Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Your Inescapable Love by Layla Hagen

Your Inescapable Love (The Bennett Family #4)Best friends from 9 to 13, Max Bennett and Emilia Campbell are reunited when Max needs some rehabilitation after a skydiving accident. Emilia works at the prestigious center Max goes to. Seeing each other after all that time, it seems like their feelings have hardly changed. Even though Max is now working for his family's company which his brothers and sister built from the ground up. And Emilia is dealing with her beloved grandmother's Alzheimer's.
Rebuilding their relationship and then turning it into something... more adult, Emilia and Max slide right into love. The ending is a little shaky but it was worth a read.

Three stars
Follows Your Forever Love
Followed by Your Tempting Love
This book came out July 28th, 2016
Book borrowed from library
Opinions are my own

Monday, December 9, 2019

Your Forever Love by Layla Hagen

Your Forever Love (The Bennett Family, #3)Pippa Bennett has been matchmaking her family. But now it's her turn. And, seeing Eric Callahan at her brother's wedding has her agreeing with her sister's assessment of tall, dark, and handsome.
Eric is only in town while he gets a company he took over into shape and his daughter takes a summer  class on designing jewelry. Pippa Bennett is her favorite designer and Julie is delighted to meet her. Pippa is kind to the twelve-year-old. Having her come visit in the afternoons is a delight. An added bonus is getting to spend time with and getting to know Eric a little better. Soon everyone seems to want the two to get together - Eric just has some decisions to make about moving his daughter across the country.
I didn't love the Big Misunderstanding because it seemed a little OTT from Eric but I did like that he and Pippa did end up talking to each other.

Three stars
Follows Your Captivating Love
Followed by Your Inescapable Love
This book came out July28th, 2016
Book borrowed from library
Opinions are my own

Sunday, December 8, 2019

Your Captivating Love by Layla Hagen

Your Captivating Love (The Bennett Family, #2)Logan Bennett knows that his family is conspiring to set him up with his soon-to-be-sister-in-law's best friend, Nadine Hawthorne. And he's not averse. She's a lovely woman.
Nadine is more concerned with getting her shop up and running. But she's not averse to a little fun. It's just too bad that they both seem to be getting invested. And when he steps up to make sure that her shop succeeds, even bringing in his family to help, she starts to hope that forever might be real.
Definitely a fast, fun, and fluffy. Not a lot relationship building, I'm not sure why they're together except the heat but still fun.

Three stars
Follows Your Irresistible Love
Followed by Your Forever Love
This book came out April 12th, 2016
Book borrowed from library
Opinions are my own

Saturday, December 7, 2019

Your Irresistible Love by Layla Hagen

Your Irresistible Love by Layla HagenSebastian Bennett has a strict rule against fraternizing with his employees. It's part of what has made his company so successful- the company he built from the ground up after his parents sold the family ranch. But he succeeded and Bennett Enterprises and their jewelry is well known. He is, in fact, not up for relationships in general. He's seen his parents' marriage work through 9 kids and wants something more like what they have than the empty promises of women after his money.
Ava Lindt doesn't care how rich Sebastian is. And while she is drawn by his looks, the hottest thing about him is how much he cares for his family. She doesn't have those types of ties to hers. Even so, her company has a rigid policy against getting into relationships with clients so her goal is to come in, help set up the marketing for the yearly Bennett Enterprises jewel show and then head on to the next contract. Getting involved with Sebastian is not on the agenda.
But the two end up getting together (all of the Bennetts seem to fall in love rather quickly after Hagen has them think that they don't want to be in a relationship; at least they don't fight it.) The last Big Misunderstanding ended up being a giant setup that was resolved with a little whimper but it was a nice kick off to a new-to-me series.

Three stars
This book came out January 15, 2016
Followed by Your Captivating Love
Audiobook from library
Opinions are my own

Friday, December 6, 2019

Dirty by Kylie Scott

Dirty (Dive Bar, #1)Lydia Green is sent a rather graphic video of her fiance just before the ceremony is supposed to start. So what does a woman, recently moved to the area with no friends or family at the wedding, supposed to do? She does the sensible thing and runs. Wearing the fancy underwear which was supposed to tempt her fiance (ha!) and her wedding dress, she whisks past the flower girl and makes it over the fence in the backyard, through a small window and into the bathroom and shower of the house behind.
Vaughan Hewson doesn't expect to hear any noises coming from his shower when he turns it on and he is even more startled to realize that it's a woman. A now soaked woman who can't stay in her wet wedding dress so she's sitting in his kitchen with great lingerie displaying an amazing rack. He failed at being a rock star but the lifestyle sure taught him how to roll with the punches. Even one this big. And when Lydia's ex-fiance and in-laws try to start blaming her for what happened? Vaughan wades into the fray. Lydia punches her ex? Vaughan knows the deputy and helps back him off.
This is a super fun and fluffy book where the focus is on the couple and even though the relationship and character building is a little shallow, it was still a fun read.

Four stars
This book came out April 19th, 2016
Audiobook borrowed from library
Opinions are my own

Thursday, December 5, 2019

A Clean Sweep by Sara Bourgeois

A Clean Sweep (Wicked Witches of Coventry Book Book 4)A ghost hunting team has come to Coventry. The local witches couldn't tell them not to come so they've hired Brighton to be their official minder. They give it a pretty name but she's going to make $3,000, more if she can get them to leave in a week. Brighton is fine with that but she soon learns that the team knows more about her house than she does. And then one of them ends up dead. She doesn't need this on top of the fact that Thorne is investigating the murder but somehow dodging her calls.
None of the Wicked Witches of Coventry books are very deep and this is no different. If you are looking for a well- or tightly-plotted mystery, this is not going to be the series for you. But fast, fun, and fluffy? Bourgeois has you covered!

Three books
This star came out June 28th, 2019
I got this book from the library
Opinions are my own

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Epic Air Fryer Cookbook by Emily Paster

Epic Air Fryer Cookbook by Emily PasterWith a nice thorough introduction, this book sets up what we'll see in this book. To be honest, I didn't actually make any of the recipes yet but the instructions seemed clear and there were great tips, like using your sense of smell to tell when food was done. Pictures were clear and there were plenty of recipes that had five or fewer ingredients as well as more complicated ones.
I wish there had been page numbers on my ARC because the Index pages don't line up to the ebook pages but I didn't count my rating down because of that.

Four stars
This book come out December 10th
ARC kindly provided by Harvard Common Press and NetGalley
Opinions are my own