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Friday 10 July 2015

A Redo (The Sterling shore series #6) By C.M.Owens



Allie Thrash 

Wren Prize is the asshole who got me pregnant seven years ago. And gave me a false name. And walked out of the hotel without a backward glance. Sure, I know I wanted to have sex just as much as he did, but I didn't want to be tossed aside like garbage the second it was done. I also wasn't planning to get pregnant. Now, after seven years of hating the jerk, I'm living in his city, because it's a small world and I found him by accident. Yes, I realize how crazy that must sound, but my luck is just that bad. The problem is, the Wren Prize of today is not the Wren Prize I've envisioned castrating all this time. And I hate that I can't hate him the way he deserves to be hated. In fact, I'm terrified I might just be stupid enough to be falling for him. 

Wren Prize 
A daughter. I have a daughter. And I've missed over six years of her life because I decided to go for the world's biggest jerk award. I'm supposed to be the cool-headed one, the mature one, the one everyone goes to for advice. Yet I'm the one who fucked up the most. Sadly, I don't even remember that night. Too much fun, too much sun, and way too much booze. It's hard to ask for a second chance when you don't even remember the first chance you had. And every time I'm around Allie, even when she's casting me glares that prove she wants me dead, I can't help but wonder what that night was like. Well, what it was like before I ruined her. 


After reading some bad reviews on this book I'm glad I still read it because I FREAKING LOVED IT. 
Finding out Wren had a one night stand and was a complete tool to Allie was sooooo surprising. He seemed the most loyal, laid back and is loving out of the whole group. 
It must have been just a bad time for him or something, but it never truly explains why. All I know is, he changes his last name and walks out on her the minute he's done. leaving her alone in a hotel room heartbroken.

Allie, not able to find Wren because he gave her the wrong name is shocked when she finds out who he is, who he really is and when the truth about their daughter comes out, Wren takes it badly. 
I, personally, don't think he had the right. Had he stayed with her, given her his real name, then maybe, yeah, he would have, but he didn't so tough shit. 

She finds it really hard to trust him and trust that he doesn't break her daughters heart. Even at six Angel is a clever little girl and has everyone wrapped around her little finger. Her relationship with Wren starts out slow because she's worried about her mom. It's another reason his relationship with Angel is so hard, with Allie always staring daggers in his back he finds it hard to just relax.

As the book progresses, and the heat sizzles between Allie and Wren, the three grow closer together. The first daughter and father date, so sweet, the first time she calls him dad, made me cry and not even going to comment on the other ridiculously sweet gestures he does for her. The three, unintentionally start to become a family and Wren and Allie find it harder and harder to stay away from each other.

Also, Allie, who lives with her bestfriend, Bella, are hilarious together. The things they are caught doing and saying is just funny as hell. Don't even get me started on Angels comment, after overhearing her mother and Bella talking, about Allie's secret boyfriend, BOB. LOL 

All in all the book is a 5* for me. It was funny, had drama, wasn't cliche, and had an exciting finish that had me on the edge of my seat. Couldn't put the book down.  

Loving War (The Sterling Shore series #4) By C.M.Owens



Tria Noles and Kode Sterling are a match made in hell, and no one will deny that. 

They’ve hated each other for years. Kode Sterling is the jerk who doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Tria Noles hides under a cold façade to appear strong and confident. There’s no possible way they could be anything together besides a volatile disaster. 

But when their chemistry overrides their logic, they have no choice but to face their twisted attraction to each other. When that attraction refuses to fade, what started off as physical turns into something neither of them expected—or wanted. 

Tria has spent most of her life living in her sister’s shadow, and it’s no secret that Kode was once one of the many who adored Rain Noles. It’s hard for her not to keep her guard up, because she doesn’t want to feel overlooked once again. 

Kode starts to realize he might have been chasing the wrong Noles girl all these years. And there’s a lot he did wrong in the past when chasing Rain that could jeopardize any future he has with Tria. 

There’s a thin line between love and hate, just as there is a thin line between success and disaster.



After missing this when I started the series I was looking forward to reading Loving War. 
I expected more. 
More dammit. 
After reading the books newest in the series I learnt a little about Tria and Kade, and because it made it sound excited I went back to this one. 
Like I said disappointed. 
Tria, the sister of Rain, the one all the Sterling boys disliked thinking she was out to get Rain, has a stalker. 
Stalker to me is someone who follows, someone who takes photos of you and continues to terrorize your life. I didn't feel like any of that was happening to Tria, not to the extent that it was made out to be in the other books. 
I wanted more to happen, more of Kode protecting her showing her how much he cares. 
That said I still loved the book and enjoyed reading Kode and Tria's story. 
Tria isn't what they made her out to be, and in this book tales are unfolded and the truth is revealed. 

4*

Sunday 14 June 2015

Breaking Even (Sterling Shore series #5) By C.M.Owens



What happens when one neighbor pisses off the other? They end up in a brutal prank war, of course. But neither of them expects what happens when they can’t break even. 

