First Touch by Laurelin Paige

First Touch by Laurelin Paige

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Writing: ★★★★
Story: ★★★★
Characters: ★★★★★

Overall rating: 4.3

****4 Touch Me Stars!****

I'd Set out to capture him and instead he'd captured me. I couldn't fight it. It was done.

I've had this book on my TBR Shelf for quite some time now. Kept meaning to read it, but just never got to it. Then it came up for one of my challenges on my group, and watching my friends comments, I knew I had to read it. And so I did.

This book was a slow start for me. There was so many characters being introduced, so many background stories being introduced, that it was, at first, hard for me to get into the meat of the story.

But then it happened, that magical moment when a book turns the corner. When it goes from a "meh-fest" to an adrenaline rush. I was wide awake and taking notice.

Reeve and Emily... I had a love/hate relationship with them both. But when they came together (yes, that's a double entendre), it was pretty hot! And explosive! (another double entendre).

When Emily thought to herself, "the dominating bad boy type was my weakness", I could totally get behind that... and it was the turn around for me with Reeve. He was the "bad boy", and he became my "weakness" pretty damn quick!

The scene in the barn... read the book, you'll totally get it... was probably one of my favorite erotic scenes *ever* in a book! Sex scenes, sometimes I feel they are just thrown into a book for the sake of sex. I know that in order for a book to be in a certain genre (erotica in this case), that it has to have... well... sex! in it. And often. But most of the sex in this book was well placed, it made sense, the timing was perfect, and it was hot!

I enjoyed this book and will continue on to Last Kiss.

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Review: Meet Me In The Dark by J.A. Huss

Meet Me in the Dark by J.A. Huss

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Writing: ★★★★
Story: ★★★★★
Characters: ★★★★

Overall rating: 4.3

On Christmas Eve, Merric Case, (Merc), freelance assassin, was sent to Wyoming to rescue 16 year old Sydney Channing, a US Senator's daughter, from a dangerous Militia group, but at the last minute, something changed, Merc made a choice of a new life and money, so he left Sydney in the hands of Garrett, a sociopath who turned her into his own personal mind controlled sexual slave for the first two years before disappearing and leaving her to run a bar he owned for the last six years.

Six years of living with that chilling promise that Merc made the night he left her begging him to rescue her. Living every day waiting for Merc to come back for her.

"I will come back for you, bitch. When you least expect it. When your life goes back to normal and all this is nothing but a nightmare. Just when you think it's over. I will come back for you. I own you." -- Merc

It's that threat that Sydney lives with, because Merric Case didn't strike her as a man who would go back on his word.

"He owned me, he said. His eyes are burned into my memory. Cold eyes. Dark eyes. The eyes of a killer who takes no prisoners and never forgets a debt." --Sydney

Merc does return, but not to kill her, not right away at least. He knows that Sydney has some important information, he needs to know where Garrett is and only Sydney can tell him that. And Merc will use all the tools available to him, sex and lies, even leading Sydney to believe his lies of love.

And from there it's one helluva ride!

I really enjoyed this book, it was the first I've read by JA Huss. It was dark and gritty, full of suspense and a real page turner for me!

Note: I understand there are other books by this author that Merc is mentioned in, but this isn't listed as a series book. It seemed, for the most part, like a stand alone, but there were times that names, (and circumstances), were mentioned that meant nothing to me since I hadn't read other books. It would be helpful if the other books were mentioned at the end of the book synopsis, giving the reader the choice of reading them or just sticking with this as a stand alone.

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Review: Torrent by Gemma James

Torrent by Gemma James

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Writing: ★★★★★
Story: ★★★
Characters: ★★★

Overall rating: 3.6

4 *What A Surprise* Stars

"What we shared was pure obsession, nothing more and nothing less, it was the sweetest madness in hell."

This one started out a little slow for me, but at around 50% it picked up and never slowed down!

Rafe was sent to jail for 8 years for a crime he didn't commit. Accused of raping his best friends sister he lost his fighting career and the respect of many of his friends and neighbors. But there were still those that never believed he was guilty.

