It's Monday What are you Reading?

Last week was spent reading Gone With the Wind and being a general all around slacker. (What's new, right?) So this week I'm gonna aim low lol

Reading:

1. Fortunate Harbor by Emile Richards (giveaway coming soon!)
2. The Secret (of happiness) by Demosthenes Armeniades

Continuous Reading:

1. Gone With the Wind

There you go!

Ravished by a Highlander

FORBIDDEN LOVE

Davina Montgomery is no ordinary English lady. For her own protection, she's been locked away from society, her true identity the Crown's most closely guarded secret. Until a shocking betrayal--and a bold rescue--land her in the arms of a fierce Highlander, a powerful warrior whose searing gaze and tantalizing touch awaken her body and soul.

UNDENIABLE DESIRE

As the firstborn son of a powerful Scottish laird, Robert MacGregor has no loyalty to the English throne, but he's not the kind of man to leave a woman in distress, even if she is English. He vows to deliver Davina to safety, unharmed and untouched. Yet one stolen kiss leaves them both smoldering with desire...and desperate for more. With Davina's secret threatening to destroy his clan, Rob must choose between everything he holds dear and the one woman he can't live without.

My Review:

These books are usually trashy smutty fun. To be quite honest, if I see a half-nekkid man on the cover with ripply abs and a big ole phallic sword jutting out, I think...hmm...no plot. This book definitely challenged that notion. This is really a honest case of the old standard, "don't judge a book by it's cover," because yeah..don't do that. This book is good! There is a LOT of plot and a LOT of good stuff. Front to back, it's full of fun. The characters are interesting and real. The steamy scenes are steamy without being well...too smutty (yes there is such a thing!)

This book was so much fun to read! Just the right amount of action, romance, and naughty bits ;)

I give it a 4.5/5! :)

Music Boxes

I'm not really into girly things, but my little sister is and her birthday is coming up soon, in November! So in my slightly desperate quest to find the perfect gift for her, I have found the perfect online store! They sell beautiful and exquisitely made music boxes! I know she doesn't have a music box so I figured that this would be the perfect gift! She has a ton of jewelry and doesn't have anything really feminine and pretty to store it in. She loves things like this and it would be functional as well!

I really want to get her something special and personal since she is my only sister *awww* and she's been a great one! I love the selection of Musical Boxes for Babies! I mean how adorable are they? The baseball one is perfect for her son! I know she'd love any of the boxes that they have, but I think it's going to be a tough call. It's either the baseball one or anyone of the beautiful Ballerina Musical Boxes. Ah, decisions decisions! It's so hard to pick when they all are so pretty and I wished I could buy them all for her!

**this is an ad

Blog Tour: Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives

Description:
Suburbia is a jungle, filled with lots of vicious creatures.

Take the Paradise Heights Women’s League board. Lyssa Harper should have warned golden-haired DILF du jour Harry Wilder what he was getting into when she invited him to meet the mommies who run their suburban, gated community. At least he brought cupcakes. Since meeting the former Master-of-the-Universe turned stay-at-home single dad, Lyssa has been his domestic Sherpa, teaching him the ins and outs of suburban life. She just didn’t realize her friends would show up at his house unannounced with casseroles, leopard-print bikini briefs, and plans to rearrange his kitchen cabinets.

The truth is, if Harry and his wife, the neighborhood’s "perfect couple," can call it quits, what does that mean for everyone else? Lyssa’s husband, Ted, is a great father, but he pays her Pilates-pumped momtourage more attention than he does his own wife. Her friends gossip about the neighbors while ignoring their own problems: infertility, infidelity, and eating disorders.

When Harry sets boundaries with his new fan club, he is exiled from the neighborhood’s in-clique. But Lyssa refuses to snub him. What she never expects is the explosive impact her ongoing friendship with Harry will have on her close-knit pals—and on her marriage.

My Review:

I really wasn't expecting to like this book as much as I did. That is the honest truth. I thought I might have gotten myself into a soapish kind of book. It does have some soapy elements, but the GOOD kind of Soap. (I hope that makes sense?) I was never bored with the characters and never wanted to put this book down. I loved how each character is developed enough that we feel like they are our actual neighbors! I think every neighborhood has that group of catty women that make life a bit more..erm..challenging for the rest. Right?

