Tuesday, July 27, 2021

BLOODY LOVE by Lisa Renee Jones

Title:  BLOODY LOVE
Series:  Lilah Love #6
Author:  Lisa Renee Jones
Publisher:  Julie Patra Publishing
Publish Date:   07.27.2021
Category /Genre:  Contemporary Romance
Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content
Grammar/editing:  book received as an unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from:  Lisa Renee Jones (as an ARC gifted copy)
Goodreads link:  Bloody Love
Date completed: 07.16.2021
 
Description from the publisher:
One.
Two.
Three.
The cat is in the tree.

As far as Lilah's concern, her note writing stalker just gets more stupid everyday. One, two, three, the cat is in the tree?

What is that? And what does it have to do with a wedding turned bloody?
 
Lilah continues to hunt for the monster who killed a bride-to-be while she awaits news on Kane’s chopper that emergency landed in the ocean. She’s angry. She’s worried. She’s ready to kill the man she knows is responsible for Kane’s crash: Pocher.

It’s a race against the clock to save Kane and catch a killer.

Everyone won’t survive.
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BLOODY LOVE is the sixth book in the Lilah Love series.  This series must be read in the order of release.  This is not the end of the series.  Why did I write that?  Because I thought that this would be the last book and I wanted to clarify it for anyone else who believed that’s where we were going.  There will be more of Lilah and Kane. 
 
It is, however, the conclusion of the current case and the culmination of their courtship.  The wedding was perfectly theirs, by the way.  You’ll love it! 
 
Now about that case – the cut-throat murders.  The suspense and the intelligence displayed is astounding.  I loved every minute and couldn’t get enough.  This is the type of story that can happen, and you pray you never know has happened.  I’m just glad that it’s all entertaining fiction in the mind of one of my favorite authors and she puts her genius to this use.  Too many unleash their genius as cyber-attacks and real mayhem.
 
This is a “keep your arms inside the ride” roller-coaster with so many twists, turns, and plummets that you will definitely feel your stomach dip.  I know I am still smiling with delight. 
 
In a way, I’m mad that I was wrong and feel I was being led astray;  I thought this was the end of the series.  On the other hand, I’m really glad to know that we will be returning to these favorite friends.  Maybe we’ll finally find out for sure who Junior is and what his (her) creepy rhymes are about.
 
Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
 
Lilah Love series:
1.      Murder Notes
2.       Murder Girl
3.      Love Me Dead
4.      Love Kills
5.      Bloody Vows
6.      Bloody Love
Also from Lisa Renee Jones:
·         Amber Fire
·         Need You Now
·         A Perfect Lie
·         Play with Me
·         Purple Magic
·         Santa Baby  
·         Unwrapping Holly
Brilliance Series:
1.      A Reckless Note
2.      A Wicked Song
3.      A Sinful Encore
Careless Whispers Series:
1.      Denial
2.      Demand
3.      Surrender
Dance Series:
1.      Follow My Lead
2.      Winning Moves
Dirty Money Series:
1.      Hard Rules
2.      Damage Control
3.      Bad Deeds
4.      End Game
Dirty Rich Series:
1.      Dirty Rich One Night Stand
2.      Dirty Rich Cinderella Story
3.      Dirty Rich Obsession
4.      Dirty Rich Betrayal
5.      Dirty Rich Cinderella Story, Ever After
6.      Dirty Rich Bastard (Filthy #1)
7.      Dirty Rich One Night Stand, Two Years Later
8.       Dirty Rich Obsession, All Mine
9.      The Princess (Filthy #2)
10.  The Empire (Filthy #3)
11.  His Demand (Dirtier Duet #1)
12.   Her Submission (Dirtier Duet #2)
13.  Dirty Rich Secrets, Part 1
14.  Dirty Rich Secrets , Part 2
15.   Dirty Rich Secrets, Part 3
16.  Dirty Rich Betrayal: Love Me Forever
Games Played Series:
1.      Hard and Fast
2.      Hot Target
Inside Out Series:
1.      If I Were You
2.      Being Me
3.      Revealing Us
a.       His Secrets
b.      Rebecca’s Lost Journals
c.       The Master Undone
d.      My Hunger
4.      No In Between
4.5  My Control
5.      I Belong to You
6.      All of Me
Naked Series:
1.      One Man
2.      One Woman
3.      Two Together
Necklace Series:
1.      What If I Never? (releases 10.2021)
2.      Because I Can (releases 12.2021)
3.      When I Say Yes (releases 02.2022)
Poison Kisses serial:
1.      Part One
2.      Part Two
3.      Part Three
Samantha Jazz Series:
1.       The Poet
2.      The Girl Who Forgot   
Savage Series:
1.      Savage Hunger
2.      Savage Burn
3.      Savage Love
4.      Savage Ending 
The Secret Life of Amy Bensen Series:
1.      Escaping Reality
2.      Infinite Possibilities
3.      Forsaken
4.      Unbroken
Sweetwater Series:
1.      The Truth About Cowboys
2.      Tangled Up in Christmas
Tall, Dark, & Deadly Series:
0.5 Secrets Exposed
1.      Hot Secrets
2.      Dangerous Secrets
2.5 One Dangerous Night
3.      Beneath the Secrets
Texas Hotzone Series:
1.      Jump Start
2.      High Octane
3.      Breathless Descent
Walker Security Series:
1.      Deep Under
2.      Pulled Under
3.      Falling Under
Walker Security Adrian’s Trilogy:
1.      When He’s Dirty  
2.      When He’s Bad  
3.      When He’s Wild 
White Lies Series:
1.      Provocative
2.      Shameless
Zodius Series:
1.      Michael
2.      Sterling
3.      Kel
4.      Damion
 








