Random Reviews from the Mind of a Mad Person

Wintr's Homecoming: Secrets by Jen A. Durand My rating: 3 of 5 stars Got this in exchange for an honest review. I enjoyed this immensely. First off, Jinx is me. A mouthy, opinionated, brat that hates the world and everything in it, but will protect the ones I love. I was drawn to her immediately. She was hilarious and her banter with all the other characters were great. I didn't connect with her other two friends, so Nicole and Livia didn't intrigue me, but I am interested in her story with Sei. Anyways, this book has everything. It started out as a normal romantic comedy where I thought Nicole was the subject of this story, but all that changed when Jinx and Livia had to meet Nicole's fiance. Then the story took a turn with magic, werewolves, vampires and experiments to steal their power and I was just like hold up!!!!! IT'S A PARANORMAL STORY!!! That made me enjoy it even more. We then meet Dominic who knew Jinx from the time sh...

The Thing About Love by Julie James My rating: 3 of 5 stars True to Julie James fashion, this was a cute and funny book. Jessica and John met six years ago at the academy and they hated each other. They had this rivalry going which caused a rift between them. He was the jock, she was the academic. Years later they end up doing the same undercover op and sparks began to fly with them. They finally realized through all that hate, is a love brewing between them. It doesn't hurt either that they have hot, steamy sex. I enjoyed the banter between these two. I love that Julie's heroines are always strong, sassy and don't take crap from the leading men. I instantly liked John because of his down to earth demeanor. Jessica held her own too in this story and was very likable from the get go. This story also has that little action sequence to remind us that yea, you're still reading a FBI book. Great read if you like, quirky romance, strong wom...

The Unyielding by Shelly Laurenston My rating: 5 of 5 stars Okay, whatever the hell Shelly is on, I need a hit of that. That woman is seriously insane and it comes out in her awesome books. You cannot read a Shelly Laurenston book and get bored. One does not read the first chapter of her books and then skim the rest of the books. YOU HAVE TO READ THEM. Her books are just laugh out loud funny and crazy. Shelly engages you with all of the characters. Yes sometimes you get lost and go "What the fuck?" but then you keep reading and go "Oh okay" Every crazy thing she writes is connected. Half the time you even forget it's a romance book you are reading, because you are more invested in the action, adventure, gore and bloody good time everyone is having to to be really invested in the couple. So this book picked up where Jace and Ski left off. This one now involved Steig and Erin, which shocked the hell out of me because I seriously...

Caught by Jo Raven My rating: 4 of 5 stars Now reading this, I understand where Layla is coming from. Storm discribed her as a bitch, but it seems like Hawk doesn't know what the hell he wants and keeps stringing her along. This was a hot and sexy prelude to the rest of the story if Hawk and Layla. Hot damn Hawk is sexy. Mmm... View all my reviews

Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard My rating: 1 of 5 stars DNF @ 68%. Yea I was into it at the beginning, but Julia man. I couldn't stand her. She was this whiny piece of shit of a girl. She cowers at everything but only foudn the balls when she finally lost her virginity, but then became even more annoyinh to me. Gabriel, yea I hated his from the beginnign but as the story progressed, he became pretty cool. I liked how he loved Julia unconditionally but then some secret would pop up and he would the shy away from her. I got so tired of all the back and forth these two did. Gabriel just need to come out and spill everything, geez. Got tired of all the villians that kept popping up in the story too. Julia should have just stuck to the guy that liked her from school. Paul I think was his name. Meh, maybe they live happily ever after or maybe I will pick this back up later and finish the trilogy, but goodness I can't with this. This story ...

Fall by Karina Bliss My rating: 2 of 5 stars Received this as an ARC for an honest review. This book was really boring and I didn't like Dimity at all. I only continued it because of Seth. Other than that it wasn't my cup of tea. This is part of a series so the whole thing with Zander kind of threw me because I didn't really know what was going on with the voice thing. But it could still be read as a standalone. View all my reviews

Same Page by G.L. Tomas My rating: 1 of 5 stars DNF @30% Yea I got this book as an ARC in exchange for an honest review. I'm sorry, I couldn't get into this book. I tried to finish it for a proper review but I just couldn't. I hated the story and the characters. The female lead, meh she was annoying at best. Hated Timothy because I do not like books about cheating. You have a long distance relationship already. Break up with the current gf if you intend to kiss Naima for a second time. I don't care how much the authors try to sugar coat this "love story"it just wasn't for me. Sorry. View all my reviews