Bang Bang By Rachel Van Dyken

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He was my best friend. 
Until he became my enemy. 
All within the span of one night. 

Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang. 

The rapid fire of gunshots became the soundtrack to my life. 

This is the Mafia. Lines are blurred. Choices are never black and white. And the life you thought you knew is... one giant lie. 

He was dead. 
And I didn't want his life to be in vain, so I tried to make something of myself. I tried and failed. 

Now he's back. Alive. And he wants something... 

Me. 

Nobody ever said the mafia played fair. 
Welcome to The Family. 

Bang Bang is only a short novella, but I loved it. It made me laugh just like the rest and had me wanting to grab Tex out the book and kiss him. Especially when he gives Amy a little speech. 

I loved getting to know a little about the two new characters and to find out Sergio has a hot brother ;) Who wouldn't want to know these details? 
Ax is hot, like seriously hot, and I loved his badass attitude, especially when he's talking to the Capisi AKA Tex. LOL and is reaction to Nix laughing. Had me crying. Don't even get me started on a conversation between Ax and Tex LOL. I'm rambling, sorry!!!

All in all it was a fantastic novel and I cannot wait to read more from the elite series. As usual Rachel gives us a tease with a book, leaving us begging for more. 

5* 

Elicit #4 By Rachel Van Dyken

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Cursed, numb, rejected, scorned, wicked, sinister, dark, twisted...my name is Tex Campisi and this is my legacy. I killed my father in cold blood and lost my soul right along with him. 
I crave war more than peace, and I'm about to take my place in history as the youngest Capo dei Capi in the Cosa Nostra...that is until someone stops me, saves me from myself. 

But the only person able to do that...is my best friends sister, Mo Abandonato, and she just ripped my heart out and asked me to hold it in my hands while she put bullets through it. 

Im cursed so I did it. 
I'm numb so I held it. 
I'm wicked so I liked it. 
I used the pain Mo caused as a catalyst to turn into my biggest nightmare--the five families greatest enemy. It's my turn to take a stand, knowing full well I'm going to lose my mind to the madness that is the American Mafia. I've always been told Blood is thicker than life. I wish I would have listened. Because regardless of who you love? You will betray. You will kill. 
Blood Always Wins. 
The only way out is death...yours. 

Welcome to the Dark Side of the Family.

When I read the last part of the third installment, I was excited for this novel I have a few negative thoughts on this book and was slightly disappointed. 

One ~ was the constant errors in it. I found it hard to read at times, especially when I didn't know if someone was still speaking aloud or thinking in their head. 

Two~ was the book was really short and ended before 80%, the rest was filled with chapters to other different books. 

Now the good thing is the story line. I loved getting to know Tex and his relationship with Mo. 

I predicted most the outcome by the beginning, but I won't spoil it for those who have yet to read it. 

I will give you a sneak clue. There are big surprises installed. I honestly never saw the one thing coming.

I was confused on parts of it because I presumed they put something in Mo's arm to track her and listen and was the reason why she whispered the safe word to Tex when he asked her if she loved him. I just felt like I was misunderstood a lot and got easily confused. 

However, everything that comes together makes it perfect for another book. I cannot wait to read the next installment of the elect series. 

This isn't the best one to be written, but Tex is my favorite character. 

The book has so much humor and funny scenes. It was great. 

Even with my negative points, this isn't a bad review. I loved how Rachel brought the characters back together and kept certain things a mystery to us. I've rated Elicit a 4* and I'm excited to read more of her work. Well done.

Nero (Made men) #1 By Sarah Brianne

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Nero is the king of Legacy Prep, living a life of power.

Elle is the school's punching bag, living a life of fear.

The only good girls Nero knows jump in his bed when he tells them to.

The closest Elle has come to a bad boy like him is in the cafeteria line.

The mob boss gave him orders to find out what she knows.

Her mouth is sealed.



I just want to be a fu**ing made man.

I'm just a fu**ing waitress.

I'm not usually a big fan of Mafia novel, though this one soon changed my mind. Nero is just every girls dream at school. The one you want to stare at across the lunch room. 
My stomach turned in this novel, with the plot about bullying, and how the two were scared to go each day. 
The friendship between the two girls in this was heart warming and in a way I liked they had each other. 

What made the book was when Nero protected them. He got them around school without being harmed, or someone saying something. I loved how he stepped in and got his boys to as well. 

The story plot had me unsure, but I promise giving this book a shot is worth it. I loved it, and I can't wait to read the next one this author has on the Marked men. 
I needed to read more once it was finished. 

