I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. It was hotter than hell here but I managed to stay in a lot in the various places I went so that was good. Father’s Day was nice – my hubby was a homebody but hey, that’s what he wanted. 🙂

DFAT is still going strong! I managed to read 6 DFRAT books last week – woohoo! Go me. lol 

Here is the schedule for all of the blogs involved in the Digital First Read-A-Thon for this week:

Alina Adams Book Binge

Nancy Cassidy  RR@H Novel Thoughts

Charlie Cochrane The Book Reading Gals

HelenKay Dimon Book Binge

Liz Strange RR@H Novel Thoughts

Ruthie Knox Book Binge

Larry Benjamin RR@H Novel Thoughts

Lillian Grant The Book Reading Gals

Mary Hughes Tracy’s Place

Annie Nicholas Book Binge

Eugenia O’Neill Book Binge

Cathy Perkins RR@H Novel Thoughts

Phoebe Conn The Book Reading Gals

Barbara Meyers Tracy’s Place

Thursday, June 21st

Lynne Connelly RR@H Novel Thoughts

Julie Rowe Book Binge

Born of Empire by Simon Brown Giveaway Book Binge

Georgie Lee RR@H Novel Thoughts

Desiree Holt The Book Reading Gals

Kay Keppler Tracy’s Place

Veronica Scott RR@H Novel Thoughts

Renee Wildes The Book Reading Gals

Mari Carr Tracy’s Place

Hope Tarr Book Binge

Jessica Scott Book Binge

Anne Hope The Book Reading Gals

Cathleen Ross Tracy’s Place

A. Catherine Noon and Rachel Wilder Book Binge

Serenity Woods Tracy’s Place

Lots of great authors to read about and lots of giveaways as well!

On to what I read this week:

I started off the week with Tempting by Hope Tarr. This story is Hope’s take on Pygmalion. In this case an aspiring member of Parliament, Simon, finds a woman in the attic of a brothel and ends up taking her home with him and trying to make her speech and dress suitable enough to find her a position as a governess or lady’s maid. Life, of course, doesn’t turn out the way he planned and he ends up falling in love with Christine and all the angst that brings to the story. It was a very good book and one I’d recommend it. 4.25 out of 5 (read for Book Binge)

Next was His Heart’s Obsession by Alex Beecroft. This was the story of Robert who is in love with his shipmate and friend, Hal. Hal, however, is in love with his straight captain, William. Robert professes his love but with Hal so gone over William it’s a battle to prove his feelings for Hal. This was a good m/m story that I very much enjoyed. You can read my full review here. 4 out of 5

Next was About Last Night by Ruthie Knox. This story is about an American woman who is living in England. She is all sewn up and proper as she feels she should be since her life prior to that had been a complete mess – as far as she’s concerned. She meets banker Nev who is much more than what he seems on the surface and learns a whole lot about herself while falling in love with him. It was a really good book – fun and funny and it just hit all the right buttons with me. Definitely worth the read. 4.5 out of 5 (read for Book Binge)

Next up was Black Wolf by Jade Buchanan. This book had Adam, a tabby cat shifter, who left home and is working at a bar when he meets his mate, Marcus – a wolf. He is in trouble with his landlord though who wants to have more from Adam than his money and isn’t afraid to knock him around to make him see his point of view. The story has Marcus and Adam dealing with the situation as well as falling in love. It was very short but pretty darned cute. 3.25 out of 5

After that was the next book in the Wolf Creek series by Jade Buchanan, Duck Fart.. Bailey is a friend of Adam’s (from book 1). He actually followed Adam because he wanted to tell Adam how he felt about him. He’s shocked when he finds Adam mated. He’s confused but horny and ends up going home with a mallard shifter named Drake. Drake is nuts and funny but uses humor as a shield. He is a kinky little thing though and ends up putting a cock cage on Bailey and then can’t find the key. Enter Keith who is a cousin to Marcus (book 1) so he knows about shifter. Keith gets Bailey out of his predicament and the three end up spending the weekend together. There’s a whole lot more going on in this story but I don’t want to tell all. It was very good and I really liked it. 4 out of 5

Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt was next and it was Oh So Good. I’ll post my review for the book later this week.

Next was Somebody Like You by Candis Terry. This is book 3 in The Sugar Shack trilogy and a good one as well. I’ll post this review this week as well so keep your eyes open.

Last on the list was Hearts of Darkness by Kira Brady. I know it doesn’t come out until August but I just couldn’t help myself. This is Kira’s first novel and well worth the read. The story is about dragon shifters who are trying to open a gate to hell so they can take over the world. The Kivati who are shifters who have pledged to protect humans from the dragon shifters (a completely separate shifter race). Kayla goes to Seattle after the death of her sister and finds a world she had no idea existed. She meets wolf shifter Hart and she thinks he’s helping her complete a mission for the Kivati when he’s actually working for his boss the dragon shifter. It’s a story about love and loss and betrayal. It’s written so well and there are so many different intricacies in the story that it just caught me and didn’t let go. I’ll post a review of this one when it gets nearer release time but keep it on your radar. 4.25 out of 5

My Book Binge reviews that posted last week: