Week 52 Review: Sweet Temptation

From Goodreads:
This swoonworthy, romantic companion novel to Wendy Higgins's New York Times bestselling Sweet Evil series is told from irresistible bad-boy Kaidan's point of view. Readers will love getting inside Kaidan's head, especially fans of the Divergent series by Veronica Roth, the Selection series by Kiera Cass, and Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire.

When bad-boy drummer Kaidan Rowe encounters good girl Anna Whitt, the girl chosen to vanquish the demons from earth, he can't stop thinking about her. The Nephilim son of the Duke of Lust, Kaidan tries to help Anna embrace a life of sin, but she gradually helps him see that he's meant to do more with his life. Their relationship is as tortured as it is passionate, for Nephilim are forbidden to fall in love. But as hard as they may try to obey, Kai can't seem to stay away from Anna, nor Anna from Kai.

Full of chemistry and high-stakes drama, this companion book is darker, hotter, and completely satisfying.

My Review:
Yeah! It was so great to read this book, which is Kaidan's POV during the events of the first 3 books! And yeah, there were scenes where Anna wasn't there, so that was a big bonus! Plus, spending more time in this world. Yeah!

You have to feel bad for Kai, he's grown up in this pretty horrible world, of girls being trafficked and with him supposed to educate them. Of having a demon for a dad. Sure, if you didn't know about it, from the outside, it would be a pretty sweet life. But those elements were there, too.

Knowing what was going to happen, that didn't make the surprises and everything less. There was still the whole, what did Kai think while these things were going on! He does have a different frame of reference and knew more about this world. So yeah, that was great!

One thing I noticed, was the big fight scene at the end was slightly different then from Sweet Reckoning, just missing a few snippets of conversation, or maybe Kai wasn't paying attention? It was strange, but yeah, it could be because my copy of Sweet Reckoning was an ARC!

Loved this book, and I can't wait to read more by Wendy Higgins!

Author: Wendy Higgins
Series: The Sweet Series #4
Read: December 29th, 2017
Source: Bought
Reason Why: Love this series, and it's a End of series 2017 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2017 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: September 8th 2015

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 52 Review: Endless

From Goodreads:
An unthinkable betrayal threatens everyone Rory loves in the third installment of our dark, thrilling Shadowlands series from New York Times best-selling author Kate Brian.

Rory Miller didn't just fall in love with Tristan Parrish. She fell in love with the idea of forever. He was the one who told her the truth about her existence in Juniper Landing: that her mortal life is over, and she will now spend eternity on the island, helping others in limbo move on.

But like Juniper Landing, a bright island with dark secrets, Tristan is too good to be true. The mysterious, heartbreakingly beautiful boy Rory thought she knew is responsible for unthinkable evil-sending good souls to the Shadowlands in order to get himself a second chance at life on Earth. He has already claimed Rory's friend Aaron and her own father, but when Tristan sends her sister, Darcy, to the Shadowlands, too, Rory decides to take matters into her own hands. She will do anything to save her family, even if it means going to hell and back. 

My Review:
Finally! I finally read this amazing, wonderful book! I loved the first two books, and I don't know why it took me so long to read this one! Maybe because I didn't want it to end, but yeah, it did, and it was a pretty glorious ending!

Now that they know that Tristan was the bad guy, well the pieces all came together. But the situation is deteriorating, with all the souls that ended up in the Shadowlands, the bad coins, and then the ferry crashes. Not good!

Then with a build up of souls on Juniper Landing, hijinks were bound to happen. And with that, they still have to find Tristan, so that there was a lot going on! And with the POV of the bad guy, well, we knew there was more then met the eye going on!

I really loved that ending! That Rory would be that selfless, that was very inspiring! And that it did its job and souls went where they were supposed to, that was so great! And that she had the choice of peace or going back, yeah. Loved that she went back to Tristan and the others!

This book was just absolutely fantastic, and I loved reading it!

