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💬: "His breathing shudders out. “Don’t stop. I’ll be there in fifteen minutes.” His voice goes hard. “Don’t you dare come. That orgasm is mine and I intend to take it.”

Robert, Katee. Your Dad Will Do (A Touch of Taboo) (p. 122). Trinkets and Tales LLC. Kindle Edition.

📖Genres: adult, spicy, romance, contemporary romance

📚Page Count: 140

🎧Audiobook Length: 04h 13min

👩🏾‍🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3/5

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TW - <spoiler>Cursing, Infidelity, and Sexual content</spoiler>

Your Dad Will Do is an erotica and romance novella by Katee Robert. Lily is engaged but she just discovered that her boyfriend has been cheating on her and she decided to end the relationship. Feeling lost, frustrated, and hurt, she decides to visit her ex-fiance's father, Shane. Lily's plan is to get her ex-fiance's father to sleep with her so she can hurt her ex the way he hurt her. Will her plan work or will Shane turn her away?

I thought I would like this more than I do. This reading experience has been a disappointment because there were some parts that were so good but there were parts that were so bad it just ruined the reading experience. There were several times in the book where Lily would ask Shane to stop doing something and he would flat out ignore her and continue with what he was doing. Once Lily told Shane that his manhood was too endowed for her to receive and he ignored her and KEPT GOING, then the character says to herself something like "oh, it did fit". Honey, if you tell someone to stop or you say no during intimacy moments and the other person or people don't stop, that's border lining assault.

I gasp. “It’s too much.” “No it’s not.” He doesn’t stop, just keeps working me on his cock. “You’re going to take every inch, because you’re a good girl and that’s what good girls do. They take their Daddy’s cocks to the hilt.” And then, impossibly, I do.

Robert, Katee. Your Dad Will Do (A Touch of Taboo) (p. 128). Trinkets and Tales LLC. Kindle Edition.

Reading this was uncomfortable for me because in the quote above he ignores Lily's concerns and continues with what he's doing and I think he should handle her with more care and consideration.

The spicy scenes are hard to rate in this novella because some of them were really good and some of them were a turn off because of Shane's tendency to not listen to Lily's pleads or concerns. I'm giving it two chilies 🌶️🌶️.5 out of five chilies

Overall, this was just okay, I would have rated it higher if it weren't for the issues I mentioned above. I'm giving this book 3 stars out of 5.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3/5 Stars

I listened to this for free on the library app [Libbyapp.com]

💬: N/A

📖Genres: horror, thriller, suspense, paranormal, supernatural

📚Page Count: 597

🎧Audiobook Length: 21h 55min

👩🏾‍🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5

TW - <spoiler>Addiction, Gore, Violence, Child death, Death of parent, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Blood, Car accident, Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death, Sexual assault, Drug use, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, and Drug abuse</spoiler>

The Good House is a suspense, horror, thriller, and mystery novel by Tananarive Due. Angela and her family have returned to her grandmother's house, also known by towns folk as "The Good House, hoping that some of her grandma's magic would help fix her marriage but instead a tragedy happens. Two years later while Angela is still coping with the traumatic events that occurred two years prior, she revisit The Good House and discovers that other people have been experience tragic events as well. Angela wonders if these incidents have anything to do with an entity that her grandmother fought against in 1929. Myles Fisher, Angela's high school boyfriend, helps Angela try and solve the mystery before it's too late and their meddling has deadly consequences.

This book felt like it was mostly suspense and it gave me actual stress from anticipation. There are tragic and horrific things that happen in this book, but the way it's written is interesting. I'll explain - the author sometimes eludes to us that a character is going to die and then we have to sit through a few agonizing scenes of them not knowing they're going to die. It was torturous in the best ways! This is the first suspense story that I've read in my adult years that actually creeped and stressed me out.

