Book Review: Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When you read this book two times and you haven't even written a book review the first time...(whoops)

Okay, so hello people, young and old, here's a book review that I haven't written in about five years.

Fantasy Lover is about Mr. Julian of Macedon, first of his name, King of the Andals, so on and so fourth, who is stuck in a book thanks to a curse by fucking Priapus, all because he slept with a virgin that was supposed to sleep with him. Oof. Julian is an old Macedonian general, and whenever he's summoned, all he's supposed to do was please whoever it summoned him, and after a month he's back in the book....

Until he met Grace Alexander, a twenty-something year old sex therapist who summons him and...treats him like a human!? (*le gasp*). Grace teaches him many things-about Peter Pan, about the Hard Rock cafe, she even teaches him about TV (see, if I summoned him, I would've told him about the wide world of anime). Julian, who has been in the book for 2,000 years and is summoned every full moon, has to do whatever his summoner does, which is please them. But he's learning how to be human, and that's when he realizes "oh no, I'm in love with her oh no" BUT BUT the one thing that ticked me off was the ONE TIME he made that damned deal with Athena and says, 'yeah, I'll go back to Macedon, my own time, I don't belong here' which made me mad because he was learning new things, learning how to love...he even told Grace his life story and even went down the elevator hatch to save her from Rodney Carmichael, a creep that stalked the hell out of Grace and thinking that she was his, and he even sold his general ring so he can give her all her books back (my kind of man).

Then at the end, he went back in the book after not spending that night with Grace, and Grace begged and pleaded for someone to bring him back, and the most shocking thing ever is that Aphrodite, Julian's mother, actually reversed time and they had that wonderful, magical night, breaking the curse (hooray). But then...at the end...Priapus appears and went 'nope, since you slept with the girl I was supposed to be with, I'm going to be Mr. Steal Your Girl and steal your girl' and that didn't end well (I mean, Athena AND Aphrodite showed up to help Julian). Julian beats Priapus, and Priapus ends up being in the book, replacing Julian, and then at the end, one year later, Julian and Grace has two twins (yay).

I really loved this book and jumping back in this world made me miss it so much, and Julian of Macedon made it to the *very long list* of boyfriends that I really, really love so much. And if I did summon him through a book, you goddamn right I'm going to introduce him to Jujistu Kaisen, The Folk of the Air series and the Court of Thorns and Roses. Oh and tea. Lots and lots of tea. And coffee. Maybe pinot grigio and the Housewives (I'm going to WRECK his mind if I did all of that)

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Book Review: Once a Moretti Wife by Michelle Smart

Once a Moretti Wife by Michelle Smart
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book, even though it was short (about twelve chapters) made me mad as hell. For once, the hero of the book, Stefano, wanted to get revenge on his wife, Anna, but the problem is that she tripped and fell hard, losing her memories (she has retrograde memories) where she lost eightteen months of memories, so she doesn't remember what she did to make Stefano hate her. But honestly, thoughout this whole book, I got really irritated by Stefano. He really wanted to embrass her throughout this whole entire book while taking care of her, coming up with a plan: he's going to make love to her, and then humiliate her, which, in my case, is fucking stupid.

And then when the time came for him to embrass him-calling some reporter and called a cab for her to leave his life-that part pissed me off-and then when she remembered everything (and I mean everything), she told him why she called him multiple times and why when she came to visit him she thought he was cheating on her: she was pregnant with his baby, and then she had a miscarrage (woof). Stefano was stunned, just stunned as she told him this, and then when she left to see her sister, he found 2 wedding bands...2 WEDDING BANDS, Y'ALL....and Anna found out a lot of things about herself (she loves shoes, really good wine, and she uses Stefano's birthday as the password). Even though this was a three out a five star book, I just really wasn't feeling it and the hero of the book just made me mad.

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Book Review: Rock Hard by Nalini Singh

Rock Hard by Nalini Singh
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is my first time ever reading one of Nalini Singh’s novels-I know people had said that her psy-changeling novels are the best-but since my library didn’t have one (and I really don’t feel like buying them somewhere) I decided to check out Rock Hard from her Rock Kiss novels...and I have to say, her writing did not disappoint me. This book was so damned good-it was my first office romance novel and on top of that, it had to deal with trauma and abuse, which I took care of myself after I read this book, and it also touched on second chances at love, and, of course, letting the characters work out the relationship slowly.

So what is this book about?

This book is about Charlotte Baird who works at a failing business with a really crappy boss (um, who does this remind you of?), who meets her new boss. Gabriel Bishop (before we go any further…)

Gabriel Bishop is drop dead sexy as hell and the nickname T-Rex suits him to a G (yes, I said G. MOVING ON….).

..by throwing a stapler at his head. Yes, that’s right, stapler. Then over the course of the book, we see the mouse (Charlotte) grow as a character, from being all shy and timid, to learning how to handle her rugby player boss/boyfriend (my new book boyfriend) and to overcome her trauma of what happened to her by the hands of her ex, who was in jail before he got out and tried to hurt her again. I loved loved loved the fact that Gabriel was slow and steady with her, not wanting to do anything to her that she was not ready for. I did also love the growling and the dirty talk too, but I think this book just shows that if you have someone who understands you and learns what you’re going through, then I think y’all can have a really good relationship, especially when said man is a T-Rex that thinks he can have his way, and a mouse that teaches him and pretty much fights with him the whole entire time, but then lets him do things to her-like take her to therapy, take her to a rugby game-and slowly but surely learn to love her, even when they got engaged she said “I’m not getting married to you after I learn how to sleep with you (in bed together instead of apart).” and he agreed to those terms.

All in all, Nalini Singh did a really good job with this book, ten ten across the board.

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