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Friday, July 23, 2021

BITTEN IN THE MIDLIFE by Lia Davis and L.A. Boruff

Title:  BITTEN IN THE MIDLIFE
Series:  Fanged After Forty #1
Author:  Lia Davis and L.A. Boruff
Publisher:  Lia Davis
Publish Date:  07.16.2021
Category /Genre:  Paranormal Romance
Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content.
Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused.
Received from:  L.A. Boruff
Goodreads link: Bitten in the Midlife
Date completed: 07.23.2021
 
Description from the publisher:
Jilted at the altar a month before her fortieth birthday. Poor Hailey. Midlife really does have a crisis. Or is it that midlife is the crisis? Either way, it sucks.

Hailey Whitfield can’t take anymore run-ins with her ex. It’s time for a big change.

She’s never considered moving away, but it’s her best plan yet. Bonus – her bestie lives next door! However, her new neighbor is… weird, to say the least. Extremely hot, but odd. So are his friends. But Hailey will take strange neighbors over facing her lying, cheating, deadbeat ex-fiancé all day, any day.

Finding a job in a new town is more challenging than she realizes. With her savings depleted from the move, Hailey has to suck it up and take what she gets. After taking a job as a private nurse for an injured bounty hunter, things start to look up.

Then a skip falls into her lap. Okay, sure. She was being nosy and reading an incoming fax intended for her patient. But with a little encouragement, Hailey takes on the task of tracking down the skip. It’s easy money. Right?

Wrong. This skip is far more than Hailey bargained for. And her life is about to change in a very bloody and pointy kind of way. What a bite in the… Well, you know.

With the help of her witchy best friend and her new, very pale neighbor, Hailey is going to collect her bounty.

Or die trying.

Fanged After Forty is a new witty spin-off from the bestselling series Witching After Forty by international bestselling authors Lia Davis and L.A. Boruff.
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BITTEN IN THE MIDLIFE is the first book in the
Fanged After Forty series.  Note from the author says, “this series is best read after A Haunting Midlife, but is 100% able to be read on its own.”
 
We met Hailey briefly in A HAUNTING MIDLIFE since she was buying Ava’s old house. 
 
Hailey is starting a new life in Philly, luckily with her best friend next door and a fabulous brother close by to keep it fun and interesting.  After a few twists, turns, bumps, and bruises, she is really starting a new, um, death.
 
That new life includes the sexy-as-sin neighbor across the street and his housemates.  They  end up all working together to work as bounty hunters – more lucrative than the personal nursing she was originally doing!  It looks like Hailey is going to have all of the danger, adventure, and fun she could hope for in this second chance at life. 
 
