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domingo, 17 de junho de 2018

Double Down (All In Duet #2) by Alessandra Torre



I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review

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In Vegas, there was one man who was off limits. One man... and I fell for him. 

I knew there were risks. Still, I played the game. When Dario Capece called, I answered. When he beckoned, I came. When he broke all my rules, I looked the other way. 

I knew there were risks. I just never realized they included death. 

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As a HUGE fan of Alessandra Torres´ books, it was a great honor for me to receive this ARC from netgalley. Thanks a lot.

This book is the second one in the All In Duet, and it starts right after the end of the first book. 

With Bella Running away form Vegas because of Gwen´s murder.

I loved how Dario think of Bell, even through all the hell he was going through with Gwen´s murder, his prison and everything else after.

He´s first priority was always Bell, and that´s made me feel for him even more.

I loved how he never backed down, even when everybody was judging them because of their relationship. And how he never let Bell feels like she´s the other one. She´s his top priority and he makes her feel all his love for her.

It was worthy of the waiting

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Como um grande fã dos livros de Alessandra Torres, foi uma grande honra para mim receber este ARC da netgalley. Muito obrigado.

Este livro é o segundo no All In Duet, e começa logo após o final do primeiro livro, c Bell fugindo de Vegas por causa do assassinato de Gwen.

Eu amei como o Dario sempre pensava primeiro em Bell, mesmo com todo o inferno que ele estava passando com o assassinato de Gwen, sua prisão e tudo mais depois. Sua primeira prioridade sempre foi Bell, e isso me fez sentir ainda mais por ele.


Eu adorei como ele nunca desistiu, mesmo quando todos os julgavam por causa de seu relacionamento com Bell. E como ele nunca deixou Bell se sentir como se ela fosse a outra. Ela é sua prioridade e ele a faz sentir todo o seu amor por ela.

Valeu a espera.

Even Money (All In Duet #1) by Alessandra Torre



Sometimes it only takes a minute. A connection of eyes across a room, a quickened heartbeat, and everything changes.

I was a cocktail waitress with a fondness for partying and meaningless sex. 
He owned half of Vegas, with the reputation to match. 

I should have turned away. Instead, I stepped closer.

Then, the lies started.
Rumors spread.
Stalking commenced.
And someone died. 

None of it stopped me from falling in love.

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I love Alessandra Torre´s books. They´re all so enthralling and they always hook me in easily.

This one was no different. Even, with Dario being married, I never felt like he was cheating on Gwen, because it explicited very clearly how they didn´t have a sexual relationship. But, they did have an emotional connection. And sometimes it felt like he was cheating on Bell, even if she was the "mistress".

It was a complicated situation, and I was really irritated with Gwen when she became angry with Dario, about his need to end their relationship. And when she tried to seduce him back, specially because she was in love with Nick and had a relationship with him for a very long time.

I loved how Dario chased Bell, like a moonstrcuk teenager. He fell and he fell hard for her. Their connection were strong and instantaneous. 

I can barely wait for Double Down.

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Eu amo os livros de Alessandra Torre. Eles são todos tão fascinantes e sempre me puxam pra dentro da história com facilidade.

Esse não foi diferente. Até mesmo, com Dario sendo casado, eu nunca senti que ele estava traindo Gwen, porque explicitou muito claramente como eles não tinham um relacionamento sexual. Mas eles tinham uma conexão emocional. E às vezes parecia que ele estava traindo Bell, mesmo que ela fosse a "amante".

Era uma situação complicada, e eu estava realmente irritada com Gwen quando ela ficou brava com Dario, sobre sua necessidade de terminar o relacionamento deles. E quando ela tentou seduzi-lo de volta, especialmente porque ela estava apaixonada por Nick e já mantinha um relacionamento com ele por há um longo tempo.

Eu amei como Dario perseguiu Bell, como um adolescente lunático. Ele se apaixonou rapidamente por ela. A conexão entre eles, foi forte e instantânea.


Eu mal posso esperar por Double Down.


#Moonstruck (#Lovestruck #2) by Sariah Wilson


I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review.

