Fear of Falling by S.L. Jennings

Review by (a slightly hysterical) Kimmi:

Alright, I hope y'all are ready for what you are about to witness.........
*Sniffs and wipes my teary face*
That was so beautifully painful, and so painfully beautiful. A beautiful heart wrenching, scary as hell story about a girl that should have given up on life a long, long, time ago. And if you were to ask her, she'd say she did, because she really believes that she did. Only those closest to her know just how strong she truly is, how fiercely alive her battered and beaten soul remains. For every reason that any normal, semi happy person would never understand, Kamilla Duvall should not even be able to stand on her own two feet, let alone continue her life, even as sheltered as she keeps herself hidden behind these self erected walls of steel.

Kam

 However she does continue, she doesn't give up, at least not until she is staring into the darkest chocolate brown eyes she has ever seen, and she knows without a shadow of a doubt those eyes will tear her perfectly constructed house of pain and fears down around her.  Turn her world upside down, inside out, and kick it off its perfect, yet fragile, balance. So Kam does what she always has done, she runs, like the hounds of hell are snapping at her feet, she runs like her life, her world, her heart and her mind depend on it, she fuckin' runs!
Blaine isn't sure what the hell to make out of this beautiful, exotic, and obviously frightened creature that waltzes into his bar. Her eyes are red and cheeks stained from the tears he witnessed moments ago on his smoke break. All he is sure of, is that he likes her, Dammit he really likes her, he sees this little county mouse tense and make ready to run.
It makes him chuckle, silly little roadrunner, nuh huh, she isn't getting away, no way in hell is he letting her slip away. He has clocked her little frightened ass, and now that his target is set on her she ain't leaving, not no, but hell fuck no. Blaine knows this isn't going to be easy and he knows he will need to tread slow, and lightly. He also knows that little miss Kam, with her green eyes that sparkle and pierce though his soul, will be more than worth all the pain and wounds he'll endure for her while he is fighting all of Kams demons.

        Blaine

But what is Blaine supposed to do when he realizes the biggest, most damaging demon hidden inside her heart, is Kamille Duvall herself? How do you save the woman you love, the one that holds your life, your heart in her hands, when she doesn't want to be saved? How can Blaine stop both his and Kam's history from repeating itself when it's happening right in front of his eyes? When love isn't enough to keep them together and all it seems to do is push Kam further away, further into herself, where he can't reach, does he go against what every fiber of his being is telling him, and just walk away?

He promised Kam he would never let her fall, and if she did he would always be beside her, always catch her, never leave. But what other option is there when you are looking into the beautiful green eyes of the only woman you've ever loved, and you see nothing but hate, a cold mask, and behind that, a broken and shattered woman that has no want or desire to ever be pieced back together. And she is screaming bloody murder at you to get the fuck out, to leave, and never, never look back?
Now let's commence to Kimmi, ummm, falling the fuck apart, sobbing like a lunatic, and rocking myself back and forth in fetal position. All while humming the song by Papa Roach, only remember I'm crying like a bitch, so there isn't any hard rock kickass jamming in this version, it's only being hummed in a weak heart breaking slow and mumbled melody, cue the lyrics please: "Cut my life into pieces this is my last resort. Suffocation, no breathing, don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding. Would it be wrong would it be right if I took my life tonight".
*Sniffs*
Shit every body calm down, I'm not seriously suicidal over a book, I just have very, very strong heart breaking emotions running through me at the moment, and honestly I just want to get this all off my chest and into its rightful review so I can wash my tattered soul of all this pain and carry on to hopefully something either so fucking hot it scorches my panties off and I have to call the fire men over, or funny and witty enough to pull me out of my complete and utter despair. *commences to more sobbing*
"Damn Kimmi, get it together, Christ on a cracker, you're falling apart in the middle of your review and there is nothing professional about that!"
*Sniffs and somewhat pulls my shit together, sadly smiles, and slowly claps*
Son of a bitch, well done S.L. Jennings, well done, well played. Set, match, game over. I went into this book with your The Dark Light Series in mind, not truly giving you the credit you obviously fully deserve. I'm not sure why, but I never would have pegged you for being a badass tear jerker, as well as a badass paranormal smexy story teller. *Stands up and loudly claps and whistles real cool like through my teeth and tongue* Freaking hell, I loved Kam's story, I loved every tear, and every time my heart broke, not for just Kam, but Dom, and Angel too, I loved every giggle that Blaine, or CJ made me giggle. I love that you left the dark as dark as it was, and the ugly, as ugly as it was, I love that you made this story exactly as it was made to be told, and you did it without changing a thing, if it makes the readers wince, let them. I love Fear of Falling because it is exactly that, a beautifully, painful, heart wrenching, scary as hell story about a girl named Kam, that has always allowed her fears to keep her from falling, and about a boy, a beautiful-scary man, that isn't afraid to love, that isn't afraid to easily hand over his heart to the broken woman that he has fallen head over heels for in love.
Yep, gotta hand Fear of Falling 5-Papa Roach-Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort-Kimmi stars ★★★★★

