Fall With Me by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Synopsis: Eleven months ago, bartender and weird-shirt-wearing extraordinaire Roxy and Officer Reece Anders had a one night stand. Well, kind of. She’s been in love with him since she was fifteen, and he wishes that night they shared never happened. She’s sworn him off forever, but the past and future collide, forcing her to rely on the one man who broke her heart not once, but twice.

Her best friend since birth has been in a long-term care facility since he became a victim of a hate crime years ago, and the person who put him in there is out of prison and wanting to make amends with him and Roxy. She’s not sure she has room for forgiveness in her and when she begins to receive frightening messages and is on the receiving end of escalating violence, she thinks she knows who is to blame. The man who already destroyed one life already.

But Reece isn’t convinced. The threats are too personal, and even if Roxy doesn’t believe him, he’s not willing to let anyone hurt her. Including himself. He’s already messed up more than once when it comes to Roxy and he’s not going to let history repeat itself

Genre: New Adult, Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary Romance

Rating: ★★★★★ 

Review: This book was so good. Jennifer L. Armentrout does it again and she did amazingly.

          Reese and Roxy I love them. They are cute together and Reese is perfect for Roxy even if she does not want to admit it.

          They get off to a bumpy start when Roxy gets mad at him and ignores him for basically a year. She assumed something and she was wrong, so she wasted a year away from Reese and he is not playing anymore.

          Roxy has had a rough start, she feels guilty for what happened to her best friend and she is trying to live for Charlie, but she is not happy. Her dream is to be a painter. She loves painting, but she cannot do it full time because she is trying to get a degree that she does not like. Roxy also thinks her place is haunted, but that is something I will not spoil.

Reese and Roxy start a thing and it ends up going somewhere fast. There is one bump where it’s tough but they make it through which is all that matter. It was nice to see all the characters from the previous books in this book because they are still important

This book was good. This series is great and I would recommend this to anyone because Jennifer has a way with words that lets you be a part of their world.

         

Shame by Rachel Van Dyken

Synopsis: Everything done in darkness will eventually be brought into the light. I ran, but all it did was keep me one step ahead of my past. I tried to start over; new name, new identity. But you can't change your soul. A fresh start at college was just what I needed. For a while, it worked. I was the party girl, the one who seemed confident, but it was a lie. When guys kissed me - I felt only pain. When they touched me - nothing but fear. Deep inside, every girl wants to be the beauty in the story, to find someone who will see you as their world. But the truth? I was the beast. And as much as I wanted redemption, I wasn't fool enough to think I'd ever get it.

Until he walked into my life. I wasn't prepared to fall for someone. My scars were too deep, the wounds too raw. But he offered me peace, he offered me security. I should have known it was just another lie - I should have known that falling in love with my professor was a bad idea. But I was powerless to stop myself from falling. And he was powerless to catch me. Because the darkness finally caught up to me, and as fate would have it, a cruel twist almost bled me dry. But I'm stronger than I knew. I'm stronger than you think. You think you know my story, but you don't - after all everyone has Shame in their lives - and I'm no longer afraid to show you mine.

Rating: ★★★★ 

Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Young Adult

Review:

      I really liked this book. I was so happy that Lisa got a happy ending because she really deserved it. She went through so much compared to the other two previous books. I understand completely why she changed her identity because she did not want to be followed or found.

Lisa is a very strong woman to have gone through all that and still be semi sane. She had some horrific things that happened to her and she never wanted to meet or fall for another man.

Enter Tristan; he is a professor for one semester. Therefore, he can plot out revenge. That is the main plan that is in place; it is to make Lisa’s life hell and make her pay. That ends up changing really fast once he starts to see that she is not who he had in mind.  I wanted Tristan to go back to where he came from at first. I thought that Lisa did not need another psycho in her life, but he ended being good for her. 

There are some parts of the book where I thought that Lisa deserved a break, let her be happy at least a little. There were also parts in the book that were twists and one I thought was a little obvious, but it was still so good.

This series is really good, they start out with a little sad and tragic but they end great and that is perfect.

Toxic by Rachel Van Dyken

Rating: ★★★★★ 

Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Young adult, Romance

Synopsis: Gabe Hyde is on borrowed time. He's been hiding his identity for over four years-hidden from the world that used to adore him--obsess over him--driven to the edge of insanity by one poor choice.
But that one choice, altered the course of his life forever.
Pretending isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when pretending means hiding your real self from the people that care about you the most. But if anyone ever discovered the truth it wouldn't just be his life at risk--but hers.

Saylor doesn't hate men.
Just Gabe.
Only Gabe.
He's a reckless, happy-go-lucky, silver spoon fed pain in her ass. Everything about him makes her more and more confused. Unfortunately they both donate time at the same Group Home. If she wasn't afraid of flunking, she'd be long gone. She hates that she's attracted to him almost as much as he hates that he's attracted to her--and she can tell, especially since their first encounter ended up making her knees so weak she couldn't form coherent sentences for weeks afterwards. But the closer she gets to him, the more confused she becomes. He isn't who he says he is, and he's hiding something big.

