#GottaCatchHer #NetGalley

Title: Gotta Catch her
Author: Kelly Haworth & on Twitter
Publish Day: April 29, 2019 -- out now!
Publisher: NineStar Press
Rating: 🥄🥄🥄

Description

The story revolves around Ann, a project manager with a dog and Rachael a store manager (I think?) with a child.
Ann has a crush on Rachael -- after finding one another through Ani-Min -- a game that takes people outside to catch virtual animals.

Ann has to balance work -- which is intense ATM -- and trying to develop a real relationship with Rachael. Can she though?

Review:

What drew me into this was their use of a Pokemon Go game/augmented reality game wrapped into a romance story. That and the love interest is a bisexual woman. The conversations and the real life thrown into the story is there and happens naturally.
While we're seeing Ann in her work environment -- it's often the worse part of the story in my opinion. It talks about things that she's going to have to do..then she has a conversation about what she's going to do. So, we're getting double-dippings of the going ons with her in the job world. I know IRL, that's literally how you have conversations with your co-workers, especially, if you're not interested or close to them.

Her interactions with Rachael and her son are quick glimpses before she's pulled back into her work life. It feels like we're supposed to be reading about the work life and the writing just remembered in spurts that there was also supposed to be romance.

The writing and the interaction with the characters feel more natural and flow better when it's focused on the relationship. Overall, it's a short read -- while the romance is slow to come to the surface and things get moving.. it's good enough read to recommend.


Almost forgot -- Downloaded from Netgalley thanks to the publisher / netgalley -- free eRead in exchange for a truthful review :)

#ShadowOfTheFox #NetGalley

Title: Shadow of the Fox

Author: Julie Kagawa

Publisher: Harlequin TEEN

Publish Day: Oct. 2, 2018

Rating:🥄🥄🥄

Description:

Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be granted. A new age is about to dawn.

Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her life to hide her yokai nature. Half kitsune, half human, her skill with illusion is matched only by her penchant for mischief. Until the day her home is burned to the ground, her adoptive family is brutally slain and she is forced to flee for her life with the temple’s greatest treasure—one part of the ancient scroll.

There are many who would claim the dragon’s wish for their own. Kage Tatsumi, a mysterious samurai of the Shadow Clan, is one such hunter, under orders to retrieve the scroll…at any cost. Fate brings Kage and Yumeko together. With a promise to lead him to the scroll, an uneasy alliance is formed, offering Yumeko her best hope for survival. But he seeks what she has hidden away, and her deception could ultimately tear them both apart.

With an army of demons at her heels and the unlikeliest of allies at her side, Yumeko’s secrets are more than a matter of life or death. They are the key to the fate of the world itself.

Review: This was a good read. Downloaded from Netgalley in exchange for a free review. Apologies for the smallness of this review. I'm dealing with bronchitis AGAIN.

#TheSecretLivesOfRoyals #NetGalley

Title: The Secret Lives of Royals
Author: Shalini Dua
Publish Day: June 12, 2018!

Summary: 
 Olivia can't take it anymore. She's had enough of the big city and it's lack of fulfilling her dreams. Then, just when she's about to give up and move home, out of the blue, she is offered her dream job. Olivia is suspicious but that could just be the New York in her. She decides not to pull at threads. Despite her best efforts to remain blissfully oblivious, the secret to her life upgrade is soon uncovered when she finds herself invited to be part of a secret society. Olivia learns that there is a thin curtain separating our world from theirs. Just beneath the surface, an entirely different one exists. One that is controlled by those of Royal lineage. The chosen ones, the Royals, hold the fate of the world in their hands. Will Olivia be able to bear the weight of the crown? The Devil Wears Prada meets The Adjustment Bureau, this contemporary fairytale is both relatable and aspirational. Taking a look at the current balance of media and power with a healthy dose of humor, fashion, food and wanderlust.

Review:

This book has some harsh reviews on Goodreads. It's an enjoyable read for what it is. There's always room for improvement with the story if she chooses to continue on with it. It says "volume 1" on Amazon so I'm assuming there is going to be more.

From the Amazon page it looks like it'll be available through Kindle Unlimited, too. So there's that :)

#Bloodbound #NetGalley

Title: Blood-Bound
AUTHOR: Kaelan Rhywiol
Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
Release Day: June 11, 2018 -- Today!!!!
Downloaded from: Netgalley in exchange for an honest review
Rating: 4.5/5

Summary:

Rhian is content in her life. As a pwca, a Welsh shapeshifter, she is bound to the Dark God Arawn as an assassin. So when he assigns her as ambassador to oversee Ontario for him, it's a shock. Her new job? To find out who murdered her predecessor and bring them to justice, as well as to oversee the otherkin and clean up their messes before the humans find them—all to preserve the illusion that magic and supernatural creatures do not exist. The problem? One of the otherkin she's supposed to oversee is her estranged husband, Kai, the only person Rhian never regretted having sex with, and the only one she can't forgive.


Review:

The copy I received comes with a content warning. I imagine it's going to be there when it's released. Usually I write the content warnings of books because it's "Oh surprise...there's THAT in this book."

But the warning is: sexually explicit, rough sex/willing partners, reference to tickling as coercion, graphic violence, talk of depression, suicidal ideation and past attempt, panic attack, ableist language as self-ID, allusion to rape, blood letting and exchange, reference to self harm.


The graphic violence starts the story. But it's a good read for a first person POV. I don't usually read many first persons. But this one works. If you are fine with what is in the content warning then I'd recommend. Definitely not a child's read.

This comes out June 11, 2018