Wallbanger

                                        

Wallbanger             

By Alice Clayton                    

I love to read. That is no big secret to anyone who knows me. I can like most any type of book, but the ones that I tend to love are those unique stories that draw you into the world the author has created. A story that makes you feel something: love, sorrow, fear, anger, and joy.. This story, Wallbanger, is one of those stories that makes you laugh out loud at the dialogue between its characters.

OVERVIEW

Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a KitchenAid mixer, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks). She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O.

Adding insult to O-less, since her move, she has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Each moan, spank, and--was that a meow?--punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has, yep, you guessed it, no O.

Enter Simon Parker. (No, really, Simon, please enter.) When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. Their late-night hallway encounter has, well, mixed results. Ahem. With walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick...

MY THOUGHTS

This was no ordinary story. Yes, yes, it is a girl meets boy, shenanigans begin, they fall in love and live happily ever after story. So now you’re wondering if I am suffering in the head again, because, so far? This is an ordinary romance.  Don’t give up on me so easily! What makes this one different is how it is written! I really enjoyed the fact that Mrs. Clayton wrote this from Caroline’s point of view. Most books are told in third person, you know, the one who sees into all the characters minds? I really liked reading this from Caroline’s perspective.

We have our main cast of three characters, which the story revolves around: Caroline, Simon (her wall banging neighbor), and Clive, her feline companion who also discovers love, but loses it… (sniff)

Caroline is young, single, and settling into her new apartment with Clive when awoken in the midnight hours by “enthusiastic” sounds and wall banging coming from her new, unidentified neighbor, who shares her bedroom wall. Three nights in a row. She finally decides to confront her wall-banging neighbor during a particularly sleepless night.

Simon Parker. Neighbor. Wallbanger. Photographer who travels the world, but when he is home, he entertains the three women in his life, unknowingly disrupting his neighbors sleep. Meeting his neighbor in the middle of the night changes his way of thinking.

When you combine these two characters, add in hilarious banter, four friends, and one lovesick cat you have a fun, funny, romance that keeps you smiling throughout.

WALLBANGER is available in both print and e-book through Amazon and Barnes and Noble

File Size: 1112 KB

  Print Length: 302 pages

  Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1623420024

Publisher: Omnific Publishing; 1st edition (November 25, 2012)

Fall Into You

Fall Into You (A Loving on the Edge Novel)

By Roni Loren        

********* An Overview*********

He'll do anything for you. But you'd better say please.

When tomboy sports reporter Charli Beaumonde loses a dream TV job because she's not girly enough for primetime, she's determined to land a big scoop and prove her boss made a mistake. But when she gets too close to a football scandal and finds her life threatened, Charli accepts an offer from family friend Grant Waters to hide out at his place--even if Grant predicts nothing but trouble from his buddy's hard-headed, uncompromising, irrepressible, younger sister. There's one more problem...

Grant's "place" is The Ranch, a BDSM resort in Texas, and he's used to being in charge --even if that means trying to keep Charli in line. But much to Grant's surprise, she's intrigued--even envious--of his trainees. They're the epitome of what she's never been: sexy, beguiling, and totally irresistible to a man. Still, Grant doesn't believe for a minute that the sharp-tongued Charli has it in her to be anyone's submissive. But Charli's already on her knees vying for the chance to prove that even the Master can be wrong sometimes.

My Thoughts

When I start a book, I always go in with very high expectations, as I am sure you do, too. I expect the author to create characters that I cannot only believe in, but hopefully relate to, one way or another. I expect them to create a setting that I can close my eyes and imagine myself in. I expect stories that wrap me up and take me inside them. I also expect to develop a bond with the characters, for however long the story is. Having said that, the question now is, did Mrs. Loren successfully meet my expectations with Fall Into You the third in her Loving On the Edge series? ABSOLUTELY!

Charli was a lot like looking into a mirror for me. I wont go into all of the “what does she mean?” here, but in all of my reading of books, no heroine seemed to smack me between the eyes like Charli. She is a seemingly tough as nails woman who has to come face to face with some inner doubts, and there is no one who is better suited to accept the challenge that is Charli than Grant Waters.

Grant is the –in my opinion- greatest type of hero. He is former military. Former CIA. Successful businessman. Unflinchingly dominant with his sexual desires. And, underneath his rough and ready cowboy exterior, a softie when it comes to love. Grant is more than willing and able to take Charli on.

The story revolves around Grants vineyard slash secret BDSM club that is outside of Dallas, Texas city limits. Yes, we have vineyards out here. Yes, as Charli’s character is investigating, we love our football here in Texas. No, I have yet to find anything like Grant –um, his club, here in the Dallas area (but I am still searching). Ms. Loren creates such a beautiful image of these grounds on her pages that you can almost feel the Texas breeze in the air.

This story is, ultimately, a revelation about both characters. It is steamy, sexually charged, exciting, and real. What a great story to introduce 2013 with!

Although this is the third in a series, it can be read alone, but why would you want to? Do I adore this series? YES! Would I recommend it to you? YES! What are you waiting for? You know you want to… Don't just live on the edge, love on the edge!

Fall Into You is available in both paperback and ebook formats.

