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“Marcus DeLuca had to be a dangerous man because I was caving in too soon; it was just too soon to feel this attachment, to feel and want him so despe...more
“Marcus DeLuca had to be a dangerous man because I was caving in too soon; it was just too soon to feel this attachment, to feel and want him so desperately. When something seems too good to be true, it’s exactly that.” Okay so E.L. Montes hooked me with angst from the prologue. To an angst junkie like myself Disastrous delivered my next fix, but unfortunately left me NEEDING to read Cautious soon. Disastrous begins with Mia Sullivan a highly successful second year Harvard Law Student discovering that she has been recommended for an internship only offered to third year law students at a prestigious law firm by her professor. It looks like all her hard work is paying off, and to her surprise her best friend and roommate Jeremy a third year law student also having the opportunity to fill another internship spot. So what does your typical college student do when they are facing exciting news at the beginning if summer? Well they party at Club 21 the most high class club in Boston and only the best people get into this club. Not only are Jeremy and Mia allowed easy entrance to this club but they are VIP since Mr. McCullen (Jeremy’s father) an architect designed the club. I know that’s how I celebrated in college. I still do! “The man standing before me was definitely God’s gift to women. He was tall, tanned, and had the most gorgeous big brown eyes I’d ever seen.” From the instant Marcus DeLuca shows up on the scene it’s as if a magnet was drawing him and Mia together, and they were dragging me along with them. Not that I’m complaining. “Here we go, it was either up or down from here. It would definitely be a rollercoaster, but I was willing to take the ride.” This is where the “crazy, stupid love” affair these two have begins, and I couldn’t put the book down once it began, and when I wasn’t reading Disastrous I was thinking about Disastrous Marcus. He was delicious, powerful, charismatic and everything I enjoy in a book boyfriend. Marcus is an ubber successful attorney in Boston, and not only is he gorgeous and powerful, he’s the true meaning of Alpha-male. If you’re attracted to jealous, POSSESSIVE, passionate, rich, alpha, mouth watering aggressive men then Marcus DeLuca will be high on your lust list. But don’t let all these wonderfully appealing characteristics about Marcus fool you, he’s a man with secrets, and all of those will slowly unravel before your eyes and its a “disaster” when it’s revealed. I gasped when I confirmed his secret lifestyle even though I had suspected it. “It’s not like me to be a jealous man, Mia. F-*k, I’m never jealous. Though for some reason, when you walked into the conference room with Jeremy’s arm around your waist and when he slapped your a$$, it took every part of me to not stand up and knock him the F-*k out.” Mia Sullivan is a strong woman that I adored. She doesn’t lay down and accept bad behavior from men, well maybe a little but she holds her ground. When things get rough and plenty of females would stay in a bad situation, she walks away and protects her sanity, but the problem is that as tumultuous as Marcus and and Mia’s relationship is these two can’t stay away. Nor can they get their acts together! “That pissed me the hell off. I took in a deep breath and blurted out everything without thinking twice. “F-*k you! You want to know who I am, Marcus. Well here it goes! I am temperamental, over-sensitive, and outspoken. I’m honest! I cry at stupid love movies, and I’m a sucker for a romantic novel. I don’t allow people to walk all over me, I have trust issues, and I have insecurities. I’ve slept with four men in my entire life! And the one thing I don’t do is take shit from men who try to act like they’re better than me as if they don’t have any hidden skeletons! I’m not keeping shit hidden, how ‘bout you? You can fuck off. I’ll find my own way home. Have a nice f-*king life!” At this moment I was cheering Mia for standing up for herself, but I’m such a weak psycho when it comes to Marcus that I felt my chest get heavy here, and the lump in my throat began to form and I willed these two to make up, and the way these two make up is with glorious sex. "I was gonna f-*k her!” Sprawling his hands in the air, he nodded at my stunned expression. “Yeah that’s right, hard too! But the entire time I was going to think of you!’ Gawking at him, my heartbeat raised. “How f-*king romantic!” Now I’m devastated once again for these two, and my heart is breaking for these two because sometimes its easier to hurt the one closer to you….:( I’m sick, and slowly dying inside……but keep reading because Mia and Marcus are an unforgettable couple full of passion for one another. Cue the make-up sex…YES please! “He reached over, placing the palm of his hand on top of mine. “You see, Mia, for a long time I haven’t had anything like that: honesty, innocence, and pureness. After seeing it through your eyes, I never wanted or needed it more in my life.” Okay I’m happy and giddy once again for these two. E.L. Montes has such a descriptive way of writing delicious sex scenes, passionate love scenes, chaos, disastrous tumultuous relationships that are leaving me DYING for the second book Cautious to further explore their relationship. Oh my the angst is unbearable at times, but this is one train wreck I’m so delighted I didn’t miss. One moment I was laughing, the next I was having heart palpitations, and the next I was either angry or cheering for these two. When these two were good they were outstanding!!! When they were bad, they were a Disastrous hurricane!!! For angst lovers like myself that crave the turbulent relationships in Crash, Beautiful Disaster, Fifty Shades of Grey, Bared To You, The Mighty Storm and The Opportunist will feel you’ve died and gone to Heaven with this gem. Disastrous was book crack at its finest!!!! Now I’m counting the days until Cautious the sequel to Disastrous is released on May 23, 2012. “Thats what love is….It’s scary not knowing what’s expected, but I know It’ll be the best frightening love we’ve ever had.” 4.5 Angsty stars Also see my review at Miss Vain's Paranormal Fantasy (less) | Notes are private!
