Midnight Sun By: Trish Cook

(N) Seventeen-year-old Katie Price has a rare disease that makes exposure to even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Confined to her house during the day, her company is limited to her widowed father and her best (okay, only) friend. It's isn't until after nightfall that Katie's world opens up, when she takes her guitar to the local station and plays for the people coming and going.
     Charlie Reed is a former all-star athlete at a crossroads in his life - and the boy Katie has secretly admired from afar for years. When he happens upon her playing guitar one night, fate intervenes and the two embark on a star-crossed romance.
     As they challenge each other to chase their dreams and fall for each other under the summer night sky, Katie and Charlie form a bond strong enough to change them - and everyone around them - forever.

      When I first saw the trailer the movie that is based on this book I didn't know what to think. But the more I saw the trailers the more I actually thought about seeing the movie and before I did that I wanted to read Midnight Sun, the story. And for the most part I actually enjoyed reading Midnight Sun, it kind of started to lag towards the end but other than that I enjoy reading this book.

Midnight Wolf (Shifters Unbound #11) By: Jennifer Ashley

(N) Angus Murray, bouncer for a New Orleans Shifter bar, is sent to round up an elusive, Collar-less Shifter woman, Tamsin Calloway, who is causing trouble for Shifter Bureau, and possesses information they want. If Angus refuses, he risks losing his cub. He finds Tamsin but she's slippery  and not about to be rounded up quietly.
      In fact, quiet is nothing Tamsin will ever be. She leads Angus on a wild chase, but he's determined to bring her in to save his son.
      Can Tamsin convince Angus she's worth helping before she's locked away by Shifter Bureau, Collared, or perhaps killed?

      I've heard numerous books from this series and most of those I am in love with but Midnight Wolf was not one of them. I just could not get into Midnight Wolf and didn't even end up reading the whole thing before giving up on the story. Angus and Tamsin's story just wasn't for me.

Xander Part Two (Rockstar #14) By: Anne Mercier

(N) It's eleven years later, and they're still living separate lives. When Xander knows Tera isn't comfortable with his lifestyle after everything she's been through, he can't be without her anymore.
    Xander needs her. Tera's his wife. She's his heartbeat. She's his every breath. She's his everything.
    He wants to know every detail of her life. He wants to be a part of it all. He wants to work as hard to get there as she did to get here.
    Tera's always been Xander's girl - even at the age of eight. As Xander faces her now, there's no doubt she'll be his until he draws his last breath.
    It's time for their forever to begin.

    When I started reading the Rockstar series I was immediately in love with it. But as the series went on it started to drag and with these last few books especially with Xander's books. I don't know if it's because I've waited so long for these books to come out or what because Xander's story just did not do it for me. I once again couldn't get into Tera and Xander's story and started skimming through it all. I wanted to like this story because of how much I loved the character of Xander but I just couldn't do it.

The Negotiation By: Sandi Lynn

(N) Companionship is a good thing. Relationships are not. Emily Wade was raised to believe that happily ever after didn't exist. That relationships were doomed before they even started, and that as long as the attraction to someone is purely physical, life is uncomplicated and good. Emily lived by that and was probably the only anti-relationship person in the world. She found herself in the midst of so much man drama that she decided to take a hiatus from the dating world. Until she meets the brutally handsome CEO of Caine Property Development & Management, Jackson Caine. He was an anti-relationship as Emily was and wanted to negotiate a deal that would let them both have their cake and eat it too.
     Jackson's mother is one her fourth husband and his father was on his fifth wife.
     Jackson Caine grew up in a world where he was taught that nothing lasts forever. He saw and lived the destruction each relationship his parents had and it was something he never wanted. Jackson was career driven, successful, the boss of his own life, and as anti-relationship as one could be. Jackson has had his fill of women and the drama that went with them. Until he met Emily Wade. A beautiful woman who understood and shared the same thoughts he did. Emily and Jackson were the perfect companions for each other. No complications, no drama, and certainly no commitment, ever. They negotiated a deal that would suit both of them, and as long as no one breaks the rules that were set in place, they both can have their cake and eat it too.
     Until...

     This was yet another hit for Sandi Lynn! I could not stop reading The Negotiation and finished it in no time at all. If you haven't read any of Sandi Lynn's books yet, this is a good place to start.

