Title: Backstage Pass (Sinners On Tour #1)
Author: Olivia Cunning
eBook Edition
Amount of Pages: 384 pages
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Meant for: Adults
Source: Amazon
Summary:
The first in a new erotic romance series, Backstage Pass is a
sizzling mix of sex, love, and rock n’ roll
It’s been months since Brian Sinclair, lead guitarist for the famous rock
band, Sinners, composed anything. Unable to write the music that once flowed so
naturally, Brian is lost without his musical mojo. But when sexy psychology
professor Myrna Evans comes on tour to study groupie mentality, Brian may have
found the spark he needs to reignite his musical genius. When lust turns to
love, will Brian be able to convince Myrna that what they have is more than just
a fling, and that now that he’s found his heart’s muse, he doesn’t want to live
without her?
My Review: I discovered this book while looking at my goodreads feed, and had seen that a friend of mine on the site just happened to be starting this book. I clicked on the photo, and read the summary and instantly went and snatched it up. In under five minutes I was already reading Backstage Pass, and let me tell you from then on, I was hooked!
Characters:
I absolutely loved every member of The Sinners and thought that each of them had there own certain appeal to them. I found each of them to be at times, sexy, funny and just plain adorable. I wanted to be Myrna throughout the whole book. Not to mention all that steaminess going on behind the scenes of each concert. Damn.
Relationships:
Myrna was a perfect choice for Brian. I thought that they both meddled together, and had a certain balance for each other. While Brian was more of a person to wear his heart on his sleeve and more fast going in a relationship, Myrna pushed back and reminded him that they had to slow things down a bit when she felt like he was becoming too invested into what was going on between them.
I thought that this was a wise thing to do, because usually it's always the women in these books that is expecting too much out of things, and I felt that it was very refreshing that this time it was the man.
I very much appreciated that the other guys weren't just there, but that Myrna formed a friendship with each of them.
End Thoughts:
This book was just, god, amazing. I feel like every person that is going to be writing erotica needs to read this and take some notes. I felt this had everything that a book needed, I can't even list all the things this book!
Highly reccomended, just go, seriously just go and stop reading and buy this book. You won't regret it.
I give Backstage Pass (Sinner's On Tour #1) 5/5 stars.
Title: The Last Girl
Author: Kitty Thomas
Kindle Edition
Amount of Pages: 114 pages
Release Date: Febuary 12, 2012
Publisher: Burlesque Press
Meant for: Adults
Source: Amazon
Summary: Six years ago strangers broke into Juliette’s house; she was home alone and only
thirteen. She kept her eyes closed, praying that if she didn’t see anything, she
wouldn’t be killed. No one harmed her. In fact, one of the thieves protected
her. Now Juliette’s dreams are haunted by him.
Christian has waited to
take her, resisting the urge each night. It always ends badly with human pets.
They’re too fragile. The longer he can wait, the better, because the moment he
takes her, the clock on her life starts ticking down.
Then she’ll be gone
forever.
My Review:
I was so excited to get this book after reading Guilty Pleasures and The Aution by Kitty Thomas, both of which I gave 5 stars. I thought it was going to have the same feel that the other books had but unfortunately it wasn't anything of what I expected it to be.
I'm not really sure how I feel about this. I have never been disturbed while reading something that is erotica. Kitty Thomas you actually managed to disturb me, and I don't know whether or not that is a good or bad thing. I'm not sure I should have rated it 1 or 5 stars. While the things that Christian puts Juliette through are horrible, I can't help but feel that is the intention and I felt Kitty captured the emotion's anyone would feel in this kind of situation with Juliette.
Characters:
I thought Christian was cruel, and in mind that I was reading an erotica, he repelled me from ever being attracted to him. Which I think is a no-no if you're writing that sort of book. I didn't really find anything about him redeeming as Juliette did, and found that at times I just wanted Juliette to get up the nerve to kill him so that she could free herself from such abuse.
Juliette at sometimes, I thought was delusional because she stayed with Christian. She let herself be totured, and cared more about him than she did herself.
Relationships:
I thought that Christian and Juliette's relationship was really disfunctional. One minute Christian was hurting her and the next he was warning her not to be with him. Meanwhile if he really felt that way, he would have released her the first chance he got. But he prolonged the pain and made Juliette question herself and her morals.
Ramblings:
While reading I felt very uncomfortable, I found I couldn't even read the book while surrounded by other people because I thought they would lean over my shoulder at any moment and read what I was reading.
The Last Girl kind of makes me apprahensive to reading her other books that I have, Comfort Foods, and Tender Mercies. I can only hope they are better than this, and more like the other things I have read by her.
End Thoughts:
Would I reccomend this ebook to everyone? No. Would I suggest this to those who are into erotica? Maybe. Everyone has different preferences, and this just happened not to be one of mine. I can never undermine Thomas' writing skill, and found that even though I did not appreciate the themes current within this work, I love the way she pieced everything together, and created the imagery the way she did.
I give The Last Girl, 3/5 stars.
Title: Wither
Author: Lauren DeStefano
Paperback Edition
Amount of Pages: 384 pages
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Meant For: Young Adults
From: Amazon
Summary: From Booklist:
When scientists engineered genetically perfect children, everyone thought it
would ensure the future of the human race. Though the first generation is nearly
immortal, a virus causes all successive generations to die early: age 20 for
women, 25 for men. Now, girls are kidnapped for brothels or polygamous marriages
to breed children. Rhine is taken from her hardscrabble life and sold with two
other girls to Linden Ashby. Though they live in a palatial Florida home
surrounded by gardens and treated like royalty, the girls are sequestered from
the outside world, and Rhine longs to escape. Her growing affection for her
sister wives, her pity for Linden, and her fear of Housemaster Vaughn, Linden's
manipulative father, keep her uncomfortably docile, until she falls for servant
Gabriel.
honeywhenyousleep's Review: I first picked up this book on a impulse buy. I had read briefly about it on a forum and thought that the summary sounded interesting. I had never read a dystopian novel that dealt with certain dying periods as this book has and decided to give it a shot. It was pleasant surprise, and I have to say this is one of my favorite books.
