The Girl's Got Secrets by Linda Kage

"How many fake cocks did one pretend dude need?"

Linda Kage is a genius. The Forbidden Men series is pure greatness. When I first heard of this book I was a little worried because a girl pretending to be a man? Definitely going to be a horrible rip off of She's The Man. Oh...but I had faith in Linda Kage. I knew if anyone could pull it off it would be her. And pull it off she did! I loved it!

So why does a woman pretend to be a man you ask? Well it all starts when Remy goes to audition to be the new drummer in a popular local band called Non-Castro. Sounds female friendly right? Ha. No. They wouldn't even let her play. Hell, they barely let her speak. So she decided to try out as a man, rip off her mask, and be all HA IN YOUR FACE!!! The only problem is, she makes the band. So, she doesn't tell them she's a girl. At the first practice Gally, the bass player, see's her checking out Ashers (the lead singers) chest, and now everyone thinks Remy is not only a guy, but also gay. A gay guy instead of a girl. How nice huh? As a female I can assure you that even though in my opinion there is nothing wrong with being gay, I would not like to be mistaken for a gay man.



So that is just the basics of how this book gets started and I can honestly say I really enjoyed this book. It was funny as hell, sexy, the characters were awesome, Remy was sassy, and the book was super sweet and it was really engaging. So much so that I didn't even pay attention to Greys Anatomy...and I always pay attention to Greys. Always. George O'Malley apparently died while I was reading.



4.5 Stars. 
I would really recommend this book to Lyla Payne fans. If you like a good laugh, this is a good read. Next review Sweet Ruin by Kresley Cole! Something to look forward to. I'm super excited to read it myself.
An advanced readers copy was provided to me by the publishers in exchange for a honest review. This has in no was effected my rating on this book or the overall review.

Before You Go by Clare James

Have you ever noticed that if you read a book and in your head the male love interest has the same voice as John Mayer, everything is just so much better? Or even better picture the guy as John Mayer altogether.



I have a thing for the dark broody musicians. You know what they say about guys that play guitar right? Good with their hands. Noah the male protagonist in this book plays the guitar. Ooolala. Although the more broody character in this books is definitely Tabby in my opinion. Noah has some mysteriousness to him and I feel like we should have learned more about him by the end of the book. I still have a lot of questions. Then there is this whole thing with Tabby and her bad experience with being drugged and all the stuff she went through, so we definitely learn more about her then we do about Noah and I think that's why I wish we had read some of the book from his point of view. It is all from Tabbys POV and I have no problems with that normally...if I get a clear understanding of both charaters but I didn't get that from this book. The other thing is...there was no real high point of the book. I feel like it needed something bigger. It was a bit anticlimactic. I thought for sure Noah's ex would try to chop Tabby into tiny pieces and hide them under her bed or at least something! But nope. What actually does happen for the climax I find lackluster. Almost boring. No one wants a boring climax guys. Or a lackluster one at that. It's depressing.



There were things I liked about both charaters. I like that Tabby is a dancer. I use dance as an outlet too so I connected with her on that level. I found Noah's religious beliefs intriguing. All of them. Like, every religion he has. The actual story/plot is good. I just think there needs to be more to the story, more to Noah, and a better high point to the book. The book has been compared to Colleen Hoover and Tammara Webber, and I unfortunately cannot second that because I feel that this book is merely a shadow of something those two authors are capable of. I do feel the writing is similar to the style both authors use and with some work Clare James could get on their level. It's not far off she just need something more.

3 Stars.
An advanced readers copy was provided to me by the publishers in exchange for a honest review. This has in no was effected my rating on this book or the overall review.

Unyielding series books 1 & 2 by Nashoda Rose

Perfeck Chaos starts off the Unyielding series with a bang by telling Georgie and Decks story. This book broke my heart over and over again only to turn around and put it all back together. The emotions that rage throughout this book gutted me, and comforted me at the same time because each charater in this book is so real you instinctively feel whatever they feel. It's fucking intense.



Georgie starts off in this book seeming like a depressed party-girl that hides her sadness with sarcasm, men, and booze. Eh-hem. Nothing wrong with that. I am here to tell you she is so much more than that. If you can read through this book without feeling some kind of empathy towards her, then I flat-out say you're a robot, possessed, or a sociopathic. You don't live through what she has without scars.
Deck is protecting Georgie with everything he has, trying to respect her dead brothers wishes for Deck not to be with Georgie, and keeping a secret from her that has the power to further break Georgie. Yes, he can sometimes be an asshole. Yes, he sometimes takes things too far. And hell yes, he is a dangerous man. But he and Georgie cancel out eachothers darkness and find light together. That's a beautiful thing. Kind of like how in math two negatives cancel eachother out. Or was it a negative and a positive that did that? Damn...I never was good at math.
I am honored to have read this book. I give it 4 Stars. Nashoda Rose is talented and from the short time we emailed I can also tell you that she is very nice, generous, and cares about her fans. An author that cares is the very best kind of author there can be.



Perfect Ruin picks up where Perfect Chaos leaves off, but this time it is Kai and Londons turn to tell their story. You meet both Kai and London in the first book of the series and even then you can tell that their story is going to be a rough one. That both these characters have lived through a lot. That they've lived through hell. Where Georgie and Decks book broke my heart in spots, this book shattered me. It was dark, it was the essence of sadness and anger, it was pure devastation. In a good way, I swear.
London is put through so much. She goes through the unthinkable. She is forced to become someone else, someone she doesn't even recognize, someone they call Raven. She survives. Then, once she is saved and once Kai has fixed her and taken her from being just a broken shell of herself to having a sparkle in her eye again...she is again put through hell. She is a survivor. She is Kai's braveheart.
Kia is pure resilience and calculation. Raised to be shut off to emotion, conditioned to be nothing more than a machine. A killer. Made by none other than his own mother. Something in London sparks the emotion and Kai. From then on she is his. He will stop at nothing to get her back.
In this book we finally meet Conner, who is Georgies brother and boy is it a doozey. We get a better understanding of the Vault and how it works, which is an organization you learn about in the first book. Another 4 Stars for this book. I would recommend this series, but you should get both books at the same time because even though the stories are about two different sets of charaters, they do need to be read together and in order.

An advanced readers copy was provided to me by the publishers and the author in exchange for a honest review. This has in no was effected my rating on this book or the overall review.