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Book Love ♥ Sea Breeze by Abbi Glines

Sadie White's summer job isn't going to be on the beach life-guarding or working at rental booths like most kids her age. With her single mother's increasing pregnancy and refusal to work, Sadie has to take over her mother's job as a domestic servant for one of the wealthy summer families on a nearby island.
When the family arrives at their summer getaway, Sadie is surprised to learn that the owner of the house is Jax Stone, one of the hottest teen rockers in the world. If Sadie hadn't spent her life raising her mother and taking care of the house she might have been normal enough to be excited about working for a rock star.
Even though Sadie isn't impressed by Jax's fame, he is drawn to her. Everything about Sadie fascinates Jax but he fights his attraction. Relationship's never work in his world and as badly as he wants Sadie, he believes she deserves more. By the end of the summer, Jax discovers he can't breathe without Sadie.
But can their love overcome the disparity in their lifestyles? Or will they have to learn how to breathe again?

Marcus Hardy had hoped to enjoy a year away at college while he put the summer he’d rather forget behind him. But instead, he’s jerked right back to the coastal town of Sea Breeze, Alabama due to a family crisis. His dear ol' dad found himself a girlfriend only a few years older than Marcus. So now his sister needs help dealing with their mother who is mentally falling apart. The only bright spot to returning is the fascinating red head who sleeps over several times a week. The problem is she's sleeping in bed with his new roommate, Cage York.
Willow “Low” Foster needs a place to live. Running to Cage’s apartment every time her sister kicks her out isn’t exactly a long term solution. Juggling her courses at the local community college and a part time job doesn’t produce excess income. But Cage has a new roommate and suddenly sleeping over at her best friend’s apartment isn’t such a bad thing. Not when she gets to see those sexy green eyes of Marcus Hardy’s twinkle when he smiles at her like he wants her there. Even though Cage seems a little territorial where Low is concerned, Marcus finds time to spend with Low without upsetting his roommate. Cage may use his small college baseball star persona to sleep with every hot female in his path but he’s still under the disillusion that when he’s through sowing his wild oats, he’s going to marry Low. Marcus intends to change that assumption for both Cage and Low. Until his carefully laid plans come crashing down with a revelation he never expected. He’ll have to choose between Low or his family. Because once the truth comes out.... there’s no other choice.

Maybe driving home after a few (or more) shots of tequila had been a bad idea, but hell, he did it all the time. The cops had to have been freaking bored to have pulled him over. He wasn’t even swerving! That’s Cage York’s story and he’s sticking to it.
Unfortunately, his baseball coach isn’t buying it. Cage has a free ride to the local junior college for baseball -- or he did, until he’d gotten a DUI. Now, Cage has to decide: does he drop out and give up his dream of getting noticed by a college in the SEC, and possibly making it into the Major Leagues -- or does he give in to his coach’s demands and spend his summer baling hay?
Eva Brooks planned out her life step by step when she was eight years old. Not once over the years had she lost sight of her goals. Josh Beasley, her next door neighbor, had been the center of those goals. He’d been her first boyfriend at seven, her first kiss at ten, her first date at fifteen, and her first tragedy at eighteen. The moment she’d received the phone call from Josh’s mother saying he’d been killed along with four other soldiers just north of Baghdad, Eva’s carefully planned life imploded in the worst way possible.
Cage isn’t real happy with his closet-sized bedroom in the back of a foul smelling barn, or his daily interactions with cows, but he knows that if he doesn’t make his coach happy then he can kiss his scholarship goodbye. Only a sick and twisted man would decide his punishment was to be working on a farm all summer. No hot babes in bikinis waiting to meet a Southern boy to make her vacation complete. Just him and the damned cows.
Oh -- and an uptight, snarky brunette with the biggest blue eyes he’s every seen. But she doesn’t count, because as hard as he’s tried to charm her out of her panties - he’s pretty sure she’d rather see him hung from the rafters than let him get a taste of her pretty little lips.