4*

Finding us By S K Hartley

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I'm loud, I'm proud, and I like to bust balls in my spare time. 
At least, that's what Low Parker would do. But she is just a mask, one I have perfected over years of running. 

I am Willow Knoxx. Master of deception, secrets, and lies. 

I am the girl your mother told you to stay away from, and the girl your father fantasized about. I have been running for years, always looking over my shoulder. 

Now, the mask I have perfected is about to disappear, and everything I have done to keep myself hidden is about to be revealed.

Read the first two in the series a while back so i got to know the character Willow rather well. Never did I think she hid a life like this at all. 

I will say this book disappointed me. I honestly found it repeating it self over and over until 68% in then things got good. 

I like Willow, and I LOVE Tate. 

It was nice towards the end things got good otherwise it would have been a disaster. I liked how things come out of the wood work when things got interesting.

3*

Entice By Rachel Van Dyken

Entice

Chase Winter let the love of his life slip through his fingers and into the hands of his best friend and mafia boss of the Abandonato family. Now that he's been given a second chance to right a wrong, he refuses to let his own selfishness stand in the way. The only problem? He's not fully in possession of his heart, so when Mil De Lange -- the girl who's innocence he stole and heir to the worst of the worst mafia families in the US -- asks him for a favor... he says yes, not realizing that one yes has the power to destroy them all.

Mil's been in love with Chase Winter as long as she can remember, but as the years went by, love turned into hate, and now that he's agreed to help her, she's wondering if she made a fatal error. Because Chase isn't a teenager anymore. He's a hot-blooded male, bent on owning every part of her, body and soul, and he's willing to kill anyone in his path who dares stand in the way.

Secrets will finally be revealed... but make no mistake, it's going to take a lot of bloodshed for those truths to be discovered.

Read on for my 5* review 

Holy hell, I feel like i've been waiting for this book forever, and it hasnt disappointed me. If anything it was the best one in the series. I've never laughed so much in my life. I absolutely love Tex, he always makes me laugh. Though I don't think that will be the case in the next novel :( 

It's so glad to see Chase happy and with someone he deserves. 

There isnt much I can review on the book apart from let you know it's totally worth the read, the whole series is. 

Another novel added to my top ten favorite books to read this year. Loved it. 

5* 

Spin By CD Reiss

Spin

Mafia capo, Antonio Spinelli blew through my orderly life like a cyclone. 

Gorgeous and passionate, with a breathtaking brutality, he put me under his spell the moment he touched me, drawing me into his underworld of risk, violence and betrayal. 

And I found, just as this sophisticated savage didn’t trust me, I didn’t trust myself. Something happened to me. Some alchemy from the heat between us. 

I discovered I was a savage, too. 

Read on for my review ....

Bottom Feeder By Maria G.Cope

Bottom Feeder

Graduating high school was Maddy Carrington's chance to leave her abusive childhood behind. When she discovers her father is a murderer, her chance of getting out of Georgia alive comes from a nineteen-year-old war veteran with deadly secrets that may cost both their lives. 
Jackson thought the worst of his battles were over. Returning from a year-long tour in Afghanistan, he planned to relax and eat his way through every restaurant in Savannah. That is, until he makes a deal with the South's most notorious crime boss, Cordell Carrington. 

They want to tell you their story with one stipulation: absolute confidentiality. 

Read on for my review ...

Fighting for Irish By Gina L Maxwell

Fighting for Irish

Former MMA fighter Aiden "Irish" O'Brien hasn't stepped into the ring since he accidentally took someone's life in the heat of rage. When his friend calls in a favor that sends him south to check on family, Irish figures he's got nothing to lose. His life is on the ropes. The least he can do is make sure the sexy redhead is safe.

Kat MacGregor has forty-eight hours to settle the twenty thousand dollar debt her deadbeat ex-boyfriend owes a crime boss. If she doesn't, she'll pay for it--with her life. Kat's halfway out the door when a sexy new guy walks into the bar and insists he's there to help.

Irish is forced to fight in the underground MMA circuit to win the money she needs. But he's been lying to Kat. About who he is, about knowing her sister, about why he comes home bruised every night. She's the best thing that's ever happened to him, but breaking her trust will cost him the most important fight of his life: the one for her heart. Read on for my review >>>

Carter Reed By Tijan

Carter Reed By Tijan

Emma decided to skip the gym and went home early. It was the last easy decision she made because she found her roommate being raped by the boyfriend. She had two choices. Call the cops and be killed by his family’s mafia connections or kill him first and hope to survive. There was no choice to her. She killed the bastard first and went to the one person who could protect her. Carter Reed. He’s a weapon for the rivaling mafia family, but he’s also Emma’s secret. Not only was he best friends with her brother, but she’s the reason he became that weapon in the first place. 