Other books in the Loving on the Edge Series

If I Were You

If I Were You
Book One of the Inside Out Trilogy
by Lisa Renee Jones

I have never before read Ms. Jones, but she was referred by a friend who wanted my take on this particular story.  I am hesitant to compare this work with any other stories, but I do not see how I can write this without mentioning that it does, in fact have some 50 similarities. But I think that Ms. Jones took that theme and enhanced it, made it better, more... interesting.

The story circles around a very wealthy, and moody, artist, Chris. Sara, a high school English teacher who has her Masters degree in Art, but no career in that field, yet. And Mark, another too wealthy for his own good, moody, art gallery owner. Both men are strong, sexually demanding Doms in the BDSM lifestyle, and they are now competing for Sara.

I did enjoy this story, I enjoyed the curiosity inspired by Ms. Jones about which man will be the "right"one for Sara, who will be her protector and who will be the poison? I must admit that at the end of book one, I have not figured that one out.  Ms./ Jones does not stop with that little game, no, she's very clever in this story, adding in danger, and leaving you staring at the page stupidly because she ended it there, in the middle of the exciting mystery that envelopes the main characters.

I am not going to go any further into this story, I am hopeful that you will get caught up on your own in her book! Do I recommend this book? Yes! If you are hesitant about the BDSM thing, this book is very light in it. But I will tell you that it is hot!

This book is set for release in both paperback and ebook on August 24, 2012, through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Smash, All Romance and iTunes iBook.

• Paperback: 330 pages
• Publisher: Lisa R Jones (August 9, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0985817003
• ISBN-13: 978-0985817008
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces

Command and Control, a Review

Command and Control (Holding Out for A Hero #2)

by Shelli Stevens (Goodreads Author)

Holding Out for a Hero, Book 2

Megan Asher has a thriving career, looks, self-confidence to spare. It all means little without the love of her life. Trevor has returned from deployment in Afghanistan a haunted man, emotionally distant and unwilling to connect—except in bed. Then even that fragile thread snaps. Brokenhearted, she is forced to call off their wedding and, after a few months’ separation, try to move on.

With every aspect of his life spinning out of his once-legendary control, Trevor Wyatt convinces himself that Megan is better off—and safer—as far away from his demons as possible. Until he comes back to town for his brother’s wedding, and discovers Megan is dating.

Suddenly realizing what he’s thrown away, he vows to breach the fortress she’s built around her heart. They come together in a cataclysm of rekindled passion that unleashes the very demons he never wanted her to witness.

Back to square one, Megan realizes she must take the ultimate risk to slip past Trevor’s defenses. Give him control in the one place she can. The bedroom. The seductive move is one she prays will be the first step in helping heal him and their love.

Let me start by thanking Mrs. Stevens for creating a hero who is so beautifully written and poignant in todays times when we see so many men and women who are returning home after serving in battle and experiencing PTSD. Mrs. Stevens reminds us that even our heros need help occasionally, and not all scars are visible…

I admit that I enjoy a book better when I fall a little in love with the hero.  Trevor Wyatt is that type of man, one you sigh over while simultaneously wishing you could smack him on the head to get his attention.  An Army Captain who returns to his small hometown on leave for his brothers wedding, he his forced to work cooperatively with his former fiancée, Megan with the preparations.  Trevor realizes what he pushed out of his life when he returned from Afghanistan bitter and angry about life, and suffering from the guilt that he returned when others under his command did not, yet he is not ready to accept that Megan has moved on with her life.

Megan Asher is a successful attorney who lives and works in Wyattsvile.  She loves her job, her town, her friends, and is still in love with Trevor. Megan’s only condition for any reconciliation with Trevor is that he gets help to deal with his PTSD. She and Trevor are forced to work together for the wedding, and she devises a plan to help Trevor battle his ghosts and guilt, she just needs to give up some of her own control to succeed.

If you are looking for a good story with a well-written hero, then look no farther, you really should add this to your to be read list!

This story contains scenes with light bondage and spanking,  

A Review of The Best Mistake

A fun, erotic novella about mistakes that turn into sexual fantasies of a ménage come to life.  A midnight “Hi, honey, I’m back” quickie stirs up longings in Lacey Billings, and Rick, her boyfriend, Ran’s cousin.   I liked getting to know Lacey. A young woman who gets home after a business trip earlier than expected, taking the initiative to surprise Ran, only to discover it is his cousin, Rick. Unable to forget the event, she confesses the mistake to Ran, omitting some of the finer details.   Ran and Rick are both professionals, more brothers than best friends, cousins who are alike in looks, age, personalities and passions. Ran knows that there is more to the story than what Lacey revealed so he approaches Rick for the missing details.  Willing to laugh it off, he notices a wedge of unease between Rick and Lacey.  Not wanting to jeopardize either relationship, he sets a plan in motion to right things.   


The author is successful at keeping the sexual tension at play throughout the story. She takes you from what is possibly every woman’s fear, and turns it into what some women secretly desire, a love of three.

• ISBN-13: 9781426893087
• Publisher: Carina Press
• Publication date: 1/16/2012
• Sold by: Barnes & Noble
• Format: eBook
• Sales rank: 299,614
• File size: 484 KB