Blog tour: Bad Things by R.K. Lilley

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Danika hasn’t had an easy life. Being insanely attracted to bad boys has never helped make it easier.

One look at Tristan, and every brain cell she possessed went up in smoke. This man was trouble with a capital T. It was a given.
She knew better. Bad boys were bad. Especially for her. Considering her history, it was crazy to think otherwise. So why did crazy have to feel so damn fine?

For as long as she could remember, Danika had been focused on the future with single-minded purpose. Tristan came along and taught her everything there was to know about letting go, and living in the present. She fell, hard and deep. Of course, that only made her impact with the ground that much more devastating.

4 star review

Danika has a history of disastrous relationships with bad boys. She had a troubled childhood; after being neglected by her mother (no father in the picture) she was placed in foster homes. She had a falling out with her sister and has had no contact with her in years. She is emotionally scarred from abuse and has a penchant for making poor choices. She is going to college and working as a nanny for an estranged couple caring for their 2 kids and assisting Jerry and Bev with anything they need. She vows to do better for herself after her latest break up. Tristan is just such a bad boy. Nice guy; doesn’t do relationships but he will rock your world. He had his heart torn out a few years ago by an old girlfriend named Natalie-once burnt twice shy.

He is in between apartments and will be staying with Jerry while waiting for his new place to be ready. Since Bev is sick of Jerry taking in “strays”, Danika covers for him and pretends that Tristan is a friend of hers from school who will be staying for a few weeks.

From their first meeting Danika and Tristan are WOW!! Their attraction is off the charts and overwhelming.

They can’t help being drawn to each other, first becoming friends and hanging out. Tristan has a band and also works as a club promoter. He takes Danika dancing and they fight to keep things platonic. She won’t let herself get involved with another commitment phobia guy and he believes she is too good for him and his no strings life style.

Danika meets his family and has a great relationship with Tristan’s brother Jared, who’s sweet but enjoys partying and drugs way too much. Danika’s old boyfriend, Daryl, is as total stalker and pushes all the protective buttons in Tristan. As much as they hang out together, Danika finds it hard not to be jealous of Tristan’s hook ups. Eventually lines of friendship are blurred and they take things to a physical level. Seems there is a little bit of a Dom in Tristan.

“This isn’t for me, Danika. This is for you. To really let go, you need to give up control. All of it. Every bit.”

They each have quick tempers and insecurities. These lead to fighting and break ups. Danika has to learn to deal with Tristan’s discarded female baggage who don’t wish to be discarded. Dean, one of the guys in Tristan’s bad, is a major douche who never misses an opportunity to cause trouble between them. In spite of all their differences these two heat up the sheets, and counter tops and any other durable surface. They open up their souls and that part of their hearts that they have guarded so vigorously. The more popular Tristan’s band becomes (with James Cavendish’s backing them) the more jealousies and fears Danika faces. She eventually tires of the non- stop partying and endless nights.

“In just a few performances, I’d seen panties thrown on stage, a topless woman, and several with tops, try to grope Tristan, and heard things shouted at my boyfriend that no one should ever have to hear without a plate handy to throw. That was the hell.”
 
Can these two learn to overcome their hang ups and insecurities? When an unspeakable tragedy strikes will they be able to find each other again and help each other heal to become whole once more?

“The way I feel about you…the way it’s been between us from the start, I was an idiot for denying it to myself. I want to be exclusive. I want to be with you.”
 
Bad Things sucks you up in its vortex of emotions. I was intrigued by these two characters when I first read about them in Grounded. Although in that book, they were well past the events that take place in this one, I am eager to find out how they became so estranged in Grounded, when they are so perfectly imperfect in this one.

About the author

R.K. Lilley lives in Colorado with her husband and their two beautiful sons. She's had a lot of interesting jobs, from being a first class flight attendant, to being a stablehand, but swears she never knew what hard work was until she had children. She's been addicted to both reading and writing fiction since she can remember. She loves to travel, read, hike, paint, game, watch anime, and make the most of every single day. She is the author of the erotic romance novels In Flight, Mile High, Grounded, and the novella, Lana.