Alex is the girl that sent him to prison and she knows he's coming back for her. And now that he's been in released after 8 long years, she knows her days are numbered.

And she's right.

She packs a bag, intent on running, from not only the threat of Rafe, but from her step-brother, Zach and all the demons he's caused in Alex's life. She never gets the chance to leave, Rafe gets to her first.

Alex loved Rafe, the Rafe he was when they were kids, but after 8 years of hard time, he's not the same protector she remembers. He's cruel and twisted and live to humiliate and debase Alex, making her pay for her false accusations.

"Nothing mattered so long as she surrendered her soul to my demon and let him devour her."

But, Rafe realizes there is something darker at play here, a secret that Alex is keeping from him. Something even darker than he can imagine.

"Howl for me. Come undone. I'll put you back together."

He will get the truth out of her by
any
means possible. Sex is his weapon, and Alex is his downfall. But Rafe knows her one real weakness, will he use it against her to get at the truth? There's only one way to find out. Read. This. Book!

*Warning*, this book ends in a major cliffhanger, so be sure to have book two on hand as it's picks up in the very moment this one ends. I promise you, once you hit the last page of this one, you'll want to turn the first page on the second one!

This was a great ride, and I can't wait to see where the next book takes me!

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Review: Hear Me by Skye Warren

Hear Me by Skye Warren

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Writing: ★★★★
Story: ★★★★★
Characters: ★★★★★

Overall rating: 4.6

5 *Twisted me up* Stars

I don't even know how to begin to review this one! It's a total mindfuck! It turns and twists and never lets you see what's coming around the next corner. It's dark, tortured, and even heartbreaking at times, and I wouldn't trade a single minute of this read. The only thing I wish is that I could go back and read it for the first time all over again.

Sam finds Melody, a slave who has managed to escape a living hell with evil, vile and sadistic Masters, washed up on a beach close by. He takes her in and cares for her. When she wakes up, she remembers nothing, just bits and pieces, and she's lost the ability to speak.

But what Melody does seem to remember is her training, not many specifics, mainly that she's suppose to "please her Master" at all costs... and she believes that Sam is her new Master. She does everything she can to please him, but he rejects her. Not because he doesn't want her, but because Sam has his own dark secrets and a slave girl is the last thing he needs. Has Melody only managed to trade one evil hell for one far worse? Can she escape a second time? Where will she go? Where will she hide?

This is by far my favorite book that I've read recently by Skye Warren. I couldn't put it down! She does know how to spin a dark erotic story!

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Review: Trust In Me by Skye Warren

Trust in Me by Skye Warren

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Writing: ★★★★
Story: ★★★★
Characters: ★★★

Overall rating: 3.6

I was pleasantly surprised with this book. After reading Keep Me Safe, I was a little leary of this one.

It took me a while to get into this book, it seemed repetitious, Tyler was constantly apologizing and Mia was constantly getting beat just for the sake of being beat with no real cause or definition. Yes, I know the situation she was in. Yes I know this is Dark Erotica, it's pretty much all I read these days.I love dark erotica, but I also need the story to flow with some meaning.

Carlos saved Mia from the street, took her in, fed her, clothed her, made her his main "whore". But then he'd just go off and start beating her, or one of the other men would. And some of the beatings, it really didn't seem plausible that Mia could survive as long as she did after all that she went through. But I have to admit, during those scenes, I actually had to try and catch my breath. If Mia couldn't breathe, neither could I.

The book did pick up and hold my interest. Other characters were brought in that helped the story along, and made it an enjoyable ride to the finish.

The one thing that I felt was left unfinished was, what happened to, and with, Trunk?

This one was good enough that I will read Hear Me. Hopefully the trend will continue and I'll enjoy it even more than the last.

The price of the book, currently $3.99 USD, for 142 pages (Kindle edition), I felt was a little high seeing how Hear Me is $2.99 for 161 pages and Keep Me safe is currently $.99 for 95 pages.

