Nitty Gritty Book Blog

  Brutal Fighter, (82 Street Vandals) Heather Long ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: Broken dreams. Broken lives. Broken bird. Our feelings for her were like wild animals finally freed from their cage. But my sparrow, she was the most brutal fighter of us all. She’d had to be. The battles she’s survived, she’s done in silence and alone. Not anymore. Never again. Milo let her go. Jasper took her. Vaughn sheltered her. Liam taught her. Rome connected with her. Doc pushed her away. Freddie went after her. All because we wanted what was best for her. Me? I was in this fight. Our promises might lie shattered in the debris of the life we’d thought she had, but we weren’t abandoning them or her. Oh no, I would never leave her again. My name is Kellan Traschel, I will be whatever she needs me to be. And if war is what must be waged, then hell was what we would rain down. BRUTAL FIGHTER is a full length mature college/new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes. T...

  Gears & Fears, (Hell for Leather MC) Adell Ryan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: Have you ever been simply existing one day, and the next, your world is turned upside down? Amazing how your whole life can change in a matter of twenty-four hours. Dreams dissolve. Love shatters. Addictions relapse. Hell for Leather motorcycle club finally broke me. By stealing everything important to me, they took what little energy remained in my weary soul that I needed to get through my final Bike Week as their exotic muse and crushed it beneath their hot, roving tires. Now, the men who once held a special place in my heart are using me, holding hostage what is most precious to my existence and making me work for its redemption. I was tired before, but that was nothing. Time to put on the show of my life. Time for one more "dance." Series Order Leather & Lace Gears & Fears Lay It & Save It  currently set for 4/26/2023 Gears & Fears is the second book in the Hell ...

  Her Rebellion, (The Rite Trilogy) A Zavarelli & Natasha Knight ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: I am a Sovereign Son. A king within The Society. With a look I send men to their knees. Yet she stands tall against me, taunting me with her rebellion. But we all have rules we must live by. Even me. And I have broken the most sacred. I took her to my bed. I claimed that which did not belong to me. And now that the beast within has had a taste, it wants more. Trilogy Order His Rule Her Rebellion   Their Reign   6/21 Her Rebellion is the second book in The Rite Trilogy and yes they absolutely must be read in order. So Her Rebellion picks up right where we left off in His Rule. With that major cliffhanger. So no spoilers here but Judge is one bad A$$ when he loses control.  I don't want to give anything away by talking about what happens so I will talk about the characters instead. Judge will drive you absolutely insane. You want to love him, and you do, but you al...

  Bloody Cruel Psycho, (Sick Boys) Lucy Smoke ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: A life for a life … will kill the both of us in the end.   Clover  I know nothing of the Sickness at Eastpoint University. I know only the backroads that slip past the southern beaches and the gators that make their way onto the swamps shores. Until him. Until the killer known as Braxton Smalls finds his way into my stilted trailer on the coast of Port Charlotte. He came looking for Ace, but he found me instead…   Braxton   I’m a monster. Always have been. Always will be. The only people I’ve ever given a shit about are my boys and their girls. No one hurts my family, and knowing that someone has … and that they’ve gotten away with it plagues me. Ace Volkov will pay for what he put Avalon through and if I have to use his most precious weakness to draw him out, I will. She thinks she can bargain for his life with her own, but I mean to show her that there’s nothing I...

  Summer Blues: Episode 1, (Little Pink Book Season 1) Adell Ryan & Anita Maxwell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: What is the difference between a door, an elbow, and me? The first two have been banged, and I have not. Ba-dum-tss. That will soon change, though, because I refuse to step foot on college campus with my V-card still intact. Lainie Gray hereby swears to lose that thing once and for all before the end of summer vacation — which should be easy since I just so happen to live in one of the most popular beachy tourist destinations in the world. Sexy summer flings abound. If only my heart would stop leading me toward guys who are no good. After one breakup too many, the time has come for that particular organ to take a backseat. Problem is, to get my head into the game, I need to shed several protective layers of myself first. Oh… clothes, too. Cue panic. I also need to stop using my friends as barricades so much. Carrick especially — my main bestie and roommate. ...

  The New Gods, (Rebels and Curses) Ripley Proserpina ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb:  Kiss me or kill me? All my life, I’ve been fascinated by stories about gods and the mortals they treated like toys. Now I’m at Oxford University with a newly acquired doctorate, and I’m making a career out of my childhood obsession. There, among medieval buildings and famous libraries, I meet five men who have names right out of Greek mythology. Achilles. Hector. Paris. Pollux. Orestes. I’m drawn to them, not only because of their names, but by the passion they try to hide. And the way our fates seem inexplicably linked. Turns out, I’ve uncovered an ancient artifact that could do more than just turn the academic world on its head. It’s the key to releasing a pantheon of angry gods who’ve had millennia to plot their revenge. And it’s the reason these legends have emerged from the shadows. Five men who were once princes, generals, and tragic heroes have vowed to stop at nothing to preve...

  VanPelts, (White Trash Trilogy) Brandy Slaven ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon / Goodreads Blurb: Life is full of ups and downs. No one knows this better than Kendall Davis. She unfortunately learns from a young age that good things never last. With an unbearable childhood and then the death of her grandmother, Kendall turns to the only people who seem to know she still exists. Brian, Casey, and Will. But as all things tend to go in her life, they too are struck with tragedy. In her grief, Kendall decides to end it all, but what happens when fate has other plans? With no happy end in sight, she must learn to live with the loss and eventually learn to never give up on love. **Trigger Warning** This story does mention self-harm and does NOT have a happy ending. If you can stick it out with Kendall's terribly sad beginning, be sure to catch her second chance at love in the White Trash Trilogy. VanPelts is a prequel to the White Trash Trilogy. If you have already read Kendall's trilogy, then you kno...