A Week In New York by Louise Bay

Anna Kirby is sick of dating. She's tired of heartbreak. Despite being smart, sexy, and funny, she's a magnet for men who don't deserve her.

A week's vacation in New York is the ultimate distraction from her most recent break-up, as well as a great place to meet a stranger and have some summer fun. But to protect her still-bruised heart, fun comes with rules. There will be no sharing stories, no swapping numbers, and no real names. Just one night of uncomplicated fun.

Super-successful serial seducer Ethan Scott has some rules of his own. He doesn't date, he doesn't stay the night, and he doesn't make any promises.

It should be a match made in heaven. But rules are made to be broken.


Ahhh, how to begin this review without you picturing me flailing and crying happy tears about how great this novella was? Like I-could-go-days-without-reading-anything-while-I-soak-in-the-awesomeness-of-this-book great.

The chemistry between Anna and Ethan was just amazing to read and, well, experience. It just felt real and I loved how unpretentious their supposed one night stand was. Just like the characters, the story was in-your-face fun and had lots of steamy sex. Yes! What more do you need? Knowing that there pseudo-relationship has an expiration date, reading the book felt like I had to be in there, in the story to make sure that the week they had was something they would never forget. All this despite their promise that it was all going to be about the sex, one hundred per cent no strings attached.

So I just found myself another author to fangirl for. (Yes, there are favorite authors and there are those you fangirl about because favoriting them is too casual.) OMG, I loved LB's writing style. It was smooth, easy, and comfortable reading all through out for me. Don't get me wrong though. I still got euphoric at the highs in this book, still felt butterflies in my stomach in all those romantic scenes, and that ending? To put it mildly, it did a whammy on my heart. That's effortless effective writing.

Must.Get. More. Louise Bay. Books.

PS How friggin' sexy is that cover?! Le sigh.


Final verdict: 10/10. Awesome must-read.

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Grace @FilthyBlueBird

@VaughnAsher #YouAreCaredFor So the movie star says. But his idea of cared for isn't the same as mine. Obviously a #Douche.

MovieStar @VaughnAsher

@FilthyBlueBird #BehindTheScenesIsMyScene The Blue Bird has trust issues. And tantrum issues. And commitment issues.

Grace @FilthyBlueBird

@VaughnAsher #SaidTheKettleToThePot

MovieStar @VaughnAsher

@FilthyBlueBird #YouAreMine and I won't let you forget it.

Grace @FilthyBlueBird

@VaughnAsher #YouMustShitUnicorns that's how delusional your fairy tale is. #GetAGripOnReality I'm outtie.

MovieStar @VaughnAsher

@FilthyBlueBird You're an #Innie #Sweetheart :) My tongue licked all your #CuteLittleButtons.

#ForTheLoveOfFilth

Why is he so damn sexy? How will I ever get out from under Asher's thumb if I can't stop thinking about his tongue on my buttons? #HottiesNeedToPlayFair

So this is the part in the serial when things start to get serious. If the first two books were full of sexy fun, this novella screamed complications.

Vaughn Asher, being the Hollywood heartthrob he was, was hit with the scandal that he was going to be a father--with a fomer 'girlfriend.' This added more tension to the already-complicated almost-relationship that he had with Grace. But I loved how Graced continued to live her life despite everything that she was having (or not) with Vaughn. So she continued to be the busy career woman that she was. And then her work brought her to Las Vegas...where things get more complicated that they already were. Lemme just say that this had Hangover written all over it. Love, love, love.

With the new angles that were being introduced into the story, this story had now become bigger than just being about Asher and Grace. It was like it was finally taking on a life of its own. It was a good surprise. But most of all, we were given two cliffhangers to deal with at the end of this read. Because apparently one wasn't enough.

Shiznit, what did Vaughn do now?! Gimme part 4 now, please!

Final verdict: 7/10. Good read.

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#WhatADick

Vaughn Asher. I’ve stalked him relentlessly. I shaped and formed my lust into the perfect dirty hashtag...day after day...weekend after weekend. He was my prince. My fairy tale. My fantasy.

I gave him the best years of my online life and what did he do for me? 

Ruined my social media experience one tweet at a time. That’s what.

MovieStar @VaughnAsher 
@FilthyBlueBird #Fantastic #BackToNatureFucking #MissingSomething #You

And now #TheDickWhoIsVaughnAsher thinks he can weasel his way back into this filthy blue bird’s Twitter account? He’s wrong.

His public fantasy is about to collide...ah, fuck it. He’s hot as hell, bitches. I need more than a free sample. This time I want it all and I’ll do whatever it takes to get it.


