Book Review: Enslaved by the Ocean - Bella Jewel

Enslaved By the Ocean (Criminals of the Sea #1) - Bella Jewel

3 stars

Book Description:

Indigo is running, she has no other choice. She's done something bad, and there only way to escape it, is to flee her home, and her country. She sets out on a luxury Yacht, to take her to another country with her best friend Eric. But she runs into a problem. 

The Yacht catches fire. 

She ends up stranded in the ocean, terrified, and scared of the uncertain. Until they show up. The pirates. Terrified, Indigo and Eric have to face the reality that this might be the end for them. These are pirates, they are the criminals of the ocean. What chance have they got of surviving this nightmare?

Then she lays eyes on Hendrix. He's the Captain, he's gorgeous, rugged, and mean. He's planning on keeping her to repay his debt to another man, by selling her. Now Indigo has a crazy ex after her, as well as a pirate she can't seem to get out of her head.

Come on this heart wrenching, dark, angsty and dangerous adventure as two people so opposite, find something so beautiful

Lovemma's Review:

I was disappointed in this book and I think that I will be disappointed in this series. I just felt that the concept was a good one, but it missed it's mark. I felt that there could have been more to the story line, maybe adding some more background on both the hero and heroine. I didn't like the fact that this left a cliff-hanger, I thought that maybe she could have added the cliff-hanger as a chapter to the second book.

Overall, I thought the book was ok. The price was good for the story ($.99), and if the second is the same price, I would buy it.

Book Review: Nocturnes - Kendall Grey

Nocturnes (Hard Rock Harlots #3) - Kendall Grey

5 stars

Book Description:

NOCTURNES contains 511 F-bombs, 81 well-endowed male chickens, 65 girl kitties, 58 Richard the Lessers, 10 C-U-Next-Tuesdays, and a plethora of other colorful words and phrases that would deafen your virginal mother’s ears and make her bust out her “Shame on you!” finger. If you’ve been tuned in since the beginning of the Hard Rock Harlots series, you know the drill. The sex is extreme, the language is graphic, and the story is over the top. Prudes and under 18s need not apply.

WARNING: NOCTURNES addresses serious topics such as alcoholism, prostitution, and cheating. If you’re looking for a barrel of laughs or sunshine and rainbows, this is NOT the book for you.

Rax Wrathbone is the dirty rock star you love to hate. The filthy fantasy slithering through your bed sheets. The serpent in your lady garden. The snake bite in your panties that keeps you sweating all night. He. Is. Sex.

And he’s no good. For anyone.

After a nasty breakup with his best friend and their band’s drummer, Rax is flying solo for the first time in years. Who needs the drama of commitment when the line for your humping booth spans three city blocks? No, groupies and liquor are far finer company than relationships, and they don’t leave bruises after they've had their way with you. At least not lasting ones.

Rax’s new adventures as an alcoholic, guitar-slashing one-man show are going along swimmingly until the only woman who’s ever brought him to his knees shimmies down a pole back into his life. Eve doesn't abide excessive drinking, she has sex with strangers for a living, and she can’t remember Rax’s name to save her life.

She’s perfect in every way.

Now, if he could just get sober long enough to forget his past and convince Eve he’s worthy of her future…

Lovemma's Review:

I knew coming into this book that it wasn't going to be like the other two. This one is darker than the others. That being said, I absolutely loved this book. 

I wanted to hate Rax for what happened in BEATS, but after this I just couldn't. 

Rax has always been an asshole, but after turning to alcohol for his solutions, when he has a falling out with his best friend and band-mate, Rax meet's Eve who is having problems of her own. Eve works as a stripper/'Angel' at Nocturnes (they offer more than stripping at this club).

Although there is some serious sexual tension, that get's released in a not so pretty bow, Rax seems that he can't stay sober enough to have any relationship with Eve, or his band-mates. When forced to choose between alcohol or Eve, what will Rax chose?

I would recommend reading the other two books (STRINGS and BEATS) before reading this one in order to understand more about Rax and his mind. However, this book can ben read as a stand-alone and has no cliffhangers!! This is the last in the series.

Kendall Grey did a really great job with Nocturnes and showing that Rax, although a pain in the ass, can be happy too.

-Lovemma