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“I’ll never be good enough for you, I know that. But I’m no good without you, and if that makes me selfish bastard for wanting you as badly as I do th...more
“I’ll never be good enough for you, I know that. But I’m no good without you, and if that makes me selfish bastard for wanting you as badly as I do then so be it because I can’t live a life that doesn’t have you in it.” What is it about these angsty, passionate New Adult contemporary romances that causes me to throw my lace panties out the window along with my morals and root for the immoral characters to have a HEA while making up excuses for their infidelity? Lol Oh wow another rockstar romance…To those if you like me have an achilles heel for an intoxicating bad boy, oozing sex appeal, billionaire boys club rockstars, well look no further because this is your cure. “Jake Wethers, one of the biggest rock stars in the world, lead singer of the hugely successful rock band, The Mighty Storm. Who also once upon a time used to be my best friend. Trudy Bennett is an established music columnist for a fashion magazine with the hopes of hitting it big one day, and never having to come face to face with the obscenely wealthy, turbulently out of control rocker Jake Wethers (the lead singer of ubber popular rock band The Mighty Storm) which also happens to be her childhood best friend and first crush. After reading about him in the tabloids after a twelve year estrangement she can no longer see the Jake she grew up with making mud pies and making her heart flutter. I mean seriously that boy is far from the ridiculously promiscuous playboy that had to enter rehab after he urinated while on stage during one of his concerts. I know what your thinking, this man doesn’t sound swoon worthy at all, but wait because there’s plenty more to this delicious rocker than meets the eye. I’m getting excited just thinking about how much I swooned over him. “Because women never say no to me.” With a wink, he gets up and wanders off over to the food table. God he’s such a cocky, arrogant bastard at times. And I totally fancy him. No I don’t. Yes, I do. No. I. Don’t. Ah fuck. She has kept her childhood friendship with Jake the rockstar with a ever rotating conveyor belt of women except for her boss and friend that won’t take no for an answer so she reluctantly accepts the appointment her employer set up for her to interview Jake. *Squeeeeee* Trudy also referred to as Tru spends the entire time leading up to this entire wondering if Jake will remember her? Cast her aside? Pitty her? Basically every emotion I could imagine I would be feeling at the very moment she’s being lead to his hotel suite to conduct the interview she was feeling. Now if only she didn’t have what’s his name in the way of her childhood crush turning into a steamy love affair??? Oh yeah “Will” her boyfriend of two years! He’s her devoted, successful, reliable boyfriend of two years, and yes he’s very likable but I’m throwing my bra and panties on stage for Jake Wethers, the irresistible, unpredictable, seductive, sexy, beautiful, tattooed lead singer of The Mighty Storm rock band. Okay, there I’ve said it. I want Jake. He’s beautiful and sexy, and flirty. And he’s a rock star. And he was my boy next-door. But of course nothing is ever going to happen. Because he’s Jake Wethers….and I’m just Trudy Bennett. And also I have a boyfriend, which I’d actually reason number one.” This is where the roller coaster of love, lust, angst, turmoil, passion and excitement begins. Hold on tight, because there will be times you will want to get off and save yourself the emotional strain however I encourage you to sit back and enjoy it because The Mighty Storm is a MUST READ and FAVORITE of mine! I truly see just to the level of power he has over people. Mostly, over me. I’m so totally mesmerized by him. And so totally in lust with him. And so totally screwed. I can’t blame Tru for her indiscretions (and they are bad) because when I first met Jake, I fell in love with him instantly. From the very first page he showed up he oozed sex appeal, and raw vulnerability that I couldn’t resist. When he asks her to join his upcoming tour as the official biographer (knowing fully well she has no biographical experience) its obvious that he loves her! *swoon* All I can do is watch Jake sing. Watching as he makes every single woman in this room feel like he’s singing to her, that tonight she is the one he is taking home. She’s the one he’s going to share his bed with tonight. And in this moment all I want, more than anything, is to be the one he chooses. He’s such a rock god, but when he’s with Trudy, he’s such an AMAZING guy that I can’t even fathom a thought about Trudy’s wonderfully devoted boyfriend Will. I’m such a bad person that I was dying for these two to get together. He even saved the friendship bracelet she gave him when they were kids, and chooses to wear it regardless of his ability to afford any bracelet his heart desired. I just LOVE him. I feel high. On him. His voice is like hands moving over my skin touching me. His hands. Touching me. I want that now. No I don’t. I mean its just a reflex reaction to the rock star lover in me. The dream of wanting to be the one to tame him. Of course it’s not real. There’s a few scenes where my jaw drops and my chest starts to feel heavy, and I had to walk away from reading to gather my composure. It was devastating the angst in this book, but I’m such an angst junkie, I embraced it, and adored every minute of it. The angst makes me feel alive, and sends me over the edge of hysteria. “And that’s why I prefer to dance in the bedroom,” Holy shit. He leans back and stares down at me, and then suddenly see it there in his eyes, unconcealed. The lust. The want. He wants me. He’s trying to seduce me. I’m so completely fucked. I was on an emotional thrill ride the entire time reading, full of angst, romance, passion, lust, jealousy, and all around bad boy delicious Jake Wethers. (Calling all Kellan fans) The Mighty Storm made me laugh, cry, swoon, giggle, fan myself, walk away for a bit due to my emotionally tormented angst. Wow this book had me excited one moment and the next, my stomach was tied into knots dropping due to my inability to control my emotions. Seriously Samantha Towle is that incredible of a writer that the entire time I felt like I was Tru experiencing all the ups and downs of a rockstar romance. *Sigh* If only I were so lucky! I feel a sudden lump in my throat and I realize, even though half an hour ago I felt like bolting, now, I don’t want to leave him. The thought of not seeing him again is constructing my heart in the weirdest kind of way. Crazy, I know.” That’s how I felt when I finished The Mighty Storm because I didn’t want it to end, that’s how much it consumed my thoughts. These two characters aren’t spoiled with finding love and getting their HEA immediately. I mean if it were that easily the where would the angst and anguish we love so much in these addictive New Mature-Adult contemporary romances we I crave so very much? Let me tell you that Samantha Towle doesn’t hold back and she gives us everything we could want in The Mighty Storm. This book also stemmed very realistic as Samantha Towle eloquently touches on issues of drug abuse, infidelity, consequences and the negative effects of fame and an unforgettable passionate romance! Please do yourself a favor and download The Mighty Storm and prepare to be spellbound with an unforgettable couple and their enthralling love story IMMEDIATELY!!! The sequel to The Mighty Storm entitled Wethering The Storm will be available to purchase December 21, 2012 and I’ll be counting the days until its release. I won’t share you anymore.” He repeats, as he continues driving into me over and over again. “You belong to me.” You can also read my review here Miss Vain's Paranormal Fantasy (less) | Notes are private!
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I hate my left hand. I hate to look at it. I hate it when it stutters and trembles and reminds me that my identity is gone. But I look at it anyway; b...more
I hate my left hand. I hate to look at it. I hate it when it stutters and trembles and reminds me that my identity is gone. But I look at it anyway; because it also reminds me that I'm going to find the boy who took everything from me. I'm going to kill the boy who killed me, and when I kill him, I'm going to do it with my left hand. Nastya Kashinkov is a beautifully damaged seventeen year old. She dreams of a life she once had at the naive age of fifteen when she was a gifted pianist also known as the Brighton Piano Girl, however one tragic event striped her from that reality. The pain and inner turmoil of losing her true gift leaves her wrecked and feeling like her soul was being ripped from her body. She died that day. Literally. And figuratively. The death was violent, and horrific and wretched. Ninety-six seconds later she is revived, and she's witnessed her "Sea of Tranquility." That day she was okay, and lucky to be alive because she is spared the memory of how she died until she remembers. How she died. How he did it. His face. She keeps her secret hidden behind her silent lips. Fated to keep her secret forever until she can kill him herself........ I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. Nastya (oh how I adored her) is on a mission to run from her past, and this decision leads her two hours away to her aunt Margot's home where she is enrolled in her last year of high school appearing as a goth princess. Her family also suffers her tragedy as well because her father, mother and brother have lost the fun loving and easy spirited piano prodigy in exchange for this deeply wounded, silent, and provocatively dressed goth girl. While keeping her tragic secrets and her past identity to herself at her new school she stumbles into Josh Bennett's garage one late night after jogging. These two begin a silent but powerful connection together as well as a friendship with his best friend Drew. "Her face is insane, even with all that shit she covers it up with. If I can do that justice, I'll never need to draw another girl again." He's staring at the photograph like he's picturing how she looks without the make-up. I want to tell him he's right. Josh Bennett becomes her Salvation. He has lived through too many tragic events losing each of his family members until the only one left is his grandfather also fighting a losing battle with cancer. Other than his best friend Josh is basically alone and lives a secretive and secluded lifestyle as an emancipated teen. His life consists of school, building and tinkering with wood designing in his garage nightly, daily visits to Home Depot, and spending Sunday family dinners at the Leightons house (his best friend Drew's family home). His world is turned upside down when the new undead looking and freakishly beautiful whorish looking girl from school shows up at the end of his drive away, lost and out of breath from running with no verbal skills to communicate with. I talk until the water runs cold and my voice feels hoarse from overuse. I hope it's enough to help me keep my mouth shut. I haven't said a word to another living person in 452 days. I write my three and a half pages, tuck away my composition book and crawl into bed, knowing how close I came to not making it to 453. This is where the spellbinding and breathtakingly magnificent story begins to unfold in such a precious and secretive way you won't want to put it down. It's as if Katja Millay has given her readers a magical gift that will be revealed slowly one incredibly charming page at a time. I was fascinated with the world Millay vividly described through the eyes of two seventeen year old far more older for their age (Josh, Nastya) He's never pulled out the love card and pretended to have any sort of feelings for a girl to get her to sleep with him. He doesn't have to. They do it anyway without any emotional persuasion from him. They provide that all on their own. Too many feelings coming off of those girls and I'm not good at deflecting them. They seem to roll right off of Drew. The tears and the name calling and the bitterness done even faze him. Drew an outgoing unapologetic man whore is Josh's best friend and the closest thing to family he has. What I adored about Drew was his larger than life personality, with the ego and charm that easily paints the full picture of the most valuable player on campus. Every girl wants to screw him and every guy wants to be him. Luckily Josh has no desire to seek out relationships with others whether it be short term or long lasting with his unfortunate deaths that have surrounded him, so he and Drew are prefect opposites and extraordinary friends. "Sorry," I apologize with an utter lack of conviction and keep walking. "I thought you were just asking me to clean up your mess. I didn't realize you were being a friend and giving me an unresponsive drunk girl to rape. Next time, be a little clearer for me so I don't miss such a golden opportunity." I can't hide the sarcasm in my tone and I don't try. Despite Josh's iron man attitude at school that gives him plenty of space to be a loner he's actually a tender and thoughtful guy at heart to those that he's willing to let get close to him. He enjoys being a loner, he prefers to keep it that way, and has every intention of doing just that.....That is until Nastya Kashnikov shows up and demands more. She becomes friends with Josh and Drew and their friendship is amusing at times, and even throughout the silent times its radiant like a diamond just home much these three treasure each others friendship, clearly they're a family. I reach to brush my hair back out of my eyes so I can look around and attempt to determine what the hell is going on. The only three things that I know for certain took place last night are that one-small elves climbed up my body and tied my hair into a mass of tiny knots, two-I must have slept with my mouth open because something crawled into it and died and three-I was sucked through a vortex into some animated world where an anvil was dropped on my head A romance between Josh and Nastya begins to unfold but its not quickly, actually it's more realistic than I'm used to reading it was refreshing. Once Nastya shows up at the end of Josh's driveway that late night there's no turning back for either of these two. It feels like a slow moving spell has been cast on these two causing their chemistry to sizzle and no matter how hard these two try to resist out of fear of the unknown they're unable. Yes, it's exactly as if Millay cast a romantic spell on a destroyed young girl and a broken young boy and I'm pretty sure a spell was projected onto me as well because I couldn't sleep until I devoured the last page of this seductive tale of shattered dreams, broken past, and how two people can find one another and perhaps maybe become one another's salvation or resurrection. I never realized that grief and self-pity weren't the same thing. I thought grieving was what I was doing all this time I had been feeling sorry for myself, but it wasn't. So for the first time in nearly three years, I let myself grieve. While I was devouring The Sea of Tranquility I laughed "How come you call her honey and never use terms of endearment on me?" He fake whines. "I do," Mrs. Leighton says, patting him on the cheek as she walks by. "Just last week I called you the bane of my existence." ...."That's right," he says. "That was a good day." I cried, I can tell you it's a painting of a hand, my hand, turned up and opened to the world and that it reached into my body and rips out everything that's left. Because in the palm, right in the center, is the pearl button I never reached. and I cheered I never gave two shits about normal. I wanted to be extraordinary while reading because along the way Nastya, Josh, Drew, the Leightons, and the rest of the supporting characters I was bewitched with their personal lives. Hate strengthened my body and shaped my resolve and what I resolved to do was to get revenge. Hate seemed pretty damn healthy to me. I was fascinated with Katja Millay's ability to weave an immaculately executed story that oozes symbolism from beginning to end. The storyline was sad at times however I had hope the entire experience reading it. By the end of The Sea of Tranquility I was also believing in second chances. If you want a book without any paranormal aspects yet you feel magic unfolding while reading the story this is the book for you. If you want to discover what a life can be transformed into once you quit regretting decisions and move beyond tragedy and devastation then I recommend you read The Sea of Tranquility, but beware you'll be swept away in this heartfelt romantic, intoxicating, refreshing, magical and incredibly beautiful story about deciding to live after loss once you've picked up the pieces. This will forever be a favorite of mine, and I hope it becomes a favorite of yours as well! "......But I would like to believe in the dream of second chances." My review can also be found on my blog Miss Vain's Paranormal Fantasy(less) | Notes are private!
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“Why’d you remember me? Why when you fucked so many of the others?” “Because you’re the one I didn’t.” Hold on while I fan myself. Okay so on a complete...more “Why’d you remember me? Why when you fucked so many of the others?” “Because you’re the one I didn’t.” Hold on while I fan myself. Okay so on a complete side note. I have a celebrity rocker that I have met in Las Vegas, my hometown, and also in Los Angeles, because I always seem to run into him at various awards shows I attend. So one time he was in my hometown for a perfume launch and after about 6 different times meeting him he spotted me and called me to the front of the line, doing his usual spill of giving me his fake name, and hotel information, and it finally occurred to me; he can have any beautiful model or celebrity he wants so why would he always want me. When I asked him how he always remembers me with all the other females throwing panties at him, he smirked and said "because you're the only one that's ever said NO to me." We'll on that note, when I read that line above I quoted in this book, I was instantly hooked. I mean not only is it believable, but its incredibly provocative to know that you're the only one that didn't succumb to temptation. That's why I adored Sienna for being strong and forcing sexy pot Lucas to get to know her before he got to know her body. Can you tell I have a soft spot for rockers? Well yes, bad boy rockers are my addiction. Hehe ;) This exchange between Asshat and me isn’t one of those love-at-first site moments—no, it’s nothing like that. This is one of those moments where fate has roundhouse kicked me in the face yet again. Why is he here in Nashville? In the same courtroom as me? God, please don’t let him remember me. Siena lives a successful life in Los Angeles working as the wardrobe stylist on a popular television show leaving her country roots behind in Nashville. Little did she know that when she came to assist her granny that was losing her house to foreclosure (very sad) that a bit of her past in Los Angeles would be following with her. Too bad he's oozing sex appeal but lacking in character according to Sienna. These two didn't part on good terms and when she discovers he's to become the new owner of her granny's foreclosed home, she's once again reminded of his less than stellar behavior towards her the last time they spoke, and her anger simmers to the top. Miss Jensen, As promised, I’ve attached the training instructions. Look over them. Learn them. Don’t forget the deal you’re making. Can’t say I’m not looking forward to the next several days. I’ve already got this vivid idea of how you’ll taste after you’ve said the words. How you’ll feel when I’m inside of you. Have you imagined it yet? -Lucas Is it getting hot in here? *fans myself* As Lucas confidence seeps out his pours on a regular basis, he has mad sex appeal as well as a dominant side that makes me want to submit to him. <-----wait, did I just say that? Lol...what can I say, an alpha-Licious male brings out the submissive side in me, making me puuuuurrrr in every scene he appears. What I love especially about Lucas is that he knows what he wants, he pursues it, and he's not afraid of working to get it. In this case, he wants Sienna, he's pursuing her, and once he gives her an offer she cannot resist, it's only a matter of time before she's putty in his delicious hands. Without thinking, I reply and ask him