*REVIEW* Victory Run 3 (The Story Of Victory Payne #3) by Devon Hartford

Reviewer: Donna 

Rating: 5 Stars

Victory Run 3 is by far my favourite book out of the series and i really do love the way the books continue on and even the chapters do that too. 

Victory is a very complicated women at times and in this book, she seems to be more complicated as the story progresses. She doesn't seem to know where she wants to take her music, what she wants to do with the attraction with Kellan and i feel really sorry for her as not a lot of things go right for her at all. Sometimes i couldn't help by groan or laugh with the amount of situations that occur and she always has to find a solution if there is one. In Victory Run 3 we finally get to understand more about Victory and why she doesn't ever want to sing again. I found that to be quite an emotional part of the book and i love the deeper understanding we get about Victory. There isn't many emotional parts to this series but this one was definitely a really good one and it gave Victory as a character, more depth. There were a few funny moments in Victory Run 3 which were fantastic and the things Victory does to perform are hilarious!

A really fabulous ending to this series and definitely would love to find out more about Victory and Kellan's futures together and as musicians.

CONTENT WARNING: Due to sexual situations and strong language, this novel may not be appropriate for readers under 18. 

There’s only one rule in Rock & Roll: Don’t sleep with anyone in the band. 

Victory Payne is the hottest lead guitar player on the night club scene of Hollywood’s infamous Sunset Strip. With nothing but her car and her guitar, she’s ready to claw her way to success. Victory never gives up. 

Then she breaks rock’s cardinal rule. She falls in love with her lead singer, the gorgeous and brooding Scott Walker. That is mistake number one. 

Mistake number two is a roadblock named Kellan Burns. Kellan is primed to claim the title of hottest lead guitar player in Los Angeles with his rugged good looks and his own guitar slung as low as his tight jeans. Kellan isn’t the kind of guy to let some upstart babe with a six string stand in his way. 

Victory Payne, meet Kellan Burns. 
BOOM. 
Ladies, you will need a fire extinguisher for this one.

    

*REVIEW* Victory Run 2 (The Story Of Victory Payne #2) by Devon Hartford

Reviewer: Donna 

Rating: 4 Stars

I really loved Victory Run 2 from start to finish. I loved that it continued on from Victor Run 1 and the story is really good and full of drama. I feel so sorry for Victory because so many things go wrong for her and living out of her car after being kicked out of her band. Victory Run 1 was slow to get started but this book was pure class. Loved the whole thing from start to finish and i can not wait for Victory Run 3. I have to find out what happens next. See, i told you it's left me wanting more! Victory is an awesome character and i love how talented she is even though her life isn't going quite to plan. Kellan is a confusing guy and i'm not quite sure what is happening with him or his friendship/relationship is with Victory. It's kept me guessing for sure. 

Brilliant Second book, now bring on Victory Run 3!!

CONTENT WARNING: Due to sexual situations and strong language, this novel may not be appropriate for readers under 18. 

There’s only one rule in Rock & Roll: Don’t sleep with anyone in the band. 

Victory Payne is the hottest lead guitar player on the night club scene of Hollywood’s infamous Sunset Strip. With nothing but her car and her guitar, she’s ready to claw her way to success. Victory never gives up. 

Then she breaks rock’s cardinal rule. She falls in love with her lead singer, the gorgeous and brooding Scott Walker. That is mistake number one. 

Mistake number two is a roadblock named Kellan Burns. Kellan is primed to claim the title of hottest lead guitar player in Los Angeles with his rugged good looks and his own guitar slung as low as his tight jeans. Kellan isn’t the kind of guy to let some upstart babe with a six string stand in his way. 

Victory Payne, meet Kellan Burns. 
BOOM. 
Ladies, you will need a fire extinguisher for this one.

*REVIEW* Victory Run 1 (The Story Of Victory Payne #1) by Devon Hartford

Reviewer: Donna

Rating: 4 Stars

I really enjoyed reading Victory Run 1. It did take a while for the story to progress but once it did, it's was fantastic!

