Book Review: The Harvest by Sara Clancy (The Bell Witch Book 1)

     A group of families has been cursed by a witch for decades. Each year she chooses one of the family members who are then gifted a box. She will do everything in her power to break them. Nothing will satisfy her but total extinction. Each of the chosen must travel to a small town in Tennessee where it all began, enter the forest where the witch was killed, and collect the keys to their boxes. If they survive they get to live another year and, hopefully, not be chosen again. Although the group enters, some with skepticism, will they all make it out alive or be claimed by the witches harvest? 

    This is a great book that jumps right into the action. We immediately start following the main characters as they are chosen and face their fears. I grew up on the Kentucky Tennessee border so the Bell Witch was something we all heard about. It was told again and again, yet I loved this rendition of it. It kept to the major backstory of the Bell Witch and her supposed abilities and the results of her harvest being just that, a good harvest. 

    I feel the characters, while some were a bit young, displayed a diverse background and varying opinions. It was great to see the skeptic have to slowly concede as the story progressed. Also, I loved the final forest. It was dark as anything, but that's the main reason I loved it. Each of their fears were played with in an attempt to break them and for them to die. 

    This is a book that you can absolutely read as a stand-alone without feeling like you are missing out on the plot. The story continues, I'm sure, with the tails left at the end of this book. However, if you decide not to read the end of this book covers all main plot points that developed throughout the story. 

    I really enjoyed the book and would likely read more by this author or in this series in the future. 

    This book is available on Amazon for FREE by clicking here. 

Book Review: Why Don't You Make Me by Rae Knight (Why Don't You? Book 1)

     Victoria was tortured by the Iron Triad in High School and they ruined her life. If the bullying wasn't enough Blaze "forgetting" drugs in his jacket pocket that he gave her after they stole her clothes stole any chance of her getting into her dream college. Intent on putting the past behind her she has stayed away from anywhere the boys may frequent until Thorne shows up at the coffee shop where she works with her ex-best friend. From there the boys are unescapable. They've captured her, keeping her prisoner in their home. But, they are succeeding where so many others have failed in the past. 

    This book was posted in one of my smut groups on Facebook by the author with an excerpt about a man named Kyle fucking about with her thigh verses her clit until she fake orgasmed. Yes, I also highlighted that section of the book. And so many others because yes. When I started it I didn't know it was a Why Choose. Do I care? Absolutely not. It is a theme in A LOT of books I have been reading recently, and I am here for it. 

    I love each of the guys for a different reason, but they are all amazing. Even if they did torment her for years. I enjoyed her attitude and spice through-out, but I wasn't sure I would be continuing on until the last chapter. The amount of bloodshed and psychotic in that chapter had me immediately downloading the next book. I cannot wait to see what hell these men will bring down to get her back. All of the yes. And the spoon scene? I showed my husband and he probably thinks there's something wrong with me. Don't care. Loved it. Can't wait to read the next book. 

    Do NOT let the fact that the title is messed up on the kindle store deter you from reading this possessive alpha-hole why choose. It's sexy, funny, and everything we all need in our lives. 

    This book is absolutely available on Kindle Unlimited or buy it on Amazon for $4.99 by clicking here. 

Book Review: Error Code: Love by Lex Thale

     Rhys hasn't trusted a machine since a processing time caused the life of his partner. Now returned to work his punishment is to have a new Syn unit as his full time partner. He doesn't trust her, but she has saved him a couple times without the previous models processing issue. Now, murders are cropping up around town as robots believe they are feeling things for their humans and are being rejected. 

    I ran across this book being posted in one of my book groups and thought it would be a cute read. I read the entire thing, but I have some problems with it. My biggest issue with the book is it is very obviously AI written. I do not ever want to read anything written by AI again and they REALLY need to be required to state it is somewhere on the Amazon page. Preferably in bold. I have went over the page a couple times and nowhere does it state that this book is anything other than written by a human. Trust, it's not. 

    If we ignore that glaring fact it isn't a bad book. I have read a few books that were actually written about robots gaining enough sentience to have feelings. Not generally murder in them, but it was a solid idea. I can't really get behind the child ones, but to each their own. It was syn child versus human so it wasn't an automatic no for me like is typical in my readings. 

    Honestly, if someone were to take the same concept and actually write it I wouldn't have been complaining about the book. As it is, read it if you want. 

    This "book" is available on Kindle Unlimited or buy it on Amazon for $4.49 by clicking here. 

Book Review: The Waiting Booth by Brinda Berry (Whispering Woods Book 1)

     Mia has lived in Whispering Woods her entire life and has never had any desire to go anywhere else. The only thing even remotely exciting that has ever happened to her was when her brother disappeared one day and she would do anything to get him back. A year later while conducting a science experiment on the feeding habits of local animals she spots 2 men in her woods. Her shock increases when these same two show up at her house telling her of portals to other dimensions and things trying to get into this world. Who should she believe or turn to? 

