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Her Forbidden Hero (The Hero #1)
by
Laura Kaye (Goodreads Author)
She's always been off-limits...
Former Army Special Forces Sgt. Marco Vieri has never thought of Alyssa Scott as more than his best friend's little sister, but her return home changes that...and challenges him to keep his war-borne demons at bay. Marco's not the same person he was back when he protected Alyssa from her abusive father, and he's not about to let her see the m...more
Former Army Special Forces Sgt. Marco Vieri has never thought of Alyssa Scott as more than his best friend's little sister, but her return home changes that...and challenges him to keep his war-borne demons at bay. Marco's not the same person he was back when he protected Alyssa from her abusive father, and he's not about to let her see the m...more
ebook, 240 pages
Published
May 15th 2012
by Entangled Publishing
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To sum it up: She's always been off-limits...
Former Army Special Forces Sgt. Marco Vieri has never thought of Alyssa Scott as more than his best friend's little sister, but her return home changes that... and challenges him to keep his war-borne demons at bay. Marco's not the same person he was back when he protected Alyssa from her abusive father, and he's not about to let her see the mess he's become.
...But now she's all grown up.
When Alyssa takes a j...more
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I loved this book.
The characters, their lives and the situations they found themselves in were completely realistic. It was easy to identify with the characters and they were so well written that you could almost believe they were real.
Alyssa was a strong heroine that knew what she wanted and what she had to do to make her dreams come true. She had a traumatic past, but between her brother Brady and Marco she had some protection and positive influences.
Marco was an amazing hero to read (and h...more
The characters, their lives and the situations they found themselves in were completely realistic. It was easy to identify with the characters and they were so well written that you could almost believe they were real.
Alyssa was a strong heroine that knew what she wanted and what she had to do to make her dreams come true. She had a traumatic past, but between her brother Brady and Marco she had some protection and positive influences.
Marco was an amazing hero to read (and h...more
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May 21, 2012
Michelle [Helen Geek]
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone wanting a solid read about a war hero trying to get his life back.
Recommended to Michelle by:
Love the author, Kat Lynne has it up next and the blurb sounds really good.
3.5 Stars
I enjoyed this book, but it didn't flow smoothly for me. I thought the characters where a bit too cookie cutter toward the end. I did like the story. I liked Marco especially. He first needed to learn to forgive himself before he could open himself up to love. The author did a very nice job with him.
I'm going to go think on this one a bit more before finalizing a full review, but these are my first thoughts.
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Updating a bit after a discussio...more
I enjoyed this book, but it didn't flow smoothly for me. I thought the characters where a bit too cookie cutter toward the end. I did like the story. I liked Marco especially. He first needed to learn to forgive himself before he could open himself up to love. The author did a very nice job with him.
I'm going to go think on this one a bit more before finalizing a full review, but these are my first thoughts.
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Updating a bit after a discussio...more
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As much as I adored the hero and heroine, this was just an average read for me. A little predictable in parts and it didn't have quite the spark I was looking for to make this a really good read. I know there will be others that will disagree with me, but hey that's why we're all different. Enjoy!
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4.5 Stars
”His fingers caressed her skin in a slow slide she felt everywhere."
Wow! I fell fast and hard for this one! Her Forbidden Hero by Laura Kaye is a deliciously addicting story of temptation and attraction. A temptation so intense, I found myself sitting up, clutching my kindle, beaming, and giddy with emotion. Simply put—I want a Marco of my own! :D
Alyssa Scott, a fresh new college graduate, sets out to find a job, future, place to call home, and hopefully scoop up the man she has loved h...more
”His fingers caressed her skin in a slow slide she felt everywhere."
