NJ Penny Book Reviews

I have been getting so many ARC's lately, that I'm always so excited that I can read a book that's been on my Kindle for a while. Someone on Instagram recommended this book to me, and I couldn't wait to read it. I'm late to the game, it's been out for a bit, but it was every bit worth the read.  "We're all ugly, Ryen. The only difference is, some hide it and some wear it." "We were perfect together. Until we met."  Misha  I can't help but smile at the words in her letter. She misses me. In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. It didn't take long for us to figure out the mistake. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. The best take-out pizza, Android vs iPhone. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper eve

Monster is a novella written by KD Elizabeth. It's 31k words and can be read pretty quickly, but will also leave you satisfied. This is my first book from KD, and I really enjoyed it! She sent me an ARC of the book in return for my honest review.  I've wanted to screw Rory Larson for twenty-seven years. Okay, fine, I've really wanted to screw her for only seventeen, since I was five and she dumped an entire container of multicolored glitter over my head. It may have taken only a couple hours for my mom to scrub the glitter out of my hair, but I needed until college to finally get my first taste of Rory. Then things went horribly wrong- and by horribly wrong, I mean she left me in my dorm, naked, wondering what the hell just happened. Fast forward a decade, and Rory still hates me. Loathes me, actually. Sure, she'll inevitably say I did something horrible, something irredeemable, that night all those years ago, but that's just flat-out wrong. I'm completel

"I wouldn't be allowed in Heaven, but I swear on all that's holy- I'd rattle the gates until they let me have you." I've become a queen to the forsaken, a leader to the thieves, and the wife of a man who instills fear in all who cross his path. He was the husband I didn't want. Now, I can't fathom life without my king. I should've been ready for anything. Like the caterpillar that feeds on poison during metamorphosis, I was raised in the dangerous world of cartel crime. But nothing could've prepared me for Cristiano de la Rosa, his brother's poison, or the Calavera cartel. This is still a story about a love strong enough to topple households, unite enemies, and divide brothers. Resilient enough to bring down those who would try to destroy it...and selfless enough to make the ultimate sacrifice. But I was warned, and so were you. Death's day always comes. This time, it will find what was once a caterpillar is now a butterfly-and

I hated him. But in that second, I realized you could hate and love someone at the same time. I should have told her everything. How much I loved her. How much I've always loved her. But I didn't. I couldn't. I just wasn't made that way. Instead..I claimed her. Teased her. Taunted her. Worshiped her. Until...I broke her. My best friend. My savior. My girl. From my mind to my heart, to every single bone in my body. She owned me. I was hers. Every look. Every kiss. Every touch. Every tear. It was always her. The only thing I feared more than losing her was forgetting her. I hated how much I needed her. She was mine. Always and forever. I hated her then. But Harley Jameson was about to find out how much..I LOVED her now.  I was late to the game with finding Monica and her books. This is the fourth book of her's I have read, and I fully intend to read them all. I get why people call her the queen of angst. Her characters are tortured, they want to love, but

I wasn't saved by Prince Charming. I was saved by a villain, and fuck being on his warpath.  My name is Dove Hendry. Mine is Kingston Axton. I was captured by darkness. She has always been ours...They groomed me for Midnight Mayhem. Like a trained possession, weak against their control. She has been conditioned with our blood for years. She just doesn't know it yet...But Midnight Mayhem was the stained glass that concealed a very dark culture. A culture that she is about to become the center of. The brothers of Kiznitch come in fours, and they're not happy about me being hustled into their acts. Or are we? Careful, Little Bird. A warning is a warning for a reason..Mind-tricks. Stunts. Deceit. Power. But there's something uglier that has been haunting me for years upon years. So ugly that I have never seen it's face. I never had to. I'd hear his whispers through my internal screams, feel his shadow brush against my nightmares. He was the monster that t

"Oh, Mae." He sighed into the phone. "How could you be a footnote when you're the whole damn textbook?" You've heard of these groups- the secretive ones that only the creme de la creme are invited into, the ones outsiders speculate about for centuries- I'm the second in my family invited to attend, but to them, I'm fresh meat. New blood. New money, too. They think they'll elbow past me, that I'm here for their amusement, for them to walk all over, they'll find out soon enough that I'm not. I may look like one of them, with my designer bags and clothes straight from the Parisian runways, but I'm not. I'm here for answers, to take revenge for blood spilled on their centuries- old Persian rugs. I transferred here in search for answers about what happened to my older brother, who hightailed it out of here, and my friend who seemingly disappeared into thin air. I certainly wasn't here for the attention of the star