I woke up on June 25th to realize it was 1/2 Christmas. 6 months to go! Yup, I am one of "those" people. I love Christmas and my tree goes up ridiculously early, and I sing carols all year long.


So in honor of 1/2 Christmas, I put aside my current reads in progress and asked Santa to drop off this Alexa Riley book to my Kindle.


Claudia is fighting for a better life. One where she isn't always doing favors for her brother that she isn't sure are entirely legal ones.


Brian dropped off a building proposal in the middle of an empty lot to Claudia, but it was love at first sight for him and he finds a way to see her again.

"I want you because the second I saw you my soul crawled out of its dark hiding place..."


This book is short, sweet, and just what I needed for the day. With an HEA that included words of love spelled out in Christmas lights as the snow falls on the tree lined path.


Happy reading - keep things a little on the naughty list side!

Written by Katy Evans

This was not my first venture into the world Katy Evans creates with her writing. I have so much respect and awe for writers to create worlds and take us on these amazing journeys. To be able to suspend my own reality to jump into theirs. So it’s difficult when I get to a book that I just don’t connect with. 

Tycoon was a book like that for me. I didn’t connect with their story, and I was lost a little in the beginning. It felt almost like I was jumping into the middle of Aaric and Bryn’s story. There were flashbacks eventually, but for some reason, I just couldn’t find my path along with them. 

Aaric took himself from an orphaned lost boy who needed to prove he deserved the girl he loved, to a Manhattan tycoon. When Bryn comes back into his life and is looking for an investment in her startup, he vets her opportunity himself. 

Their past teenage friendship grows and changes into what he’s always wanted and what she always wondered “what if.” 

“I give in and for a moment, I just want it all. I want all of this man. I want to know what he wants, what he dreams, what makes him up, I want to dissect him and let him dissect me and then I want to put each other together with the wrong pieces, so one piece of him ends up in me, and some of mine end up in him.”

I give this book 2.2 stars out of 5. Again, reading is as much about the journey the reader takes as much as it is about the characters. If you’ve read Katy’s books before, give it a try. If you haven’t read her before, maybe start with one of her other series first.

Happy reading - keep things a little on the naughty side!

This book is labeled as "a sexy, enemies to lovers romantic comedy" and I was in the mood for something funny and naughty. 

The story features Rebecca Fieldstone, who is working her way up at her local new station and is in line for a news anchor position. Things start to go wildly amiss along the way. Tiny beauty pageant princesses, monkeys who do naughty things on camera, and a coworker who is out to take the open position from her. 

Cade Hill, former NFL quarterback, turned sports anchor, finds himself attracted to her snarky comebacks and curves. I wouldn't say this is really an enemy to lovers story as much as it is two co-workers who struggle with crossing that boundary. 

The secondary characters add some spice to this book with Cade's brother Trent, and Rebeccas drag queen fortune telling roommate Chas lending some humor along the way. 

For me, this book was cute and a little on the fluff side of having substance, and while I enjoyed the book, it was not laugh-out-loud comedy that I've read in other books. 

But! if you are in the mood for a fluffy, cute story, that will make you smile, then this is a great book to read. Sometimes that is exactly the type of fictional world I want to be in when escaping into a book. 

I would give this book 3 stars. 

Happy reading- keep things a little on the naughty side!

Written by Maya Banks

 It took me a long time to join the e-reader world.
There is just something pure about the weight of a book. The vision of physical pages turning. It’s just an experience you can’t get with e-books. Although I read a ton of “one-clicked” books- I venture into my library now and then to read a treasure I already have.
That’s how I ended up in the world of Rush. 

Gabe Hamilton runs a wildly successful business with his two best friends. His business and professional life are thriving. His personal life, however, is cold and calculating. His ex-wife made sure to leave quite the public mess of him and his sexual preferences behind in her wake, despite them always being consensual. Now his personal life is dictated by short term pre-determined arrangements that are all business and no emotions. 

Until Mia. Little sister to his best friend and business partner, she has grown into a woman he no longer wants to resist. Convinced he can go through the same temporary arrangement with her, he is surprised to find she quickly becomes the  Intricale part of his day.

Mia has never seen Gabe in any type of brother role. He was her teenage crush, but their interactions have shifted and are now as a woman and a man. 

“ For a long moment he stared at her until heat crawled up her neck and to her cheeks. He didn’t simply look at her. He made her feel devoured by his gaze”

This books hits a few tropes in combining their 14 year age gap, best friends little sister, and a theme of bondage and control.

I give it 3.4 out of 5 stars. It felt like at times the story got a little slow in the middle but you get an HEA in the end! 

Happy reading - keep things a little on the naughty side!