It's Monday! What Are You Reading #290, December 26th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #289
Teaser Tuesday #297
WWW Wednesday #297
WOW #294
Will the Time Come #288
Third Sentence Thursday #278
Random Reads #265
First Lines Friday #284
The Reward Challenge Update #275
Follow Friday #267
How Well I Stuck to It #119
Wrote that Review Update #124

Week 52 Reviews:
My Step-Dad's Brother
Baby, You're Mine
Baby Steps
Baby, Don't Go
Darkness Rises
Night Unbound
Under a Spell
Under the Final Moon
On the Hunt
Alien in the House

Random:
We Have the Cover of Broken Destiny #3!!!!
Ah, the Christmas Season
Fiona Davenport Author Page

OK, so I got 21 posts in 7 days, What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Gardenia, Her Fierce Warrior, Her Rogue Alpha, Her True Match, Lost Girls, Our Own Private Universe, Pretty Fierce, and The Turn.

Seventeen-year-old Ivy Erickson has one month, twenty-seven days, four hours, fifty-nine minutes, and two seconds to live.

Ever since she was a child, Ivy has been able to see countdown clocks over everyone's heads indicating how long before they will die. She can't do anything about anyone else’s, nor can she do anything about her own, which will hit the zero hour before she even graduates high school.

A life cut short is tragic, but Ivy does her best to make the most of it. She struggles emotionally with her deep love for on-again, off-again boyfriend Myers Patripski. She struggles financially, working outside of school to help her mom and her sister. And she struggles to cope with the murder of her best friend, another life she couldn't save. Vanessa Donovan was killed in the woods, and everyone in town believes Ivy had something to do with it.

Then more girls start disappearing. Ivy tries to put her own life in order as she pieces together the truth of who ended Vanessa's. To save lives and for her own sanity.

The clock is always ticking. And Ivy's only hope is to expose the truth before it runs out completely.

Minka isn't sure she should trust the sexy Special Forces soldier who found her. Subjected to horrors, on the run from scientists set on locking her in a cage, Minka is terrified of the monster she's becoming...and somehow, Angelo is the only one who can calm the beast inside her and make her feel safe.

But can she trust the way he makes her feel when she's not even sure she can trust herself?

HE'LL DO ANYTHING FOR HER
Former Special Forces Lieutenant Jayson Harmon can't believe that his war scars don't matter to beautiful feline shifter Layla Halliwell. Why would she saddle herself with a broken man?

But Layla knows that Jayson is a hero to the core, and that only she can heal his wounded soul. So when Jayson is deployed on another deadly mission, no way is Layla staying behind...

After a long game of cat-and-mouse

Feline shifter Dreya Clark picks the wrong penthouse to rob and ends up arrested by sexy detective Braden Hayes. But Braden isn’t the only one who’s been watching the cat burglar. Agents from the Department of Covert Operations swoop in to offer her a deal. If she wants to stay out of jail, she’ll have to work with them—and pair up with the hot cop. Great.

Danger throws this unlikely pair together

Braden isn’t thrilled about the DCO meddling in his investigation. He’s been chasing Dreya for years. Thrown together on a dangerous covert mission, fur flies and temperatures flare. But when danger closes in on them, their game of cat and mouse turns deadly-serious, and they’ll have to rely on each other to make it out alive.

Yesterday, Rachel went to sleep listening to Taylor Swift, curled up in her grammy’s quilt, worrying about geometry. Today, she woke up in a ditch, bloodied, bruised, and missing a year of her life.

She doesn’t recognize the person she’s become: she’s popular. She wears nothing but black.

Black to cover the blood.

And she can fight.

Tell no one.

She’s not the only girl to go missing within the last year…but she’s the only girl to come back. She
desperately wants to unravel what happened to her, to try and recover the rest of the Lost Girls.

But the more she discovers, the more her memories return. And as much as her new life scares her, it
calls to her. Seductively. The good girl gone bad, sex, drugs, and raves, and something darker…something she still craves—the rush of the fight, the thrill of the win—something she can’t resist, that might still get her killed…

The only rule is: There are no rules.

