Book Blogger Hop

This week's hop: 

Q - When you settle in for the night with a good book, do you read until you can't stay awake or simply have a nightly page goal? (Silver's Reviews)

A -  If it's a really good book, I could never put it down even if I need to be up early. Happened a few times, slept only an hour then went to work with overtime. This is actually  the very one thing my husband hates the most. He rarely gets angry but if  he caught me doing this, I'd get a tongue-lashing for a whole week.  

Kindle on Discount ($0.99): The Duke's Ever Burning Passion by Charlotte Stone

The Duke's Ever Burning Passion

by Charlotte Stone

Are second chances truly possible?
The Duke of Sermont, Shep, has spent every summer since childhood at Pritchford Place... with his best friend's sister. Lady Julia Frederickson.
As they grew, their relationship grew into something else...
Love.
Writing letters back and forth to one another and making plans has been a part of them...
That is ... until Shep did something that broke her heart - he married someone else.
Since then...
She has spent her life wearing a mask.
She vows to never let anyone know how much Shep meant to her.
When Shep is widowed and comes to stay at Pritchford Place, just like old times, they antagonize one another as usual.
Is it because they hate one another? Or... because they cannot stay away from one another?
Who cares if he thinks she is the Ice Queen- cold, cruel and unfeeling?
Julia knows who she is really is, even if Shep continually misunderstands her.

"A man who loves me? A man whom I love? A family? It is all I have ever really wanted," she said.
"I never knew that about you," he whispered as he turned to look out the window.
"I am beginning to think you did not know me at all."

But is it too late for Shep to realize he made a terrible mistake all those years ago?
Can Julia forgive Shep for breaking her heart?
What about another suitor who will get in his way?

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Book Review: Bounty Colorado Mountain Book #7 by Kristen Ashley

Bounty 

Colorado Mountain Book #7

by Kristen Ashley

Series: Colorado Mountain Series
Paperback: 514 pages
Publisher: Kristen Ashley (April 18, 2016)

Kindle Edition
File Size: 3252 KB
Print Length: 516 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0692630384
Publication Date: April 18, 2016
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Ratings: ★ ★

My thoughts:

This was another meh from the Colorado Mountain series. 

The bad: 

1. Most men in the series, have the same voice and (3-word-)dialogue. I know, I know, they are supposed to be like that since they are from one place but really, there's no distinction at all.  
2. Justice Lonesome and the nickname, Jus or Jussy --- *long sigh*.
3. Romance felt forced - just like with Jagged and Kaleidoscope. 

The good:

1. I was gonna say catching up with the Colorado gang. It's just that I realized now I'd prefer not to add any memories from this book. 


About the book:

Justice Lonesome has enjoyed a life of bounty.

Even so, she’s inherited the curse of the Lonesome. A poet’s soul. Which means she’s still searching for something. Searching for peace. Searching for the less…that’s more.

And when the foundation of her life is pulled out from under her, grieving, she goes to the mountains to find her oasis. She hits Carnal, Colorado and decides to stay.

Deke Hightower lost everything at the age of two. He lost it again at fifteen. His life has not been about bounty. It’s been about learning to live with less, because there’s no way to get more. 

Deke’s also watched all his friends go down to the women who gave them what they needed. He wants that for himself. But he knows that search isn’t going to be easy because he’s a rider. His home is the road. That’s the only place he can breathe. And the woman who takes her place at his side has to do it sitting on the back of his bike.

When Deke meets Justice, he knows she’s not that woman. She’s cute. She’s sweet. And she’s into him, but she’s got it all and Deke knows he won’t fit into that. So he holds her at arm’s length. Establishes boundaries. And Justice will take it because she wants Deke any way he’ll let her have him.

But when Justice finds herself a pawn in a dangerous game, Deke makes a decision.

When he does, he has no idea he’s just opened himself up to bounty.