24/08/2020

Book Release | Review | Explosive | K. E. Osborn | Give Me Books Promotions

I couldn’t walk away.
It’s not who I am.
The moment I saw Rayne broken and bloodied, I knew I wasn’t leaving without her.

As the president of the Houston Defiance MC, my job is to protect. And there’s no taming the rage building inside my body, screaming at me to shield her from the husband who’s beating her day in and day out.

Taking her was never in my plans, but plans change.
I don’t care if she’s married.
Or that her husband’s a cop.

Our connection is explosive, it’s dangerous, it’s intoxicating.
And I’m fast being swept up in her storm.
It’s something I can’t ignore.

I thought the enemy was clear, and I was ready to fight.
But maybe there’s a threat we didn’t see coming?
Maybe there’s someone closer to us than we ever could have imagined.
Someone who could be the destruction of us both.

*I received this book as a gift in exchange for my honest opinion.

I really liked meeting this group of characters. Although they might be a little to much overwhelming because of all their bikes, tattoos and tough looks, they are all a bunch of softies, really.
Loved how Zero took of the mission of being the president of the Houstn Defiance clubhouse and family group. That mustn't have been easy on him, because in one moment you're part of a family that loves eachother and on the very next second you see yourself alone and in charge of such a huge task. 
Zero is the ultimate tough bad boy. Huge body, ice features and a name that comes even first than him wherever he goes. But, every bad boy has his soft spot. For Zero is Prinie and Koda, his sister and brother. It's beacause of them that Rayne takes her place on Houston Defiance and over Zero's heart. 
She's also a cop's wife. And a fight with cops are the last thing that the Houston Defiance needs.
Rayne is a sweet young lady. Too sweet in my opinion. She gets beat up every single day by his son of a b**tch husband and does absolutely nothing about it. Sure he is a cop and no one would believe her, but damn... She could always run away on her own and ask for help.  I understand that it can be hard to make that kind of change alone, but it's that or get dead. 
So, since Prinie, Koda and Rayne are rescued by ths Houston's Defiance, a lot of things will go along everyone. Since the adition of new members from the Chicago Defiance, very good and awesome people, to the battle that will surely arrive at their doors. Zero will do aht he can and can't do to protect the ones he love and maybe a little more.
Can't wait to read the next chapter of this amazing MC.

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Explosive
Series: Houston Defiance MC #1
Author: K E Osborn
Genre: MC Romance

Release Date
August 24, 2020

BLURB
I couldn’t walk away.
It’s not who I am.
The moment I saw Rayne broken and bloodied, I knew I wasn’t leaving without her.
As the president of the Houston Defiance MC, my job is to protect. And there’s no taming the rage building inside my body, screaming at me to shield her from the husband who’s beating her day in and day out.
Taking her was never in my plans, but plans change.
I don’t care if she’s married.
Or that her husband’s a cop.
Our connection is explosive, it’s dangerous, it’s intoxicating.
And I’m fast being swept up in her storm.
It’s something I can’t ignore.
I thought the enemy was clear, and I was ready to fight.
But maybe there’s a threat we didn’t see coming?
Maybe there’s someone closer to us than we ever could have imagined.
Someone who could be the destruction of us both.


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I start moving toward the exit. My chest heats so fucking much it’s like I’m on fire. I don’t know what the hell’s happening right now, but having Rayne in my arms, knowing while I’m holding her, and no fucking person in the world can touch her, it has my body flaming in adrenaline.
This woman is bad news.
Real bad fucking news.
Her eyes linger on me as I walk with her from the bedroom, down the hall, and outside to the waiting van. Having her right up against me like this is not doing my cock any favors. She smells like peaches and fucking sunsets.
How the fuck can someone smell like a sunset? It’s like I’m going out of my damn mind right now.
She’s invading my senses as I help her inside the van, placing her in the rear seat.
“I don’t understand why you’re helping me?” Her eyes lock onto mine.
My protector mode rears its head yet again as I lean over her grabbing at the seat belt to pull over her. Our faces come in line with each other.
Rayne scrunches up her face, reaching for the seat belt. “I can put on my own seat belt.”
I jerk my head back as she removes it from my grip while trying to gain control of the situation. I pull it back from her and click it into position. “I’m sure you can, but I need to ensure you’re taken care of. Can’t get you out of this situation and have you injured on the way into the club because you’re not buckled in properly.”
Her eyes widen. “There are so many things wrong with what you just said. One, you think I’m incapable of something as simple as doing up a seat belt. And two, you believe your driving is so bad I’m going to be injured on the way to wherever it is you’re taking me?”
“That’s not what I meant—”
“Then you need to think about how you word shit, ‘cause you’re coming across as an arrogant ass.”
I glare at her smug, insolent, beautiful face. “You have an attitude problem, cherry bomb.”
She snorts. “And you think you can control me because I get beaten up by my husband? He might walk all over me, but you…” she tilts her head smugly, “… not so much.”
Hmm. She has a feisty side.
I lean in closer. Her eyes widen, and her breathing hitches. She’s affected. “I like your fighting spirit, Rayne. You are a wild one.”
She leans in closer, we’re only an inch apart, the smell of peach surrounds me. It takes every ounce of strength I have not to rush forward pressing my lips to hers. My eyes stare into her incandescent emerald green eyes, they’re so alive, so alight with fire. She has so much fight in her. As she licks her bottom lip, my cock twitches when she whispers, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.”
A low hum vibrates from my chest as I exhale, backing away from Rayne slowly.
She’s trouble with a capital ‘I’m screwed.’