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Review: Third Debt (Indebted Book 4) by Pepper Winters

Third Debt by Pepper Winters

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Writing: ★★★★
Story: ★★★★★
Characters: ★★★★★

Overall rating: 4.6

5 *Heart Stopping* Stars

"She healed me. She broke me. I set her free. But we are in this together. We will end this together. The rules of this ancient game can’t be broken.”


Third Debt starts off with Nila back home with her family, but she's missing Jethro and has decided that she can't live without him. She knows she can help him, she knows she can get him to choose her. But before she has the chance to run back to him, he comes for her, and much like the first time, not all is what it seems to the prying eyes of the public or her family.

However, the Jethro that comes to claim her to take her back to Hawksridge is only bringing her back with one goal in mind. The Third Debt. He is much like the Jethro she first met in Milan. Distant and cruel and as cold as the bottom of an iceberg in the Arctic.

Jethro has put the ice walls back up around his heart, thanks to a new and powerful drug that has proven quite well in helping his "condition". He feels nothing, he doesn't care about anything or anyone, doesn't even take his precious Wing out for riding or playing Polo anymore. He doesn't have time for all of that. He's fully ensconced in the business now, and has no need for anything, especially the "Weaver Whore". He wants the Debts done so he can move on to his 30th birthday and inherit it all.

Having Nila back, along with his new miracle drug, it should be easy to ignore her except only when necessary. But, this is Nila and Jethro, and it becomes a matter of who is really going to save who.

The sex between Jethro and Nila is beyond hot and only gets hotter! Ms. Winters knows how to build sex into a story without letting it take over and *become* the story. It's well placed and well timed. Not an easy thing to do in this genre.

There is a lot that goes on in this book, lots of dark and twisty turns. My heart started with a little crack throughout the last 3 books in this series to finally shatter to pieces by the end of this one.

Oh we can't forget about Nila's "core", now can we?! As with my last couple of reviews with this series, I've shown how talented her "core" is.. this review will be no exception! Although her "core" wasn't as busy this time around, but it did do some neat tricks!

Lets see her core clenched while feeding off of his power, her skin hummed and prickled, her blood raced, her lips melted and... her core clenched each and every time. Her core clenched from his words, his power, it got wet from sheer deliciousness, and it clenched from the longing on Jethro's face. And when her core clenched, sparkes detonated in her blood! Damn!

Her core burned, prickling sensitivity darted and centered in her core, motorcycle regalia did terrible things to her core, and a blistering wave of need spread from her core.

Her core contracted again and again, with heaven shooting through her system. Heaven I tell you!

And finally her core exposed itself. Shameless, slutty little core!

Oh and lets not forget she also has talented nipples. They harden into rocks, they pebble, and peak.

They're dark, they get teased, tweaked, tugged, they freeze, and they throb with the swift burn of intoxicating pain.

It's going to be a looooong wait for August! Hopefully, we won't have to wait too long after that for the final installment. I'm looking forward to every core clenching, nipple hardening, dark, mind fucking page of it too!

**Don't take my bashing of Nila's core, or her nipples, to heart, (I hear she secretly likes it!), because I love this series and looking forward to more of Nila, Jethro, Kestrel, Jaz, Vaughn, both daddys and even Daniel the most screwed up little brother in history... oh and yes, even Nila's core!


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Review: Second Debt (Indebted #3) by Pepper Winters

Second Debt by Pepper Winters

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Writing: ★★★★
Story: ★★★★★
Characters: ★★★★★

Overall rating: 4.6

5 *OMG! I Can't Breathe* Stars

Nila. She loves Jethro. It's as simple and as totally messed up as that. She wants to hate him, she wants to kill him right along with the rest of his family. But she sees something redeemable and vulnerable beneath the ice cold exterior that he puts on day after day. She sees it melt when he takes her body. Or is she imagining it. How can she love this ice cold prince of darkness that has stolen not only the only life she ever knew, but also her heart.

