Reviews Perfect Imperfections by Cardeno C

Title: Perfect Imperfections

Author: Cardeno C

Release Date: May 5th 2014

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Hollywood royalty Jeremy Jameson has lived a sheltered life with music as his sole focus and only friend. Before embarking on yet another international concert tour, he wanders into a bar in what he considers the middle of nowhere and meets a man who wins him over with his friendly smile and easy-going nature. Accountant slash bartender slash adventure-seeker Reg Moore has fun talking and drinking with The Jeremy Jameson and can’t say no when the supposedly straight rock star makes him a once in a lifetime offer: keep him company on his tour by playing the part of his boyfriend. 

Listening to music, traveling the world, and jumping off cliffs is fun. Falling in love is even better. But to stay with Jeremy after the stage lights dim, Reg will need to help him realize there’s nothing pretend about their relationship.

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Cardeno C. - CC to friends - is a hopeless romantic who wants to add a lot of happiness and a few "awwws" into a reader's day. Writing is a nice break from real life as a corporate type and volunteer work with gay rights organizations. Cardeno's stories range from sweet to intense, contemporary to paranormal, long to short, but they always include strong relationships and walks into the happily-ever-after sunset.

Cardeno's Home, Family, and Mates series have received awards from Love Romances and More Golden Roses, Rainbow Awards, the Goodreads M/Romance Group, and various reviewers. But even more special to CC are heartfelt reactions from readers, like, "You bring joy and love and make it part of the every day."


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While I don’t necessarily believe in insta-love, I do believe in clicking with someone from the very beginning. And that is exactly what happens to the main character of Perfect Imperfections.

A chance meeting in a bar changed Reg Moore’s simple life. He got the offer of his life and to live out a dream he had for a long time, that to travel and see the world. Rock star Jeremy Jameson could offer this to him. But neither of them thought it would end up being more.

Jeremy only wanted a companion for the trip, someone to be his friend and be honest with him, not fake and pretend to like him and be with him only to gain something. He also didn’t know Reg was gay but it seemed like a good idea to say he was his boyfriend.

I liked the story, liked the main characters. Reg was the only person that could ground Jeremy, especially when he was having one of his tantrums. Reg was the only one true to Jeremy and was blunt about everything. Jeremy grew up not being loved, that’s the simple and honest truth. With a famous actress as a mother and a rock star as a father, people always expected things of him and from him; people were always telling him what to do and how to live his life. I liked how it wasn’t in an instant that he knew he was gay. It took him a while, it was gradual but it wasn’t hard to get close to and warm up to Reg. 

I found myself smiling or chuckling while reading. There was no major drama – thank God, the story wasn’t drawn out and the end was nothing less than I expected. It was actually awww and the proposal took me by surprise. 

Four stars and I recommend it gladly to any M/M lover.

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Title: One Simple Memory

By: Jean Kelso

Genre: New Adult Romance 

Release Date: July 28th 

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Jenn Samos lived a quiet life. Loved and sheltered by her family and friends, she knew nothing of the huge secret being kept from her growing up. Deeply in love with her best friend, the man she thought would be her forever. One little argument and he was gone. She never understood why.

Now three years later, he’s back. And with him, her world as she knows it, comes crashing down around  her. Sean says she needs to remember. But Jenn doesn't understand. 

Can One Simple Memory really get them out of the mess they are in, or will someone die to keep secrets buried?

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Release Day Blitz Come + Cover Reveal Come Back by J A Huss

Title: Come (Dirty, Dark, & Deadly #1)

Author: JA Huss

Genre: Erotic Suspense

Release Date: June 25, 2014

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My name is James Fenici and you will never see me coming. I walk the shadows like darkness itself. I hide in the corners where nobody looks. I live by no rules, I have no boundaries, I take no prisoners, and I never, ever blink. I am not your knight in shining armor; I’m your worst nightmare. My name is James Fenici and you are my target. Only one of us is getting out alive, and that’s not gonna be you. Once your name is on my list, your life is over. It’s a deal I make with death, it’s a contract I sign in blood, it’s forgone conclusion—get used to it. My name is James Fenici and I’m as dirty as they come. But then one day I saw her. And every monster I thought I was. Every fact I thought I knew. Every dirty promise I ever turned down came back to slap me in the face. My name is James Fenici and I think I am in love.

 

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“Do you want my real name? My associate name? Or my fake name?”

“Real name.”

“James Fenici.”

“James,” I repeat in a whisper. “I like James.”

“I like Harper.”

“How old are you?”

“Twenty-eight.”

“I’m only eighteen.”

“I know.”

He knows. Hmmm. But the look on his face as my age hangs between us captures my full attention. “Does it bother you?” He waits a few heartbeats before answering and this is my clue that yes, it does bother him. “It doesn’t bother me,” I add.

Fingertips guide my chin so my head turns towards him and then his mouth is on mine, his tongue probing, asking me to open, I do open. And this time I touch my tongue to his. He flicks against it and it feels… so good.

He ends the kiss and stands up, holding me in his arms for a moment before setting me down. “It doesn’t bother me either, but you’re tired. So I’ll walk you home.”

Title: Come (Dirty, Dark, And Deadly #2)

Author: JA Huss

Genre: Erotic Suspense

Release Date: July 21, 2014

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“Secrets keep the darkness alive,” Harper tells me. But that’s not how I see it at all. Secrets keep me alive. The truth is overrated. Honesty is never the best policy. And everything you know absolutely can hurt you. The contracts I fulfill are just agreements. Death is a business deal. Secrets are currency in my world. I pay my debts with them. I feed on them. They ground me in the present and they promise me a future. I’ve lived a life filled with secrets for so long—I forgot what it’s like to… feel. Until I saw Harper. Until I saw how beautiful she’s become. How perfect, and pure, and innocent of all the ugly that goes on around her. And that dirty promise I refused the night her father turned me into a killer twelve years ago is suddenly on the table again. Harper can be mine. No—Harper will be mine. All I have to do is complete the mission. Death is a business deal. And I just shook his hand.   

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JA Huss is the USA Today best-selling author of the Rook and Ronin series, the epic science fiction I Am Just Junco series, and hundreds of kid-friendly science books in subjects such as biology, physics, anatomy and physiology, astronomy, and forensics. She has an undergraduate degree in equine science and a master's degree in forensic toxicology. She has never taken a creative writing class and she hopes she never will.

 

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`*BLOG TOUR*~ Rusty Nailed by Alice Clayton

 In this sequel to Wallbanger, the second book in the Cocktail series, fan favorites Caroline and Simon negotiate the rollercoaster of their new relationship while house-sitting in San Francisco.

Playing house was never so much fun—or so confusing. With her boss on her honeymoon, Caroline’s working crazy long hours to keep the interior design company running—especially since she’s also the lead designer for the renovation of a gorgeous old hotel on Sausalito. So with her hotshot photographer boyfriend gallivanting all over the world for his job, she and Simon are heavy-duty into “absence makes the heart grow fonder” mode. Neither has any complaints about the great reunion sex, though! Then Simon decides he’s tired of so much traveling, and he’s suddenly home more. A lot more. And wanting Caroline home more, too. Though their friends’ romantic lives provide plenty of welcome distraction, eventually Caroline and Simon have to sort their relationship out. Neither wants “out of sight, out of mind,” but can they create their own happy mid-ground cliché?

USA TODAY bestselling author Alice Clayton delivers another delicious, frothy cocktail of a book, shaking up her characters, stirring in laugh-out-loud humor, and serving sizzling romance straight up

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What a great follow up to book 1, Wallbanger.
Caroline is as funny as ever, Simon's as sexy and easy going as ever, & Clive is still ever the king of his domain(s).

In this book Caroline and Simon find out what it means to be "grown ups". His past come back for him, in turn, changing the course of their future.

Only Alice can me me laugh then cry, then laugh again in 5 seconds flat. And do you recall a little Clive epilogue last time? Yeah, well.... Alice never fails to deliver the goods.
((perhaps i should have kept that to myself??))

4 bangin stars!

 

This book begins in the fairytale land of sex and baking. Caroline and Simon are doing great. He still travels all the time with his job, but they make it work.

I still get goose bumps when I ponder this. I'm Simon's girlfriend. He was once the Harem Master, and now I'm his girlfriend.

Simon's hot! You go girl!

Then, things start to go a little wonky. Real life begins to interfere with their lovefest. Caroline's boss goes on an open-ended honeymoon leaving her in charge. Simon faces his past for the first time since his parents died and he graduated high school. His way of thinking changes. He's around more and Caroline's not. This leads to buried issues, and we know how much trouble Caroline has with those. Also, Clive is in the mix, watching everything from his window seat, leaving his mark for sure.

All their crazy friends are involved which manages the comedy. Nightie Girl and Wallbanger handle the sexy. The steamy and funny were great, but the best to me personally was the sweet Simon/Clive scenes.

Tucked into the one corner of the bed I typically allowed him was Simon, still sleeping off his long trip home. Curled into a ball behind Simon's knees, Clive opened one eye and registered that I was home. He flicked one ear and stretched his back out, tucking himself tighter into his favorite spot.

When I finally came out, my Wallbanger was dead to the world and telling everyone about it with his snores. Next to him? Clive. Making the most ridiculous little kitty snores.

So Clive was now a country cat. And he had a stay-at-home daddy.

One chilly night I came home late and found Simon holding Clive up to the window, making paw prints where it was foggy and talking about how far away the city of San Francisco was.

Are those 2 just too adorable or what?

Clive may be more like his daddy than we even thought...

I appreciated the make-me-die-laughing humor of book 1. And in this book I appreciated the lovableness of it all. <3

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I was stoked when I discovered that Alice Clayton was giving us more Caroline & Simon....
Wallbanger was one of my top reads last year and I was looking forward to finding out how life was going for this kinda unconventional pair!!

Rusty Nailed shows us a growing-up, slightly more serious couple. At the same time, they're both still loads of laughs and as funny as before, both as smokin' hot for each other as ever and we have more comedy texting and baking innuendo.... What a great mix!!!! .......

This time round we see a different side to them. Spending more time together, sorta living together as they house sit while their friends are off on their honeymoon, taking on more responsibilities and facing up to things that need addressing.... Can they adapt to the changes they're currently facing?

We once again met up with Mimi & Ryan, Jillian & Benjamin and Sophia & Neil - there's also a few new faces added into the mix - all entertaining and some give us a little more insight to our fave couple....
Sadly not everything in the Land of Couples is plain sailing but then, who ever said growing up was easy?!?!

Clive, that crazy ball of feline madness is back in all his glory - creating more mischief!!

Alice has given us a fantastic sequel to Wallbanger and I had a ball reading more about my favourite Hot Photographer and his Nightie Girl!!!

If you've read the first book you have to grab yourself a copy of Rusty Nailed and get reading. If you haven't yet read Wallbanger, where have you been hiding?!?!

A solid 4.5* read for me!!!!



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Review Cooper, Corps Security series by Harper Sloan

Title: Cooper

Author: Harper Sloan

Series: Corps Security

Release Date: June 20th 2014

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Do you take me seriously? Because I don’t. I use my jokes and easygoing personality to hide the pain I’ve felt since he took his last breath. I’m adrift without my partner in crime, my best friend…my brother. I can taste the vengeance just within my grasp.

Until she barges into my life. Promising me happiness and a peace I’ve been craving for years. She is the sun to my darkness, the happy to my despair.

But she holds secrets. Just like I do. She holds hers close, where I just pray mine don’t rock the walls we’re trying to build.

Now I’m stuck at a crossroads between my desire for revenge and my craving for her and the life we could have together—and I have no idea which road I should travel.

All I know with crystal clear certainty is that the past has the power to destroy it all.

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Harper lives in small town Georgia just a short drive from her hometown of Peachtree City. She (and her 3 daughters) enjoy ruling the house they dubbed 'Estrogen Ocean', much to her husbands chagrin. Harper has a borderline unhealthy obsession with books; you can almost ALWAYS find her with her eReader attached. She enjoys bad reality TV and cheesy romantic flicks. Her favorite kind of hero--the super alpha kind!

Harper started using writing as a way to unwind when the house went to sleep at night; and with a house full of crazy it was the perfect way to just relax. It didn't take long before a head full of very demanding alphas would stop at nothing to have their story told.

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AXEL #1

CAGE #2

BECK #3

 

UNCAGED #3.5

COOPER #4

LOCKE #5

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"No one knows what it's like to lose the other part of your goddamn life. No one."


I have been a fan of these books, of the Corps Security guys from the very beginning. It quickly became a favorite series of mine. We gradually got to know all of the characters because Harper never failed to tease us with snippets from what may or will come. *cough* Locke *cough*
I love all of them, I do, even though my fave is Locke and second is Beck. I also loved Zeke Cooper and I was devastated with the outcome in Beck. If you're a fan of the series, if you've read it, you know what I'm talking about. I didn't understand why that happened but now that I read Cooper, I kinda do. It just wasn't meant to be for the care-free, laid-back man-whore that was Zeke Cooper to fall in love and settle with a woman. Too many issues, as he had told John Beckett in Beck, before the tragedy. 
Also in Beck we are briefly introduced to Asher Cooper, big brother of Zeke Cooper. He storms not only into the hospital, but into Chelcie's life, as well. Chelcie, who's pregnant with Zeke's baby and couldn't tell him. And found it very hard to tell Ash too.
I liked them, both individually and as a couple. Ash is very different from Zeke but he fits perfectly into the CS family. He's badass, he's hot and even though he's a little lost and in the dark, he finds a ray of sunshine and gets back on the right track.

"I'm lost right now. Trapped in a black hole of nothing. Coop was the last thing I had, the last something real. With him gone, I just don't know what to live for."

He damn. Near. Killed. Me. There were scenes when my heart was breaking, because we not only get glimpses of Ash and Zeke's past, but we also get to see Ash's struggle of trying to accept that his brother is no more. Which is very hard, not only for him and the characters, but for the reader, as well. Harper made me cry with a certain scene; couldn't blame it on having something in my eye.

Suffice to say, I loved it. I thought Beck was the best yet but I'm thinking Cooper tops even that one, or maybe is on the same level. Locke will be the one to top both, because well, he's Maddox Locke.

How can you NOT love this man? 

5 *GOLDEN GLITTER* stars. No, I couldn't leave Sway out of it. Read it. Don't worry, it won't disappoint. 

"You make sure and keep that damn light shining bright on him. You give a broken man like me hope that there might be something to be said about trusting that blaze that fights a man's demons." ~ Maddox Locke

*sniff sniff*

BRING ON LOCKE!

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Cover Reveal My First, My Last by Lacey Skills

Title: My First, My Last 

Publication Date: July 21, 2014 

Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance 

Word Count: Approximately 78,000 

Publisher: MyLit Publishing 

Format: eBook and Paperback

Fate has kept them apart for twenty years. Their roads hadn't crossed and the stars didn't align until now...

Matured, more experienced, pierced, tattooed and hot as hell, Adrian steps back into Mia's life to reclaim his first love. And the moment she sees him she can't even remember her own name.
Adrian Reed had always remained in Mia's heart. After all, he was her first boyfriend and the man she'd lost her virginity to, but that was twenty years ago. His sudden appearance at a bar, on a girls night out, has Mia acting like the fifteen year old girl she was when they parted.
But life now is not as simple as it was twenty years ago. With two kids, a hopeful ex-husband and new insecurities, Mia finds opening up to a new relationship more challenging.
Will she give her first love another chance, or will she push him away, this time for good?

   

 Author of Erotic Romance, Lacey Silks writes her stories from life experiences, dreams and fantasies. She likes a pinkish shade on a woman’s cheeks, men with large feet and sexy lingerie, especially when it’s torn off the body. Her favorite piece of clothing is a birthday suit.
When she’s not thinking about writing steamy stories, which is a rare occasion, Lacey enjoys camping and skiing with her family (not at the same time of course). She’s a happily married wife blessed with two kids who adore going to the library. She’s an early bird by nature, but loves the nightly adventures with her hubby which provide good content for her books.  

 

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