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Bringing Home the Chaos #3
Trusting Trouble
Join Jo in her third story; where hidden truths come to light and secrets are finally revealed. But only after she comes up with a rhyme for teleporting to a moving target, and a way to use her favorite cat-eleven as bait for their newest nemesis…
Things are finally looking up! The G.O.A.T. Coven has invited me to join. My cat-rating is crawling higher than it’s ever been before. The terrifyingly-intense Beckett and I have some kind of truce going on. My possibly-psychopathic, gangster neighbor has decided he’s my friend and will protect me whenever trouble calls. I’ve even been asked out on a date by my high-school crush! So – story of my life – chaos decides to rear its horribly-timed head. A clue from my dad leaves me with more questions than answers. A shopping trip with my new friend reveals I have more deadly threats chasing me down. My familiar’s secret gets impossible to keep. A surly cat-eleven starts acting weirder – and grumpier – than usual. And a last-minute gas-station run ends in a kidnapping by a crazy lady who has been playing with magic neutralization. Time for me to do what I do best; make some trouble.
Trusting Trouble is book three in the Bringing Home the Chaos Series, and while it doesn’t end on a cliffhanger, the ending is very much in the air. Guaranteed Happily Ever After, but it will take a while to get there. This is a slow burn, urban paranormal romance, with lots of snark and wit, fast-paced action, and a heroine that isn’t afraid to drop a four-letter word or violently defend herself and her friends. If you love Annette Marie, K.F. Breene, or Ilona Andrews, this is right up your alley. Intended for ages 18 years and older.
Things are finally looking up! The G.O.A.T. Coven has invited me to join. My cat-rating is crawling higher than it’s ever been before. The terrifyingly-intense Beckett and I have some kind of truce going on. My possibly-psychopathic, gangster neighbor has decided he’s my friend and will protect me whenever trouble calls. I’ve even been asked out on a date by my high-school crush! So – story of my life – chaos decides to rear its horribly-timed head. A clue from my dad leaves me with more questions than answers. A shopping trip with my new friend reveals I have more deadly threats chasing me down. My familiar’s secret gets impossible to keep. A surly cat-eleven starts acting weirder – and grumpier – than usual. And a last-minute gas-station run ends in a kidnapping by a crazy lady who has been playing with magic neutralization. Time for me to do what I do best; make some trouble.
Trusting Trouble is book three in the Bringing Home the Chaos Series, and while it doesn’t end on a cliffhanger, the ending is very much in the air. Guaranteed Happily Ever After, but it will take a while to get there. This is a slow burn, urban paranormal romance, with lots of snark and wit, fast-paced action, and a heroine that isn’t afraid to drop a four-letter word or violently defend herself and her friends. If you love Annette Marie, K.F. Breene, or Ilona Andrews, this is right up your alley. Intended for ages 18 years and older.
- GenresWitchesUrban Fantasy
452 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 1, 2023
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May 5, 2024
It’s Never Going to End
Ok look the premise of this series is good. I even like most the characters. But this series drags and not in a good way.
It’s great to give the characters quirks but pages and pages of internal monologues is unnecessary and then pov switching to go over the same thing please put a bullet in my brain.
Not much has happened in three books to move the two big series plots along. The tiny unimportant book by book plots have preciously little going on or importance and if we are honest the character growth is sparse.
I am bored. I find getting through these to be tedious. Yeah i downloaded the first 4 books hoping it was a completed series to get annoyed midway through this third and go read the few reviews on the 4th book. That’s where I learned it won’t end there and frankly being this far in with nothing to show… and I do mean nothing, there’s no reason to keep trying to read these.
I feel I can make enough educated guesses as to what happens and all the continued blunders and lack of communication issues. These had potential but they needed ripped apart to remove repetition and substance added for the main plots to move it along.
Anyways I am bowing out before the 4th book I should have stopped at the second but I was hoping and I should have trusted my gut.
Ok look the premise of this series is good. I even like most the characters. But this series drags and not in a good way.
It’s great to give the characters quirks but pages and pages of internal monologues is unnecessary and then pov switching to go over the same thing please put a bullet in my brain.
Not much has happened in three books to move the two big series plots along. The tiny unimportant book by book plots have preciously little going on or importance and if we are honest the character growth is sparse.
I am bored. I find getting through these to be tedious. Yeah i downloaded the first 4 books hoping it was a completed series to get annoyed midway through this third and go read the few reviews on the 4th book. That’s where I learned it won’t end there and frankly being this far in with nothing to show… and I do mean nothing, there’s no reason to keep trying to read these.
I feel I can make enough educated guesses as to what happens and all the continued blunders and lack of communication issues. These had potential but they needed ripped apart to remove repetition and substance added for the main plots to move it along.
Anyways I am bowing out before the 4th book I should have stopped at the second but I was hoping and I should have trusted my gut.
June 25, 2023
These books have taken up so much space in my head they should be paying rent. I LOVE Jo and the characters and the unique writing style. The books are fast paced, suspenseful, and funny yet heart warming.
The places and things described in the book are detailed in a way that is framed by Jo’s emotions and the reader feels them as well, and without being overly wordy. You can envision yourself at a run-down gas station in the summer or in a desert at night with a sky full of stars. The emotional depth to the characters is beautiful, and the relationships between all of them really shine.
