The banter between two strong personalities is what had me sit up and take notice. Kessler and Nova are an inferno of volatile. They know what they want and will stop at nothing to get it. With Nothing Personal, Halle takes emotions by storm with a battle that is attractively wicked, yet deliciously captivating. Kessler and Nova represent what feelings convey, but are too cordial to confess.
Wild Card by Karina Halle is a fantastic western romance. Ms. Halle has delivered a well-written book. The characters are fantastic and lovable. Shane pretty much drove Rachel out of town when he broke up with her. Rachel stayed away until she was called home because her mother is sick. Their story is loaded with drama, humor, secrets and sizzle. I enjoyed reading Wild Card and look forward to reading more from Karina Halle in the future. Wild Card is book 1 in the North Ridge Series but can be read as a standalone. This is a complete book, not a cliff-hanger.
⭐4 stars⭐
I picked this for my free Friday read last week and I was so looking forward it. It’s the prequel to the Sins and Needles trilogy, of which I reviewed the first book yesterday. This book takes us back to Ellie’s past where we get to know the infamous Javier, the antagonist in Sins and Needles. In that book we don’t see Javier, but we’re told about him through Ellie and we’re led to believe he’s a pretty wretched guy. Javier was a man Ellie previously had a relationship with that ended badly. He shows up at the end of Sins and Needles and becomes part of the love triangle that is Ellie, Camden and Javier.
It ended up that I pretty much hated most of this novella. The plot was okay at the beginning, but then it became a love story between Ellie and Javier. I fell in love with the story of Sins and Needles, the romance element being tagged on to the end. But in On Every Street there was hardly any plot. It was too much of a change for me and not what I was expecting.
Then there were the characters. Ellie was completely different to what she was in Sins and Needles. I get that the events in the novella were supposed to be one of the reasons that she became what she did, but the difference was too stark. She wasn’t even vaguely similar to the Ellie from Sins and Needles. I felt like I was reading about someone else entirely.
Then there was Javier. Oh my God! What a world class prick! He was so smarmy it was ridiculous. Every time he opened his mouth I cringed. And we were supposed to believe he had women dropping at his feet!? Ugh, he was hideous. I loved Sins and Needles but now I’m not going to continue with the trilogy because I can’t bear to read another bit of smarmy drivel that comes out of his mouth.
Oh and I don’t want to forget to mention the cheese. It reeked! Just don’t do it to yourself, don’t read this!
I read this for my free Friday read and really wish I hadn’t.
As I’ve said in a few posts, I wasn’t well for a while and wanted to read something that was light and completely different to what I would normally read. When I landed on cars land 18 and found out this book was published in 2013, it seemed like the perfect time.
Sins and Needles is part of a new-adult trilogy. It concerns Ellie Watt, a twenty-something grifter. However, she’s ready to give the grifting life a rest and returns to her home town Palm Valley to spend time with her Uncle. When she arrives in Palm Valley she isn’t sure what she wants, to stay there for good or just visit with her uncle.
One day she bumps into Camden McQueen, a guy who was her best friend for a period in high school. When she knew him he was dorky, but now he’s matured into a very attractive man.
As she gets to know Camden and she sees how well he’s doing for himself, she can’t resist formulating a plan to steal his money and return to her grifting ways. But as you would guess, their mutual attraction gets in the way.
The reason I enjoyed this new-adult novel so much is that even though it contained some odvious troupes from the genre, it didn’t feel that way. Everything just seemed to fit together really well.
As much as it was hard to like Ellie, the author brought in a strain of backstory that meant that even though I didn’t like her much, I understood why she did some of the things she did. Camden on the other hand was someone I could route for the whole way through.
There are quite a few sex scenes, by the way and even though they were well done there were too many for me. One or two would have been enough
Above all, though, this was a fun read that was easy to get into and stay that way. The sexy storyline was punctuated with enough meat to make this a satisfying read.
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