if workplace sexual harassment laws apply to being employed by a cocky rockstar. What I like about Sienna is that she doesn't fawn all over him like all his groupies. Deep down its difficult to simmer down her attraction to him, but she does an excellent job of dialing it down in his presence. “A lot of it,” I hiss. “It’s a lot of money.” “And I have a lot more of it. I’ve blown what I spent on your grandmother’s house on parties and strippers and booze in a month.” For some reason, I’m not at all surprised if not more than a little disgusted. Shaking the thought of him raining enough money to buy a home on a spray-tanned pole dancer named Candi, I say in an even tone, “But what do you have to gain by this? If you don’t want me to have sex with you, why make this kind of offer?” Truly this is an offer she cannot even fathom passing up even though she's reluctant to because she knows that getting too close to Lucas can be dangerous.....dangerous to her health, sanity, and her vulnerable heart. But even though its obvious that Lucas will come out a winner in this scenario as well if he's able to win her heart, but at such an expensive price tag he shows a remarkably generous as well as a compassionate side that made my heart melt for him. Lucas is the epitome of a rock star bad boys with a heart of gold for the one person that he's vulnerable to....Sienna. He's a control freak, into a bit of kink, yet he's tender when needed to be. “I plan on making you sit on making you sit perfectly still,” he says, his hazel eyes gleaming with desire and power. “Dipping my fingers, my fruit, inside of your body. Tasting you. I’ve grown addicted to the way you taste, Red.” What I appreciated about the story was that not only does Lucas have his own demons that he's battling, it's all unravelled slowly, and its these imperfections and his own dark side that makes you love him even more. Throughout his and Siennas journey she discovers that behind all that confidence and smoldering sexiness he's also a a vulnerable man that has it all (money & fame) yet he wants nothing more than to possess her mind, body, and soul. *sigh* Did I mention that Lucas serenades Sienna to sleep wearing nothing but his tattoos?? YES! Totally mouthwatering billionaire bad boy rocker at his finest. And no making me do sexual favors?” I ask one final time. His lips curl up into a hungry smile and I know there’s a caveat. "Oh, we’ll fuck Sienna. Believe me, it’s been bound to happen since I first laid eyes on you. But this time it’s going to be because you beg me. Not the other way around. I found Lucas and Siennas story sexy, fun, angsty, and romantic yet at some times I found it to be missing a few pieces and a bit slower, yet I’m looking forward to reading Consumed the next book in the lives of Sienna and Lucas. The book ends on a bit of a cliffhanger, and its definitely a great debut romance novel that I predict many will love and even with the abrupt ending, I’m expecting any of the pieces that Emily Snow didn’t answer for me will be delivered in the next installment of the Devoured series Consumed releasing January 15, 2013. I can’t wait to get swept away in the rockstar world of Lucas and Sienna very soon. Emily Snow will be an author to keep your eyes on in this popular New Adult genre, for romance, lust, angst, and plenty of sexiness to come!! Sienna, It’s sad that this is what I do for a living and I can’t even come up with a decent explanation for myself. Then again, maybe that’s because I’ve never had to or wanted to explain my actions before you. I know I hurt you. I know you must want me to fucking die right now, and I’m so sorry. Lucas ARC provided by author for review Blog Tour stop December 3, 2012 Please stop by my blog Miss Vain's Paranormal Fantasy to enter to win a copy of Devoured by Emily Snow and a $100.00 gift card between December 3-14, 2012.(less) | Notes are private!
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I don't blame you at all Jude for my lack of sleep today! <3 <3 <3 | Notes are private!
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"I've had therapy; I've had three years to..... Fester in my guilt." Okay...What would you do if you had the opportunity to be with your on...more "I've had therapy; I've had three years to..... Fester in my guilt." Okay...What would you do if you had the opportunity to be with your one true love and fix the mistakes you've made in the past.....Would you take it, or would you let fear get in the way of true love? Many of you are probably thinking of course right. Well how many of you would lie, and manipulate the truth to get those results? "I was a relationship retard. I kicked, shoved, and punched people out of my life, so they never had a chance to hurt me." Meet Olivia Kaspen, she's my new favorite flawed character. She's witty, intelligent, beautiful,petty, calculating, ruthless, manipulative, self loathing, with a tortured soul and all around Badass but you may also refer to her as "The Opportunist." ;) I found her completely relatable and the sick side of me was salivating at the mouth at the opportunity that is thrown her way. I couldn't put it down, days later and I'm still playing the "what if" game with Olivia's life in my head. "He was my crack. I could never get enough, and when I had him I was already thinking about when I could have him next." Olivia's path is a classic example of how each decision no matter how small or large can have huge consequences in your life. I wanted to be an attorney and put bad people in prison. Now, I was the bad person because I was plotting and scheming for a stupid boy. I hadn't even thought about my dreams lately. It was like Caleb had rooted out my ambition and replaced it with a lusty obsession. >Caleb Drake became her entire world, even prior to their dating. These two Olivia(I adore and all her flaws) and >Caleb(I adore him with his flaws as well) once dated yet these two can't seem to get their act together. They're so frustrating. Ughhhh. They lie,manipulate, cheat,spy,plot, and basically have no boundaries at what they will do to achieve one thing; LOVE. It's actually very endearing and completely relatable that these two selfish people love one another so hard, and are so self destructive that they will stop at nothing and I mean absolutely NOTHING, to have that love. While reading The Opportunist Tarryn Fisher sent me on a ride in a tumultuous time machine as we go back and forth with flashbacks from the past and present day like another favorite book of mine Avoiding Commitment , so with that being said you won't be able to put it down, because as this soap opera of life called Hurricane Olivia unfolds you will be glued to this book like I was until the last page. Caleb was like a hurricane that swept through my life, stirring up things inside of me that I never knew existed. He is a longing I will never cure. So when the opportunity arises that Olivia can have a second chance with her one true love Caleb after a messy break-up she jumps at the opportunity. There's a catch, (isn't there always) well Caleb has had an accident and now suffers from Amnesia and has NO memories of Olivia. He has no idea they've even dated, so she does what any other calculating ex girlfriend would do...she befriends him LOL and manipulates her way back into his life once again, while in the back of her mind fearing his memory will come back and he will remember that he hates her. :( This was a heartbreaker. I don't blame her at all, and I cheered for her the entire time. Call me crazy, but I've done my fair share of scheming to get a man ;) and I can think of one man in particular that if he had amnesia I would do the same inappropriately scandalous thing she did.....Hey I'm not perfect. ;) lol. "I don't know what it is with you and that asshole. Four years and a bad breakup later and you're still in a fucking chemical romance with basketball Ken." I don't want to hear it. Not from Jim. Not from Cammie. In my wildest dreams I never imagined this twist to my story. A thousand girls could tell me that they would have done something different than what I did the day I pretended not to know Caleb, and I wouldn't care. This is my redo. Only one thing stands in the way of Olivia's true happiness with Caleb, besides herself of course. "Leah Smith. That was the little beast's name. She was rich as I was poor, as happy as I was miserable, as redheads as I was dark." Olivia has been mourning the loss of the broken relationship she once had with her college sweetheart Caleb *sigh*. Now Caleb also comes with an abundance of flaws as well that we discover as the story unfolds, however I just love him to pieces. Regardless of how many mistakes and deceitful lies, and manipulation these two share amongst each other I can still can only see these two being made for one another. Oh wow just writing this review is really choking me up right now. Seriously this book has me thinking about it days later, in the shower, with friends, at the gym, driving in my car.....it's completely consuming my thoughts. I keep wondering "what if this happened?" "Airport blue haunted me. It became a brand to me, a trademark of our broken relationship, and my failure to move on. Airport fucking blue." This quote devastated me. :( If you're in the mood to have your mind blown with complete WTF-erry and heartache, angst, tears, torture, and depression all at the hands of the talented Tarryn Fisher, then you will LOVE and and I'm so desperate for book #2 Dirty Red to be released December 28, 2012. It's insane how much this book is occupying my thoughts. Dirty Red better give me some hope, but I don't want to like Leah, because I love hating her. My final thoughts are, this is fiction, not real life so Tarryn Fisher can easily fix this for me. I want revenge!!! I want that Dirty Red Bitch to pay!!!! I want the opposite of the epilogue in The Opportunist!!! Please make it happen. I AM TEAM AMNESIA!!!! "You can only give your heart away once; after that, everything else will just chase your first love." P.s. I'm petty and I marked 1/2 a star off and made it 4.5 stars because I hated the epilogue. It completely broke my heart into tiny pieces :( I wanted the opposite of it to happen ...... This review is also posted here on my blog Miss Vain's Paranormal Fantasy(less) | Notes are private!
