PURITY - Skyler Mason

 Oh my gosh this was awful. 

 A young woman was raised in a religious, purity culture. But she is just realizing that she really wants to have sex and that Jesus won't hate her if she does. She wants Cole Walker - who has been her friend for as long as she can remember - to be the one to take her virginity. But she's been super religious all her life and he can't believe she really wants to have sex. Meanwhile, her friends promise to take her out to get drunk so she can pick up some hot guy.

Over and over again I couldn't shake the feeling that the author was just venting about her own upbringing. She really hits the reader over the head with the character thinking out loud or telling anyone who'd listen, that you can be religious and have sex. It got so annoying.

I cannot believe this has almost 17,000  ratings on goodreads! I didn't find anything here other than a Mary Sue.

2 Guilty Pleasure stars 

TEMPTED BY A VAMPIRE - Susan Griscom

 This was decent but underwhelming paranormal romance.

Cian DeMaro and his brothers are musicians who play some of the better clubs in the Bay Area. They are also vampires. But they are vampires with a conscience and don't hunt to kill. At the moment their lives seem content - they play music at night and drink just enough blood to stay alive. Cian never thought he was missing something until he met Magdalena De la Rosa.

Of course the feelings are mutual and all they want is to have savage sex with each other. But when she learns that he's actually a vampire she is ... (check one: X revolted and wants nothing more to do with him; X more turned on than ever). If she can convince him to turn her into a vampire they could be together forever!

Every part of this- the writing, the romance, the sex - just starts to get good and then it relapses before it can get to a climax. It got frustrating and made it boring.

Like many books of this type, it's written in 1st person but it alternates between her POV and then his POV.  Cian's point of view really didn't work for me at all.

3-1/2 Guilty Pleasure stars (rounded down)