Bare Assets by M.L. Stephens visits LipSmackin' GoodBooks for it's Cover Reveal!!!!

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by M. L. Stephens

Release date: 8/05/2013

Bare Assets book blurb:

With nothing but shattered dreams and a busted heart to fuel the way, Angela Fletcher drove out of Arkansas and never looked back.

Six years later, the new and improved version of the girl she used to be, steered clear of romance, love and late night promises. The only pillow talk Angela engaged in these days, was making sure the person on the other pillow knew to lose her number as soon as he left the bed. She only had room for one love in her life and that was Bare Assets, the gentleman's club she poured her heart and soul into.
Dean Murray was the devil in disguise and had left behind enough broken hearted women to populate a small country. Angela would know. She was an expert markswoman who was skillfully self-trained at shooting down the good, the bad and the ugly of all masculine targets. After all, as the owner of the most successful strip club in Dallas, Texas, it was her business to know men. Just as she begins to fall for Dean's silky words and passionate ways, her past and present unexpectedly collide and a meticulously planned future turns into unpredictable chaos. Is the smooth talking, denim wearing devil responsible for the chaos? Or have the secrets she left buried in Arkansas, coming back to haunt her?
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Life Altering Beautiful by T.A. Hardenbrook

Review by Lil' Max

This is the kinda book you start reading and you can’t put it down til your done!  It pulls you in and holds your attention and you're anticipating everything that’s going to happen and you think you know what’s happening or what’s about to happen but then….. WTF?!?! Boom! You were dead wrong.  My Goodness I didn’t know what to expect when I started reading this, but Holy Hell…. HOT. AS. HELL. Seven is from a typical small town you know where Everybody knows EVERYBODY and all their business. Mmhmm, it’s like that.  

       Seven

She gets caught up in some shit in highschool and then becomes the outcast by the whole town including her parents.  She just wanted to go to College and start over where no one knew her or what happened. Seven is totally self conscious and introverted (now). She has no intentions of finding friends or a boyfriend.  In fact she would like to avoid both at all costs and stay unnoticed, stay a safe NOBODY! She keeps it real plain Jane and tries to just fade into the background all because of the bullshit that happened back home.  She doesn’t even remember what it’s like to have a friend. So she is in for it when her new roommate. Tammy, the boisterous, outspoken, and UBER boy crazy kinda girl steps in Seven's life. Ahhhh good ole Tammy she loves life and dammit all she wants to live it up! Go to frat parties, meet hot guys, give it up, shit anything, hell everything boy crazy girls do in college that their parents NEVER want to know about...... OKAY!!! Tammy has a HOT as HELL older brother in the fraternity and this is when Seven and Stone cross paths first, at one of the first parties of the school year.  

      Stone

From the first glance at Seven, Stone was captivated.  He is no doubt a certified Man Whore. Signed. Sealed......Delivered. How the Hell did the red-headed vixen get in his mind and easily wrap it all up? So, of course he had to pursue her!  And even though Seven didn’t want to be noticed, she wasn’t blind! She had felt an instant attraction to Stone.  I mean who wouldn’t? He was effin Hot. He was a sex pot! 
Sculpted, hard body, charming personality and of course he was tatted up. They both have secrets that neither one want to indulge in.  Seven wants to keep her past a secret, but bits and pieces keep slipping out one way or another. Enter Trent Gillman, a blast from Seven’s past. He grew up in her town so he knows all about her and Boom he’s dating Tammy…Here is one of those moments I was talking about!  Stone wants to heal her broken pieces but he wants to keep his current career a secret. Can the undeniable love they share allow them to be completely honest with one another or will it be the demise that ends their relationship? Well Ms. Hardenbrook lays all that out for you in this delicious story so go ahead and cop this one. Imma give this 4.5 BadAssDirty little secret stars!!!

