FAIRLY SWEET by Jennifer Wedmore

Title:  FAIRLY SWEET

Series:  Black Hollow #10

Author:  Jennifer Wedmore

Publisher:  Jennifer Wedmore

Publish Date:   12.19.2019

Category /Genre:  Paranormal Romance

Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content

Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused

Received from:  Jennifer Wedmore

Goodreads link: Fairly Sweet

Date completed: 02.28.2020

Description from the publisher:

Alizon Bishop escaped Salem during the infamous witch trials. In Black Hollow, she found a haven, a family and peace. Her candy shop was her passion until one day it wasn't. A stranger turns up and her world is flipped upside down and he shows her there's more to life than chocolate.

Lucan O'Brien was half fairy and half-human. Though he wondered how much of him was really a fairy. After all, he couldn't fly, he was the size of a normal human and he possessed none of the traits of a fairy. He didn't fit in the fairy world or the human world.

Lucan arrives in Black Hollow a town where he could belong finally and finds a woman he could love. But someone is killing witches and Alizon has a target on her back. Did he finally find his home only to lose the woman who makes it worthwhile?

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FAIRLY SWEET is the tenth book in the multi-author Black Hollow series.  Each is a stand-alone in the Black Hollow world.

Action and adventure are added into this paranormal romance as Alizon and Lucan race a clock set into motion 500 years ago to end her life.

I’ve always been fascinated by the facts and myths surrounding the Salem witch trials.  Imagine if there was just one witch.  She got away, but bore the guilt of all of those souls for 500 years.  That’s Alizon’s guilt – directed at the woman in her mirror, instead of (rightly, IMHO) pointing the finger at a bunch of lazy, spoiled, and bored teenagers.

I love Alizon’s candy shop and her own cute description of it.  The story is as sweet as the title with the insta-attraction between Alizon and Lucan, yet nothing about their relationship felt overly-rushed.

Finally, I loved catching up with Ravenna and Derrick from Jennifer Wedmore’s other contribution to the series, ONE MAN’S CURSE.

The story is entertaining, romantic, and has a touch of suspense that kept me turning the pages long into the night.  The characters are engaging and enchanting. 

I believe there may be a magical spell woven into the words of the Black Hollow town description to keep the reader happily ensnared.  I know I want to return again and again.

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Black Hollow Series:

0.5  Loving the Monster Within (Cassidy K. O’Connor)

1.      Reviving Love (Cassidy K. O’Connor)

2.      Silver Linings (Sheri Lyn)

3.      Finding Her Fire (Gracen Miller)

4.      One Man’s Curse (Jennifer Wedmore)

5.      It’s the Little Things (Robbie Cox)

6.      Resurrecting His Heart (J.C. Layne)

7.      Sacrificing Love (Cassidy K. O’Connor)

8.      Black Magic Sanction (Kim Harrison)

9.      To Trick the Devil (Robbie Cox)

10.  Fairly Sweet (Jennifer Wedmore)

11.  Accepting Love (Cassidy K. O’Connor)

Also from Jennifer Wedmore:

·         Can You Protect Them? (Federal Paranormal Unit #1) (with Sheri Lyn)

·         Fairly Sweet (Black Hollow #10)

·         One Man’s Curse (Black Hollow #4)

·         Save a Horse

·         Sexy in Black

·         Wish Us Luck

·         Working with Scrooge

 

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DARING DADDY by Laylah Roberts

Title:  DARING DADDY

Series:  Montana Daddies #5

Author:  Laylah Roberts

Publisher:  Laylah Roberts

Publish Date:  02.19.2020

Category /Genre:  Contemporary Romance, BDSM

Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content

Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused

Received from:  Laylah Roberts

Goodreads link: Daring Daddy

Date completed: 02.29.2020

Description from the publisher:

She’s the spoiled princess living a life of reckless fun. . .

Or that’s what she wants people to believe. Because for years Eden has been hiding her pain from the people who love her the most. All of her true emotions and feelings are tucked away in a safe place where no-one can reach them.

Except for him. . .
Because when Zeke touches her heat fills her. Longing. Want. If there is one thing she wants in this life, its him.

But she can’t have him. She can’t be what he needs. She’s not strong. Or whole. She definitely cannot be his Little.

And he would never be her Dom, her Daddy, her love.

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DARING DADDY is the sixth book in the Montana Daddies series.  Though each will stand on its own, for maximum enjoyment read the full series and in the order of release.

Eden is hiding from everyone behind a mask of hurt and competence.  She knows she wants to be Zeke’s little, but doesn’t believe she deserves him or anyone.  After all, she has been in a wheelchair since she was ten years old.  Who would want that?

I loved Eden; I get her.  I may not be in a wheelchair, but I understand that feelings of utter anxiety and insecurity.  She hides hers behind a front of being the princess of Sanctuary Ranch and  doing as she pleases.  I loved Zeke even more because he sees past her masks and has the patience to bring her to the relationship they both want.

