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Audio Book Review: You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

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Release Date:  September 16, 2013 Publisher:  Hatchett Book Group Format:  Tantor Audio Length:  5 hours 45 minutes Narrator:  Jen Sincero Genre:  Self Help Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Sincero serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, life-changing insights, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word. Via chapters such as "Your Brain Is Your Bitch", "Fear Is for Suckers", and "My Subconscious Made Me Do It", Sincero takes you on a wild joy ride to your own transformation, helping you create the money, relationships, career, and general all-around awesomeness you so desire. And should you be one of those people who dreads getting busted with a self-help book in your hands, fear not. Sincero, a former skeptic herself, delivers the goods minus the New Age cheese, giving even the snarkiest of poo-pooers exactly what they need to get out of ...

Audio Book Review: Forever Ride (Hellions Ride book 2) by Chelsea Camaron

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Release Date:  May 17, 2016 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  6 hours 12 minutes Narrator:  Guy Locke, Lucy Malone Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  The danger, the chaos, and the lifestyle of the Hellions world has become far too much for Savannah "Sass" Perchton. Swearing off bikers and attempting a "normal" life, she has settled. She pushes away her old life, her old self. She is trying to fit into a mold, to be everything she never was. He's a playboy - a different chick in his bed, off on a different ride, and always chasing something new. Frank "Tank" Oleander, Haywood's Hellions road chief, will give anything for his club, including his life. When the fast pace of the Hellions life finally catches up to him, Tank finds himself at a crossroads. He is forced to face some life-changing thoughts or succumb to the darkness of death. Teetering on the brink of giving in, her voice is a...

Audio Book Review: One Ride (Hellions Ride book 1) by Chelsea Camaron

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Release Date:  April 26, 2016 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 13 minutes Narrator:  Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Roundman, president of the Hellions Motorcycle Club, has kept the chaos surrounding the Hellions contained for the last 30 years. When the dangerous side to their business comes knocking on his only child's doorstep, he realizes that his precious daughter - Delilah ("Doll") - isn't safe anymore. With Doll in danger from the association she has with him and his club, Roundman makes the only decision he feels he can - to send her away. Calling on the one charter club president he trusts, he sets up a ride to keep her safe, all in hopes that trouble won't follow. Talon "Tripp" Crews has been ordered to take Doll on one ride away from the danger while the club handles the threat. She's off-limits. His head knows this, but his body can't ...

Audio Book Review: Locked in Silence (Pelican Bay book 1) by Sloane Kennedy

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Release Date:  December 1, 2017 Publisher:  Sloane Kennedy Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 55 minutes Narrator:  Michael Pauley Genre:  Romance, lgbt Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  I’ve spent years hoping someone would finally hear me. It’s easier not to try anymore… Ten years after leaving his small Minnesota hometown in his rearview mirror for what Nolan Grainger was sure would be the last time, life has decided to throw the talented musician a curveball and send him back to the town he lived in but was never really home. At twenty-eight, Nolan has traveled the world as a successful concert violinist with some of the best symphonies in the country. But success breeds envy, and when Nolan’s benefactor and lover decides Nolan has flown high enough, he cruelly clips Nolan’s wings. The betrayal and ensuing scandal leaves the violinist’s career in shambles and with barely enough money to start fresh somewhere beyond hi...

Audio Book Review: The Long Way Home by Z.A. Maxfield

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Release Date:  November 9, 2016 Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 27 minutes Narrator:  JF Harding Genre:  Romance Buy:  Audible | Kindle  Synopsis:  Ever since the accident that cost him his job on the Seattle police force, Kevin Quinn has been living with psychic abilities he refers to as the 'gift that keeps on taking'. His attempts to use his talents to help the police have been met with limited success. Yet, when teenage boys start going missing from the beach cities of Southern California, Kevin gets on a plane.  Connor Dougal has every reason to believe all psychics are fakes and charlatans. He's still numb from the disappearance of his first love, a boy who went missing 10 years earlier. Everything he aspires to is a direct result of that tragedy, even the acquisition of his detective shield. The irony of having to babysit Kevin Quinn is not lost on him.  These two suspicio...

Audio Book Review: The Druid Stone by Heidi Belleau & Violetta Vane

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Release Date:  August 6, 2012 Publisher:  Carina Press Format:  Audio Length:  14 hours 12 minutes Narrator:  Ian Ruane Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Sean never asked to be an O'Hara, and he didn't ask to be cursed by one either. After inheriting a hexed druid stone from his great-grandfather, Sean starts reliving another man's torture and death...every single night. And only one person can help. Cormac Kelly runs a paranormal investigation business and doesn't have time to deal with misinformed tourists like Sean. But Sean has real magic in his pocket, and even though Cormac is a descendant of legendary druids, he soon finds himself out of his depth...and not because Sean's the first man he's felt anything for in a long time. The pair develop an unexpected and intensely sexual bond, but are threatened at every turn when Sean's case attracts the unwelcome attention of the mad  sidhe  lo...

ARC Book Review: Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier

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Release Date:  June 12, 2018 Publisher:  St. Martins Press Format:  ebook Pages:  320 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  | Paperback Synopsis:  This is the story of  three best friends: one who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who's been searching for the truth all these years . . . When she was sixteen years old, Angela Wong—one of the most popular girls in school—disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmaceutical company, was involved in any way. Certainly not Kaiser Brody, who was close with both girls back in high school. But fourteen years later, Angela Wong's remains are discovered in the woods near Geo's childhood home. And Kaiser—now a detective with Seattle PD—finally learns the truth: Angela was a victim of Calvin James. The same Calvin James who murdered at least three...