Wrecked (Crystal Book Billionaires) by Jessica Blake

Grace Wells’ life is one long party until her world is turned upside down. When her family’s business goes under, she’s left with nothing. Goodbye mansion in the Hollywood Hills. Goodbye weekends spent sipping cocktails while fishing for the latest hotties. Goodbye shopping. Goodbye expensive cars. Worst of all... goodbye Los Angeles.

Now Grace is headed to Crystal Brook, North Carolina where she's left to practically fend for herself. With her inheritance down the drain, Grace is left having to start a new life—a task which seems nearly impossible. Until she catches sight of the gorgeous Luke Anderson who, cha-ching, is from a billionaire banking family.

Suddenly, Grace's luck seems to have turned around. Once she snags Luke and makes him her husband, she can return to her old pampered life. Unfortunately, Luke sees right through her. After all, he’s spent his entire life trying to escape her kind.

But Grace is on a mission and what Grace wants, Grace gets.

And this time, she gets more than she bargained for.

"Wrecked" is another book that's taken place in the small town of Crystal Brook and is part of the Crystal Brook Billionaires series. With that said, it is a full-sized STANDALONE novel with an HEA and NO CLIFFHANGERS.

RATING: 4 STARS
REVIEW: Grace's dad loses his business and he sends Grace to live with her aunt in uncle in a small town much different from her materialistic life in L.A. She spins a lie with her best friend to keep her friends and boyfriend in the dark back in L.A. about where she really is... because she doesn't want to face reality about her and her dad's broke new reality. She soon realizes that her friends are not too concerned with her absence, nor does her boyfriend even bother to text or call to find out if she is settling in well at NYU.
Grace decides to take a bike ride to explore her new surroundings and bumps into a local billionaire who runs the food pantry in town to help those in need. Although her sights are zeroed in on Luke, he is less than flattered with the new comer. Her solution is to strategically land a new job at Luke's business in order to get the chance to show him that there is more to her than meets the eye. However, if her plan fails, she'll have to resort to finding her next billionaire on sugardaddy.com
Maybe Luke misunderstood Grace when they first met. Is she really more than a spoiled brat who doesn't have to work for what she wants?

Wrecked was a fun/cute romance read with a bit of deceit, humor, steam, and an HEA. This was an enjoyable read from Jessica Blake who is a new to me author in 2016. I will definitely pick up other books by this author. I received an well-written ARC in exchange for my honest review. I flew through this book in only one long night. Great read & recommended.

Friday, March 25, 2016

REVIEW: Stage Left (Bright Lights Billionaire Book 1) by Ali Parker

STAGE LEFT BY ALI PARKER
Series: Bright Lights Billionaire Book 1
Format: Ebook
Pages: 144

From Best Selling Author, Ali Parker comes a new Billionaire Series filled with sexiness, humor and intense attraction...

Ethan Lewis has been in the bright lights for as long as he can remember. He's just turned the cusp of celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday, and yet he feels more like eighty. Living the life of a celebrity isn't all it is chalked up to be, and dealing with the unruly number of women who are more interested in his billions than who he is as a person is getting old. He has resigned himself to giving up on love and focusing on the only thing that truly gives back - his career.

Riley Phillips has always dreamed of being on a big stage with the warmth of the spotlight baring down on her, but she just couldn't seem to catch the right agent's attention. After giving a quick commencement speech as Valedictorian of her graduating class at Billmore High, she's offered something she can't refuse... The chance to work in Hollywood. It's not all it's chalked up to be, but she works hard and finally gets her big break four years down the line. There is a new movie that her agent wants her to audition for, and her co-star? The dreamy Ethan Lewis.

She scores the part, but soon regrets it due to his callous, overbearing persona. He's nothing like the public touts, and she for one isn't impressed.

Funny enough, he is - immensely.

This is book 1 in a continued series.

18+ Explicit sexual content and possible foul language.

RATING: 5 STARS
THERESA'S REVIEW: Completely fell hard for Ethan and Riley's story! I simply could not put this down once I picked it up. I planned on reading a few chapters before bed, but I engulfed every single delicious chapter in one sitting. The push and pull between these characters is real, frustrating, but oh so good!
I loved going through the ups and downs with these characters. This book made me smile, laugh, cringe, and then finally want to break my reading device in two. However, in the end I'm glad I didn't because I'll need it for the second book. That ending though... Loved it! Not to mention that heated audition scene. Wow! I quickly recovered from the sadness that I hit the end of the book once my mind ran wild with the realization of where this series is headed. Stage Left is exciting and worth every page.
This is my first book by Ali Parker who kindly sent me an advance review copy in exchange for my honest review. My honest review says that Ali Parker now has me twisted around her little pinkie finger. Thanks for making me wait and suffer for book two Ali Parker! Lol! Not cool! But, I love you for writing this book! You can find me waiting in the audition lines for book two! This is my honest review of Stage Left by Ali Parker!
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