The day Preston Drake figured out that wealthy women paid well for a set of tight abs and a pretty face his life turned around.
The run down rat-infested trailer he had shared with his alcoholic mother and three younger siblings was now only a place he visited to pay the bills and stock the pantry with food.
He no longer worried about his family starving or living without electricity. The money he made entertaining rich older women more than covered his family’s needs and his own. He had it all figured out. Except…
There was this girl.
She was as innocent as he was tainted.
Amanda Hardy wished her knees didn’t get weak when Preston walked into a room. She hated the fact her heart raced when he flashed his smile in her direction. He had a different girl in his bed every night. He was the kind of boy a smart girl ran from. So, why was she coming up with ways to get close to him? Even when it was obvious he wanted to keep her at a distance.
Maybe her heart knew something the world didn’t. Maybe Preston Drake was more than just a pretty face.

Abbi Glines can be found hanging out with rockstars, taking out her yacht on weekends for a party cruise, sky diving, or surfing in Maui. Okay maybe she needs to keep her imagination focused on her writing only. In the real world, Abbi can be found hauling kids (several who seem to show up that don’t belong to her) to all their social events, hiding under the covers with her MacBook in hopes her husband won’t catch her watching Buffy on Netflix again, and sneaking off to Barnes and Noble to spend hours lost in the yummy goodness of books. If you want to find her then check Twitter first because she has a severe addiction to tweeting @abbiglines. She also blogs regularly but rarely about anything life changing. She also really enjoys talking about herself in third person.

Don't you just love these new Sea Breeze covers?! They are oh-so-totally-hot! ♥ AND! They are not only beautiful on the outside, but they are beautiful on the inside too!
Ever since the first time I read Breathe, I've been waiting for every book the author releases and every book is worth the wait because Abbi never disappoints ;) I'm totally in love with these series and I can't wait for these new covers to be out in paperback. Eeeee~ (I'm broke though, so I'm going to find a sponsor now to buy me the awesome books)
If you haven't had the chance to read this series yet, YOU ARE TOTALLY MISSING OUT! The Sea Breeze series will make you fall in love with every single page and you will not regret ever reading it :)

Review | Drew + Fable by Monica Murphy

Temporary. That one single word best describes my life these last few years. I’m working at a temporary job until I can finally break free. I’m my little brother’s temporary mother since our mom doesn’t give a crap about either of us. And I’m that temporary girl all the guys want to get with because I give it up so easily. According to the rumors, at least.
But now I’m the temporary girlfriend of Drew Callahan, college football legend and all around golden guy. He’s beautiful, sweet—and he’s hiding way more secrets than I am. He’s brought me into this fake life where everyone seems to hate me. And everyone seems to want something from him. The only thing he seems to want though is…
Me.
I don’t know what to believe anymore. All I know is, I think Drew needs me. And I want to be there for him.

GOODREADS | AMAZON

Lost. That one single word best describes my life at this very moment. I lost the last games of the season and both my team and my coach blame me. I lost the last two months because I drowned in my own despair like a complete loser. And I lost the only girl who ever mattered because I was afraid being with me would destroy her.
But now I realize how truly lost I am without her. She has become my story…and even though she acts like she’s moved on, I know she still thinks about me just as much as I think about her. She’s beautiful, sweet—and so damn vulnerable, all I want to do is help her. Be there for her.
Love her…
If only I could convince Fable to give me a second chance. Then I wouldn’t feel so lost anymore, and neither would she. We could be found together.
Forever.

GOODREADS | AMAZON

Too caught up.
That's how I actually felt when I was reading these books. Drew and Fable is a perfect not-perfect couple and I just love getting sucked into their story.

"I'm in love with a jerky asshole and damn, that's painful to admit."

What started as a job turned out to be a twisted but insanely good fairy tale between them. These two had definitely been through a lot but somehow they saved each other from all of those bad things between them.
The ending of the first book was definitely heart breaking but it had a good impact in the second book because Drew somehow changed and now that he's known what it was like to be without Fable, he would never let her go.

For a passion that's Able to shine like ours Blessed are we to Love Each other

I loved how the story had even good and bad events. How the amount of bad things that happened to them was just enough. Not like others I've read that the author is like punishing the characters so much it makes me want to pull my hair out.

"I love you. You know that, right?" I frown. "Yeah, I know. I love you too. Lots." "Lots?" "Mega lots." "Sounds like a discount store."

I also loved the characters very much. Drew and Fable had their fair share of messed up lives but they understand each other and they never gave up on each other. Fable is an amazing, independent and a very responsible woman and I adore her very much for understanding Drew. I liked that Drew isn't your usual cocky and arrogant football jock. I loved how he opened up to Fable and that he really cared so much for her. I also like their playful moments and when they are teasing each other. ;)

Drew is... Delicious Real Extra sexy and... Wonderful

Even though Owen is somewhat screwed up too, he is a very protective little brother and I love his and Fable's closeness. I liked Andy's character too even though Drew mentioned him as a cold person, he turned out to be a very understanding person in the end. But their mothers however, I did not like them one bit. Man! Adele is a sick person! I was surprised at that one part where we got to see from Adele's point of view. I wanted to strangle her then push her in front of a moving train! Haha. She does bring out a violent streak in people.
I was deceived by the cover and this book was definitely not what I expected but if this was ever going to have another book, I would gladly read it 'cause I love these characters so much. :) But if ever this is going to be the last, that would be okay too because I think the ending was already perfect :)

Pointless.

My life is pointless.

At least when it's summer, it is.
I don't actually have a long summer. I have like 4 weeks because I'm one of those unfortunate college students who studies in a school which has quarters instead of semesters. So we study almost all-year long. Yeah. I don't really regret it... okay, kind of. But every summer, I don't really do anything. So I figured that 4 weeks of vacation is better than more days to spend doing nothing.

And by doing nothing I mean -- spending hours and hours in front of the computer, lounging in front of the television looking for something worth your time to watch, not really sleeping at all, looking for something to eat every few hours.. or minutes. Yeah, my life is pointless.

Wait, let me talk to you about my sleeping problems because I'm amazed at myself for this. I don't really remember the first night this summer I slept late. All I know is that night after night, I always slept past midnight.. even way after midnight. Then I started sleeping at 4 am... then at 5 am... then at 6 am... then I usually woke up at 3 pm. One time, I started to read a book for me to feel sleepy, but I didn't, and I actually finished it, lol. I broke my waking up record last week (It was 4 pm and I'm still wearing my jammies, lol). But today, I broke my sleeping record. Actually, I haven't slept yet. And it's already 9 am. I don't know why, I just couldn't sleep. I was, again, reading a book to feel sleepy but I just couldn't. Then I stopped reading and looked at the ceiling instead... I was looking at it for two hours but my brain doesn't stop thinking and I wasn't near sleepy. I was thinking about the last book I read, what I will do tomorrow when I woke up, what would it be like the first day I get back in school, why am I not sleepy.. stuff like that. Then I thought, "What the heck." Then I just stopped trying to sleep then ate my breakfast.

That's actually how I came up with starting this blog. My brain thinks too much I think I need to share it. But I know no one would ever want to hear my rants so I figured writing a blog would be for the best.
I actually came up with a few posts when I was lost in my thoughts this morning. So yeah, this first post is actually all about my messed up body clock.
Gah, I can almost see my blog's future... I don't think people would ever read it.

Nevermind. I still have problems to think about.

Why am I still not sleepy?

Overthinking

Kindle Fire Giveaway | May 2013

Book Love ♥ Sea Breeze by Abbi Glines

Review | Drew + Fable by Monica Murphy

Pointless.

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