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Review coming. Creed is my new bf! <3 Sylvie too.
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"Look at me."mI met his dark brown eyes. His fingers skimmed the back of my hand. The sensation tickled like a spring breeze yet hit me like a wave ru...more
"Look at me."mI met his dark brown eyes. His fingers skimmed the back of my hand. The sensation tickled like a spring breeze yet hit me like a wave rushing from the ocean. His gaze shifted to my covered arms."You didn't do that, did you? It was done to you?" No one ever asked that question. They stared. They whispered. They laughed. But they never asked. My entire world collapsed around me as I answered, "yes." Pushing The Limits is another example of another brilliant story situated in the new Mature- YA genre that I'm quickly becoming addicted to and can't get enough of. I loved every minute of it, one page I was laughing, the next I was crying and then I was cheering. My emotions were tied in a knot while reading and I couldn't turn the pages fast enough, I read it in one setting. The POV switches back and forth between high school seniors and tortured souls Echo Emerson and Noah Hutchins. This book was filled with incredible amounts of angst, tear jerker moments and the life of troubled teens and the pain and suffering that can be dealt if your stack of cards were not in your favor. Katie McGarry has created a world that I immediately read again just because I didn't want to leave it behind. As if he heard me from across the room, his dark eyes met mine. His shaggy brown hair fell over them, but I could tell he was looking at me. The stumble on his face moved as he smiled. Noah had muscles, looks and trouble stalking him. Somehow, he made jeans and a T-shirt look dangerous. Echo begins working with a new Clinical Social Worker, to help her work through and start to fill in the missing pieces of a night that she was brutally attacked and nearly died. Mrs. Collins is very easily adaptable to each caseload and I found her professionalism and method of working with her patients admirable and I was fascinated by her and her empathy. In walks Noah, also a new patient of Mrs. Collins and he comes in a beautifully damaged bad boy package full of heartbreak and grief. These two seem like an unlikely couple, however these two are an incredible couple that I fell in love with and thanks to the writing of such an outstanding debut author it felt like I was living the story right along with Echo and Noah. "Noah Hutchins is defintely hot. I'd tutor him." Besides, from what I've heard heard, quite a few girls have ridden that train and loved every second of it." Echo a bright, overachieving student needs money to restore her deceased brothers Corvette and and Noah is in dire need of a tutor. Mrs. Collins is the mastermind behind the plan that brings two damaged individuals together unbeknownst to them that they are going to heal each other. Echo is eager to earn her money from tutoring, while Noah is reluctant to allow her to get to close to him. Once these two meet sparks fly, yet neither one embraces these sparks and that's what makes their story so special. Echo had a habit of making me feel like a dick in comparison to her and today would be no exception. She left me so I could have a family, making her---alone. How could I ever have let her walk away? Gorgeous Noah was once a star athlete in school, and after a tragic accident in his home that left him lost and alone, he becomes the exact opposite of the high school student he once was. His horrific loss is one that left me feeling broken and devasted as it was unveiled so delicately in the story. He now spends his time getting stoned, visiting his brothers, failing classes, earning a reputation for hooking up with the females in need of a delicious bad boy, all the while hanging out with his two best friends Isaiah and Beth. Although appearances can be deceiving because inside he's troubled, heartbroken and vulnerable. Then we have Echo, beautiful, once the most popular girl in school after a monstrous event that turned her life upside down leaving her the reprobate of school becoming the object of stares, and the lead gossip story of her high school. While I was just broken over Noah's tragedy, he put on such a brave face while Echo put on an equally brave demeanor yet she was dying inside. The angst in Pushing The Limits had me in tears and yet I couldn't walk away, from the moment I opened the first page of their story I was invested and I wasn't giving up on these two until I knew they were on the road to a healing, recovery and hopefully love! "Baby, no one would ever make the mistake of using the world ugly with you. Especially with me around." Everything about you is beautiful and sexy as hell." Beth was so remarkable, and at first I wasn't sure of her but she may have a tough girl exterior with a bulldog attitude yet inside she's a teddy bear with her own inner emotional turmoil and I loved her to pieces. Isaiah is another awesome friend to both Noah, and Beth with his own burden he carries yet he embraces Echo as a friend knowing that Noah is falling for her....falling hard. Lila is my new BFF. "I expect a report on his abs. Real details, not romance novel nonsense." She remains by Echo's side through the popularity and as the school pariah while she herself could have worried of her social status, but she has a feisty-ness to her that has me cheering for a Lila/Beth friendship in future installments because they're both outstanding friends through happiness and tragedy to both Echo and Noah. "Meet your approval?" I asked sarcastically. He laughed. "Yes." I liked his deep laugh. It tickled my insides."You're high." Because no one in their right mind would find me attractive. Especially when that person had seen the infamous scars. I love how Noah is Echo's strength when she needs it and he will protect her at all costs. Noah may have the reputation of being the love em and leave em bad boy, but deep inside he's such a kind, tender hearted person with so much love to give. He's such an alpha male, with a vulnerable side while Echo is equally vulnerable with an armored exterior as well. Surprisingly I found myself equally loving both these characters, and I'll be honest that usually I love the male much more than the female character, however in this case I adored them both equally. Although I couldn't relate to their tragedy I could easily relate to their pain and emotional distress, and I reveled in the fact that they gradually became a team and slowly began trusting one another and they weren't pouring their hearts out to each other at their first meeting. I was enchanted by these two from their tumultuous, yet hilarious first meeting as if Katie McGarry had cast a spell on me because even through my tears, I found I couldn't stop reading as I was eager to hear the outcome of their story. My insides had melted when Noah produced his wicked grin and gazed at me like I was naked. Luke uses to give me butterflies. Noah spawned mutant pterodactyls. I'm so sad that this series will not follow directly Echo and Noah but I'm excited to see that Beth will be featured in the next installment entitled Dared To You because I loved her, and we barely pealed back the first layer of her pain. Katie McGarrywill definitely be an auto buy author for me. "I'll always save you." Because I would. I'd move heaven and earth. I can't easily express how much I adored Pushing The Limits! I recommend this for lovers of Mature- YA contemporary romance filled with angst, pain, drama, heartbreak and love. This can easily fit on my list of what to read if you loved the contemporary romance Easy. 5 HUGE Stars! Pushing The Limits is one of my favorite reads this year! Do yourself a favor on release day and read Pushing The Limits immediately! It had been so long since I'd let myself fall for anybody. I gazed into her beautiful green eyes and her fear melted. A shy smile tugged at her lips and at my heart. Fuck me and the rest of the world, I was in love. ARC provided for review by Netgalley for Harlequin Teen Also find my review at Miss Vain's Paranormal Fantasy (less) | Notes are private!
