Book Review: The Surprise by Alice Ward

The Surprise by Alice Ward
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was surprisingly (no pun intended) a very good book. I won't lie, when I first downloaded this I was apprehensive and totally expected this to have terrible writing, with shallow characters, and cheesy dialogue. Dear God was I wrong.

Alice Ward has a fantastic writing style, that has a natural flow to it, and that is also very engaging. I found this so hard to put down. The characters were also incredibly well written, and I liked the fact that our Alpha male billionaire character, Langston, didn't stick to the cliches. I liked that he didn't want people to know he came from money. I also liked Scarlett's character and her personality and think that their individual characters work really well together.

I thought that this was a well paced story, and at no point did it feel cheesy. I was a little surprised when the story ended at 29%, but still feel that the story I read was a decent length. (factor in that the other 71% is two bonus stories, and I don't feel that I should complain to much).

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would, and would recommend this author to romance readers looking for a HEA.

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Book Review: A Touch of Blood by Carly Fall

A Touch of Blood by Carly Fall
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I think I find myself a little bit disappointed with this book. While it was a good book and overall very well written, I feel as though more could have been done with it; fleshed out more I suppose is what I am saying.

When I read the description for this book, I thought this was going to be a really awesome book, and unfortunately, it was just fairly good as suppose to awesome. Maybe I just expected more than what I got. In my opinion, the build up of meeting Connor and him joining up with Operation Underworld, seemed to take up the majority of the book and the actual part of Connor going on his mission and meeting/getting to know Sami, felt like it wasn't the main focus of things, even though it was. This isn't me saying the begin part is to long, more like the rest isn't long enough. To me, the beginning part where we meet Connor and he joins the Operation, is quite well paced, and in comparison, the rest of the book almost feels rushed. I think that you could easily add another 200+ pages to this book just by adding to and dragging out everything that happens to Connor once he reaches LA and meets Sammi. I would have liked the relationship between the two of them to develop a little more slowly, and also for the case that they end up working on play more of a part, as this also seemed to easily solved.

I know this seems quite negative, but on the flip side of this, I liked the authors writing style. It has a good flow to it, that makes for easy reading. She has really good character and world building. I also liked how the characters were written. Everyone had very clear and distinct personalities, that make for a bit of a motley crew.

Overall this is a good book, I just wish it were longer. If I saw the next one cheap or as a freebie (like I think this one was) I would probably get it, but not my most favourite.



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Book Review: Restored and The Spire (The Walshes #5 & #6) by Kate Canterbary

Restored by Kate Canterbary
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was another amazing installment to this series.

I liked how we revisited the relationship between Sam and Tiel in this book as I always felt that there was so much more to be said about them together. I liked that this book had the same approach to the time line as in Shannon and Will's book.

It was interesting to see Tiel put the history she has with her family to rest and finally start to move forward with Sam, slowly start to embrace his family as her own. I also like how Riley, in his own way, has a place in their relationship also, as well as the extra dynamic it adds.

This was a really great way to continue the series, and is totally worth reading.

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The Spire by Kate Canterbary
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I think that his book was different from the others in the series as it showed two long running characters coming together, in a way that I personally found, quite unexpected.

I really liked the story between Nick and Erin. I was surprised that despite the hurried nature of them meeting and getting married, that the rest of the story didn't feel rushed and was actually very well paced out. I loved the fact that we finally got to see more of these characters and really understand them. I really liked the way that the email and texting format was used throughout the book to show them doing the whole long distance relationship thing, I think that this worked well.

I can't wait to see more of them as a couple in future books and also to see the relationship between Erin and Shannon develop and grow.

Loved this. If you have been reading the series so far then I totally recommend continuing with this one.

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