Review: Raw By Belle Aurora

Synopsis

***Author Note: This is not a love story. This is a story of love gone wrong.***

Growing up the way I did, you’d think I’d be more screwed up than what I actually am.
Soon as I turned sixteen, I left that bump in the road I called home and took my chances on the street.
Best decision I ever made.
Now, at the age of twenty six, I’m educated, employed and damn good at my job.
My friends have become my family. Like me, they know what it’s like to grow up unloved.
But the saying is true.
The world makes way for those who know where they are going.
That’s me.
I know where I’m going and I’ll get there eventually. On my own terms and at my own pace.
But then there’s him.
I feel his eyes on me. I see him hiding in plain sight. He watches me.
He makes me feel.
It’s unconventional.
But it’s real.
I’m sure you’re wondering how a person falls in love with their stalker.
So am I.
This isn’t a story.
This is my life

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My Review

5 TWISTED, DAMAGED, ADDICTIVE STARS!!

This is how it began..

JUST DROPPED EVERYTHING..hellooo book *strokes phone* I have been waiting a long time for you (weird evil accent is being used) *kissy faces*

This is how it ended..

YOU BROKE ME BELLE! I kind of hate you right now but I still love ya!

when I saw ***Author Note: This is not a love story. This is a story of love gone wrong.*** my brain was like hah! its lies don't believe it, things always work out in Belle's books.right? RIGHT? ..oh hell no coz I was sooo wrong! Stupid little voice in my head trying to get me killed but I'm so glad I read this book because omg it's brilliant!

I usually stick to my happily ever afters, like come on don't we have enough bad shit in real life, why read about sad things huh? But then I have them days where I pick up a book and say break my heart baby..okay I don't really..I don't talk to books..pfft nah that ain't me..

But yeah sometimes you read a book that breaks your heart, turns you into an emotional mess and leaves you thinking about it for Months and years days later and having the whole story flash in your mind and it haunts you all over again.

You’re nobody ‘til somebody loves you.

This isn't your normal love story, it won't leave you with bubbles of happiness and rainbows..nah it will crush you, haunt you, stalk you ;)

Right from the start the story gripped me and it never let me go.I finished this book all in one day as I couldn't stop reading it, even though at times I was confused, hurt angry and so many other emotions that I can't even name.

Addiction:-

The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something.

Synonyms: dependency, dependence, craving, habit, weakness, compulsion, fixation, enslavement

This is a story of an addict, of abuse, of hope, of destruction.

This is a story of two people being link by hurt, two people desperate to fill the void in their lives.

“We’re all addicted to something that takes away the pain.”

The characters are damaged both Lexi and Twitch have had a tough life.Their relationship is dysfunctional, colossal mess of hurt, love,lust, anger and yet there is so much more to it. Twitch..Oh Twitch my heart ached for him, for what he went through. I wanted to reach into the book and give him a big hug and make him feel loved because that's what he needed, what he lived without for too long. But then there were times I wanted to punch him in the face and scream at him for not being open, for not communicating, for being so damn hard to read!!

“Monsters don't always lurk in the shadows. Sometimes they hide in plain sight.”

Lexi was a strong character, I really liked her even though I sometimes felt like omg why would you let him do that? Twitch became her weakness and in a way he was as much of her addiction as she was his.Being a victim of abuse, that will always stay with you no matter how old you get, no matter what happens. You can either live life thinking about it daily and being bitter about it or you can make something of yourself.You can rise above it.You can change and give someone the hope and help you never got. Lexi fell into the right side where as Twitch fell into the bad..but who are we to put people into boxes? Life is full of choices and this story shows you how your choices bring consequences sometimes good and sometimes bad.

Twitch isn't a hero.Twitch needs help. He won't save you if he is here to punish you.

First book of 2014 and Oh yes it started with a bang!

“What’s your name?” 

“Doesn’t matter. You’ll forget it once I’m gone.” 

“No, I won’t.” 

“I’m Twitch.

