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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

March Take Control Of Your TBR Pile Challenge | Sign Up Post

The Take Control of Your TBR Pile Challenge is hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer! For the entire month of March you focus on reading/listening to books in your TBR pile released before March 1, 2016. They can be eBooks, physical books or audiobooks. Let’s clean off those shelves, finish those series and trilogies and have some fun.







When it comes to my TBR list, I need all the help I can get. So when I saw sign ups for the Take Control of Your TBR Pile Challenge were open, I knew I had to sign up.

I'm not going to post a TBR for this challenge, because I don't post TBRs for reading challenges, but you can see my TBR List for books I have to choose from.

I plan on posting weekly update posts every Saturday in March and I'll be posting all my links and updates to THIS PAGE!

Click the event button to sign up for the challenge!

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

#ContRom2016 | Ten Most Anticipated Romances for the First Half of 2016

The Contemporary Romance Reading Challenge is hosted by Gone With the Words and Love at First Page! The goal is to read as many Contemporary Romance books as you’d like. See the different levels below and pick the one that works best for you. You can move up a level as often as you’d like but no moving down. Remember, the idea is to challenge yourself. 

I'm starting out at the 2nd Base Level of 6-10 books and possibly moving up levels depending on how much contemporary romance I read this year.

January's Monthly Topic is the ten contemporary romances we are most anticipating in the first half of 2016. Check out my list down below!









There you have it! What contemporary romances are you looking forward to in the first half of 2016? Do we share any on our lists?

Monday, November 23, 2015

3 Star Book Review | Taken by Love by Sharon Kleve

TAKEN BY LOVE (Taken #1)
by Sharon Kleve
Published: March 18th, 2015
Genres: Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Suspense
Provided by Author for Review, also provided via NetGalley
Purchase: Amazon
Arden Jones is a DEA agent and has seen and done it all. His transfer to a desk job is finally in reach. But, when his good friend is brutally murdered he must go after the cartel one more time while protecting the ones he loves.

Lucy Farris arranges flowers for a living, lives in a quaint house in the outskirts of Seattle, and has two adorable Siamese cats. The last thing she expects is to be kidnapped and used as bait to by the cartel to hunt the man she loves.


Arden Jones is a DEA Agent who is called in to help in the attack to take down a major Mexican cartel. The attack was a success, but there were survivors. Arden finds an SD card on his bed that contains photos of not only him but intimate picture of him with his girlfriend Lucy. With her now in danger, Arden takes drastic measures to protect her. But his enemies don't give up easily and Lucy will have to find her own inner strength to make it back to Arden.

In Taken by Love, Arden's work comes home with him and puts his girlfriend's life in danger. Lucy is a mild mannered woman who works in a flower shop. She worries a lot about Arden when he's out in the field, sometimes gone for days. Arden tries everything he can to protect her from the threat against her, but his enemies still manage to take her. I loved how this seemingly meek and fragile woman found the strength she needed to escape, even though she was scared out of her mind. This book shows the dangers that the loved ones of any law enforcement officer can end up facing. But I especially loved the romance between them. Most of the book is about Lucy's capture and escape, but the moments that Arden and Lucy do get are really sweet. I kind of wish that this book had been a longer full length novel. I would have loved to see some of the scenes more drawn out because there were times when I thought that the story progressed too fast. I'm hoping that the next book will be Ava and Tom's story. I'd love to know more about them.


Author Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads

Sharon Kleve was born and raised in Washington and currently lives on the Olympic Peninsula with her husband.

Sharon is a multi-published author of paranormal and contemporary romance.

She loves romance. She loves reading romance, living romance, and especially loves writing about romance. Sharon gets no greater feeling than watching her characters come alive in each other's arms. Most of all, she loves giving her characters the happily ever after they deserve—with a few bumps and bruises along the way.

One of her favorite things to do is pick-up a new book and sinking into the story, immersing herself in the emotions between the characters. She hopes to inspire her readers the same way her favorite authors inspired her.

When not writing, she can usually be found either curled up in her recliner with her cat and a good book, or in the kitchen baking sourdough bread or bagels.



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