But she knows the real Jethro is there, under all the secrets and ice. She knows he feels something for her. It may not be the love she hopes for but she's willing to do anything to help him, and to prove to him that he can trust her, and to show him that she loves him.

Jethro. This man is twisted up. Family one one side, Nila on the other. Choosing his family means he'll inherit everything, and perhaps get to keep Nila, and put an end to the Debts altogether. If he chooses Nila he loses everything, money, family, and Nila, because his family will call the debts due and Jethro will have no choice.

When Jethro tells Nila they are well and truly fucked, he means it. There is no way out.

All the while, Vaughn is working in the background. Will it work in time? Can he free his twin, or will all his work to save her only make it worse on her.

The Second Debt is coming and there is no way to stop it. The only hope is to go through with it. There is no choice. Neither Jethro or Nila can stop the Second Debt. It's been this way for 600 years. It's horrific and it'll take your breath away, literally.

Can Nila survive it? Can Jethro? Will it destroy the love Nila has found in her heart for Jethro? So many questions, and the only way to find out is to open this book start the march toward the Second Debt.

I'd advise you to have an oxygen mask handy, because the Second Debt will truly and completely take your breath away, in a hundred different ways.

Again, this book is rated a 4.6 but rounded up to 5 Star.

Lets see, this time Nila's core didn't play as much of a significant role as it did in my review of First Debt, but it did get a work out.

Sound echoed and shot straight to her core. It clenched, twisted with desire, had spasms of desire, and just flat out spasmed while greedily latching on to words, it contracted, sucked, and melted. Talented core!

There was more clenching, and nasty fingers probing it, and mouths close to it.

Her talented nipples even joined in as they sent even more clenching signals to her core. Her core was full of furious desire, and things gushed and pushed into her core.

Maybe not as much of a significant role, but it did stay on stage! Will Nila survive long enough to face the Third Debt? Will her core? Stay tuned!

**Don't take my bashing of Nila's core to heart, I love the series and looking forward to more of Nila, Jethro, Kestrel, Jaz, Vaughn, both daddys and even Daniel the most screwed up little brother in history... oh and yes, even Nila's core!

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Review: I Know What Love Is by Whitney Bianca

I Know What Love Is by Whitney Bianca

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Writing: ★★★
Story: ★★★
Characters: ★★

Overall rating: 2.6

3 *Crazy Ass People!* Stars

I'm not really sure what to say about this book. I struggled for the first 25%, then it did pick up for me. By the end of it, I was really just ready for it to be over.

And it ended in a cliffhanger.

Really? This book could have totally been wrapped up start to finish in one book.. and in less pages than this one was.

"The worst monsters are the ones that don't look like monsters, because they fool you into complacency with their beauty."

Elliot was just a nutcase. A totally whacked out nutjob. But I have to give it to him, he knew what he wanted, and nothing stopped him from going after it. He was a man of patience when it came to Joan.

He was obsessed. He truly believed that he was in love with Joan, and tried to make her believe she was in love with him.

Joan was an even bigger nutcase! Elliot kidnapped her, raped her, beat her, and wasn't the least bit kind to her. But she kept making herself available for more. One minute she hated him and wanted him dead, the next she was more than just a little turned on by just the thought of him. Her selfishness and indecision; flip flopping around like a fish out of water, caused pain and anguish to almost everyone in her life in some fashion.

This book had it's moments too, of really keeping me on the edge of my seat, there were parts that were dark and pretty scary, wondering what was going to happen next. The sex was dark and graphic, which usually I love, but it went on and on. I found myself skimming a lot of the sex scenes to get to the really good stuff. But it was those "edge of my seat" moments that bumps this book up to a 3 Star rating.


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Review: First Debt (Indebted #2) by Pepper Winters

First Debt by Pepper Winters

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Writing: ★★★★
Story: ★★★★★
Characters: ★★★★★

Overall rating: 4.6

5 *Mind-Has-Been-Fucked* Stars

Pepper Winters... what a tangled web you've woven for us!