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Spotlight Review, Deleted Scene and Giveaway: Unbreak Me by Lexi Ryan

Synopsis

“If you’re broken, I’ll fix you…”

I’m only twenty-one and already damaged goods. A slut. A failure. A disappointment to my picture-perfect family as long as I can remember. I called off my wedding to William Bailey, the only man who thought I was worth fixing. A year later, he’s marrying my sister. Unless I ask him not to…

“If you shatter, I’ll find you…”

But now there’s Asher Logan, a broken man who sees the fractures in my façade and doesn’t want to fix me at all. Asher wants me to stop hiding, to stop pretending. Asher wants to break down my walls. But that means letting him see my ugly secrets and forgiving him for his.

With my past weighing down on me, do I want the man who holds me together or the man who gives me permission to break?

4.5 star review 

Being a fan of Lexi Ryan's writing I could not wait for Unbreak Me and I have to say that it is by far my favorite book by Lexi Ryan.  It is a beautiful heart warming story about a girl who is broken in so many way and how she finds the one man who wants to break down all her walls and make her see the beautiful person she truly is.  

At the young age of fifteen Maggie became known as the town slut, due to certain events that were not her fault.  It was at the age of 15 that Maggie became the broken person that she is today.  She was young and needed her family and instead they turned their backs on her.  Her family was disappointed in her and made her feel like she wasn't worthy of their love, when they should have been their to protect her and support her.  Maggie becomes the person everyone thinks she is, she begins to play the role of the town slut very well.  A year ago she left town and the man that she loved behind.  She was supposed to marry Will and live happily ever after with him.  Will loved her and wanted to fix her and she needed Will.  But she left him out of fear of him finding out the truth.  

It's now a year later and Maggie has come back to watch her sister get married, to the man she loves and walked away from.  Yes her sister is marrying her ex-fiance Will.  Not only does she need to face the two of them getting married but she also needs to face her past, face the town that has criticized her, labeled her and caused her so much pain and heartache.  Maggie isn't sure she can move forward though and tries going back to the only way she knows how to cope, by throwing herself at men and using her body to get past the hurt. When it comes to her body she is an open book, but it's her emotions and secrets that she keeps locked up inside.  Until she meets Asher Logan and he changes everything.  

"Something about Asher compels me to open up.  Something about the way his blue eyes take me in.  It's like he sees something good when he looks at me, and I want to throw my ugliness in his face to prove him wrong." 
  
OMG, how I loved Asher Logan.  Not only is he a sexy rock star but he is just sweet and caring and amazing. Ashton has been burned in the past before and it has been a while since he has been with a woman.  But when he meets Maggie he is drawn to her and wants to get to know her.  He sees so much in Maggie that most people don't.  He sees the sadness and the hurt, but he doesn't want to fix her because he doesn't think she is broken.  He thinks she is beautiful and worthy of being loved.  He wants to get beneath the surface of Maggie and break her walls down.  He knows that there was something there with Will and refuses to be with her in a sexual way while she is still in love with someone else. He tries very hard to resist her sexual advances, but he knows that what Maggie needs right now isn't sex.  They start hanging out and eventually things go beyond a friendship.  And slowly Asher starts to break down that walls that Maggie has built. Maggie has a past that isn't a pretty one and is afraid of what people will think if they knew the truth.  But with Asher things are different, she feels comfortable and safe with Asher and she trusts him.  But the biggest obstacle for Asher and Maggie is Maggie herself.  Asher loves her and wants to help her but Maggie has been so scarred by her past, her parents and the town she lives in, that she doesn't believe that she is worthy of anyone's love.  Will being with Asher make Maggie see how beautiful she is and that she is worthy of being loved by Asher and deserves a happily ever after?

Unbreak Me is such a wonderful story.  I admit that I loved Will, just not with Maggie.  He is sweet and caring and really loves Maggie but he also tries to fix her and that is not necessarily what she needs.  Asher on the other hand is what Maggie needs, someone to push her, to make her believe in herself and believe that she is worth it.  Asher and Maggie were perfect together.  The moments they shared when she tells him the secrets of her past were emotional and will break your heart.  Maggie opens up to him and he never judges her for anything that happened in her past.  It is in her past and now it's time to put it behind and look to a future.

"I'm terrified of how much he knows about me, how much he sees when he looks at me."

Lexi Ryan definitely out did herself with Unbreak Me.  It completely sucked me in right from the start and I found myself not wanting to put it down. I needed to know what happened in Maggie's past that caused her so much pain, I needed to know how in the world Will ended up with Maggie's sister, and I needed to know how it would end.  Would she get the happily ever after with the guy she deserved?  This book will bring out all the emotions, making you sad, happy, angry, frustrated and break your heart and then slowly put it back together again.  But the journey is worth it and in the end will leave you smiling.  

This is a beautiful story about love, forgiveness and moving on from your past.  About learning to love yourself in order to let others love you.  Maggie has a past that she is ashamed of, a past where she made mistakes and choices that she may not be proud of but they are her past.  And sometimes things aren't always what they seem. What happened in Maggie's past wasn't her fault but she is the one who has been suffering all these years because of it. She is trying to move on and be a better person. Everyone makes mistakes and everyone has a past, but despite what happened in your past there is someone out there who will love you for the person you are, there is someone who sees the real you and understands the heart ache and pain that you have been through.  There is someone out there that just wants to love you .  And for Maggie that someone is Asher Logan.  Amazing job by Lexi Ryan.  I cannot wait for Will's story!

"Normally, I back off when I start to feel something for a woman.  But the thing is,"  he whispers now, "It's too late.  I've already fallen for you."

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Maggie—April (13 months before UNBREAK ME begins)

     I have no right to be this happy when my world is falling apart, when I have totally FUBARed my own life. Again.
     But spring is here and I can’t help but feel optimistic when the sun is warming my skin and everywhere I look something new has turned green.
     Photosynthesis feels like this unexpected miracle after the long, cold winter. 
     Or maybe it’s Will who feels like the miracle. Will with his soft touch and easy smile. Will with his warm embrace and whispered reassurances.
     I can hardly believe it’s been two weeks since I showed up at his apartment, wishing I could cry. But I suck at crying, so instead I took off my clothes, and the next thing I knew, we were both naked and he was framing my face in his hands as he slid inside of me.
     He didn’t kiss me that first time. Or the second. I wouldn’t let him, and he seemed to accept, if not understand, that I could push the boundaries of our friendship in every way but that one. I needed to feel his steady strength, his constant heat. I needed to feel him move inside me, but I wasn’t ready for our mouths to touch—evidence, I’m sure, that I’m the worst kind of slut, but fuck the people who don’t get it.
     But today was different. I sat by the river behind my mom’s house and watched it rush by, fat with the spring rain. And Will found me there. He sat cross-legged beside me and entwined his fingers through mine. And even though I knew it was the perfect moment to tell him the truth about what brought me to his door two weeks ago, I was too drunk on sunlight and optimism to speak the truth he deserved to hear.
     When I lay down in the grass, he rolled above me, bracing himself on his elbows as he studied my mouth.
     “Let me kiss you, Maggie.”
     It was like one of those movie moments where the seconds before the kiss are so damn delicious you almost hope their lips never touch.
     I smiled up at him, all that messy blond hair framed in sunlight, and I tugged at his shirt in answer to his question.
     When his lips touched mine, there were fireworks. Okay, firecrackers if you want to get technical about it. Damn kids down the street are overly found of shooting bottle rockets over the river. But there may have been some metaphorical pyrotechnics too—because for me and Will that movie moment of the seconds before the kiss has been dragged out for five years. He wouldn’t kiss or touch me when I showed up to his dorm room at fifteen, and when he came back to New Hope for grad school, I wouldn’t kiss him. Until now. Until today.

