Review: The Bad Guy - Celia Aaron - May 2017 Reading The Bad Guy by Celia Aaron felt a little like coming home. It transported me back to my early days of book blogging, back around 2017, when my blog was only seven years old. Fast forward to today, and The Phantom Paragrapher is now celebrating 16 years! I remember when Celia Aaron first burst onto the book world, and I loved her writing then. Even now, all these years later, I still find myself excited to pick up one of her books. And honestly? This book was exactly what I needed. Lately, I have found myself picking up books that just haven't quite hit the spot. You know that feeling when you're reading, waiting for something to click, but it never quite does? The Bad Guy was the opposite. From the moment I started reading, it just felt right. This is very much an anti-hero romance where the so-called bad guy might actually be the right guy, while the supposedly nice guy turns out to be... well, a complete jerk. Sometimes the...

              Review: Sinclair - Book #0.5 Acquisition Series - Celia Aaron - January 2016 Clearing the Kindle of old books can be an exciting journey as you stumble across gems that you had forgotten about or books that are part of a series you read and you are suddenly reunited with your favourite characters. This series is one of those where the main male characters are villains but also you can't help but fall in love with them as you know that deep down there is some spark of niceness inside of them somewhere, they just need the right person to help them release it. Sinclair is the prequel quick read for the Acquisition series by Celia Aaron. In this book, we read about how Sinclair witnessed the transformation of his mother as she turned into a Sovereign and then the beginning of Stella and how she came to be part of the Vinemont's property with her father's downfall. Like most prequels, Sinclair is a very quick read and one of those books that...

Review: Magnate - Book #2 Acquisition Series - Celia Aaron - January 2016 One of my goals for 2021 was to try and finally read some of the books that I have had on my kindle for years and Magnate was one of those. Years ago, I read the first book and enjoyed it and got the rest of the series as Celia Aaron is a must-read author for me. For those who need a bit of a recap, our main female character was sold to the Vinemont’s and is their entry into the Acquisition games. Whichever family wins, ends up ruling all the families and being the most feared family until the next games. Stella was signed over to Sinclair but then saved by Lucius but now signed back over to Sinclair as he enters back into the games. The games are rough and tough on the body not to mention the soul and in the second trial which is seen to be worse than the first, there is a new family as participants - her ex-stepmother and stepbrother. Are they here to save her or do they have something worse up their sleeves? I...

Title: Lucius An Aquisitions Series  Novel Author: Celia Aaron Genre: Dark Romance Release Date: August 3, 2021 BLURB Lucius Vinemont ruined my life. It was a long time ago. It feels like yesterday. I haven’t let it go, and I won’t. Not until he’s dead. Lucius is the bogeyman, the shadow under my bed, the nightmare that wakes me in my sleep. I loved him once, in the foolish way of a teenage girl. Those feelings are buried deep, soaked in blood and covered in a fine ash. Because Lucius was never just a bad boy, he was so, so much worse. When you shoot a man through the heart, he’s supposed to die. But Lucius isn’t a man. He’s a monster. One who promises pleasures wrapped in pain. But the closer I get to him, the more I realize he’s not the only evil lurking in my past. . . ADD TO GOODREADS PURCHASE LINKS AMAZON  US  /  UK  /  CA  /  AU B&N / KOBO / APPLE BOOKS GOOGLE PLAY EXCERPT “Don’t lie to me, Evelyn.” His nostrils flar...