Wow! I fell fast and hard for this one! Her Forbidden Hero by Laura Kaye is a deliciously addicting story of temptation and attraction. A temptation so intense, I found myself sitting up, clutching my kindle, beaming, and giddy with emotion. Simply put—I want a Marco of my own! :D
Alyssa Scott, a fresh new college graduate, sets out to find a job, future, place to call home, and hopefully scoop up the man she has loved h...more
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Alyssa Scott just graduated from college and has returned home to find a job and an apartment. The best part of returning home for Alyssa is seeing Marco again, her brother's best friend, who took care of her when she was a teenager. Marco has a lot more baggage then when she last saw him though - he's suffering from PTSD and feels responsible for the death of three of his men. Alyssa ends up getting a job alongside Marco and that's when things really heat up. Because Marco is finally seeing Aly...more
Sam, E and R's Awesomness!
Thank you, Laura Kaye, for Marco!
I've read all of Laura Kaye's published work up to date, and I know well enough now that anything new from her I must read right away! I savored every bit of Her Forbidden Hero. Ms. Kaye shines again in creating a story with the right balance of angst, steam, and heartfelt moments, while introducing a well-developed cast of characters with a familial sense of quality.
Meet Alyssa Scott. She's fresh out of college, stubbornly independent,...more
Thank you, Laura Kaye, for Marco!
I've read all of Laura Kaye's published work up to date, and I know well enough now that anything new from her I must read right away! I savored every bit of Her Forbidden Hero. Ms. Kaye shines again in creating a story with the right balance of angst, steam, and heartfelt moments, while introducing a well-developed cast of characters with a familial sense of quality.
Meet Alyssa Scott. She's fresh out of college, stubbornly independent,...more
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This is my third Laura Kaye book and she never disappoints to write heart-warming stories about characters who seem to exist apart from everyone else and just want to find a place where they belong, someone they can belong to. In this story, the hero, a protector and friend finds himself in a role reversal. Once, a long time ago, he did the protecting. Now he's the one being protected by the one person he thinks he can't and shouldn't want. But being cared about never felt so good.
After the deat...more
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Laura Kaye is hit and miss with me. This one was a miss. Story moved along smoothly, but just couldn't buy it. Marco still having issues after returning from Afghanistan hasn't seen Alyssa in a few years, they see each other when she shows up to work at the bar where he works. He's all up and down, hot and cold bi-polar on her. Alyssa's been pining away in love with Marco for years, ok, believable. When they finally hook up (once and only once) they're off again, then it's will you "Marry Me" (r...more
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Rhayne's review posted on Guilty Pleasures
4.5 Stars
This was my first Laura Kaye book. I have heard some great things about her, now I know why. I love her writing style. She does more than just tell a story she gives you the right amount of detail to really let it develop in your mind. I was totally consumed with this book and could not put it down.
I have mentioned before that I am really drawn to the forbidden romance scenario. This book delivers that and so much more. Marco is best friends wit...more
4.5 Stars
This was my first Laura Kaye book. I have heard some great things about her, now I know why. I love her writing style. She does more than just tell a story she gives you the right amount of detail to really let it develop in your mind. I was totally consumed with this book and could not put it down.
I have mentioned before that I am really drawn to the forbidden romance scenario. This book delivers that and so much more. Marco is best friends wit...more
May 18, 2012
Nicole
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Okay, well... I'm one of LK's biggest fans but this one is only a 4 for me. Good characters, good plot, good conflicts, good dialogue... See a running theme here? Only good not great. I wanted to know more about Alyssa's past and her in general apart from just how much she likes Marco. Besides that I enjoyed the book. I read it while getting my hair done so it did past the time. Marco is troubled from Afghanistan and suffers from PTSD. I like the satisfying ending for his PTSD because it just do...more
This is a heartwarming story that will tug at your heartstrings.
Laura Kaye does a wonderful job of portraying an injured hero returning from Afghanistan with both mental and physical problems. I felt for Marco, he has been through trauma while in the Special Forces, the guilt is eating at him and his sense of worth is suffering. Alyssa had endured a difficult childhood after the death of her mother and the abuse of her father. But the presence of her big brother Brady & his best friend Marco...more
Laura Kaye does a wonderful job of portraying an injured hero returning from Afghanistan with both mental and physical problems. I felt for Marco, he has been through trauma while in the Special Forces, the guilt is eating at him and his sense of worth is suffering. Alyssa had endured a difficult childhood after the death of her mother and the abuse of her father. But the presence of her big brother Brady & his best friend Marco...more
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A touching story of a tortured war torn hero Marco returning home injured from the war zone and reconnecting with his childhood friend Alyssa.
Alyssa had a tough childhood; growing up Marco her brother’s best friend has been her guardian and her salvation. Alyssa has been in love with Marco all her life, so when she reconnects with this tortured man it is her chance to finally be there for Marco.
There is lots of angst and sexual tension in this book to keep...more
A touching story of a tortured war torn hero Marco returning home injured from the war zone and reconnecting with his childhood friend Alyssa.
Alyssa had a tough childhood; growing up Marco her brother’s best friend has been her guardian and her salvation. Alyssa has been in love with Marco all her life, so when she reconnects with this tortured man it is her chance to finally be there for Marco.
There is lots of angst and sexual tension in this book to keep...more
~~~3.5 stars~~~ :)
This started off a little bit slow for me but did heat up and end with a bang! The ending was really sweet and romantic! I really enjoyed it!
This started off a little bit slow for me but did heat up and end with a bang! The ending was really sweet and romantic! I really enjoyed it!
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I liked it! It made me tingly and it made me cry ( but than again it could have been the pregnancy hormones...).
I just wish it was longer and it had a different ending.
I just wish it was longer and it had a different ending.
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HER FORBIDDEN HERO is an emotionally satisfying friends to lovers story. Alyssa and Marco have known each other almost all their lives and Alyssa’s brother Brady is Marco’s best friend. Alyssa is down on her luck financially and Marco has returned from war with significant issues. When Alyssa gets a job at the same bar where Marco is bartender, he is forced to confront his war demons and his attraction to his best friend’s little sister. Alyssa hopes to shake Marco up and get him to see how perf...more
Apr 17, 2013
Jane Stewart
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
contemporary-romance
Weak 3 stars due to lack of relationship development, cliched conflicts, and “the big misunderstanding.”
Some readers don’t mind these things, but they’re a problem for me.
Marco was in special forces. Some of his men were killed. He was wounded. He feels guilty and has post traumatic stress. He now works as a bartender. Alyssa has loved Marco for years and gets a job at the same night club.
I enjoyed the characters and some of the conversations. But the conflicts in the relationship were cliched....more
Some readers don’t mind these things, but they’re a problem for me.
Marco was in special forces. Some of his men were killed. He was wounded. He feels guilty and has post traumatic stress. He now works as a bartender. Alyssa has loved Marco for years and gets a job at the same night club.
I enjoyed the characters and some of the conversations. But the conflicts in the relationship were cliched....more
Her Forbidden Hero by Laura Kaye did not disappoint! Upon reading the first chapter, I was completely sucked into the story and I did not put down my kindle until I was finish with it some three hours later! I really enjoyed this book. Kaye created a multi-layered story encompassing pain, loss, friendship, love and forgiveness & she did it so well! She also created well-developed characters with Marco and Alyssa along with the secondary characters. The plot and storyline were also well-devel...more
I liked the book. It's perfect for that rainy day that you just curl up in your blankets with a warm cup of tea. It was well written and I loved how the story flowed.
I really enjoyed the complexity of the characters. The way the story was built up was amazing and the relationship Alyssa and Marco had was beautifull.
I liked how the characters were dimensional in the sence that they had different sides to them. They had both gone through things that were traumatizing but they managed to full thro...more
I really enjoyed the complexity of the characters. The way the story was built up was amazing and the relationship Alyssa and Marco had was beautifull.
I liked how the characters were dimensional in the sence that they had different sides to them. They had both gone through things that were traumatizing but they managed to full thro...more
I really liked this book. It has the brooding, hunky, alpha male. An independent, nurturing and hurting female. Put them together and BAM! Smokin' hotness!