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Maggie—May (12 months before UNBREAK ME begins)

     I called off the wedding. Officially.
     There should never have been a wedding to call off, but this all happened so fast, and I saw an escape in his kindness and suddenly…there was.
     When I told Will it was off, I felt like the biggest piece shit.
     I did it in a text.
     I know! He deserved better than that, but I can hardly face him right now. I’m so afraid I’ll give in to the temptation to carry through with the original plan. I could tell him the truth, but honesty is for people who have nothing to hide.
     He didn’t reply to the text. He just showed up at Mom’s looking like a man who just lost his child. The irony of that moment was like a whip cracking against my raw heart.
     It was raining but he didn’t object when I asked to go for a walk. We didn’t bother with umbrellas, just walked down to the river in the rain, both of us happy for anything that might disguise our tears.
     His nearness was such a temptation. I can imagine spending my life with him.
     No. Scratch that. I can imagine someone spending her life with him. He’s going to make an amazing husband some day. All the more reason I need to bow out now, right?
     I sat on the wet grass and curled my fingers into the cool earth. I told him I couldn’t marry him.
He was a wreck, and I couldn’t look at him, couldn’t explain. But even keeping my eyes on the river, the hurt came all over again every time I heard his voice.
     And then he started making me promises. Amazing promises I know he meant, promises a girl like me just doesn’t deserve.
     I lost it.
     I wanted to tell him, But you deserve better. I didn’t say it—not when it’s an excuse so many women say and don’t mean.
     That’s when he dropped to his knees in front of me and I had to look him in the face. I had to see those soft, kind eyes, and I wanted a do-over more than anything. I wanted to start over from the moment he came home as a grad student at Sinclair. Hell, I wanted to start over from when I was fifteen.
     “Marry me, Maggie.”
     I told him no, just like I should have the first time. I told him no and closed my eyes because my aching heart was too selfish for company.
     His eyes—so blue, so sweet—searched my face, looking for something I no longer have to give. Because my heart is in someone else’s hands now.
 

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Cover Reveal: Fatalism by LK collins

Title: Fatalism

Author: L.K. Collins

Genre: Erotica

Release Date: August 1 2013

Cover release organized by: I Love Indie Books

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Synopsis:

Alexa Schaefer has been through more pain and
hurt in her life than your average twenty-eight year old.
She protects her heart by controlling everything around her
and living her life according to a strict set of rules.
For years, she has lived behind a wall, not allowing
anyone into her heart. That is, until she meets Vincent, a man
she can't get out of her head no matter what she tells herself.
On the outside, Vincent Mileski appears to be a
confident, no nonsense attorney. A prodigy in the field of law,
he has just won the biggest case of his career. Needing out of
the spotlight, Vincent moves back to his home state of Colorado
to get some time alone to heal from a previous betrayal.
He hasn’t had a woman turn his head in years, that is,
until he meets Alexa. After only knowing her name and the
sweet taste of her kiss, she is torn from his arms.
Will fate bring these two back together,
or will they spend an eternity searching?

Author Bio:

LK is, first and foremost, a wife and a mother. She has always had a mad passion for reading, and recently turned that passion into the love and talent of writing. She writes sexy and erotic adult romance. Fatalism is her debut novel, which is part of the Life. Destiny. Fate Series. The series will contain five books, all of which are their own stories and can be read in order or as stand alones.

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New Release for July

Here is a list of books that we are all looking forward to.  Click the Goodreads link below each title to put on your TBR list


