Pierced By: Maya Hawk

(N) Lauryn hasn't seen her step-brother Sutton in ten years. The two of them were once best friends but that all changed the day that Lauryn's father left her mother to be with Sutton's mother and depressed over this Lauryn's mother tried to commit suicide and almost succeeding had Lauryn not found her in time. Now it's ten years later and the last person Lauryn ever thought she would see again just walked in the door.
      Lauryn is now a pharmaceutical rep and Sutton is a doctor but not just any kind of doctor he's one who specializes in the caring for the opposite sex. He delivery babies for a living. Underneath the white lab coat is a man filled out in muscles and covered in tattoos, a man who has girls falling at his feet to be with. But the only girl he wants, the only girl who every other girl has been measured up to is Lauryn. 
      Lauryn finds Sutton obnoxious, insufferable and all around bad news. She knows that she shouldn't be with him for a million reasons but now having to work with Sutton it has become impossible for Lauryn to ignore him.
       I think this was another book that was just a so-so book. This story had its moments where it was both good and bad. But towards the end I was just kind of just kind of done with the whole thing and I ended up skimming through to the end. This book was just not the book for me.

Interlude (Rockstar #4) By: Anne Mercier

(N) This book is about going back to the beginning and seeing it in a new light. In Interlude, the fourth book in the Rockstar series we get to read from the point of views of both Jesse and Gage and how they got to be with the women they have today. We start off with Jesse on the day he met Lucy and the connection he felt with her from that first meeting. From there Jesse watched Lucy from afar watching everything and anything that she acted in before they finally got the chance to meet on the set of Falling Down's latest music video. The book goes into a few more chapters of Jesse's point of view for things that happened during Falling Down which I didn't think were not all that interesting. (Spoiler Alert) But what I did find interesting is that it was Gage who was actually behind Jesse and Lucy finally meeting. Gage saw how these two felt for each other but waited until Jesse was really ready to meet Lucy before putting these two together.
         As for Gage's story, his story actually goes back further than what I originally thought.  Gage has actually known Sera since she was young and has been in love with her since he first laid eyes on her and knew that she was the one for him.  Gage waited years for Sera to reach an age where they could be together and no matter who else he had been with he only ever had eyes for Sera. In Gage's point of view the reader also gets a little more of his past to how he got to become Gio's second in command.
        One thing that I did enjoy about this book was reading both Jesse and Gage's point of view. Through this book the reader got to see more into the head of Jesse and Gage and just how much they care about their wives. But there are some complaints I have and that is just that before the synopsis for this book came out it said that this book would be another book about Jesse and Lucy and although it did show their story I thought that it would be more about the present than the past. Another issues is that most of this book does take place in the past and the one chapter on what's happening in the present is just setting up for the next book in the series.
       Although I liked reading more of Jesse and Gage's stories and their point of views I did not think that this book was anywhere near as good as the other books in the series.

Douche By: Chloe Plume

(N) Madison Pierce's life is on track and she is doing exactly what her dad expects from her. Madison is back home in L.A. for the summer before starting at Standford in the fall. Madison will be spending the summer doing an internship at her father's company something she knows will make her dad happy. Madison is ready to be home for the summer that is until she sees Zayde, or who now goes by Zayden. Zayden Knight is the bad boy pop star at the moment and he is also Madison's step-brother. Zayden is everything that Madison cannot stand he is an egotistical womanizer who only looks out for himself. Zayden is hot and he knows it and is someone who Madison shouldn't be with but she cannot seem to get him out of her head and be there for him when no one else is.
      Zayden Knight is trouble, he's gotten himself into bad publicity one too may times and now has to spend the summer at his step-father's house. This summer Zayden has to try and improve his image to the world and be the guy that millions of parents don't mind their teenage daughters crushing over. But being back at his step-father's place is the last place Zayden wants to be that is until he sees Madison. Madison had changed over the years she's gone from being skinny, frumpy Madison to someone who Zayden cannot seem to stop wanting. Zayden can have any girl of his choosing but for some reason he only wants Madison.
      I think that is book was just ok, it wasn't the best book that I have ever read but it certainly was not the worst. I mean I did finish the book and it might be something that I would read again but it's not something that is at the top of my to read again pile. Overall I think that this is a book where if you skip over it it isn't that big of a deal and if you are on the fence about reading it might not be worth it reading at least not right away.

Falling for Sakura: A Secret Kiss By: Alexia Praks

(N) So I first got introduced into this series by the second book. I read the synopsis of the second book in this series and it thought that it sounded interesting so I planned on reading it as soon as it came out and since this series had to be read in order I read this book first in the meantime.
       Orphan Sakura has grown up being bullied, hated, rejected, and unloved by everyone around her. When she was adopted by the wealthy Princeton family she had hoped that she had finally found people who would love her and worked hard to earn her siblings trust and love. However all that hard work was out staged by a series of unfortunate incidents that caused her siblings to hate her and ultimately forget all about her.
       Now years later at the age of twenty-three Sakura is a drop dead beauty but doesn't know it and doesn't understand all the attention that she is receiving especially from seven men in particular. When her siblings arrive back home for their cousins' wedding Sakura is dodging the presence of her seven brothers which becomes next to impossible. These brothers who once forget who Sakura was now are all competing for her attention. This awakens old feelings as well as old memories that until now have been suppressed by the brothers. As much as the brothers are competing for Sakura attention, Sakura is torn between just two of the brothers. Sebastian Princeton the brother who loves her and watches her from afar and Darcy Princeton the brother who was once her best and only friend and now secretly wants forgiveness for want happened in the past and loves her once again.
       This book was just not for me. I just could not get into this book. Although I did managed to finish reading the whole book it was not without skimming through most of the book just to see how the whole thing played out. I knew before I even finished the book that I would not be continuing on with this series. There was just too much going on for my liking and way too many different things happening all at once.

Kiro's Emily By: Abbi Glines

(N) This book is a short novella in the Rosemary Beach series, this novella has actually been out for a while now but I just finally got around to reading it. I am kind of disappointed in myself for waiting so long to read this novella because once I started reading this book I just could not put it down and before I knew it it was over.
     If you have read the Rosemary Beach series in order then you know that Kiro is Harlow, Mase, and Nan's father and band mate with Rush's father. This story is about Kiro and takes places years back in the year 1992 where at the time no one is hotter than lead singer Kiro Manning from the famous rock group Slacker Demon. Right now Kiro and the Slacker Demons have a multi-platinum record, sold-out concerts, are at the top of the charts, and have bucketfuls of money allowing the Slacker Demons to have anything and anyone they want. One night during in after part Kiro sees a dark-haired, conservative beauty his first thought is "who is she? And she can't really be as innocent as she appears." Kiro has always loved a good challenge but this time the challenge is a girl who does not want to get involved with a rock god.
     That first night Kiro lets her go but he cannot forget about her. And when the two meet again Kiro knows that this time he will not give her up so easily. While the world worships Kiro, he worships the one girl who is everything that he needs and everything he shouldn't have. She is the only girl he has ever loved, his Emily.
     I knew going into this story that it was going to be a quick read but I was still surprised when the ending came. I think this is mostly because this novella just ended out of nowhere and because it skipped from the year 1992 to present time. Although this was a great read and one I would not suggest skipping in the series. I would have like to see more about what happened after Emily's accident instead of the story briefly talking about the accident before jumping to years later when Kiro introduces Emily to their new grandchild.