Monthly Archives: June 2014
Early Review of Desired by Stacey Kennedy
Desired
Stacey Kennedy
Club Sin Book 3
Kyler Morgan, Master at the legendary Club Sin in Las Vegas, knows how to give women what they want—too well. He hasn’t had a real challenge in a long time. Then Ella Snow enters his life. Beautiful, inhibited, and innocent in the ways of submission and domination, Ella is the new blood he’s been lusting after. Soon, the thrill of training her to embrace his world brings forth desires Kyler cannot control.
After ending an abusive relationship, Ella makes a promise to herself to start living life to the fullest. It’s one of the reasons she seeks out Club Sin. Here, Kyler’s every touch is a lesson in liberation, stirring passions that have no bounds. But as she falls under Kyler’s command, Ella discovers that some secrets are so dark they must come to light. Submission alone may not be enough to save her, leaving her Master with only one question: How can he help Ella heal while unlocking the deep pleasures she craves?
Desired is an erotic romance intended for mature audiences.
Ms. Kennedy beautifully tells a sexy tales of letting go and healing.
Dirty talking Master Kyler of Club Sin, need to protect not only comes from being a Dom, also from being a cop. Wanting a challenge in his life, he gets just that in a vanilla beauty! Ella sets Kyler’s body and mind off. Learning of the lady’s past Kyler goes into protect and Dom mode. Bringing Ella into the life was a blessing and curse all in one. Showing her the pleasures of BDSM makes Kyler realize she is unlike any woman he has known.
Ella’s strength and independence was highlights of this book for me. Leaving a man that hurts her in the worst way, she starts a fresh life. Living in sin city and a vow to try new things, interesting thing are bound to happen. Meeting Kyler turns Ella’s world upside down. Hidden desires surface and Ella find herself submitting to Master Kyler and trusting him in way unknown to her. With her past known Ella wants to submit more than Kyler is willing to push her at this point in her healing. Ella shows that sometimes the submissive has to school a master as his own game.
A beyond sexy story that show the line between abuse and consensual BDSM play is a lot thinker than one would think. Trust, passion and bonding, Ella and Kyler learn who each other are through pleasure.
Ella and Kyler make you want a life time membership to Club Sin!
Book Obsessed Chicks Beach BBQ Bash 2014
There is nothing better than sharing the love of reading and books with people who feel the same as you. I feel very blessed to have met and made a wonderful friendship with the awesome woman who started the Book Obsesses Chicks, Kim Rocha! She has brought together so many people through the love of reading romance books. Over the years her book club has evolved to a blog and has spread all the US and Canada(maybe beyond, but I don’t know that for sure)! 2014 marked the 4th annual Book Obsessed Chicks Beach BBQ Bash. Kim brought together over 120 readers and authors to sit, chat, eat and relax with the beach a few hundred yards away!
Lido Beach, NY
Authors Stephine Julian, Cat Johnson and Tracey Lyons
The awesome KM Fawcett
Fellow BOCs
Me with the beautiful cover model Bryan Benisvy
My fangirl moment of the day!! Patricia Rasey and Lara Adrian!
The girls with Patricia Rasey
Raffle Baskets
The lady of the hour! Kim Rocha!
Me. Tracey, Amy and Maria
Kim with the Authors
As you can tell by the pics, it was an awesome day. Book events are the only place that some of us get to see each other and the BOC BBQ is a truly special event. A time for making new friends and getting lots of love and laugh from those you have not seen for sometime. I always walk away from these events missing everyone right then. What more could one really ask for? A day on the beach with cover models, great food, book talk with the ones that write it and awesome people. Thanks Kim for all the hard work you put into this event. The Book Obsessed Chicks Rock!
Being Sawyer Knight by: Nicola Haken
As lead singer and guitarist of the internationally renowned Souls of the Knight, Sawyer Knight is living a life most men can only dream of. He’s surrounded by music, fame, wealth, women throwing themselves at his feet. He has everything…
Yet he has nothing.
Life as one of the world’s most sought after rock stars is tiring, oppressive and lonely. He spends every day being who the world wants him to be, who his manager tells him to be, who his mother expects him to be… all the while fighting against who he really is. Truth is, he’s used to it. He’s actually gotten pretty good at pretending… at living the lie.
Until Jake Reed, his ex-best friend and the only person who’s ever made him ‘feel’, waltzes back into his life as the band’s new head of security. Jake wants Sawyer – always has, always will. Now, he just needs to get Sawyer to admit that he feels the same…
“You will be mine, Sawyer Knight. The faster you try to run the quicker you’ll fall to your knees. Then, Sawyer… then you’ll be too weak to resist.”
