Showing posts with label Release date: 07/07/16. Show all posts
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Thursday, 7 July 2016

Review: Hitched: Volume One (Imperfect Love #1) by Kendall Ryan

****4 Stars****


This is the first part of a serial of novellas. It's a quick, easy read with a really interesting premise.
Olivia and Noah have known each other most of their lives. Their father's are business partners and their families have vacationed together a lot over the years. Now adults they've both worked hard to take their father's places at the top of the company. Only as adults they don't exactly get on, Olivia sees Noah as a player and a bit of a horn dog and Noah just wants what he can't have; in her pants!
They are both hit with the bombshell that in order to become co-CEO's of the company they must get married....to each other!
I loved this premise, I thought it was a great idea and it sounded right up my street. I thought Kendall Ryan executed it really well and I found the pages went by really easily. I liked Noah's character but I wasn't sure about Olivia. She seemed a bit precious and pretentious at times. I still haven't made my mind up about her but I'm looking forward to finding out more about them both and seeing how their story pans out in the next installment of the series.

Reviewed by Steph Lewis


Marry the girl I’ve had a crush on my whole life? Check.

Inherit a hundred-billion-dollar company?
Check.

Produce an heir…
Wait, what?

I have ninety days to knock up my brand-new fake wife. There’s only one problem—she hates my guts.

And in the fine print of the contract? The requirement that we produce an heir.

She can’t stand to be in the same room with me. Says she’ll never be in my bed.

But I’ve never backed down from a challenge and I’m not about to start now.

Mark my words—I’ll have her begging for me, and it won’t take ninety days.

On the heels of her smash hit and New York Times bestselling SCREWED series, Kendall Ryan brings you HITCHED, a romantic comedy that delivers heart and heat. A NYC playboy turned business mogul has ninety days to win over the woman he's always desired in order to save his father's company. One tiny problem: She hates his guts.
 





Review: The Ones That Got Away (The Fish Tales, #4) by Suanne Laqueur

****4 Stars****


This book is a peek behind the scenes of The Fish Tales series and the processes that happened which led to creating the characters, some which made the series and some which didn't. Some scenes included are deleted ones that never made the final draft, some scenes are what Suanne Laqueur wrote quite a few years ago, before the series I have come to absolutely love took shape.
I have to say that I loved some parts of this book and others made me appreciative they didn't make the final edits of the books, although I am in complete awe at the thought processes it took to come up with what I can only describe as complex characters and a totally engaging storyline. This book explains all of that and more.
As well as giving us the many unedited drafts, Suanne herself pops up throughout this book to explain certain things and it was during these moments that I found to be the most fun and interesting.
This isn't one of those books that makes you sit in wonder at the end of it, as it's almost biographical in nature, in so much as it is Suanne herself telling us what it took for her to write a novel/series. There was quite a mish mash of excerpts that jump from one scene to another, however despite this, I did feel there was a smooth flow to the book.
All in all, I wouldn't say this book is necessary to the series, but it does compliment it quite well and for me, it did make me love Erik and Will that much more.

Reviewed by Louise Dale


Plenty of fish in the sea. But none like the ones that got away.

Author Suanne Laqueur gives her readers an intimate, guided tour of the award-winning novel,
The Man I Love. From the embryonic chapters written over twenty years ago to scenes cut from the final draft, you’ll witness the crafting of an emotional journey and the evolution of the beloved characters within The Fish Tales.

Includes never-before-seen material and an excerpt from Laqueur’s next novel,
An Exaltation of Larks.