Our Alpha male is Marco...
Marco has returned from Special Forces duty in Afghanistan. He was injured in the line of duty and suffered severe injuries leaving him "broken".
Our lead Female is Alyssa...
Alyssa was literally the girl next door. Her father was an abusive alcoholic. Alyssa's older brother, Brady, and Marco protected Alyssa until she...more
Our Alpha male is Marco...
Marco has returned from Special Forces duty in Afghanistan. He was injured in the line of duty and suffered severe injuries leaving him "broken".
Our lead Female is Alyssa...
Alyssa was literally the girl next door. Her father was an abusive alcoholic. Alyssa's older brother, Brady, and Marco protected Alyssa until she...more
**kick brain into gear** OMG, simply awesome. Okay that's too short. First Laura, my hats off to you hun. Captivating doesn't even begin to do justice, and you shoved why what we're not supposed to have is all the more desirable. I started Her Forbidden Hero yesterday, no scratch that, it would have been early this morning. I made it half way through when I realized it was 430am, so I grudgingly shut off my reader and conked out for the night/morning. Appts and normal days events kept me from pi...more
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HER FORBIDDEN HERO True Love, Damaged Heroes
Her Forbidden Hero
Book 1 - The Hero Series
by Laura Kaye
Entangled Publishing
Won in contest. No remuneration was exchanged and all opinions herein are my own except as otherwise noted.
I am on Laura's Street Team, but it's the quality of her writing that puts me there.
What's the number one rule of guyhood best friendship? You absolutely do not do your best friend's younger sister? This always struck me as weird...more
HER FORBIDDEN HERO True Love, Damaged Heroes
Her Forbidden Hero
Book 1 - The Hero Series
by Laura Kaye
Entangled Publishing
Won in contest. No remuneration was exchanged and all opinions herein are my own except as otherwise noted.
I am on Laura's Street Team, but it's the quality of her writing that puts me there.
What's the number one rule of guyhood best friendship? You absolutely do not do your best friend's younger sister? This always struck me as weird...more
Marco Vieri used to be a Special Forces soldier who was hurt in battle and is dealing with the medical discharge. How do you recover and move on to something else…when you were passionate about what you did, just can’t do it anymore??
Marco is HOT, he is a man who made sacrifices of food and sleep and blood and family so others could have those things in spades. Men who defended liberty and battled oppression by any means necessary.
So he bartends at a bar that plays live music…
Alyssa just grad...more
Marco is HOT, he is a man who made sacrifices of food and sleep and blood and family so others could have those things in spades. Men who defended liberty and battled oppression by any means necessary.
So he bartends at a bar that plays live music…
Alyssa just grad...more
I stumbled across this book by accident and how thankful am I that I did. I was downloading One Night With A Hero, not knowing that it was part of a series, so that had me reading Her Forbidden Hero first. We got to follow Alyssa Scott and Marco Vieri on their journey from the past, present and future. We also got a snippet of Alyssa's brother Brady (Soldiers, Uniform..... need I say more) but putting that to one side this was a emotional read, especially when finding out what happened to Marco...more
Another lovely story by this seriously talented writer - but then, most of you already know that, huh? :)
I first picked up this book because I also fell in love with my older brother's best friend and we are now living our own HEA. I'm a sucker for these stories :)
The emotions Ms. Kaye portrays throughout Alyssa and Marco's relationship are right on the button. From the initial powerful yearning Alyssa feels, to the, 'OMG - he's actually kissing me!' moment. Sigh... Anyway, where was I? I LOVE...more
I first picked up this book because I also fell in love with my older brother's best friend and we are now living our own HEA. I'm a sucker for these stories :)
The emotions Ms. Kaye portrays throughout Alyssa and Marco's relationship are right on the button. From the initial powerful yearning Alyssa feels, to the, 'OMG - he's actually kissing me!' moment. Sigh... Anyway, where was I? I LOVE...more
This is actually my second time reading this book, preparing myself to read the next book in the series One Night with Hero. I can't believe I had forgotten to leave a review for this book, so now I had to rectify that!