Fifteen-year-old Aki Hunter knows she’s bisexual, but up until now she's only dated guys—and her best friend, Lori, is the only person she’s out to. When she and Lori set off on a four-week youth-group mission trip in a small Mexican town, it never crosses Aki's mind that there might be anyone in the group she’d be interested in dating. But that all goes out the window when Aki meets Christa.

Kaia has been on the run her whole life. The daughter of professional assassins, she knows true danger—and she’ll do anything to survive. After her parents vanished during a job gone bad, Kaia’s spent the last year in hiding, trying to blend in as an ordinary teenager, and there’s no one who makes her feel more normal or more special than her boyfriend, Oliver.

But when she’s jumped by a hit man, and Oliver catches her fighting back, Kaia’s secret is exposed. In a split-second decision, she flees the small town, taking Oliver with her. With professional killers stalking their every move, can Oliver and Kaia protect each other long enough to uncover the mysteries of her past?

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to her beloved Hollows series with The Turn, the official prequel to the series that will introduce fans and readers to a whole new side of Rachel Morgan's world as they've never seen it before!

Can science save us when all else fails?

Trisk and her hated rival, Kalamack, have the same goal: save their species from extinction.

Death comes in the guise of hope when a genetically modified tomato created to feed the world combines with the government's new tactical virus, giving it an unexpected host and a mode of transport. Plague takes the world, giving the paranormal species an uncomfortable choice to stay hidden and allow humanity to die, or to show themselves in a bid to save them.

Under accusations of scientific misconduct, Trisk and Kal flee across a plague torn United States to convince leaders of the major paranormal species to save their supposedly weaker kin, but not everyone thinks humanity should be saved.

Kal surreptitiously works against her as Trisk fights the prejudices of two societies to prove that not only does humanity have something to offer, but that long-accepted beliefs against women, dark magic, and humanity itself can turn to understanding; that when people are at their worst that the best show their true strength, and that love can hold the world together as a new balance is found.

Week 52 Reviews: Baby You're Mine, Baby Steps, Baby, Don't Go

From Goodreads:
Guy Rule #1: Sisters Are Off Limits 

Bailey Cross grew up as the only daughter of a single mom. When she finds out about a family she never knew she had, she travels half-way across the country to meet them. On the night Bailey hits town, her nerves get the better of her, making her act out of character when she meets Wyatt Kincaid in a bar and lets him take her home. After a night that rocks her world, she races out of his bed as quickly as she fell into it. But, there is one thing Bailey can’t run from, the baby she and Wyatt created. 

Wyatt went out looking for a good time and found a hell of a lot more than he'd bargained for. He wants more than a one night stand with the woman in his bed; he wants a chance at forever. But when he wakes up the next morning, she's gone. He searches for her, but Bailey is nowhere to be found… until he goes looking in his best friend's home. 

From Goodreads:
Guy Rule #2: No sleeping with your step-sister 

Lucas St. James is accustomed to women wanting something from him. They tend to see his good looks and fat bank account but never the man underneath. After a passionate weekend with Jade Jones, he assumes she's no different and cuts her loose. But he's in for the shock of his life when he sees her again at his dad’s lawyer's office. 

Jade swore she'd never follow her mom's advice about it being as easy to love a rich man as a poor one. Although she has the blonde bombshell looks to attract a sugar daddy, she's not the gold digger Lucas accused her of being. Her mom might have lured his dad into marriage before their untimely death, but Jade is focused on making it on her own. 


Now they're permanently connected by their parent's marriage, the terms of his dad's will—and the fact that Jade is carrying her step-brother's baby. 

From Goodreads:
Guy Rule #3: No sex in the friend zone 

Jack Halston's life changed when his best friend married his sister. He started flying solo more often, especially once his niece and nephew were born. It made him reexamine his life and consider the possibility of settling down. But finding the right woman isn’t easy—unless she’s the one who filled the gap your best friend left behind. 