Kellan is a really great character but what an arrogant guy he can be! Kellan and Victory's chemistry is electric from the first time they meet and the sexual tension is HOT! I really intrigued to see what happens between these two in Victory Run 2. Kellan is such a player so i can only see heartbreak for Victory. Maybe i will be wrong? I can't believe how easily her band, Skin Trade turned on her and kicked her out. Scott, the lead singer and her boyfriend seems like such a jerk, i'm hoping Victory shows them what she's got and proves to them she doesn't need them. 

I never read and rock and roll story quite like this but it grabbed my interest from the beginning. Like i said before, it took a while for the story to progress and especially for Kellan and Victory to meet or maybe i was enjoying it too much i didn't want it to end! It did seem too short and i was just beginning to settle in to the story. Bring on Victory Run 2!!

There's only one rule in Rock & Roll: Don't sleep with anyone in the band. 

Victory Payne is the hottest lead guitar player on the night club scene of Hollywood's infamous Sunset Strip. With nothing but her car and her guitar, she's ready to claw her way to success. Victory never gives up.



Then she breaks rock's cardinal rule. She falls in love with her lead singer, the gorgeous and brooding Scott Walker. That is mistake number one.



Mistake number two is a roadblock named Kellan Burns. Kellan is primed to claim the title of hottest lead guitar player in Los Angeles with his rugged good looks and his own guitar slung as low as his tight jeans. Kellan isn't the kind of guy to let some upstart babe with a six string stand in his way.



Victory Payne, meet Kellan Burns.

BOOM.

Ladies, you will need a fire extinguisher for this one.

*REVIEW* Business As Usual (Off The Subject #3) by Denise Grover Swank

Reviewer: Donna

Rating: 3.5 Stars

I was slighted disappointed with the last book in the Off The Subject trilogy. Business As Usual is based around Alexa, she is Reeds sister who we find out about in redesigned, book 2. She was raped by a guy who was obsessed with her and because he came from money, he got off with it. Reed and Alexa moved away and changed their last names so they could hide and put Alexa's traumatic situation behind them. In Business As Usual she meets Ben. Ben has to work three jobs to pay his way through college when his scholarship was taken away from him all because of his ex girlfriend. After dumping his ex, she said that he raped her which landed his in a cell for a week until the charges were dropped. The problem is that Ben has to live with people whispering and speculating about whether he actually did it or not. Even his family wasn't on his side so now he has to try and put it in the past and move on. Ben and Alexa meet at the bar Ben works at and sparks fly between them.They are loads of secrets on both sides when they meet and when Ben finds out that Alexa was raped, he believes that she won't want anything to so with him.

There relationship is very unusual and even their first meeting is based on a lie. I really wanted to enjoy it more but it was lacking in drama for me and i didn't feel like it had the same pull as the first two books. I still read it and found it enjoyable but it didn't give me the same feeling as the first two.

Lexi Pendergraft has given up on finding love after a disastrous encounter with her last boyfriend. Instead, she focuses on two things: One, setting up a summer program for underprivileged middle-school aged students. And the second, getting to the bottom of her brother Reed’s recent strange behavior. His secret is destroying his relationship with his fiancée Caroline, and Lexi will do anything to help him save it. Especially after he gave up his dream to give Lexi a chance at a semi-normal college experience, something her parents threatened to steal from her after her rape a year ago. 

Ben Masterson is determined to make it through his final semester of his senior year at Southern University. After recently losing his full ride scholarship, he’s suffering from sleep deprivation while trying to keep up with his mechanical engineering courses and working three part time jobs. He thinks he’s lucked out getting a job in the university math lab. The only problem is his boss—Reed Pendergraft. 

As part of a role in a community theater play, Lexi wears a black wig and feels a confidence she hasn’t experienced in over a year. When she wears it to a bar close to the theater, she doesn’t think Ben, a bartender there, recognizes her. While Ben’s intrigued about what she’s up to, he’s smart enough to stay far away from his overprotective boss’s sister Until fate forces him to help her, but why won’t she tell him her real identity? 

**SALE BLITZ** His Desire by Sheila Kell

 

Title: HIS Desire

Series: H.I.S. Book One

Author: Sheila Kell

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Can Jesse Hamilton, the head of H.I.S., protect his client when his past and his heart have put them both in jeopardy?

