The Highlander's Hope by Cali MacKay

The Highlander's Hope by Cali MacKay is the first in the series. This story was such a great read. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it but it definitely made me want to schedule a trip to Scotland.

The story revolves around Cat who is on a treasure hunt, or exploration attempting to find this Hope Necklace that she believes is hidden somewhere on this estate in the Highlands of Scotland. In her desire to find this gem she has to deal with Iain who owns the property and soon uncovers the truth of Cat's mission. Cat is a doctor of Scottish History, but not to long ago her ex boyfriend James stole her last research and said it was all his. So now Cat is very cautious and afraid of anyone finding out about her evidence and what she's really looking fore in the Highlands. Then her ex shows up and to attempt to through his off Iain and Cat attempt to pretend that they are dating giving everyone, including James the impression that that is the reason for Cat's visit to The MacCraigh estate. While there is mystery, and treasure hunting there is also the treat of others trying to find the necklace too. All this is going on while Cat and Iain start to grow feelings for each other. Crazy things happen to these two while they hunt for the gems.

This book had some great twists and turns that left me wondering what would happen next. I really enjoyed this romantic suspense novel and look forward to reading the others.

Underneath it all by Kate Canterbary

Underneath it All by Kate Canterbary is the first book in The Walshes Series. First off I love that this series is about a group of Irish Boston Architects. The Walsh Family is as screwed up as all of ours, but the love that they have for one another and their business is awesome.

In this first book we meet Lauren who is a no nonsense take charge women who is attempting to open her own school. After several years teaching she won a chance to be apart of this amazing fellowship that will ultimately help her open the doors to her own school, her ultimate dream. There are tons of bumps along the road but the biggest bump is actually finding a building that she can convert into a school. She gets Matthew Walsh, architect extraordinary to agree to meet her and look at a property. Matt falls fast for Lauren after his first meeting with her, mean while Lauren is falling but doing her best to stay on her path towards her goals with little distraction. She is a strong independent women, who is a bit of uncoordinated but also is used to running around with her father, brothers and other military men. So she can definitely hold her own. She is such a likeable character being both strong and clumsy and vulnerable. I was surprised by the twists and turns this novel took. The character development was great. And I fell in love with the whole Walsh family.

What He Wants Boxx Set Story 1-8 by Hannah Ford

I purchased this collection of 8 short stories in the What He Wants series by Hannah Ford for $.99! Which I thought was a great deal for a collection of 8 books, ut their in lies the catch. They are 8 short stories that all together equal one full length novel of about 248 pages.

The story revolves around a law student Charlotte who gets involved with a mystery man named Noah. She soon learns after her one night stand with him that he will be the new client she will help represent in a murder trial. This is a dark story with heavy BDSM scenes all while giving this scary plot twist of did he or didn't he. I did get kind of made at the female lead, Charlotte because she couldn't make up her mind! Did she trust Noah and believe that he was innocent or does she believe he's guilty and capable of murder. Make up your damn mind women!

While I truly enjoyed the story and got drawn in to the twists and turns as well as the character development I am unwilling to continue the series, which has 19 stories in total (as of today). Every additional story is also a short story at the cost of $2.99! I'll wait until their is another box set, because it doesn't matter how great the story line or the writing is, a short story is not worth $2.99!

The Billionaire Next Door by J.S. Scott

This is not a full length novel, but more a short story. I read it in the bath one night, quick short story.

The writing was very well done like most of Ms. Scott's stories, just wish it was longer and more involved. Overall a good quick read, but only worth it if its a free download.

Unleashed : A Hot Alpha Romance Volumne 1 by Callie Harper

Unleased is the first book in the Hot Alpha Romance series by Callie Harper.
***Warning: This book will leave you wanting more!***

So this story is about Kara who six years ago meet a ranch hand named Declan on her daddy's farm. She was only 18 at  the time and just graduating high school. Plus she was in the don't touch file for Declan being the bosses daughter. While they both attempted to not  notice each other, they actually fell head over heals for each other but never truly acted on it. Fast forward six years. Kara has lost her father to cancer and her fathers ranch is now in financial troubles. She has no other option but to search out Declan and ask for help. Declan is now a big shot in Billings who has a huge company that revolves around destination vacations with the ranching experience.

Kara is unsure of herself and is questioning everything. Declan is loving the fact that this little lady has to beg him for financial help. We learn along the way that Declan I a fan of the local BDSM clubs mean while Kara is sweet and innocent being a virgin still. Declan agrees to help her if she will give herself to him 100% completely for one whole week.

This book does a lot of flashing back to the future and then to the present in both the characters point of view.

This book leaves you wanting with its cliffhanger ending, but don't fear you can grab more of the books in this series already released.

Declan and Kara's story will leave you needy and wanting.

Temptation by K. M. Scott Book 1 in the Club X Series

This is the first book in the Club X Series by K. M. Scott.

Temptation is a story about a young girl, Olivia, who is out of work and in desperate need of a job. She has worked before as a regional sales manager at a sports apparel company only to get fired after five years due to downsizing and the economy. So much for having a degree, after six months of searching she's desperate, That's when a friend of hers Jake recommends her for a job at the all exclusive Club X. Its a club she's never heard of but then again she isn't much into the club scene. But beggars cant be choosers so she takes an interview with Cassian March who is the face of this super exclusive Miami Club.

Cassian along with his two brothers are running is exclusive club where your wildest fantasies can be made true. If you are a member of the club you can have your fantasies played out for you, no fantasy being too big for this club to cater too.

Olivia agrees to be Cassian's personal assistant and help him run the day to day dealing with the club. She is kind of naïve about the legality of the club and what it really does up on the higher levels behind closed doors. Along with working at the club, she gets a membership to the club and can take part in the fantasy rooms. She gets tired of her friends always referring to her as safe and wants to break out of her own shell. She reserves a fantasy room to explore herself. In doing so Cassian finds out and determines no one but him is going to have anything to do with Olivia's fantasies. Even though fraternization is strictly enforced. He just can't help himself, there's something about Olivia that has had Cassian hard since the moment she walked  for her interview.

While these two play in the fantasy rooms and assume the other has no idea of their growing desires for one another there is a suspenseful understory of this club getting found out for what it really is and causing the whole thing to go up in smoke.

There is definitely a suspenseful story here along with this amazing club and these two characters who sizzle on the pages of this novel.

Can't wait to pick up the next story in this amazing series to see what's happening in the club as well as the brothers.

Dominion by S.E. Lund

This is the first book in The Dominion Series by S. E. Lund. This book does leave you wishing for more, and needing more.

Eve is a young girl who knows too much and is determined to find the truth about what happened to her mother. Eve attempts to have an ancient manuscript translated, but is taken by two brothers who are vampires and have lives hundreds of years. They are on the opposite sides of the vampire and human war. Michel and Julian de Cernay are attempting to protect and help Eve while at the same time use her to their own advantage. She is put into a horrible position being a human who knows about the vampire world while trying to learn the truth about her mothers murder.

Its a fast paced dark story that leaves you wondering who Eve really is and what the goals are for Michel and Julian. This is a super steamy paranormal romance with so much history attached it will make you devour this novel in one sitting.

Book one is currently free on most platforms to wet your appetite for more.

Filthy Beautiful Lies by Kendall Ryan

This is the first book in the Beautiful Lies Series from the amazing Kendall Ryan. This book does end in a cliffhanger, however the entire series is out and available.

Sophie is put into a terrible situation. She needs to raise a lot of money in a very short period of time in order to afford a new medical treatment for her sister who is dying of cancer. She is willing do almost anything, and a women who is desperate can be put into a very bad position. Sophie decided after failing to become a stripper that the only way to earn this type of money is to see her virginity to the highest bidder at a exclusive sex club.

While it is hard to even image being in Sophie's position thank god she meets Drake or really Colten Drake. He tries to come off dark and mysterious but losses some of that when we get to meet his brothers. He does have the alpha dominate persona very well, especially in bed. Its a fast paced story that left me asking more questions then I had answers for. I can only assume that more if revealed in the next books.

I'm a huge fan of Kendall Ryan's. She is a new author for me, but so far I've been consumed by all the books I have read from her. I love her writing style and really enjoy reading her novels. Can't wait till I pick up the next book in this series.