Ellison Reed enjoyed her long-standing work flirtation with Jack. When their friendship deepened over time, she did her best to ignore the chemistry which sizzled whenever he was near… until the night Jack's possessive tendencies exploded and he claimed the woman who was his. Before someone else could. 

An accidental pregnancy between two surgeons who should have known better. A job offer in another state Ellison would be crazy to turn down. Too bad the path from friends to lovers is so complicated. 

My Review:
This series was fantastic! The whole idea of the series, of opps pregnancies (well, besides Baby, Don't Go where it wasn't so unplanned!) was pretty great! And yeah, the endings of these books prove that they are pretty sex and baby starved! So yeah, that was so cute!

All of these couples are connected, one way or another. The girls in the first two are best friends, and the girl from the first, her discovered family includes the brother who is the start of the third one. So while they can be read separately, they are better read together!

Another part of the whole series, is the bro rules, each of these books breaking one. Which was so cute, and yeah, it kinda makes one wonder about the validity of said rules! Though they should be followed in most circumstances!

It was a bit weird to read these back to back, with all these pregnancies! I don't read that many books with them, seeing as I'm more of a YA girl than anything else! Something different, and weird, and I loved it!

This series was so great, and I can't wait to finish reading it!

Author: Fiona Davenport
Series: Yeah, Baby #1, 2, 3
Read: December 21st, 21st, 21st, 2016
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2016 Books!
Publisher: Fiona Davenport
Published: February 29th 2016, March 14th 2016, March 26th 2016

Baby, You're Mine:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Baby Steps:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Baby, Don't Go:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 52 Review: My Step-Dad's Brother

From Goodreads:
He's a globe-trotting photo-journalist.
And her new step-dad's brother.

She's 18.
He's 30.

We don't really need to say more, right? 
Admit it... You're already hooked!

My Review:
I really enjoyed reading this book! It was unexpected and it was just a little bit short, but it was really fantastic to read! I only wish that it'd been longer, so that we could've seen her mom and his brother's reactions to the pregnancy!

I honestly wasn't expecting to read this book! I hadn't heard of it or this author, until I saw it on the 19th, and it looked really good, so I read it, and yeah, it was pretty fantastic! While it won't be for everyone, it is a pretty great book!

This relationship came on pretty quickly! Like, they meet and there's immediately an attraction. And then their respective sides of the wedding party getting married actually do and take off-leaving them behind for them to fall into bed together and planning for the future!

I really enjoyed these two together! She's had to grow up quickly to take care of her absent-minded mom, and he's spent his working life basically traveling the world, which is pretty darned cool! And yeah, they fit, and I really liked watching them together!

Yeah, this book was great, and I need to read a few more Fiona Davenport books!

Author: Fiona Davenport
Read: December 19th, 2016
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Sounded good! And it's a SAC 2016 Book!
Publisher:  Fiona Davenport
Published: December 19th 2016

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

WWW Wednesday #297, December 21st

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?

Thanks to MizB of Should Be Writing now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme!

I'm currently reading Baby Steps, and yeah, it's pretty awesome! Need to read more!

I read Baby, You're MIne, and it was really fantastic!

I'm going to be reading Baby, Don't Go, and yeah, can't wait, this series is pretty great!

What about you guys? Happy reading!

Fiona Davenport Author Page

The Story: I saw My Step-Dad's Brother and I had to read it, and it was really great! And I can't wait to read more of her books!

Website

Stand Alone's: My Step-Dad's Brother and her site, my review.

Series: Yeah, Baby.

Yeah Baby: Baby You're Mine and her site, my review, Baby Steps and her site, my review, Baby, Don't Go and her site, my review, Dance With Me, Baby and her site, my review, I'm Yours, Baby and her site, my review, Brief Me, Baby and her site, my review.

Teaser Tuesday #297, December 20th

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted Ambrosia of The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Today's teaser comes from Baby Steps by Fiona Davenport, page 3.

"My stomach had another form of embarrassment in mind instead. The breakfast burrito I'd gobbled down this morning crept back up my throat."

That doesn't sound like a good time! What about you guys? Happy reading!