Review: Unteachable by Leah Raeder

Title: Unteachable
Author: Leah Raeder
Series: none
Genre: romance, young adult

Maise O’Malley just turned eighteen, but she’s felt like a grown-up her entire life. The summer before senior year, she has plans: get into a great film school, convince her mom to go into rehab, and absolutely do not, under any circumstances, screw up her own future.

But life has a way of throwing her plans into free-fall.

When Maise meets Evan at a carnival one night, their chemistry is immediate, intense, and short-lived. Which is exactly how she likes it: no strings. But afterward, she can’t get Evan out of her head. He’s taught her that a hookup can be something more. It can be an unexpected connection with someone who truly understands her. Someone who sees beyond her bravado to the scared but strong girl inside.

That someone turns out to be her new film class teacher, Mr. Evan Wilke.

Maise and Evan resolve to keep their hands off each other, but the attraction is too much to bear. Together, they’re real and genuine; apart, they’re just actors playing their parts for everyone else. And their masks are slipping. People start to notice. Rumors fly. When the truth comes to light in a shocking way, they may learn they were just playing parts for each other, too.
Smart, sexy, and provocative, Unteachable is about what happens when a love story goes off-script.

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TBT #16 - Review: Flat Out Love by Jessica Park

 Making its way to this weeks #TBT is FLAT OUT LOVE by Author Jessica Park, It was smart, romantic, sweet, sad, angsty and extremely FUNNY.

Title: Flat Out Love
Author: Jessica Park
Series: Flat Out Love #1
Genre: romance, young adult

Flat-Out Love is a warm and witty novel of family love and dysfunction, deep heartache and raw vulnerability, with a bit of mystery and one whopping, knock-you-to-your-knees romance.

It's not what you know—or when you see—that matters. It's about a journey.

Something is seriously off in the Watkins home. And Julie Seagle, college freshman, small-town Ohio transplant, and the newest resident of this Boston house, is determined to get to the bottom of it. When Julie's off-campus housing falls through, her mother's old college roommate, Erin Watkins, invites her to move in. The parents, Erin and Roger, are welcoming, but emotionally distant and academically driven to eccentric extremes. The middle child, Matt, is an MIT tech geek with a sweet side... and the social skills of a spool of USB cable. The youngest, Celeste, is a frighteningly bright but freakishly fastidious 13-year-old who hauls around a life-sized cardboard cutout of her oldest brother almost everywhere she goes.

And there's that oldest brother, Finn: funny, gorgeous, smart, sensitive, almost emotionally available. Geographically? Definitely unavailable. That's because Finn is traveling the world and surfacing only for random Facebook chats, e-mails, and status updates. Before long, through late-night exchanges of disembodied text, he begins to stir something tender and silly and maybe even a little bit sexy in Julie's suddenly lonesome soul.

To Julie, the emotionally scrambled members of the Watkins family add up to something that ... well... doesn't quite add up. Not until she forces a buried secret to the surface, eliciting a dramatic confrontation that threatens to tear the fragile Watkins family apart, does she get her answer.

Flat-Out Love comes complete with emails, Facebook status updates, and instant messages.

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ARC Review: The Score by Elle Kennedy

Title: The Score
Author: Elle Kennedy
Series: Off-Campus #3
Genre: new adult, contemporary romance, sport

He knows how to score, on and off the ice

Allie Hayes is in crisis mode. With graduation looming, she still doesn’t have the first clue about what she's going to do after college. To make matters worse, she’s nursing a broken heart thanks to the end of her longtime relationship. Wild rebound sex is definitely not the solution to her problems, but gorgeous hockey star Dean Di-Laurentis is impossible to resist. Just once, though, because even if her future is uncertain, it sure as heck won’t include the king of one-night stands.

It’ll take more than flashy moves to win her over

Dean always gets what he wants. Girls, grades, girls, recognition, girls…he’s a ladies man, all right, and he’s yet to meet a woman who’s immune to his charms. Until Allie. For one night, the feisty blonde rocked his entire world—and now she wants to be friends? Nope. It’s not over until he says it’s over. Dean is in full-on pursuit, but when life-rocking changes strike, he starts to wonder if maybe it’s time to stop focusing on scoring…and shoot for love.

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TBT#9 - Review: My Skylar by Penelope Ward

Featuring on this weeks ‪#‎ThrowbackThrusday‬ is My Skylar by Penelope Ward. This was one of those books I thought I needed a therapy to get over it! This was most ANGST and POWERFUL LOVE STORY I have read in a long time, making my heart cry in that process. 'Loving someone too much causes insufferable pain’ should have been the tag line for this book that’s how it was for Mitch and Skylar-Best friends, confidant, strong lovers, centre of their universe and mostly soulmates but they still saw their relationship falling apart.

Title: My Skylar
Author: Penelope Ward
Series: none
Genre: young adult, new adult, contemporary romance

From the author of the #1 bestselling romance, Jake Undone, comes a friends-to-lovers story of longing, passion, betrayal and redemption…with a twist that will rip your heart out.

Skylar was my best friend, but I secretly pined for her. One thing after another kept us apart, and I’ve spent the last decade in fear of losing her forever.

First, it was the cancer, but she survived only to face the unthinkable at my hands. Because of me, she left town. For years, I thought I’d never see her again.

But now she’s back…and living with him.

I don’t deserve her after everything I’ve put her through, but I can’t live without her. This is my last chance because she’s about to make the biggest mistake of her life. I can see it her eyes: she doesn’t love him. She still loves me...which is why I have to stop her before it’s too late.

My Skylar is a STANDALONE story of 99,000 words and a companion to the novel, Jake Undone. It does NOT need to be read in conjunction with any other book.

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TBT#8 - Review: Breakable by Tammara Webber

This weeks #ThrowbackThrusday includes a special book, The story which won me over with it's simplicity, innocence and EASY love! Yep I'm talking about Tammara Webber's Easy, the book which made me fall in love with romance all over again and the reason I landed on goodreads. But it's in Breakable I fell for Lucas Hard! said from his POV Tammara Webber brings an heartbreaking, enticing story filled with intricate details of a boy who lost everything in his world and finds love and companionship in most unexpected places.

Title: Breakable
Author: Tammara Webber
Series: Contours of the Heart #2
Genre: new adult, romance

He was lost and alone. Then he found her. And the future seemed more fragile than ever.

As a child, Landon Lucas Maxfield believed his life was perfect and looked forward to a future filled with promise — until tragedy tore his family apart and made him doubt everything he ever believed.

All he wanted was to leave the past behind. When he met Jacqueline Wallace, his desire to be everything she needed came so easy…

As easy as it could be for a man who learned that the soul is breakable and that everything you hoped for could be ripped away in a heartbeat.

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TBT#3 - Review: On the Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves

Hey peeps, Sandy here and this week on #Throwback Thursday I bring to you a story which made me love, laugh and cry all the while reading it. A book with realistic characters and powerful, thought provoking love story. On the Island still remains on my top 10 list of favorite books and I'm definitely reading it again!

Title: On the Island
Author: Tracey Garvis-Graves
Series: On the Island #1
Genre: romance, contemporary, chick lit

When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day.

T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments -- instead of his friends.

Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter.

Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.

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TBT#2 - Review: Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Hey everyone, Sandy here!! Finally #Throwback Thursdays here.... Whoohoo!! (In case you've forgotten or if you are new to our blog-this is the day I post my old reviews!!) So this week it's going to be Beautiful series. Doesn't ring any bell? wait for it...."Shake in your boots,boys,and drop your panties,ladies! I give you : Travis 'Mad Dog' Maddox!" Remember Travis and his insanely obsessive love for his Pigeon aka Abby????

Title: Walking Disaster
Author: Jamie McGuire
Series: Beautiful #2
Genre: new adult, College

Can you love someone too much?

Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder.

In Walking Disaster; the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence. But just when he thinks he is invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees.

Every story has two sides. In Beautiful Disaster, Abby had her say. Now it’s time to see the story through Travis’s eyes.

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TBT#2 - Review: Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Hey everyone, Sandy here!! Finally #Throwback Thursdays here.... Whoohoo!! (In case you've forgotten or if you are new to our blog-this is the day I post my old reviews!!) So this week it's going to be Beautiful series. Doesn't ring any bell? wait for it...."Shake in your boots,boys,and drop your panties,ladies! I give you : Travis 'Mad Dog' Maddox!" Remember Travis and his insanely obsessive love for his Pigeon aka Abby????

Title: Beautiful Disaster
Author: Jamie McGuire
Series: Beautiful #1
Genre: new adult, college

The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University's Walking One-Night Stand.

Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.

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TBT#1 - Review: The Redemption of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorensen

Hi all! this is Sandy, most of you are aware of the fact that I recently partnered up with Flo to run this blog, and I'm so happy to be a part of blogging community now but before this happened, I have been reviewing books for quite sometime now (20 months to be exact!). So Flo came up with this brilliant idea of posting my old reviews on Throw back Thursdays!! Awesome right?!

Ok, so this week it's going to be my all time favorite new adult series from Jessica Sorensen! Who wrote this immensely emotional, yet breathtakingly beautiful love story of two broken soul finding solace in each other. Callie and Kayden's story has a special place in my heart, even now when I think about their painful journey my eyes wells up, that's how much impact their story had on me.
If you haven't read this series and happen to love an emotional whiplash NA romance, then this book should be your top pick.

Hope you like my short and sweet review. Until next Thursday ~Sandy

Title: The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
Author: Jessica Sorensen
Series: The Coincidence #2
Genre: new adult, romance, college

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden comes an emotional new story about two troubled souls sharing one all-encompassing love . . .

The dark secret Kayden has kept hidden for years is finally out. Worse, he's facing charges for battery. The only way to clear his name is for Callie to speak up-something he'll never ask her to do. Instead, he'll do whatever he must to protect her . . . even if it means letting go of the only girl he's ever loved.

Callie knows Kayden is going back to his dark place and desperately wants to save him. But that means facing her greatest fear and admitting her own painful secrets aloud. The thought of breaking her silence terrifies her-but not as much as the thought of losing Kayden forever.

Deep in her heart, Callie knows the time has come for her and Kayden to forget the pain of the past. With the help of her friends Seth and Luke she makes a plan to show Kayden the life they could have. But can she convince him they can make a fresh start together-or is she already too late?

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TBT#1 - Review: The Resolution of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorensen

Hi all! this is Sandy, most of you are aware of the fact that I recently partnered up with Flo to run this blog, and I'm so happy to be a part of blogging community now but before this happened, I have been reviewing books for quite sometime now (20 months to be exact!). So Flo came up with this brilliant idea of posting my old reviews on Throw back Thursdays!! Awesome right?!

Ok, so this week it's going to be my all time favorite new adult series from Jessica Sorensen! Who wrote this immensely emotional, yet breathtakingly beautiful love story of two broken soul finding solace in each other. Callie and Kayden's story has a special place in my heart, even now when I think about their painful journey my eyes wells up, that's how much impact their story had on me.
If you haven't read this series and happen to love an emotional whiplash NA romance, then this book should be your top pick.

Hope you like my short and sweet review. Until next Thursday ~Sandy

Title: The Resolution of Callie & Kayden
Author: Jessica Sorensen
Series: The Coincidence #6
Genre: new adult, romance, college

Things are well for Callie and Kayden. They’re still dealing with their past and the pain connected to it, but for the most part they’ve moved on. The biggest decision they have at the moment is what they want to do with their lives in the future.

Eventually, though, the past catches up with them and they’re left facing tough choices. But Callie and Kayden learn that as long as they have each other, they can make it through just about anything. And in the end, they discover what they really want out of life.

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TBT#1 - Review: The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden by Jessica Sorensen

Hi all! this is Sandy, most of you are aware of the fact that I recently partnered up with Flo to run this blog, and I'm so happy to be a part of blogging community now but before this happened, I have been reviewing books for quite sometime now (20 months to be exact!). So Flo came up with this brilliant idea of posting my old reviews on Throw back Thursdays!! Awesome right?!