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Over one million “likes”—but only one of them matters.
After pop star Ryan De Luna praises Maisy Harrison’s YouTube cover of his classic hit, he offers Maisy and her fledgling band the opportunity of a lifetime: to be his opening act.
Music may be Maisy’s life, but she has one ground rule: never date a musician. That goes double for a heartbreaker like Ryan. If only she didn’t feel so vulnerable to his larger-than-life charm. And maybe now more than ever, when he asks for her help to shake off his playboy image. How can she resist playing the part of his fake girlfriend for the duration of the tour?
Ryan’s never met anyone like Maisy. She sees past all the star-studded fame and treats him like any other guy. And the more time they spend together, the more he finds himself falling for her. Now he’d like to make their imaginary fling an IRL thing. But can he convince her to take a chance and trust him with her heart?
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What a sweet, lovely book. I loved very much, specially Ryan. He´s the worthy swoony kind of guy.
He knew from the very start what he liked, and he went for it. It´s alwyas beautiful to see a guy who doesn´t play games and know what he wants.
I felt like the baby part was totally unnecessary and I think it was a much better solution for the baby father to be Diego rather than Ryan´s father.
But, take this out of the way, and I loved this book very much.
Thanks for the opportunity.
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Que livro lindo e doce. Eu amei muito, especialmente o Ryan. 
Ele sabia desde o começo o que ele queria, e lutou por isso. É sempre bonito ver um cara que não faz joguinhos e sabe o que quer.
Eu senti que a parte do bebê era totalmente desnecessária e eu acho que uma solução muito melhor era que o pai do bebê fosse o Diego, ao invés do pai do Ryan.
Mas, tire isso do caminho, e eu adorei muito este livro.
Obrigado pela oportunidade.




Rock Legend (Nothing But Trouble #2) by Tara Leigh



I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review

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I'm no Prince Charming.

Most people know me as the drummer for Nothing but Trouble. Depending who you ask, I'm also a playboy, a loner, the life of the party, a screw-up, or according to my fans, "The Sexiest Rock Star on the Planet." Apparently, I'm a legend.

Am I surprised? Hell, no. It's a reputation I've earned behind my drum kit and behind closed doors. No one thought foster kid Landon Cox would become famous. Infamous, maybe. Notorious, probably. But successful? Never. No one except Piper Hastings. But I had to make a choice: my woman or my career. I picked fame and fortune... and spent every damn day since pretending I don't regret it.

Now fate's dropped Piper back into my life. I want to believe it's a second chance for me - for us. But while I can give her a few great nights, I can't give Piper a future.

Because there's a difference between a legend and a fairy tale...
Only one of them ends happily ever after.

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I usually love books about band members, and this one could have been so much better.

It wasn´t a bad book, but it didn´t grow to its full potential.

Landon just gave me hives with his childishness. He was so weak, never capable to man up on his own.

And always blaming Piper for his problems. Oh, she doesn´t want me so I´m going to bury myself in drugs. Oh, she doesn´t want me, so nothing else matters.

I like the book full of angst as much as the girl next door, but sometimes its angsty feel forced and completely unnecessary.

Go on by yourself Piper, you deserve better. 

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Eu geralmente amo livros sobre membros da banda, e este poderia ter sido muito melhor.

Não foi um livro ruim, mas não alcançou todo o seu potencial.

Landon me deu coceira com sua infantilidade. Ele era tão fraco, incapaz de se responsabilizar por suas atitudes.

E sempre culpando Piper por seus problemas. Oh, ela não me quer, então eu vou me enterrar em drogas. Oh, ela não me quer, então nada mais importa.

Eu gosto do livro cheio de angústia tanto quanto qualquer mulher, mas às vezes essa angústia parece forçada e completamente desnecessária.


Siga sozinha Piper, você merece mais do que isso.

Strangers on a Bridge by Louise Mangos



I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review


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She never should have saved him.
When Alice Reed goes on her normal morning jog in the peaceful Swiss Alps, she never expected to save a man from suicide. But she does. And she shouldn’t have.
Adamant they have an instant connection Manfred’s charming exterior grows darker and his obsession with Alice grows stronger.
In a country far from home, where the police don’t believe her, the locals don’t trust her and even her husband questions the truth about Manfred, Alice has nowhere to turn.
To what lengths will Alice go to protect herself and her family?

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We live in a world were we can trust nobody, and there is a saying that says no good deeds goes unpunished. When you think about saving someone´s life, you´d never think that same person will turn against you, but all three things above, has turn out to be true.
That´s a very insteresting background to a story, and it had a great potential to be terrifying. But, Alice´s choices felt kind of dumb. Like the person who always run up to the top floor of the building while running from the psycopath with an axe trying to kill everyone.

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Vivemos em um mundo onde não podemos confiar em ninguém, e há um ditado que diz que nenhuma boa ação fica impune. Quando você pensa em salvar a vida de alguém, você nunca pensará que a mesma pessoa se voltará contra você, mas todas as três coisas acima se revelaram verdadeiras.

Esse é um contexto muito interessante para uma história, e tinha um grande potencial para ser aterrorizante. Mas as escolhas de Alice pareciam meio idiotas. Como a pessoa que sempre corre até o último andar do prédio enquanto corre do psicopata com um machado tentando matar todo mundo.

domingo, 10 de junho de 2018

Envy by Dylan Allen



If envy is a sin, then let me be damned. 

