Tag: Holly’s Reviews

Lightning Review: Stay with Me by Elyssa Patrick

Lightning Review: Stay with Me by Elyssa Patrick

I didn’t connect with the heroine of this book or enough of the story. I enjoyed the hero and the college setting, but the rest of the details were too hazy to pull me in. Hailey was a child star who just retired to go to school, but there’s no press or fangirling going on? […]

Review: Archangel’s Legion by Nalini Singh

Review: Archangel’s Legion by Nalini Singh

I started Archangel’s Legion around midnight, thinking I’d read a couple chapters before bed. At 4am I finished it with gritty eyes and adrenaline pumping through my veins. In book six, Singh returns to continue the archangel saga from Elena’s point of view. She and Raphael are trying to deal with his mother’s return, the […]

Review: Unleashing Mr. Darcy by Teri Wilson

Review: Unleashing Mr. Darcy by Teri Wilson

This is a modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, set against the backdrop of the dog breeding world. I admit I have some experience with this as a family member is a dog breeder who shows her dogs for championships. I also admit it isn’t something I’m very interested in. Elizabeth drove me crazy. She […]

Lightning Review: (Never)Again by Theresa Paolo

Lightning Review: (Never)Again by Theresa Paolo

When a story is told in first person I really need to engage with the narrator for it to work for me. Sadly, I didn’t connect with this narrator at all, which kind of killed the story for me. Though I enjoyed the basic premise – high school sweetheart turns up at college and wants […]

Review: Finding It by Cora Carmack

Review: Finding It by Cora Carmack

Kelsey is a spoiled rich girl who is traveling Europe to “find herself” (read: party and try to forget her problems) before looking for a year after college, on her parents dime. She figures if she drinks enough she can drown out her problems, most especially her apathy toward becoming and adult and her sadness […]