Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Review: Can't Touch This by Tess Hunter

Title: Can't Touch This
Author: Tess Hunter
Publication: September 5th 2016

Genre: Contemporary Romance ~ Romantic Comedy
Purchase: Amazon

Rating: 3/5

From New York Times Bestseller Pepper Winters writing as Tess Hunter, comes a sarcastic, sexy standalone full of men with big 'you know whats', puppies, pigmy pigs, and swoon-worthy moments.

I don't want to touch it.
I really, really don't.
He's egotistical, crass, and my patient's owner--which makes him totally off limits.
Yep, that's right. He owns the wiener I'm currently working on.
A wiener dog--get your dirty mind out of the gutter.
I've also worked on his Spoodle, his Cocker-shitzu, and a Cheagle--don't ask. (And no, it's not a sexual position).
It doesn't help that he also represents most of my joint-owned veterinary practice's small clientele. We'd only just opened the doors a few months ago, and in he strode with a yelping Taco Terrier. One haughty look at our sparkling new facilities, he'd demanded royal treatment, even though I was currently finger deep up a squalling tom cat.
Ever since then, he expects me to serve him.
Any time. All the time.
Him and his revolving zoo of dogs.
One of these days, I'm going to swat him for being such a pompous ass but I can't deny the way he handles his charges makes me want to see past the 'do as I say and don't ask questions' barking exterior.
But then last week...he caught me staring at his um, cough, package.
His bossy commands switched to a cocky smirk.
He gave me permission to do something I promised myself I would never ever do.
I can touch it.
If I want...


So this book was something different from this author. She usually writes rather dark books (as Pepper Winters), which I love so much. This one, though, is a romantic comedy. I'm more into dark romance but I enjoy a funny book from time to time. 

I liked this book, I really did but that was it. I didn't fully love this one but I did laugh my ass off. Some things in the story were just so damn funny. And of course the animals in it stole my heart. I also liked the banter between Vesper and Ryder a lot. Also, there were some serious hot sex scenes (which didn't really surprise me). I also really liked Vesper's best friend Polly. She was SO great!

Some things I didn't like was the random appearance (and drama) of Ryder's ex. I don't want to get too much into it but I feel like the story could've done without that. It was kind of unnessecary in my opinion. But still, I'm pretty excited about the next book which I hope will be about Polly. 

Overall, Can't Touch This by Tess Hunter was hilarious, sexy and I thought the animal love in it was so great. Although I didn't love it like some of the author's other books, I definitely liked it and would recommend it to people who adore animals like I do and enjoy books that make them laugh out loud.




       About the Author:

       Website | Facebook | Goodreads

Tess Hunter is the superhero pen name of a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Bestseller who gave up swallowing her one-liners and decided to write them instead. Her libido scares even her and having an outlet to be snarky, stupid, and sexy while cloaked by incognito is the perfect recipe for naughtiness online and in-between the romance pages.


Monday, September 12, 2016

Monday Madness: A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

Monday Madness is a bookish meme hosted by Bookfever & Booklover's Teaparty

You know that feeling when you feel like you are gonna go mad if you do not get a certain book right away, when you are obsessed and all you want is that one book and you will be happy? That is what Monday Madness is about. All those books you that drive you mad.

Pick a book. Talk about it- why do you want it? What has drawn you to it? Why is it making you mad with want for it.



A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
An Ember in the Ashes #2
Published August 30th 2016 by Razorbill

Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.

Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.

But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene—Elias’s former friend and the Empire’s newest Blood Shrike.

Bound to Marcus’s will, Helene faces a torturous mission of her own—one that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape…and kill them both.


I don't even know why I haven't ordered this book yet. What am I even waiting for? I was nuts about the first book and I've been dying to read this sequel. I've been dying to found out what will happen next to Laia and Elias. So hopefully I will get my hands on this book soon.




And as always don't forget to check out Christina's post! ♥




Saturday, September 10, 2016

Stacking The Shelves: September 10, 2016

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted @ Tynga's Reviews.


I found some amazing books about Ancient Egypt and Leonardo da Vinci on a flea market for very cheap prizes. Some brain food for me. ♥

Bought:
The Problem with Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Swear on This Life by Renee Carlino
Het Oude Egypt by Francesco Tiradritti
Leonardo by Frank Zöllner
Egypte by Rose-Marie & Rainer Hagen


Bought:
Heartless by Winter Renshaw 
The Debt by Karina Halle
Nearly Undone by Devon Ashley


Freebie:
Rae of Sunshine by Micalea Smeltzer
Beyond the Veil by Pippa DaCosta

Bought:
The Fool's Gambit by A.J. Cannon & Kelly Sharpe


For Review:
Can't Touch This by Tess Hunter (a.k.a. Pepper Winters)
Till Death by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Freedom's Slave by Heather Demetrios




Leave me links to your hauls so I can stop by! :)