Ok, so this week it's going to be my all time favorite new adult series from Jessica Sorensen! Who wrote this immensely emotional, yet breathtakingly beautiful love story of two broken soul finding solace in each other. Callie and Kayden's story has a special place in my heart, even now when I think about their painful journey my eyes wells up, that's how much impact their story had on me.
If you haven't read this series and happen to love an emotional whiplash NA romance, then this book should be your top pick.

Hope you like my short and sweet review. Until next Thursday ~Sandy

Title: The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
Author: Jessica Sorensen
Series: The Coincidence #1
Genre: new adult, romance, college

For Kayden, suffering in silence was the only way to survive. If he was lucky, he could keep his head down, do as he was told, and make it through the day. But one night it seemed like his luck -- and his life -- might finally end... until an angel named Callie appeared just in time to rescue him.

Callie has never believed in luck. Not since her twelfth birthday when everything was taken from her. After the worst was over, she locked up her feelings and vowed never to tell anyone what happened. Now, six years later, she continues to struggle with the painful secret that threatens to consume her.

When fate lands Kayden and Callie at the same college, Kayden is determined to get to know the beautiful girl who changed his destiny. Quiet and reserved, Callie still fears letting anyone else into her world. But Kayden is certain that Callie has come back into his life for a reason. And the more he tries to be a part of her life, the more he realizes that, this time, it's Callie who needs to be saved...

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Review: Fighting Silence by Aly Martinez

Title: Fighting Silence
Author: Aly Martinez
Series: On the Ropes #1
Genre: contemporary romance, new adult, sports

Sound is an abstract concept for most people. We spend our lives blocking out the static in order to focus on what we believe is important. But what if, when the clarity fades into silence, it's the obscure background noise that you would give anything to hold on to?

I've always been a fighter. With parents who barely managed to stay out of jail and two little brothers who narrowly avoided foster care, I became skilled at dodging the punches life threw at me. Growing up, I didn’t have anything I could call my own, but from the moment I met Eliza Reynolds, she was always mine. I became utterly addicted to her and the escape from reality we provided each other. Throughout the years, she had boyfriends and I had girlfriends, but there wasn't a single night that I didn’t hear her voice.

You see, meeting the love of my life at age thirteen was never part of my plan. However, neither was gradually going deaf at the age of twenty-one.

They both happened anyway.

Now, I'm on the ropes during the toughest battles of my life.
Fighting for my career.
Fighting the impending silence.
Fighting for her.

Every night, just before falling asleep, she sighs as a final conscious breath leaves her.

I think that's the sound I'll miss the most.

Each book in this series can be read as a standalone.

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Review: Capture (Elements of Chemistry #3) by Penny Reid

Title: Capture
Author: Penny Reid
Series: Elements of Chemistry #3
Genre: new adult, contemporary romance

One week.
Manhattan apartment.
Super-hot ex-boyfriend.
…What’s the worst that could happen?

It’s been nine months since Kaitlyn Parker has seen or heard from Martin Sandeke—nine months and five stages of matter. She’s lived through the worst of first-love heartbreak, and is most certainly stronger (and less likely to hide in science cabinets) than ever before.

But now Martin is back. And he wants to be friends. But he’s sending mixed signals to the Bunsen burner in Kaitlyn’s pants.

Will Martin re-capture Kaitlyn’s heart? Can Kaitlyn and Martin ever be just friends? Or, despite an abundance of chemistry, are some bonds just too unstable to endure?

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Review: Heat (Elements of Chemistry #2) by Penny Reid

Title: Heat
Author: Penny Reid
Series: Elements of Chemistry #2
Genre: new adult, contemporary romance, a smart romance

Four days left.
Private beach (…and boat).
Not so invisible girl.
And maybe less of a jerk-faced bully than originally thought.
What’s the worst (or the best) that could happen?

Kaitlyn is finding life outside of the science cabinet of obscurity to be quite illuminating …and so are her pants.