    I got this book forever ago and started it at one point before getting bored after a chapter. I really should have read beyond the first chapter. Although it is a slow start once it starts it is an exciting story. This is very much so a beginning book. We meet the characters and get a grasp on backstories. We know why the IIA want Mia and what things are allowed and what aren't. There is definitive options in partners for a romance aspect as well. For most of the book it could have gone any of three ways, but it narrows down at one point. 

    I really liked this book once I actually gave it a real chance. Dimension shifters of a sort that are still of human origin with an agency protecting the inhabitants of Earth from potentially fatal tampering. There is quite a bit of action and I will give the disclaimer that the only thing I didn't like about this book is one instance of infant death. It is very quickly brushed over and we didn't "see" it happen, but there is that possible trigger warning. 

    While there is a romance aspect to this book there are no spicy scenes. 

    This book is available on Amazon for FREE by clicking here. 

Book Review: Time to Lie by Phil Taylor (Landon Bridges' Book 1)

     Landon has always wanted to be a scientist and no matter what life has thrown at him he has retained that goal. After his dad died and his mother largely shut down Landon moved in with his Aunt and Uncle. They treated him as their own and helped him get into college. Now here he is intent on becoming the mentee under Dr. Kuroda. The old professor claims that time travel is possible, but layers everything in Karate Kid references. Could he be onto something and if so what does that mean? 

    I received a physical copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. It had been a long time since I read anything on this book and had forgotten what it was about. For the first half of the first chapter I thought this might be a vampire book. There was blood on the cover and he was vague, so it was possible. It isn't mind you. This is a sci-fi book through and through. Not complaining as I enjoy sci-fi. 

    I will say this book is a little different than most others on the concept of time travel. In this book you stay away from all interference signals and people then think about a point in your own history and you will arrive. I enjoyed this deviation from the norm. The story ends on a cliffhanger, but the main objective in this book was accomplished. I felt the characters were well-developed and the story largely enjoyable. 

    Personally the perspective in the book wasn't my favorite. While it was done properly and there is nothing wrong with a first person book this is written like Landon is narrating to the audience, even talking to them at some points in the story. Some people enjoy that, I'm sure, but for me it took me out of the story for a moment. 

    This book is available on Kindle Unlimited or buy it on Amazon for $3.99 by clicking here. 

Book Review: Dogs by Mike Sullivan

     Tom had been gone for too long. After his mother's accident he just hadn't been able to come back home. Once in the last 5 years, but a text from his dad letting him know she was gone changed all that. He drove through the night getting home to a dark house. Once inside, something was going on. A message left on his mother's talking machine began a precursor to his worst day: Something is wrong with the dogs. 

    I received a physical copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. This is a horror/thriller short story. I wouldn't consider it a book and it is hard to give an honest review without spoiling everything that happens. The dogs have went insane, killing seemingly everyone. We follow a man as he arrives in an area, is attacked, watches other attacks, and attempts to get some children to safety while forming hypothesis' along the way. 

    This story definitively had the thriller aspect and was great at drawing the reader in. I will say I absolutely almost stopped reading it. I will not under any circumstances read child death/murder, but we were good in this case.

    I don't know if this is a precursor to a bigger story by this author that is still in the works, but I would absolutely read something else by them that had more substance to it. 

    This story is available on Kindle Unlimited or buy it on Amazon for $3.99 by clicking here.

Book Review: Mastering the Defiant Miss Ramano by Maryse Dawson (The Moretti Family Book 1)

     When Gabriella's family died ten years ago mysteriously in a car crash she vowed to take vengeance against the Moretti family. They are a powerful family with connections that could have paid off the police who investigated, but she had no proof. Undercover as a server for an event she sneaks away into the family head's office, only to be discovered by Vincento Moretti the eldest son. Vincento takes an instant liking to the young woman, but her ways are in need of correction. 

    This book popped up in one of my smut groups on Facebook and I immediately downloaded it. Read the entire thing in less than a day because I enjoyed it so much. Mafia, spankings, and murder. All the best things. Vincento is tall, dark, sexy as sin, and knows how to punish a girl just right. He was absolutely book boyfriend of choice for a while after reading this book and will definitely read more by this author in the future. 

    The characters in the story are wonderful, the scenes are sexy, and there is plenty of plot to keep you entertained as well. I love that we get little peaks into her friends budding altercation with Vincento's bodyguard. Here's to hoping that gets it's own story later on, or maybe it already has. I haven't looked up the author's other books. 

    The fact that Gabriella not only finds information about her parents, but that she pursues it after knowing what will happen if she's caught made me love her. Gotta love the rebellious and independent streaks. I have zero complaints about this book or things that I would change. 

    This book is available on Kindle Unlimited or buy it on Amazon for $2.99 by clicking here.