What happen when two worlds collide? Two worlds that never should have met in the first place? Some secrets are too big to be hidden forever--the only question? Will his destroy everyone he loves? Or finally bring about the redemption he's been craving for the past four years?

Review:

Gabe    has many secrets, most of them he does not want to share. Not even to his best friends. Gabe is not entirely forthcoming about himself let alone about his past that he has tried to keep hidden from everyone around him including the press. He created a new life and never looked back and he never thought that things would come back to haunt him.

Saylor is sweet and expected to be the best in her family, which is why she always has to be perfect; she cannot be anything less, all the pressure is on her when it comes to her family.

This book was amazing. Hands down the best book so far out of the three.  It made me cry so much during this book, there were so many sad parts but so many good parts as well. There was many things that Gabe had to get over to overcome his fears about leaving the past behind.

           

          Saylor helped him with that and if it was not for Saylor; Gabe would have stayed Gabe and he would not have been Ashton and Gabe.

             

         When Gabe becomes Ashton again he owns up to everything he hid about his past life and the things that he did not want people to find out about came out in the open because he was threatened by someone that had no problem hurting the people around him.

        Over all this series is worth the read and I love how Wes and Kiersten still remain in the books and are still prominent second characters in the book.

Ruin by Rachel Van Dyken

Synopsis: I'm not your typical girl. I've been running away from the memories that haunt me for so long that depression has become my only comfort. I was content in the darkness...until Wes Michals offered to be my light.

I didn't know that time wasn't my ally -- that every second that ticked past was one step closer to the end of something that was beginning to mean the end of myself. He tried to warn me. He promised me all he was able to offer--each moment as it came--but it would never be enough.

Sometimes when you think it's the end, it's only the beginning. Wes thought he could save me, but in giving me everything, he ruined me. Because after one kiss, one touch, I couldn't--I wouldn't ever be the same.

And from that moment on, his heartbeat became my own.

Rating:  ★★★★

Genre:  New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Young Adult

This book was great, it made me cry, that is not the only reason that it was great... it also made me laugh.

Wes Michals is someone that has known pain and loss and does not expect to fall in love. He expected to live a normal life for as long as he could. He did not expect to get new friends he only wanted to live his life as normally as possible without anything meaning too much to him.

Enter Kiersten, the freshman and the innocent lamb that is new to every college experience. Her uncle has been taking care of her since the tragic thing that happened to her parents. She sees it as tragic and sad, but other people see it as a peaceful ending... more specifically Wes.

I really enjoyed this book and I have already started the second book Toxic. I have a feeling that all three books in the series are going to make me  cry at least once... am I ready for that? I think I can handle it as long as it gets happier after which is what happened in Ruin and I am thankful that it got better after the storm.

In Your Heart by Micalea Smeltzer

Synopsis: Sadie Westbrook’s seemingly perfect life comes to a screeching halt when she catches her fiancé in bed with another woman. Suddenly, everything she believed in is tested and there’s only one person she can turn to—the guy who has been by her side ever since their best friend’s fell in love and became inseparable.

Ezra Collins—the bassist for the band Willow Creek—has only ever had one weakness, and her name is Sadie. When he receives a frantic call he rushes to her aid, helping to pick up the pieces of her crumbling life—even if that means letting Sadie live with him.

The close proximity tests the limits of their friendship and as the lines between friends and lovers blur they’ll have to decide if falling in love with your best friend is worth the risk of losing them.

Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Romance

Rating: ★★★★

Review:

       This book was good and I enjoyed it, there were some parts that annoyed me mostly the back and forth between both Ezra and Sadie, but that makes the book, the wanting but being too scared to ruin a friendship.

       Ezra is the most amazing friend that you could think of. After Sadie goes and dates and then is engaged with an ass; he is not happy about it, but he does not stand in her way. The aftermath of the engagement is when Ezra pops back into the picture and helps her even though they have not spoken for a while.

      Sadie has made the worst mistake of her life and has to fix her relationships and fix her life. She has to get her spark back and has to learn how to live and the only way to do that is with the help of your best friend.  After being engaged to the ass, she ends up pushing all of her friends away because he does not want anyone monopolizing her time.

       I am so happy that everyone in the book was willing to let her back into their life after pushing everyone away especially Ezra. Ezra had that right to be pissed at Sadie more than anyone because she just disappears from his life; when she needs help Ezra is there to help her and take care of her after everything that happened.

       I liked this book quite a bit but the relationship starting between the both of them was really slow and I wanted it to go really fast :P This book was good though even though Ezra was stupid and really slow.  Sadie was not any better because she kept pushing her feelings deeper in hopes that Ezra would act first.

       I am so glad that Sadie finally said something to Ezra and that Ezra finally woke up and took control of his life.

This series was really good. I need Hayes in my life next which I am super excited for because I am pretty sure I know who Hayes is going to fall for. I hope that she gives him a hard time, but not take a while. It was already blooming in this book so I can see some good and funny times coming.