Category: Reviews

Review: A Buckhorn Summer – Lori Foster

Review: A Buckhorn Summer – Lori Foster

Sweet, hot, enticing, funny… A Buckhorn Summer is all that and more! On top of that – this little book actually has two stories inside! The second story is Back to Buckhorn, which I really enjoyed as well. My A Buckhorn Summer review: A one-night-stand that shows up in her home-town throws Lisa for a loop! But Gray is on that very same loop, wondering how fate has brought them back together again. Needing a summer away, Lisa goes home to re-evaluate her life, her job, her choices. And ever since that one night spent with a stranger, she can’t get him out of her mind. A Buckhorn Summer shows that sometimes, fate is definitely working for love! Both Gray […]

Posted 25 June, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 16 Comments
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Review: Wasted Lust – J.A. Huss

Review: Wasted Lust – J.A. Huss

*I received a free ARC of Wasted Lust from the author in exchange of an honest and unbiased review* Wasted Lust is such a complex story about redemption, finding oneself, the meaning of life, love, loyalty, friendship and closure. My feels were all over the place! My Wasted Lust review: What can I say, apart from Huss definitely did it again! She got me engrossed in Sasha’s story from the first sentence, and I was practically on the edge of my seat for the duration of Wasted Lust. Complex characters, most of whom I already knew both from the Rook & Ronin series and its spinoffs and from 321, I was so happy to meet Sasha as a woman, and […]

Posted 24 June, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 21 Comments
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Review: Married Lovers – Jackie Collins

Review: Married Lovers – Jackie Collins

Married Lovers is in the same vein as other Collins novels, with intricate characters, lots of Hollywood intrigue and some quite enticing happenings. My Married Lovers review: In between the intrigue and the intricate characters, I did feel that Married Lovers was also a little formulaic. I didn’t mind it too much, but it did cross my mind more than once while I was reading. The cast of characters is pretty dense, and the very different lives they have been leading up until now somehow became pretty tangled up, and the way secrets and the past were dealt with differed for each of them. I think that the fact that there were so many characters being followed, Married Lovers didn’t […]

Posted 23 June, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 8 Comments
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Review: Wicked Ride – Rebecca Zanetti

Review: Wicked Ride – Rebecca Zanetti

A fast-paced story, Wicked Ride has male and female witches, enhanced humans, demons, vampires, shifters… Romance and suspense, too. My Wicked Ride review: A sassy cop and a dark, enigmatic enforcer, Alexandra and Kellach are the main characters in Wicked Ride, the first book in Zanetti’s new series Realm Enforcers. A great introduction to this universe, where humans, witches, vampires, shifters and demons live side by side, but with the humans thinking they’re ‘it’. I loved how Alexandra had so much courage, knew how to fight and was quite ruthless when it came to fighting crime and criminals. Kellach was a force to reckon with, and I really enjoyed his sarcasm and Irish brogue 😉 The overall storyline took me […]

Posted 22 June, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Review: Enemies on Tap – Avery Flynn

Review: Enemies on Tap – Avery Flynn

Enemies on Tap is a fast-paced and fun romance set in a small town, in which the main character doesn’t really feel welcome anymore. Enemies on Tap review – book-chat with Brandee – Buddy-read: Brandee: I couldn’t send you my thoughts as I was reading. (James was kinda laughing…”Kinda hard to do a buddy read when you’re disconnected from the world, huh?”)  Here’s what I thought about Miranda and Logan: I like that Miranda is confident enough in her skills that she’d shoot to revamp her family’s brewery in a bid for a promotion. Lexxie: I agree that Miranda was a pretty kick-ass character on the surface, but I felt like I didn’t really get to know her all that well. […]

Posted 20 June, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 17 Comments
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Review: The Archived – Victoria Schwab

Review: The Archived – Victoria Schwab

The last 40% of The Archived is absolutely fantastic! And the world-building was good from the start, but it took a while for the actual plot to get started. My The Archived review: In a world very different from ours, MacKenzie grows up to be a Keeper, and she is inducted shortly before her grand-father passes away, giving his place in the organization to her. Learning to hear and feel histories from a very young age, she knows a lot that is hidden from most humans, and she has to keep her other life a secret from everyone she knows and loves. While over the first half of The Archived was very slow paced, and I was yearning for something […]

Posted 19 June, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 17 Comments
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Blogtour Review: My Cowboy Promises – Z.A. Maxfield

Blogtour Review: My Cowboy Promises – Z.A. Maxfield

Welcome to my stop on the My Cowboy Promises blogtour, hosted by Enchantress of Books Blogtours. I have my review to share with you, as well as an international giveaway and an excerpt! My Cowboy Promises review: My Cowboy Promises truly showed how difficult it can be to be different in a small town. Firstly because Andi and Ryder got married just after high-school, and then had Jonas. Secondly because their relationship really wasn’t what it seemed like on the surface, and for those watching from the outside. Especially the way they both put Jonas first in every important decision they made had my heart flutter for both of them! Because they were showing the world what it wanted to […]

Posted 18 June, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Blog Tour, Reviews / 10 Comments
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Review: Shakespeare’s Landlord – Charlaine Harris

Review: Shakespeare’s Landlord – Charlaine Harris

Shakespeare’s Landlord is a cozy mystery in a small, sleepy town, where Lily Bard ends up doing just as much detecting as she does cleaning. My Shakespeare’s Landlord review: Lily Bard started off as a pretty mysterious character, doing her martial arts training, cleaning people’s houses, and incidentally seeing something suspicious involving her own garbage cart which led her to finding a dead body. Instead of calling the police straight away, she made sure anything that would put her in the spotlight as a suspect would not be found, but then she called the chief for the body to be found before morning. I enjoyed the mystery part of Shakespeare’s Landlord very much, and the character development was well done, […]

Posted 17 June, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 23 Comments
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Review: Paperweight – Meg Haston

Review: Paperweight – Meg Haston

Paperweight is a heart-breaking realistic fiction story about a girl who decides the best way to control her unravelling life is by either not eating at all, or eating a whole lot before ‘purging’ it all. My Paperweight review: Stevie isn’t only trapped in her own body, she is completely lost in there, and nothing at all makes sense to her anymore, ever since that fateful evening when she was eating fried chicken on the porch while her dad explained that her mom had left them all behind. Paperweight is a harsh story, about how, when Stevie has no control over her life anymore, the only thing she can control is what she ingests. Not eating makes her feel like […]

Posted 16 June, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 19 Comments
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Review: Bad Ex Karma – Donna Cummings

Review: Bad Ex Karma – Donna Cummings

Bad Ex Karma has Cummings’ trademark humor that I love so much, that, and the female friendships, the love of wine, and the hot male lead all made it a spectacular read! My Bad Ex Karma review: The beginning of Bad Ex Karma was both sad and very emotional, because Bradley actually broke up with Delia at the restaurant where he had taken her to celebrate their five years anniversary! What a douche, right? He had even taken her quite far from home so she couldn’t just stomp out of there and leave him to his own devices. She did manage to buckle up and order the most expensive wine on the menu, though, along with a side of lobster. […]

Posted 15 June, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 25 Comments
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