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With a flair for all things creative, International Bestselling Author K E Osborn, is drawn to the written word. Exciting worlds and characters flow through her veins, coming to life on the page as she laughs, cries, and becomes enveloped in the storyline right along with you. She's entirely at home when writing sassy heroines and alpha males that rise from the ashes of their pasts.
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20/08/2020

Book Release | Review | Fierce | Tracy Lorraine | Give Me Books Promotions


Fierce
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Everyone thinks they know me… but they’re wrong.

Fearless on the outside— a lie.
I’m a fraud, hiding behind a mask of perfection. My reality very different.
The captain. The leader. The Queen Bee.
None of it real— all just an illusion.
Perception is everything and I use it to get what I want, when I want, refusing to let anyone stand in my way.
Until he shows me that he’s not the man I expected. He’s not just the quiet one... the innocent one.
But the one to finally tear away the mask and look beneath the surface. The only one who sees me, gets me, challenges me.
He’s already changed my life in a way I never expected.
My secret could make us or break us, but I know one thing for sure... I’ll protect it fiercely.
That’s the real me. Chelsea Fierce.
The girl behind the mask with everything to lose.

When I asked to receive an ARC (Advanced Reading Copy) of this book, I tought that I could read it without having read the previous three of the serie. Altough it can easily be read as a stand alone, we always miss some information that about all the characters and their backgrounds. I will definitly read all of them.

Chelsea is, indeed, a force of nature. She is strong in a way that not many girls at that age can be. She has a traumatic childhood, but, also has the amazing luck to be adopted and raised by a father and a mother that are one of a kind. Since the day that they adopted her, she has been all that they care about. 
However, doesn 't have a nice background as a teenager. She's the captain of the cheerleaders squad and, since day one on that school, she adopted a mean and arrogant personality. She hides her real being, her real feelings from everyone that she knows and becomes an arrogant bitch (sorry my harsh words). All students in that school thinks that she's a slut because she gives all and each one of them the idea that she is. 
After a really bad thing that she had done to a fellow student, just because the guy she wanted didn't want her, her parents decide to send her to a rehabilitation center for young people. A way to correct and make her see that the way that she is caring her own life isn't the right way to do it. We could say that she had it all until that little stunt that she pulled out, just because things didn't go the way she wanted. Or, we might also say that she didn't really know what she wanted. She thought she wanted popularity, the cheerleading and the bad boy. But then, a quiet guy, old friend, in fact, the one that always was there for here, although she always pushed him away, came by and we can say that he blew her mind away.
After the rehabilitation, Chelsea returns home and returns to school, were everybody hated her for what she'd done and the welcoming was even worse that she was expecting. All of her squad turned backs to her and all of her so called friends did the same. Even Shane. The quiet and reliable Shane. 
I must say that liking Chelsea is a tough task, because she really is a girl with a lot of rage and bad toughts in her mind. But she also has a good heart deep down and a good soul. You just have to know how to reach it and how to deal with her.
It's a story full of hot and emotional situations, but also has very deep lessons that many, many teenagers nowadays should learn. To bully someone doesn't make you stronger or popular, it just makes you mean, hated and lonely. 
Chelsea needed someone like Shane to show her that she was really fierce and strong but also a person that has to look after others. 
My favourite character in this book? Rae and Ethan, The couple that also had her back no matter what. Shane at some point became one of my favourite male characters. He is sensible, kind and trully good person that only wants to be noted by the only girl that he really should be as far as he could. But the heart wants what the heart wants, right?

