Hey there!

Hope you all had a nice weekend.  Mine was…interesting. Let me explain.  My youngest joined a tumbling class at a dance studio about 6 months ago.  The studio is right next to her Taekwondo studio so it’s convenient.  Anyway, never in a million years would I have imagined a tumbling class going to a dance competition but yet, there I was on Saturday doing dance make-up (OMG you should have seen me, I had no effin clue what I was doing!) and getting her to the comp in Pasadena.  They did really well and got 1st platinum in their category but what a day!  I was exhausted by the time we got home and just the thought of doing another one this next Saturday (which we have to do!) is making me shudder.  lol  Of course my little one loved it. 🙂  Here she is when we first got to the competition and then with one of her best friends with the trophy.  There are about 15 girls in the group and I wish I could have taken pictures and video but they didn’t allow it and I was being good so I conformed. 🙂  Hopefully I’ll be able to this next weekend.

I have no idea why this pic looks so distorted.  It doesn’t look that way in my photo editor so IDK.  Whatever. lol

Yesterday was just a cleaning and recovery day with a nasty ass migraine.  I’ve still got it and am home today.  Staring at this screen isn’t doing me any favors but I needed to get this done.  I also completely skimped on the post last week so I can’t do that again! lol

On to what I read:

I started off the week with Tessa Dare’s Any Duchess Will Do.  I absolutely loved this book.  It had a man agreeing to his mother’s scheme to turn anyone he picks from Spindle Cove into a duchess – his duchess.  He doesn’t want to get married so picks the serving girl, Pauline, from the Bull and Blossom. She only agrees to go with him for a week and only cuz he’s paying her $1,000.00 pounds to screw up and thwart his mother’s plans.  They didn’t plan on falling in love.  The book was lovely and I’m truly loving this series.  I’ll post my review for this one this week. 4.75 out of 5

My next read was a very short book called Claiming Lauren by Emily Ryan-Davis.  The book showed us a wife of 5 years who lived in the states while her hubby lived in Europe.  The marriage was in name only.  She had been having an internet relationship with a guy for 2 years and she was finally going to go meet him and get her BDSM on for the first time.  The hubby shows up after she gets home and suddenly wants a relationship.  There was more to the relationship with the hubby that I can’t say without spoilers but the book was odd.  We never got any back story as to why the marriage was in name only – why the hubby had virtually ignored his wife for 5 years – how they came to be married in the first place.  The sex was well written but the lack of any depth to the story really turned me off of this one. 2 out of 5

Next up was The Temporary Wife by Jeannie Moon.  The story is about a couple who dies and leaves their daughter to the wife’s best friend to keep her away from the wife’s parents who weren’t parents at all and are mean and vindictive.  The parent’s try to get their granddaughter away from the best friend but their son steps in to help the best friend out – just temporarily.  The story was very cute and I enjoyed the book.  I’ll post my review for this one this week as well. 3.5 out of 5

It Had To Be You by Jill Shalvis is the next book in the Lucky Harbor series and it was really good.  The story is about a girl who’s down and out and is helped by a vacationing copy who is in Lucky Harbor for some quiet time.  He doesn’t exactly get it. I’ll post my review for this story next week.  4 out of 5

Next up was Remembering Love by Nadine Christian which is a story about a woman who finds out that her parents lived on a remote island and that her father killed her mother and then himself when she was 5.  The girl goes back to try and find answers and meets up with her childhood friend.  I really liked a lot about this story but there were some issues I had with it as well. 3.5 out of 5 (read for Book Binge)

Masks by Evangaline Anderson is the story about a girl who’s twin asks her to take her place with a client cuz she hurt her ankle.  Chloe had no idea that her twin is a dominatrix and fails miserably at the job.  The “client” ends up taking over and Chloe has the best night of her life – until she finds out some truths about the client and her sister.  This was a very cute story and pretty hot as well.  Anderson always is good at the erotic, that’s for sure.  3 out of 5

Last for the week was Knight Errant by KD Sarge.  This is a sci-fi/space opera about a 15/16 year old brother of a spaceship captain.  He is all about pleasing his sister but this means hiding the fact that he’s gay as well as other things.  She wants him to go to college – he doesn’t want to.  She wants him to be the captain of his own ship – he doesn’t want to.  He tells her none of this…until he meets Rafe Ballard who is a joy-boy, and falls in love with him.  Taro has to come clean about a lot of things, but not before he and Rafe get into a boat load of trouble.  I’ve had this one for quite a while and for some reason never read it.  It was really good and I definitely recommend it. 4.5 out of 5

My Book Binge reviews that posted last week:
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Happy Reading!