A Perfect Love (Perfect #2) Becca Lee - ARC Review & Blog Tour

Blurb:

“When the odds are stacked against you, you don’t run and hide. You step up and give life the middle finger.”

Jo is confident her life is about to spiral out of control and change irrevocably. What she doesn’t expect is just how far her world will tilt. Floundering and confused, she discovers life and love aren't always knee-deep in hearts and flowers. Sometimes life’s middle finger is pointed firmly in the air.

Liam never expected perfect, but from the moment he said, "I do," he knew he had it. What he doesn’t expect is life throwing crapballs the size of Ayers Rock at him! Sometimes life’s aim is a little too accurate.

When Mother Nature steps in and throws their world into disarray, Liam and Jo need to decide just how far they’re willing to go to find their perfect love

 

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Kristine's Review:

Reviewed: April 2015.

 

 

I was expecting a light, fluffy, funny story about Liam and Jo in A Perfect Love by Becca Lee, I'm not entirely sure why, the blurb hints towards something a little darker, a story that has depth, but I still went in expecting Jo and Liam to have a light hearted, romantic romp of a love story, one that would have me simultaneously fanning my face and giggling into my hand. A Perfect Love is so much more than that, Jo is the kind of strong heroine I crave, smart, feisty, she's lived through hell and has come out on the other side, she's found a way to move forward with her life, without letting her past dictate her future, and Liam is the kind of hero that you can't help cheering for, he's lived a tortured past but instead of crumbling he's steadfast in his devotion to his partner, he's strong and focused and is ready to take on the world in order to protect those around him.

Liam and Jo are newly married, and settling into a life of wedded bliss, when they find out Jo is expecting their first child they should be enjoying one of the happiest moments of their lives, and for a short while they are, until someone one from their past reappears and sends them both into a tailspin, their happy moment shattered, they are left with two choices, to fall apart or to stand together.

I was immediately drawn into this story, Lee's narrative gripping me from the first page, Jo and Liam captured my attention, and didn't let go, I felt their fear, their pain, their heartache, their joy and their happiness, I immediately wanted to know more about these two, about their beginning, about their lives together, I wanted to know all their secrets, their past because I truly believed in their future. Lee's writing style is effortlessly simple, making it's easy to lose yourself in her words, and in the story as it comes to life, jumping off the pages, and crawling it's way into your heart. I'm excited for what comes next, I am eagerly awaiting news on Mase, on his life and his future. I adored that we got a glimpse into Ella and Preston's lives after the tragic accident they endured. And more than anything, I'm excited to see what Becca Lee does next.

 

 

 

 

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Finding Bliss (Bliss #4) BJ Harvey - Cover Reveal

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Title: Finding Bliss

Series: Bliss #4

Author: BJ Harvey

Release Date: June 16, 2015

 

SYNOPSIS

The End of an Era

They call me the walking dildo.

Gratifying? Yes. 

Something my mother would be proud of? Hell no!

Watching my best friend and my old friend-with-benefits blissfully walk down the aisle has just reiterated the fact that I’m thirty and perpetually single. 

I thought I’d found the woman I wanted to spend my life with, you have to open your eyes to realize that it’s never gonnahappen.

Funny how meeting the right person can finally make you see sense.

My name is Noah Taylor: kickass trauma surgeon, closet idealist, wishful thinker, and all round cocky asshole, and this is the year my life will change for the better. 

*Disclaimer: This book features hot sex, filthy language, misuse of on-call rooms and the overdue redemption of the fake orgasm*

 

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EXCERPT

“I'm not someone you can go ‘wham, bam, thank you ma'am’ with. That's not my style and if that's what you're looking for, then I'm not who you want. I'm a relationship girl, Noah. Always have been and always will be.” I square my shoulders, not daring to look away from him. It’s as if we’re kids having a staring contest, except we’re not kids, and the stakes are far higher than trying to win the last cookie left in the jar. No, the stakes are much, much higher and we both know it. 

