Tuesday, 29 October 2019

✪ SLAY TWO: RUIN ✪ Laurelin Paige ✪ #Slay2 #FixedSpinOff ✪

© Bianca Janeane ✰ 


• 29 October 2019
• Book #2 in the Slay Quartet
• Book #3 will be out 25 February 2020!
• Fixed series Spin-Off

This is a complete standalone series ... BUT - if you want to really experience the WHOLE THING - I suggest you start with the first Fixed book!! Celia plays a pretty big part in Hudson's story! Plus ... book 1 is ► FREE ◄

JOIN the SLAY ONE: RIVALRY RECOVERY GROUP when you’re done reading!!
Enter at your own risk however!! There WILL BE spoilers!!
★★★★
4.425 Stars

With her heart literally in his hands, Celia will have to try and bargain with a devil.

Edward Fasbender is my captor.

Trapped on this island he owns everything on--including, it seems, me.

He told me he would break me, but I thought he meant in the bedroom. It turns out Edward is playing a completely different game.

And he won't stop until he's ruined me.

Slay Two: Ruin is the second book in the Slay Quartet. Slay One: Rivalry should be read first.



Book #2!
We all remember the amazingly shocking cliffy with which book #1 ended!!!
Is Edward really serious?
Celia doesn't really know, but she's a little scared. Or a lottle.
But she's also still so very attracted to him. The bastard. She hates him! LOL!



We spend a LOT of time on Edward's island in the Caribbean this time. Basically it's the only place we get to see. Celia is alone most of the time - which is part of Edward's plan to ... ☺

I have no idea where this story is going.
I just hope we'll get that happy end at the end of book #4, but I have NO idea how we'll get there! ☺

I really loved reading this. It was a bit ... slower? Creepier than last time.
It was also sexy, sparky, crazy, frustrating & heartbreaking. I love Edward and Celia. I love them together. Even though Edward has all these weird ideas for her. But I really hope I'm right in thinking that he has a plan for her - and not a bad one!!!

And this time we don't really end in a cliffy - or if it is one, then it's one we can definitely live with until the next book comes out! I can't wait for book #3 to land on my kindle - even though I'm not really sure why there have to be four books!!!!??? I'm not really a fan of book series. Only when all books are already out! BUT, I hope we don't have to wait too long for the 3rd one - I'm really bad remembering things with my booksalzheimers!

SLAY TWO: RUIN was a great 2nd book in this crazy & sexy quartet! I can't wait to see where Celia and Edward will take us in the next books! Hurry to your nearest amazon asap - Edward will be sold out in no time!!!

 


ARC received for an honest review

Now, I wasn't such a huge fan of the first book in this series. I really wasn't sure what I thought of Edward.  And I really didn't expect to feel sorry for Celia Werner, however I did and in this second installment I did even more.

I am still unsure of my feelings towards Edward.  I will admit that by the end of this installment, I am slowly starting to come around to him and his ways.

This was a bit creepier than the first installment.  However it was also hotter, sexier and more tender than the first one.  You can feel the attraction between them growing - even with the scare factor thrown in, there is true feelings growing between them.

And just when I think things will go one way, we come to the end of this installment.

I have no idea where this story is going to go. I know where I want it to go, however I know I am going to have to wait a while to find out.  Please don't make me wait too long.



• Excerpt •

Yes, she was calculating and manipulative, and she was very spoiled about getting her way, but that was all surface. She was an onion. There were layers and layers underneath, parts of her that she held away. Parts she showed no one. For whatever reason, I’d caught sight of what she kept hidden, whether she’d meant for that to happen or not, I couldn’t be sure. Regardless, I was captivated. There was so much to see there, so much to take down. So much of her to know and own and destroy and redesign, and like an old habit, I couldn’t break away.

She was an addiction, and I wanted to feed on it. She wasn’t supposed to be like that.

She wasn’t supposed to want to bend to my whims. She wasn’t supposed to open up and give what I asked for. She wasn’t supposed to be so eager to take what I gave her. She certainly wasn’t supposed to see past my own curtain, wasn’t supposed to ask to see more.

I’m here for this, she’d said.

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The final FIXED book - we meet Edward in here!

    



Stalking Laurelin ...



With millions of books sold worldwide, Laurelin Paige is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author. She is a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters. Her husband doesn’t seem to complain, however.

