Hunt the Moon by Karen Chance

Hunt the Moon by Karen Chance
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Okay.. so I actually loved this one. I have been pushing it off just because ehh, the other books haven't been all that great. I also really dislike Mircea , her vamp kinda bf. I am 200% team Pritkin and I hate that he gets no love. Well he does but in a strictly friendship sort of way. So I just didn't want to read another book about how awesome Mircea is when he is the worst.

And really this book had a lot of Mircea... a lot more than the others have actually but I still feel like the parts where Pritkin was there totally out shinned the rest. The chemistry was fantastic! And uuemmmm. The scene when they were in the car and she was trying to heal him. So hot. Pritkin was perfect.

There was a lot of action.. some times there was too much but that okay.

I kinda want to punch him in the face or what he did at the end though. Stupid war mage.

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Barbarian Mine by Ruby Dixon

I loved the one. I wasn't a huge fan of the last book in this series so I was a little worried about starting this one. That's why it took me so long to pick it up but it was actually really good.

You have Rukh who hasn't been around people for who knows how long.. but basically he is a barbarian :) He sees Harlow and his cootie purrs and he doesn't know what to do.. So naturally he wacks her in the head, knocks her out and then drags her to his cave. I mean.. does it get any caveman than that? oh wait YES IT DOES! woot! The man/alien can't communicate with Harlow! He doesn't even know his own language. Which is my absolute favorite thing in a book. Harlow has to teach him words. I love the struggle. Well she teaches him a whole lot of stuff. Like how to bathe for one. He hadn't taken a bath in years. Also she gets to teach him about the birds and the bees. Yes that was an incredible awesome scene. Our big blue alien learning about how to make babies. Adorable.. in a smutty alien kind of way.

I love their relationship. Harlow is teaching Rukh things that he should already know and instead of being all alpha male and getting upset, he just accepts the help and I just freaking love that. I was trying got put myself in his shoes and I'm pretty sure I would have been just a bit snippy. But not Rukh and thats one of the reasons why he is my new favorite alien. That and he paid really close attention to whatever made Harlow happy and then he tried to do that as often as he could. Like with certain foods. Swoon.

Riders by Veronica Rossi

I'm having a hard time deciding how to rate this one.  I kind of loved everything about the book but then that ending.. Not cool. It brought me down man. I don't like books like that.  Granted I will have the next one pre-ordered and reading it at midnight... but still. not cool!

First off I want to say that I LOVE that the story is told through Gideon's POV.  There aren't a lot of books out there told from the male POV.  Okay I mean there are a ton but just not the kinds of books I tend to read. So I freaking loved the hell out of that.  It helps that I really like Gideon.  I liked the military back story and I loved his wit and sarcasm.

I think the horses are the greatest part of the entire book.  Especially the connection Riot and Gideon had.  It was just really cool to see the horses have different personalities and the way that they complimented their riders perfectly.

Another thing I loved was the bromance.  I love a book with a great bromance and this one was one of the best I've read.  You have 4 complete strangers coming together and they are NOTHING alike.  At all.  All from different background but they have this huge responsibly that they can only do together.  It was beautiful :)

Okay so after writing the review I decided that the book was kinda amazing. I just hated the end. But the rest of it was amazing! so 4.5 stars.  Ill take off a half a star for the ending.  That's fair.

Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur

I'm not quite sure how to rate this book.  I like some things about it but then the constant sex kinda ruined the whole thing for me.  Not that I mind a lot of sex in books. quite the opposite, but it was ALL Riley thought about.  Everything she did she first thought 'well how can I fit in sex first or after'.  I know she's a were and it was the full moon and that is suppose to make her need for sex uncontrollable but I just wasn't feeling it.  Why add the whole Moon Craze thing in there?  So Riley has an excuse to sleep with anything male.  And its okay because "Hey its the moon craze!"  She can't help it. It annoyed me. Plus the sex scenes weren't even that great. If you are going to overdo it, do it well.

