Carries Book Reviews

Breaking Through
Juliana Haygert
(Breaking #3)
Publication date: August 22nd 2016
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

From the outside, Hilary Taylor has it all—beauty, money, a caring family, good friends—but inside she’s struggling, full of fears. Events from the past forever changed her, and though years of therapy have helped, she still has a long way to go…. No matter how much progress she’s made, Hil isn’t sure she’ll ever be able to trust men again. Especially one who sees her as nothing more than a pretty face. But Hil knows it’s time to face her fears, and the best way to do that is to start small.

To Guilherme Fernandes life is about three things: polo, parties and pretty girls—only one of which he takes seriously. Gui is too focused on his polo career to waste time on relationships, however he can’t help but be intrigued by the beautiful yet troubled Hil. So when she decides she’d like to learn more about horses, Gui is happy to find himself in the right place at the right time. But what was supposed to be a one time thing, soon turns into a weekly date.

As Gui helps her discover a new found love for horses, Hil’s guard begins to crumble. The more support Gui offers, the more she wants to accept…and the more the lines of friendship blur. Despite knowing better, Hil can’t help it as Gui slowly breaks through the walls she’s built. Now she has to decide if she’ll stop him there, or if she’ll finally let her fear go and allow Gui to reach for her heart.

Companion novel of Breaking Free and Breaking Away. Can be read as a standalone. Genre: NA contemporary romance. Warning: strong language, sex scene, mentions of rape and domestic violence.

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Author Bio:

While Juliana Haygert dreams of being Wonder Woman, Buffy, or a blood elf shadow priest, she settles for the less exciting—but equally gratifying—life of a wife, mother, and author. Thousands of miles away from her former home in Brazil, she now resides in North Carolina and spends her days writing about kick-ass heroines and the heroes who drive them crazy.

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A Fabrication of the Truth
Katie Kaleski
Publication date: September 20th 2016
Genres: Romance, Young Adult

The last time Lexie Stein saw Dalton Reyes he lay in a pool of blood, hovering somewhere between life and death. Now, five years later, he’s the new guy in her high school.

What happened between then and now is a mystery Lexie is afraid to explore. Just one lie uncovered from her past can cause the house of cards she’s so carefully constructed to come crashing down around her. And Dalton is the key to that past.

She doesn’t need her grandmother’s warnings to convince her that Dalton means trouble. But the bond they shared as kids seems to have only gotten stronger, transforming into something wonderful and powerful.

When Dalton opens up about the intervening years and what they mean for his future, Lexie is determined not to let him get away a second time.

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Katie Kaleski is a young adult author that hails from the midwest. A Fabrication of the Truth is her debut novel, but she will have plenty more books coming very soon.

Her favorite food is cereal with milk, she holds cookies in high regard, and she loves all things cute and fuzzy.

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Working for The Billionaires Club
Sky Corgan
Publication date: August 16th 2016
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

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Sky Corgan is a USA Today Best-Selling author. When she’s not typing away at the next steamy romance series, she’s busy planning for future vacations.

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The Gift of a Charm by Melissa Hill
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Holly O’Neill has always cherished her charm bracelet saying that the charms are simply a map to her life marking the good and bad times. She works in a upscale secondhand clothing store and when a donation comes in with a charm bracelet mistakenly inside Holly is determined to find the owner.

Greg and his father have been looking for his mother’s charm bracelet. She had become sick and the bracelet had always been special to her so the family really wants to keep it but doesn’t know what had happened.

I was a bit disappointed with The Gift of a Charm. I thought going into this one that it was going to be a lovely holiday romance read. Unfortunately the synopsis of searching for a charm bracelet’s owner is basically the entirety of the read.

Starting off it was sort of a fun little mystery told by the one searching, the original owner and then the son of the owner. But at 400+ pages this just became really boring for me waiting for the “more” that never really came. There was a little twist at the end but a little too little too late for my taste.

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Saving Sophie by Sam Carrington
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Karen Finch’s seventeen year old daughter Sophie had gone out with friends but arrived home being escorted by the police. She had been found wandering the roads completely out of it being obvious that she had been drinking or doing drugs.

The next day Karen finds out that Sophie has no memory of what had happened the night before and one of Sophie’s friends is missing. Sophie doesn’t seem too worried about anything but Karen is determined to find out just went on with her daughter that night.

I was a bit disappointed in Saving Sophie after really expecting that I would love this book. The story in itself was an OK psychological thriller but I wasn’t a huge fan of the characters in this story unfortunately.

Told from alternating POVs of Karen, Sophie and the detective in charge of the case with Sophie’s friend the story should have really been an amazing one. However, Karen is homebound battling anxiety after her own attack in the past so she’s overly determined to get answers while Sophie is rather flippant then turns to hiding things. But both characters have one thing in common as the twists and turns come about in the book, they neither turn to the police for their own selfish reasons. This made the chapters with the investigation seem to lack a connection to the story to me.

Overall, I just came away with a this one was alright feeling when done, not particularly good or bad as the characters weren’t my favorite for a thriller.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.