Scarlet book review

Scarlet
By Marissa Meyer
512 pages
5 out of 5 stars
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Description: Cinder is back and trying to break out of prison―even though she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive if she does―in this second installment from Marissa Meyer.

Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother, or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother's whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana.~

~*~ Spoilers ahead! ~*~

So after I read Cinder, I was a tad leery of this book because I found Cinder a tad slow. I was worried that I would have issues with the rest of the series. Boy was I proven wrong! I've never been so glad to be wrong about a book before. Scarlet is high up on my favorite books list. And it is my top book of 2016 so far. 

Scarlet our main character is the personification  of Red Riding Hood. And this is one of my favorite versions of this story. Scarlet is a total bad ass and when her Grandma goes missing she's on the case!  When she meets Wolf. She's leery of him and for good reasons. But when he offers to help her find her Grandma how can she say no?

Wolf is mysterious strong and oh so yummy. He is high up on my list for favorite book boyfriend. He does everything he can to help and protect Scarlet. Of course he has a deep secret. And I for one can say I never saw it coming.  Finding out he was in fact a part of the Lunar Army had me staring at the page for several long moments. I was so afraid of what was going to happen between him and Scarlet. 

I never thought of Red being a BA character, but she pulled it off. Her skills with electronics and just surviving in general amaze me. 

When she learns secrets that could change all of Lunar she has to hope she can keep those secrets safe.  When she finds out that her Grandmother not only helped save Cinder the princess of Lunar. But she hid her for a long while until they could place her somewhere safe. Her Grandma was one of my favorite characters and I will miss her.

Marissa Meyer knows how to write twists and turns. She knows how to grab her reader and shout "Come on an adventure with me!"

I love her writing and I am so excited to read the rest of this series. It has hit a home in my heart and its a world I will revisit. I am so excited for Marissa's other books coming out soon. 

All in all this book is so worth the read. I highly recommend it.

Inevitable Ascension book review

Inevitable Ascension
By: V.K. McAllister
236 pages
3 out of 5 stars
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Description:
The innocent never waver from doing what’s right, even if it means drowning the world in fire. 

Violina had been burned and betrayed by mankind ever since she had sprung into existence. They named her a heretic and condemned her to a pit to live and die in agony. Though she sat stranded, starved and bloodied, she would not submit. Violina, the girl who had been mocked and hunted for rejecting the warped ideals of artificial authority, would lay down her own law. 

Inevitable Ascension — A rapid-fire action/adventure novel packed with wit, humor and a host of twists that will literally make your brain explode! Actually, not literally. Otherwise that would be really gross.



I really wish I could have given this book more stars, but I had a hard time getting into it. It took me a few tries to finish it. I don't normally read SiFi but since Cinder I wanted to try more. And this book had an amazing premise but I just didn't feel it. 

Our two main characters Violina and Lux are basically bounty hunters. We start off with them breaking into a museum type place stealing a creature. They had gotten jipped in their payment. So they were just getting their reward. I loved this scene. It was a fun adventure to go on. 

I loved that it included time travel which reminded me a lot of Doctor Who. Which is one of my favorite shows. 
The fact that a husband and wife duo wrote this book made me love it. 

I did enjoy this book, and I hope to re read it again. And maybe then I will be deeper into the SiFi world and will appreciate this book as it should be. 

Fighting Temptation book review

Fighting Temptation

By: Tiffany Hachey

258 pages

5 out of 5 stars

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Description: Ilyanna Sicliano's never had an easy life. Everything from school to her career she's encountered major problems, until one day she gets a huge break. Leaving the life she knew and despised behind her in Tennessee, she takes a risk for a new job in Boston. 

Braydon O'Donnell has it all, the perfect accounting business and the best of friends. Bachelor life's been the way for Braydon since college. But when he hires Ilyanna to be his new personal assistant as a favor to a college buddy, he begins to second guess himself. 

Could this be the life changing break for her? As sparks fly he begins to wonder if he's going to be able to keep it strictly professional. 

18+ sexual content

This book was a fun ride. I started it and I was instantly hooked on the characters. Ily soon became one of my favorite female characters. She is spunky and fun. She's been hurt in the past, we are left with a mystery but I enjoyed that. Then we meet Braydon. And hello yummy book boyfriend! He too has been hurt and his walls are up. needless to say I wanted to bring down his walls. 

Ily is looking for a job after her big move with her best friend. And who happens to have a job for her? Braydon of course. They both social media stalk each other and are instantly hooked on each other. The heat and sparks start to fly. 

Braydon tries to fight it, he doesn't want to get hurt again and he is afraid of making things awkward.

That doesn't sit well with Ily. She decides that if he wants to play games so will she. And so comes the game of who will cave to the sexual tension first. 

Dressing up and flirting made it so much fun. 

When they finally cave, they go at it hot and heavy quickly. And I loved it! It was just the right amount of dirty to keep me entertained. 

The romance in this book made me so giddy. I loved how the characters meshed. 

The book its self was a quick paced book, a summer read. This is a book to grab over the weekend and stay hidden until you have taken in every dirty moment.

Tiffany is an amazing writer and an Indie one that should be followed.