Transitive Verve

Disclaimers: while my blog post itself does not contain any sexual content, this book does. This is a review for a book that is meant for mature audiences, and therefore is unsuitable for minors. This book was provided to me for free through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thoughts at a glance: *** (I liked it) Summary:  As the good-girl daughter of a society matron and the Chief of Police, Piper has been in love with her best friend's brother, bad boy Jase, since she was fourteen. She hung onto her feelings for him even during all those years she watched him chasing other girls and even during the seven years he spent in prison for killing a man. (It was self-defense, of course.) As she finally decides to stand up to her parents about her future, she finds herself cut off and without a place to stay - until Jase conveniently has a spare room and an opening at his tattoo shop. Jase has always avoided letting Piper get too close, since she is too good and pure ...

Disclaimers: while my blog post itself does not contain any sexual content, this book does. This is a review for a book that is meant for mature audiences, and therefore is unsuitable for minors. This book was provided to me for free through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thoughts at a glance: *** (I liked it) Summary:  Seven years ago in high school, new girl Gemma and black-sheep-son Pax experienced a soul-searing connection before Gemma decided to date his clean-cut, football-player older brother Blake instead. But after she accused Blake of date-raping her and was essentially forced to leave their small Florida town, it seemed that any connection between Gemma and Pax has been severed. When Gemma returns to help with her father's business after while he's in the hospital, she and Pax find that actually, their connection - and attraction - are stronger than ever. But there is so much between them that any sort of relationship seems impossible. Though...

Disclaimers: while my blog post itself does not contain any sexual content, this book does. This is a review for a book that is meant for mature audiences, and therefore is unsuitable for minors. This book was provided to me for free through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thoughts at a glance: *** (I liked it) Summary:  Jace is an up-and-coming actor whose role in a SyFy channel movie has gotten him noticed by a famous starlet who wants him for her next movie - and her bed. And he is psyched because it means that this could be his big break, as well as his chance to get some good no-strings-attached sex from a beautiful woman. Because that's pretty much his goal in life. Jace and his agent, Shaylene, need to get from Los Angeles to Alabama for the screen test in just a few days, but as they begin their journey, anything and everything that can go wrong does - including the fact that Jace can no longer ignore the attraction he begins to feel towards Shay, ...

This book was provided to me for free through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thoughts at a glance: *** (I liked it) Summary:  Things were normal before - Lucille's life consisted of normal things, like her best friend Eden, her little sister Wren, and Eden's brother Digby, who is beautiful and perfect and unfortunately already has a girlfriend. But then Lucille and Wren's father has a nervous breakdown and is released from the mental health facility without leaving any way for his family to contact him. And then their mother leaves for a two-week vacation to get herself together... and then doesn't come back. Now Lucille is scraping by to keep the two of them afloat, to keep the reality of their situation a secret from the world so that no one will tear them apart. On top of this, Digby suddenly starts showing an interest in Lucille, and it suddenly becomes a messy business trying to keep everyone at arm's distance, especially since Digby is t...

This book was provided to me for free through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thoughts at a glance: ** (It was okay) Summary:  Noelle lives in a world where the written word is obsolete - everyone is connected to a information network called Verity that is equally responsible for educating people as it is for monitoring them. The night before she is to undergo the societally-mandated brainwashing ritual, there is a glitch in the system, and her family discovers what she's been hiding her whole life - she inexplicably has the ability to read. Now she's on the run from the government, with an underground group of rebels... Thoughts:  Okay, so, that's about as far as I got, since I didn't finish the book. The premise is amazing ( Fahrenheit 451  is one of my favorite books, remember?), but there was something about the execution of it that just didn't work out well for me - I was either confused and struggling to picture what was going on, or I ju...

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Disclaimers: while my blog post itself does not contain any sexual content, this book does. This is a review for a book that is meant for mature audiences, and therefore is unsuitable for minors. This book was provided to me for free through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thoughts at a glance: *** (I liked it) Summary:  Kat Chandler hasn't had it easy - not only did she recently lose her fiance, John (a Marine, who died in the line of duty), but she is also the new principal of Seaside Elementary, being tested every day by unruly students and colleagues/community members who doubt her ability to lead.  Sergeant Micah Peterson hasn't had it easy either - he has enrolled his son, Ben, at Seaside hoping to give him a new start far away from the bullies at his last school. Ben has cerebral palsy, and his ex seems to have no desire to come home to be a mother to her son. Micah takes a job as Seaside's landscaper, hoping to eventually replace his milita...

I decided to keep close track of the books I read this year for the Goodreads Reading Challenge, which is not something I've done before (and this blog only just began in March!), so this is my first top ten list! These are my favorite books that were released this year. I know there are a GREAT many books that were left off my list (like books from Sabaa Tahir, Rainbow Rowell, Patrick Ness, etc.), and that's because I haven't gotten around to reading them yet! I know, sacrilege! If only there were more hours in the day and more of me to get things done. But these are my top ten that I've read  from this year. Without further ado, here they are, in no particular order: Illuminae  by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Okay, I know I said "in no particular order," but I'd be lying if I didn't say that this was probably my FAVORITE book from this year. It was clever and unique in terms of its format, but it also just had a fantastic, gripping story. ...

Thoughts at a glance: ***** (It was amazing!) Summary:  This is book 3 of the Starbound  trilogy. Unfortunately, I read the first two before I started book-blogging, so I don't have any previous reviews to link you to, but suffice it to say that I gave each of the two previous installments five stars as well, so full disclosure: I LOVE this series. Starbound  features three books, each one about a different couple, but they are all sequential and take place in the same universe. Their stories are connected, and if you go back and look, you'll see that the later characters were mentioned in earlier books, and earlier characters make appearances in later books. These Broken Stars  kicks off the series, with Tarver Merendsen and Lilac LaRoux. He is a jaded soldier on a victory tour onboard the luxury spaceliner Icarus , and she is the daughter of the most powerful man in the universe, Roderick LaRoux of LaRoux Industries; the Icarus  is Daddy's ship. Sudden...

Disclaimers: while my blog post itself does not contain any graphic sexual content, this book does. This is a review for a book that is meant for mature audiences, and therefore is unsuitable for minors. This book was provided to me for free through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review . Thoughts at a glance: *** (I liked it) Summary: Corin is obsessed with death and illness. Both of her parents passed away in quick succession when she was a teenager, and ever since then, every single cough, sneeze, or ache has convinced her that she's next, even though her doctors swear that her tests come back normal. Beckett has actually almost died - was clinically dead for a little bit - from a heart condition that he didn't know he had. He can no longer do any of the things that he loves - running, soccer, bungee jumping, even drinking coffee - and though he has tried to remain positive, he's still struggling to come to terms with how much his life has changed. They ...