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Title: Fierce
Series: Rosewood High #4
Author: Tracy Lorraine
Genre: High School Bully Romance

Release Date
August 20, 2020

Everyone thinks they know me… but they’re wrong.
Fearless on the outside— a lie.
I’m a fraud, hiding behind a mask of perfection. My reality very different.
The captain. The leader. The Queen Bee.
None of it real— all just an illusion.
Perception is everything and I use it to get what I want, when I want, refusing to let anyone stand in
my way.
Until he shows me that he’s not the man I expected. He’s not just the quiet one... the innocent one.
But the one to finally tear away the mask and look beneath the surface. The only one who sees me,
gets me, challenges me.
He’s already changed my life in a way I never expected.
My secret could make us or break us, but I know one thing for sure... I’ll protect it fiercely.
That’s the real me. Chelsea Fierce.
The girl behind the mask with everything to lose.


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13/08/2020

Opinião | A Minha história com Bob | James Bowen | Porto Editora



Quando James Bowen encontra um gato alaranjado no prédio onde vive, não faz ideia do quanto a sua vida irá mudar. Lutando por sobreviver como músico de rua na cidade de Londres, a última coisa de que precisa é um animal de estimação. No entanto, incapaz de resistir ao animal doente, acolhe-o em sua casa. Quando Bob recupera a saúde, James deixa-o à porta do prédio, imaginando que nunca mais o voltará a ver. Todavia, Bob tinha outros planos. Dentro de pouco tempo, os dois tornam-se inseparáveis e as muitas aventuras que irão viver transformarão para sempre as suas vidas, curando lentamente as cicatrizes do passado atribulado de ambos. Esta é a história de uma amizade improvável e de como um gato vadio irá ajudar um homem a recuperar a sua autoestima e dar-lhe uma nova esperança quando o resto do mundo lhe parecia ter fechado as portas.

Este livro traz-me tantas emoções. Se por um lado parte-me o coração a história ser sobre um gato abandonado à sua sorte, por outro lado enche-me o mesmo coração de alegria saber que, ao longo do caminho, Bob encontra James. E tanto que James precisava de Bob e nem tinha noção disso.
Acima de tudo, este livro serve para nos ensinar que a nossa salvação pode vir de onde menos esperamos. Para James, um jovem artista de rua, maltratado pela vida e pelas suas próprias más opções ao longo dos anos, foi um gato também de rua que achou que com aquele humano desgastado, apesar de jovem, poderia ter uma vida melhor e mais cheia de amor e conforto. Não estava muito longe da verdade o nosso Bob, mas nem tudo foram rosas. Tanto James como Bob tiveram de ultrapassar algumas situações menos boas e que nos faziam prever que algo de mau iria acontecer e que aquela união improvável seria impossível de ser levada até ao fim.
No entanto, com muita força de vontade e muito amor pelo seu novo melhor amigo que precisava dele em condições, James propõe-se a mudar de vida. Alinhar os seus objectivos e proporcionar uma vida melhor tanto para si, como para Bob. Não fosse por aquele pequeno felino e quem sabe onde estaria James nos dias de hoje? 
Através de dias bons, menos bons e óptimos, James e Bob vão escrevendo a sua história entrando no coração de todos os que se cruzavem como eles e que, de certa forma, também os ajudaram a suportar as horas menos boas. 
Fiquei feliz por saber que ainda há pessoas boas no mundo, capazes de fazer as alegrias de um pequeno gato e o seu companheiro de estrada, assim como o contrário também se verificou. Bob era o pequeno presente que iluminava as ruas por onde passava com o seu ar altivo, mas ao mesmo tempo adorável e afável para com quem lhe queria fazer uma festinha ou dar um mimo.
Este livro tem tanto mais valor por ser uma história real e que nos prova que, apesar de tudo o que nos possa mandar abaixo, se direccionarmos as nossas vontades e as nossas atenções para os nossos objectivos e para o que nos faz bem, é possível mudarmos o rumo do nosso destino.

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Fierce, the 4th book in the Rosewood High Series by Tracy Lorraine releases August 20!!!


“phenomenal book” – Amazon reviewer

“this book was one amazing tale of love and redemption! …perfection” – Abstract Books
 

Everyone thinks they know me… but they’re wrong.