He looks away first, staring out the window behind me as he bites the side of his lip, mulling over something. "You don't know me."

"No I don't, Noah. I know of you… but then there’s the fact we shared the best kiss of my entire life together." An uneasy silence stretches between us. His eyes meet mine again and I'm struck with just how much depth there is there. This is a side of Noah that very few people see.  

"God, I wish I remembered that kiss," he murmurs, his voice desperate, longing as he drops his eyes to the floor. 

"I wish you did, too." My voice is laced with regret. After what feels like forever he snaps his head up, seemingly reaching a decision. Pinning me with an intense stare, he starts moving forward. 

"I just need a chance. Let me get to know you. Let me show you the real me."

"Friends, Noah. That's all I can do right now." A slow, almost knowing smile ghosts across his lips.

"Friends,” he says, as if he’s testing the word. "I can do that ... to start with anyway." He steps closer until our bodies are almost touching and it’s impossible to ignore the heat now radiating between us. "I'm going to show you the real me. I'm not just a cocky asshole with a black book the size of Chicago." 

My chest tightens at the thought that a) he would know that many people and b) have slept with that many women. If I was in that black book I’d wanna dip myself in bleach before taking a cocktail of every antibiotic available. 

"I want you to like what you see . . ." 

"I—" My protest is stopped by his index finger pressing against my lips. It takes everything in me not to just reach out my tongue to taste it. 

"I want you to want to know me. But I need you to know . . ." His warm breath caresses my skin as he leans his face closer to mine. My breathing is so erratic it's a wonder I haven’t passed out, something I almost do when his lips gently suck on the skin beneath my ear before he whispers so softly, I almost think I’m hearing things. But as his deliciously potent words sink in, I realize there is no way I’ve misheard him.
 
"I'm going to make you fall in love with me. And I’m not gonna stop until you do."

 

AUTHOR BIO

BJ Harvey is the International Bestselling Author of the Bliss Series. She writes contemporary romance, romantic comedy, and romantic suspense. 

An avid music fan, you will always find her with headphones on while writing, and the speakers blaring the rest of the time. She’s a wife, a mom to two beautiful girls, and when she’s not writing – she’s reading. 

BJ resides with her family in what she considers the best country in the world—New Zealand.

She describes her writing as a little swoon, a lot of heat, a bit of drama and a whole lot of love.

 

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Wicked White (Wicked White #1) Michelle A. Valentine - ARC Review

 

 

Blurb:

After his mother dies, rock star Ace White—lead singer of the red-hot band Wicked White—is done with the celebrity game. The phony people, the meaningless one-night stands: he doesn’t want any of it anymore. Quitting in the middle of a sold-out tour, Ace sets out to find some place—any place—where he can be alone.

Aspiring singer Iris Easton’s life has never been easy. First, her mother walked out on her when she was a kid. Now she’s buried in debt, weeks after losing her beloved grandmother. When a mysterious and sexy new guy moves in next door, Iris can’t help but be drawn to his soulful gaze. She can tell there’s something from his past haunting him—something he’s not telling her.

Just as Ace starts falling for Iris, the media go on a worldwide hunt to find the missing rocker. Will true love conquer all, or will the truth be the very thing that tears the couple apart?

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Kristine's Review:

Reviewed: April 2015.




So many rock star books focus on a band of brothers who grew up playing together, bonds of mateship forged through years of friendship, going from playing in garages, to small bars to international stardom, but what I love so much about Michelle Valentine is that she always strays from the stereotype, her hero's are never quite what you expect, sure you think you have her leading men pegged, you're almost sure you already know these characters from reading the blurb, but in reality she always veers so far off the beaten path, taking you somewhere you never expected.

Ace White is exactly that man, in a social media and marketing age that has seen produced and synthesised stars like One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer made, super groups are becoming far more prevalent, Wicked White is one the biggest bands to hit the big time, to their adoring public they may seem like the quint essential band, but in reality they were manufactured to a tee. When Ace's is alerted to a family emergency, he walks off stage and doesn't look back, resulting in a media hunt for his whereabouts.

Iris Easton always had a plan, get out of her middle of nowhere small town, make it to New York and hit it big on Broadway, a talented singer, Iris dreams of greatness, but after her grandmother's sudden death she's back home, buried in debt with a trailer park, and no foreseeable way to fix it.

Wicked White is a slow burn of sorts, while the attraction between Ace and Iris is palpable, it is not a story if insta love. Iris is intrigued by the beautiful stranger who wants to rent a trailer, and Axe knows the last thing he should do is strike up a connection with his new land lady but neither can dispute the mounting tension and chemistry simmering beneath the surface whenever they are in close proximity to one another.

Their connection tenuous at times, Axe is desperate to hide who he is, changing his appearance from anyone who might be able to recognise him, hiding himself away both figuratively and emotionally so he can't be used by anyone again, the dichotomy of his personality showing through, both fragile and strong. Axe is the kind of leading man who equal parts sensitive and alpha male, Valentine flawlessly showed the warring sides of his mind, as a reader I FELT his need to guard his heart and protect himself while desperately wanting the connection that was quickly building between himself and Iris.

Valentine's story of love and rock stars deviates so far from what I expected, I expected a story of hot sex, groupies, rock and roll, and angst filled tension, but what I found instead was so much more. Wicked White shows us that perceptions aren't always correct, that sometimes the dream is nothing like the reality, that finding your voice in the cookie cutter world of over produced music can sometimes be even more difficult than you ever imagined. But more than any of that, Wicked White is about love, about self acceptance, it's about standing and fighting for what you know is right. Valentine stripped back the curtain to give us a glimpse of what life on the road, on stage can truly be like, giving us two beautifully enigmatic characters, both flawed in their own way, the story she weaves so effortlessly had me swooning, watching Iris and Axe come into their own, finding one another, and in the process finding themselves, transporting me to not only being a bystander, but feeling as though I was living this journey with them.

 

 

Pre Order/Purchase Links: 23rd June 2015

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About Michelle Valentine:

Michelle A. Valentine is a Central Ohio nurse turned New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of erotic and New Adult r...omance. Her love of hard-rock music, tattoos, and sexy musicians inspired her erotic BLACK FALCON series.
http://www.michelleavalentine.com/

Or email her at michellevalentineauthor@gmail.com

 

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REVELRY (Taint #1) Carmen Jenner PRE RELEASE BLITZ

PRE-RELEASE BLITZ

Title: Revelry

Series: Taint #1

Author: Carmen Jenner

Genre: Erotic Romance

Release Date: May 25, 2015

 

SYNOPSIS

Cooper Ryan is living the dream. Between the parties with rock royalty, booze, groupies and performing to crowds of thousands with his band Taint, life seems pretty sweet. There’s just one thing missing: the feisty little red-head that took his baby and ran off with his heart. Throwing himself into music is the only thing keeping him sane.

Until a run-in with a nonplussed, package-wielding PA throws everything off balance.

Ali Jones is having a craptastic life. Her grandmother died, leaving her homeless, penniless, and alone, and her boyfriend left her for a tramp who takes her clothes off for money. That’s why when she lands her dream job at a record company it seems like it’s too good to be true.

Because it is.

Slapped with an ultimatum, Ali must decide if facing the horror of the unemployment line is a fate worse than going on the road with four rowdy rockers hell-bent on making her life misery.

He’s adored by millions.

She’s not even loved by her cat.

Can they ignore their hatred long enough to survive the tour from hell? Or will their chemistry force everything to come crashing down around them?

