Showing posts with label novella. Show all posts
Showing posts with label novella. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Book Spotlight: All I Want For Christmas Is You by Jessica Scott



Title: All I Want For Christmas Is You

Author: Jessica Scott
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Novella (108 pages)

Since winter is coming and all we thought we should keep you warm with this upcoming Novella about a veteran woman who had been through hell and back and the man who loves her. 



Rafflecopter Giveaway

GIVEAWAY yup, another giveaway. Feel free to participate. 


Summary






All Major Patrick MacLean wanted was Christmas with the woman and child who were his family in everything but name. But Captain Samantha Egan has come back from the war a different woman than the one who left - and she doesn't know if she can love him anymore.

But neither of them counted on the determination of a little girl they both call daughter and if Natalie has her wish, her parents may have no idea what's coming for them. It's going to take Christmas miracle to bring these two wounded warriors back from the edge of a broken heart. 

Excerpt

It was not a gentle kiss. It was not tame or timid or questioning.

It burned her down to the root of Sam's soul. It touched something deep and dark and hidden.

Something she'd thought was long since dead and buried and gone.

Patrick’s tongue slid against hers, stroking to life the very sensations she thought she'd never feel again.

It was electric, the feel of his mouth against hers. The scrape of stubble against her chin, the taste of him. The smell of his skin.

He nipped her. Pinched her bottom lip between his teeth and sucked it. And she sighed at the pleasure, at the raw ache his taste and touch aroused in her, pushing aside the darkness that haunted her.

Sam felt him. Felt everything. The heat of his skin. The warmth that drew her closer. That made her want to crawl into his lap and unzip his pants and push up that damned flannel shirt until they were skin to skin and there was nothing between them but sweat and heat.

One hand slid down her side. Tugged at her fleece and...

"Dear lord how many layers of clothing do you have on under this thing," he muttered against her lips.

She smiled. "You weren't wondering why I wasn't cold?"

"Well you'd be a champ at strip poker right about now," he murmured.

Then his fingers found her skin and she was no longer thinking.

Goodreads Link


Buy Links 

Barnes and Noble - http://bit.ly/aiwbn
Google Play - http://bit.ly/aiwgplay

Biography

Jessica Scott is a career army officer, mother of two daughters, three cats and three dogs, wife to a career NCO and wrangler of all things stuffed and fluffy. She is a terrible cook and even worse housekeeper, but she's a pretty good shot with her assigned weapon and someone liked some of the stuff she wrote. Somehow, her children are pretty well adjusted and her husband still loves her, despite burned water and a messy house.

She's written for the New York Times At War Blog, PBS Point of View Regarding War, and IAVA. She deployed to Iraq in 2009 as part of OIF/New Dawn and has served as a company commander at Fort Hood, Texas.

She's pursuing a PhD in Sociology in her spare time  and most recently, she's been featured as one of Esquire Magazine's Americans of the Year for 2012.

Social Networking Links


***

The novella ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU is also included in November 11th release HOME FOR CHRISTMAS with Joann Ross.

Buy Links

Amazon.com:  amzn.to/1D7xcZO
Google Play: http://bit.ly/hfcplay

Friday, September 12, 2014

Book Review: Undeniable by Ashley Simone

Author: Ashley Simone
Publication Date: April 15th 2014
Series: Undeniable
Pages: 70
Rating: 1.5 stars
Buy on: Amazon
Add to: Goodreads

What if One Night Could Change Your Life?
Working in a diner by day and desperately applying for graduate jobs by night, Allie Nobokov fears that her future will be one of a single, virginal, cat lady. A chance encounter with a gorgeous stranger, Zac, awakens her desires and she feels an undeniable connection.

When fate pushes them together once again, Allie’s desires run wild – until, just when things start getting hot and heavy, Zac disappears into the night...
How can you deny a connection so strong?
All that is pushed to the back of Allie’s mind when her younger brother shows up on her doorstep, desperately in need of more money than she can provide… Until she sees a classified ad.

“I met a girl and I can’t get over her,”
says the ad, and goes on to describe Allie. “If you look like her, I’ll pay handsomely for one night with you.”
Can Allie summon the courage to answer the mysterious ad and go through with what it entails? And can she convince the enigmatic Zac to push aside his demons and give their love a chance?


My Thoughts: 

This ARC was kindly provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Undeniable is a 70 page novella that it can take anyone out there under an hour to read- or in my opinion waste.

It was an easy story to get into as it was easy to get out of, I didn;t even mind the cliffhanger which is something rare for me to be completely honest.

From the first page of Chapter 1, I figured out the main protagonist, Allie. She is the kind of girl that she falls in love easily, can;t stop over thinking someone she just met and she focuses too much on her thoughts of someone she randomly met that puts her real problems aside. Her brother has a real problem and the only thing she cares about is how to get laid. May be her brothers issue pushed her to do what she did but eventually she did it out of her own interest and no one else's.

I couldn't feel anything about her whether that was pity or hate or something else and generally I felt like the characters of the book were shallow and superficial. I don't see the reason to spend another one or two hours to read the next novellas of this one because simply, I wasnt impressed.
At all.

Unfortunately, Undeniable is a boring and uninteresting book.

Efterpi