Fearless on the outside— a lie.
I’m a fraud, hiding behind a mask of perfection. My reality very different.
The captain. The leader. The Queen Bee.
None of it real— all just an illusion.
Perception is everything and I use it to get what I want, when I want, refusing to let anyone stand in my way.
Until he shows me that he’s not the man I expected. He’s not just the quiet one... the innocent one.
But the one to finally tear away the mask and look beneath the surface. The only one who sees me, gets me, challenges me.
He’s already changed my life in a way I never expected.
My secret could make us or break us, but I know one thing for sure... I’ll protect it fiercely.
That’s the real me. Chelsea Fierce.
The girl behind the mask with everything to lose.
  
Excerpt...
“Chelsea, you don’t need anyone to hold your hand. You never have. Fierce isn’t just your last name, girl. It runs through your fucking veins. You need to pick yourself up and walk back into that school like you fucking own it. But you really don’t need me to tell you this, do you?”
For the first time since I can really remember, I think I do need to hear it.
Since I turned up in Rosewood after being dragged from my old life, I’ve made a point of showing everyone a certain side of me. And right now, I need to find that girl that Luca is talking about once again. It’s no good being this broken girl who’s been beaten down by her past and her mistakes. That won’t get me anywhere.
I’ve got to hold my head high. Even if it is easier said than done.
  
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04/08/2020

Review | Until Talon | Aurora Rose Reynolds | Book Release Blitz

When Mia Allenton’s sister calls, asking her for help after finding out her husband cheated, Mia packs up her life in Montana and moves to Tennessee to be there for her and her three girls. As Mia begins to settle in, a tornado comes through, bringing along with it Talon Mayson, a man determined to prove to her that good men do exist.
Talon knows he’s got his work cut out for him when it comes to earning Mia’s trust, but slowly her walls start to crumble, and they begin to build something beautiful. Unfortunately, someone from Talon’s past isn’t happy about him being back in Tennessee, and they’re willing to do anything to prevent him from ever being happy.
Is the Boom between Talon and Mia strong enough to weather the storm that’s coming?

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This was one of the books that i've read this year that I liked the most. It has all. Good and vibrant characters, a good plot, family love, action and what we like the most: Love and Emotion.
I must say that Talon and Mia are perfect as they are. She is a young woman who gave it all up to go to another state to help her broken sister and her nephews. Just for that we have to love her in any way. She is living with her sister for almost six months and got a job at a car sale shop. The clients love her, the owner loves her, and.... Talon will lover her to. She is vibrant and smart as well as stuborn. By the years she learned that men are humans whom we cannot trust. Her father abandoned her, her sister's husband cheated, her ex boyfriend did nothing to fith for her when she got to go and help her sister, and as many men she knows the more she has afraid of giving her heart. Until a very confident and caring Talon comes along and swipes her of her feet. Talon is one of the most caring characters that i've had the pleasure of "meeting". He is loyal, trustworthy, hard working guy, loves all of his big, big family and with Mia was love at first site. A real and honest BOOM occurred between the two of them, and if Mia was taking her time on trusting the love that he was giving her, Talon was all in on showing her that his love was true and strong and that he would never hurt her.
I absolutly love the way that Aurora, the author, managed to introduce to us all of his family when they are so many and so, so loving people. 
The real question here is if Mia is going to open her broken heart to Talon and his all family or if, sadly, all Talon's efforts are all getting in an empty bag handed to no one.
I would really like to tell you all that happens, but I can't. You'll have to read it to feel everything that I felt, and fall in love for all this wonderfull characters.
Guess I've got to wait for you all to read it and to love it as mucha as I did. I'm also guessing that I really, really have to read all the previous books written by this author that I'm going to follow from now on.

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Title: Until Talon
Series: Until Him #4
Author: Aurora Rose Reynolds
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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When Mia Allenton’s sister calls, asking her for help after finding out her husband cheated, Mia packs up her life in Montana and moves to Tennessee to be there for her and her three girls. As Mia begins to settle in, a tornado comes through, bringing along with it Talon Mayson, a man determined to prove to her that good men do exist.

Talon knows he’s got his work cut out for him when it comes to earning Mia’s trust, but slowly her walls start to crumble, and they begin to build something beautiful. Unfortunately, someone from Talon’s past isn’t happy about him being back in Tennessee, and they’re willing to do anything to prevent him from ever being happy.

Is the Boom between Talon and Mia strong enough to weather the storm that’s coming?


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