Graham was born to be a star.
Once upon a time, that star shone only for me.
Now, I have to share him with the rest of the world.
For a while, I thought could do it. Because, beneath the hypnotic smile, gorgeous body and God given charm that made him famous, I caught glimpses of my best friend.
Of the boy who called me sunshine and loved me.
I wore that love like a crown... until he placed it on another’s head.
Losing him was agony, distance felt like the only cure.
When tragedy reunites us after years apart, it only takes one touch to erase the past.
Just like that, I’m back in his arms.
He promises this time will be different. But I’m afraid to believe him.
Because, behind his star’s blinding brilliance is a darkness that doesn’t want to let him go.
I know a star that bright can’tbelong to just one person, but my jealous heart doesn’t want to share him.
I want all of him..even if wanting what doesn’t belong to me leads me to ruin.
 

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I am a fan of Dylan´s work since I read Thicker Than Water, and she didn´t let me down with Envy.

The beginning of the book was a surprise, because the blurb doens´t let on how the story begins, it doesn´t mention anything besides friends that were separated and one of them has become a star.

So, it was a good surprise for me how their story begins, and I spent a lot of time trying to understand how Graham could go from that start to a celebrity status, and I must say, although I liked this book very much, I didn´t like how Graham´s story evolved, and I don´t like problems caused by lack of comunication, so I struggled with it. But, it was a great story, I loved Graham and Apollo. They were meant to each other from the very beginning.

I really love Dylan Allen books and this one was no different. 

sábado, 9 de junho de 2018

Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts


Sometimes, there is nowhere safe to hide.

It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video-game store tended to customers. Then the shooters arrived.

The chaos and carnage lasted only eight minutes before the killers were taken down. But for those who lived through it, the effects would last forever. In the years that followed, one would dedicate himself to a law enforcement career. Another would close herself off, trying to bury the memory of huddling in a ladies' room, hopelessly clutching her cell phone--until she finally found a way to pour her emotions into her art.

But one person wasn't satisfied with the shockingly high death toll at the DownEast Mall. And as the survivors slowly heal, find shelter, and rebuild, they will discover that another conspirator is lying in wait--and this time, there might be nowhere safe to hide.
 

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Nora Roberts is one of my favorite authors ever.

She never cease to amaze me with her stories, with how capable she is to evolve and adapt in a different world.

Shooting is a real current subject, and Shelter in Place was written perfectly. 

The different point of views were on point, the evolution of history itself was made in a masterly way.

Simone relationship´s with her family were so real, so raw. I related very much, in the opposite way, I´m more like her sister, and my mother is more like Simone´s grandmother. So, I could relate a lot with the all the problems they had to endure.

Reed was perfect like almost every main male character written by Nora. I just wish they existed in real life.

I felt the ending was kind of rushed, the scene were the murderer was killed left me with a sensation that something was amiss. But, it was the only part that I felt like this, everything else was perfection. 


The Girl and Her Ren (The Ribbon Duet #2) by Pepper Winters


“What do you do when you write down all your secrets? No…that’s not enough. What do you do when you write down all your secrets and the one person who should never read them does?
I’ll tell you what you do.
You hope.”


REN
Ren didn’t know the meaning of love until he took Della for his own.
To begin with he hated her, but as the months bled into years, he learned the opposite of hate, dedicating his life to giving her everything.
Every sacrifice, every gift, he gave wholeheartedly.
But then love turned to lust and ruined everything.

DELLA
I was stupid to write my secrets down, but I’d been stupid before so it was nothing new.
I couldn’t blame him, hate him, fix him.
I tried to move on without him.
But no matter what I did, I couldn’t seem to delete the secrets I’d written.
Until something happened.
Until he came back and read my stupid secrets.
And nothing was the same after that.
 

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This story left me with a book hangover.

I loved The Boy and his Ribbon and was waiting fot this one anxiously.

Do you know what is finish a book and crying your eyes out? It was so hard to read this book, because it made feel so much, I was a mess after finishing it.

The first chapters I was so angry with them. So much time wasted, they were apart when that wasn´t necessary, just because of lack of comunication, and I don´t like this. Is a pet peeve of mine. And, even with their relationship starting to blossom, they still had problems cause bu their lack of comunication.

But, I can´t say it was a nice book. On contraire it was a great book, I could say it was the greatest book of this year, but it left my head so messy, hurting for them, that I can´t even remember which other books have I read this year. It was one hell of a emotional ride, that made my heart break and heal alongside Della and Ren.

I wish they could have more time together and a little girl. But, I feel that this book was perfect as it is, even with my pet peeve. And any change could change the whole outcoming.







Just One of the Royals (The Chicago Falcons #2) by Leah Rooper


I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review.

