Review: Under a Million Stars - Rita Branches - August 2016 With author's works, sometimes their books are amazing and you find yourself so engrossed in them and then they write a new one and you try to read it but it's not as exciting or engrossing to you as the first read and you struggle a bit with it. For me, that's how I found Under a Million Stars as I loved her debut novel Painting Sky and was looking forward to this book and then as I started reading - it began good and then fell flat for me and I found it really hard to connect to the characters in this story. The book starts off with Charlotte at her piano concert and her family not turning up , we then discover that there was a car accident which has now left her an orphan. Charlotte still only seventeen goes to live with her family's best friends - The Parkers . Growing up Charlotte and Jacob Parker were inseperable and they even shared together their first kisses and all was going well unt...

  Review: Dark and Twisted Games - Book #1 Heart of Faelylon Series - Heidi Acosta - April 2016 Growing up life for Eden has been difficult as living in a small town, she has been called a freak due to her aunt's condition and the fact her parents are dead and then even her Grandmother has shunned her.  The only person she can really count on and who makes her life bearable for the fact that she hangs around with Eden is Liv who is the complete opposite of her - Miss Popular, Cheerleader and Beautiful. Compared to Liv, Eden is your plain jane type of girl. That is until she catches the interest of not only one guy but two - the two new Foster kids Cardelian and Jaxon. Cardelian is Mr. Popular and Jaxon is the Social Outcast but it seems that Cardelian is making an effort to get to know Eden and he is the one all the girls are crushing after but it's Jaxon whom Eden wants to know and he is the one warning her to stay away but she can't. As the book goes on we ...

  Review: Going Down in Flames - Book #1 Going Down in Flames Series - Chris Cannon - June 2014 Bryn is about to get the wake up and discovery of a lifetime as her sixteenth birthday nears when a stranger turns up and hypnotises her and tells her that she comes from a family of shapeshifters and that she is actually a dragon and not just any dragon but a rare kind as for centuries and in their history books - dragons have been told that it is impossible to cross-bred from different clans and Bryn's Mum is a Blue Dragon and her father is a Red Dragon. Just before Bryn was born, they escaped the Dragon world and was banished and told never to return as they had broke the rules by marrying outside their bloodlines and clans as also Dragons are told who they are to marry. Now Bryn is sixteen and coming into her dragon powers, she is to attend the Dragon Training Academy and face the world her parents escaped from. As an abonimation , she is shunned by many dragons espec...

  Review: Zia the Teenage Zombie and the Undead Diaries - Angela Scott - September 2015 After a boating accident killed Zia , her father was desperate and went to a Witch Doctor and got Zia resurrected as a Zombie. Now living in a world which is divided between Supernaturals aka Living Impaireds and Humans , Zia must learn to navigate through her newfound world and if that wasn't as bad she has a new step-family and an annoying Stepsister who is the same age as Zia. Being a Zombie isn't all fun and games and in terms of the LI's being a Zombie is the bottom of the supernatural rung in term of prettiness as how pretty and beautiful can you be when you have a constant rotting corpse and the occassional maggot hanging out of your body, not to mention the odd limb coming apart now and again. Prior to becoming a Zombie, Zia had a boyfriend but once she became a Zombie all that disappeared , but now she has not one guy after her but three . Two are Zombies and the on...

  Review: Naked - Stacey Trombley - July 2015 As readers will know , I am a cover girl and that is what drew me to this book as the cover was so innovative and creative. Who would have thought to create a cover like this to explain Stacey's new book "Naked".  In Naked, we meet Exquisite ,a sixteen year old prostitute living in New York. The first scene takes place in a police station and we learn that Exquisite was in fact Anna - a girl who ran away from home when she was fourteen years old. Anna has been living with her "pimp" after he saved her from ever having to be raped again - after her first instance when she arrived in New York. The social worker has now taken her back home to her parents, the thing is in Anna's eyes - her life was much better living on the streets than under the thick thumb and ruling of her father whom we discover is abusive towards Anna and her mother.  He enrols Anna back into school and we read how difficult it is...

    Review: Faking Perfect - Rebecca Phillips - June 2015 It's interesting reading books where quite a few seem to follow a specific trend , one of the biggest ones I have seen are books where the main character comes from either a broken home or an abusive one. The character tends to go two ways, she either falls into the "stay away from me " as I am broken or damaged or she tries to fake her way through life acting cheery and what she thinks classifies as the "perfect" one. For Lexi Shaw, she took the latter option . On the inside , she lives with an abusive sometimes but neglectful mother and has one night stands with bad boys - one in particular is Tyler who is the school's epitome of Bad Boy.  The thing is though that Lexi has a crush on Ben - her friend and the popular golden boy at school. But when she finally gets to date her dream guy, will she discover that often those who appear good and perfect are actually ugly creatures inside ...

Unexpected by  Lilly Avalon   Release Date: 07/21/15 New Adult/Standalone Summary from Goodreads: Ever had one of those days? Alina Lyons is having one. Everything keeps falling apart and going wrong. Just when she thinks it couldn't get worse, it does. After a case of mistaken identity and a broken heart, she finds herself questioning the things she thought she knew. She wonders who she can turn to or trust anymore. An unlikely bond with her former best friend's ex, Ryan Wilcox, sends her life in a new direction. He offers her a place to stay while she gets her life back on track. His friendship is exactly what she's been missing—what she's been needing. Alina's never felt this alive. As time goes by, the dynamic of their relationship becomes more than either of them expected. A few innocent kisses could lead them in a new direction, but are they prepared for what's on the other side? Only one way to find out...