*ARC provided by thee awesome author for an honest review*

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Buy Links

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B&N:  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-belle-aurora/1117927109?ean=2940148861119&itm=1&usri=2940148861119

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Author Bio

Belle Aurora is twenty six years old and was born in the land down under.  At an early age she fell in love with reading. Boredom one summer had her scouring the bookshelves at home. She stumbled across Sandra Brown’s Breath of Scandal and fell in love with romance. Having been brought up in a loud and boisterous family of Croatian descent, she developed a natural love for dramatics and humor. Only some years ago had she discovered a new love.  Humorous romance novels. Kristen Ashley and R.L. Mathewson had opened a brand new world where she could lose herself yet feel safe and at home in their stories. Belle has been known to become a screeching banshee while anxiously awaiting their newest titles. Belle never thought she would write. It had never interested her until recently. Friend-Zoned began to form and in February this year Belle typed the words Chapter One. And she fell in love. With words. With writing. With a creative imagination she never knew she harbored.

Connect with Belle

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/BelleAurora1

You can find teasers of Belle's books here -https://www.goodreads.com/story/list/18164357

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Review: Tears of Tess (Tears of Tess #1) By Pepper Winters

Synopsis

A New Adult Dark Contemporary Romance, not suitable for people sensitive to grief, slavery, and nonconsensual sex. A story about finding love in the strangest of places, a will of iron that grows from necessity, and forgiveness that may not be enough.


“My life was complete. Happy, content, everything neat and perfect.
Then it all changed.
I was sold.”


Tess Snow has everything she ever wanted: one more semester before a career in property development, a loving boyfriend, and a future dazzling bright with possibility. 

For their two year anniversary, Brax surprises Tess with a romantic trip to Mexico. Sandy beaches, delicious cocktails, and soul-connecting sex set the mood for a wonderful holiday. With a full heart, and looking forward to a passion filled week, Tess is on top of the world.

But lusty paradise is shattered.

Kidnapped. Drugged. Stolen. Tess is forced into a world full of darkness and terror. 

Captive and alone with no savior, no lover, no faith, no future, Tess evolves from terrified girl to fierce fighter. But no matter her strength, it can’t save her from the horror of being sold.

Can Brax find Tess before she’s broken and ruined, or will Tess’s new owner change her life forever?

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My Review

4 What.The.Bloody.Fuck, Disturbing, Sparrow loving star!!

What would you do if you were taken?

Made to become a slave?

Would you submit and become numb to it all?

Or would you fight to survive?

This is a great debut novel for Pepper Winters! Bravo!

This is an incredible painful,broken story based around human trafficking, pain, pleasure, submission, ownership and belonging.

Tess was never normal with family that neglected and abandoned her stamping her as a mistake to her boyfriend Brax who cant accept her for who she is but also wont let her go as she is the only one he has to call family. She pushes her desires away as she feels embarrassed and feels hurt as Brax always puts her down makes her feel like what she wants is wrong..Is it so wrong that she wants to be tied up, spanked? That she wants him to dominate her?

"Brax wanted me. Brax was safe. I loved him in my own way."

What happens when her fantasies become reality? What happens when she has no say? When she meets evil, cold people who look at her as nothing but an object to satisfy their pleasure?..Nothing but a slave..

“I hadn’t gone Stockholmy- I hated him, knew what he did was wrong, but my body, shit, my body didn’t care.”

Things seem to be going well in Tess's life, well as good as they can be with Brax. He surprises her and takes her on holiday, Tess decides this is the time where she will share her fantasies with him..But nothing really goes as planned and she ends up being taken by some men and the last she sees of Brax is him laying in his own blood. Next thing you know and Tess has been sold..

Sold to a world of torture, pain and slavery..

How hard would you fight to escape?

“I want to hurt you.

I want to own you.

I want to devour you.

I want to make you mine.

I’m already yours.”

She is shipped of and arrives at a mansion and in steps Q her new master.The moment he sets eyes on her he knows she is different.And he knows he has to make her his.Tess sees Q as a mystery, a mysterious monster. Is he really evil or is there more to this powerful rich man than meets the eye?

"Only think of me and what I’m doing. There is intimacy in pain esclave. Let me make your pain my pleasure."

He has secrets of his own and demons he is trying to keep at bay. There are two sides to Q the monster and then there is the man.. what happens when the monster wants to take what he believes is rightfully his?

Tess is curious about her new master, why is he so angry or sad? What is it that he hides from everyone? How can he be a good person if he buys slaves? Ahh questions, questions..

What will happen when Tess collides into Q's world and turns everything upside down?

Will her need to escape from Q bring her more pain than she can handle?

