Review: Twisted Lies By Sedona Venez

After working her way up, Sinthia Michaels has finally hit it big in the glamorous fashion industry. Young and beautiful, she has it all—a celeb lifestyle, a gorgeous Manhattan townhouse, and a highly anticipated couture fashion line.

Core McKay, former kingpin of New York City’s organized crime, is now a wealthy and legitimate businessman. However, when Core sets his sights on a corrupt politician, his need for revenge leads him to Sin’s up-and-coming fashion empire.

Weaving together his twisted lies and dirty secrets, Core entangles Sin in his web of deceit. When the backstabbing fashion world, the vicious political arena, and the ruthless criminal underworld converge, Sin becomes trapped in the middle and struggles to fight her way out.

Twisted Lies book one is the first installment in the Twisted Lies serial.  As I have stated before I have no issue with a serial series, sometimes I just want that quick read to break up the continual cycle of long books I tend to read.  I go in knowing that there is a cliffhanger so I am not upset and I know there will be another part coming up very soon.  Twisted Lies was no different for me.  It gave just enough information and background that you are still left wondering what truths are hidden and what lies will be twisted to give the liar the upper hand.   

I am intrigued by Core and his need to get to an enemy by using Sin and her business to his gain.  Sin also has me on edge because of her attitude, temper and overall feisty take no shit attitude.  I loved that about her. I also have a feeling that Core is going to surprise us more than once while this plays out.  There is nothing good that can come out of these games and lies, or could there be?  I for one am anxious to see what will happen next.

Overall, Twisted Lies was a good start for the serial.  I do wish we would have had a bigger glimpse of the time lapse for Sin but that may be addressed in the next installment so I will be looking for that.  I have high hopes that Core is going to be one hell of a bad boy who will have us wanting to submit to his commands. 

Release Day Blitz: Bad Blood By Amity Cross

A killer without a master.

A monster without a leash.

Xavier “X” Blood is a contract killer. Cold, calculating, devoid of feeling.

He knows the best way to drive the life from another human beings eyes, but what he doesn’t bargain on is wanting to save a life he’s meant to take.

Mercy Reid was good at running from her demons. That was until she met X and her life was thrown into chaos.

Mercy finally has him on her side…and in her bed, but it’s at a cost far greater than she could’ve anticipated.

On the run, they must learn to trust one another beyond their burgeoning love if they want to get through the coming chaos. Revenge, truth, lies...heartache...insanity. All of it threatening to drive them apart.

Mercy will do whatever it takes to avenge the horror that Sykes put her through. Anything. Even if she has to drown the last of her soul in the bad blood that threatens to destroy the last thing she holds dearest in her heart.

X.

Just like in the previous book I am going to warn you.  If you do not like dark reads, skip this book.  If you do not like disturbing situations, then skip this book.  If you are looking for rainbows, unicorns and sunshine, then skip this book cause there isn’t one damn rainbow, unicorn or glimpse of sunshine in Bad Blood.  If you need sweet romance, keep on moving because Bad Blood is anything but.

We pick up where Royal Blood left off, with X and Mercy leaving to get away from the threat that her thirst for vengeance has brought and the threat of his MC for his betrayal.  X has broken through his training, and he is remembering and feeling things he never felt before, and these things are fucking with his sanity.  Mercy is a calming force for him but at the same time his thirst for blood, Mercy’s blood, is still strong.  Mercy knows that at any moment X could end her, but she hopes deep down that one of those feelings that he is beginning to feel is love for her.  While training for her to be able to take her vengeance on the bastard who killed her family, Mercy learns more about herself, X and to what lengths she can actually go to to complete her plan.

Was I as completely enthralled by Bad Blood as I had been with Royal Blood?  Yes I was but at the same time I wanted so much more.  Okay maybe I was out of blood when I was reading this, I may have been in a mood that needed the darker side of my love of reading to be fed.  And it was fed but I needed more!  There is a slight cliff hanger that leaves the possibility for more of X and Mercy in the future, and I hope we get more because I would read it for sure.  Like I said when I started this review this book does not have rainbows, unicorns and sunshine but it has something that makes you want X and Mercy to find their own version of a happily ever after, even if that version is surrounded by blood, death or vengeance.  This author has been one of my go to authors when I need something darker and will continue to be so.

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Amity Cross isn't her real name. That's no secret.

She is the author of wicked stories about rock stars looking for redemption, gritty romances featuring MMA fighters and dark tales of forbidden romance. She loves to write about screwed up relationships and kick ass female leads that don't take s**t lying down.