7/1/13 ~ The Light in the Wound by Christine Brae
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7/1/13 ~ Lick by Kylie Scott
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7/1/13 ~ Perfect Regret by A. Meredith Walters
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7/1/13 ~ Made for You (Cole, #2) by Vi Keeland
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7/1/13 ~ By Referral Only (Whittman University, #2) by Lyla Payne
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7/2/13 ~ This Man Confessed by Jodi Ellen Malpas
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7/2/13 ~ Facade by Nyrae Dawn
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7/2/13 ~ Affliction (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter book 22) by Laurelle K. Hamilton
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7/2/13 ~ Out of Breath by Rebecca Donovan
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7/2/13 ~ MacRieve by Kresley Cole
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7/2/13 ~  Brooklyn Girls by Gemma Burgess
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7/2/13 ~ Unchartered (On the Island 1.5) by Tracey Garvis Graves
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7/2/13 ~ The Distance Between Us by Kasie West
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7/5/13 ~ Just Breathe by Rachel Brookes
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7/5/13 ~ Get Bent (Hard Rock Roots #2) by C.M. Stunich
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7/5/13 ~ Chasing Paradise by Pamela Ann
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7/7/13 ~ Twinsequences by Jennifer Foor
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7/8/13 ~  Taste the Heart by Rachel Harris
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7/9/13 ~ Losing Hope by Colleen Hoover  
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7/9/13 ~ Edible (Exquisite, #3) by Ella Frank
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7/9/13 ~ White Trash Beautiful (White Trash, #1) by Teresa Mummert
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7/11/13 ~ This Heart of Mine (Raine #3) by Amanda Bennett
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7/13/13 ~ Black Moon (Ink #3) by Holly Hood
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7/15/13 ~ Seeds of Hate by Melissa Perea
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7/16/13 ~ Playing With Fire Ashley Piscitelli

7/16/13 ~ Found (The Crescent Chronicles #3)by Alyssa Rose Ivy
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7/16/13 ~ Finding Bliss by Dina Silver
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7/16/13 ~ Fear of Falling by Sl Jennings
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7/16/13 ~ The Rocker That Needs Me by Terri Anne Browning 
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7/16/13 ~ Left Drowning by Jessica Park
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7/16/13 ~ Don't Lie to Me by Stacey Lynn
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7/17/13 ~ An Endless Summer (Summer #2) by C.J. Duggan
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7/18/13 ~ Undertow by Leigh Talbert Moore
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7/18/13 ~ Fear of Falling by S.L. Jennings 
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7/18/13 ~ Who He Is by Shanora Williams
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7/19/13 ~ Love Square by Jessica Ingro
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7/19/13 ~ Giving You Forever (The Forever Series, #4) by Ashley Wilcox
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7/19/13 ~ Epiphany by Christina Jean Michaels
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7/22/13 ~ Drowning in Love by Beth Rinyu
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7/23/13 ~ Worthy of Redemption by L.D. Davis

7/23/13 ~ Lost For You (Lost #2) by B.J. Harvey
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7/23/13 ~ Body and Blood (Survivors #3) by Amanda Havard
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7/23/13 ~ The Young and the Submissive (The Doms of Her Life, #2) by Shayla Black, Jenna Jacob and Isabella LaPearl
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7/26/13 ~ Anything Like Me (B&S series, #3) by Kimberly Knight
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7/27/13 ~ The Fab Life (The Kihanna Saga #1) by Mercy Amare
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7/27/13 ~ Loving Me by Crystal Fulp
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7/30/13 ~ Frigid by J. Lynn
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7/30/13 ~ Three Little Words by Susan Mallery
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7/30/13 ~ Complete Me (Stark Trilogy, #3) by J. Kenner
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7/30/13 ~ The Marriage Merger (Marriage to a Billionaire, #4)
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7/30/13 ~ Near and Far (Lost and Found, #2) by Nicole Williams
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7/30/13 ~ Unbreakable by Rebecca Shea
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7/30/13 ~ Shards of Us by K.R. Caverly
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7/30/13 ~ Escaping Me by Elizabeth Lee
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Adam, Enough Said (This Can't Be Happening, #3) by Lynda LeeAnne
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Blood Doll (The Vampire Agape Series, #3) by Georgia Cates
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Resplendent by M.J. Abraham
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Review and giveaway:Choices by Sidney Lane

Choices

Fate brought her here, but will her choices destroy her dreams?

Quincy Priest made all the right choices in her small town, black-and-white life. But being perfect is tiring. So. Very. Tiring.

Wanting desperately to step out of her sister's shadow, Quincy jumps at the opportunity to attend college with her best friend. The quiet bookworm with family secrets comes out of her shell. But when Quincy meets not one, but two perfect guys, she has to make a choice. In doing so, she might forfeit the relationship she secretly longed to find.