When things heat up between Kaitlyn Parker and Martin—previously known as the jerk-faced bully—Sandeke, she places her trust in the one person she never thought capable of earning it, let alone keeping it safe. Fortunately or unfortunately for Kaitlyn, where she gives her trust she can’t help but also give her heart.

But how will the world beyond the sanctuary of their newfound connection react to their relationship? Soon senators, chinless billionaires, and elements beyond Martin and Kaitlyn’s control want to weigh in on the young couple’s future.

Navigating the chaotic inferno of new love might be more than Kaitlyn bargained for, and much, much more than her trust—or her heart—can handle.

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Review: Attraction (Elements of Chemistry #1) by Penny Reid

Title: Attraction
Author: Penny Reid
Series: Elements of Chemistry #1
Genre: new adult, contemporary romance

One week.
Private beach.
Invisible girl.
Jerk-faced bully.
What’s the worst that could happen?

Kaitlyn Parker has no problem being the invisible girl, which is why she finds herself hiding in various cabinets and closets all over her college campus. Despite her best efforts, she can’t escape the notice of Martin Sandeke—bad boy, jerkface bully, and the universe’s hottest, wealthiest, and most unobtainable bachelor—who also happens to be Kaitlyn’s chemistry lab partner.

Kaitlyn might be the only girl who isn’t interested in exploiting his stunning rower’s build, chiseled features, and family's billionaire fortune. Kaitlyn wants Martin for his brain, specifically to tabulate findings of trace elements in surface water.

When Kaitlyn saves Martin from a nefarious plot, Martin uses the opportunity to push Kaitlyn out of her comfort zone: spring break, one week, house parties, bathing suits, and suntan lotion. Can she overcome her aversion to being noticed? Will he be able grow beyond his self-centered nature? Or, despite their obvious chemistry, will Martin be the one to drive Kaitlyn into the science cabinet of obscurity for good?

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Blog Tour, ARC Review + Giveaway: Flawed Heart (House of Obsidian #1) by Bella Jewel

Title: Flawed Heart
Author: Bella Jewel
Series: House of Obsidian #1
Genre: contemporary romance, second chance
Release Date: June 22, 2015

This isn’t the man I married. The man I married was strong, beautiful and pure. The man I married cherished our lives together. The man I married loved me.

This…this isn’t that man. One night. One accident. It changes everything.

I wish I could tell you the exact moment he fell out of love with me. I wish I could tell you there was hope. That I hung on. That I fought. I wish I could tell you that we fixed it. That happily ever after was just out of our grips.

It wasn’t. I ran. In the dead of the night, I packed my things and I left him. Now I’m back. He’s still the same man. A deadly underground fighter for the House of Obsidian. He’s still dangerous. He’s still broken. I still love him.

This is the part where I’m supposed to turn back around and run… But I don’t.

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Review: The Mistake (Off-Campus #2) by Elle Kennedy

Title: The Mistake
Author: Elle Kennedy
Series: Off-Campus #2
Genre: new adult, contemporary romance

He’s a player in more ways than one…

College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he’ll be forced to walk after graduation. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he’s worth a second chance.

Now he’s going to need to up his game…

After a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. She’s not a charity case, and she’s not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked up. If Logan expects her to roll over and beg like all his other puck bunnies, he can think again. He wants her back? He’ll have to work for it. This time around, she’ll be the one in the driver’s seat…and she plans on driving him wild.

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Review: The Deal (Off-Campus #1) by Elle Kennedy

Title: The Deal
Author: Elle Kennedy
Series: Off-Campus #1
Genre: new adult, contemporary romance

She’s about to make a deal with the college bad boy...

Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she’s carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. If she wants to get her crush’s attention, she’ll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice…even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date.

...and it’s going to be oh so good.

All Garrett Graham has ever wanted is to play professional hockey after graduation, but his plummeting GPA is threatening everything he’s worked so hard for. If helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help him secure his position on the team, he’s all for it. But when one unexpected kiss leads to the wildest sex of both their lives, it doesn’t take long for Garrett to realize that pretend isn’t going to cut it. Now he just has to convince Hannah that the man she wants looks a lot like him.

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