Unbreakable by Melanie Harlow

Let's start with what catches your eye first...this COVER! It screams read me. So beautiful. Okay enough with the cover love, let's get into the word love. Let me start by saying this, I love when a jackass hubs gets left and the woman shines brighter. It is seriously my reading version of crack. If I was a crack addict, which I am currently not, nor have ever been...You get my drift, moving on. When a woman is put on the back burner and an ego driven male leaves her for "younger" seen as most the times "better" but in the best of revenge they get even by just being. By simply living a better life and coming out on top with the children's love and trust and the love of a REAL man that would never take the beautiful soul they have been given a chance with up. MY CRACK PEOPLE. And Ms. Harlow wrote it not only heart crushingly beautifully but the quickies she threw in there were HOT OFF THE CHARTS people. Like panty check on aisle 12 stuff. I adored this couple, their journey and all of the side characters. Can't wait for more. 

The Life That Mattered by Jewel E. Ann

                    ALL THE STARS IN THE UNIVERSE

OH. MY. GOD. Jewel E. Ann is a mutha fucking genius. How does she take a sentence and make it unforgettable, unputdownable? The stringing together of words to create a story, I read them all the time. But this is different. This MATTERS. A story that you are so invested in it weaves it's way into your soul and you lose yourself among the pages. Life matters, my kids were probably thinking that when they wanted dinner and I was like "ssshhhh" mama is reading, "grab some cereal". Bladders matter, but I ignored mine as I read into the early morning hours. Sleep matters, but I got none and I am completely okay with that. These words matter. You reading this story, that matters.

I have read nothing like it. Jewel E. Ann has a way of capturing you even in the mundane moments of a life told. A beautiful love story with something so much greater waiting in the wings...words I need more than my next my breath. Gathering the wits to try to write a somewhat put together review, and most likely failing. But if you are still reading this review, YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK! I am anxiously awaiting the next one, but do not wait. Again, READ THIS NOW. 

 

Dear Ava by Ilsa Madden Mills

                                                                  ALL THE STARS!!

 
Truth or dare...

Truth: This book caught me from the first page. I have read and loved every Ilsa Madden Mills but this one, this one GOT ME. The broken bad boy, mystery, tension, all the feels, a strong willed girl that knows what she wants and how to get it. ALL OF IT. Ms. Madden Mills KILLED it with the strong emotional pull you experience from the first chapter to the last. I couldn't love this book more than I did. She encompassed all that I love in my romance story and more. The heart strings were pulled, plucked, broken and re-strung with this one. Family, first love, consequences, redemption and friendships will be tested and found. GAH I LOVE THIS STORY!!

Dare: READ THIS BOOK. Don't just stop there, read all of Ilsa Madden Mills stories. But start here. You won't regret it.