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Review: Light in the Shadows (Find You in the Dark, #2) by A. Meredith Walters

March 28, 2013March 31, 2016 AJ Drama

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review ABSOLUTE FREAKING PERFECTION! This book gave me everything that I wanted! It picks up the story several months after the ending of Find You in the Dark, and we get […]

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Review: Find You in the Dark (Find You in the Dark, #1) by A. Meredith Walters

March 26, 2013March 31, 2016 AJ Drama

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review OMG! What an absolutely stunning book! SO MUCH EMOTION! I feel like this is a book in two parts. The first part is boy meets girl, and all is swoony […]

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Review: Wait for You (Wait for You, #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Writing as J. Lynn)

March 12, 2013December 30, 2016 AJ Drama

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review This was a gorgeous read! And it was gorgeous for one reason – Cameron Hamilton! OMG! He is pure, NA, good guy awesomeness! I’m a big fan of the bad […]

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Review: The Final Piece by Maggi Myers

February 20, 2013March 31, 2016 AJ Drama

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review “We are all broken in one way or another. It’s how we put those pieces back together that matters.” I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! It is fairly short (unliked this review… […]

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Review: On Demon Wings (Experiment in Terror #5) by Karina Halle

February 9, 2013May 11, 2016 AJ Drama

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review Book 5 in the Experiment in Terror series picks up six weeks after the events that finished off the last book, and we find Perry trying to pick up the […]

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Review: Vain (The Seven Deadly, #1) by Fisher Amelie

January 30, 2013January 29, 2017 AJ Drama

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review Wow! What an amazing story, and something so very different from your standard YA romance. I absolutely ADORED it! When we first meet Sophie she is a rich, bitchy, spoiled […]

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Review: Rule (Marked Men, #1) by Jay Crownover

January 10, 2013December 13, 2016 AJ Drama

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review “Opposites don’t just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down” This book reminded me of Rock Me by Cherrie Lynn. Straight-laced, upper class, seemingly perfect […]

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Review: The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

January 7, 2013April 11, 2016 AJ Drama

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review SO MUCH EMOTION!! But, God, I loved it! 5 incredible stars Nastya and Josh are two incredible complex characters, both having suffered extreme tragedy in their lives. Initially drawn together […]

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Review: Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2) by Laini Taylor

January 4, 2013December 18, 2016 AJ 6 Star Reads

Buy:  Kindle Ebook | Paperback | Audible Review WOW… just… WOW! Absolutely incredible! I gushed like an idiot over Laini Taylor’s first installment in this series, Daughter of Smoke & Bone, and there’s literally nothing more I can say. This […]

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Review: Forever My Girl (The Beaumont Series, #1) by Heidi McLaughlin

December 31, 2012August 22, 2017 AJ Drama

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review I love this book!!! Hot, sexy, bad boy rock star, Liam, returns to his home town for a funeral 10 years after disappearing, leaving behind his best friends, and […]

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Review: Grounded (Up In The Air, #3) by R.K. Lilley

December 31, 2012January 29, 2017 AJ Billionaire

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review Hooray for swoony HEAs!!!! The conclusion to the Up In The Air series, this book picks up at the same scene that ended Mile High, and we are thrown straight […]

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Review: Mile High (Up In The Air, #2) by R.K. Lilley

December 30, 2012January 29, 2017 AJ Angsty

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review OMG, James Cavendish, you continue to rock my world! Continuing on one month after the events of the first book, In Flight, this book picks up the drama straight away, […]

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Review: In Flight (Up In The Air, #1) by R.K. Lilley

December 29, 2012January 29, 2017 AJ Billionaire

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review I LOOOOOOOOVE THIS BOOK!!! I started it wanting to get swept away in an intense, emotional love story, and that’s exactly what I got. Yes, it’s similar to Fifty Shades, […]

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Review: Hopeless (Hopeless, #1) by Colleen Hoover

December 22, 2012March 30, 2016 AJ 6 Star Reads

Buy:   Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review 6 Stars!!! Utterly, utterly amazing! OMG, what an incredible book! I am absolutely in love with Sky and Holder. Their story made me laugh, cry, squee and swoon, and […]

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Review: Ten Tiny Breaths (Ten Tiny Breaths, #1) by K.A. Tucker

December 16, 2012March 8, 2017 AJ Drama

Buy: Kindle Ebook | Paperback  | Audio Review This was a really intense and emotional read. Kacey is, self declared “seven layers of fucked up with a side of batshit crazy” following a horrific trauma that she suffered four […]

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Review: The Secret of Ella and Micha (The Secret, #1) by Jessica Sorensen

December 4, 2012June 23, 2018 AJ Drama

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review “Micha pulls back and smooths my wet hair out of my eyes. “Don’t you ever do that to me again. I can’t do this without you.” But he needs […]

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Review: The Edge of Never (The Edge of Never, #1) by J.A. Redmerski

December 2, 2012January 1, 2018 AJ Drama

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review Wow. What an amazing read! This is a beautifully written, highly emotional story about the importance of friendship, love, being yourself and living in the moment. I loved every moment […]

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Review: Charade (Games, #1) by Nyrae Dawn

November 26, 2012March 8, 2017 AJ Drama

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review WOW! JUST…. WOW. SUCH A BEAUTIFUL BOOK!!! I’m such a sucker for the fake relationship set up, so this was a winner for me before I even started. But it […]

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Review: Back to You by Priscilla Glenn

November 24, 2012March 31, 2016 AJ 6 Star Reads

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review OMG, LOVE, LOVE LOVE!!! THIS BOOK IS ABSOLUTE PERFECTION! Every now and then a little indie book pops up that is a total surprise and just completely takes your breath […]

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Review: When We Collide by A.L Jackson

November 11, 2012March 31, 2016 AJ Drama

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review 5 EMOTIONAL, HEART-WRENCHING STARS A.L. Jackson does it again, with another emotionally intense book that sucked me in, ripped my heart out, but left me weeping happy tears. I fell in love […]

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Review: Almost by Anne Eliot

November 5, 2012March 31, 2016 AJ Drama

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review Wow, this book was gorgeous! A beautifully written, emotional story of first love in difficult circumstances. It’s not all hearts and flowers – in fact, the story takes you to […]

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Review: Hot Ticket (Sinners on Tour, #3) by Olivia Cunning

November 5, 2012February 4, 2017 AJ Drama

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review Yeah, yeah, the Sinners are back!!! And God, I’ve missed these boys!! Book 3 in the Sinners On Tour series belongs to Sinners’ bassist, Jace Seymour. Always the mysterious […]

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Review: Reflected in You (Crossfire, #2) by Sylvia Day

October 5, 2012March 8, 2017 AJ Angsty

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review AN ABSOLUTE EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER, BUT OMG I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!! I could gush on about how amazing Gideon is, and how beautiful his and Eva’s love story is, and how […]

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Review: Sempre (Sempre, #1) by J.M. Darhower

September 29, 2012May 8, 2017 AJ Action

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review “Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy, cracking a […]

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Review: Games of the Heart (The ‘Burg, #4) by Kristen Ashley

September 16, 2012January 29, 2017 AJ Drama

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review  Stand by for major swooning…. Ready…. Here it comes…. SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!! Another amazing book from Kristen Ashley that firmly plants The ‘Burg series right next to the Rock Chicks as my favourite KA series. […]

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