WARNING: this is a male/male book and intended for a mature audience only.
5 out of 5 stars
“What is it like being Sawyer Knight?” With all the gigs, booze, parties and women a guy could ask for, anyone would think Sawyer Knight lives the high life. His band Souls of Knight is an international sensation and records are topping charts. But to Sawyer, it is a lonely and oppressive sort of happiness.
Then the unthinkable happens: his ex-best friend comes back into his life as his new head of security. Sawyer has not seen Jake since Jake confessed his love for Sawyer when they were teens. Sawyer being scared and unsure of what he wanted, did not react well. Jake, not being one to push, let Sawyer and moved out of his life as well as the country. But ten years have passed and Jake is back to claim what is his!
The chemistry between these two is there the moment they reunite. Jake is ready to take another shot at winning over his man and is not going to take no for an answer. However, in no way is Sawyer going to make it easy. Between Sawyer’s insecurities, rowdy band mates, busy schedule, and an unforeseen crisis, Jake has his work cut out for him physically as well as emotionally.
I can honestly say that this book had me hooked from the first page. Sawyer’s plight to come to terms with his sexuality and rectify that with his rock stardom was something that I could relate to. Now, I am no rock star but I am a woman who had to come to terms with her sexuality at a young age. Luckily, like Sawyer, I had people to help guide and support me.
Ms. Haken I give you a solid 5 stars for your amazing story about a different kind of love, life, and pursuit of happiness. I cannot wait to see what is to come.
I purchased this book for myself and all of the opinions expressed are my own, I was unpaid for these opinions. The picture and book description can be found on Ms. Haken’s website; which can be found by clicking the picture above. Happy reading!
FIGHTING FATE by Carrie Ann Ryan
Fight Fate
Carrie Ann Ryan
Redwood Pack #7
With her blue-black hair and striking green eyes, Cailin Jamenson is the epitome of beauty and the exemplar of strength. She has fought the enforced boundaries of being the lone Jamenson daughter and Redwood Pack princess, but it is the potential future with the dark wolf in her path that threatens everything she thought she desired.
Logan Anderson’s own darkness provided the reasoning for his abandonment of his former Pack, the Talons. Now, newly accepted into the Redwood Pack, this jade-eyed wolf and all she represents could be his own undoing.
In this final installment of the Redwood Pack, unimaginable tragedy strikes, and the two wolves who have fought the longest for their independence now face the uncertainty of fate and the epic battle that could end the war… and their lives.
4.5 of 5 Stars
In Fight Fate, Ms. Ryan brings the emotional conclusion to a family, no a pack that has made me cry in happiness and sadness more times than I can count. Over the course of several books and novellas Ms. Ryan has drawn me into the magic, sexiness, legend and love that is the REDWOOD pack.
Through the reading of this series we have gotten to know are star wolves that have been dancing around their sexual tension and draw to one another.
Cailin is the Redwood pack princess and only female offspring of Jamenson family. I love Cailin! She is as strong willed as the males of her pack. She is smart, loyal and sassy. Willing to give herself in any way to stand alongside her family through every battle of this war with Central pack. Although at times she can’t figure out her pack within the pack, Cailin is a dominate wolf and is not willing to submit to anyone. Not even that sexy wolf that she keeps at an arm’s length that fate has dangled right in front of her.
Logan knows all about family. Leaving his former pack with his sister and nephew in tow they sought out residence within the safety of the Redwood pack. Logan is a dark wolf with a past that contains issues with anger and blood that he has fought to overcome. Not only does Logan find the safety for his loved ones, he finds thing that calls to the wolf and make his heart skip a beat. Logan is a smart wolf. Even with his darker side, this sexy wolf had a heart that made me cry.
Unspeakable tragedy falls upon the Redwood Pack in FIGHT FATE. Causing a rippling effect that pushes together the pack in more ways than one. With war on the horizon and sexual tension building to a boiling point, Cailin and Logan give into what fate has been tempting them with.
Ms. Ryan is known to write a book that is going to pull at your heart is some fashion. She has gone over the top with FIGHTING FATE! Emotional is an understatement. I cried twice within the first forty pages of this book. Reading most of this book through burly eyes! Cailin and Logan are so much the same but yet very different at the same time. Both sexy and powerful with souls that make me melt. They have so much passion and depth to who they are. Ms. Ryan has shown the readers there is more to a pack than just being wolves!
Thank you Ms. Ryan for an amazing series that will hold a lasting place in my heart!
Complimentary copy provided by author/publisher for an honest review.
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