Zeke’s patience as he brings out Eden’s little seems endless, his love boundless.  That is what makes him the poster of a near perfect DD.  The only problem I had was the “trackers” he put in her phone and purses without her knowledge.

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Montana Daddies series:

1.      Daddy Bear

2.      Daddy’s Little Darling

3.      Daddy’s Sweet Girl

4.      Daddy’s Lost Love

4.5 A Montana Daddies Christmas

5.      Daring Daddy

6.      Warrior Daddy (coming 03.18.2020)

Also from Laylah Roberts:

·         Ally and Jake:  An Ageplay Story

·         A Cowboy to Call Her Own

·         Firecracker

·         The Haley Chronicles

·         Laying Down the Law

·         A Mate to Sacrifice (The Hunters #2)

·         Set Free:  Kylie’s Story

·         Their Christmas Baby

·         Trouble Comes in Threes

·         Unforgettable

Bad Boys of WildeSide Series:

1.      Wilde

2.      Sinclair

3.      Luke

Cavan Gang Series:

1.      Rectify

2.      Redemption

Doms of Decadence Series:

1.      Just for You, Sir

2.      Forever Yours, Sir

3.      For the Love of Sir

4.      Sinfully Yours, Sir

5.      Make Me, Sir

6.      A Taste of Sir

7.      To Save Sir

8.      Sir’s Redemption

9.      Reveal Me, Sir

Haven, Texas Series:

1.      Lila’s Loves

2.      Laken’s Surrender

3.      Saving Savannah

4.      Molly’s Man

5.      Saxon’s Soul

6.      Mastered by Malone

7.      How West Was Won

8.      Cole’s Mistake (coming 04.28.2020)

MC Daddies Series:

1.      Motorcycle Daddy  (coming 05.20.2020)

Men of Orion Series:

1.      Worlds Apart

Old Fashion Man Series:

1.      Her Old-Fashioned Man

2.      Two Old-Fashioned Men

3.      Her Old-Fashioned Husband

4.      Her Old-Fashioned Boss

5.      Her Old-Fashioned Love

An Old-Fashioned Christmas

Redemption Valley Series:

1.      Audra’s Awakening

Taken Series:

1.      Taken:  Risa’s Story

2.      Held:  Alia’s Story

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ONE MAN'S CURSE by Jennifer Wedmore

Title:  ONE MAN’S CURSE

Series:  Black Hollow #4

Author:  Jennifer Wedmore

Publisher:  Jennifer Wedmore

Publish Date:   01.07.2019

Category /Genre:  Paranormal Romance

Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content

Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused

Received from:  Jennifer Wedmore

Goodreads link: One Man’s Curse

Date completed: 02.28.2020

Description from the publisher:

Ravenna Burroughs thought she was being offered the perfect job in Black Hollow. One that gave her access to the oldest books on magic. Here she could finally find out how to break a curse and fix her family’s magic problems. What she didn’t expect to find…. The family, that hers cursed.


Derrick Ainsworth and his whole family were cursed thousands of years ago. Something changed and the curse was setting in earlier and earlier. He wasn’t willing to let another year go by without ending it. He never expected the key to fixing his family began with the descendant of the one who cursed them.


Derrick is running out of time to save his family from turning into the mindless moaning Zombies everyone thinks they are. Ravenna never put a face to the names of the cursed, but now she can’t forget them. She knows time is running out to save those she has come to love. Together they find out what really happened to their ancestors and that one person won't let the curse end.

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ONE MAN’S CURSE is the fifth book in the multi-author Black Hollow series.  While each is meant to be a stand-alone paranormal romance, there is enough interaction with other characters that I believe that you will enjoy it more if you have read the previous books.

This was a fun, entertaining, paranormal romance with some nice twists thrown in to keep the characters and the readers on their toes.  What a unique take on zombies!  These are not your common Hollywood zombies looking for bra-a-a-ins.  Instead, it’s a curse that more closely mimics Alzheimer’s.

I especially liked the inventive supporting characters, shops, and powers that were introduced or displayed.  They added color and texture to the story.

I have loved the books I have read from this series so far, and I’m lucky enough to have one more to read today.  I’ll be back soon with my review of FAIRLY SWEET.

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Black Hollow Series:

0.5  Loving the Monster Within (Cassidy K. O’Connor)

1.      Reviving Love (Cassidy K. O’Connor)

2.      Silver Linings (Sheri Lyn)

3.      Finding Her Fire (Gracen Miller)

4.      One Man’s Curse (Jennifer Wedmore)

5.      It’s the Little Things (Robbie Cox)

6.      Resurrecting His Heart (J.C. Layne)

7.      Sacrificing Love (Cassidy K. O’Connor)

8.      Black Magic Sanction (Kim Harrison)

9.      To Trick the Devil (Robbie Cox)

10.  Fairly Sweet (Jennifer Wedmore)

Also from Jennifer Wedmore:

·         Can You Protect Them?   (Federal Paranormal Unit #1) (with Sheri Lyn)

·         Save a Horse

·         Sexy in Black

·         Wish Us Luck

·         Working with Scrooge

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