This story is growing on me by the volume. I don't know why but the appeal of Grace and Vaughn being together just gets me. Everytime. Probably because I am such a fangirl myself (although never to Grace's extent) so I would totally understand the dilemma Grace was going through--to give in or not to the man she had been crushing on for years. I'm sure my head will be spinning, too, were I in her shoes.

Despite this read being all hot and sexy, I do find some points to be funny and I love how things are unraveling in the story. I loved that Vaughn turned out to be an adoptive father. This was a total surpise; I didn't see it coming at all. I sense that he was really trying to be his badass self but it was easy to tell that he was beginning to change so that he could continue to keep Grace in his life. I am just a little bothered by his stalker-ish behavior though...which he called security. Riiight. Damn, alpha males!

After just the second part in this series, I'm totally sucked into the story. I cannot wait how this love story will pan out.


Final verdict: 8/10. Good read.


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Beast (Part 2) by Ella James

Continue the dark, erotic journey of Annabelle, the warden's daughter, and the man she's pined for since her girlhood. No longer Cal Hammond, actor, Beast is a brutal man who runs the prison's gangs from behind a shroud of secrecy and lies. Can Annabelle's love save him from his tainted past, or will his deceit ruin both of them?


I am all for a bit of sexy fun and I won't say no to reading a bit of smut. That was what I was thinking when I started reading this serial. Unfortunately, I forgot to remember that this was a modern version of a fairy tale and when it was put into the mix, it got pretty weird to me. Fast.

I mean, the Beast and Annabelle's attraction to each other as well as their chemistry was enjoyable to read but I just wasn't feeling the setting, that their affair started in a prison. Granted they did have a past, years before, but all I can think of was Prison Break and T-Bag causing trouble.

I have to internalize (hard!) that this was based on Beauty and the Beast but I was not entirely convinced with the plot. But then it is supposed to be a modern fairy tale. You'll just have to take it from there.


Final verdict: 6/10. Okay read.


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Beast (Part 1)

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#Women.

I fuck them. I use them. I pay them off. I find another. My demands are never denied. My contracts are always signed. They submit to me. Willingly. Completely. Temporarily. This is how it's always been.

Until I saw that filthy tweet.

@VaughnAsher My bare pussy. Your tongue. #ThingsIThinkAboutToGetOff

"FilthyBlueBird" thinks she can tease me with hashtags and then hide behind a Twitter handle? She thinks I wouldn't be more than happy to #RockHerFilthyWorld? She's wrong.

Her online fantasy is about to collide with her public reality, and it's about to happen...now.


What did I say about serials, huh? But what the heck, just look at this book though. I can't say no to that cover or that blurb. It's going to be ridiculously fun reading this series, I can tell.

I didn't know I wanted a story like this until I came across it. Ahh, the possibilities of this story could be endless. Reading the blurb really gave me the giggles...but only in the best of ways.

This read was loads of fun and sexy. Seriously, what is not sexy about Vaughn Asher? Eeeeeep!!! Unexpectedly, I find that Grace was more than what I initially thought her to be. She may be able to dirty tweet a Hollywood god but her character turned to be one that wasn't a dumb pushover, one that could actually think for herself. She was strong enough to say no when her fantasy man was offered to her on a platter. Good God, woman, what were you thinking? Seriously though, I think I love her.

Needless to say, I enjoyed reading this novella. I loved the chemistry between Asher and Grace. I loved how the sexy and fun are just right in between these pages. Needless to say, JAH just earned another fan in me.

And that cliffhanger ending? Absolutely brilliant!


Final verdict: 8/10. Good read.

Beast (Part 1) by Ella James

FROM HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY

At twenty-one years old, third-generation movie star Cal Hammond was on top of the world. He had more money than God and more women than any man could need. But when a night of debauchery ends in tragedy, he forfeits a life of luxury for a ten-year prison sentence at La Rosa, California’s most violent prison.

TO A BRUTAL BEAST

Eight years later, a ruthless, cunning man runs La Rosa from the inside. He is known simply as BEAST. All the wardens fear him. All the gangs obey him. He speaks to no one but his inner council. What he says is law.

NOW ONLY SHE CAN SAVE HIM

Annabelle Mitchell’s father is the warden at La Rosa. He deals as dirty as his trustees, and after years of smooth relations with Beast and the gangs he runs, Holt lands on the powerful prisoner’s hit list. That very afternoon, Annabelle pays a surprise visit to her father’s work, hoping to use her new counseling license at a place she thinks she could make a difference. When she catches Beast’s eye, he releases the warden and grabs the daughter. The price for the warden’s error is not death. It’s his precious Belle.

I am not a big fan of serials but I'm at it again. And I'm also not the biggest fan of the plot but I was such a sucker for Prison Break. So, why the heck not read this?

