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Book Review: Unbalanced

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  Betrayal doesn’t disappear. It festers and spreads like a disease. The scales demand consequence and don’t balance themselves. Someone has to tip them back. That person is me. By thirty, I have it all. Wealth. Power. Prestige. A face people trust and a name that commands rooms. I know how to win juries, destroy reputations, and bury secrets beneath polished lies. I’m the attorney that most can’t afford. But then something tragic happens the night of my birthday. A reminder of the night my father died. Something that should’ve stayed buried. That’s when I know for certain that there is a threat. Someone is watching. Stalking. I can almost feel the slow breath of someone standing too close and stirring the monster beneath my skin. They know the truth about me. And instead of running…they keep testing me. I should be worried. Instead, I’m obsessed. No one has ever been so bold. The game is afoot, and when I finally uncover who’s been lurking in the shadows of my life…it will be the ...
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Book Reviews: Liquified, Gossamer, Pyre, Confess

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  He's crazy. Absolute bat bleep crazy. I hate him, he hates me. I sit in his cage while he creates. I should have stayed home that day. Brad hyped up Delirium like it was heaven. And for a brief few hours it was. And then HE walked in. He took me and I stare at Brad's head everyday. My Review Charron was giving me Hannibal Lector vibes. All I can picture when I think of Charron is the candles he makes. Let's just say you won't find these candles in any Bath and Works store! I have encountered a lot of favorites in this series, but I honestly do have to say that this book is in my top 5 favorites in this series. It is gruesome in the best way.  He came to remind her she was human. The carnival brought him to make sure she stopped wanting to be. The spiders have always listened to her. Inside Colony Carnivale, she is known only as the Arachnist. A woman wrapped in silk, surrounded by venom, and more comfortable among eight-legged predators than the humans who pay to ente...
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Audiobook Review: Only the Hunter

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  Some obsessions protect. Some destroy. The hardest part is knowing which is which. I've spent years keeping Evie Thompson exactly where she belongs—at a distance. She's Scott's little sister. Five years younger. The one woman I've never let myself want out loud. I've watched her build a career chasing the worst of humanity through federal courts, checked in on her through her brother more times than I'd ever admit, and told myself that's enough. It's not enough. When Scott raises the alarm and KOAN sends me to assess the threat against her, I'm ready for the job. What I'm not ready for is Evie—sharper than ever, running a buried human trafficking investigation off the books, and fully aware of my surveillance within twenty-four hours. She doesn't just catch me. She confronts me. And something I've held in check for years stops cooperating. Now I'm not watching from a distance. I'm in her space, her investigation, her orbit—and e...
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Audiobook Review: In Another Lifetime

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  If I ever believed in soulmates, or fate, or the idea that two people are destined to find each other, I buried that belief twenty years ago, along with everything else I lost that year. Since then, I’ve built my life around certainty and routine. Boundaries and distance. The quiet knowledge that guilt and grief will always be my companions. But then she walks into my lecture hall, twenty years old, my student, looking at me like she already knows me. Like she’s been waiting her whole life to find me. Every instinct tells me to keep my distance. She’s too young. Too outspoken. Too distracting. Instead, my eyes linger a little longer. My hands itch to touch what they never should. My excuses to stay away continue to lead me back to her. It’s not just her impossible eyes that undo me. It’s the impossible coincidences I can’t explain away. It’s the unsettling feeling that I should know her, too. Wanting her could cost us everything—my career, her future, and the little semblance of ...
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Book Review: Death's Bride

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  Penelope Everly is set to be married to a complete stranger, a man she has no intention of marrying. But upon meeting Victor VanDaught, she finds herself enamored with the man she was determined to hate. Following Victor to university, Penelope becomes enthralled with the world of academia she finds herself thrust into. The young couple agrees to pretend to be betrothed in order to keep their meddling parents at bay while they each pursue academic interests. But a handsome professor, a promise made to Death, and a series of unsolved murders on campus throw everything into chaos. Death may want me as his bride, but I’ve already been promised to someone else. My Review Penelope finds herself in an arranged marriage with Victor. Did I want to "dislike" Victor, maybe. He and Penelope may not have started out as a strong couple but as the story progressed, I got to witness their relationship transform into something beautiful. There is another that has Penelope in their grasp an...
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Book Review: Sinmaker, Garrotte, Ensnared, Seduction, and Duplicity

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  Emily The Carnival holds all the secrets and tells no lies. This morning that's all people are talking about. Red tents Gold lights. Rumor has it you should go after dark. I wasn't planning to. Until the invitation appeared on my desk. I thought it was a joke, a prank. Boy was I wrong. The man in the black hat looks at me like he can see my soul. I was invited. I was chosen. Whatever the man sees when he looks at me.. I'm certain I don't want him to stop. My Review Reading Riven and Emily's story is amazing. In fact, I kind of felt like I was crashing something very intimate between these two. It was like two lost souls had finally found each other and intertwined to become one. Twin flames.  I absolutely love this book. It is so sinfully dark and delicious! Someone requests the seven deadly sins. I love how author, Julie Ravencroft incorporated this element into this story. This is one story that will stay with me for a long time.  They paid to handle her. Then t...
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Book Review: Where I Can't Follow

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  Tropes: Broody Biker MMC Dancer FMC Tragic Past Amnesia / Memory Loss Small-Town Romance Atmospheric Romance Eerie Mystery & Suspense Touch Her and Die Energy Emotional Roller Coaster Blurb: From Amazon bestselling author Kristen Granata comes something new and suspenseful... I woke up from a coma in a life I don’t remember. Without my memories, I start to rebuild the dance studio that burned down with my past. This small town comes together to help me, and I’m beyond grateful. They keep me grounded in reality, which isn’t easy when I hear eerie sounds in my empty house at night, or when the strange man who keeps following me disappears into thin air. Then I meet Luke. The handsome, broody biker doesn’t feel quite like a stranger. My body reacts to him like he’s tied to the parts of myself I can’t access. Despite our connection, there are things he’s not telling me. And being near him feels both safe and dangerous. The more I’m with Luke, the more I’m able to remember. But th...
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