Read on for my review ....

At peace By Kristen Ashley

At peace

Violet Winters once had it all but lost it when her husband was murdered by a criminal madman. During a cold winter night Violet has to leave her warm bed to tell her neighbor to turn the music down. And that’s when she meets sinister, scarred, scarily attractive security specialist, Joe Callahan.

She wants to deny it, but Violet can’t beat back the hunger she feels for Joe so she gives in again and again. Feeling it himself, Joe feeds Vi’s hunger, breaking his own rules to keep her in his bed.

Even though Violet had only one man in her life, she’s sure Joe is giving her the signals and Vi decides she’s ready to take a second chance at life and, maybe, love. But Violet doesn’t know the dark secrets in Joe’s past, secrets so soul-wrenching, they’ve drained him dry. With nothing left to give, Joe’s determined to live his life alone and he breaks Violet’s heart.

Crushed by Joe’s betrayal, Violet comes to terms with the fact that, no matter what signals he gave, Joe was not theirs to win. But Violet’s husband’s murderer is obsessed with her and heartbreak again haunts the door of the Winters home. When it does Joe is forced to face the knowledge that he can’t fight Violet’s pull, she’s under his skin and filled him full to bursting.

Joe needs to win her back and put his life on the line to keep Violet safe. But, having had it all once, can Violet endure losing Joe?

Read on for my review

Ride (Bayonet Scars) By JC Emery

Ride

Principessa to the Mancuso crime family, Alexandra knows a thing or two about living outside the bounds of the law. Suffocated by the future her father has laid out for her, she makes a choice she can't take back, changing the entire trajectory of her life. 
Thrust into the dark and dangerous world of the Forsaken Motorcycle Club for her own protection, Alex finds herself faced with the last thing she needs right now: the man of her dreams. He’s sex in leather, the devil incarnate, and one hell of a kisser. But he’s also off-limits. Ryan Stone can be her friend, but he’s forbidden to be her lover. 

Third-generation Forsaken, Ryan knows nothing other than life on two wheels, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. He enjoys the many privileges that come with the patch, and the only laws he recognizes are the ones set-forth by his club. That is, until who he wants more than anything isn’t allowed on the back of his bike —or in his bed. Balancing his desire for her body, and need to keep her safe, Ryan tries to keep Alex at a distance. Finally having made a choice for herself, she’s done hearing the word “no” and will push boundaries even Ryan himself doesn’t dare cross. 

Love is never more tempting than when it’s forbidden. 

Read on for my review ...

Elect By Rachel Van Dyken

Elect

Nixon Abandonato made his choice. And now he has to pay the price. Tracey is the love of his life, but being with him has made her a target of his family's enemies. The only way to keep Trace alive is convince the world she means nothing to him.

Trace Rooks has fallen irrevocably in love with the son of her family's sworn rival, and she knows in her bones nothing can tear them apart. Until Nix suddenly pushes her away and into the arms of his best friend... But Trace isn't ready to give up on a future with Nix--and if he won't fight for them, she will.

In the end, a sacrifice must be made. A life for a life. For what better way to cover a multitude of sins than with the blood of a sinner . . . Read on for my review ....

Elite by Rachel Van Dyken

Elite
For Tracey Rooks, life with her grandparents on a Wyoming farm has always been simple. But after her grandmother's death, Tracey is all her grandfather has. So when Eagle Elite University announces its annual scholarship lottery, Tracey jumps at the opportunity to secure their future and enters. She isn't expecting much-but then she wins. And life as she knows it will never be same . . .

The students at Eagle Elite are unlike any she's ever met . . . and they refuse to make things easy for her. There's Nixon, gorgeous, irresistible, and leader of a group that everyone fears: The Elect. Their rules are simple. 1. Do not touch The Elect. 2. Do not look at The Elect. 3. Do not speak to The Elect. No matter how hard she tries to stay away, The Elect are always around her and it isn't long until she finds out the reason why they keep their friends close and their enemies even closer. She just didn't realize she was the enemy -- until it was too late. 

Breaking Sophie By Cara Layton

Breaking Sophie

When Sophie left for a last minute Vacation with her friend, after leaving her boyfriend of eight years, she didn't plan on falling for an exotic, rich, man called Dom. 
Dom convinces Sophie to stay with him but what happens when she finds out what his job consists of ? .....