Characters:
I very much appreciate the narrative from Rhine's perspective and love her descriptions of things, and the way she incorporates memories within scenes, every time something triggers a thought to come to her mind. I found that Rhine was an very clever character, with the way she continuously manipulated everyone around her to believe that she wanted and did care for Linden the way he did for her.
Rhine's sister wives, Jenna and Cecily, were also amazing characters just by themselves. I loved the way they interacted with each other, handling their marriage in a way that they each accepted they were not the only ones to be with Linden, and ended up each having a different relationship altogether with him.
Relationships:
Now if you would ask me in this book which love interest I would chosen for Rhine to be with, it would be Linden. I found him to be such a sweetheart, but incredibly naive. Not to say that I did not appreciate Gabriel's character would be a lie, but I felt like he wasn't in the book as much as to lead Rhine on that they could be with one another. Sometimes I felt like the way they felt for each others was exaggerated, and that Rhine was in denial for feeling for Linden, that she chose to want Gabriel as a way to suppress her want.
Ramblings:
I finished this book within a day, and the way it is written and paced is just right for me. It wasn't too fast, but it wasn't too slow. Everything was explained in a orderly fashion and not taken to be rushed and I felt it was quite alright that at some parts it was lengthy.
I love the whole concept of this dsytopia, and feel it is much different that anything that is out there at the moment. There was a certain feel to this book that I couldn't describe. It almost felt contemporary, but it does not only talk of what is happening with the disappearing human race, but it shows how it affected everyone and the way things are viewed in this type of society. For example, a grown man being with a 13 year old is acceptable in this society, as if kidnapping to repopulate.
And sometimes it felt like a mystery book as well, as Linden's father drops hints to be deceiving his son, and everyone around them with this 'cure' he is trying to find.
End Thoughts:
After I finished this book, I just could not wait to get my hands on Fever, and I was so happy to have found out that within that week I had read Wither, that it was coming out.
I definitely recommend this to anyone, even if dystopian isn't really there thing, as it has something for everybody in my opinion.
I give Wither a 5/5 rating.
Title: The Accidental
Vampire
Author: Lynsay
Sands
eBook
Edition
Amount
of Pages: 384 pages
Release
Date: December 26, 2007
Publisher: Avon
Meant
For: Adults
From: Library
Summary:
Ever since
an accident turned her into a knockout vamp, Elvi Black's been catching her z's
in a coffin, staying out of the sun, and giving up garlic. She knows there's
more to being undead than what she saw in Dracula, but she can't very well ask
her mortal friends about proper biting etiquette. But when her neighbors placed
a personal ad for her in the local paper, she never imagined she'd meet Victor
Argeneau, a vampire who could have his pick of any woman—dead or alive.
Rich,
powerful, and drop—dead gorgeous, Victor's the perfect man for a novice
neck—biter like Elvi. He's willing to teach her everything he knows, but he'll
have to do it fast. Someones out to put a stake through her new vamp life, and
only Victor can keep her safe—and satisfied—for all eternity.
honeywhenyousleeps'
Review:
This is not
my first Lynsay Sands book, and after reading this one, it won't be my last. I
thoroughly enjoyed this book, all the way until the ending, and finished it
quite fast, in about a day or so.
Relationships:
Elvi's
friends decide to put an ad in the paper, looking for a single male vampire, and
six men are asked to come down to her restaurant to surprise her. I loved the way
Victor and Elvi were both attracted to each other instantly, but were fighting
what they felt for one another, until they could deny it no
longer.
I loved
Victor's friend, DJ, that decided to come along with him to support him on what
had originally had been a mission, for Victor and DJ believed that Elvi had
broken the law of exposing them for what they were.
DJ and
Mabels relationship literally had me dying. I was laughing so hard I could not
stop, the whole book really.
And, be
warned, they are explicit sex scene starting around the middle of the book until
the end.
Characters:
They are
the things I love most about Lynsay Sands books. Her characters are always
making me react in some way. Either they make me laugh, angry, or smile like an
idiot. My favorite though, in this book, would have to be Victor. There was just
a certain allure to him, and the way he easily accepted and cared for Elvi, and
how he was committed to a relationship, although she was weary.
Loved the
cheesecake situation, if you read it, you'll know what I'm talking about. I had
a crush on Alesandro. Just such a cute little Italian.
Ramblings:
This book
flows effortlessly. I literally was like 'wow' when I saw I was almost done with
it. It's so amazing, you don't realize that it's a
book.
Some of the
stuff, in the book, did make me go like 'what was that for, are they that
stupid?' and this was mostly directed at Mabel, and Teddy. They had Elvi
believing ridiculous things, that they had no evidence to back up. If you had
read the books in the series before this one, you'll know what I'm talking
about.
Lynsay
Sands mythology is much different than other vampire books. They can be out in
the sun, they do not age, and can only be killed with a stake in the heart.
Basically, vampires originated from Atlantis. Nanos, these tiny cells, repair
the body, and revise the aging process and those handy things, but they need
more blood for the more damage that they have.
End
Thought:
I'll be
waiting for the 8th book to come into hands, anxiously, and will reread this
rest in wait. I give this book a 4/5. Great book for a day in a bed, that's when
I read it, while I had the most horrible toothache. You won't regret
it.