Sorry I've been MIA

Life has gotten very complicated very fast. While I have continued to read every day, I have slacked off on my book reviews and for that I am sorry.

But fear not, for today I have a day off, with kiddos off to school and freedom to post book reviews!

So I promise I will be flooding this blog along with my Instagram, Twitter and Facebook feeds with all these book reviews!

Sit back, relax and read ;)

Midterm Project for Linguistics

              Norm Chomsky and Universal Language (Grammar) .

                                                       photo credit: Oliver Abraham
                                          (oliverabraham (at) gmx.de) Via Chomsky.info

     Norm Chomsky is a well known linguist who was born to "Dr. William (Zev) Chomsky and Elsie Simonofsky in Philadelphia on December 7, 1928" (Szabó). He is considered the "best know linguistic in the words for about the last fifty years" (Rowe, p. 136).  He is also one of the most cited living person and the top ten "most quoted people of all time" (Rowe, p. 136-137). His first book, Syntactic Structures, was a revolution to the study of language. Not only is Chomsky intelligent with language but also with logic and mathematics. Chomsky is very vocal in many areas outside of linguistic, especially politics.

 

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     The major school of though in the 1950's was the structural approach, which was championed by many in the field of linguistics, especially Leonard Bloomfield. The type of structuralism that Bloomfield devolved was descriptive. It starts with "describing and classifying sounds and then morphemes in terms of their function" (Rowe, p. 137). In a nut shell Bloomfields ideas were the study of meaning or semantics. "Bloomfield underscored the importance of surface structure, or the words a speaker says" ("Mentalism."). However others thought this idea was too abstract, so they ignored it. Chomsky's book started to challenge Bloomberg's ideas. His view was that language is learned by our internal motivation to acquire language. He believed that as humans evolved so did this idea. It seemed to evolve into a "universal innate human ability to learn and analyze linguistic information "  (Rowe, p. 137).  This universal language gives use rules that we all follow. These rules are general rules that allow us to learn rules that are specific to our own language.
          

                                                 

(NewYorker.com)

     Gary Marcus from The New Yorker Magazine did an article on Norm Chomsky in 2012 and is quoted as saying "For Chomsky, the interest in linguistics isn’t so much whether one language uses infinitives and another uses subjunctives but whether all languages are, at some level, deeply related and constrained by what Chomsky dubbed “universal grammar”(Marcus, 2012). Chomsky' ideas of universal grammar changed everything, not just in linguistics, but almost ever field that deals with the brain. For instance in developmental psychology this idea of universal grammar was pivotal in changing the entire field. Psychologist were asking if children actually knew anything about language before they start to use it.  Chomsky's ideas emphasizes this ideas that a child subconsciously knows about their own language before they learn to speak, referring to the idea of deep structure. His book "laid a conceptual foundation for a new, cognitivist approach to linguistics and provided philosophers with a new framework for thinking about human language and the mind" (Szabó). This framework can bee seen well within this image of Chomsky's Mind Map

   

                                                         Chomsky's Mind Map   

(Gasto, Nicolas)

     As a future educator, I see Chomsky's idea with English speaking students. We have students that subconsciously know when a sentence is not grammatically correct. When students are learning to read and pronounce new words they know which consonant sounds are aspirated when they follow a vowel. These ideas are subconscious to an English speaker. However, if I was attempting to teach English as a second language to a Japanese speaking student, I would run into difficulties because of the different between our two languages. Chomsky's idea of universal grammar does apply to all languages. However due to the differences within languages, teaching a child to learn a new language that is different from their native language can create difficulties for both the student and teacher. These differences  would cause a teacher to have to explain some of these subconscious ideas that English Speakers already due without thinking about them. While Chomsky argues that there are an "infinite, with no end to the number of possible sentences that you can produce and comprehend"(Marcus, 2012) in any given language, we are also aware that in Japanese language compared to English that there are different sounds. In Japanese they do not have the sound for /l/. They do however have a /r/ phoneme causing a word like lucky to be pronounced more like /raki/ (Rowe, p. 72).  Chomsky's idea of Universal Grammar really does apply to individual languages but does not transcend the lines of learning different languages.