Cover Reveal for Out From Under by Selene Chardou

Title: Out From Under, A Novel (Stand alone, not part of a series)
Author: Selene Chardou

Expected release date: July31st, 2013 Genre: Romantic Mystery& Suspense/ Contemporary Romance Age Group: New Adult Cover Designed by: Alicia C. Mattern ( https://www.facebook.com/AliciaCMatternCoverArtist) and CL Smith ( www.goonwrite.com)

 

Book Description:

Trista Lennon is strong, independent and only desires freedom. Freedom from the
control of her parents, freedom from the motorcycle gangs she has had to put up with her
whole life and freedom from a relationship that will trap her into the very life she has no
wish to ever live.
The day before she's supposed to leave for Stanford University to pursue her dreams,
her world is shattered. After a tragedy that tears her family apart, Trey, her cousin, Talia,
invites her to L.A. Her life is all the sudden Hollywood stars and sunshine, late nights and
wild parties.
And then she meets him .
Linx Carter isn't looking for a relationship. He survived a dysfunctional marriage with his childhood sweetheart, which produced two sons, an inability to trust women and a
multitude of lies. He merely wants to recuperate from a rough, six month tour Winter's Regret just completed with superstar band, Scarlet Fever, and enjoy a little peace and quiet.
Until he sees her.
Trista and Linx fight their attraction for one another like war on a battlefield.
She has a closet full of secrets and he would rather be single and pathetic than date a
teenage girl who seems older than her years.

However the passion between them is too
much to resist and they realize in order to heal one another, they must destroy the walls
they have constructed so tightly around their hearts.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Selene Chardou is a world traveler and the alter-ego of Elle Chardou.
Ms. Chardou's writing is all about hot romance and exciting times with the wild,
damaged, out of control and/or rich and famous set in the New Adult realm.
She is currently working on Out from Under and The Will to Love, the first novel in
the Scarlet Fever Series, which will chronicle the relationship of Will Cullen and Laurel
Munsen. She also has a pop stars series planned and an MC series planned that chronicles
the issues between Lucifer's Saints and Demon's Bastards motorcycle clubs.
Ms. Chardou has lived abroad in Stockholm (Sweden), Manchester (England), Los
Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland. She currently resides in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
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Undone by Francette Phal

Review by Kimmi

*GASPS, attempts to stifle body wracking, shrill sobs by stuffing my fist in my mouth, but muffled sobs still escape*
Why? Why would you Fran? HOW COULD YOU!?! This senseless devastation that is ripping itself through my core, this unrelenting pain tearing my heart in two, YOU caused this Fran! *Commences to fall in a terrible sadness that consists of absolute and utter despair, and I just let it out, let the ugly cry rend its way from my throat*

         Sophie

Holy shit, just rip my heart from my chest and leave me in the fetal position, sucking my thumb, rocking back and forth with tears coursing down my face in rivers and soaking my tshirt collar.

At the end of Redemption I breathed a sigh, a happy and content sigh, unknowingly I had been holding my breath until that perfect moment of closure. Beautiful Disaster left me at such a cliffhanger and Redemption was the balm that soothed the insanity.  When I began Undone I was excited to start Sophie's story, excited to continue the Beautiful Disaster saga through Ellie's daughter Sophie and her story.  This storyline however did not go as I planned, actually nothing about this damn third book went planned!

