Ripe For Reader: May 2014

Saturday, May 31, 2014

DEEPER THAN NEED by Shiloh Walker

DEEPER THAN NEED

(Secrets & Shadows #1)

by Shiloh Walker

ARC Review

Release: June 3, 2014

My rating: 4.5 of 5 ⭐️

For about two decades, Noah Benningfield has existed the best he knew how. Almost half of the years he can barely recall and the rest of the time he was stuck in a shadowy limbo, while doing his best to keep himself and others from sliding into the deep dark. But when a single mother with a young son came to town and hired him to fix up the old house she bought, he felt his lungs filling with air for the first time in twenty years.

Slightly disturbed, Trinity Ewing wondered how it was possible the town and the house had felt exactly right when she bought it, yet made her uncomfortable now she lived in it. Perhaps when all the necessary renovations were done, things would be different. But that would mean she wouldn't have Noah around every anymore, and nothing felt right like Noah did. The town, the house, the man, from the moment she laid eyes on them she knew she was home.

Release BLITZ - LIFE AFTER TAYLAH by Bella Jewel

Life After Taylah

Author: Bella Jewel

Release Date: May 26, 2014

LIFE AFTER TAYLAH

by Bella Jewel

ARC Review

Released: May 26, 2014

My rating: 5 of 5 ⭐️

Over a decade ago on a very ordinary day and without any preamble, Avery's happy family was torn apart with the disappearance off her mother. Left behind were Avery's father, who lost all resemblance to the man he once was, and her brother Liam, who's pain and anger had spiralled into self-destructive behaviour. And then there was Avery, who was carefully manouvreing between the people in her life, trying her best to keep the waters settled and holding the tatters of her family together. Living with the constant void had made Avery numb.

LEVERAGE by Nancy S. Thompson

LEVERAGE

(The Mistaken #2)

by Nancy S. Thompson

ARC Review

Released: May 20th, 2014

My rating: 5 of 5 ⭐️

"Hello darkness, my old friend,

I've come to talk with you again,

Because a vision softly creeping,

Left its seeds while I was sleeping,

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence."

~The Sound Of Silence, Simon & Garfunkel

This is the song that started playing through my mind as I was reading LEVERAGE...... Appropriate? You be the judge.

LEVERAGE

(The Mistaken #2)

by Nancy S. Thompson

Released: May 15, 2014

Blog Tour & Giveaway - CUT TOO DEEP by K J Bell

CUT TOO DEEP

by K J Bell

Released: May 27th, 2014

AGAINST THE WILD

(Brodies of Alaska #1)

by Kat Martin

ARC Review

Released: May 27, 2014

My rating: 4 of 5 ⭐️

The entire flight to Alaska, interior designer Lane Bishop struggled with her decision to take on this job. She could tell herself over and over again that it was the opportunity to renovate the gorgeous 1930 Eagle Bay Lodge, but she knew it was the persistence of its gorgeously handsome owner that had finally swayed her to take a risk on the opposite sex since the death of her fiance three years ago.

Dylan Brodie was ready for some positive things to come his way, one of them was the summer he envisioned renovating his lodge with the gorgeous Lane. But within moments of her arrival at Eagle Bay, he realizes things might be a bit more complicated than he anticipated, when her dog and his little girl make fast friends. A connection he could almost be jealous of.

CLIMBING OUT by Lila Rose

CLIMBING OUT
(Hawks Motorcycle Club #2)

by Lila Rose

ARC review

Released: May 27, 2014

My rating: 4.5 of 5 ⭐️

They call her Hell Mouth and Deanna Drake has earned that moniker, being that she has developed the hardest shell yet to be cracked. All in self-preservation, with a history like hers it isn't a big surprise, and there are few who can make their way under. One would be Zara, the Hawks MC's president's old lady and Deanna's best friend. Another might be Julian, their rather flamboyantly gay, human man radar. But the one who could completely break the shell down, and doesn't even know it, is Griz, the Hawks' VP.