When I finished this book I really had to stop and gather myself as my emotions were all over the place..I really couldn't tell you what I was feeling just a big bundle of fucked up emotions!I was like uhmmm is it wrong that I fell for Q in all his fucked up ways?

He is as broken as Tess they both need the pain as well as the pleasure. They are two pieces of a puzzle. They need to learn to accept who they are and be more open with each other and not let their pasts define their present.They both bury down their darkness their fantasies and act like they are normal.

I cant wait to find out how the story continues, how their relationship will grow or will it be broken?

*ARC provided by the author for an honest review*

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Buy Links

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EV9LSJI

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EV9LSJI

Review: Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet #1) By C.J. Roberts

Synopsis

Caleb is a man with a singular interest in revenge. Kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. For twelve years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible. Finally, the architect of his suffering has emerged with a new identity, but not a new nature. If Caleb is to get close enough to strike, he must become the very thing he abhors and kidnap a beautiful girl to train her to be all that he once was.

Eighteen-year-old Olivia Ruiz has just woken up in a strange place. Blindfolded and bound, there is only a calm male voice to welcome her. His name is Caleb, though he demands to be called Master. Olivia is young, beautiful, naïve and willful to a fault. She has a dark sensuality that cannot be hidden or denied, though she tries to accomplish both. Although she is frightened by the strong, sadistic, and arrogant man who holds her prisoner, what keeps Olivia awake in the dark is her unwelcome attraction to him.

WARNING: This book contains very disturbing situations, dubious consent, strong language, and graphic violence.

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My Review

4 Captivating And Disturbing Stars!!

Why did i wait so long to start this series!?

So I finally started this book after seeing so many good reviews on it.I hoped this would be as good as everyone made it out to be..and well I wasn't disappointed!This book was captivating and utter mindfuck. It had many disturbing scenes yet I really liked the book!

Throughout this book you are shown how your upbringing plays a really big part in how you turn out.No one is born evil, sadistic or killers, things in your past effect you more than you can imagine.Also it shows circumstances change people some for the better and others for the worse.

“Could she sense her life as she knew it hanging precariously in the balance? Could she feel his eyes on her? Did she have a sixth sense for monsters? The thought of it made him smile”

I loved the writing style and how everything flowed together it kept me hooked right until the end. Bravo CJ.Roberts!

“People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade.”

The story is centered around Olivia's kidnapping by Caleb for revenge.He needs to train Olivia to be a pleasure slave and then sell her to the man he wants to destroy.

Olivia wakes up in a strange place bound and blindfolded its truly her worst nightmare come to life.The man to welcome her is Caleb though he demands to be called master and she it his pet or kitten.

Caleb..Caleb..where the hell do I begin.He is so confusing and fucked up.One minute he is nice next minute he is so cold! Ahhhh

Caleb is kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. For twelve years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible.

I just didn't know what to think of him.He had a crap past but does it make it okay to hurt others? Its all he knows he never had another choice? But everyone has choices!Is he a victim of his brutal past? Is he just a tortured soul who wants to be loved? Damn it I don't know but

I just cant hate him!

“He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within.”

Caleb's behaviour changes throughout the book he can be cold and dominating and evil but you also see the caring soft side that very few knew existed.And he made me chuckle with some of the things he came out with!!

“A million dollars? A bit much don't you think?"

"Fuck you." 

Caleb smiled, the self indulgent little shit. "My apologies," he mocked with a slight forward bow, "What I meant to say is: no pussy's that good. Though yours does come close.”

I loved Olivia's character she never stopped fighting! She is feisty and brave.She is a survivor..you just cant prevent bad things from happening no matter how hard you try.

The book starts off in Calebs POV and shifts to Olivia's..I loved being in Caleb's head to see that he wasn't all bad and sometimes he had to do bad things even when he didn't want to.If you see it with just Olivia's POV he is more evil than nice but having Caleb's POV balances it out (Actually it just makes you love Caleb)

“Like a Falcon, she needed the dark to understand who her master was. She would learn to trust him, to rely upon him, to anticipate what he wanted from her. And like any master with his salt, he would reward her for her obedience. He would be exceedingly firm, but he would also be as fair as he could be. He had not chosen the instrument of his revenge at random. He had chosen a beautiful submissive. And what was a submissive if not adaptable -if not a survivor?”

Overall I really enjoyed this book!

Seduced in the Dark here I come..

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Buy Links

UK Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005JZHN8S

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