Review Waiting on Forever

Description:

College.

Parties, sororities and getting drunk.

Oh, yeah. And learning.

This may be true for most college students, but not for Leah Bennett. College life for her includes studying, working, and excelling in school. When it comes to the social ladder, Leah is at the bottom. Popular girls, hot guys and star athletes are of no importance to her, except for one.

Matthew Jacobs.

Matt is the starting wide receiver at SUNY Cortland, the most wanted guy on campus and Leah’s best friend. Although Leah’s feelings toward Matt run deeper than just a friendship, it is something she would never let be heard because the odds of someone like Matthew Jacobs going for someone like Leah Bennett are slim to none.

When Matt starts showing an interest in Leah that goes beyond friendship, she is dumbfounded and doesn’t believe it is possible – until one weekend that changes everything.

Will Matt and Leah’s popularity status get in the way of having a chance at a real relationship?

Or does status mean nothing when it comes to true love?

My thoughts:

I received this book as an ARC to give an honest review. I strive to never be anything but honest with the followers of this blog, so here is my thoughts.  I LOVED this book!  I can honestly say that I have wanted to read this book ever since I first read a preview of it.  Each time I read a teaser it made me anxious to read it even more, so when the opportunity came up for me to get an ARC, I jumped at it. 

So here's the scoop on Waiting on Forever. It is a love story that is based in college.  Matthew Jacobs (Matt) is a star football player and is in his freshman year.  Leah Bennett is also a freshman, but a complete opposite of Matt being into art and having nothing to do with sports at all. 

I loved Matt.  He is such a sweetheart!  I really don't want to spoil this book for you, but I'm finding it hard at the moment! Its obvious from the books description that Matt and Leah begin a relationship, so by telling you that Matt is not the typical boyfriend is not ruining anything.  Through out the course of the book Matt struggles to tell Leah about his secret.

Leah doesn't think that she is good enough for Matt.  She knows she isn't popular and doesn't see what a star football player sees in her.  However to say that being with Matt isn't a thrill is an understatement.  She begins to realize that not only is he a great boyfriend, but that they both need more than just their relationship they need someone that they can count on even when things get hard. 

Through all their up and downs through the story Matt and Leah find that although they are different they fill a void that they both are missing.  The story is one of very few I have found that actually fills you in on the rest of their lives in the Epilogue.  There are no unanswered questions when you reach "The End."

I said it before but I totally LOVED this book!!  This is one that when I finished it, I immediately started to reread it.  I fell in love with both characters and found many moments of laughter while reading and a few moments that I wanted to reach into the book and smack the character because they weren't doing what I thought they should!  I totally recommend this book and scream go out and get it and fall in love with Matt and Leah too!!

Rating:  ♥♥♥♥♥

When Life Gives You Lemons....

Well, I obviously haven't been as active on this blog as I originally planned. To say that things haven't been going my way is an understatment.  Last week my computer decided that it didn't want to work anymore. The motherboard fried. :(  So, when this happened I lost the 3 reviews that I had typed up and hadn't had time to get posted on here, along with loads of other things that are a necessity in my everyday life.  Its been a very stressful week trying to make do and things haven't gotten easier yet.  However, I did manage to get 1 review redone, even if I feel it isn't as good as the original.  I will be posting it after this update, but just wanted to let you know what was going on and why I hadn't been on here more!  Things can only go up from here!

Living Life a Page at a Time

So I totally need to get some reviews posted on here.  I've read more than 4 books since my last review! I haven't had time to sit down and get the reviews typed up, but have been bouncing between books.  I'm trying to keep my "What I'm reading now" and my "Bookshelf" up to date.  There are sooo many more books that aren't listed on my Bookshelf and one of these days I'll get it up to date.  In the mean time I wanted to let you know that I now have a facebook page linking to this page.  I'm moving up in the world!! :)  Thanks for reading and please feel free to comment with what you are reading right now and please follow me on facebook!

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Soooo Busy!!