This was an exciting first book and I cannot wait to see where it leads!  I’m looking forward to the next adventure this group finds.
 
Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
 
Fanged After Forty Series:
1.      Bitten in Midlife
Also from Lia Davis & L.A. Boruff:
Academy’s Rise Series:
1.      Hell Fire
2.      Dark Water
3.      Dead Air
Lucifer’s War Series:
1.      Devil’s Consort
2.      Devil’s Assassin
Witching After Forty Series:
1.      A Goulish Midlife
1.1 Cookies for Satan
1.2 I’m with Cupid
2.      A Cursed Midlife
2.1 Feeding Them Will Make Them Grow (Anthology)
2.7 A Girlfriend for Mr. Snoozerton
3.      A Haunting Midlife 
4.      An Animated Midlife (coming soon)
5.      A Killer Midlife (coming soon)
 
Also from L.A. Boruff:
Demons and Demigods Series (with J.L. Burns):
1.      The Devil’s Delight
2.      Chaotic Creations (releases 01.05.2022)
3.      Divine Deviations (releases 03.31.2022)
Magical Midlife in Mystic Hollow Series:
1.      Karma’s Spell 
2.      Karma’s Shift  
3.      Karma’s Spirit
Prime Time of Life Series:
1.      Borrowed Time
2.      Stolen Time
3.      Just in Time
Shifting into Midlife Series:
1.      Pack Bunco Night
 
Also from Lia Davis:
·         Awakening Fate (Crimson Moon Hideaway #8)
·         The Big Bad Wolf
·         Bounty’s Flame
·         Claiming Her Dragons
·         Dragon’s Web
·         First Contact (w/ Kerry Adrienne)
·         Ghost in a Bottle (w/ Kerry Adrienne)
·         Hexed with Sass (Sassy Ever After)
·         Imperfect Mate (Harmony Springs #4)
·         Interviews, Aliens, Seduction
·         Marked by Darkness (The Dark Fae Hollows #8)
·         Ravished before Sunrise
·         Reborn (Wicked Reform School: House of Phoenix)
·         Rogue Alliance (Wolves of Chaos Valley)
·         Their Royal Ash (Once Upon a Harem #4)
·         Royal Enchantment
·         Rune of Passing (Immortal Keeper)
·         Sunstone’s Fire (Cursed in Stone #1)
·         Shadow Mage (Nightshade Guild #4)
·         Tempting the Wolf
·         A Winter Mating
Academy of the Phoenix Series:
1.      Ghost Hunt
2.      The Devil’s Mage
3.      Crown of Temptation
Bears of Blackrock Series:
1.      Bear Essentials
2.      Bear Magick
3.      A Beary Sweet Holiday
4.      Bear Marked
Blood and Stone Series:
1.      A Vampire Christmas
Coven’s End Series:
1.      Kane
2.      Voss
3.      Quin
4.      Jillian
Dark Scales Series (with Kerry Adrienne):
1.      Dragon Undercover
2.      Snowed Undercover
The Divinities Series:
1.      Forgotten Visions
2.      Death’s Storm
3.      Dark Divine
4.      Divine Awakening
Dragons of Ares Series:
1.      War’s Passion
2.      Ashes of War
3.      Chaotic War
4.      Bound by War
Gods and Dragons Series:
1.      Artemis’s Hunt
Pleasures of the Heart Series:
1.      Business Pleasures
2.      Red Hot Pleasures
Shifters of Ashwood Falls Series:
1.      Winter Eve
2.      A Tiger’s Claim
3.      A Mating Dance
4.      Surrendering to the Alpha
5.      A Rebel’s Heart
6.      Divided Loyalties
7.      Touch of Desire
8.      A Leopard’s Path
9.      A Jaguar’s Judgement
10.  Bundles of Pink
11.  Alpha Challenge
12.  Mating Chaos
13.  A Tiger for Two
14.  Claimed by the Alpha
Shifting Magick Series:
1.      Moon Curse
2.      Moon Kissed
3.      Moon Mated
Witches of Rose Lake Series:
1.      Marked for Them
2.      Fighting for Them
3.      Hunted by Them
4.      Bound to Them
Wolves of Whiskey Hollow Series:
1.      Charmed Wolf
 





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