TW - <spoiler>adult/minor relationships, rape, pedophilia</spoiler>

This is a really good novel but there was one thing that I didn't particularly like about it. There's a scene where a character has possibly <spoiler>turned evil and to depict that the author makes that adult aged character engaging in a sexual act with a 13 year old, so rape. We get that he's evil, you don't have to write that scene in there to show us that he's "gone to the bad side". </spoiler>

The other problem that I have with this story is that it's so long. I don't think a thriller/suspense needs to be almost 600 pages long, I usually expect tomes to be fantasy or fantasy/sci fi books. The audio book for this was 5 minutes just shy of 22 hours long! It was entertaining so there was only one time that I wondered "How long do I have left in this audiobook?". I think there might have been some things that could have been cut to make it at least 400 pages but I know it would change the story drastically to just cut away almost 200 pages. It was a good story overall, just one that I don't think I'll revisit due to the length.

Overall, this book was really good! I enjoyed it for the most part, aside from the issues I mentioned. I'm giving this 4 stars out of 5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4/5

I listened to this audiobook for free on [Libbyapp.com]

💬: "Unlike big, burly bears with their adorably soft hearts that us wild women have to be careful not to bruise, wolves have egos that are titanium over iron. It takes a great deal to insult a wolf, so if you manage it, kudos to you. He’ll probably give you ten thousand orgasms in revenge. You poor, poor thing."

Singh, Nalini. Wolf Rain (Psy-Changeling Trinity Book 3) (p. 143). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

📖Genres: paranormal romance, romance, urban fantasy, adult

📚Page Count: 392

🎧Audiobook Length: 13h 23min

👩🏾‍🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5

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TW - Grief, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Murder, Torture, Confinement, Violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Wolf Rain is the 18th book in the Psy/Changeling series and 3rd in the Psy/Changeling Trinity series both by Nalini Singh. Wolf Rain is about a Psy named Memory, who was found by a wolf changeling, Alexei. Memory was trapped in an underground bunker, confined against her will by a psychopath of a Psy. Now that she's been rescued and freed Alexei comes to find what a strong spirit she has inside of her and he becomes fond of her. Now he has to make a final decision, "risk everything or lose Memory". Will he choose to save her?

I think Memory was a compelling character and I enjoyed reading about her and seeing her grow. I think Alexei showed character growth by the end of the story, but he didn't have much of a personality within the story. If Alexei had more of a personality outside of caring about Memory, I would have given this 5 stars.

I think the spicy scenes in this book were much better than the ones in the previous book (Ocean Light.) I'm still not a fan of the "first time" scenes but the scenes afterwards were nice. I'm giving it two chilies 🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of five chilies

Overall, I'd say Wolf Rain has been my favorite book from the Psy/Changeling Trinity series. I'm giving this book 4 stars out of 5.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5 Stars

I listened to this for free on the library app [HooplaDigital.com]

💬: -

📖Genres: middle grade, horror, humor

📚Page Count: 225

🎧Audiobook Length: 03h 09min

👩🏾‍🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3/5

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Shark Night by R. L. Stine is a story about Carlo, who's mom is a t.v show producer. Carlo's mom comes up with this wild t.v show idea to have a kid in a large water tank film a shark that they release. At first Carlo thinks he won't have to be the one in the tank, but he's wrong. Trying to calm his nerves, he grips his camera and then realizes that the producers didn't lower down the harmless and toothless hammerhead shark like they promised, they released a more deadly shark! Now Carlo is terrified, will he survive?

This was okay, it reminded me of some of the Goosebumps books I read when I was a kid. I think I enjoyed the Goosebumps series better but this was still okay. There are a lot of wacky characters and situations that Carlo gets into so I think any middle grader reading this will be entertained.

The audio book narration was great, Ramon de Ocampo did a really good job narrator all the characters. They also helped keep the story interesting.

This book was okay. I'm giving this 3 out of 5 stars.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 3/5 Stars

Thank you [NetGalley.com], R.L. Stine (the author), and Blackstone Publishing (publisher) for the arc (advanced reader's copy) of the audiobook.