But besides the whole "Riley has sex on the brain", I actually kind of liked her.  She wasn't a very deep character (this is also the first book so maybe she'll get better later) but one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to female heroines is that they never listen to what anyone tells them.  Even when someone much older and much more experienced tells them one thing, they will do the opposite.  Riley actually listen to Quinn when he told her to run, she didn't waste time fighting about it.  She saw that it was the logical solution if they wanted to get out alive.  So that alone makes her kind of awesome.  She knows her limits when it comes to battle or missions or whatever.

I also really enjoyed the storyline.  Halfway through I thought I had it all figured out and I was totally wrong.  Well I was 3/4 wrong.  I liked that I couldn't guess what was going to happen next.

So I really couldn't decide what to rate this book.  Because while the storyline was fantastic as a whole.. the sex was so distracting.  It didn't add to the story.. It almost ruined it for me, I almost stopped reading the book. I really hope the next one chills out on all of that and if it doesn't I won't push past it and ignore it again.

Atlantis Rising by Alyssa Day

okay. So I have.. 13 audio books checked out. Yes 13.  I am a nut ball. But I can listen to books at work so yay me. But I was sitting at work and I couldn't decide what to listen to.  I just had too many options. So I picked this one because I kinda thought it would be ridiculous. Atlantis and Warriors of Poseidon.. I don't know. I was thinking Mermen and shit. It was late on Friday when I started.  But jokes on me because I freaking loved this book.

First off I love Riley.  She was super sweet but she also stood up for herself.  A lot of times characters are too 'strong' and it just comes off bitchy or they are too sweet and they end up a push over.  Well Riley was a good mixture of both. She gets thrown into a crazy world with these He-man Atlantis Warriors and she holds her own.  Which is a good thing because she has caught the attentions of Conlan, The Prince of Atlantis.

I like him as well.  He makes a few mistakes, sure but who doesn't.  Since they meet at the very start of the book I can't say what he was like before he met Riley but I will say that I like them together.  I think they are defiantly stronger as a couple and I think that they will be great leaders.  I am excited to see how they progress in the series.

I will definitely be going on with the series! There is so much going on with the vampires attacking and trying to take over and I love all the warriors.  They are funny and so completely different so I am excited to learn more about them.

Go Fetch! by Shelly Laurenston

This one was much better than the first one.  Miki is one of my favorite female characters.  She was absolutely hilarious.  She had no filter at all and I loved it.  I will admit at times that she was a bit bitchy but I like that in a character.

The great thing about this book was Conall.  He completely accepted Miki and all her bitchy-ness.   Hell she freaking drugged him and he still wanted her! He seemed to just work with all of her feisty personalities.  They were very well matched in all way.

I also liked seeing Zack and Sara interact now that they don't really have drama going on.  They were adorable in a very weird kind of way.

Overall just a fun book to read.

On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

Okay I was a little skeptical about this book.. I mean it mentioned Wal-Mart in the blurb.  I was understandably scared.  But the book was freakin fantastic.

So Rose is this kick ass girl who is taking care of her two adorable brother.  They live in the edge.  Which is kinda between worlds.  You have the Weird which is the land of magic and the Broken which is for normal people.  The Edge has both.  Rose and her brothers have magic and Rose is kind of a special.  She has more magic than the others in the Edge so she has the people (Blue Bloods) from the Weird wanting her as a baby machines and she just was not gonna have that.   She hides/fights them off for a couples years while keeping her family fed.

In walks Declan, a blue blood that claims he wants to marry her.  Rose being the stubborn woman that she is fights him but realizes that he is just a bit stronger than she is so there is this whole challenge thing. But at the same time there is a whole lot of magic hounds attacking the Edge and Declan helps Rose protect the Edge and her family.  So of course they are falling in love and fighting together. aww. Adorable.  A couple that fights together, stays together.

Seriously I loved this book.  I loved Rose and I loved Declan.  And I loved her two little brothers.  Yeah that's a lotta love.  But its totally deserves it.