Genre: Romance

Review: What the Bride didn’t Know – Kelly Hunter

Review: What the Bride didn’t Know – Kelly Hunter

*I received a free ARC of What the Bride didn’t Know from Harlequin KISS via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* What the Bride didn’t Know is a sweet and action-filled contemporary romance novel. There is the friends-to-lovers part that I love so much, and Lena, the heroine, also loses her memory for a while, making assumptions that takes both her and Trig towards some fun situations. After Lena was shot, her whole life changed, and she is not happy about not being able to do all the things she used to do. She is bitter and very demanding of her friends and family, but she is also extremely hard on herself. At the very start of What the […]

Posted 20 December, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 15 Comments
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Review: The Professional: Part One (The Game Maker #1) – Kresley Cole

Review: The Professional: Part One (The Game Maker #1) – Kresley Cole

*I received a free ARC of The Professional from Pocket Star via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* The Professional is a scorching hot short story about Natalie, who has been searching for her biological parents with the help of a private investigator in Russia for the past few years, without letting her adoptive mother know about it at all. A PhD student with several jobs to make ends meet, Natalie is a pretty serious girl, until that one night in a bar, where a dangerous-looking man comes in and sits down not far from her. For the first time ever, her manalyzer isn’t working the way it usually does, and she walks up to him to say hello. […]

Posted 18 December, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 19 Comments
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Review: Close to You (Downside Ghosts #5.5) – Stacia Kane

Review: Close to You (Downside Ghosts #5.5) – Stacia Kane

*I received a free ARC of Close to You from St. Martin’s Press via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Close to You is a short story, filled with both action and romance, and of course, I got my long-awaited Chess and Terrible fix! I am always happy when I get to spend a little time with my favorite UF couple. There is always so much happening around those two! And even in this very short story, a lot of things happen that they have to deal with very quickly. The Downside speak in Close to You is just as well done as it is in all of the books in this series, and I can always both ‘see’ […]

Posted 17 December, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 25 Comments
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Review: Last Chance Proposal – Barbara De Leo

Review: Last Chance Proposal – Barbara De Leo

*I received a free ARC of Last Chance Proposal from Entangled Publishing via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Last Chance Proposal is the perfect holiday romance – it starts with a fake relationship to help Cy win a custody case against his son’s grand-parents, and he thinks the best way to do that is to marry his childhood sweetheart Ellie. It doesn’t really matter to Cy that he and Ellie haven’t seen each other in ten years, and that Cy didn’t exactly leave her on the best of terms. I love stories where a couple meet again after they have both matured and changed a little, and in this one, there are more obstacles in the beginning than […]

Posted 16 December, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 12 Comments
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Tangling with the CEO – Annie Seaton

Tangling with the CEO – Annie Seaton

*I received a free ARC of Tangling with the CEO from Entagled Publishing via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Tangling with the CEO is a fun, quick read full of romance and some situations that are pretty unreal. From the first time Ana and Blake meet again, their chemistry is palpable, and it’s obvious that they have unfinished business. However, instead of telling Blake about her business proposition, Ana gets stuck helping Blake care for his five nieces and nephews for the weekend, while Blake tells her he’s upset because a business appointment fell through. Filled with both chemistry and fun moments, Tangling with the CEO is also a truly tangled story! Blake and Ana both have their […]

Posted 12 December, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 14 Comments
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Review: These Broken Stars (Starbound #1) – Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Review: These Broken Stars (Starbound #1) – Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

*I received a free ARC of These Broken Stars from Disney Hyperion via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* These Broken Stars is a beautifully written young adult novel set in a more or less distant future, when space travel is quite common, and several planets are colonized, but there is still war and those who hold power want to hold on to that. Many things seem very different from the way we live now, but at the core, human beings are still the same, with their hopes and dreams. They still love and hate, fear and show courage. The differences are in the science and the way people can travel. Tarver is on the Icarus only because he […]

Posted 2 December, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 33 Comments
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Review: Playing Dirty (Stargazer #2) – Jennifer Echols

Review: Playing Dirty (Stargazer #2) – Jennifer Echols

*I received a free ARC of Playing Dirty from Pocket Books via Edelweiss in exchange of an honest review* Playing Dirty is a truly fun book to read! I couldn’t put it down and stayed up until 3 am so I could learn everything about Sarah, Quintin and the others. Intricate relationships, country stars who aren’t exactly the way the portray themselves to the public. The characters are fun and realistic, the storyline is captivating, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself all the way. I thought the band members were very clever in Playing Dirty, because that’s exactly what they are doing! And Sarah is playing dirty as well. Everybody wants to look out for themselves in the beginning, and it […]

Posted 22 November, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 11 Comments
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Review: Gone Wild – Ever Cormick

Review: Gone Wild – Ever Cormick

*I received a free ARC of Gone Wild from Barefoot Publishing via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Gone Wild has a lot more to do with living with nature than it has to do with a girl who kind of acts more wild than usual – despite the cover that shows a lot of skin and wet white clothes… The story is not bad, but I didn’t really get completely drawn into it, either. I can’t really put my finger on why, though, because even if Ina and Adam were both good characters they didn’t make me need to continue reading. Ina goes to a secluded mountain cottage to find herself and figure out what to do with […]

Posted 21 November, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 9 Comments
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Review: Four Seconds to Lose (Ten Tiny Breaths #3) – K.A. Tucker

Review: Four Seconds to Lose (Ten Tiny Breaths #3) – K.A. Tucker

Four Seconds to Lose is just as emotional as Ten Tiny Breaths and One Tiny Lie! I already loved Cain, but getting to know him better was a true pleasure. I have to admit that Charlie is a really great character as well, she’s the perfect mix of innocent and saucy, and it was great to see how she could unbalance Cain with just a wink. There is a very dark undertone to Four Seconds to Lose, but that is to be expected in this series, right? Nothing is ever easy for the main characters, nor for their friends. There are several sightings of characters you have met before if you are familiar with this series, Storm, Dan, Ginger, China… […]

Posted 14 November, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 9 Comments
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Review: Finding Cinderella (Hopeless #2.5) – Colleen Hoover

Review: Finding Cinderella (Hopeless #2.5) – Colleen Hoover

Finding Cinderella is a novella in the Hopeless series, and as usual, I just love Ms. Hoover’s writing! Daniel is shown in a very different light in Finding Cinderella, he is much more than the best friend with the big mouth and the stupid nick-names here. It was also very nice to get to know Six better. And I really enjoyed seeing this more fragile side to her, since the little we see of her in Hopeless doesn’t really help the readers understand her very well. As usual, the writing is just beautiful, and I thought it was all going to be taking me to a wonderfully happy place, until *BAM* something is revealed that just might change everything. And […]

Posted 13 November, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 12 Comments
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