Category: Non ARC

Aaru (The Aaru Cycle: Book 1) by David Meredith

Aaru (The Aaru Cycle Book 1) by [Meredith, David]

Title: Aaru

Author: David Meredith

Publisher: Unknown

Date of publication: July 9th, 2017

Genre: New Adult, Science Fiction

Number of pages: 295

POV: 3rd person

Series: The Aaru Cycle

Aaru – Book 1

Where you can find Aaru: Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

“…Death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future…” 
-Friedrich Nietzsche 

Rose is dying. Her body is wasted and skeletal. She is too sick and weak to move. Every day is agony and her only hope is that death will find her swiftly before the pain grows too great to bear. 

She is sixteen years old. 

Rose has made peace with her fate, but her younger sister, Koren, certainly has not. Though all hope appears lost Koren convinces Rose to make one final attempt at saving her life after a mysterious man in a white lab coat approaches their family about an unorthodox and experimental procedure. A copy of Rose’s radiant mind is uploaded to a massive supercomputer called Aaru – a virtual paradise where the great and the righteous might live forever in an arcadian world free from pain, illness, and death. Elysian Industries is set to begin offering the service to those who can afford it and hires Koren to be their spokesmodel. 

Within a matter of weeks, the sisters’ faces are nationally ubiquitous, but they soon discover that neither celebrity nor immortality is as utopian as they think. Not everyone is pleased with the idea of life everlasting for sale. 
What unfolds is a whirlwind of controversy, sabotage, obsession, and danger. Rose and Koren must struggle to find meaning in their chaotic new lives and at the same time hold true to each other as Aaru challenges all they ever knew about life, love, and death and everything they thought they really believed. 

Trigger Warning: None

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Environmentally Friendly by Elias Zanbaka

Environmentally Friendly

Title: Environmentally Friendly

Author: Elias Zanbaka

Publisher: E. Z. Entertainment

Date of publication: March 5th, 2016

Genre: Thriller, Action, Short Story

Number of pages: 29

POV: 3rd person

Where you can find Environmentally Friendly: Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

Out of seven billion people, one man has declared war on Mother Nature and plans to bring it to its knees.

Out of all the criminals in Los Angeles, he’s the number one target being hunted by the LAPD tonight.

And out of the entire LAPD, one officer is hell-bent on helping him complete his mission.

Trigger Warning: None

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FountainCorp Security: Diaries of a Space Marine by Watson Davis

FountainCorp Security: Diaries of a Space Marine by [Davis, Watson]

Title: FountainCorp Security

Author: Watson Davis

Publisher: Self-published

Date of publication: December 10th, 2016

Number of pages: 259

Genre: Science Fiction

POV: 1st and 3rd person

Where you can find FountainCorp Security: Barnes and Noble | Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

Interplanetary Terrorism, Corporate Backstabbing, and Nanotech Zombies! 

Dorothea, decorated veteran of the Martian Marines and paroled war-criminal, has a new job using her old skills, but her first mission takes off on the wrong foot. In a zombie-infested station, every mistake can be your last.

In this military sci-fi romp across the solar system, Watson Davis weaves a tale of intrigue and terror with guns and blasters blazing.

Buy this book and start reading the Diaries of a Space Marine series today!

Trigger Warning: None

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Counting Sheep & Other Stories by D.I. Jolly

Counting Sheep & Other Stories by [Jolly, D.I.]

Title: Counting Sheep and Other Stories

Author: D.I. Jolly

Publisher: Tinpot Publishing

Date of publication: July 3rd, 2015

Genre: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Thriller

Number of pages: 295

POV: 1st person and 3rd person

Where you can find Counting Sheep and Other Stories: Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

Counting Sheep is a thriller by author D.I Jolly set in an alternative reality where sleep can be stored in batteries and used when required. There is also a small collection of short stories ranging from twisted romance to horror and the first chapter of his up and coming Novel Mostly Human.

Trigger Warning: None

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Billionaire for New Year’s: A Steamy Erotic Romance by Em Brown

Billionaire for New Year's: A Steamy Billionaire Erotic Romance Novel

Title: Billionaire for New Year’s

Author: Em Brown

Publisher: TCK Publishing

Date of publication: April 5th, 2017

Genre: Romance, Erotica

Number of pages: 303

POV: 3rd person

Series: A Billionaire Erotic Romance Novel

Billionaire for Christmas – Book 1 (review here)

Billionaire for New Years –  Book 2

Where you can find Billionaire for New Year’s: Amazon | Barnes and Noble

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

Two billionaires, a wedding, and plenty of heat to ring in the new year… 
Billionaire hotel mogul Rance Durand thought he had successfully seduced Audrey Jones into his life for good, but Audrey’s convinced their different backgrounds won’t mesh. Will they go their separate ways, or can he find a way to seduce her all over again? 

Smokin’ hot Charlene Jenkins is Audrey’s best friend, and she’ll do just about anything to see her friend happy—even if it means accepting a bargain with billionaire playboy Blaine Edwards, Rance’s friend, and colleague. 

Blaine wants Charlene to get Audrey to the New Year’s Eve of Erotica party, where Rance has a surprise in store for Audrey, but he may want something else just as bad: Charlene’s submission…in his bed.

