Book Review: Double Dare by R.L Mathewson

One of my all time favorite romance series is Neighbor From Hell by R.L. Mathewson. So every time a new one comes out I immediately pounce on it and devour it. Any book I'm currently reading beware because you are going to be tossed aside like a piece of parsley garnishing a steak. I'm a bit behind though on reading this. It came out late last month but due to all of the family emergencies I didn't get to start it when I wanted to. I know super sad face.

Anyway, Double Dare tells Marybeth and Darrin's story. What makes this one so different from all the others is that it takes place during the same time as the previous book The Game Plan. So while you can read it without reading The Game Plan it is so much better to read The Game Plan first. Honestly, though start from the beginning cause Jason and Hayley's story is my favorite. But this one...oh this one is right up there. Be prepared for lots of sexy sexiness as well.

I love friends to lovers theme and this was great. It still had the NFH feel even though they have been friends all their lives. I love how alpha male Darrin is. Oh and no one does humor like R.L. I mean seriously she cracks me up every single time (she is a pretty funny lady on facebook too...but that is a different story...oh and she loves when fans stalk her on there). This one had a sad twist to it but like all the NFH it had a happily ever after ending. So as long as R.L keeps cranking out stories about the Bradfords I'm gonna devour them books like a Bradford at a buffet (don't get the reference? then read the books!)

I give this a 5 out of 5 stars

Monthly Mix-Up Mania Reading Challenge 2015-2017

Monthly Mix-Up Mania Reading Challenge 2015-2017

Gina @ Book Dragon's Lair is running this challenge again. 

Rules 2015-2017 edition -  Sign Up Here 

What: To read a book for each letter in the year. That's right, a title for the J in January and the A in January, etc.... 74 books total!

Official Start date: April 1, 2015, because we're fools to try this but any book read since 1-1-15 that you didn't already use for the 2013-2015 edition counts ;) 

End date: March 31, 2017, yes, two years, because well, we have other challenges to do ;)

Guidelines:

• only one letter per book
• books can be moved around if it fits better somewhere else after you've read it
• the letter doesn't have to be the first word, just the first letter of a word in the title (a, an, and the do not count)
• reviews aren't necessary but a quick "I read for letter... it was about... I did/not like it" would be nice and can be left in the comments.
• if you decide to join in, create a post on your blog telling others then come back and link up (to the actual post, not just your blog's home page)
• a blog is not necessary, just comment on that month's post.
• the most important thing is to have fun!

Just a couple of suggestions. . .
read a book with the month's name in the title
Only use the first letter of the first word

Have a good time!

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B- Beneath the Surface- John Hargrove - April 2015

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Fill in the Gaps Book Challenge

I have decided to sign on for the Fill in the Gaps Book Challenge. The challenge is all about reading those books that have been sitting on your shelves collecting dust. These are the books that you've always swore you would read but have never gotten around to. They are the classic books and those you bought to better educate yourself.  I have 5 years to complete this challenge.

I thought it would super easy to pick books but it was much harder than I thought. So for now this is my list but I reserve the right to change the books if I decide I made my list on goodreads.

