Once Upon a Bad Boy, by Melonie Johnson

Title: Once Upon a Bad Boy
Series: A Sometimes in Love novel
Author: Melonie Johnson
Genre:  Romance
Release date: June 25th, 2019
Page Count: 384 pages
Rating: 4 stars 

 

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NEVER SAY NEVER
Sadie Gold is ready to take her career to the next level with the role of a lifetime. Finally, she can shake her reputation as a pretty face with more wealth and connections than talent. But Sadie is not prepared for the wild turn her own life is about to take. The man in charge of training Sadie for her most demanding role yet is none other than her first real boyfriend—the one who took her heart and ran away.

WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE
Bo Ibarra is as good-looking and irresistible as ever. Maybe even more so, now that everything once worked against them—Sadie’s pampered and privileged upbringing and Bo’s childhood in a family struggling to make ends meet—is in the past. But the future is still unwritten…and getting there, together, means coming clean about painful secrets and slashing through nasty tabloid rumors while trying to control the attraction that crackles between them. Maybe it’s finally time for them to walk off into the sunset and into a true and lasting love?

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Sadie is about to have her dreams come true when she is offered a big movie role. There is just a little bump in the road…that being that the stunt coordinator is her ex. 

I like “second chance” love-stories and this one was very entertaining. 

Sadie and Bo were childhood sweethearts, but he broke her heart and left her. Now they might have a second chance to find love again…together.

These two are not the same people they were years ago and maybe…they can work things out. The sparks are certainly still there 😉 

But in order to finally be together again, they will need to work through their issues and their secrets.

This was a very nice second love story and I liked both main characters, though there were also some parts that had me grinding my teeth.

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Check out the awesome 6th book in the dark and in intriguing “Deliver” series by Pam Godwin

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Title: Manipulate
Series: Deliver #6
Author: Pam Godwin
Genre: Dark Romance
Release date:  June 25th, 2019
Page Count: 347 pages
Rating: 5 stars 

 

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Tula Gomez is in the most ruthless prison in Latin America.

She only drove to Mexico to help her sister. She did nothing wrong.
But her quiet life changed in an instant.

To survive the violent, cartel-controlled prison where men blend with women, she pledges her loyalty to the notorious leader in exchange for the one thing she needs most.
Protection.

When she agrees to seduce the suspicious new inmates, Martin Lockwood and Ricky Saldivar, she doesn’t expect to enjoy it. Sure, they’re gorgeous, irresistibly alpha, and insanely talented with their hands and mouths. But they’re the enemy. She can’t fall for them.

Torn between her cartel loyalties and two men who want her as deeply as they want each other, she questions who is manipulating whom. Her search for answers leads to a passionate ménage, a soul-crushing secret, and an impossible choice.

 

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Ever since reading the previous book Take, I have been on pins and needles to read Ricky and Martin’s story.  I have to be honest though, I was a tad bit disappointed when I found out that there was gonna be a lady between these two hot men. Everyone knows how much I love my MM books 😉 No worries though.. I still got mine 😛

Thankfully, my disappointment didn’t last too long, since Talu was a pretty amazing heroine. I love how strong she was … and believe me she needed to be. This is a pretty dark series and this book is no exception. Right from the start, Tula is subjected to the most horrible of crimes…by those who are supposed to protect !!!

In a flash, she went from being a law-abiding English teacher to being an inmate in one of Mexico’s most dreaded prisons…and all in the name of sisterly love.

In order to survive, she is forced to say goodbye to her former self and become cold and vacant.

To survive, she needed to become like them.  

She makes a move that saves her life…but it also forces her to become part of the La Rocha Cartel…. the one her mother always warned her to stay away from. Being a teeny tiny woman in a prison full of (horny) dangerous men…she doesn’t have much of a choice though. So she says goodbye to the Tula of old.

She wasn’t prepared for Ricky (and) Martin though…then again…who would have been Yowza !!

Martin and Ricky are two of Van’s former (sex) victims and are now part of a group fighting the good fight, and trying to stop as many sex traffickers as they possibly can. They volunteered to be locked up for three months to try and take down the La Rocha Cartel from the inside.

It’s no secret that these boys are really close…closer than is normal for best friends and if it were up to Ricky, they would be even closer 😛  But Martin doesn’t seem interested in Ricky…or any other man (or woman) for that matter. So Ricky has almost given up…almost.

Thankfully Ricky is not a quitter because thanks to a little help from Tula, he is about to find out just how much Martin really wants him….and her. This book was HOT… !!

It was also chock full of triggers and the angst was slapping me in the face from beginning to end.

This was definitely one of my favorites in the series, though Van will always be top dog for me. He had a really nice part in this one as well…which made me a very happy camper.

I also want to give some credit to a certain character I started out hating with a vengeance, but who earned my forgiveness …and even a bit of my respect 😉

I highly recommend this series !!!

Check out all the other awesome books in this series !!