Not that this book didn't have it's faults. The main couple didn't seem to have any real chemistry. The marriage didn't seem to be based on anything else but the children. The wife is pretty miserable most of the time. Her husband was definitely, for lack of a better word, a bit on the douchey side, but I guess that is the point. Not all marriages that look perfect, actually are perfect.

I rated this one a 4/5!!!

About the Author:

Josie Brown's celebrity interviews and relationship articles have been featured in Redbook and Complete Woman magazines, as well as AOL, Yahoo, AskMen.com, Divorce360.com, and SingleMindedWomen.com. She lives in Marin County, California with her husband and two children.

Other Blogs on this tour:

All About {n}: http://www.bookwormygirl.blogspot.com/
The Book Tree: http://thebooktree.blogspot.com/
Books Gardens & Dogs: http://maryinhb.blogspot.com/
Arms of a Sister: http://armsofasister.com/
Booktumbling: http://booktumbling.com/
A Room Without Books Is Empty: http://detweilermom.blogspot.com/
Busy Julie: http://busyjulieblog.blogspot.com/
Bookin’ with Bingo: http://bookinwithbingo.blogspot.com
The Down Home Diva: http://thestuffyouneedtoknow.blogspot.com/
Me, My Book, and the Couch: http://memybookandthecouch.blogspot.com/
Starting Fresh: http://startingfresh-gaby317.blogspot.com/
Frugal Plus: http://frugalplus.com/
Avid Reader: http://www.tarmyblogspot.blogspot.com/
Marta’s Meanderings: http://martasmeanderings.blogspot.com/
Eclectic Book Lover: http://www.eclecticbooklover.com
Not Quite Susie: http://notquitesusiehomemaker.blogspot.com/
Books and Needlepoint: http://booksandneedlepoint.blogspot.com/
Books with a Cup of Coffee: http://bookswithcoffee.wordpress.com/
Knitting and Sundries: http://www.jewelknits.blogspot.com/
Just Another New Blog: http://justanothernewblog.blogspot.com/
Simply Stacie: http://simplystacie.net/
Booksie’s Blog: http://booksiesblog.blogspot.com/
Reminder List: http://reminderlist.blogspot.com/
My Five Monkeys: http://www.tableforseven-julie.blogspot.com/
My Book Views: http://my-book-views.blogspot.com/
Taking Time For Mommy: http://takingtimeformommy.blogspot.com/
I Heart Book Gossip: http://juniperrbreeeze.blogspot.com/
Book Junkie: http://myfoolishwisdom.blogspot.com/
Jeanne's Ramblings: http://www.jeannesramblings.com
Readaholic: http://bridget3420.blogspot.com/
Broken Teepee: http://www.brokenteepee.blogspot.com
Tethered Mommy: http://www.tetheredmommy.com/
Just Jennifer Reading: http://justjenniferreading.blogspot.com/
So Many Books, So Little Time: http://purplg8r-somanybooks.blogspot.com/
Reading With Tequila: http://www.readingwithtequila.com/
Book N Around: http://booknaround.blogspot.com/
A Journey of Books: http://ajourneyofbooks.halfzero.net/
Bella’s Novellas: www.bellasnovella.com
CuzinLogic’s Blog: http://cuzinlogic.wordpress.com/
Rundpinne: http://www.rundpinne.com

It's Monday What are you Reading?

Reading This Week: I have a theme...Romance!

1. Ravished by a Highlander by Paula Quinn
2. Desire Me by Robyn DeHart
3. To Surrender to a Rogue by Cara Elliott
4. Knight of Passion by Margaret Mallory

Read Last Week:

1. Secret Lives of Husband and Wives by Josie Brown (review)

I will still be reading Gone with the Wind and Drood in the background but I wanted this week to be somewhat light and fluffy.

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7 Years Ago Today....

...my Husband and I decided to make it legal and we got ourselves hitched! I love my sweet hunk of a man! :) We don't really have any special plans but that's okay! I'm going to cook him his favorite dinner and maybe watch a movie.

Happy Anniversary Sweetheart!