Declan. Sweet, handsome, and perfect. He makes her feel cherished for the first time in her life.

Brody. Sexy, hot, and irresistible. He could tear down her carefully built walls.

Before she can become the woman she wants to be, Quincy will make mistakes. And suffer one unimaginable loss.

4 Star Review

Let me first start by saying this simple book title says it all…

Choices (Noun):  An act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.

Immediately from the prologue we can make the assumption that this is going to be a good emotional scarring book ride:

  “I hate you, Quince. I hate you because when I saw you just now, I still thought you were the most beautiful girl in the room.”

Quincy has moved from her small town to the University of Tennessee where she immediately notices that the guys here are like not the guys from back home.  They are much hotter…and 2 of the hottest guys she meets on her first day of class are fraternity brothers.   Declan is the fraternity chaplain and can work wonders with words, making you feel calm and entrancing you with his voice, wisdom and stories.  Brody is the player with the scorching blue eyes who never takes out the same girl twice.  Both boys vie for Quincy’s heart, one’s identity unknown to the other. 

“Declan makes me feel warm and fuzzy.  Brody scorches me.”

Quincy knows that she needs to make a choice.  She knows that she cannot keep 2 wonderful guys hanging on the sidelines waiting for her answer, but it’s easier to play the game than to make the decision.  Unfortunately she has enamored her best friend to come up with excuses for her in order to prevent her from getting caught up in one of her lies.

“The lies are piling up.  What will one more hurt?”

One of these boys has had Quincy allow him to be the owner of her innermost thoughts. One of these boys has allowed him to take her virginity.  One of these boys makes her feel a whole new level of emotions and the other makes her feel safe, giving her comfort she asks for when a family tragedy strikes.  Will this tragedy and the comfort he can bring her be the deciding factor on her choice?

“Declan is a bright spot in my very dark existence…Brody breaks my heart. Every. Single. Day.”

After dealing with her tragedy, Quincy is ready to face the world again.  There will be one person that she gives her heart to…

“I choose you.”

If you are a fan of angsty love triangles… you will not be disappointed.

If you like a story that brings you to tears… you will not be disappointed. 

If you are a fan of a happy ending… you will not be disappointed.

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Blog tour: Savor You by Emily Snow

Synopsis

Kylie Wolfe and guitarist Wyatt McRae have been bad for each other for the last several years, but it’s
impossible for them to end their toxic push and pull. Not when their attraction is constantly fueled by
lust and proximity—she’s her older brother’s Lucas’s assistant and Wyatt is his best friend and band
mate.
So when Your Toxic Sequel makes a move to record a new album in Nashville, Kylie decides to make the
latest break with Wyatt official by getting the hell out of town. She’ll spend a week in New Orleans. A
week to immerse herself in the Mardi Gras scene. One week to not think about the last time she was in
New Orleans, seven years ago with Wyatt. Seven days where she won’t have to see Wyatt every day just
to fall ridiculously in love with him all over again—where, if she wants to, she can have a normal, no strings
attached fling that won’t end in heartbreak.
Too bad Wyatt ruins everything by showing up, as gorgeous and demanding and goddamn awful for her
as ever.
Wyatt refuses to let Kylie give up on him. Not without reminding her why they both fell so far and hard
in the first place. Not without making her savor the good memories and what could be their last chance
with each other.
Note: This is a spinoff from the Devoured series.


4 Star review

Emily Snow has written a novella for Kylie and Wyatt from the Devoured series. Kylie is Lucas Wolfe’s sister and Wyatt is his bass guitarist from Your Toxic Sequel. For the past 8 years they have been together, broken up, gotten together. Lather, rinse, repeat. Kylie is partial to tattoos, loves the ink. For each heartache suffered at Wyatt’s hand, she gets a black bird tattoo. She has 18 of them, 17 too many. Over the years they have gotten progressively harsher with each break up and the hurt lingers longer.