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"I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart." Okay so I read this a w ...more"I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart." Okay so I read this a while ago and I'm barely reviewing it now. It took me a while to wrap my mind around Thoughtless due to the mind F--***y it did on me. I mean seriously is S.C. Stephens trying to kill me from heart palpitations and angst alone? I think so. That's probably why I put off this review for so long because my poor heart can only take so much strain, because this is definitely not a book for the faint of heart. I gave the same warning in my review for Beautiful Disaster, and even though the premise is much different it most definitely rivaled the angst in Beautiful Disaster. Kellan is very much an unforgettable bad boy, and a book boyfriend I won't be sharing anytime soon. The book begins with happy couple (maybe a bit boring couple in my opinion though) Kiera (selfish) and Denny (meh, but described as gorgeous) moving thousands of miles away from home because Denny landed a heavily sought after position as an intern at a prestigious company in his field. Don't. Don't ever question that. Of course I miss my family, miss them terribly. But you are worth it, you're worth everything. I love you. I want to be where you are." Kiera has her whole life wrapped around Denny, and can't picture herself living without him (co-dependant, of course these are my favorite relationships to read about) so she drops everything back at home, transfers college knowing that her parents will not be financially backing her college since she gave up her college scholarship back home. It doesn't matter to Kiera though, because she can't live without Denny. They sound like an inseparable couple right? Well that is until she meets their new roommate and Denny's close friend worthy of a role of "like a brother to him." Everything about him had screamed, "I'm going to take you right here and make you forget your own name." Oh Kellan, you can try your hardest to make me forget my name anytime you want.... Enter Kellan, he's your typical bad boy with charming good looks, rockstar appeal, never a shortage of women looking to satisfy his every need even if its only one night, yet he's oh so vulnerable. Yep he's swoon worthy. * sigh * "Where Denny's body was great, Kellan's was just ridiculous. ....He was, well....hot." Okay so gorgeous Denny does have plenty of fans out there and hopefully I don't offend too many here, but in many ways I found Denny to be just as selfish as I found Kiera to be. He moves with her across the country where so knows no one except their roommate local rockstar Kellan that oozes sex appeal as his own pheromones. The problem is that he then leaves for a work trip and leaves co-dependant/needy Kiera alone without much contact and you've already guessed it I'm sure but the only person to comfort her would be *gasp* Kellan.;) "He drew almost every eye to him like a flame. Women-and even a few men openly stared." See its all starting to unravel about this point. Not only does he severe contact but he then chooses to take a job in Australia (see Denny is originally from Australia and Kellan family home was the home he stayed at in high school as a foreign exchange student) without even consulting Kiera, with no regards for her schooling, or the sacrifice she has made to accommodate his job. See that's where his selfishness comes into play, but just wait Kiera wears the selfish title like a diamond fitted crown. "I smiled at remembering the day and how, for almost the entirety of it,I hadn't missed Denny.....too much." Fortunately for Kiera, Kellan was around to comfort her while she was missing Denny, while she stole his heart away..... Without thinking, I did what I had wanted to do on that very first shot. I grabbed his hand, just as he bent down to lick the salt away. I lightly pressed my tongue against the back of it, the salt pleasantly mixing with the taste of his skin. His breath caught while he watched me down the shit if tequila. I quickly set the glass down and placed the lime wedge in his partly opened mouth. I brought my lips to his. I half sucked on the line, half pressed against his lips. Fire burned through me. I pulled away from him slowly, taking the lime with me. His breathing was faster and a little ragged. I carefully took the lime out and set it on the counter, licking my fingers in the process. Kellan took his shot of tequila straight, his eyes never leaving mine. He roughly set down his own glass, licked his lower lip once, and grabbed my neck, pulling me back to his mouth. Very shortly into this story I realized that this crazy roller coaster/nightmare had no exit but by then I had already decided their was no turning back! I had to see how this ended even if it made me cry, gave me chest pains, made me anxious, made me want to slap selfish Kiera in the face, because well it did all those things to me, and still after finishing I had a lump in my throat and a heaviness on my chest that wouldn't go away. He closed his eyes and a tear escaped, trickling down his cheek. I wiped it away. "What are you thinking about?' I asked timidly. "Nothing," he replied, keeping his eyes closed. I lifted my head higher to look at him more closely. He opened his eyes and gazed back at me. "I'm trying to not think about anything," he said softly. "It hurts too much when I think...." I but my lip and nodded, very sorry that I had even asked. "I love you," I said and nodded sadly. "Just not enough.....not enough to leave him?" This scene alone made chest feel heavy and the lump in my throat feel overwhelmingly suffocating to me. I was crying "One single tear rolled down his cheek and the thing indie me broke completely. His pain, his suffering, awakened feelings in me for him that I had never felt before. I wanted to protect him, I wanted to heal him. I would give anything to take his pain away. The coldness, the irritation, the women, ----the pain in his eyes, made everything else slip away." Okay another scene that completely devastated me.... :( The best way I could describe how I felt the entire time reading it would be this; It was as if I had weights tapped to my chest and I had ran upstairs causing me to feel a shortage of breath along with the heavy weight pressing against me. You know that feeling right? It's very similar to having your heart broken.....ya well Stevens did that to me the entire time I read it. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone not in favor of reading about a love triangle, because this has to be the most intense and disturbing love triangle I have had the pleasure to read. To me love triangles are fun, angsty, scary, emotional, exciting, invigorating, thrilling, yet even I found myself crying over it more than once.