Alyssa Scott decides to return back home after graduation, ready to take on the world. She returns to the one place that would be a great stepping stone for her career, a bar called Whiskey's. Working there, is her brother's best friend Marco Vieri. She's loved this man for so lon...more
Alyssa Scott decides to return back home after graduation, ready to take on the world. She returns to the one place that would be a great stepping stone for her career, a bar called Whiskey's. Working there, is her brother's best friend Marco Vieri. She's loved this man for so lon...more
Okay, well there was definitely a sweet story in there, but there was so much additional baggage that I just couldn't fall in love with either character. All either of them did was focus on who they USED to be; what they HAD meant to each other and after war and four years, there is no way that people could avoid change. And then in the end, it just moved WAY too fast. I mean hell, I get that they had known each other their entire lives, but it had only been a few weeks!! They didn't know the p...more
Author: Laura Kaye
Published By: Entangled Publishing LLC
Age Recommended: Adult
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: 5
Review:
"Her Forbidden Hero"by Laura Kaye was a wonderfully well written novel. This was a very heart filled story of Alyssa, Brady and Marco ....sister, brother and true friend. Alyssa had been reared mainly by her brother Brady and his friend..Marco. Now, they were all grown and with Alyssa having feeling for her best friend...Marco Vieri....how was this to play out with all of the pro...more
Published By: Entangled Publishing LLC
Age Recommended: Adult
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: 5
Review:
"Her Forbidden Hero"by Laura Kaye was a wonderfully well written novel. This was a very heart filled story of Alyssa, Brady and Marco ....sister, brother and true friend. Alyssa had been reared mainly by her brother Brady and his friend..Marco. Now, they were all grown and with Alyssa having feeling for her best friend...Marco Vieri....how was this to play out with all of the pro...more
3.5
I LOVED Hearts in Darkness, and was hoping this book would have the same character development, but was a little disapointed when I finished it. It was a good read, and I liked the premise of forgiveness and that Alyssa yearned to take on Marco's pain as he had done for her growing up, but the last quarter of the book felt almost rushed. When Marco left her the voice mail of himself playing guitar, even with a few more sentaces describing the type of song, and how she responded listening to i...more
I LOVED Hearts in Darkness, and was hoping this book would have the same character development, but was a little disapointed when I finished it. It was a good read, and I liked the premise of forgiveness and that Alyssa yearned to take on Marco's pain as he had done for her growing up, but the last quarter of the book felt almost rushed. When Marco left her the voice mail of himself playing guitar, even with a few more sentaces describing the type of song, and how she responded listening to i...more
Loved this short story and read it in one sitting! I had fallen in love with another of the authors books, Hearts in Darkness and was hoping this would be as good and while for me it wasn't it certainly didn't disappoint.
Alyssa has moved back home after graduating college looking for work. She is also looking forward to reconnecting to Marco her brothers best friend and someone who helped her escape her anusive homelife She gets a job working in a bar/restaurant which just happens to be the sam...more
Alyssa has moved back home after graduating college looking for work. She is also looking forward to reconnecting to Marco her brothers best friend and someone who helped her escape her anusive homelife She gets a job working in a bar/restaurant which just happens to be the sam...more
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Laura Kaye is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary and paranormal romance. Laura's hot, heartfelt stories are all about the universal desire for a place to belong. Laura grew up amidst family lore involving angels, ghosts, and evil-eye curses, cementing her life-long fascination with storytelling and the supernatural. Laura lives in Maryland with her husband, two dau...more
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“After all, he'd been in the United States Army Special Forces, fuck you very much. You might take the man out of the SF, you couldn't take the SF out of the man. He'd been up against some of the world's meanest and toughest. So, goddamn straight he could work his way around one young woman.”
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