When she isn’t reading or writing sexy stories, she’s probably singing, watching Game of Thrones or Letterkenny, or dreaming of Michael Fassbender. She's also a proud member of Mensa International though she doesn't do anything with the organization except use it as material for her bio.

She is represented by Rebecca Friedman.

✪ Lisa Renee Jones 🎄 TANGLED UP IN CHRISTMAS ✪

© Bianca





• 29 October 2019
• Standalone Rom-Com
Texas Heat #2

The book ends at the 57% mark - after that Lisa gives us an old Holiday romance: 
Santa Baby🎄

★★★★
4.25 Stars

I might be a country girl from the same small town of Sweetwater, Texas, as horse wrangler Roarke Frost, the girl next door who knows him like few know him, but I didn't know enough to save my heart.

He's the reason why I left Sweetwater behind.

But now fate proves she loves a wicked twist and sends me back to Sweetwater to pull together a Christmas festivaland I run smack into the man again, quite literally. His body is pressed to mine, his hands on my arms, and I'm melting like chocolate in the sizzling Texas sunshine. And I run.

I know it’s not exactly respectable, but it works, just not for long. No matter how much I try to get tangled up in Christmas, I end up tangled up in Roarke insteadand the man has me feeling the heat of our attraction and the warmth of our past friendship. He feels like Mr. Right, but history says hes Mr. Wrong.

But if he wants a second chance, Roarke Frost is going to have to work for it. He’ll need to prove to me that this holiday is a season of new beginnings, the kind that last forever.



We all remember Roarke from the first book. He's Jason's best friend.
Hannah also used to be friends with those two guys. And she was so much more to Roarke. But then after that summer six years ago, Hannah left town with a broken heart.
But now she lost her job in Los Angeles and she's back home with an event-planning business.
And Roarke is still just as attracted to her. He never stopped loving her.
But what happened six years ago - why did he let her go???

READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT 
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Adorable!
A really sweet Texas & horses & cookies & second chances romance!
With lots of funny and adorable moments.
Holiday moments. Fighting moments. Arguing moments. Lots of sparky moments! Some heartbreaking & frustrating moments.
I really enjoyed reading it.

It was also another Lisa Renee Jones book - so it was just too long for me somehow. We could've cut a few pages and a few too complicated sentences. The writing was too weird and complicated here and there. It felt like Lisa tried too hard to sound different. I had to put it on hold for a couple of days and read two other review books first. Ones which moved through my brain much more easily. No idea why Lisa's words are too un-flow-y for my mind - maybe I just had an off day for that kind of writing. But I came back - and I really like the story now that I'm done with it. That sounds weird and a bit unkind. But it's a really cute second-chance love story!
I loved seeing Jason and Jessica from the first book again so much - and the grandmas!
I missed the Christmas from the title a bit. We don't really have Christmas is the book. There is some holiday stuff because they're planning that charity event, but that's it.
And for all her being mad at him and her resisting, it took her only such a short time in the end to forgive and forget and move right into his house. Which was so weird - she could've just stayed six years ago. What a waste of time! BUT - she was too young back then - she had a bit of life to live first. And Roarke was mature for both of them. He was really so very adorable! But he should've told her the truth a long time ago. But.... it was all okay the way it was. I liked reading the book. It was cute.

TANGLED UP IN CHRISTMAS was an adorable Texas-Horses-Second-Chance Love Story!
Run to your nearest amazon for your own Roarke - this one is MINE!




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Book #1

  



Lilah Love Book #1





Lilah Love Book #2




Stalking Lisa:



New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT TRILOGY which has sold to more than ten countries for translation with negotiations in process for more, and has now been optioned by STARZ Network for a cable television show, to be produced by Suzanne Todd (Alice in Wonderland).

Since beginning her publishing career in 2007, Lisa has published more than 30 books with publishers such as Simon and Schuster, Avon, Kensington, Harlequin, NAL, Berkley and Elloras Cave, as well as crafting a successful indie career. Booklist says that Jones suspense truly sizzles with an energy similar to FBI tales with a paranormal twist by Julie Garwood or Suzanne Brockmann.

Prior to publishing, Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by Dallas Women Magazine. In 1998 LRJ was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.

Lisa loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her at www.lisareneejones.com and she is active on twitter and facebook daily.