 

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21847016-revelry

 

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EXCERPT

My vision is partly obstructed by Ali, but the sight of her head bobbing as she takes him in her mouth is all I need to know what’s going on. Levi meets my gaze across the limo.There’s gloating there—that much is obvious—but there’s also understanding. When you spend as much time together as we do, you come to know your bandmates pretty well. For all his talk, he’s not as big of a douche as he claims to be. He may not ever sleep with the same woman more than once—with the exception of Ali, I guess—but I know he’s not immune to the loneliness our lifestyle creates. It’s strange how you can be adored by millions and yet completely alone all at the same time. 

He slides his hand into her hair and closes his eyes, throwing his head back against the seat.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck,” he whispers, and then he gathers her hair to the side and shifts her body so that my view is completely unobstructed. I watch as she works her hands up his shaft in time with her mouth. He doesn’t attempt to fuck the back of her throat and make her choke on it, the way we both had that first night we fucked her. Instead, his touch is gentle. Reverent.

It makes me crazy, and hot as fucking hell. I shift uncomfortably, adjusting my cock within my jeans. I don’t make a move towards them, though I want to. I want to bury myself inside her and mark her as mine, but at this point the lines are so fucking blurred it doesn’t matter whom she belongs to. Him. Me. The both of us, or neither one. 

I lean forward, taking a glass from the shelf and a crystal decanter filled with amber liquor, and I pour myself a drink, and then I slide back into the leather to watch.

“Play with yourself, Red,” he whispers.

“No.”

“Do it,” I say, and she turns around to glare at me. I can’t tell if she’s disappointed I’m not joining in, or if she forgot I was even here.

“I don’t want—”

“Why are you suddenly so embarrassed?” I say sharply, swigging back more of the scotch than I should.

“I’m not embarrassed. I’d actually rather that you joined in.”

“I’m watching,” I say, eyeing her coolly over my glass. She scowls at me a moment and then she kneels up, steadying herself with one hand on Levi’s thigh. She wriggles her skirt up over her hips and bends over. Everything is on display as she takes him in her mouth again. I close my eyes, not wanting to watch her on her knees in front of him, her head bent low, her full fuck-me lips wrapped around Levi’s cock. I feel as if I’m on a ride that’s spinning out of control and I can’t find a way off. I can’t make it stop. And I so badly want it to stop.   

 

AUTHOR BIO

Carmen Jenner is a thirty-something, USA TODAY and international bestselling author of the Sugartown, Savage Saints, and Taint series.

Her dark romance, KICK (Savage Saints MC #1), won Best Dark Romance Read in the Reader’s Choice Awards at RWDU 2015.

A tattoo enthusiast, hardcore MAC addict and zombie fangirl, Carmen lives on the sunny north coast of New South Wales, Australia, where she spends her time indoors wrangling her two wildling children, a dog named Pikelet, and her very own man-child. 

A romantic at heart, Carmen strives to give her characters the HEA they deserve, but not before ruining their lives completely first … because what’s a happily ever after without a little torture?

 

AUTHOR LINKS

Website:  http://www.carmenjenner.com/

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carmen-Jenner/274005066033305

 

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarmenJAuthor

 

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Words Left Unsaid by Missy Johnson - Cover Reveal

Words Left Unsaid
by Missy Johnson
Publication Date: April 27, 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance

At 8:28 I was the girl who had everything.

At 8:29 my whole world fell apart.

A split second can change your life. I learned this the hard way. I wasn't ready to let him go. Even when the terms "vegative state" and "will never recover" were thrown around I held onto hope. I mean, miracles happen, right?

We deserved our happy ending.

Three years later and I'm still hoping. In my heart I know I have to let him go but how can I? He's the only man I've ever loved. He"s my soul mate. My life.

Then I meet Max. He's everything Aiden isn't and as much as I'm trying to fight my feelings, I'm losing. I don't want to fight anymore.

I need to live my life.

I need to move on.

But in order to move forward I need to let go of the past.

About Missy Johnson

Missy lives in a small town in Central Victoria with her husband, and her confused pets (a dog who think she’s a cat, a cat who thinks he’s a dog…you get the picture).

When she’s not writing, she can usually be found looking for something to read.

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