Follow Friday #4

Feature and Follow Friday is a blog hop put together by two hosts: Parajunkee and Alison Can Read as a way to help bloggers become aware of other blogs and bloggers. It's a great way to make new blogger friends.

Q. Let's step away from books for a second and get personal. What T-Shirt slogan best describes you?

 

Wow, this question really made me think. I think this saying describes me well-"Equal Opportunity Annoyer". I can be a world class annoyer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not like that all the time, but I do love annoying my boyfriend. It's so much fun pushing his buttons sometimes. =)

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5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don't just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don't say "HI"
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers.

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ARC Review: Lord of the Vampires by Gena Showalter

I'm a big Gena Showalter fan and I've pretty much have read all of her books. Going into this one I had really high expectations. That being said, I have slightly mixed feelings when it comes to this book. It was a good book, but I felt it was just missing some of the Gena feeling that I've come to love with reading her other books. One of my favorite things I like about reading a Gena Showalter book is the banter that happens between the characters. May it be between the hero and heroine or some other character entirely, it's just something that I've grown to love from her. With this book there wasn't any banter at all between any characters. Jane and Nicolai instantly went from being strangers, to being lovers on the run. Even when they both did have discussions with each other it just seemed like they just kept telling each other how much they wanted one another. At times it seemed like Nicolai couldn't even string together a full sentence. It seemed like all he spoke was "Caveman". All he did was constantly say that Jane was "His" over and over. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely sexy when a extremely hot alpha male calls you "Mine" in the heat of passion, but with Nicolai that is all he would say. It just became very monotonous. I just wanted to hear more from him. Besides that I really enjoyed this story and the relationship between Jane and Nicolai.

Nicolai is everything I've come to love about alpha males. He's sexy, extremely protective, and not afraid to show his feelings. He is constantly worried about Jane and her well being. He will stop at absolutely nothing to keep her safe. If anyone is foolish enough to hurt her, he will stop at nothing to exact revenge and make it incredibly painful. Nicolai is definitely someone that I would not want to cross.

Jane was a great match for Nicolai. She wasn't just some whiny wimp of a heroine who waits around for the hero to save her. No sir, that isn't Jane at all. She is very self-efficient and is willing to go to great extremes to defend both Nicolai and herself. There are even a few times that she is successful at defending herself against others.
I really enjoyed these two together. They were exactly what each other needed in their lives. Both Jane and Nicolai are so hot together. They definitely had a few steamy scenes while on the run. I normally don't really believe in the whole "love at first sight" storyline but Gena does it in such a great and believable way.
With Lord of the Vampires being the beginning of this series, I can't wait to see what else we are in store for. I love that each book is written by a different author. It makes things very interesting and I am extremely anxious to see everyone else's take on this world and the characters within it.

**This was an ARC copy provided by NetGalley**

Review: Deeper Than Midnight by Lara Adrian

I enjoyed this book a lot but I didn't love this book the way I love so many others by this author. I felt very disconnected from the main characters. This was supposed to be Hunter and Corrine's story but it just didn't feel like it. It felt as if they were more a side story while the main story was everything that was going on with The Order. They just seemed to be overshadowed by everyone else.

I really enjoyed getting to know more about the stoic Hunter. The scene where he finds out about his past nearly broke my heart. Even after seeing his past and getting to know him I still felt like we were missing something from him. I don't think we really got inside his head and got to know him as a man rather than a no-feeling bred assasin.

As for Corrine, I found her very annoying for the first half of the book. I understand that she went through a very trying ordeal but she was just so helpless and needy. I think that once she was around Hunter she began to open up and became a different person. It just took some time getting there with her.

Hunter and Corrine were great together but I would have liked to have seen more from them. Their HEA just felt rushed and some things felt like they were missing. I understand that the author is setting things up for her next book, but with doing so we lost the connection between the two main characters.

Now with that being said I did enjoy seeing some of the others POV. After reading about Sterling Chase in this book I honestly cannot wait to read his book, especially with the way things were left off. I'm just so anxious for his story. I have been a big fan of Chase's throughout the series and with the turn of events in this book I just can't wait until January.

ARC Review: Learning Curves by Elyse Mady

I honestly don't know how I finished this book or even why. This book had me so frustrated that I put it down a numerous amount of times. I kept picking it up hoping that it would get better. Sadly, I was wrong. This book was just all over the place. I also had a lot of trouble connecting to the characters.

The character Leanne was just all over the place. When we are first introduced to her she seems very timid and worries about hurting others feelings and she also has a very low self esteem. She has been told consistently by her mother that she needs to me more like her mother's Goddaughter Gillian who is actually a vapid whore. When Leanne meets Brandon, she is very timid at first but somehow after only a few minutes she becomes this brazen vixen. Then, after their sexual encounter she goes back to being timid again. It was like this throughout the book. One moment she is timid and innocent and the next a cursing sexually aggressive woman. It was very annoying.

As for Brandon's character I felt like I couldn't get a good read on him either. In the beginning of the book he is very much aware of his sexual persona and is very self-assured male. Then later on, he just seems to fizzle out. I felt he became a slight pushover and was only concerned about Leanne needs and not his own.

Also, some of the plot in this book just seemed a bit contrived and not very realistic. Don't even get me started on the ending. It just felt so fake with everything being wrapped up with a bow. It felt so unrealistic and fake. It just left me with a sour taste in my mouth.


**This was an ARC copy provided by NetGalley**

Follow Friday #3

Feature and Follow Friday is a blog hop put together by two hosts: Parajunkee and Alison Can Read as a way to help bloggers become aware of other blogs and bloggers. It's a great way to make new blogger friends.

Q. Name 3 authors that you would love to sit down and spend an hour or a meal with just talking about either their books or get advice on writing from?

Wow, this is a difficult question. How to only pick just three when there are so many different authors that I admire and respect. There is no question that J.R. Ward would be my first choice. I am completely obsessed with her Black Dagger Brotherhood series and I would love to know every little tidbit that she would be willing to tell me. Also, I just find her method of writing interesting. I want to know all about her Rice Krispies. Sherrilyn Kenyon is another author whose books I adore. When I first began reading adult books, hers were some of the first that I picked up. My third author I would love to meet is Lisa Kleypas. There isn't a book that I don't like that she has written. I've fallen in love with quite a few of her heroes. She just has a way with writing. Well there you have my three. I hope if you haven't read their books that you take the time to pick one up. You won't be disappointed.

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3. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing on Parajunkee's blog.
4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point  is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don't just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don't say "HI"
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers.

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