Author: Kate Brian
Series: Shadowlands #3
Read: December 26th, 2017
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Loved the first two books, and it's a End of Series 2017 Book, RR Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2017 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Published: July 22nd 2014

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 52 Reviews: Undead, Unfed

From Goodreads:
Out of sight, out of their minds: It's a school-trip splatter fest and completely not cool when the other kids in her class go all braindead on new girl Bobby.

The day of the ski trip, when the bus comes to a stop at a roadside restaurant, everyone gets off and heads in for lunch. Everyone, that is, except Bobby, the new girl, who stays behind with rebel-without-a-clue Smitty.

Then hours pass. Snow piles up. Sun goes down. Bobby and Smitty start to flirt. Start to stress. Till finally they see the other kids stumbling back.

But they've changed. And not in a good way. Straight up, they're zombies. So the wheels on the bus better go round and round freakin' fast, because that's the only thing keeping Bobby and Smitty from becoming their classmates' next meal. It's kill or be killed in these hunger games, heads are gonna roll, and homework is most definitely gonna be late.

From Goodreads:
Fresh meat! From a hospital of horrors to a runaway zombie train, it's an all-new onslaught of the slavering undead in the sequel to Kirsty McKay's killer debut!

Just when you think you're out...it's the morning after the night of the return of the living dead. Or something like that. After running/bus-driving/snowboarding for her life alongside rebel Smitty, geeky Pete, and popular Alice, Bobby thought she'd found the antidote to the Carrot Man Veggie Juice that had turned the rest of their classmates into zombies. When Smitty (mmm...nom, nom) got chomped, Bobby pumped a syringe full of it into him herself.

But now Bobby's a prisoner in some hospital of horrors, with no clue how she got there. And Smitty is missing. What if he isn't cured after all? Bobby knows she's got to find him, even if it means facing Scotland's hungry hordes -- plus Alice's buckets of snark -- again. And this time, zombies aren't the only evil stressing her out. The brain-dead are bad enough, but how can Bobby stop the big pharma business behind the epidemic? Especially when her own mom works for the company?

My Review:
I loved reading these books! I loved Undead the first time I read it, it was just so epic, and to have a sequel, yeah, I just had to read them both together! Bobby and Smitty are awesome, and I loved reading their adventures!

I had forgotten a lot about Undead, but I remembered the bus and Carrot Man. While these books are horror what with the zombies and the collapse of civilization, there was a lot of humour, in the situation, and in the snarking, especially with Bobby, Smitty, and Alice!

It was weird, in a way, to read Unfed. Undead took place in a pretty small area and in not a lot of time. And Unfed was in a different place. So yeah, that was weird! That doesn't mean it wasn't an awesome book, it was. It was just so strange!

It was interesting to watch them deal with a bit of civilization and then to deal with more zombies. Because of course the bad guys are trying to make the zombies into a money maker! There was a lot of antics and twists and surprises, and I loved how it all turned out! That was slightly unexpected, but it was a great ending!

Loved reading these books, they were just so fantastic!

Author: Kirsty McKay
Series: Undead #1, 2
First Read: June 5th, 2013
Read: December 24th, 24th, 2017
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Rereading! And they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2017 Books, and Unfed is a End of Series 2017 Book!
Publisher: Chicken House
Published: September 1st 2012, August 27th 2013

Undead:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Unfed:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 51 Reviews: You Are So Undead to Me, Undead Much, Valentine's Day of the Undead

From Goodreads:
Fifteen-year-old Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she's part-time shrink to a bunch of dead people with a whole lot of issues.

All Megan wants is to be normal and go to homecoming, of course. Unfortunately, it's a little difficult when your dates keep getting interrupted by a bunch of slobbering Undead.

Things are about to get even more complicated for Megan. Someone in school is using black magic to turn average, angsty Undead into flesh-eating Zombies, and it's looking like homecoming will turn out to be a very different kind of party the bloody kind.

Megan must stop the Zombie apocalypse descending on Carol, Arkansas. Her life and more importantly, homecoming depends on it.