When FBI Special Agent Kate Ross is injured in a drive-by shooting, Hamilton Investigation and Security, Inc. (H.I.S.) leader Jesse Hamilton, believing she is the target of a killer seeking revenge against him, pulls the full force of H.I.S. into action to protect her.

Kate doesn’t believe Jesse, the only man to make her seethe one minute and lust after him the next, when he approaches her with a note from the Facilitator stating someone he loved would die shortly, and he knows in his gut it’s Kate. After a second attempt on her life, she can no longer fight his protection or her attraction to him.

After making a mistake that cost his wife her life, Jesse vowed to never love again, but Kate stirs something in him that puts his protective instincts into overdrive. Keeping her alive and out of his heart is more difficult than he expected. Then he makes a decision that could cost Kate her life. Is history due to repeat itself?

*REVIEW* Redesigned (Off The Subject #2) by Denise Grover Swank

Reviewer: Donna

Rating: 4 Stars

I'm really enjoying the Off The Subject series and the story lines are really good and very enjoyable.

This centres on Caroline and Reed. Caroline is friends with Scarlett, from book 1. She's a fashion design student at Southern University and her background was a very poor when she lived with her parents but she decided she could make something of herself. She has this thought process that she believes she has to have a high society husband who can provide for her and the family she wants to eventually have. She never thought she would have a strong attraction to a maths nerd like Reed. Reed asks her out at a party but she turns him down because he's not from a rich society and she even tells him that!! 

They seem to have a love, hate relationship and at time i never believed they were going to be together. This book is packed full of drama from the start and there are alot of secrets revealed throughout the book that's kept me gripped. Characters were both fantastic even though Caroline seemed so stuck up at times and i just wanted to strangle her for some of things she said to Reed. Great read and looking forward to reading Business As Usual book 3 which centres on Reed's sister, Lexi.

While fashion design major Caroline Hunter may have been born economically unlucky, in college, she’s been lucky in love. Until her senior year at Southern University. She’s gone from a serious long term boyfriend to a string of crappy dates. 

Then she meets mathematics grad student Reed Pendergraft. 

Reed is everything she’s not looking for. Serious. Headed for a low paying university job. Boring. Caroline spent the first eighteen years of her life wondering where her next meal was coming from. She sure wasn’t getting trapped in that life again with a man living on a professor’s salary. 

An encounter with Reed in a club proves she might have pegged him wrong. He brings out a lusty side she never knew she had. But just when she’s about to give in to her hormones, Reed makes a fool out of her. 

When she shows up for the first committee meeting for Southern University’s Fall fashion show, a fundraiser for underprivileged kids, Caroline’s horrified to discover the insufferable Reed is the committee chairman. While she refuses to tolerate his totalitarian rule of the committee, she’s not sure she’ll survive the month with her heart—and her pride—intact. Just when she thinks she has everything figured out, she finds that her entire life has been redesigned, thanks to Reed Pendergraft. 

**COVER REVEAL** Prisoner of Poseidon (Villian's Love Series #2) by Mary Bernsen

Title: Prisoner of Poseidon (Villain's Love Series #2)

Author: Mary Bernsen

Genre: Fantasy Romance

Publication Date: February 9, 2015

Tour Host: Dreams Come True Promotions

Ursula knew no other life than one as a slave. Could the gentle touch of a stranger be enough to convince her there is more?

Sold to Poseidon at the age of seventeen, Ursula spent the next four years serving as his submissive concubine. She loves him with a fierce loyalty, but she dared to defy her king for the first time by refusing to kill a spirited young girl when he ordered it. Now, she must find the escaped trespasser and return her to Atlantis or lose her own head.

In Greece she finds Hercules, the missing girl's former employer. He introduces Ursula to a world of new experiences and freedoms that she has never before known. Though thrilling and intoxicating, her new lifestyle could only be temporary. She must finish her quest and return to her master before she finds herself addicted to this new, softer love of a stranger.

Mary Bernsen is a southwest Florida native currently living in Punta Gorda with her two beautiful children and a third, much larger child that she affectionately calls husband. She is an Amazon Best Selling Author of The Roman Mongrel, Healing The Bayou, and Villain's Love Series. She spends her days creating characters on the good side of twenty-five because she is in serious denial about the fact that she is now on the bad side of it.

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