Saturday, March 8, 2014

Sex on the Beach series by Jen McLaughlin, Jenna Bennett and Jennifer Probst


Rating: 4/5 stars
Publication Date: February 28 2014
Blurb:

I’m just a girl…


I’m a famous country star who’s spent her life cultivating a good girl persona to avoid bad press, but I’ve reached my limit. I’m going away for spring break with my two best friends from college, and we’ve vowed to spend the vacation seeking out fun in the sun—along with some hot, no-strings-attached sex. The only thing I needed was the perfect guy, and then I met Austin Murphy. He might be totally wrong for me, but the tattooed bad boy is hard to resist. When I’m in his arms, everything just feels right.



And I’m just a guy…



I’m just a bartender who lives in Key West, stuck in an endless cycle of boredom. But then Mackenzie Forbes, America’s Sweetheart herself, comes up to me and looks at me with those bright green eyes…and everything changes. She acts like she’s just a normal girl and I’m just a normal guy, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. My past isn’t pretty, you know. I did what I had to do to survive, and she’d run if she learned the truth about my darkness. But with her, I’m finally realizing what it’s like to be alive. To laugh, live, and be happy.



All good things must come to an end…
BETWEEN US BY JEN MCLAUGHLIN


Review:

Between us is the only book in the series that is more focused on the romance side of the story than on any other side. That wasn't a bad thing. To make things even Before You had very little romance. Quinn and Cassy's stories are barely mentioned in this book. Mac's world is only intertwined with the other girls world just enough to give a glimpse of what's going on and to make the reader curious.


Having read all the three books I am imagining Jenna Bennett and Jennifer Probst chatting about their books and how their characters would catch up and Jen McLaughlin sitting on the corner trying to overhear what they were saying. Pesonally I didn't mind that but it seemed a little weird.



The book might be a novella but it had the whole package. Austin and Mac met, started to fall for the other, had a break up and then made up. Don't tell me that you considered the idea that the book might have something other than a happily ever after for an ending. All of Jen McLaughlin's books I have read ended with a HEA.


Author bio:

Jen McLaughlin is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She writes steamy New Adult books for the young and young at heart. Her first release, Out of Line, came out September 2013. She also writes bestselling Contemporary Romance under the pen name Diane Alberts.Since receiving her first contract offer under the pen name Diane Alberts, she has yet to stop writing. She is represented by Louise Fury at The Bent Agency.
Though she lives in the mountains, she really wishes she was surrounded by a hot, sunny beach with crystal clear water. She lives in Northeast Pennsylvania with her four kids, a husband, a schnauzer mutt, a cat, and a Senegal parrot. In the rare moments when she’s not writing, she can
usually be found hunched over one knitting project or another. Her goal is to write so many well-crafted romance books that even a non-romance reader will know her name.

Website: http://dianealberts.com/


Rating: 4/5 stars
Publication Date: February 28 2014
Blurb:

CAN FUN IN THE SUN TURN INTO LASTING LOVE?

Spring break in Key West with my besties was supposed to be casual fun. But I never expected to meet James Hunt. Sex and frolic? Yes! A relationship? No. But his hot blue eyes and confident manner drew me in. And when he let me see the man behind the mask, I fell hard, foolishly believing there could be a future for us. Of course I never considered our relationship might be based on lies…or that his betrayal could rock my foundation and make me question everything I believed in…

OR WILL A LIFE BUILT ON LIES RUIN EVERYTHING?

The moment I saw Quinn I knew I had to have her. She hooked me with her cool eyes and don’t touch me attitude. I had it all, money, social status, and looks. I could get any girl I wanted…until her. When my friends challenged me with a bet to get her into bed by the end of the week, I couldn’t pass it up. But sex wasn’t supposed to turn into love. She wasn’t supposed to change me, push me, and make me want more for myself. She wasn’t supposed to wreck me in all ways. And now, if I can’t turn my lies into truth, I just might lose her forever…


Author bio:

Jennifer Probst wrote her first book at twelve years old. She bound it in a folder, read it to her classmates, and hasn’t stopped writing since. She took a short hiatus to get married, get pregnant, buy a house, get pregnant again, pursue a master’s in English Literature, and rescue two shelter dogs. Now she is writing again.

She makes her home in Upstate New York with the whole crew. Her sons keep her active, stressed, joyous, and sad her house will never be truly clean.
She is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of sexy and erotic contemporary romance. She was thrilled her book, The Marriage Bargain, was ranked #6 on Amazon's Best Books for 2012. She loves hearing from readers. Visit her website for updates on new releases and her street team at www.jenniferprobst.com.


BUY LINKS:
BEYOND ME BY JENNIFER PROBST


Rating: 4/5 stars
Publication Date: February 28 2014
Blurb:

It’s all fun and games

I had a simple plan for spring break.

Sun, sand, and a hot guy. Sex on the beach, with no strings attached.

A chance to get rid of this pesky virginity once and for all.

And when I met Tyler McKenna, I thought I had it made.

Until someone gets hurt

But then girls started turning up at Key West landmarks. Girls who looked like me, but with one crucial difference: They’d all been drugged and relieved of their virginity.

The virginity I still have. The virginity Ty refuses to take.

And now I’ve begun to wonder whether there isn’t more to him than meets the eye.

Suddenly, sex on the beach doesn’t sound so good anymore…

Review:

*James Bond theme song plays*


Who is raping all those girls that are found in Key West? Why are all the victims blond? Is Cassy in danger? These answers are going to be answered when you read the book :P 



For me it had more mystery than romance, not that I am complaining. It's just that I wanted to see Cassy and Ty's relationship to become something more instead of focusing so much on finding the rapist. 



I didn't like the epilogue. It left me with more questions than I had before. None explanation was given about what happened and it was a little abrupt. I feel as if the author didn't know what to do to bring Cassy and Ty together and just wrote a few lines (No offense intended to the author). The story needed a couple more pages with some sort of explanation about three months before the epilogue's time.


Author bio:

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jenna Bennett (Jennie Bentley) writes the Do It Yourself home renovation mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime and the Cutthroat Business mysteries for her own gratification. She also writes a variety of romance for a change of pace. For more information, please visit her website, www.jennabennett.com

BUY LINKS:
BEFORE YOU BY JENNA BENNETT



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