         Roan

I am unsure where Francette Phal is taking me now, but I will follow her to the depths of hell and to the ends of earth, but Francette you have to take this pain AWAY! SOON!!!! I can't take this freaking shit much longer!!  I have really nothing else to say at this point, I am so confused and heartbroken that I am literally at a loss for any damn words. I must give Undone 10 -dammit what in the hell, this story is so wrong it's right-Kimmi Star's ★★★★★★★★★★

 

Introducing the Cover Reveal for Anywhere with You by Kaylee Ryan

Kaylee Ryan's Anywhere with You

 Cover Reveal

Expected Release: 8/20/2013

 

Anywhere with You by Kaylee Ryan Book Description:



Allison Hagan has not lived the life of a normal teenager. Her parents died in a car crash when she was ten and she has been living with her elderly grandmother who happens to be her only living relative ever since. Allison became best friends with the boy next door Aiden. Aiden’s family has taken her in as part of their own, which is why when her gran insists that she live in the dorms at college so Allison chooses to attend the same school as Aiden.
Liam MacCoy is a college senior and quarterback of his college football team. Liam is rumored to be first round draft pick for the NFL following graduation as is his best friend Aiden. Liam has one focus and that’s football that is until his little sister introduces him to her roommate Allison. Since he met her he hasn't been able to think of anything else.
Liam is not a relationship kind of guy and Allison wants it all. She wants the romance and the family that she grew up without. Will Liam overcome his fear of relationships as well as the tangle of friendships to give Allison everything she wants?

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Kimmi scooped up the Cover Reveal for Tattered Love by Lola Stark the book that I gaurentee will knock you on your ass this fall!

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Now that you've seen that freaking Hell Yes Hotness, Let's look at a Tattered Love book description, more of Kimmi's blah, blah, blah & Lola's Hot Teaser:
Holy Mother of God! Y'all don't even know what is about to hit your ass like a frontal attack, I do though.....Tattered Love by Lola Stark!  You think you're ready?

Tattered Love by Lola Stark
Book Description:

When ex-Special Ops bad-ass Mace walks into Needle's Kiss tattoo parlour, he never expected to find the girl who would turn his life upside down.

Hard as nails Scarlett has been unlucky in love: she’s been burnt, chewed up and spat out. Reluctant to have another relationship, can she keep her wits about her when hot-as-sin Mace walks into her tattoo parlour? Or will he break her down and leave his mark within her ink?
What starts out as a little fun, turns into something so much more.
Can Scarlett look beyond Mace's devastating past or will his demons come back to haunt them both.

Wha What?!? Teaser Time Baby ;)

*Content warning: contains steamy, anything-goes sex, an alcohol induced embarrassing night out and two headstrong lovers taken on a whirlwind of crazy

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I pulled up to Trip’s house in my new sleek gun-metal grey Chevy pickup. Jumping down, I saw a familiar pair of legs under the hood of a sweet ride; it looked like an original Cherry red 1967 Shelby Cobra GT500 across the road. I watched as a stunning pair of legs slipped out, joined by the rest of a stacked female body which belonged to none other than the star of my dirty dreams the previous night. Scarlett pulled herself out from under the Cobra, clad in a pair of army boots that made her look adorable, tiny denim cut off shorts - that barely covered her perfect ass - and her fantastic tits were strained against the thin cotton material of a grey tank. Her hair was piled in a messy bun on her head; the red from her hair was now gone, replaced with bright blue streaks. Her pretty face was completely void of make-up. Shit, I got hard just looking at her.
She’d spotted me, a gorgeous smile forming on her face, causing my groin to throb even more; fuck, she was beautiful. I walked up her drive and noticed Daughtry was playing from somewhere in her open garage. My respect for her had just jumped another notch.
Scarlett tilted her head up to look at me while she wiped her greasy hands on a rag. Picked up her bottle of beer, she took a long pull as a droplet of sweat ran down her cleavage. My gaze immediately snapped to her neck as I watched the movement of her throat while she swallowed; the cool amber liquid sending my thoughts careening towards what else I would love to see her swallowing with that perfect mouth.
I snapped myself back to reality, and leaned in close to her. She’d shut her eyes, her breathing instantly picking up. She squirmed as I reached a hand out and wiped her cheek. She looked up at me confused. My eyes crinkled as my lips formed into a small grin. "You got grease on your pretty face."
Scarlett took a small step back on wobbly legs. I nodded toward her boots and observed, "Got a pair just like those. Never seen ‘em lookin’ like that though."
"Like what?"
Sauntering away from her, I smirked. "Sexy as fuck."
-Mace POV ;)

Tattered Love
Needle's kiss series Book #1
by Lola Stark
Goodreads link:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1810289tattered-

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