Review: 1988 : Need You Tonight - Book #9 Love in the 80's Series - Rachel Higginson - September 2016 I have nearly made my way through the Love in the 80's series as I bring you 1988 - the second to last year in the 80's.  It's the year 1988, and Cassandra Carmichael is going through a rough time as her parents are divorcing and her whole life has gone up in flames. She has changed personalities and no longer the peppy cheerleading type. During her English class, she seems to have attracted the attention of Todd who is a jock and as Cassie believes is not her type of guy. Her dream guy is Jake Turner, her next door neighbor and bad boy extraordinaire, he is also a musician and plays in a band called Fresh Suicide. His band is playing in the Battle of the Bands competition, and Jake wants to meet her backstage, this is finally her chance to get lucky with Jake. However, love likes to play tricks, and when Cassie and her friend Gina need a...

  Review: 1987 - How Do I Get You Alone - Book #8 Love in the 80's Series - Cameo Renae - August 2016 A year later I am slowly making my way through the Love in the 80's novellas that were released each month during 2016. This one I was looking forward to as I was born in 1987. The story, however, wasn't what I was hoping for as I wanted to experience more of a 1980's feel. In 1987, we met Lyssa Taylor who has just graduated from High School, and she and her best friends are off to a cabin in the woods - no Horror movie references needed for this book when her best friend Tiffany's brother decides to crash their time in the cabin. Lyssa is like the fifth wheel in her friends as they all have boyfriends, her heart though has been set on one guy all along - Travis Preston. Her best friend's older brother. What happens when he decides to crash their weekend away? Will Lyssa and Travis finally get to spend some quality time together? Will ...

Review: 1986 - Why Can't This Be Love - Book #7 Love In the 80's Series - R.K Ryals - july 2016 Spring Break was supposed to be the time of Tori Allen's life when she was finally going to get her man. For the past months, Tori has been eyeing up the bartender Corey Allen at the Cube. She has been trying to get his attention as she thinks he is the bomb diggity bomb. She will, however, discover that looks aren't everything and that they can be deceiving .  On the night in question, Tori ends up almost being raped by Corey and Dylan Black comes to her rescue. Dylan has had some bad luck thrown to him and is currently working off to pay back damages at his Uncle's Ten-Pin Bowling Alley. Dylan is the type of guy that parents warn their daughters from as he his bad news. For Tori, things are about to get complicated as she is falling for Dylan and it doesn't help that her parents are as strict as can be. This leads to Tori having a politic...

Review: 1985 - Careless Whisper - Book #6 Love in the 80's series - Misty Provencher - June 2016   I am slowly getting through the 1980's series , you know how you feel in the mood to read something and then you keep flicking through as nothing is grabbing your attention ? Then something sparks in your memory, of a series you brought the whole collection of but never got around to finishing . I was searching for something to read and then thought of the Love in the 80's series and wham bam - I arrived in the year 1985.  Well technically, the book is set seven years later in 1992. This was different to the previous books which are set during the  year they were written. In 1992 , Grace's grandma Gada has passed away and now Grace has returned home to pack up her belongings and also as the will stipulates she must spend a week in her childhood home. Grace arrives , she hasn't been back to her hometown since 1985 when she left for New Yor...

  Review: 1984 : Against all Odds - Book #5 Love in the 80's Series - Rebecca Yarros - May 2016 Before the music industry ruled both of their lives, two teenagers fell in love, Sabrina Caroline, and Hawke Owens. The two were heavily in love and thought the world of one another, and they complimented each other's musical talents, and then reality and fame hit breaking the pair apart. Now years later, Sabrina is America's Pop Sweetheart and is making her comeback from having a year off. There are rumors circulating, but the truth is she hates performing in front of people and gets bad stage anxiety.  Hawke Owens's band Birds of Prey are climbing the charts fast and hard, and now they are the top band around, and everyone wants a piece of them. Now Sabrina is being forced into a collaboration project with Birds of Prey. Will the pair be able to work together especially with their jagged history? Can the musical pair make their rom...