I’ll echo my complaint from the last book: the overall plot isn’t moving as fast as I thought it would… although I never want the series to end and the subplots are fabulous. The slow burn is SO slow and I was inwardly screeching at the characters a few times to stop being so damn stubborn! I still feel like this could be a 5 or 6 book (or more please!) series and I’m so here for it.
I love how so much of the story is made up of monologuing by both MCs in this one because so much of the story is based on their magic and relationships between all of the characters. The writing style is unique and I like it a lot because you really feel like you are living in their heads. I’m a first-person storytelling kind of girl all the way and I’m obsessed with these characters.
After reading the series once and then over again right away I caught some hints of what is to come that I didn’t catch the first time because they were so subtle which is fun.
The places and things described in the book are detailed in a way that is framed by Jo’s emotions and the reader feels them as well, and without being overly wordy. You can envision yourself at a run-down gas station in the summer or in a desert at night with a sky full of stars. The emotional depth to the characters is beautiful, and the relationships between all of them really shine.
I’ll echo my complaint from the last book: the overall plot isn’t moving as fast as I thought it would… although I never want the series to end and the subplots are fabulous. The slow burn is SO slow and I was inwardly screeching at the characters a few times to stop being so damn stubborn! I still feel like this could be a 5 or 6 book (or more please!) series and I’m so here for it.
I love how so much of the story is made up of monologuing by both MCs in this one because so much of the story is based on their magic and relationships between all of the characters. The writing style is unique and I like it a lot because you really feel like you are living in their heads. I’m a first-person storytelling kind of girl all the way and I’m obsessed with these characters.
After reading the series once and then over again right away I caught some hints of what is to come that I didn’t catch the first time because they were so subtle which is fun.
June 21, 2024
Fun, slow-burn romance with some nice twists
While the way things end up at the end of the series seems, at the end of book 3, to be fairly predictable, it’s been a fun journey to take so far and I’m looking forward to the last book. Beckett is the very definition of both broody enemies to lovers (if vague hatred and grumpiness is actually enemy behaviour) and ‘best friends brother’ - such a tortured soul! If I had one complaint it’s that both main characters spend way too much time thinking to themselves. It’s got to be physically impossible to do that much thinking and self reflection in the short time frames allowed - pages of internal dialogue can occur between sentences in a conversation. If they did less internal monologue the first three books would be done in two… maybe one… Still five stars because I’m living it.
While the way things end up at the end of the series seems, at the end of book 3, to be fairly predictable, it’s been a fun journey to take so far and I’m looking forward to the last book. Beckett is the very definition of both broody enemies to lovers (if vague hatred and grumpiness is actually enemy behaviour) and ‘best friends brother’ - such a tortured soul! If I had one complaint it’s that both main characters spend way too much time thinking to themselves. It’s got to be physically impossible to do that much thinking and self reflection in the short time frames allowed - pages of internal dialogue can occur between sentences in a conversation. If they did less internal monologue the first three books would be done in two… maybe one… Still five stars because I’m living it.
August 10, 2023
This is such an excellent, fun read! So much humor with a complex and touching premise - a mysterious death of parents, an unobtainable love, a really, really unwanted biomother and bad guys trying to find her. Yikes - Jo really has her plate full!! This series has such a great combination of depth and quirky, quirky humor. I could read about this wonderful world and all its people for a very, very long time!
August 20, 2023
Each book gets better than the last and whilst the other two were fun, this just about had me snort laughing in some scenes, the chemistry between Jo and Beckett is unmistakable and sizzles off the page and Jo makes for the best drunk in a book I have come across in a very long time, even if she does regret it. Fun, warm and gives the wonderful fuzzy feeling of having read a book that resonates with you. I've found a new auto buy author.
April 10, 2025
This one was better than the last one, but still very stilted in pacing because of all the interior monologuing and the unnecessary movie quoting. It’s become annoying. It wasn’t really ever cute, to be honest, but I put up with it for the sake of the underlying storyline.
The end of this one gives me hope maybe there will be more forward progress and an actual breakthrough - especially between Beck & Jo - and that it won’t be stop/start/redirect, stop/start/redirect. 🤞
The end of this one gives me hope maybe there will be more forward progress and an actual breakthrough - especially between Beck & Jo - and that it won’t be stop/start/redirect, stop/start/redirect. 🤞
August 19, 2023
Wow! I absolutely loved this book of the series. It's my favourite one so far! It's getting more gritty, I feel like the next one will bring us closer to Jo's nemesis turning up. Now we know who she is! I need Beckett's vision to come true!... not the death one, hoping they find a way around that one. It is Jo we are talking about here!!
April 21, 2024
You need this series
You have to read this series people. I have read the first three book in under a week and I'm starting to panic a little that there is only one more book up for grabs!!!!
You have to read this series people. I have read the first three book in under a week and I'm starting to panic a little that there is only one more book up for grabs!!!!
May 29, 2024
bringing home the chaos
Can’t wait to get into book four. Krys has a way of filling the pages so the emotion struggles are literally slapping our faces. I’m off to down load book four.
Can’t wait to get into book four. Krys has a way of filling the pages so the emotion struggles are literally slapping our faces. I’m off to down load book four.
April 12, 2025
Second reading: trusting tribulations
I rereading this one to make it count in my reading challenge.
I rereading this one to make it count in my reading challenge.
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