Jethro and Nila. They have feelings for each other, but the problem is, those feelings, on the surface, change moment by moment, and under these circumstances, feelings of *any* kind, are dangerous. To them both.

Nila wants to hate Jethro. Jethro is suppose to hate Nila. They fight, ohhh how they fight, and let me tell you, no one writes "angry sex" like Ms. Winters!

Nila fights the feelings she has for Jethro. Everytime he shows her just a little bit of humanity, he snatches it back, becoming the epitome of an ice king. He slips into that role so well. But Nila sees the cracks and the fissures, and no matter how much she wants, and needs, to hate him for what he's doing to her, it's the light that shows through those fissures that she is slowly but surely falling for. She knows there is goodness in him, wrapped up in a dark, black, coldness. Her mission, is to find a way into his soul... and use it against him, before the price of the final debt becomes due and payable.

Her mind tells her one thing, but her heart and soul tell her something completely different. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately for Nila, Jethro is having the same problem, the same thoughts. It's just not easy for him to show her. Worse than that, it's dangerous for him to show her.

In this book, we experience the "First Debt"... time for repayment. I know it was suppose to be harsh and cruel, but I confess that, for me, it was H. O. T. HOT

The one thing that Nila wants from Jethro, because she knows it's a way in to his frozen heart, is a kiss. She demands it, cries for it, begs for it. She knows, of all the things they could, and would do, it was the most intimate.

Kiss me. Kiss me. Kiss. Me.

Vows are made, vows are broken, along with the shattering of hearts. The First Debt is even better than Debt Inheritance, which I also enjoyed.

My only complaint, and it's not really even that, about this series is the overuse of the word "core".

Nila's core is throbbing, fluttering, shuddering, cramping, clenching, trembling from abuse, and flickering with desire.

It's twisted with wetness, builds with wetness, and grows with wetness..

It's warm, sparking, had fire-bolts hurled at it, and had intense heat billowing from it. Is her core a tiny pyromaniac? Maybe all the wetness it experiences could help out in that area?

She had fingers probing it, jerked from it, brushing it, tugging it, exposing it, and spread like a tentative sunrise.

It's experienced melting, glowing, shivering, and it ripples.. a lot. Not to mention the invisible cords that seem to be attached to her core from her nipples.

And her core is insatiable. Well, you don't say!

That was just a little fun I wanted to have from first two books.. I'm sure there'll be more core rippling and throbbing moments for Nila in the next four books! If she keeps this up, she's going to have to have "core-o-plasty" by the end of it!

I'm totally twisted up in this series, absolutely loving it! I read the first two books in one day and I can't wait to see what'll happen next.. what will the Second Debt be? Which Debt will be the "Final Debt"? Will Nila's core continue to play a starring role? ;)

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Review: Debt Inheritance (Indebted #1) by Pepper Winters

Debt Inheritance by Pepper Winters

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Writing: ★★★★
Story: ★★★★★
Characters: ★★★★★

Overall rating: 4.6

5 *Sinfully Dark* Stars

Oh. My. God. This book.

I have to admit, that I read one of Pepper Winters' other books and I wasn't really a fan, and I had put off reading this book/series, but after it being recommended to me numerous times, and friends on my group reading it and raving about it, I was feeling a bit left out! LOL So I decided to at least read this first book of the series.

And I couldn't be happier that I did!

"The time is nigh to pay your debts. Your past has found you, and there be no peace until she's ours."

The words spoken to a father by a man he hoped against hope would never come.

Jethro is there to collect the girl. The Weaver girl. The only girl who can pay the debt. Nila.

Jethro is the first born Hawk son, Nila the first born Weaver daughter. She belongs to him now. The debt has come due and payable. Again. Just as it's been done for the last 600 years.

Nila doesn't know what coming. But her father does, and there's nothing he can do to save his only daughter.

This book left me breathless. The emotions, the feelings of helplessness as I watched this story unfold.

Ms. Winters has totally gained a new fan! Thanks to all my friends that talked me into this book/series. I'm hooked!!

Fangirl Mode Active!

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