Review: Absolution by L.P. Lovell & Stevie J. Cole

*****5 Stars*****

 

 

For those of you who love a dark read, I dare you to read this. Because this will warp the mind of even the most hardened and experienced readers of the dark stuff. You definitely need to have a strong disposition to appreciate this book, if you're strictly a hearts and flowers kinda girl then this book won't be for you, it'll send you rocking in the corner questioning your sanity.
Now I'm not the most experienced with the dark side of romance, I've read a few and those I've read I've liked. I've maybe felt uncomfortable at times but I've enjoyed the experience of the book and I haven't yet found anything that's made me unable to finish a book. But I have to say this book takes the top spot as the most warped, f*cked up book I've read to date! And I'm not sure if I should admit this but I really liked it! Not sure what that says about me but there you go. Evie and Ezra's story is just so addicting, it's volatile, incredibly violent, gory, psychotic and just plain f*cked the hell up.
I'm not going to go into the contents of the story at all because I think in order to appreciate the punch this book packs you should go in blind. So enjoy, and make sure you have some wine and maybe a cushion to cuddle whilst you're reading this as it may just steal your sanity!

 

Reviewed by Steph Lewis

 

 

 

Evie

All sins are equal in the eyes of God, but I'm not God. One sinner made me his sin, and I can't let men like him live. I want to kill them. Every. Last. One.
Ezra James is no different. I was going to kill him, but then I found myself obsessed and possessed in the most reverent of ways. I became his sinner, and he became my sin, but the wages of sin is death, so I must kill him.

Ezra

The son of a whore, raised by criminals, molded to fit into a world without morals. I've never given a shit about anything until the night I watched a man drop dead at the feet of my little killer. She called to my depravity, and everything in me demanded that I take her, possess her, own her. Some monsters hide behind the faces of angels.

Damned. Broken. Irredeemable.

Through blood, absolution shall be found.

 

 

Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1UHgbwL

Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1RgDJdH

 

 

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Review: L is for Luminous by Amity Cross

*****5 Stars*****

 

 

My first book of 2016 could quite possibly turn out to be one of my favourites of the year. It had everything I ever want from a book. A female lead that makes me feel every ounce of what she's feeling, a male lead who's perfectly imperfect and an antagonist who threatens said female and male finding their happy ever after and it made me cry.....Simple!

Lux Dawson is one of those characters that is socially awkward to the extreme and genuinely doesn't see the beauty in herself and not in a way that makes her come across as a martyr, she has come to terms with the fact that she cannot compete with the likes of Tessa Donahue, girlfriend, mega-tramp and also co-star to Jude Atwood.

Sadly Lux must hide her feelings for Jude and try to find peace in being friends zoned.

I loved Jude, I really did, but if there is ever a guy that needs a stick of dynamite up his backside it was this guy. I'm not lying when I felt every ounce of Lux's heartache and frustration and yes there were tears at 2:30am because I simply couldn't put the book down.

If I have one wish it's that Amity gives us Jude's perspective. There's a very small snippet where we get to know Jude's thoughts and while I'm not always a huge fan of the same book in a different point of view and I'm not even asking for an entire book, but I really would love to know more of what Jude was thinking.

Having only read Amity's Royal Blood series, I have to say this book was nothing like it........Not even close. You could say L is for Loving someone from afar with a few obstacles thrown in for good measure, but for me it was so much more and thinking of my fave reads of 2015, this book evoked similar feelings, so I have no doubt I'll be talking about this book at the end of the year. All in all this is a very beautiful, worthy 5 star read.

 

Reviewed by Louise Dale

 

 

When desperado dork Lux Dawson gets stuck in an elevator at a comic convention, she couldn’t be any more mortified.
She’s just another writer trying to get her work seen, not to get stuck in a three by four metal box with the sexiest male specimen she’s ever seen…who just happens to be guest of honor, Jude Atwood.
Jude’s the star of the hottest TV series on the American airwaves, the supernatural detective show Naturals, and he’s at the height of his star studded career. Too bad she’s a nobody and he has a famous actor girlfriend, who just happens to be his onscreen, epic love. Who could compete with that, right? But for some insane reason Jude wants to know all about Lux…including her disaster of a writing career.
Once those elevator doors are pried open by the jaws of life and reality arrives in the form of hordes of waiting paparazzi, Lux’s life is about to explode…
She just doesn’t know it yet.

 

 

Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1ZeEQKr

Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1ZkVqh0

 

 

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