Rye Clanton 

I told myself a long time ago that I wouldn’t—couldn’t—fall in love. I’ve seen what happens, the things they don’t tell you in fairytales. But I never saw Brin Waters coming until she had thoroughly invaded my life. Until her, I never laughed, joked, or even knew how to have a good time. Until her, I just existed. If my secrets weren’t so dark… But they are. 

Brin Waters 

How the hell do you go from hating someone to loving them? I don’t know, but Rye Clanton is good at it. However, he’s a walking contradiction that I can’t figure out, an enigma that has stumped me more times than I can count. But he’s the first person that’s ever made me feel alive—free. How do you give something like that up? Is loving him worth the risk of being destroyed?


Oh My God!!!!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK. 

I've been following the series, not able to stop myself from picking up the next as you can tell, but this, THIS book is my favourite so far. 

Brin lives across the street from Rye, and when he keeps parking in her space, to close to her car for her to get out she lose the plot. The day wasn't a good day for her anyway, but he just happened to be the center of her wrath. 

This is how their feud started. She loses her temper when he refuses to move his car so she can get to work. So she gives him a sweet smile and then reverses into the front of his porch like it's not even there. OMG, I've never laughed so much in my life, but after this incident it just keeps getting better. He cuts the legs off her bed, she rigs his shower and the pranks just keep on going. 
The two were hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing or grinning throughout the book. I never wanted to put it down. 
They are both funny, loving characters, but Rye has a dark side, a secret, a horrid past and it's the one thing keeping him from telling Brin how he really feels which is heartbreaking because he really does love her, and the author shows it us throughout the book. You can see a change in him from the very beginning. 

5 amazing, hilarious *   

The Sterling Boys (The Sterling shore series #3 By C.M.Owens



A love that never came to be, a letter that ruined it all, and secrets that shred and heal... 
Rain Noles left Sterling Shore to break free from the painful life she had, but she left behind the man she loved, expecting him to come after her. When he didn't, resentments festered, and Rain lost faith in the love she felt couldn't have been stronger. 

Dane Sterling watched his best friend walk away, but he assumed it was only temporary. He didn't realize she was walking out of his life. And now she's back in Sterling Shore and his life. 

Life has a way of creating a path for fate to travel. Despite their buried resentments, Dane is there when Rain needs someone the most. But as much as life gives, it also takes away. It's only the strong who brave worst times.



Nwahhhh, this book is so freaking sweet. 
They're all friends, but Rain has a romantic connection to Dane and after six years of thinking he didn't think the same she returns to Sterling shore disliking him. Thinking he was the one to break her heart, only Dane sees her the same way, the girl who broke his heart. 
I just wanted to smack their heads together. 
But another story deep with the two is Rain and her illness. Her mother had cancer and when Rain was eighteen she had to have her breasts removed. The speech she gives at a breast cancer convention really tore me for two. It was seriously heart warming. 
Then, there is another operation that she has that she has everyone believing was a gall bladder removal. 
Only, Dane's sister, WHO I FREAKING LOVE, makes it known what it really was, but only when its too late. Well, mostly too late. 

The story is so romantic and loving and fun to read. We meet new characters who you'll love even more. 
I swear, I can't wait to read Dane sisters book. She was so funny and forward spoken it made me laugh. She asked her therapist once if he always got a boner when his receptionist was in the room. My God, so funny. 

Anyway, another 5* from me. 

Thursday 11 June 2015

Tagged and Ashed (Sterling Shore series #2) By C.M.Owens



The cunning predator, the willing prey, and a weekend neither of them will be able to forget - ever. Ash Branderwood was told one thing before going to her best friend's brother's wedding - don't get Tagged. 

There's always that one guy you shouldn't want, but you just can't help yourself. He's going to be horrible for your health, he'll probably break your heart, but he's going to be so much fun while he's doing it. Stay away. Ash Branderwood can't seem to heed such logic when she meets playboy millionaire Tag Masters. 

Weddings always seem to create a false sense of intimacy, but Ash doesn't take that into consideration when she starts fantasizing about the man she can't possibly tame. She's a good girl... well, good enough. She's never really taken any chances or done something irrational or foolish. Tag is just the person to rectify that for her. 

Tag has never done anything but take chances. He never had anything to lose - so he risked it all and built his name up in Sterling Shore. Meaningless sex is one of his many hobbies, and he's not looking to settle down any time soon. After all, these are the best years of his life. 

But, one look at Ash, and he almost forgets his own name. And what in the hell is she doing at Wren's wedding with Bity? 

Tag is almost furious when he sees Billy Prize brought a girl as stunning as Ash, considering Tag doesn't feel as though Billy deserves such a thing. He has to have her - at least once, possibly twice. 

It was supposed to be a weekend of fun, one she'd remember just long enough to forget. But she quickly realizes there's one thing for sure - she's never going to be able to forget Tag Masters, only it isn't for reasons one might think. 