                                

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     Chomsky takes his idea to a new level explaining that if  "children bridge the gap between finite and infinite, from the finite input that they have heard to the infinity of what they can comprehend" (Marcus 2012). Then there is the idea of his hypothesis "that language arises in the mind of the child through a realization in the brain of a language faculty, which begins in an initial state (also called Universal Grammar), goes through a series of intermediate states, and reaches a steady state, which is no longer subject to fundamental changes" (Szabó). This idea was extremely controversial because it suggested that "the human brain is somehow equipped at birth with a Universal Grammar out of which all human languages later develop" (Cruse). Many recent studies of the brain and attempting to map it are showing us that what we thought we knew of the brain and its capacity are in fact just touching the surface. The brain is a way more complex organ then we ever though, so this lends itself to Chomsky's ideas of universal language and the ability for us to be born with these abilities for language. Up till now, Chomsky's ideas with regards to Universal Language can not be proved or disproved.  Chomsky has argued "persuasively for the existence of a Universal Grammar out of which all human languages are born, but as a materialist he is required to believe (1) that this grammar is somehow concealed in the physical workings of the brain itself, and (2) that it is the end-product of a succession of evolutionary accidents (DNA mutations) occurring in Darwinian fashion over countless millions of years" (Cruse).  With this idea Chomsky was faced with explaining his ideas more.  While the idea of language being simply learned, or imitated has been suggested as only part of language, and that the universal grammar would help explain the other parts of language that children seem to just know. Chomsky is quoted as saying in  the article "Chomsky and the Universal Grammar " by  Don Cruse ,"We may think of UG as an intricately structured system, but one that is only partially "wired up". The system is associated with a finite set of switches, each of which has a finite number of positions (perhaps two). Experience is required to set the switches. When they are set, the system functions" (Cruse).

                               

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     Chomsky and other linguistic experts argues "that the constraints needed for English grammar are not learned"( Harman).  The idea of Chomsky and these experts leads itself to believe that a  "child is capable of acquiring any language depending on its environment, the same constraints should be found in the grammar of any language and should be part of universal grammar" (Harman). This idea that language, to some degree, is subconscious or event innate to each human born is strange to wrap our minds around, but makes some sense too. We don't truly teach a child to talk as an infant, but we encourage them to mimic our actions in order to repeat certain sounds or utterances. We know that as a child learns from its parents and the environment around them, will pick up the que that older humans already have subconsciously learned, therefore creating a cycle of learning. Chomsky's Universal Grammar lends itself to fill in the gaps of learning, and believes that what can't be taught is already ingrained into our brain at birth. Some evidence to support Chomsky's idea of ‘language acquisition device’ or LAD are how when a child learns to speak they never have grammatical errors where they put the subject, verb or object in the wrong order or placement. Another example is that when a child says "I drawed" instead of "I drew" we can see that children have learned more then just through imitation alone.

     Take a moment to view this short video on YouTube.com about Norm Chomsky and this idea of Universal Grammar. This short video really reflect how Chomsky felt about all children being born with a fundamental concept of language. It goes on to reflect that all languages have nouns and verbs. All languages have negatives and questions, as well as plural versions of words.

                                                  https://youtu.be/xfiHd6DyuTU

     Via the website www.aggslanguage.wordpress.com/chomsky/, they give us a great example of a conversation between an adult parent and a child. Within this conversation we see that children might use the incorrect language but when corrected understand what the adult is saying. These ideas are something that linguistics like Chomsky believe that a child must have innate understanding of their language even at birth. They believe that a child couldn't understand the ideas of adding -ed suffix or incorrect use of plural nouns from simply imitating.

Dialogue –
Parent and Child (3 years old)
Parent: What did you do today?
Child: Me drawed a cat. (applies –ed suffix rule but gets wrong)
Parent: You drew a cat?
Child: Yeah. (understands correction)
Parent: Who did you play with at breaktime?
Child: Me played with Sarah and Helen. (wrong pronoun – not learnt passively)
Parent: That sound fun. Now what do you want for tea?
Child: Dunno. What you having?
Parent: Daddy and I are having fish.
Child: You having fishes? (incorrect use of plural noun but shows child applying rules)
Parent: Yes. I’ll do you some fish fingers and if you’re a good girl and eat    them all you can have a sweetie. (applying plural noun rule)
Child: Me want two sweeties.
Parent: Alright then. Now go and watch Postman Pat while I start the tea.
Child: When Daddy coming home? (gets SVO order correct all the time)
Parent: He’ll be here soon.

