Kaelie's Reads

Lessons from a One-Night Stand by Piper Rayne If you're a guy like me, and you find yourself having banged your sexy new boss —the school principal — in the back of your Jeep one drunken night, here's a few takeaways based on my experience... Lesson One: always get her FULL name. Lesson Two: consider asking what she does for a living. Lesson Three: find out why she's moved to town. Get details. Details are crucial. Lesson Four: don't alter her bio in front of an auditorium of high school students unless you know she has a sense of humor for that sort of thing. Lesson Five: if you ignore Lesson Four, apologize instead of flirt when you're sent to the principal's office. Lesson Six: NEVER sleep with her again. Lesson Seven: pay attention to this one, it's the most important of them all. Don't fall for your one-night stand. Class dismissed. My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character develo...

Hound Dog by Katana Collins I live a double life… and no one in my family knows it. No, I’m not a spy or CIA or special forces or anything… but sometimes it seems like being a matchmaker is nearly as dangerous. Men and women come from all over for my business, Hound Dog, where I utilize rescue dogs as a way to help people attract and find their perfect match. Over eighty percent of my clients end up adopting the dogs I pair them with. And ninety percent of them find their “soulmate" after using my services. Too bad I don’t believe in soulmates. But fact is, that sort of cynicism won’t pay the bills. Or at least, it didn’t…until Haylee Rogers came back to town. The only girl I've ever loved. The girl I made a promise to six years ago. And the girl I ghosted. Turns out, she's the only living relative of Ol’ Lady Meryl—the delightfully crazy dog hoarder who lives in town. So when Haylee asks me to help find homes for her aunt’s dogs, I’m powerless to say no. The...

Endless by W. Winters From  USA Today  bestselling author W Winters comes an emotionally captivating and thrilling, romantic suspense. He holds a power over me like no one else ever could. Maybe it’s because my heart begs to beat in time with his. Maybe it’s because my body bows to his and his alone. Maybe it’s because he thought he loved me before he even laid eyes on me. He thought wrong, it wasn’t me he thought he loved, and nothing has made me suffer like that little secret has. He thought I belonged to him, but he was wrong. It was never supposed to be me. Our memories are deceiving, but I know what I want now. What I need more than anything. I won’t rest until he’s as much mine as I am his. It’s always been him. My Review: Mood?  tense sad mysterious Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven?   Plot Strong character development?    it's complicated   Loveable characters?   Yes Diverse cast of characters?   N/a Flaws o...

Curvy Girls Can't Date Quarterbacks by Kelsie Stelting Curvy girls deserve happily ever afters too. I’m a big girl, “plus-sized,” whatever. I’m sick of hearing about it, especially since my doctor diagnosed me with PCOS. So when Mean Girl Merritt shot her mouth off about how fat people should just lose weight, I couldn’t take it anymore. And now I’ve got a huge problem. To prove curvy girls like me can get happily-ever-afters too, I have to get our school’s quarterback, Beckett Langley, to take me to homecoming. And he doesn’t know I even exist. But it’s not hopeless. Four other girls just like me are willing to help, because enough is enough. I will not lose this bet.   My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character development?    Yes   Loveable characters?   Yes Diverse cast of characters?   N/a Flaws of characters a main focus?   Yes My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love this ...

  ✫✫✫ Cover Reveal ✫✫✫ Flirting with Paradise by Skye Kinley  Blurb: Flirting with Paradise, Skye Kinley She wasn’t falling for a man like him... ... because she knew the type. Tattooed, wealthy, cocky AF. Why were the bad boys so hard to resist? Katie’s wedding planning business was thriving, and she had her sights set on the lucrative international market. When Exotic Bride magazine agreed to cover the high-end destination wedding she’d planned, she was sure she had it made. Then the magazine changed the date. To the worst day possible. Could she turn her best friend’s low-budget wedding into a swoon-worthy event that would wow the editors and their readers? All while keeping the groom’s bossy best man out of her way? Lucas could easily fix this. He had the funds and the connections to make his cousin’s wedding perfect. So why did this crazy wedding planner keep rejecting his help? She’d dubbed him Bigfoot the moment they met and ignored him ever since. No mat...

  ◍ ◍ ◍ Blog Tour ◍ ◍ ◍ Our Cause by Jennifer Jane Jennings   Blurb:   What if we made the monsters live in fear for a change?  What if the people they attack fought back?  What if they won? Katerina Chase , a teenage karate student, and her best friend were attacked by eight men and left to die. They say it’s a miracle Kat survived.  She calls it penance. pDamon Knightly feels the same after shocking doctors by surviving his latest suicide mission in Afghanistan. Honourably discharged and sent home to Australia, he reluctantly takes the role of manager and head sensei at one of his family’s karate gyms.  Damon stops feeling sorry for himself when he meets Kat and vows to help her.  He gives her a job and trains her in karate - but it isn’t enough.  People are still getting hurt.  Kat needs to help them, but more importantly, she needs to stop them from being hurt in the first place.  They form ‘ Our Cause ’ to help p...

Breathless by Willow Winters From USA Today bestselling author W Winters comes an emotionally captivating and thrilling, romantic suspense. Her lips tasted like Cabernet and her touch was like fire. I was blinded by what she did to me. I so easily fell for something I thought I’d never have. I was weak for her and should’ve known better. I should’ve known she could never love a man like me. She brought out a side of me that I wish had stayed dead. I won’t make the same mistake twice. I don’t care how much she begs me. I don’t care that I crave her more than anything else...   My Review: Mood?  tense dark Emotional mysterious Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character development?    it's complicated   Loveable characters?   Yes Diverse cast of characters?   N/a Flaws of characters a main focus?   Yes My rating: 5 of 5 stars Fantastic book This book is fantastic book, and I can't wait to...