All hell breaks loose when secrets emerge, but when Ash's life is endangered, Tag has to put aside his own issues to keep her safe.


Ahhhhh, TAGGED. I've seriously, most certainly, been TAGGED.

Oh my God, I loved him from the start. He walks into the party, calling Billy, BITY, also with two dates on his arm, but the second he spots Ash all other women fall away from him. 
Ash is also the same, even after been warned numerous of times to not get Tagged, which is what everyone calls the girls that fall for his charms. 
It was so hot, and funny seeing the two get together. The chemistry was sizzling, but Ash gave him as good as he gave and believe me, he tried his goddamn hardest. 
When it finally happens, and Ash thinks he will want more with her than he has with his past conquests, she looks out of her bedroom window to find him hugging a girl, but to her, it's another conquest, to him, it's his cousins girlfriend. 

Both of them get mixed signals, and after months and months of avoiding each other, they both end up in a cafe having a meeting. 
Tag finds out that Ash is still being stalked, and decides to help her. But then not long after she finds out she's pregnant. 
The stupid girl, who may I add, is stupid, tells Tag he isn't the father. 
The time flicks quickly through the book, and it killed me knowing he didnt know. 
It also annoyed that through her troubles, and believe me there are a few. Stabbed, shot, attempted rape, kidnapped you name it, it happened, and all to her. But even still, in the middle of all this she has to tell Tag the truth and he doesn't take it well, which also killed me. Not that he didn't have the right to be mad, he did. 
But what annoyed me was Melanie, Billy's mother. At the beginning of the book Melanie was all over Ash like a fly to poo, but then when it's announced that Trip is Tag's son, she completely ignores Ash, rushing by her to introduce Tag and Trip to everyone. You see, Tag grew up with Melanie as a mother as such, but the relationship between Ash and Melanie seemed to be closer, so it disappointed me Ash didn't have anyone as such to lean on. 

There is so much Drama during this book, but I LOVED it. I couldn't put it down and although I've only read one Sterling shore book so far, I can tell this one is going to be the best of them all. I loved it and defo one for everyone to read. I still can't believe it's taken until now to find this beauty.

5*

Hooked on the game (Sterling shore series #1) By C.M Owens



Everyone has secrets that define them, a past that has shaped them, and a game they play - whether they know it or not. 

Despite the fact they live next d
oor to each other, Kade and Raya have never made an effort to speak, until a wild party, four frat boys, and... a bulldozer. 

Sterling Shore was supposed to be a new start for eighteen-year-old Raya Capperton. Everything was working out perfectly until her two roommates were expelled for a prank, leaving Raya with the house she couldn't afford on her own. Fate intervenes before she has the chance to find a new home, but she struggles to decide if it's divine luck or the devil's cruel sense of humor. 

Twenty-one-year-old Kade Colton has his life planned out, and everything he does is an elaborate game to aid him with his future endeavors. Coming from money has made Kade's life easy, but he wants to build his own name - his own future. The thing he doesn't realize... when you only put forth superficial effort, you only acquire superficial friends.

Raya is torn between being amused or disturbed by Kade and his philosophy, but the drive behind his determination isn't what Raya expected. Little by little, her hatred fades and is replaced by emotions she never would have believed she could have for the rich jerk she desperately doesn't want to care about. Too bad you can't force yourself not to care. 

The problem is... Kade's shiny name can't be tarnished, and Raya has a jaded tie she can't cut loose. Nothing about them can work, nothing about them makes sense, but nothing can seem to stop them from trying. 


I can see this been one of my new favourite series. 
Raya is lower class, making ends meet just to pay the rent. One night she's on the phone to her father, worrying about rent and tearing up the check he sent her. She could use the money, but Raya, been the girl she is refuses to take money when it's criminal, only to find out on a later date her dad has been making money from prison legally. 
Coming off the phone when she spots some frat guys heading towards the bulldozer, she heads to the bathroom, getting ready for bed. Only to find her house falling down on top of her. 

This is how Kade and Raya begin....

Kade's dad, who owns tones of fashion stores, disciplines Kade the only way he knows he'll be punished when the courts decide he isn't guilty of anything other than letting frat guys to drink at his party. So his father, after finding out the extent of Raya's problems invites her to live with Kade, but not only move in but if he wants to do anything he has to run it by her. Having no other choice but to say yes she ends up moving in with him. 

The friendship that forms between the two is so cute. Mostly on Kade's part because you can tell he's so serious ALLLLLLL OF the time. He loosens Raya up, but more importantly she loosens him up. The two were made for each other. He's so protective of her and she doesn't even see it. I loved reading about them getting together. 

I'm going to love this series, I can't wait to read more from the characters. 
The ending is funny, full of drama and so addictive. It's funny because of how Raya saves the day. It's full of drama because their are forces behind the scenes trying to ruin Kade. But addictive because of the way Kade wins her back. 

For a free book this was brilliant. This book should be on sale, it's that freaking good. 

4*