Book Review: Long Distance Wolf by Rose Bak

 

Book Description

He’s the right wolf at the wrong time…

Connie Lucero has just turned eighteen and is looking forward to escaping her small-town, going to college in the big city, traveling the world, and having adventures. When she meets her fated mate at a party, she knows she had no choice but to reject him before she ends up mated and pregnant.

Andy Galina moved to the shifter town of Greysden for a new job, but it’s not long before his wolf locks onto the beautiful younger woman they’re meant to be with forever. He’s stunned when Connie tells him she has no interest in being his mate. He knows that his independent mate needs some time to find herself and make her own way in the world, but his wolf has other ideas.

Can their love survive a long separation?

“Long Distance Wolf” is a prequel short story that’s part of the “Bite-Sized Shifters” paranormal romantic comedy series. Each book in the series is standalone that can be read in a few hours, and features a mature couple, steamy scenes, a lot of fur and claws, and a guaranteed HEA.

My Review

Connie is just now 18 years old and she knows what she wants to do with her life. The most important thing is to go to college and get her degree and nothing is going to stop her, not even meeting her mate. Connie and Andy are both wolf shifters and after they meet each other, Andy thinks he can just decree that she is his mate and they will live happily ever after. But that's not what Connie wants and she rejects him as a mate. 

He's so confused and surprised that his mate rejects him that he goes to talk to her and they decide to stay friends for now and she'll go off to college and hopefully one day Connie will feel differently about him. 

This is a very short novella prequel for the Bite Sized Shifters series and after reading this, I will be reading more of this series. This book definitely intrigued me enough to want to read more of this series now. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

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Happy Raturday!

 

"We watched the eclipse but we liked the donuts more."

*All pictures this week are courtesy of www.martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #314

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 25 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 25 years here in a weekly blog post.  

I heard cars racing down my street and wasn't able to get the police cars because they went by too fast but I snapped a picture of this ambulance as it raced past. I didn't even have time to open my window and had to take the picture through the window screen. It was at the end of the street, someone was arrested and someone went to the ER in the ambulance. 

So last week I noticed a little construction going on in our alley. A few days later I noticed these. Looks like charging stations for electric cars. I've looked to see if any of the cars that are parking there are charging and none of them have been so far. lol I seriously doubt that anyone who lives here has an electric car. It was about 5am when I took this picture which is why it still looks dark out. Watch this place raise the rent because of the "upgrades" they made this year when it comes time to renew our leases.

The police showed up for a domestic dispute on Tuesday. One man was arrested. I was across the street and was able to get a picture of the police cars parked near the courtyard behind the office. 

Then later that night the police and ambulance were back in that same courtyard of my complex and another guy was arrested for having a gun. A lady was taken away in the ambulance. I have no idea what happened to her. 

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You might remember that at the end of last week's Sunday post I told you that we heard 5 gunshots that sounded really close. 

Well I think I figured out where those gunshots came from. This is a metal sign that is right next to my apartment building. As you can see there are 5 gunshots in it. One or two of the holes is on the bottom edge of the top sign. 

This is the front of the sign and you can really see the bullet holes from this way but you sure can from the back. That walkway to the right is the sidewalk to my apartment building. It's just a couple of feet away. So when I said last week that it sounded close, I wasn't wrong. 

The high this week was 88F/31C

The low this week was 54F/12C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.

Favorite Song of the Week

 

Dead By April- Break My Fall

I love this band and when I heard this one I really liked it. I've been listening to it for a while now. I hope you enjoy it too. 

Freebie Friday!

 

Welcome to another weekly Freebie Friday post, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a "Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

  You can find links to great samples at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.

This week I received: 

A perfume sample and two Vichy face serum samples. 

The perfume smells so nice and the face serum made my skin soft so I'd call that a win. 

Did you receive any free samples this week?

Book Review: Legion by Tia Didmon

 

Book Description

A Dragon. A Druid. A Disaster.

Art student Mara Krane has no time for the sexy 'dragon' in her dreams, even if he insists she is the key to saving humanity. But as her dormant magic emerges, she can no longer ignore her immortal mate.

Trusting him will make her a target in a war that has lasted for millennia and unearth a long-buried family secret, concealing the betrayal of a former life.

As she faces an ancient adversary set on her destruction, will her hopes burn to the ground, or will she discover that love hath no fury like a dragon scorned?

My Review

Legion is a dragon shifter that lost everything in a war. Adara used her magic to be reborn into another and when Legion found out that she was his mate, he was mad she never told him. Now years later Adara's magic is being awakened into Mara as she reaches her 23rd birthday. When she unknowingly reaches out telepathically and hears Legion talk to her, she thinks she's going mad until he walks into her shop and tells her all about dragons, druids and magic. 

Things really start happening pretty fast after that because Mara's magic is about to turn on full power and she has no idea how to use or control it. Mara starts to remember things about Adara and secrets are revealed because secrets always have a way of coming out. As Mara and Legion become closer, they realize that they really are meant to be together but the black dragons will do anything to have Mara because she's a druid and a seer and her blood gives them what they want. 

So while they are fighting the black dragons, trying to stay ahead of the danger, Mara is also learning to use her powers, they are learning about each other and getting closer. It was a fun read. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Favorite Picture of the Week

 

We had one very cloudy morning for a few hours. No rain. 

And the next day because we still had some clouds, we got this sunset. 

Book Review: Layla by Summer Stanton and Claire Marta

 

Book Description

Thomas Harrow is new to Carnal Pleasures. Though an accomplished Dominant, not everyone is impressed with him at first sight. In an effort to prove that he belongs, he sets up a public demonstration that has a disastrous end. Layla Marks is a dreamer who works behind the scenes at the club. Night after night she watches the playing, secretly longing to be apart of the lifestyle. The pair couldn't be more different: Thomas is demanding with little patience for Layla's naiveté. With a rocky start already between them, they enter into a tentative D/s relationship, hoping that the other can be what they need. But Thomas is not the only one who covets the shy beauty, and Layla soon finds herself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse.*The Carnal Pleasures series will be a mixture of various M/M and M/F pairings following the lives of the employees and patrons of the club. While this series has romantic elements, not all books will be romance. Due to language and explicit sexual interaction, it is recommended for readers 18 and up*

My Review

Layla is a cleaning lady at Club Carnal Pleasures. She isn't one of the people who play at the BDSM club although she does watch some of the scenes as she's doing her job. Things are going well for her and for the most part the people who play there leave her alone. She's shy and keeps to herself for the most part until Thomas, the new Dom walks in and mistakes her for someone else. The mix up puts these two on a course that they never intended because they are complete opposites. Thomas is a dragon shifter as well as a Dom. Layla on the other hand is another kind of paranormal creature but most people can't tell what she is and she likes it that way. 

But secrets have a way of coming out and hers come out in a big way. I like Layla but I didn't like Thomas at all. He's bossy, overbearing and never seems empathetic with Layla for what she's going through. He just barrels ahead and does what he thinks is best in any situation and then doesn't understand why she's upset with him. He never came across as sympathetic towards her or understanding at all. 

Poor Layla goes through a lot because of her stalker. I really would have liked Thomas more if he seemed to have more emotion but in my mind I just pictured this stone faced guy who thought he knew best and you should just agree with him. Again, not likable at all. The fact that this ends on a cliffhanger just sealed the dislike for this book. The storyline had real promise, the dialogue was good and the other characters were very likable and relatable. For those reasons I enjoyed and kept reading this book. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

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Happy Raturday!

 

"We had a party for our 1st birthday!"

"I need cake"

"I'm still waiting on cake."

"We all got cake."

"Our sisters came to help celebrate and we all made a cake."

Apartment Life #313

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 25 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 25 years here in a weekly blog post.  

I noticed this guy hanging out his bedroom window across the street. He was using a drill so I figured he was installing a camera. 

I was right. lol I'm not the only one around here wanting to get pictures of all the action and shenanigans. 

He had it installed in less than an hour. 

This is a picture from weeks ago when they were redoing the roof but I'm using it so you can see what window across the street it is that has the new camera. It's the right window on the second story. Directly across from me so I'll have to be careful having my curtains open at night. lol Don't want to end up in someone else's story. 

When I was being nosy and taking pictures across the street, when I zoomed into this window I noticed another camera in the right corner. LOL There's probably a lot more cameras pointing on our street than I thought there was. With all the homeless, domestic disturbances, drunk people, and drug addicts acting a fool out here at night, as well as the police, fire Department and ambulance... I'm not surprised to see all the cameras. 

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On Wednesday there were two police cars down the street. I saw someone being arrested but I went inside when the police turned and were watching me watch them. They don't seem to care if people are out watching unless they see you taking pictures. 

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Tuesday night around 10:30PM I heard about 5 gunshots pretty close by. I waited to see if I saw anyone running or screaming. I didn't see or hear anything and no police showed up so I figured it must not have been that close after all. Nothing around here the next morning either. They could have just been shooting in the air as well. I couldn't pinpoint where the shots came from so saw no reason to call the police. 

The high this week was 81F/27C

The low this week was 41F/5C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.