		The Phantom Tollbooth	Juster, Norton	edit view »
		On Writing	King, Stephen	edit view »
		The Little Prince	Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de	edit view »
		Nicholas Nickleby	Dickens, Charles	edit view »
		The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals	Pollan, Michael	edit view »
		The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	Alexie, Sherman	edit view »
		Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly	Bourdain, Anthony	edit view »
		The Friday Night Knitting Club	Jacobs, Kate	edit view »
		The Bell Jar	Plath, Sylvia	edit view »
		The Handmaid's Tale	Atwood, Margaret *	edit view »
		Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void	Roach, Mary	edit view »
		I'd Know You Anywhere	Lippman, Laura *	edit view »
		V for Vendetta	Moore, Alan	edit view »
		The Virgin Suicides	Eugenides, Jeffrey	edit view »
		Shopgirl	Martin, Steve	edit view »
		Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Thompson, Hunter S.	edit view »
		The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)	Larsson, Stieg	edit view »
		The Graveyard Book	Gaiman, Neil *	edit view »
		Fever 1793	Anderson, Laurie Halse *	edit view »
		Catch-22	Heller, Joseph	edit view »
		Lolita	Nabokov, Vladimir	edit view »
		Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)	Herbert, Frank	edit view »
		The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)	Brown, Dan	edit view »
		The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century	Friedman, Thomas L.	edit view »
		The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1)	Adams, Douglas	edit view »
		The Martian Chronicles	Bradbury, Ray	edit view »
		Cthulhu 2000	Turner, Jim	edit view »
		A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film	Shepherd, Jean	edit view »
		Mary Poppins	Travers, P.L.	edit view »
		Grendel	Gardner, John	edit view »
		Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos	Lovecraft, H.P.	edit view »
		Watership Down	Adams, Richard	edit view »
		Slaughterhouse-Five	Vonnegut, Kurt	edit view »
		The Road	McCarthy, Cormac	edit view »
		The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button	Fitzgerald, F. Scott	edit view »
		The Day of the Triffids	Wyndham, John	edit view »
		The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Longstocking, #1-3)	Lindgren, Astrid	edit view »
		My Man Jeeves	Wodehouse, P.G.	edit view »
		Good Omens	Pratchett, Terry	edit view »
		I am America	Colbert, Stephen	edit view »
		Assassination Vacation	Vowell, Sarah	edit view »
		The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen	Pépin, Jacques	edit view »
		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Kesey, Ken	edit view »
		The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth, #1)	Follett, Ken	edit view »
		The Alchemist	Coelho, Paulo *	edit view »
		The Things They Carried	O'Brien, Tim	edit view »
		Stranger in a Strange Land	Heinlein, Robert A.	edit view »
		Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe	Flagg, Fannie	edit view »
		The House on Mango Street	Cisneros, Sandra	edit view »
		And Then There Were None	Christie, Agatha	edit view »
		A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone, #1)	Grafton, Sue	edit view »
		Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)	Card, Orson Scott	edit view »
		Fantastic Mr. Fox	Dahl, Roald	edit view »
		World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War	Brooks, Max	edit view »
		Zombies Vs. Unicorns	Black, Holly *	edit view »
		The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Chbosky, Stephen	edit view »
		The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things	Mackler, Carolyn	edit view »
		Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories	Leonard, Elmore	edit view »
		A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)	Martin, George R.R.	edit view »
		Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)	Reichs, Kathy	edit view »
		The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (A Flavia de Luce Mystery, #1)	Bradley, Alan *	edit view »
		Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1)	Mull, Brandon	edit view »
		The Art of War	Tzu, Sun	edit view »
		Eragon (Inheritance, #1)	Paolini, Christopher	edit view »
		The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1)	Braun, Lilian Jackson	edit view »
		The Outsiders	Hinton, Susan E.	edit view »
		The Swiss Family Robinson	Wyss, Johann David	edit view »
		Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies	Diamond, Jared	edit view »
		One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)	Evanovich, Janet *	edit view »
		Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook	Bourdain, Anthony	edit view »
		The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef	White, Marco Pierre	edit view »
		The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1)	Norton, Mary	edit view »
		The Cricket in Times Square	Selden, George	edit view »
		Five Children and It	Nesbit, E.	edit view »
		The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, #1)	Jordan, Robert	edit view »
		A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Twain, Mark	edit view »
		Bedknob and Broomstick	Norton, Mary	edit view »
		The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)	King, Stephen	edit view »
		Harriet the Spy	Fitzhugh, Louise	edit view »
		Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy #1)	Atwood, Margaret *	edit view »
		I am Legend	Matheson, Richard	edit view »
		Parable of the Sower	Butler, Octavia E.	edit view »
		The War of the Worlds	Wells, H.G.	edit view »
		The Children of Men	James, P.D.	edit view »
		Never Let Me Go	Ishiguro, Kazuo	edit view »
		Life of Pi	Martel, Yann	edit view »
		The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Kundera, Milan	edit view »
		The Count of Monte Cristo	Dumas, Alexandre	edit view »
		The Book Thief	Zusak, Markus *	edit view »
		The Tin Drum	Grass, Günter	edit view »
		The Lovely Bones	Sebold, Alice	edit view »
		Reading Lolita in Tehran	Nafisi, Azar *	edit view »
		The Once and Future King	White, T.H.	edit view »
		The Death of the Heart	Bowen, Elizabeth	edit view »
		Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	Robbins, Tom	edit view »
		A Thousand Splendid Suns	Hosseini, Khaled	edit view »
		The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People	Covey, Stephen R.	edit view »
		Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	Foer, Jonathan Safran	edit view »
		Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time	Mortenson, Greg *	edit view »
		Water for Elephants	Gruen, Sara	edit