Carole's Friday

Author: Marie Harte

Title: All I Want for Halloween

Series: Marie Harte Seattle Contemporary Romance #12

Genre: Contemporary Romance, Chick Lit

Format: ebook

Pages: 354

Published: September 1, 2017

Where I Got It: Borrowed from library

Summary: 

When Sadie Liberato is cajoled by her brother to attend a costume party a month before Halloween, she had no idea she'd fall for a handsome devil in a mask. Or that she'd have one hellishly fine encounter in the dark. But when her masked devil turns out to be Gear Blackstone, fallen TV reality star of the super popular show, Motorcycle Madnezz, she wonders if this is a match made in heaven or hell...

Review:

Picked this up from the library. 1) that cover!! 2) it fits in with a reading challenge I am a part of and 3) Halloween month baby!!!!

Here we follow Sadie and Gear. Sadie is cajoled by her brother to attend a costume party which is a month before Halloween. Little did she know she would fall for a handsome devil in a mask. However, it turns out her masked devil is Gear. Gear is a fallen TV reality star from a popular show called Motorcycle Madnezz. How could this ever work?

Sooooooo technically this is part of a series. I think this is #12? Had no idea and didn't even know when reading the book. I only realized this when I was working on this review. This for sure does well as a standalone. I'm sure there are past characters who made a quick appearance or know these two, but I didn't feel like I was missing anything and I didn't catch any references I was confused about...so that is good. 

I liked Sadie. She is a little rough around the edges, but she is a sweetie at the heart of it all. 

Gear is seen as a total ass because of the show. They made his "character" a huge jerk. He does have jerk-y moments in the real life, but at the end of the day, he is a sweetie too. Poor thing. 

Grrrr Gear's ex-bff and ex-gifriend are asshats!!!!!! Gear is better off without them.

I think my main issue was the smexy scenes. Don't get me wrong...they are fun...but the bed banter was cring-y for me. It was a little TOO much. I can't tell you the number of times I rolled my eyes. 

Other than that I did find this fun. The characters are rough on the outside, but huge softies on the inside. It was cute seeing them fall in love. I loved their banter except for their bed banter...a hair too much for me. Why on Earth do we not have more romances set during Halloween time? In the end, I'll give this 3 stars. 

Challenge(s):

- #24 for Romance Reading Challenge - Holiday Setting (Not Xmas)

 

Audio review: Earth's daughter

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Series: Earth’s Magic, Book 1

Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Urban fantasy/to review

This was a short story about a zombie uprising. It did not feel like other Langlais books I have read, but yeah they do have time to get down and dirty here too.

Mindy is a baker. Oh no, there are zombies now?! Better bake cupcakes with magic in them. And get the cutest sidekick ever in a weird goblin

There is also a mystery man chopping heads of zombies. And someone evil making these zombies.

Short one, with lots of zombie action. And some hot times with the mystery man too.

But yeah, I could not connect fully to this one, maybe it just was too short.

Good narration. It was intersting listening to at least.

I’m just your run-of-the-mill earth witch, baking up some harmless hexes, that is until a necromancer starts messing with my town. With the dead looking for brains, suddenly I’m Mrs. Popular. Everyone wants my special charms, especially my pumpkin spice zombie-repelling cupcakes.

Everyone but Reiver, the sword-wielding stranger who saves me from an undead attack. The hunter is big, bad, and not my type. For some reason, I can’t resist the mysterious drifter in the long leather coat. Must be a spell, which I’ll break because I am not falling for him. Despite his reservations—and mine—we team up to go after the evil infesting my hometown. I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a problem with someone who thinks it’s okay to kill people to create a zombie army.

Not on this baker’s watch. Time to whip up a batch of awesome to save the world.

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Best of September

 

Here are our best for September!

Best Movie of the Month:

Blodeuedd - "I can't remember any awesome movies."

Carole - Mr. Malcolm's List (2022)

"No amazing movies this month. But I really did enjoy this one."

Best Book of the Month:

Carole - Woman On The Wall by Robin Rivers

"Art, mystery, history, action, and magic. This was a lot of fun!!"

Blodeuedd - The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

"Best book goes to this one. It really was as sweet and funny as I had heard."

Best TV show of the Month:

Blodeuedd -  Solar Opposites (S1-3)

"I binged this funny series."

Carole - Never Have I Ever (S1-3)

"Literally binged this all in one weekend when I was house-sitting for my folks. So dang good."

Best Cover of the Month:

Blodeuedd - "No clear fav for favorite cover this month, but this one is cute."

Carole - "Just so fall-y!!! I love this one."

Best Book of the Month Honorable Mention:

Carole had an honorable mention for this month - As The Stars Fall by Steve N. Lee

"I read this a couple years back and recently tried out the audio version....so good! Love this. Now I remember why I gave it Best Book of the Year a couple years back ;)"