                                                            

      The ideas and concepts within linguistics is changing. Each year more words are created and  we have new entrées into Urban Dictionary to mark these change. But according to Chomsky we need to continue to evolve and change and with doing so we need to teach our younger generations differently as we progress. These changes are fundamentally, and as a future teacher I agree whole heartedly. I am a big advocate of teaching to a child in the way they can learn, and since no two children are alike, I expect to have to teach my students today differently then they were taught five years ago. Even for Chomsky, he has had the idea of Universal Grammar put to the test with the new studies of the brain. His ideas as well as those of famous scientist before him, like Einstein and Newton, have been faced with either changing their original evaluations or building on what they believe and what science is exploring. So whether or not Universal Grammar is proven correct or not, we have to believe to some extent that we are all born with an idea of the language we will grow up speaking. There are so many finite things to learn within linguistics that it would be almost impossible to completely understand all of these ideas in our lifetime. We have to believe in what we can not see or prove to help explain how as infants we are able to communicate with universal grammar.

                                          
                                                                   

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Harmon, Gilbert. "Why Chomskean Linguistics Is Mentalistic." Princeton University. N.p., 3 July 2004. Web. 8 Feb. 2016

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Bait and Switch by Kendall Ryan

First let me say that Ms Ryan is a new favorite author of mine. When I woke up this morning and was notified that Bait & Switch was on my kindle app, I was soooooo excited. Normally I read one book at a time from start to finish. I can't read two or three books at the same time, because for me I don't dive deeep enough into either story to get a true sense for it. Plus often I start mixing up story lines and characters, which is confusing. But I was so excited to read this book that I stopped reading the novel that I was half way through just so I could devour this lovey in one afternoon!

This is the first book in a new Alpha series. This book is set up very differently then most of today's romantic fiction. We have the pint of view change each chapter which is refreshing, but we also have a fe chapters were we have a yesterday person who sound demented and definitely up to something, but we don't know who this person is, how they ar conn cited, and to which character they are after. I personally loved, Lacey and Nolan.

 Nolan is ex navy seal who now works for a security firm (similar to some other stories out their). The whole book doesn't revolve around his macho work life,but actually reflects on the D/s relationship he's been involved in for the last 2 years with one of his best friends. Then in Ali's this sweet little thing who has some secrets. Lacey seems like she has a sorted past. She moved to Texas and works a shitty part time job and an animal shelter. Why don't get into the juice seat ails of who she rally is until later in the book. We do however have Nolan and his feelings of not wanting love, and not rally understanding any emotion until it bites him in the ass. 

I loved the character development in this book. The characters seemed real to me, which I really loved. The writing was well done, as well as the edits. The story is steady with a few twists and turns that leave you wondering what's going on. Definitely worth picking up, and I can't wait to see if the next book is about Greyson!

Bait & Switch by Kendall Ryan

Bait and Switch by Kendall Ryan is Live!

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Saving Steele by Anne Jolin, is book #5 in The Rock Falls Book Series is live!!!!

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A Dom is Forever, Book 3 in the Masters and Mercenaries series by Lexi Blake

Last night I stayed up late to finish reading A Dom is Forever, Book 3 in the Masters and Mercenaries series by Lexi Blake.
This book is about Avery and Liam. Liam O'Donnell is a former SAS and IRA rom Ireland who became a part of Ian Taggerty's team at McKay & Taggerty Security Firm about five years ago after a terrible mission went horribly wrong resulting in his brothers death.