Rebel Heir (The Rush Series #1) By: Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward

(N) How to kick off a great summer in the Hampton's: snag a gorgeous rental on the beach. Check. Get a job at a trendy summer haunt. Check. How to screw up a great summer in the Hampton's: Fall for the one guy with a dark leather jacket, scruff on his face, and intense eyes that doesn't fit in with the rest of the tony looking crowd. A guy you can't have when you'll be leaving at the end of the season. Check. Check. Check.
     Add - especially when the guy is your sexy, tattooed God of a boss. Especially when he not only owns your place of employment but inherited half of the town. Especially when he's mean to you. Or so she thought. Until one night when he demanded Gia get in his car so he could drive her home because he didn't want Gia walking in the dark.
     That was sort of how it all started with Rush. And then little by little, some of the walls of this hardass man started to come down. Gia never expected that the two of them, seemingly opposite from the outside, would grow so close. She wasn't supposed to fall for the rebel heir, especially when he made it clear he didn't want to cross the line with her. As the temperature turned cooler, the night became hotter. Gia's summer became a lot more interesting--and complicated.
     All good things must come to an end, right? Except their ending was one Gia didn't see coming. 

      By now I've read a few books both by Vi Keeland and by Penelope Ward, so reading a book that the two of them wrote together was a no brainier. And Rebel Heir was exactly what I thought it would be, a book I could not put down.

Filthy Gods (America Gods: Prelude) By: R. Scarlett

(N)  Young. Wealthy. elite. Attractive. The gentlemen's secret society at Yale was filled with them. And Nathaniel Radcliffe, the bane of Juliette's existence, was one of them. As the right hand of the American Gods, he was conceited and arrogant. A dangerously handsome man in a tailored custom suit and shiny black oxford loafers.
      The classroom was their battlefield. Nathaniel and Juliette made a sport out of arguing and debating, ready to do anything in order to win over the other.
      Deadly opponents, deadlier minds. Juliette sworn she'd never give Nathaniel the upper hand, until... The secret Juliette had been hiding for the last three years, Nathaniel just discovered it...and now he has all the power.

      I cannot wait for the next books in the American Gods series to come out. I finished this book in one time at all and this was just the prelude, I can only image what the actual books will bring.

Luminous (Once Bitten, Twice Shy #3) By: Noelle Marie

(N) Katherine didn't think she had ever heard so many creative way of being called fat before. Except she wasn't fat, of course. Even worse, she was pregnant.
       When Katherine begins experiencing random physiological changes a few months after being claimed as Bastian's mate, she's terrified that she may somehow be losing her supernatural abilities - her "inner wolf", so to speak.
     In many ways, though, the truth is even scarier: she's pregnant.
     Amidst dealing with morning sickness, wondering how she's going to push a baby the size of a melon out of her you know, and, oh yeah, figuring out a way to tell Bastian the life-altering news, Katherine finds herself shedding her initial apprehension over her pregnancy and becoming enamored with the idea of a baby.
    Unfortunately, in a world where fertile wombs among werewolves are as rare as they are revered, envy and covetousness abound, Evil - both the kind that lurks in shadows, and the king that blatantly rears its ugly head - threaten to rip away Katherine from everything she never knew she wanted.

     Now as I just finished reading this third book in the Once Bitten, Twice Shy series I can safely say that I did not like this series. What started out on a relatively good note went downhill and fast with each book and chapter. Each book seemed to get worse for me until I was skipping over a majority of the final book. I only kept continuing on until the end only because I wanted to know how the story and series would end.

Shy (Once Bitten, Twice Shy #2) By: Noelle Marie

(N) If Katerine thought her life would get any easier in the months following her realization that Bastian was her mate, she was wrong. But dealing with the man's hot and cold behavior - it was like he had two times of the month - and surviving the Recruiting Rites were pieces of cake compared to the fierce emotional storm that envelopes her when a secret - a lie - is revealed that turns everything Katherine thought she knew on its head.
      Once betrayed, its hard to bring herself to trust again.
      Once bitten, its hard not to be shy.
   
       While Bitten, the first book in this series held my attention Shy, not so much. I just couldn't get into Shy and found it to be a bit of a lackluster.