Amity lives in a leafy country town in southern Australia and can be found chained to her desk, held at ransom by her characters.

Don't send help. She likes it.

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Release Blitz: Til Death Vol 2 By Bella Jewel

They say there's a fine line between love and hate.

There is.

I married a douchebag.

I didn't know it at the time.

He came in like a handsome stranger and blew me off my feet.

I fell madly in love, like the naive girl I am.

Then he left me high and dry.

Turns out, I was nothing more than a business plan for billionaire playboy, Marcus Tandem.

He needed to be married in order to obtain his grandfathers business, and I was the poor victim in his path.

I believed in what we had, until the truth reared its ugly head.

I never meant anything to Marcus. Not a damned thing.

With my world spinning on its axis, the girl I once was has long since died.

Instead he left me as this empty, emotionless shell.

I may have made a vow before God to love and cherish him ‘Til Death do we part, but it’s time for me to give back to Marcus, exactly what he gave me.

He has to pay.

And pay he will.


*This is part two of a two book series and it will contain a HEA – Readers over 18+

I have been waiting for this to hit my kindle like a crack head needs their next fix.  And let me tell you, as soon as I saw it I got my Marcus fix.  If you thought that Vol. 1 had you on the edge of your seat, well then Vol. 2 will push you over the edge.  Marcus is still the asshole that I love to hate but he has changed.  Katia is still one pissed off bitch and while she has every right to be after what Marcus had pulled, she takes her anger to a whole new level that even had me scared.  Time has past, there are still secrets but now there are secrets on both parts.  There is still hate, anger, the need for vengeance and well some pretty hot angry sex. Holy shit, to say that the angry sex was panty melting would be an understatement to say the least.

I really love how Bella Jewel can write such intense and at times heart wrenching books but at the same time can make her readers fall in love with the asshole, the bad boy, the player, or the manwhore.  She just has a way of making her readers want to love these men even while at times we may be wanting to take a baseball bat to the side of their heads and ask “Why oh why are you such an asshole?”.  I did not put my kindle down the entire time I was reading Vol. 2, I just had to see where she was going to go with Marcus and Katia’s relationship and she doesn’t disappoint.  Once again Bella Jewel has proven why I am such a fan of her writing and I don’t see that ever changing if she keeps up the way she is, and that is writing damn good books.

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Bella Jewel is a self published, USA Today bestselling author. She’s been publishing since 2013. Her first release was a contemporary romance, Hell’s Knights which topped the charts upon release. Since that time, she has published over five novels, gaining a bestseller status on numerous platforms. She lives in North Queensland and is currently studying editing and proofreading to further expand her career. Bella has been writing since she was just shy of fifteen years old. In Summer 2013 she was offered an ebook deal through Montlake Romance for her bestselling modern day pirate series, Enslaved By The Ocean. She plans to expand her writing career, planning many new releases for the future.

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Release Blitz: Served Hot By: Marie Harte

One little lie, one huge grudge, and one picture-perfect plan for revenge… Best Revenge, Book 2

Blackmailed into a prom date by the cute but geeky Dexter Black twelve years ago, Maya Werner shocked herself by having a good time. For a strong-willed, hot-tempered artist who’s used to having the upper hand, that’s never sat well with her.

At weekly wine night with her friends, Maya finds herself pledging to get revenge on the men who’ve done her wrong—starting with Dex. Except the Marine Corps transformed the nerd into a hot, sexy guy with the audacity to blackmail her again. This time into a few dates.

Dex is back in town with one goal in mind: to win the girl of his dreams. But he knows how she operates. His strategy? Keep her off balance by running hot and cold until she melts into the passion between them.

When a misunderstanding stokes old hurts, Maya backs away when she should stand her ground. But Dex has a contingency plan: pour on the charm with both barrels, until he has his own form of revenge—loving Maya, forever.

Warning: Blackmailing a stubborn, hot-tempered artist into bed, and an ex-Marine who has a penchant for taking pictures. Yeah, those kinds of pictures.

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Caffeine addict, boy referee, and romance aficionado, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Harte has over 100 books published with more constantly on the way. She’s a confessed bibliophile and devotee of action movies. 

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Review: Five Miles (Gypsy Brothers #3) by Lili St. Germain

Another one bites the dust.  Another son dead by her hands, more pain for the bastard who deserves each second of heartbreak and pain that he feels.  Another piece of Sammi’s soul broken as well.  How much longer can her mission of vengeance continue before she is either found out by Dornan, or sent to hell by the devil himself for what she has done.