From Goodreads:
Megan Berry-Zombie Settler extraordinaire-just wants Pom Squad to trounce Cheer Team in this freakishly funny follow-up to You Are So Undead to Me. But someone's turning coma victims into settler-resistant über-zombies-and everyone thinks it's Megan's fault! Well, except for super-creepy male cheerleader Aaron. (Ew!) 

Meg's also being stalked by a hot-albeit undead-seer named Cliff. Can Cliff's premonitions help Megan stop a zombies-on-ice deathscapade and discover who's really behind the coma-killer crusade before an entire army of undead rise up? And when Megan's boyfriend Ethan grows jealous of Cliff, will it end their intra-settler romance?

Stacey Jay's snarky teen-speak is dead-on and hysterical! Ally Carter better get used to the smell of grave dirt . . .

From Goodreads:
Q: What could be worse than spending Valentine's Day alone?
A: Spending it with evil zombies!!

Megan Berry is no stranger to heartbreak, but spending Valentine's Day serving other happy couples hot dogs while mourning the loss of her one true love is almost more than even a highly trained Zombie Settler can handle. So when her recently estranged boyfriend, Ethan, texts her asking her to be his Valentine, she ditches her bodyguard and rushes to his side.

But soon, Megan's dreams of chocolates, flowers, and lingering make-up kisses take a turn of the rotted-corpse-and-maggot variety, and Megan fears that her first Valentine's Day with Ethan may be her last.

My Review:
It was so great to reread the first book, and then read the rest of the series! I just wish that I'd known going in that the first book had been republished and split into novellas and updated. Then I could've read the most up to date. Apparently there could've been more, but there was a bad situation. Boo.

You Are So Undead to Me just introduced us to an amazing world, I loved the idea of Settlers, and how that all works! I wouldn't want to be Megan, because yeah, it doesn't sound pleasant, but it's such an interesting concept!

There was a lot going on in Undead Much! Given that her best friend was locked up for what she did in the previous book, you'd think that would be it. But there's the dead guy seer who won't go down and seems connected to her. Plus the settler-resistant zombies! Yeah! So great to read!

So Valentine's Day of the Undead, yeah, it was so great to read! It added a whole bunch to the world with the magic and being part witch, and with the bad guy and all! And I wish we could've gotten more, but alas, it's unlikely to happen! Too bad because it could've been so great!

Loved reading this series, because it was just so freaking great!

Author: Stacey Jay
Series: Megan Berry #1, 2, 2.5
First Read: May 12th, 2012
Read: December 20th, 20th, 21st, 2017
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Rereading! And they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2017 Books! And Undead Much is a End of Series 2017 Book and a LLFL Book!
Publisher: Razorbill, Stacey Jay
Published: January 22nd 2009, January 21st 2010, November 9th 2011

You Are So Undead to Me:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Undead Much:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Valentine's Day of the Undead:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 50 Review: Brave

From Goodreads:
Ivy Morgan hasn't been feeling like herself lately. Not like anyone can blame her. After all, being held captive by a psychotic fae prince hell-bent on permanently opening the gates to the Otherworld is bound to leave some mental scars.

It's more than that, though. Something dark and insidious is spreading throughout Ivy, more powerful than she could ever imagine... and it's coming between her and the man she's fallen deeply in love with, elite Order member Ren Owens.

Ren would do anything to keep Ivy safe. Anything. But when he makes a life altering choice for her, the fallout of his act has far reaching consequences that threaten to tear their lives apart. If Ivy is going to have any hope of surviving this, she must put aside the hurt and betrayal she feels, and work with not only those she loves, but with an enemy she would rather kill than ever trust. 

War is coming, and it soon becomes clear that what Ivy and Ren thought they knew about the Order, themselves, and even their enemies, has been nothing but a cluster of dangerous, deadly lies. Ivy knows she must be more than just brave to save those she loves--and, ultimately, to save herself.

