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Review: Cloud Walking (Finding You in the Dark, #1.5) by A. Meredith Walters

March 27, 2013March 31, 2016 AJ Friends-to-Lovers

Buy: Kindle Ebook Review This is a fantastic little read, telling the story of Rachel and Daniel from Find You in the Dark. PLEASE NOTE – YOU MUST READ THAT BOOK FIRST! Assuming that you […]

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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: Beyond Denial (Beyond, #2.5) by Kit Rocha

March 25, 2013November 9, 2024 AJ Quickie

Free from author Review This is a deleted scene from Beyond Control – it features Ace, Jared and Rachel, and takes place during the O’Kane party thrown for the sector 3 recruits. Ace is at the party […]

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Review: Beyond Control (Beyond, #2) by Kit Rocha

March 24, 2013December 17, 2016 AJ Romance

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback  |  Audible Review And back into the dark and dirty world of Sector 4 we go. Brace yourself for the smut! There are eight sectors outside of “post-Flare” Eden, a seemingly idealistic […]

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Review: The Proposal (The Proposition, #2) by Katie Ashley

March 20, 2013January 29, 2017 AJ Romance

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review Oh swoooooooooooooon! This book was just what I was hoping for. An absolute grovel-fest with chapters and chapters of swoon. The book starts out just after the ending of […]

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Review: The Proposition (The Proposition, #1) by Katie Ashley

March 19, 2013January 29, 2017 AJ Romance

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review I loved this book! I love the premise, I love the writing, and I love the characters and their relationship. Emma is desperate for a baby, and being all […]

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Review: Passion Unleashed (Demonica, #3) by Larissa Ione

March 17, 2013June 24, 2016 AJ Action

Buy: Kindle Ebook | Paperback Review OMG, my mind has been blown! I freaking love this series, and this is the best book yet! So much happened! I’m still sitting here trying to wrap my […]

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Review: Desire Unchained (Demonica, #2) by Larissa Ione

March 16, 2013August 19, 2016 AJ Action

Buy: Kindle Ebook | Paperback Review Book 2 of the Demonica series took me straight back into Ione’s vivid and intricate underworld full of demons, werewolves, vampires, humans, and everything in between, and I was […]

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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: On Every Street (The Artists Trilogy, #0.5) by Karina Halle

March 11, 2013December 21, 2016 AJ Dark & Gritty

Buy: Kindle Ebook Review “When I chose Javier as my mark, I never thought my mark would choose me. Because that’s what Javier had just done. I wanted to win over his heart so I could […]

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Review: Lana by R.K. Lilley

March 11, 2013January 29, 2017 AJ Novella

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review This novella fits nicely into the Up In The Air series, after book 3, Grounded, and tells the story of Lana reuniting with her childhood love, Akira. Lana has shared […]

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Review: Reckless (Thoughtless, #3) by S.C. Stephens

March 7, 2013March 8, 2017 AJ Epic Romance

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review “You’ll never know how incredible you are to me, how desperately I love you. I would do it all over again if I needed to. I’d go back to the […]

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Review: Raid (Unfinished Heroes, #3) by Kristen Ashley

February 27, 2013January 29, 2017 AJ Military

Buy: Kindle Ebook | Paperback Review 4.5 stars ABSOFUCKINGMAZING!!! KA brings us yet another gorgeous, swoony, sexy and tortured Alpha to obsess over in former Marine and all-round badass, Raiden Ulysees Miller. “Wearing a skin tight army […]

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Review: Never Too Far (Rosemary Beach, #2) by Abbi Glines

February 26, 2013March 8, 2017 AJ New Adult

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review This book picks up a couple of weeks after the end of Fallen Too Far. Blaire is back home in Alabama and trying to deal with the fall out of […]

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Review: Fallen Too Far (Rosemary Beach, #1) by Abbi Glines

February 25, 2013December 11, 2021 AJ New Adult

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review Blaire is a 19 year old country girl from Alabama. Having spent the last three years looking after her terminally ill mother, she is left completely alone upon her death. […]

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Review: Edge of Dawn (Midnight Breed, #11) by Lara Adrian

February 23, 2013May 31, 2016 AJ Action

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review BAM!! Welcome back to the world of Midnight Breed! I love, love loved this book!!! Set 20 years after the jaw-dropping events at the end of the last book, Darker […]

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Review: Come Alive (Experiment in Terror, #7) by Karina Halle

February 21, 2013May 11, 2016 AJ Epic Romance

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review ABSOLUTELY FREAKING SENSATIONAL!!! Dex and Perry are back baby! Oh yeah! And this time around, it’s Dex telling the story, oh yeah! Although I have to say, I did miss […]

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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: And With Madness Comes the Light (Experiment in Terror, #6.5) by Karina Halle

February 14, 2013May 11, 2016 AJ Epic Romance

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review Another heart-wrenching look into the head of Dex Foray, this novella tells the story of what Dex went through while Perry was suffering through the events of On Demon Wings, and […]

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Review: Into the Hollow (Experiment in Terror, #6) by Karina Halle

February 13, 2013November 25, 2024 AJ 6 Star Reads

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review 6 phenomenal stars! HOLY FREAKING PERFECTION!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!  OH.MY.GOD!! Karina Halle has completely and utterly blown me away. The emotion and angst in this book is out of control! […]

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Review: The Dex-Files (Experiment in Terror #5.7) by Karina Halle

February 11, 2013May 11, 2016 AJ 6 Star Reads

Buy: Kindle Ebook  | Paperback (available in the ‘Perception’ EIT novella collection) Review 6 stars! GAH! THIS BOOK IS PURE AND ABSOLUTE, DEX FORAY PERFECTION!!! Is there anything better than a book written in the long-awaited POV […]

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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: Lying Season (Experiment in Terror, #4) by Karina Halle

February 8, 2013May 11, 2016 AJ Feeeeeeels

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review OMG, I am exhausted! I can’t believe all that I’ve been through while reading this book! TOO MANY FEELINGS!!!!! I was ecstatic, heartbroken, and scared out of my head, over […]

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Review: Dead Sky Morning (Experiment in Terror, #3) by Karina Halle

February 7, 2013May 11, 2016 AJ Action

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review “This is the Island of Death. This is purgatory. This place has a dark soul of its own. And it will drown you in its depths.” Spooky, huh? Yep, that […]

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Review: Red Fox (Experiment in Terror, #2) by Karina Halle

February 4, 2013May 11, 2016 AJ Paranormal/Urban Fantasy

Buy: Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Review Book 2 in the Experiment in Terror series brings us more creepy, spooky stuff, more heart-racing action and, most importantly, more Dex and Perry! And it’s all awesome! There’s a […]

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