Trigger Warning: None

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A Thousand Rooms by Helen Jones

A Thousand Rooms

Title: A Thousand Rooms

Author: Helen Jones

Publisher: Self Published

Date of publication: October 20th, 2016

Genre: General Fiction, Women’s Fiction

Number of pages: 270

POV: 1st person

Where you can find A Thousand Rooms: Barnes and Noble | Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

You don’t wake up expecting to die… 

Katie is thirty-two, single, and used to work in advertising. She’s also dead. A lost soul hitching rides with the dying, trying to find her way to… wherever she’s supposed to be. 

And whoever she’s supposed to be with. 

Heaven, it seems, has a thousand rooms. What will it take to find hers?

Trigger Warning: None

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To Save His Child (Into the Storm: Book 1) by Margaret Watson

To Save His Child (Into the Storm, #1)

Title: To Save His Child

Author: Margaret Watson

Publisher: Dragonfly Press

Date of publication: June 2nd, 2017 (originally published in 1996)

Genre: Romance

POV: 3rd person

Series: Into The Storm

To Save His Child – Book 1

An Innocent Man – Book 2

An Honorable Man – Book 3

The Dark Side of the Moon – Book 4

Family on the Run – Book 5

Where you can find To Save His Child: Barnes and Noble | Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

Caine O’Roarke regretted vanishing into thin air and leaving Lexie Hollister asleep in his bed – but he had no choice. The mercenary had been called in for an urgent mission in the middle of the night. He’d miss Lexie, but the former Seal told himself that he and Lexie would both get over it. They’d been completely wrong for each other – in all but one way. 

Eleven months later, when Lexie’s father asks Caine to rescue his daughter from the civil war in San Rafael, he barely recognizes Lexie. The former party girl has grown up, and she’s the only nurse in a small village. And she has a child. His child. 

Will Caine be able to save the woman he hasn’t been able to forget? Will Lexie be able to forgive him for disappearing? And will they be able to survive the jungle and figure out how to create a family?

Trigger Warning: None

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Double the College Experience by Sara Raynott

Double the College Experience

Title: Double The College Experience

Author: Sara Raynott

Publisher: Unknown

Date of publication: June 3rd, 2017

Genre: Erotica

Number of pages: 20

POV: 1st person

Where you can find Double the College Experience: Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

When Sean, my high school sweetheart, breaks up with me, I have no idea why. He claims to want the full college experience. 

When I meet Brad, he is more than happy to show me what that means. But, he has a bigger surprise in store for me when he introduces me to his roommate, Nick.

Trigger Warning: None

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Everything We Keep (Everything We Keep: Book 1) by Kerry Lonsdale

Everything We Keep (Everything We Keep #1)

Title: Everything We Keep

Author: Kerry Lonsdale

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing

Date of publication: August 1st, 2016

Genre: General Fiction, Women’s Fiction

Number of pages: 306

POV: 1st person

Series: Everything We Keep

Everything We Keep – Book 1

Everything We Left Behind – Book 2

Where you can find Everything We Keep: Barnes and Noble | Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

A luminous début with unexpected twists, Everything We Keep explores the devastation of loss, the euphoria of finding love again, and the pulse-racing repercussions of discovering the truth about the ones we hold dear and the lengths they will go to protect us.

Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents’ restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Instead of walking down the aisle on their wedding day, Aimee is at James’s funeral—a funeral that leaves her more unsettled than at peace.

As Aimee struggles to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into James’s disappearance. What she uncovers is an ocean of secrets that make her question everything about the life they built together. And just below the surface is a truth that may set Aimee free…or shatter her forever.

Trigger Warning: Death

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Once A Hero: Diaries of a Space Marine by Watson Davis

Once A Hero: Diaries of a Space Marine by [Davis, Watson]

Title: Once A Hero

Author: Watson Davis

Publisher: Unknown

Date of publication: January 10th 2015

Genre: Science Fiction

Number of pages: 56

POV: 3rd person

Where you can find Once A Hero: Amazon

Book Synopsis (from Amazon):

Paroled from military prison, Dorothea wants to kick back and become a regular citizen with a regular job but the wrong people remember who she is, what she’s done, and who she’s killed.

Those people want her dead, and they’re willing to pay.

Welcome to the first novella in the Diaries of a Space Marine military science fiction series, a rousing tale of a warrior who’s trying to fit in.

Buy this book and start the adventure.

My review:

I really enjoyed reading Once A Hero. While short, it was full of action and science fiction (hello, on a different plant) with a main character that I didn’t know if I wanted to feel bad for, strangle her or a combination of both.

Not a lot of background is given about Dorothea, just that she was in jail for war crimes and that she was hated by the population. So when she was paroled, I knew that trouble was going to follow her and oh boy did it.

I really can’t go into the book except that it does get interesting when she is released. People are out to get her and she literally cannot go anywhere without someone attacking her. Which explains why she did what she did later in the book. Heck, I would have done the same thing.

For it being a short story, I felt that the author did do a great job with letting me get to know Dorothea. I also liked that he set up for the other book. How he did that, I really can’t say (will be giving away a major reveal in the plot).

I am very interested in seeing how the other book pans out. Because of Dorothea’s choices.

This would be a perfect book for the beach, pool or sitting out back with your kids during summer vacation (guess where I read Once A Hero….lol).

How many stars will I give Once A Hero: 4

Why: Short but good. Makes you need to read the next book.

Will I reread: Yes

Will I recommend to family and friends: Yes

Age range: Adult

Why: Violence and language

**I received a free copy of this book and volunteered to review it**