Hawk. I enjoyed her from the moment we 'met'. As for Hawk? I love all these Hannigans, so that's just that. I love his protective nature -- loved it with his sister, really love it with Gracie. Because of her past and the reason she came to be around, he knows better than to treat her like a club sheep -- but more than that, he finds himself actually wanting her, and with that, wants to do the correct thing.

I truly loved Hawk. He may be my favorite Hannigan brother -- Jet's pretty up there, too, though. And let's be honest, we see some pretty sweet sides to Spider in this book, too (not that he's a Hannigan, but...).

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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.

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