Showing posts with label Rebel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rebel. Show all posts

Saturday, January 2, 2016

BOOK REVIEW - REBEL by CALLIE HART - DEAD MAN'S INK # 1 - BIKER ROMANCE

By: Callie Hart
Published By: Callie Hart
Released: Available Now
Details: 

RATING: 4.25 REBEL & CADE STARS!

Blurb: Goodreads

Rebel and Sophia's story.

The first of a three part series. This novel contains a small snippet which has already been released in the Owned: An Alpha Anthology, however it is followed by a full story installment.

Sophia

Sometimes, you don't mean to become another person. Sometimes the choice is made for you, and pretending is the only thing that keeps you going. When Alexis Romera is taken and her kidnappers find her fake ID in her purse, she must become Sophia in order to keep her family safe. Revealing her real identity to the man she's sold to would be easy enough, but can she trust him? Hell bent on revenging the murder of his uncle, Rebel doesn't seem all that interested in playing things safe.

In fact, nothing about the secretive, dark and brooding MC president seems safe at all.

Rebel

What do you do when the man who raised you is murdered, and the only witness is kidnapped girl who's being sold as a sex slave? You buy her, of course. As president to the most powerful motorcycle club in America, Rebel isn't lacking in power. There are strings the man can pull, and entire criminal organisations and corporate businesses alike would fall to their knees. However, along with such power comes intense interest. The DEA have their eye fixed solely on the MC...and they're just waiting for Rebel to trip up.

Getting Sophia to testify is the only way to bring the Los Oscuros cartel down. The beautiful, dark haired, dark eyed woman is belligerent and uncooperative and unlikely to bend to his will, but Rebel has a few tricks up his sleeve to make her compliant--he'll charm her until she's bending over backwards to please him.

Of course, falling for her might cause a few hiccups along the way...



BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:


“The Widow Makers say I’m stone-cold, Soph. 
They say I’m made of Ice. When the rest of the club meets you, I’m pretty sure they’re gonna say you’re made of fire.”



Fave quote right there from the book.



I LOVED Blood & Roses series where we get to meet Cade and of course the star of this book, Rebel.

I was excited to start this series knowing I could go onto Rogue as soon as I wanted to.

I really enjoyed learning more about Sophia aka Alexia. Did I dig the little I knew of her in Blood & Roses...not particularly...but I loved getting to know her in Rebel.

I love the background we find out about Rebel in this first book. I thought he was phwooaaaarrr the little bit we got to see of him in Blood & Roses and we learn far more.

Rebel surprised me with the quirk he has with a... well, I won’t tell you.

I liked this was story first and then the sex was secondary, because the sex would have been forced and not validated if it was more than what it was in this first instalment. If that makes sense.

It was a slow burn on both the sexual side and the getting to know each other, but I didn't mind it told that way.

Callie throws in a surprise that I didn’t see coming because I think I was comfortable with learning about the characters and then BAM!

Shit went down.

Looking forward to picking up Rogue...soon.


Michelle



Wednesday, June 11, 2014

BLOG TOUR & 3 BOOK GIVEAWAY - REBEL by AMY TINTERA - REBOOT # 2 - YA SCI-FI DYSTOPIAN - ALLEN & UNWIN

By: Amy Tintera
Published By: Allen & Unwin
Released : Available Now
Details: Paperback from publisher for honest review, 340 Pages

RATING: 4.5 FAST PACED STARS!

Blurb: Goodreads

Wren Connolly thought she'd left her human side behind when she died five years ago and came back 178 minutes later as a Reboot. With her new abilities of strength, speed and healing - along with a lack of emotions - Wren 178 became the perfect soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation). Then Callum 22 came along and changed everything.

Now that they've both escaped, they're ready to start a new life in peace on the Reboot Reservation. But Micah 163, the Reboot running the reservation, has darker plans in mind: to wipe out the humans. All of them. Micah has been building a Reboot army for years and is now ready to launch his attack on the cities. Callum wants to stick around and protect the humans. Wren wants nothing more than to leave all the fighting behind them.

With Micah on one side, HARC on the other, and Wren and Callum at odds in the middle, there is only one option left...

It's time for Reboots to become rebels.


BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

Amy Tintera has brought a fast paced, exciting conclusion to her Reboot, duology. This sci-fi/dystopian had me turning the pages.

I found more substance to the plot and the characters brought me what I think I was missing from Reboot, even though I really enjoyed Reboot.

Told from both Callum and Wren’s pov’s we get a deeper understanding of these two characters who are at different ends of the reboot scale.

I loved watching Wren discover more of her human nature, so to speak. She does soften up, her thoughts becoming her own. I liked that Amy gave us reasons for her characters evolving, even though they are Reboots.

A higher number supposedly meant a Reboot was faster, stronger, less emotional, but I thought that was just a line HARC fed us that the Reboots bought into. We all used to be human, before we died and came back to life as Reboots, I didn’t see why the number of minutes dead mattered so much.


It kind of showed the reader that their still was a human underneath all of it. Even if it got lost for a while.

Callum is gorgeous. He was a little soft for me in Reboot, and he didn’t lose his human nature in this installment but he earned my respect. He really is a great character.

These two balance each other out.

This installment takes off at a fast pace from where Reboot left off. You will be turning the pages as this group of rebels go from one situation to the next in a bid to find a solution and release the other Reboots.

Did I think this could all be neatly tidied up in two books? Um, put it this way I got a satisfactory ending, but I still feel like there was more story to be told, more characters to explore.

Amy really has a clever idea with Reboots. It’s different and I could have explored these two characters and their sidekicks more in this world, but that is just me.

There is always a villain in a dystopian read and there are more than one in this one.

I got some sad moments that did surprise me how I felt. My heart got hurt.

I can see how film rights have been optioned by Fox for Reboot. It would make a great movie.

A fast paced, clever idea with some fierce moments and a romance that did flutter my heart like butterfly wings.




Michelle


GIVEAWAY

3 WINNERS!!

The lovely Allen & Unwin are kindly donating 3 x Paperbacks for me to giveaway on my tour stop.



Thanks kindly to Allen & Unwin!

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS!

AUSSIE ENTRIES ONLY

(Publisher is donating and mailing the prizes.)

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Answer this Q: What was the last Dystopian book you read?

EASY!

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ENDS 18TH JUNE 2014

GOOD LUCK!