Early on Kyle married an asshat named Brad and still has his last name (the one she no longer uses) tattooed on her ring finger. Every time Wyatt sees it, it pushes his “goes crazy” button. He demands she get it removed, she keeps it-maybe out of spite?

“No more blackbird tattoos. Fu*k get a bluebird or something, because we’re going to try again and we’ll get it right.”

After their last hook up at Thanksgiving, Kylie, for some unknown reason, has ignored Wyatt. She decides to take an impromptu vacation. Sienna, Lucas’ new assistant. (don’t you just love cross over characters?) can hold down the fort. She travels to New Orleans with her best friend Heidi (who works as a phone sex operator and is a real pistol). Guess who follows her there? He is determined to find out if Kylie is going to stick to her vow that they are over. Cal from the band is also there and the banter between Cal and Heidi is insanely wrought with innuendos and eye ball sex.

“Guess you’ll be pulling a double shift on the phone -f*ck line huh?” Heidi takes her card from the clerk’s outstretched hand, ignoring the look of mortification on the poor man’s face, and gives Cal a tight smile. “You’ve got my number asshole. Just make sure there’s enough money on your credit card.”

Heidi likes one night stands and isn’t always the best judge of character. Her latest hook up their first night in New Orleans results in the girls’ hotel room being ransacked and Kylie’s credit card and ID are stolen. She can’t get on a plane without her ID and she is broke until she sorts this mess out. She and Wyatt have been “reconnecting” and she tells him once she is back home in California, they are done for good. She can’t take the back and forth. She agrees to accompany he and Cal as they play a few gigs on their way back home. He is determined she will see that they can fix what is broken.

“I’ve done exactly what I told you I’d do. I came here with you. I let you remind me of our past, the good and the bad. But Wyatt, I just can’t anymore.”

I really enjoyed this novella. I almost wish it was a full blown novel of its own. I love the secondary characters and hope their stories will be explored more. There were some hints as to why they broke up several times, but I still had some unanswered questions. Kylie is so broken she has a history of physically hurting herself. Wyatt can not be sweeter or more bad ass. These two bob and weave through the minefield of their lives. Here’s hoping they have their happily ever after.

Author Bio 
Emily Snow is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the erotic romance series
Devoured, which includes Devoured, All Over You, and Consumed, as well as the new adult novel Tidal.
She loves books, sexy bad boys, and really loud rock music, so naturally, she writes stories about all
three.


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Cover Reveal: Lovely by Beth Michele

Title: Lovely

Author: Beth Michele

Expected Release Date: September 2013

Genre: New Adult Romance

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Synopsis

A moment can change everything…

Ashton Taylor.  Six foot one, Dark hair, chiseled jaw, riveting hazel eyes, and a body cut in all the right places.  He’s a natural.  Things just come easy to him. He’s used to getting everything he wants, excelling at everything he does.  The grades, the recognition, the beautiful women.

His path was set.  A girl, a full scholarship to UCLA, and a bright future.  To others, his life seemed perfect.  But, things are never what they seem, and life, well, at any moment, something or someone can come along and turn it upside down.

That something…the death of his father.

That someone… Cara Hayward.  The girl with the hypnotic eyes, melodic voice, enchanting smile, and lips sent straight from heaven.

The girl who doesn’t want to be seen.

So what happens when a guy who everything comes easy to, meets a girl who doesn’t come easy?  Can he crawl through all the broken glass to find her?  Will the girl he discovers deep down be able to see past his perfect exterior?

Together, do they have the power to heal one another?  Or, could the very thing that brings them together, be the one thing that tears them apart?

**Lovely is a New Adult Romance with strong language and mature sexual content.

Author Bio 

Beth Michele is a wife, a mom, an author and a lover of all things chocolate, well, anything sweet really. While stuffing chocolate in her face, she enjoys reading young adult and new adult novels furiously, and spending time with her husband and two adorable children who keep her on her painted toes. Those same children who inspire her to tell silly stories that cause hysterical giggles to tumble from their bellies. Beth is a hopeless romantic and a happily ever after fanatic who loves to write about love.

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