Sammi is breaking down both mentally and physically from all that she is doing.  She is losing weight, losing sleep and has almost lost her life.  Don’t even mention the other acts she has to perform just so Dornan doesn’t think she is behind the deaths of his precious sons.  She has to finish what she started, even if she ends up dead in the process.  It’s gonna be big and someone will go out with a bang, literally.  Even Jace, the one person who is the light in all the darkness is starting to push her away.  She never wanted to hurt Jace, she loves him still.

Jace is beginning to become suspicious of Sammi.  Since she has come around two of his brothers are dead, not that he cares about those bastards, but there is something about her that isn’t sitting right with him.  He may not be evil like the rest of his family, but he won’t hesitate either to protect himself.  Jace doesn’t want to see Sammi hurt, but is it because of his father or because he wants her for himself?

I cannot believe that we have to wait over a month for the next installment of the Gypsy Brothers series.  I so want to see who Sammi’s next victim will be.  If her and Jace will get closer or further apart.  If she will be able to continue her path of vengeance and destruction and keep her sanity in tack while she does it.  I am loving watching her pick off these pricks like it was a game of duck hunt, maybe that makes me just as sadistic as she is and if it does I am proud of it because these bastards deserve the same treatment if not worse for what they did.

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Review: Six Brothers (Gypsy Brothers #2) by Lili St. Germain

One down, six to go.  Sammi has lied, cheated and began her payback on Dornan Ross.  His sons will pay for the sins of the father as well as their own and she can’t wait to watch the pain he feels destroy him.  That is, if it doesn’t destroy her first.

Sammi’s pursuit of vengeance against those who damaged her has just begun, but while she is acting out her revenge she is also being hurt at the same time.  She is fucking the father of her rapists and him being one as well.  Dornan is a sick fuck normally, add to it him grieving over the death of his favorite son, and he turns into someone the devil wouldn’t want to fuck with.  Sammi knows that she needs to watch her own back, protect herself as much as she can and get her vengeance before people figure out that it’s all her that’s bringing so much destruction to the Gypsy Brothers MC. 

Jace is still unaware of Sammi’s true identity or plans, but he protects her as best as he can.  He likes Sammi, and tries to get her to leave his father.  He is her savior too many times to count, it’s almost like he is trying to make up for being unable to save Juliette.  Jace may be one of the nicer members and nothing like his brothers but you don’t want to cross him. 

When the next brother comes to his death, suspicions on Sammi start and even Jace is looking at her differently.  She barely gets away with her life after she almost accidently dies along with the son she deemed her next victim.  Time is running out, one of these times she isn’t going to be able to con her way out of being suspected as the reason behind the deaths.

This series gets better and better and more mind fuck disturbing with every book and this is only the second book people!  I love this dark fucked up world that Lili St. Germain has created, I want to see each brother suffer as much as possible as well as Dornan.  The only one who I hope doesn’t get hurt is Jace, he is the good in a shit ton of bad, Sammi needs Jace, and I hope that by the end of this series they will be able to move forward with their lives together.

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Review: Seven Sons (Gypsy Brothers #1) by Lili St. Germain

The biggest mistake Gypsy Brothers MC President Dornan Ross and his sons did was hurt Juliette after murdering her father.  Juliette, well now her name is Sammi because Juliette is dead as far as everyone in the Gypsy Brothers is concerned.  Sammi is out for revenge, and she will make Dornan pay by taking out his precious sons.  The only one who will be safe from her wrath will be Jace, he was her first love, tried to save her from what was happening but couldn’t stop it.  The question is, will Jace be able to forgive her when he finds out what she has planned and her true identity?

Juliette, aka Sammi has her plan in motion and this girl will do things that would make a normal person kill themselves before doing just to make these sons of bitches pay.  I love how she isn’t going to back down until each and every one of the brothers and Dornan suffer.  Maybe that makes me a sadistic bitch but these bastards deserve everything they get and more.  What she went through would have destroyed a weaker woman, and almost did destroy her.

I love how Jace is her saving grace in a way, even though he has no idea that Sammi is his first love, he tries to protect her from the bastard who is his father.  Jace is a member of the Gypsy Brothers MC but he is nothing like the rest of the members or more specifically his father and brothers who were born from Satan himself.

When the first brother is taken out, my first thoughts were holy fuck she isn’t messing around and I can’t wait to see what’s next.  Holy shit!!!  This series is going to be one that I won’t be able to get enough of.  This is not a happy ever after series, not even close.  It’s a “I will make you suffer you fucked up son of a bitch, I will not let you break me and I will get my revenge by blood” book and I LOVE IT!

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