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Title: Divine Empire Series: Empire Series #3 Author: Brooke Ellis Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance Release Date: May 27, 2019 After three horrific years away, Thomas resolved to make a new life away from his powerful family and abandon the empire he had built through illegal dealings. Although the past is willing to stay in the past, he attempts to forge a new career as a chef, with a challenging girl, Divinity, at his side.  Thomas is determined to begin anew but struggles to be free of passed connections. Her past is as fractured as his and has the potential to shatter their hopes of love and a new life. Spending most of her life in Sydney, Australia, before moving back to her hometown of Brisbane, Brooke worked as a chef in many a steamy hot kitchen. Which provided the perfect segue into writing equally steamy hot contemporary romance books. Letting her imagination run wild, she set out writing her first novel in 2017, which turned into a second and third in 2018. Not...

Review of Liberty Empire (Empire Book 2) by Brooke Ellis LIBERTY EMPIRE Liberty Empire begins with Jacquie's backstory, which is helpful to showcase her character in the present, and how and why she came to be such a crazy, evil mother. Then it segues into Mitch and Addie back together. The question is, can they stay together this time? Resist Jacqueline's manipulations? I found the actual story of Liberty Empire interesting, I just didn't like the execution of it. The third person POV helped create a distance between myself as a reader, and the characters, and further created more disconnect. I just could not, for the life of me, connect with or really engender any great emotion about them other than a kind of indifference, as if they were just cardboard cutouts being put through the paces by the author. The transitions between one scene to the next were abrupt, even furthering the distance I felt between myself and the characters. I guess you could say I read wit...

Title: Liberty Empire Series: Empire Series #2 Author: Brooke Ellis Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance Release Date:  March 2, 2019 A violent act pits brother against brother. Consequences of past actions become a dire turning point for one of the brothers and cause serious implications for other’s in the empire. Liberty ends for one, in the form of a medium term, maximum security prison sentence. While the other finds his emotional liberty challenged, when his sexual limits are pushed beyond where he thought they would ever go.  Adeline puts much at risk when she takes a relationship to a different level. Family ties are tested, and few come through unscathed. Spending most of her life in Sydney, Australia, before moving back to her hometown of Brisbane, Brooke worked as a chef in many a steamy hot kitchen. Which provided the perfect segue into writing equally steamy hot contemporary romance books. Letting her imagination run wild, she set out writing her firs...