I was a bit intrigued by how the story would go about with how the plot was presented in the blurb. But I was glad to find that there was more to the story of Cal and Annabelle than when I first thought. ***SPOILER*** That they had a past together, no matter how short, added dimension to a story that may have the potential of being an awkward (or just simply weird, really) storyline.

This first installment of this series was a total surprise and I was glad I gave in to my curiosity to try checking it out. However, I am still half convinced for now if I really want to get on the the next one. But as they say, never say never.

Final verdict: 7/10. Good read.

Reasonable Doubt Volume 3 by Whitney Gracia Williams

I hate him...

I hate that I fell in love with him, I hate that he didn’t love me back, and I hate the fact that I just made a life-altering decision just so I could get the hell away from him. 

He’d always said that he was unchangeable, heartless, and cold… 

I really should’ve believed him...


So we have come to the conclusion of this serial. I actually finished this a while back but I have been a lazybutt this month and only got to to posting this review.

This was one of those stories that just kept on surprising its readers. Well, I knew there were some things that were going to be really big secrets that were going to be revealed based on the teasers from the first two parts. But what the heck, I didn't expect THIS!

But I think my most favorite part was when Audrey really went for her dream of becoming a ballerina and, despite making that decision, she was still able to salvage her fledgling relationship with her parents. A heroine that eventually grows a spine always gets two thumbs up from me.

I couldn't actually believe when I learned that this is going to be the last installment in this series because hello! I need more Liam and Audrey. I want more of their happy ever after. Don't get me wrong, there's a proper conclusion to their story but I'm selfish like that when I bond with these characters.


Final verdict: 9/10. Great read.


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Reasonable Doubt Volume 2 by Whitney Gracia Williams

She lied to me...
She betrayed the one rule that I'm most adamant about: Honesty. Complete and utter fucking honesty. 
I really wish she was someone else—someone who didn't have the ability to make me feel, someone I could easily discard like the hundreds of women before her. 
She isn't. 
I'm drawn to her like I've never been drawn to a woman before—completely captivated by the very sight of her. But unfortunately, with my past slowly re-surfacing for all of the world to see, I'll have to find a way to let her go. 
She can never be mine. 


I have always told myself not to start a book series if it's not fully complete because the waiting is gonna be one heck of a pain in the neck. But I would rather have that than miss this series because the first part was just too intriguing. Okaaay...and too sexy to pass up on and wait for the entire series to finish.

While Andrew wasn't an instant from the start of this series, he certainly grew on me. So imagine my dismay at the end of the first part of this serial. Ugh! But he is starting to redeem himself in my books (no pun intended) in this second installment. He just does. There's nothing like a seemingly untouchable male lead starting to show cracks and starts to crumble. I feel like doing a fist pump and doing a hell yeah! And I still adore Aubrey. I love her spunk and I'm rooting for her to bring Andrew to his knees.

I loved how WGW started to unravel the story of Andrew's life. I say it ever gets boring in these pages.  Bring on Volume 3 please!


Final verdict: 8/10. Great read.


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Reasonable Doubt by Whitney Gracia Williams

My cock has an appetite. 

A huge and very particular appetite: Blonde, curvy, and preferably not a fucking liar...(Although, that's a story for another day.)

As a high profile lawyer, I don't have time to waste on relationships, so I fulfill my needs by anonymously chatting and sleeping with women I meet online. 

My rules are simple: One dinner. One night. No repeats. 

This is only casual sex. Nothing more. Nothing less. 

At least it was , until "Alyssa"...

She was supposed to be a 27 year old lawyer, a book hoarder, and completely unattractive. She was supposed to be someone I shared law advice with late at night, someone I could trust with details of my weekly escapades. 

But then she came into my firm for an interview--a college-intern interview, and everything fucking changed...


I am the kind of idiot who did not read anything about this before I started reading it. I. Was. That. Excited. So I started reading it only to realize it was a serial instead of the full-length novel that I expected to read in go.

To make matters worse, I totally loved this! I personally want to jump Andrew's bones. The man was hot and that mouth--phew! That dirty-taking mouth of his just got me going, I tell you. *fans self*

This was a fast-paced, funny, and steamy hot read. I loved Andrew and Alyssa, er, Aubrey's chemistry and the fact that they couldn't stop themselves from having the other. I actually liked that Aubrey wanted to just being friends with the 'mentor' she had met online. But I liked how Andrew just could help himself from seducing her. Those text message exchanges! *swoon* Thoreau me please, thank you.

I cannot wait for the second part in this serial to come out. I want more unf! Hurry, hurry!!!


Final verdict: 9/10. Great read.