Because behind ever evil fae Prince, there's a Queen…

My Review:
Oh, wow, this book was so fantastic! So much happened, like Tink helped saved the day in a spectacularly funny and awesome way, there was a huge betrayal, and an even bigger twist, and yeah, it was so awesome to read!

Ivy had a lot to deal with in this book. She was held captive by the bad guys, and there were things that she had to work through. And add in that there's still things going on, she was very busy! But that betrayal from the Order, yeah, that hurt. A lot! And it killed even more!

When the big twist happened, oh, wow, that was huge! And it was hard to deal with, because it meant that Ivy couldn't get violent closure of what happened to her in the previous book. But also, that the true bad gal was like, insanely powerful, you know? Much harder to face! Bah!

The ending was pretty satisfying. It wasn't what I thought, or these characters in the beginning, though it would be. It's not over, she's still alive, but for now, she's gone, so it was a victory! So that was something to be celebrate!

Yeah, I absolutely loved this book, and I can't wait for the novella we're going to get! 

Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Series: Wicked Trilogy #3
Read: December 11th, 2017
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love her books and this series, and it's a End of Series 2017 Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2017 Book!
Publisher: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Published: December 11th 2017

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Star

Week 50 Reviews: Midnight Blues, Master of Shadows, Incarnatio

From Goodreads:
Samantha and her partner Rafael are homicide cops. Once they were ordered to investigate the case of the cops lying at convent. This corpse was a message for one of the woman inside the convent, Daniela, or Cristál.


Her old nemesis, Donatien, a Kyn gone bad centuries ago, wants her for her powers to heal. He loves torturing people, and she can make them last longer. For years she has run from him, but always he finds her.

From Goodreads:
Will Scarlet, right-hand man to Darkyn leader Robin of Locksley, has been charged with an impossible task: He must regain control of his lord's stronghold, which has been invaded by vicious Darkyn renegades, without harming any captives or attracting the attention of the Brethren, the Kyn's mortal enemies. Things only get worse when Will learns that Reese Carmichael, the mortal woman he loves, is one of the hostages. Reese was sent by her father, a former Brethren inquisitor, to infiltrate Rosethorn, retrieve an ancient vial containing the cause of a medieval plague, and prevent Armageddon from being accidentally unleashed upon the mortal world. Seducing and falling in love with Will Scarlet was never part of the plan, but Reese has no choice other than to use him and the siege of Rosethorn to complete her mission. If she does, she knows he will never forgive her-but if she doesn't, millions of innocent lives will be lost. As Kyn allies Jayr, Byrne, and Lucan arrive to provide Will with reinforcements, Reese's true identity and motives are revealed. Torn between love and loyalty, Will and Reese uncover one last secret from the past that may help them win the final battle...if it doesn't destroy them first.

From Goodreads:
A Darkyn novella. Jamys comes to visit Florida. 

My Review:
It was so great to read these short stories! This world is just fantastic, and having these short stories allows us to see more of it, of characters whose stories aren't necessarily full length novels, but still have something to say!

So as it turns out, I didn't quite read this series in order. Opps. But that meant that I read a whole bunch of these short stories back to back, so it was kinda like reading one full length book, so there was that!

Midnight Blues, it was great to go back to Florida, and learn about Rafael and Daniela, they were really great characters! Master of Shadows tells the story of Will and Reese, taking place around the same time as Robin's story. So that was really great!

And then Incarnatio, comes back basically full circle with Jamys, and it's not really a romance, but an adventure! Loved it, and how things worked out, that was really great! And that he could talk at the end, that was just fantastic!

I enjoyed reading these stories so much, and I can't wait to read the spin off series!

Author: Lynn Viehl
Series: Darkyn #6.5, 7.5, 7.6
Read: December 10th, 11th, 11th, 2017
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Really enjoying this series, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2017 Books, and Incarnatio is a End of Series 2017 Book!
Publisher: Lynn Viehl, Onyx Books
Published: 2006, December 10th 2008, December 2008

Midnight Blues:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Master of Shadows:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Incarnatio:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 50 Review: The Black Tide

From Goodreads:
Though Winter Halo - the pharmaceutical company behind the evil experimentation on both children and adults - has been destroyed, the danger is far from over. Not only do seven children remain unaccounted for, but some of the vampires are now able walk in light.