"This is wrong, you're not mine." In reality both Kellan and Kiera truly deserve to be unhappy with all this sneaking behind Denny's back, but quite frankly I'm selfish and I blamed Denny for avoiding Kiera while out of town working and Kiera for holding two devastatingly handsome men's hearts in her hands and oh so unwillingly able to let one of them go. I wanted to make "my" Kellan have a happy ending, because he stole my heart. "He had said I was his heart, and you don't leave your heart behind. You can't live without your heart." At some point as much as I adored "Will it bother me if you have sex with your boyfriend?" He asked softly. I blushed again and nodded. "Just answer the question." He laughed and looked away. Sighing, he finally answered. "Yes, yes it will bother me...but, I understand." He turned to look at me again. "You're not mine," he said wistfully. Okay so I've now lost my mind and my morals because I'm now screaming back at my ipad screen, YES it will bother him Kiera, and it bothers me too!!!! So can you please sustain from having sex with your boyfriend to protect my boyfriend Kellan's heart and my heavy chest since I'm suffering along with you. "It was intoxicating and beautiful and heartwarming...and maybe, if at that moment I allowed myself to feel it, a little sad." Although all you Denny fans, something he does disturbs me in such a horrific way towards the end of the book that I found myself cringing while reading and re-thinking my first thoughts of Denny being the typical "happy go lucky" boyfriend. I mean if you have read it then you know what I'm referring to. :( However, it makes sense when people are hurt they do the unthinkable sometimes and people get hurt. "He was my home.....and I missed him terribly." Overall I absolutely LOVED this book and S.C. Stephens will forever be remembered as the author that introduced me to another "almost as good as Travis" bad boy and almost as angsty as Beautiful Disaster, and for that Thoughtless deserves 5 sparkly stars. She took me for a ride on a crazy train, and held me captive for several hours until I was so emotionally distraught and wrecked I had no other choice but to start Effortless immediately. ;) hehe See I'm a glutton for punishment. When a book has been described as angsty, I say bring it. I recommend Thoughtless for fans of angsty books with emotionally damaged characters such as Beautiful Disaster, Avoiding Commitment, Fifty Shades of Grey, Crossfire series, Fallen From Grace and Crash. P.s. I'm now a D-Bag groupie!!!! "Forgive me..please. I tried to forget you. It didn't work...I just wanted you more. God, I've missed you. I'm sorry I hurt you. I've never wanted anyone like I want you. Every girl is you to me. You're all I see...you're all I want. I want you so much. I want you forever. Forgive me...I love you so much."
Another Mature YA/College MUST READ contemporary romance! Do yourself a favor and read Thoughtless immediately so you can share in my love My review can also be found on my blog Miss Vain's Paranormal Fantasy(less) | Notes are private!
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Warning: this book is not for everyone.....with that being said I loved every single page of it........I'm going to sleep on it.... 4.5 Stars!!!! Revie...more Warning: this book is not for everyone.....with that being said I loved every single page of it........I'm going to sleep on it.... 4.5 Stars!!!! Review to come.(less) | Notes are private!
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Warning: This book is a drug, and it will suck you in, bleed you dry, break your heart, make you fall in love and then at the end you’ll be left empty...more
Warning: This book is a drug, and it will suck you in, bleed you dry, break your heart, make you fall in love and then at the end you’ll be left empty, and doing exactly what I’m doing now, re-reading this book, making it difficult to say goodbye to this Beautiful and glorious Disaster. Have you ever read a book before that felt like an autobiography of your embarrassing, and painful, yet exhilarating and the most romantic memorable moments of your life? Well Beautiful Disasterwas that book for me. From the moment I began reading, I was hooked. It was like I became addicted to these characters, for a whole 24 hours of reading they were my drug of choice, and two days later I’m still in awe of this beautiful story of two of the most dysfunctional characters I’ve had the pleasure to read about. See for me that was the instant attraction with this book. Anyone that is familiar with my preferred reading taste knows I am infatuated with tumultuous, codependent, and self destructive characters in love, most likely because I can relate to those volatile relationships most. Instantly this book brought me back to my early 20′s in college, living in a sorority house and partying at out of control at the fraternity parties, and loving life so hard. “I like the Au natural thing you have going on. Girls don’t come over here like that.” ”I was coerced into coming here. It didn’t occur to me to impress you,” I said, aggravated that my plan had failed. “Im already impressed. I don’t normally have to beg girls to come to my apartment.” This book is classified as YA but it is so NOT YA, and it contains everything from jealousy, drunkenness, frat parties, sex, gossip, and dramatic misunderstandings that left me wanting to slap some sense into them, however if we didn’t have those misunderstandings then we wouldn’t have Beautiful Disaster and it’s on my list of favorites read during 2012. “Shake in your boots, boys, and drop your panties, ladies! I give you: Travis Mad dog Maddox!” Abby Abernathy whom I will later refer to as “Pigeon” (OMG I love this nickname) in this review and you’ll understand just why later has traveled far away from her Kansas hometown with her best friend America(whom I absolutely adore) to start a new life, forget past childhood horror stories and experience college life as a freshman. So when America asks Abby to accompany her and her boyfriend Shepleyto a secret fight club match to watch Travis ‘Mad Dog‘ Maddox (also Shepley’s cousin and roommate) a bare-knuckle, gorgeous, tattooed, Smart, undefeated fighter, Harley driving man whore champion yet another fight. It had always been a dream of America’s for us to date friends, and roommates-slash-cousins, for her, was hitting the jackpot. Abby stands out as she’s the only one wearing a cardigan to such a barbaric event, but she’s enamored instantly by the atmosphere in the rink, and never does she guess that the shaved headed, tattooed, ripped muscled, ruthless fighter and mouthwatering sex pot such as Travis would even be interested in anything more than “bagging” with her “on his couch” and then never to be used again, because lets face it; with his gorgeous looks and bad boy charm all the college co-ed females are basically pushing each other aside just to remove their panties for Travis, because while he may be undefeated in the rink, he’s off the charts un-denied and undefeated with the ladies on his couch as well. *sigh* “Oh my God! You’re killing me! That’s it. We have to be friends. I won’t take no for an answer.” So when she meets Travis she has no intention of ever giving him the time of day much less a friendship because she’s determined to turn over a new link. She’s from a family of alcoholics and her father is an overzealous gambling addict that has no issue with using his daughter to settle his gambling debts, so she decides without even a second glance that she needs a “nice guy”, charmer that can give her the “normal” life she’s always wanted. As deluded as she was with her fantasies of a normal life, I can almost see her point except on in the first chapter we meet Travis Maddox and I’m immediately, swept away by everything and I mean everything about him. But I’m sure you can easily see that with Abby’s determination and Travis’ charm that this book is going to be filled with angst, and emotional turmoil that leaves me with a heavy chest at many times during this read. Remarkably I survived those moments, and I’m left to tell you that this is the book to read if you love emotionally codependent characters, who have irresistible charm and can’t walk away, yet can’t just meet in the middle. “I meant what I said before. You need to walk away, Pidge. God knows I can’t walk away from you.” Travis is a heart-breaker, oblivious to his effect on women because well lets face it, he’s infamous amongst the college co-eds as the undefeated bare knuckle fighter, with a flock of females relentlessly following him everywhere, doting on his every move almost as if he’s a rock star, yet they each seem to be surprised and upset when he doesn’t ask for their phone number after randomly hooking up with him on his couch! For reals? His reputation proceeds him, so this should come as NO surprise yet, it always does. Here is an example below of his man whorish ways… Travis rounded the corner in a pair of boxer shorts and