Books Read-2014 – Page 4 – Cindy's Love Of Books

Title: The Billionaires Demand

Author: Addison Fox

Series: A Boardroom and Billionaires Series

Publisher: Entangled: Indulgence

Pub Date: February 2014

Source: I received an ecopy of the book to read and review for today’s guest post.

About the book:

Booth Harrison has made a habit of getting what he wants, be it a new addition to the Harrison media empire, or a better relationship with his half-brother. But meeting his brother’s new sister-in-law, Camryn McBride, poses a new challenge. The savvy CFO of McBride Media has a brain he wants to pick…and a body he needs to claim.

Camyrn has spent the past few years helping to rebuild her family’s magazine company, focusing on that rather than her disastrous personal life. But when Booth Harrison invites her to be the keynote speaker at a sales conference in Hawaii, she’s tempted to combine business with pleasure.

But meeting the billionaire’s demands won’t be easy, because someone doesn’t want a merger between them to happen.

I didn’t realize when I was reading this book that it was a 3rd and final book in the series and only discovered it when I was getting ready to do this post. The book can very well be a stand alone. There was no indication that this was part of a series which I have to say I really like. I will be going back and purchasing the previous two to read them.
The other books in this series are: Merger to Marriage and Tempting Acquisitions. From reading the descriptions of the books you get the feel as though they are stand alones in the series but each book has many of the same characters in them.

One of the things I love about being a book blogger is getting exposed to all kinds of books that are out there that you might not normally read or hear about.

I really enjoyed reading this and looking forward to reading the previous two books. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I started reading this and I have to say I was really impressed.

The Billionaires Demand is based around the two main characters Camyrn McBride and Booth Harrison. They both work at their family magazine companies. Both are successful in their own right. They are also brought together because Camyrn’s sister is married to Booth’s brother.

You can instantly tell that both Camyrn and Booth are attracted to each other but Camyrn stands firm with her believe of them not every getting together because it will just get messy in the end. Can you just image what family gatherings would be like? So I could relate on why she didn’t want to pursue this any futher.

Booth didn’t let this stop him he continued to pursue her in hopes that he could change her mind? Do you think he could break ber down?

This was fairly a quick read for me and managed to read it over a few hours. Its a romance book and I think Addison did a great job with it because as I was reading it I felt as though this is happeing in real life with real people. There was nothing far fetched in this book.

Now I am off to purchase the rest of the series.

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Title: The Pledge

Series: Book 1 in A Pledge Series

Author: Kimberly Derting

Pub Date: November 2011

Pages: 338

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (Imprint of Simon & Schuster)

Source: I purchased this book when it came out in 2011.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In the violent country of Ludania, the language you speak determines your class, and there are harsh punishments if you forget your place—looking a member of a higher class in the eye can result in immediate execution. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina (Charlie for short) can understand all languages, a dangerous ability she’s been hiding her whole life. The only reprieve from oppression is within the drug-filled underground club scene. There, she meets a beautiful and mysterious boy who speaks a language she’s never heard, and her secret is almost exposed. As the violent clashes between the totalitarian monarchy and the rebel forces escalate, it becomes clear that Charlie is the key to something much bigger: her country’s only chance for freedom from the terrible grip of a deadly regime.

This was my first read of 2014 and the book I wanted to start the year off with. I have had this book since it first came out and now that I have the complete trilogy I thought now would be the time to finally take it off my shelf to read and to read the series.

Kimberly Derting is also the author of The Body Finder series which is another series I own but haven’t read yet. Just a heads up, Kimberly has another new series starting and the first book in that series is called The Taking and it will be released April 2014. This one sounds really interesting and I can’t wait to read it.

I am making this the year to get caught up on the books I currently own in my collection.

I have to start off by saying that I really like the cover of this and the other books in this series.

The Pledge takes place in the country of Ludania. Its a post apocalyptic world. In this world the language that you speak determines where you fall into the society. Doing that wrong thing and getting caught could cost you your life.

The people of Ludania know exactly what to do. They know they are to pledge allegiance to the Queen, they know they are to support the public executions and they knew to keep their heads down when higher classes are in their presence. The Queen has instilled fear into her people and they know it.

The main character Charlie (Charlaina is her real name) knows she is different and she has to be careful because doing the wrong thing could get her into trouble. Charlie has a secret that only her parents know about and that is she can understand certain languages. Since Charlie is born (or so she things) in the vendor class she is only allowed to speak Englasise and she is suppose to let the other classes thing that is all she understands but at times she finds it hard to control it.

No book would be complete without a little teen romance and that comes in the form of a young soldier named Max that she meets at a club. She is intrigued by him because not only is he good looking but he also speaks another language she has never heard of before. She is surprised that Max knows so much about her. She soon begins to wonder if he knows her secret and if he does will it cost her her life?

Towards the end of the book things come to a head when violent clashes start to happen and it forces people to hid underground where secrets are revealed. How will Charlie handle things when she realizes things aren’t what they seem and that they people that she knew were actually leading a double life? How will Charlie react when she discovers that she holds the key to something much better then she every imaged?

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started to read the book but I knew I wanted to take my time in reading it so that I could enjoy it more even though at times I just wanted to fly through the book. I am happy that I did take the time to read it because I enjoyed it. I am excited to start the second book The Essence.

I really like all the characters in the book with the exception to Brooke because she comes off as self centered and its all about her and her being happy. I have to say my favorite was Max. There was something about him that I wanted to read and find out more about. I was surprised to find out where he really placed in the social scheme of the country. Totally not what I was expecting.

I thought that Kimberly did a fantastic job and there was alot of twist and turns in the book that I didn’t find to be predictable. You never knew what was going to happen.

Have you read this? What did you think of it?

Review/ The Billionaires Demand

Book Review #1/ The Pledge by Kimberly Derting