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Star hockey player Daniel Sacachelli wants only two things: 1) for the Falcons
to win next season, and 2) for his secret — the fact he’s actually the prince of Eldonia — to never make its way to Chicago. But if Daniel keeps avoiding his crown, their family will lose their kingdom forever.

Madison Myong can’t believe that her will-they-or-won’t-they best friend Daniel is
really a prince! He’s always seemed more rebel than royal. But now, he needs to clean up his image, fast. Posing as his long-time girlfriend, Madison accompanies him back to Eldonia, intending to give Daniel a makeover fit for a king.

Only, the more royal Daniel becomes, the more Madison misses her best friend. And if she does her job right, she’ll lose him forever...
 

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Just One of the Royals is the second book in a series and I didn´t read the first one yet. But, it can be read as a standalone.

I liked the team, and the friendship between all of them. Daniel´s family was nice.

It had a good plot, and could have been a great story, but it just fell flat, kind of forced. The reason for the fake relationship was weak and Daniel and Miranda were more friends than anything else.



domingo, 3 de junho de 2018

The Choices I've Made (By The Bay #1) by J.L. Berg



I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review

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I swore I’d never go home again.

With nothing more than a few boxes and a beat up truck, I left behind my old life at the tender age of eighteen to pursue my medical career.

And I never looked back.

Twelve years later, I find myself traveling back to the sandy shores of that North Carolina town where my late father has left me his medical practice. Coming here means facing my past… My memories… And her — Molly McIntyre.

Growing up, Molly had been my entire world, first as a childhood friend and then so much more. We’d made promises to each other back then. Promises I broke when I walked away. And now that I’m back? Well, let’s just say she’s not exactly the head of my welcoming committee. But even she can’t deny the undeniable spark that still burns so brightly between us and soon, we’re tumbling fast and hard into the past.

But I need to keep my eyes set to the future, because mine isn’t here in this dead end town. Not anymore.

All Molly has ever known is here, on this small island. Could I really ask her to give it all up? For me? If I walk away again, will she follow?
 

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I love books where the characters fell in love during childhood, Is so pure, the way children loves.

I do prefer when they stick together, but I know that sometimes they need to be apart so they can grow to be the person they are meant to be.

I like very much that Jake had to prove himself to be redeemed before Molly´s eyes, because if not, it would be a disappointment.


The Scars I Bare (By The Bay #2) by J.L. Berg



I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review.

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I am a man adrift...

Born the son of a fisherman, I had a predestined purpose. The ocean was my life until one fateful day... it wasn’t. After an accident at sea ripped away my love of the water, I was left with nothing.

Until she arrived in our sleepy town. 

Cora Carpenter was my nurse those first few days after they’d dragged me from the water. She’d seen me at my worst. She’d been there when I lost my arm. When I lost everything.

That was three years ago. 

Now she’s everywhere and I can’t get her out of my head. I see pain in her eyes. The kind of pain that leaves deep scars. I also see truth and beauty and passion. After all these years of wandering this little island town in search of something, I think I may have found exactly what I’m looking for. 

But am I what she needs? Can two broken hearts make a whole?

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I must be sincere, this book has some hard limits for me, but in a general sense it was a good book

I love books in male pov. So, thats a pro.

And Lizzie is perfect, full of life and questions.

In Bed with the Beast by Tara Sivec



I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review

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A tale as old as time: she needs a place to stay, he's a grump with a secret and an extra room...can love find a way?

Meet the Naughty Princess Club, a series from USA Today bestselling author Tara Sivec that brings readers to Fairytale Lane and the hilarity—and romance—that three women fall into once they decide to strut their stuff and bring on their own happily ever after.

Living in her overprotective dad’s basement, shy Belle lives her life through books. Being a part of the Naughty Princess Club is the first adventure she’s ever had, plus she desperately needs the money to save one of her favorite places - the local library.

But when her new friends and new business gets her kicked out of her dad’s house, Belle is rescued by the surly Vincent “Beast” Adams who invites her to be his house guest until she gets back on her feet. Despite his attitude problem and long list of rules, Belle finds herself warming to the muscled man with a penchant for growling and starts seeing a gentle side to him that wasn’t there before.

Yet there’s a room that Beast keeps locked and Belle keeps getting hints that Beast is hiding something…can a nerdy librarian tame the beast or will their romance be over before it has a chance to blossom?

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I love Tara Sivec writing style, is just so much fun.

And her version of Beauty and the Beast is hilarious. I loved.

Belle starts kind of naive, but it fits perfectly with her, and she evolves, a lot.

And the Beast is my favorite prince ever, so my opinion can be a little biased, but I adored Vincent.

Together they are just perfect.