Dirty English By Ilsa Madden-Mills

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A scarred fighter.

A girl with rules.

One night of unbridled passion.

There are three things you need to know about Elizabeth Bennett: she’s smart as a whip, always in control, and lives by a set of carefully crafted rules. She’s learned the hard way that people you love the most always hurt you in the end.

But then she meets Declan Blay, the new neighbor at her apartment complex.

A tattooed British street fighter, he’s the campus bad boy she’s supposed to avoid, but when he saves her from a frat party gone bad, all her rules about sex and love fly out the window.

She gives him one night of unbridled passion, but he longs for more. 

With only a cardboard-thin wall separating their bedrooms, he dreams of possessing the vulnerable girl next door forever.

One night. Two damaged hearts. The passion of a lifetime.

After been attacked by her school sweetheart on prom night, Elizabeth promises herself never to be that weak girl again. She tells herself when it comes to men, to sexual relationships she will be the one in control, but when she meets Declan, it all gets thrown out the window. She knows from the minute she lays eyes on him he's different. Not only because he's not the weak, nerdy type she can be in control of in the bedroom, but because she talks to him, can stand to be alone with him. 

Declan, the ever so fit British fighter, is not only the campus bad boy, but is also a book reader. An avid one at that. He know's his Pride and Prejudice and doesn't care who knows it. The only thing I didn't get is the bad boy on campus, he wasn't that kind of lad to me. I think it's the image that gave him that title and not anything he actually does. 

The two live next door to each other, and the more she pushes him away, the more he is drawn for more time with the strange girl next door. 

When the two share a night together, he wants more, so much more, but it goes beyond Elizabeth's promise to herself. 

The story is about two people finding themselves after struggling through life and life horrific situations. 

The only thing that annoyed me was the chosen words for British Slang. I don't know if it's from where I'm from, but some of the things they said, we NEVER say. You'd have to old and pompous to say it LOL That's just me though and where I come from. 

3.5*

Dare By Allie Juliette Mousseau

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Josh North – a risk-it-all bad boy - sexy dirty talker - bad ass defender and UFC’s Light Heavyweight Champion— is about to meet his match. 

Sophie Garner is a single mom who’s been raising her daughter on her own, fighting for both of their lives ever since going into hiding to escape her abusive husband. 
When Sophie gets offered the job of a lifetime as the exclusive massage therapist for Josh “The Jackhammer” North’s team, it’s difficult to say no to the outrageous salary—and the bet—that Josh proposes. But for Sophie it’s a risk that could cost a lot more than just her heart – if she’s found, it could cost her her life. 
Should she dare? 

Josh wants to break through Sophie’s fortified walls, but is unwilling to put the jackhammer to his own and reveal his secrets and the side of him few have ever known or seen. To do that, he’ll have to confront the darkness of his past. 
Will he dare?

I love MMA/UFC novels. There's something about someone that strong that I love reading about. But Josh North isn't just UFC heavy weight champion, hes a fire fighter too. 

After getting hurt in the line of duty to save a little boy in a burning building, Josh has Sophie start therapy at the hospital. They have instant attraction to one another and it moves on that Josh and his team hire her to work with him outside of the hospital for an OBSCENE amount of money. 
Sophie accepts because she needs to the money. If she ever has to run again she wants to have that insurance. She's also at risk of her heart been broken. 

There were a few things off with the story, like how intelligent the three year little girl is. I have three kids and not one could speak like that or know the stuff she does LOL 

The story line is fantastic. I was a little confused on what the ex wanted with Sophie in the end and where his secret partner went to. I mean, wouldn't he be after her now??? 

All in all, I couldn't put the book down long enough to do anything productive and have recommended it to other readers who have loved it just as much as me. 

4*

Beat #1 By Amity Cross

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Renee "Ren" Miller was five when her Dad left to go to the shops and never came back.
Left to grow up with a cancer riddled mother, things have never been easy for a teenager who had to be wise beyond her years. Then one day they lose the battle and she's all alone.
Now twenty-two, Ren reluctantly goes to find her estranged father. He owns the down and out boxing studio Beat, and Ren finds herself drawn to the ring. She thrives on learning a new way of fighting a life that kept kicking her down...instead of struggling against the current, she kicks it right between the legs.
Then one day Ash Fuller, her Dad's star fighter comes back to town. Mysterious, handsome... Dangerous... Everything Ren doesn't need.
But he's got other ideas...
...and so does she

I got this from my blog on the favorite MMA novels read this year. 
I'm stuck in the middle of whether I enjoyed it or whether I disliked it. There wasn't anything wrong with the story plot, the story is great, although it did feel like it dragged in some places. I also don't get the whole MMA genre when there really isn't any MMA in here. There's underground fighting, which I don't agree with. It's brutal and Amity Cross is brilliant at getting us to picture the scene she's created. 
The only problem I found with writing is that she used the word 'WAS' a lot. To me 'WAS' is past tense. Amity Cross uses it for present tense all the time, which kind of confused me. Though easily ignored. 

Other than the fact it dragged a little the story was really good and interesting. I do want to know more about the mystery of Ash and why flips the way he does. It's kind of scary if you've read it. I loved the fact that Ren could calm him down. The chemistry between the two was off the charts hot. 
I also HATE Ren's half sister with a passion. And it's not just because she's a B I T C H. 
Then there is the whole situation with her mother dying, her father running out on her at 5 years old and then her father moving on with another family and not bothering with her again. That made me feel sick and actually cry my eyes out. I don't know how she held her anger back on him. I could see why she loved to punch her anger out because even I reading the book wanted to punch something. 
How she can stay there when he disowned her for a new family is shocking.I wouldn't be able to look him in the eye without wanting to stick my finger in the sockets LOL that's how angry the situation made me. 

3.5* 
I can't wait to read the next in the series and find out what happens. Amity leaves us with a massive cliffhanger. 

Defying the odds By Kele Moon

Defying the odds By Kele Moon

When struggling waitress Melody Dylan gives a handsome, lonely stranger a simple gift she has no clue her life is about to take a drastic turn.

The stranger ends up being Clay Powers, a famous UFC heavyweight fighter. Clay’s large build and dangerous fists have always intimidated. People in his hometown keep their distance and Clay is fine with that. Everything changes when a new waitress at the local diner buys him a piece of pie on Thanksgiving. Touched by the gesture when it’s obvious she can barely afford to survive, her warm smile and lush body churn up powerful feelings that leave Clay wanting more from her than pie.

Melody is running from her past and the small, country town of Garnet is the perfect hiding place. With an ex-husband after her and scars from her abusive marriage etched deep, the last thing she expects is to fall for a man who makes a living with his fists, but she can’t resist Clay or the tender connection they share.

Finding love in the most unlikely of places, the passion is undeniable, but Clay and Melody know their haunted pasts and unpredictable futures leave the odds stacked against them.

Melody is a struggling waitress. She's on the run from her abusive ex-husband. It doesn't elaborate on that as much as I would have liked really. 

Straight off we can tell what kind of woman Melody is from the first scene. She's working double shifts, struggling to make enough money to live off, yet when she sees the lone stranger by himself on thanksgiving she buy's him a piece of pie.

Clay touched by her buying a piece of pie struggles through eating it just to appease her. 

I loved Clay because he wasn't one of those UFC champions that are all about women, sex, women, money, sex and sex. He actually wants the connection between himself and another woman. 

It's why I find it so sweet when the two find an uncanny bond together. 

3*