If you love a dark, gritty MC Romance, then this series is for you! I’ve devoured every book as soon as it’s come out and, luckily received an arc this time!

Title: Darkness Embraced

Series: Hades Hangmen #7

Author: Tillie Cole

THE DEEPEST LOVE CAN BE BORN FROM THE FIERCEST HATE…⁣

⁣Born to sit on opposing thrones.⁣

They were never meant to fall.⁣

⁣Tanner Ayers is the heir of the Texas Ku Klux Klan. Fed nothing but hate, violence, and intolerance from the day he was born, Tanner kills for his cause without remorse.⁣

Until he meets Adelita Quintana, the daughter of the most brutal cartel boss in Mexico.⁣

⁣Adelita and Tanner hate each other instantly. But there is something between them that neither can explain or deny. Hate turns to desire, desire turns to love, and for the first time Tanner sees how wrong his whole life has been.⁣

⁣For years, Tanner does everything he can to find a way for him and Adelita. He walks away from the Klan, his family, everything he ever believed, and joins the Hades Hangmen. But now the Hangmen are at war—not only with his own family, but with Adelita’s too.⁣

⁣When Adelita and Tanner are thrown together again, they are forced to fight for a love that should never have been. For a love that puts them and everyone they have ever loved in danger.⁣

⁣The White Prince.⁣

The cartel princess.⁣

And a future that seems shrouded in darkness…⁣

Adelita, princesa of the Mexican cartel and Tanner, Prince of the KKK.

But this isn’t your normal fairy tale, every Prince Charming is different is he not?

And it goes off. Like totally off!

The revelations had my jaw hanging! I must admit, the first half of this book, I wasn’t that excited. But OMG I soon got excited! It’s an intense, hate filled and dark (do you see what they have to put up with!) story that will blow your mind!

Six for Sunday is the brainchild of Steph at A Little But A Lot and this week’s prompt is: Bookish Loves

#SixforSunday

I didn’t really know what context this was in so decided to show you 6 of the things I love about books and the book world.

Bookish Reading place

I really wish that I had a reading nook but I don’t! My fave place to read is on my bed surrounded by my bookish cushions (I have 4!)

Bookish Reading time

Bear with me here! I love to read in the evening on week days…I probably start around 8 when my son is in bed…..I love the silence! On weekends I squeeze in where I can….and if I can!

Bookish things

Pens, notebooks, keyrings, mugs……you name it and I LOVE bookish stuffs!

Authors I love

There are so many! Here are a few that are my ride or dies….I’d read their shopping lists…..

• Sarah J Maas
• Kristen Ashley
• Tillie Cole
• Marie Lu
• And so many more……

Fairyloot

I’ve been getting Fairyloot for over a year now and I can safely say that I have never been disappointed!

Rereads

Oh god yes, there is nothing like a reread to get you out of a slump…And these are the books/series I love to reread!

• The Three Series by Kristen Ashley
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
• Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley
• Reapers Legacy by Joanna Wylde
• Until November by Aurora Rose Reynolds

I want to get my reading off to a great start….and also reduce my tbr (!) so I’m going to participate in a few challenges this year to really get my bum in gear!

I’m doing the year long challenges of Beat the Backlist and also the New Release challenge and now I’m doing……..Fantastic February!

It’s run by the fabulous Kathy at Books and Munches!

The fantasy type books I have picked out for February are:

• Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa
• Enchantee by Gita Trelease
• Slayer by Kiersten White
• The Wicked King by Holly Black
• The Gathering by LA Fiore
• Legend by Marie Lu
• Mirage by Somaiya Daud

On top of this I also have 4 ‘other genre’ arcs to read so it will be a great reading month!

Let’s get our read on!

Rules

◊ Post a blog post / Tweet / comment / whatever saying you’ll be joining me!

You can also join our Goodreads-group, Devour Your TBR, and participate there. Just saying.

◊ Share your list of fantasy books that you really want / hope to read during February.

◊ If you’re sharing your updates on social media, use #FantasticFeb so we can follow up on each other!

Are you participating?

Let me know what books you want to read.

Title: The Boys of Brayshaw High #1

Author: Meagan Brandy

Oh this looked delish….I needed it….So I begged for an arc and my pleas paid off!

“Girls like you aren’t exactly welcomed at a place like this, so keep your head down and look the other way.”

Those were the exact words of my social worker when she dropped me in my newest hellhole, a place for “troubled teens”.

I didn’t listen, and now I’m on their radar.

They expect me to play along in their games of hierarchy, to fall in line in the social order they’ve deemed me fit.

Too bad for them, I don’t follow rules.

Too bad for me, they’re determined to make sure I do.

Inconceivably attractive and treated like kings…these are the boys of Brayshaw High.

And I’m the girl who got in their way.

That cover and that blurb! That’s what drew me in………

Then the story. Omg the story!

Then the lead characters. Omg the characters……

• Maddoc was HAWT *insert eggplant emoji here* and I need him (between my thighs!)

• Royce was so tasty I wanted to eat him like a snack!

• Captain was, oh my god, I don’t even know how to explain it……he was the one that owned my heart.

• Raven was so genuine, I loved her.

All together you have 4 troubled teens with a whole lot of problems and issues but show that family isn’t always blood. Friends are the family we choose.

It was such a fab read I could’ve cried! It was just what I needed!

It was fabulous.

It was filled with chemistry.

It was so angsty I wanted to die.

And the ending nearly killed me.

I want to be a Bray Girl (even though I’m probably 20 years too old!)

Stacking The Shelves is hosted at Tynga’s Reviews & Reading Reality. It’s all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

The first couple of weeks in the year and what better time to use my Amazon giftcard I had for Christmas?!

Although I did say to myself to take it easy with buying and arcs, I clearly didn’t listen to myself!

Becoming his Monster by Amelia Hutchins

Evermore by Sara Holland

Raw: Rebirth by Belle Aurora

The Wicked King by Holly Black

The Boys of Brayshaw High by Meagan Brandy

Never-Contented Things by Sarah Porter

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

So now I have to get my read on!

What books did you get?

Title: The Gilded Wolves

Series: The Gilded Wolves #1

Author: Roshani Chokshi

Firstly, thank you to St Martins Press for the honour of an arc. I have seen so many good things about this book that I could not wait to dive in!

Set in a darkly glamorous world, The Gilded Wolves is full of mystery, decadence, and dangerous but thrilling adventure.

Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. But when the all-powerful society, the Order of Babel, seeks him out for help, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance.

To find the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin will need help from a band of experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian who can’t yet go home. A dancer with a sinister past. And a brother in all but blood, who might care too much.

Together, they’ll have to use their wits and knowledge to hunt the artifact through the dark and glittering heart of Paris. What they find might change the world, but only if they can stay alive.

From the prologue I was hooked! There is nothing like a good prologue filled with mystery and intrigue….and this was that!

Severin is a treasure hunter, or thief however you want to look at it, stripped of his title of heir to the House of Vanth. Together with his band of closest, most talented friends, he sets out to reclaim what is his.

The writing was just so real, the cast diverse and the descriptions vivid. There was a lot of mythology. Some parts were so detailed that I must admit I did get confused and had to go back and read.

All in all this was a great read, I loved the friendships, the brother/sisterhood, the banter and the puzzles and I would love to read more by this author.