I have managed to find a little bit of spare time the past couple days to read, but haven't had time to get on here and blog!!  As a hobby I make and decorate cakes and I am working on a huge order at the moment of 5 sheet cakes! I have to have them finished by this evening and then tomorrow my hubby and I are going four wheeling! So excited to go, but I don't see any spare time in the next couple days to get my reviews up for Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster, so please be patient with me! I will get them done soon!! <3

Can't put this book down!

I just wanted to share that at the moment I am reading Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire.  I've been reading it since 8 this morning and can't put it down!! I'm only 50% done and loving every page.  I will be posting a review of both it and Beautiful Disaster when I am finished...well maybe after I read WD a 2nd time. LOL  Happy Reading!!

Review A Taste of You

Description: 

For lovers of Fifty Shades of Grey and Bared to You comes a deliciously sexy romance with a culinary twist!

She didn’t know how hungry she was…Beautiful and talented Catherine Kelly is intent on starting over as a food photographer in Chicago. With her painful past buried over 2000 miles away, she’s focused on her career and is hungry for little else. Until she meets William Lambourne, a wealthy bachelor with arresting blue-grey eyes filled with enough tragedy to match her own. William urges Catherine to step out from behind her camera and fully taste all that life has to offer, stirring an appetite in her she never knew she possessed - and it’s one only he can satisfy.

He couldn’t wait to feed her…A gourmand who takes great pleasure in food and in women, William Lambourne is rich, powerful, and gorgeous -- and as talented in the kitchen as he is in the bedroom. Longing for a woman to truly savor, William finds his match in Catherine. From the moment he meets her, he is determined to discover the perfect recipe to unlock Cat’s resolve, awaken her senses, and make her his own.

Theirs is a meal worth savoring…William is as mysterious as he is passionate, but as Catherine begins to fall for the stormy-eyed billionaire, she knows she must reveal her own dark secrets. But first, William must win Cat’s heart to ensure their pasts don’t undo them.

Book 1 in The Epicurean series, A Taste of You will leave you ravenous for more of Cat and William’s story!



My Thoughts:
Well, being new to this I went into the book with as much of an open mind as I could.  However, the very first sentence of the description had me concerned.  I've read books before that were described to me as being like "Fifty" or "Crossfire" and I spent the entire book trying to find how they were alike instead of enjoying the book.  I opted to NOT do that this time and just read the book for what it was.  I am glad that I did.

I hope to not ruin this book by giving anything away!  First, it reminded me a lot of "Crossfire".  Hot single billionaire, sexy single female, and gay male best friend...for those that have read "Crossfire" this should all ring a bell!!  However, I've never read a book that made me look at food as sex.  This one did!  It made food so sexy.

I loved Catherine.  She wasn't afraid to speak her mind, had goals in life that she wasn't going to give up just for William, and didn't let him command her at all times.  Oh and of course there was Laird, her dog, that was never far from the story and was never forgotten about.  That warms a spot in my heart.

William is mysterious, sexy, and cooks! That in my book is bonus points!  There are moments where you just want to smack him for the way he handles things, but I find that to happen in a lot of books that I get wrapped up in. 

Overall, I really did like this book.  I had trouble putting it down and I will say that it is Book 1 in a series and it LEFT ME HANGING!!!  That drives me crazy!!  I have no idea when the next book will be out and its going to drive me nuts waiting!  I hope that others find this sweet treat as enjoyable as I did. 

Rating:  ♥♥♥♥

Reviews

Okay, so before I said I was going to do my first review over Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire,  but I have been forcing myself to wait until this weekend to reread this book in anticipation of getting Walking Disaster on Tuesday!  Yea!!  So, instead I read one of my first ever ARC's and am getting read to post my review of it.  I hope you enjoy it!  Hope to post a review of BD before I get my hands on WD.  If not, I'll be posting both sometime next week, but once I get WD in my hands I'm checking out of the world to obsess over Travis once again. :)