Avery Charles is 28 yr old personal assistant to philanthropist millionaire, who up to three years ago was an agoraphobic who lived in NY. Our book has Avery in London working on getting a huge shipment of food sent to an African nation as a humanitarian aide.  Avery's life has been racked with horrible pain and terrible loss. She lost her parents when she was a child, then her aunt took all of her inheritance. Avery married at 18 and had a baby shortly after, only to lose both of them to a terrible car accident where she was driving. It took almost 8 years before Avery could regain the use of her legs. She has terrible scars and still has issues with her legs, but she's trying to live a life that moves past tragedy. She has big self esteem issues and that causes major issues between her and Liam.

This book is a continuation within the series, while I think it could easily be read alone it does help to have prior knowledge on some of the main players. this book definitely is fast paced and emotional with tons of twists and turn that will shock you. The character development is definitely spot on. However my biggest issue is this book was very similar as the last two books. You have an alpha man who is put into a position where he has to find out if the women is telling the truth or if they are apart of a terrible situation. Trying to determine if the women are involved or not, leads the men to lie to the women about who they really are. And each time the women find out, flip out, and then so easily forgive the men! That I just don't understand. A man lies to me, I'm not so sure I'd forgive them in less than 24 hrs.' no matter who tells me the truth. How can you really believe anything after such lies? I wish the women heroines were stronger and told the men to go f*ck themselves.

Also this is supposed to be a BDSM novel, and there are very little features to BDSM, it is more vanilla then the others novels in the series. While Liam and Avery seems very realistic characters and definitely draw you into the series, this one isn't my favorite.

The Men with the Golden Cuffs (Masters and Mercenaries Book 2)~ Lexi Blake

Lexi Blake does it again! In Book 2 of her Masters and Mercenaries Book series we are introduced to Jake and Adam, who are partners at the McKay and Taggart Security Firm. Both are Ex Special Forces. Both are sexy alpha Dom's who love to have ménages. At the start of the book we are introduced to Serena, who is a erotic romance e-novel author. She has come to the McKay & Taggart Security Firm on the urgency of her Publisher because she is being stalked and need protection from this nut job. As soon as Adam and Jake see her they are goners. Serena is in young, divorced women who lives with her dog. She had a terrible relationship with her now ex husband who divorced her because of the books she wanted to write and who is now suing her for money because of said books. She's pretty popular author among the BDSM & Ménage Book lovers.

The character development is once again amazingly done. This book is so realistic with its character and the emotions they are going through that you cant help but fall in love with them. While we have to hot alpha men wanting to dominate one women, we also have the romantic suspense story of who is stalking her and why, plus all these other little parts that make up one hugely amazing story.  

I highly recommend this amazing romantic suspense filled novel!

The Dom Who Loved Me, Masters and Mercenaries, Book 1 (Masters & Mercenaries) By Lexi Blake

I got the first three books in a book bundle for $.99! This was my first book by author Lexi Blake, and I'm quit made that I hadn't  found her before now!

First this book is the first in a series that currently has 10 books. This is not your typical book either! This book features Sean Taggart who is part of a security team that his brother runs. Most of the men are ex-special forces and pure sex on a stick. If your looking for strong alpha dominant men this is the book series for you. Sean is assigned to get close to Personal Assistant Grace Hawthorne. Sean needs to get close to Grace to learn if she is helping Matt's brother and being part of a eco-terrorist group. Grace is a 40 yr old mother of two grown sons. She lost her husband to a car accident and when she had to go back to work, know one would hire her except her boss Matt. Grace has such a lonely life, but she loves her work and is a very loyal employee.  Mean while Grace has been reading these romance novels, that make her want things. She reads BDSM novels, and she realizes that's a relationship she would be happy to explore, but doesn't believe anyone wants her. When she meets Sean her urges are sparked back to life, however her head can't wrap around the fact that Sean is in his 30s and she's 40 yrs old. She can't imagine anyone looking at her as a sexy women. Then when she learns Sean's a Dom and wants her as his Sub all things. Meanwhile we have a terrorist with the CIA looking for information and wanting to accuse poor innocent Grace of helping the bad guy.

Not only do you have amazing character development with an unusual love story you also have this romantic suspense story of trying to figure out who people are, are they telling the truth or are they really the bad guy. This is a fast pace, dark and suspenseful novel that includes a smoking hot Dom who introduce a brave, strong and independent older women to the life style.

Definitely give this book five stars! Can't wait to read the rest of this series.