The key to stopping the unthinkable lies in finding Ciara Dream, the last member of the trio behind the plot to give full light immunity to both the vampires and the Others. But Ciara, like Tiger herself, is a shapeshifter, able to take on any human form she desires.

To find her, Tiger will need to use every skill in her formidable arsenal, and even that might not be enough to save the city and the people she has started to care about.

Because the vampires are coming, and this time, the lights won't stop them.

My Review:
Oh, man, this book was absolutely amazing! This series has been so great, and it was so epic to read the end of it! The beginning kinda just threw us into the action, and things didn't slow down from there! Such a great read!

There were a few plot lines to follow. There's Ciara and finding her and thwarting her plans. There's finding Jonas niece. Oh, and the conflict with Branna played out, and while it had a cost, it was worth it in the end, because it helped her go through the tears!

This is the book, I think, where she spends the most time in the city. Mostly because of her connection to the important politician dude because of his connections. Because the plan of Ciara is pretty big and bad!

Loved how it all played out! The trial, and then the big fight, yeah, that was really intense! I'm glad that Tiger got her home all legal, so no one can take it from her, that was a really great ending! And with Jonas, too!

This book was just spectacular, a great ending to a wonderful series! I loved it!

Author: Keri Arthur
Series: Outcast #3
Read: December 10th, 2017
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love this series, and it's a 2017 Dystopia Book, End of Series 2017 Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2017 Book!
Publisher: Signet
Published: December 5th 2017

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 50 Review: Can't Get Enough

From Goodreads:
New York Times best selling author Gena Showalter returns with a sizzling Original Heartbreakers tale, featuring a rough, tough bad boy brought to his knees by... a kindergarten teacher? 

The king of one-night stands...
To inherit--and destroy--his father's business at long last, Brock Hudson needs a temporary wife. The ruthless ex-military heartthrob has always avoided romantic entanglements. Women are sweet, but vengeance will be sweeter. Or so he thinks. Only one woman will do, but the vulnerable beauty is more than he bargained for—sexier, wittier, and utterly irresistible.

The queen of the deep freeze…
After an abusive first marriage, Lyndie Scott has sworn off relationships. But still she longs for a child of her own. Turns out, the brawler who used to frighten her with only a glance is the answer to her problems. She agrees to his proposal, with a caveat: spend every night in bed with her, then walk away for good when it's time to divorce. Even if she's pregnant. 

A marriage of breathtaking inconvenience... 
As the days pass too quickly and the nights heat up, Brock battles a sense of possession and obsession. Will the former commitment-phobe convince his wife they're better off together, or will she pack her bags and go?

My Review:
Oh, this book was just absolutely fantastic! I loved reading it, and while I'm sad to say goodbye to this series, well, it went off on an awesome note, and I really enjoyed reading it! Brock and Lyndie are a couple we've been waiting to see together since the 4th book, and I'm glad that they finally got together!

True, the situation that they were in isn't normal, but yeah, they made it work! I mean, it's a marriage of convenience, so he can fulfill the terms of his father's will, and so she gets a child. It's different, and yeah, I loved reading it!

They both had their issues-Lyndie had a horrible dad and then a horrible husband, and both of them hurt her in different ways. And Brock, well, he was basically all alone, he really didn't have his family, even if they were mostly alive. His mom, oh, she was awful!

There were two main bad guys. One who it turned out, was encouraged by the other. But this was a shorter book, so things resolved pretty well, as well as their relationship working out! So yeah, that made for a fantastic ending!

I just loved this book and I can't wait to read more Gena Showalter books!

Author: Gena Showalter
Series: The Original Heartbreakers #6
Read: December 9th, 2017
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love this series so much, and it's a End of Series 2017 Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2017 Book!
Publisher: Strawberry Valley Press
Published: December 5th 2017

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars