Carry Your Heart (Carry Your Heart #1) by K. Ryan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
When Isabelle Martin steps onto Sawyer Auto Repair’s parking lot, she can’t believe it’s come to this. After dropping out of a school she never really wanted to go to in the first place and dumping a boyfriend she never really loved to begin with, she thought coming home to Claremont, North Carolina would solve all her problems. Instead, she’s…
Atlantis Rising by Gloria Craw
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
You’ll never see me unless I want you to…
I am different. I have always been different, but no one can know or my life will be in danger. So I hide in plain sight, wearing drab clothes and thick glasses and trying to be invisible. I’m so good at hiding, no one has ever noticed me. Until Ian…the mysterious and oh-so-cute boy I know I need to avoid.
Now I have been seen. And more terrifying still, I am wanted—by those who would protect me and those who would destroy everything and everyone I love. But if they’re all terrified about who I am, wait until they see what I can do…I loved this story. It is basically a type of retelling of Atlantis and mermaids and characters of the sea.
Alison is a girl that keeps her head down and works very hard not to be noticed because she is different and she knows being different isn’t always a good thing. Especially when being different means that you can put thoughts and ideas into others minds. And she feels entirely alone. The only tie she has met anyone that knows what she is doing, she is warned never to let anyone know because she would be in a world of danger.
In comes Ian and Brandy, who have been searching for her, not just to help her but to have her save them in a coming war.
The reader is right in the middle of everything as Alison is chased and her powers are discovered. She starts to learn how to use those powers to help her fellow mythological creatures and begins the process of possibly falling in love along the way.
I can’t wait for the next installment to see if this love string can be pulled and brought to fruition or if the nemesis of them all will find a way to rear his ugly head once again.
Thanks to Netgalley, Gloria, and Entangled Publishing, LLC for the opportunity to read and review this book.
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Cursed: An Urban Fantasy Novel by J.A. Cipriano
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
My name is Mac Brennan and that’s the only thing I can remember about myself. Not why I woke up in a dumpster. Not why my right arm is as black as pitch and covered in glowing red tattoos, and certainly not why a vicious death cult is after me.
Actually, that last part isn’t true. I know why the death cult is after me. It’s because I saved that damned girl from them. I didn’t know who she was at the time, but I’d have done it anyway. I just don’t like it when girls get beat up, call me old fashioned.
Still, I can tell she’s hiding something behind those devilish eyes, and if I want to find out what it is, I’ll have to help her.
My name is Mac Brennan. I have no memory, and I’m a werewolf-hunting, hellfire-flinging version of Faust himself.
This is a delightful new series by Cipriano. It is full of suspense, magic, witches, werewolves, vampires, and demons and the need to do whatever it takes to protect those you love, even if you don’t remember who they are, or even who you are for that matter.
In Mac Brennan’s search to find why he has this demon arm that has powers of its own sometimes and who he sold his soul to, who he is supposed to save, or what he is meant to do with these new powers. In the meantime, his humanity won’t allow him to leave a woman he finds being beaten by two huge men or her son to their dreadful fate.
I am so in love with this authors sense of humor! I spent more time grinning and laughing at the characters mannerisms and one-liners that I never got bored.
I’d managed to swim about five feet away before a shockwave sent me tumbling through the water, slamming my body along the cement bottom and shearing off skin from my face and hands. Breath burst from my lips in a stream of bubbles. My lungs threatened to burst as I struggled to get my legs underneath me and propel myself upward. Just as my vision was starting to go dim, my feet touched the stone bottom. I pushed off with everything I had, rocketing myself upward. Breaking the surface was like coming home, and I resolved never to go without air again.
“Every second I walked around like this increased the likelihood someone would call the police to report a guy splattered with blood was walking around in a trench coat. They’d probably shoot first, shoot second to make sure, and then ask questions third in that given scenario. I knew I would. Hell, I probably had.”
“My tattoos blazed to life like a neon sign outside a strip club.”
Thank you to the author and J&S, Author Services for the opportunity to read this delightful novel in return for an honest review! It was definitely my honor.
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Carry You Home Release by K. Ryan
CARRY YOU HOME
by K. Ryan
Carry Your Heart, #2
Publication Date: February 9, 2016
Also in this series: Carry Your Heart
Genres: Adult, Contemporary Romance, New Adult
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Synopsis: The conclusion to Caleb and Isabelle’s story…
Everything is going as planned, for the most part. With school, the club, and new responsibilities on the horizon, the life Caleb and Isabelle…
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