yawned. He looked at his guest, and then patted her backside. “My company’s here. You’d better go.” She smiled and wrapped her arms around him, kidding his neck. “I’ll leave my number on the counter.” “Eh….don’t worry about it,” Travis said in a casual tone. ”What?” she asked, leaning back to look in his eyes. “Every time!” America said. She looked at the woman. “How are you surprised by this? He’s Travis Fucking Maddox! He is famous for this very thing, and every time they’re surprised!” The girl narrowed her eyes at Travis, and then grabbed her purse and stormed out, slamming the door behind her. Travis walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge as if nothing had happened. Travis stood behind the breakfast bar, crossed his arms over his chest ”What’s wrong Pidge? Hard day? ”No, I’m thoroughly disgusted.” ”With me?” He was smiling. I should have known that he expected this conversation. It only made me less inclined to hold back. “Yea, you. How can you just use someone like that, and treat them that way?” ”How did I treat her? She offered her number, I declined.” My mouth flew open at his lack of remorse. “You’ll have sex with her, but you won’t take her number?” Travis leaned on the counter with his elbows. “Why would I want her number if I’m not going to call her?” ”Why would you sleep with her of your not going to call her?” ”I don’t promise anyone anything, Pidge. She didn’t stipulate a relationship before she spread eagle on my couch.” I stared at the couch with revulsion. He’s instantly captivated by Abby, because she doesn’t go out of her way to impress like all the other females, actually she does the exact opposite of them, and that just charms her way into his heart faster, the way no other before her has. She has made it clear to him that she is not interested in being one of the girls “spread eagle” on his couch, so when he offers her a friendship she reluctantly accepts, and they become the cutest more adorably charming best friends ever. I just love their friendship. This friendship becomes a shock to everyone at school and the highlight of the daily gossip because Travis doesn’t have “female friends” and yet they’re inseparable and he nicknames her “Pigeon” (oh be still my heart) you’ll love that nickname and the reasoning behind it, hopefully as much as I do. He actually refers to her as “My Pigeon” *swoon* They’re daily routine consists of eating lunch together daily, at every female on campuses dismay, partying together, study partners (surprisingly he is a straight A student so basically he’s her tutor )below is an example of his enthusiasm for her getting top grades in her classes after he tutored her. He tossed me over his shoulder, making his way through the crowd behind us. “Make way! Move it, people! Let’s make room for this poor woman’s hideously disfigured, ginormous brain! She’s a fucking genius!” She becomes his good luck charm at fights, he says wherever he goes Pigeon goes, and he’s falling for her fast AND hard, yet the two involved (Travis and Pigeon) are reluctant to make any moved that will dissolve their precious friendship. Especially when she often reminds him that their friendship better be based on friendship and not an elaborate scheme to get her into bed. Ahhhhhh the angst in this book nearly killed me! But this is just the beginning…… After being so close over the past two weeks, he makes a bet with Pigeon (unbeknownst to him she cannot resist a good wager) that if he can go an entire fight without the huge monster of an opponent getting one hit on him, then she must move in with him for one month (in a way to ensure their friendship remains) and if he loses then he must remain abstinent for one month. Oh boy, this is where the excitement begins and I’m left wishing I could erase about ten years off my life and experience the college life once again. As a matter of fact my friend Cimmaron said the same exact thing to me once we had both read it. She and I discussed and reveled in the idea that we should get us some fake ID’s, Botox, and enroll back into college as undergraduates just to experience this lifestyle and maybe a Travis Maddox for ourselves. “I don’t want to sleep with you Pidge. I like you too much.” He admires Pigeon, and she’s the only female that can “put him in his place” make him crazy with jealousy, he’s overprotective over her, and well I always love that in my heroes, but she is so dense that even though she is resisting his charms outwardly on the inside she is caving because she is catching feelings for him along the way (can you blame her? he’s incredible) she takes his overprotective behavior for being a “big brother” factor when in reality, it’s goes beyond that and he’s trying to hold back with her because he made her a promise that they’re friendship would NOT be a ploy to sleep with her, yet he’s slowly unraveling and can’t picture his life without Pigeon as his girl forever. “I’m sorry, Shepley.” He froze and wheeled around, with the face of a man that had reached his limit. “I wish you and Travis would just get your shit together! You’re a goddamn tornado! When you’re happy, it’s love and peace and butterflies. When you’re pissed, you take the whole fucking world down with you!” This is an example of how their tumultuous relationship causes not only for them to suffer but everyone around them suffers including Shepley (Travis’ cousin and devoted boyfriend to America) and you can’t help but feel for him, as he suffers as he winds up in the middle of this beautifully disastrously charismatic relationship I fell in love with. Enter Parker, that’s the only introduction he needs Yuck because I don’t like him at all and Pigeon begins dating him right in front of Travis, oh and we get to witness the tragedy unfold. I especially grow fond of America, shes the ideal best friend, completely loyal, full of drama, yet sincerity and she is simply a delight though out the entire story. “You’re not jealous, are you, Pideon?” “Jealous of what? The STD-infested imbecile you’re going to piss off in the morning?” Over the time the lines between friendship and lovers gets muddy and it’s not only an emotional roller coaster to read, it’s also so much fun too. “But I…..that wasn’t the only reason I took you to the fight. I wanted you there with me, Pidge. You’re my good luck charm.” ”I’m not your anything,” I snapped, glaring up at him. His eyebrows pulled in and he stopped dancing. “You’re my everything.” I can think of a couple times I had to put this book down and walk away just to get my motions under control because the brilliant way that Jamie McGuire writes this story made me feel like I was the person involved in this romance. Travis tries hard to be a good boy, but he can’t help it he’s jealous, has a temper, and he does a few things that will once again cause that lump in your throat or heavy feeling in your chest to resurface, while he breaks her heart and she breaks his heart. I cried so hard in public at the gym nonetheless that when a woman accosted me in the bathroom as I fled the stationary bike much to my embarrassment, when she asked what was wrong, I was left with no other choice but to lie (I mean c’mon am I supposed to tell her that my book boyfriend in the book I’m reading started to cry and so I’m crying for him? I didn’t think so) and say my boyfriend has broken up with me and that I’m sorry to have disturbed her with my bathroom freak out (at the gym *gasp*) she proceeds to pat me on the back and tell me to cheer up, and things will work itself out….Well now that the sweet unsuspecting woman has no idea that I’m actually crazy LOL, I went back to reading and didn’t put it down until I finished! And then I re-read it again while writing this review. “A toast!” he yelled. “To Douschebags!” he said. “And to girls that break you’re heart,” he bowed his head to me. ”And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.” This moment made my chest heavy once again, and put my stomach in knots again…… So despite Travis charm, and confident ways, deep inside he’s vulnerable and not sure how to proceed considering he’s never been in love, unsure of himself but all he knows is that without Pigeon by his side, his life will no longer be complete, now that he’s realized, his life was meaningless before her. He’s my favorite bad boy and I couldn’t resist his charms ever, and surprisingly because this rarely happens I blamed the Pigeon for the majority of their problems because shes a “runner” and even though he’s the “bad boy” his vulnerability with her leaves me broken for him a bit more than I was for her, even though many times my eyes watered for her, I was shocked that the times I was most distraught was when he was hurting the most! His fingers lightly grazed my cheek. “I didn’t know you before. When you’re not there, I can’t concentrate. I’m wondering where you are, what you’re doing….if you’re there and I can see you, I can focus. I know it’s crazy, but that’s how it is.” ”And crazy is exactly the way I like it,” I said, leaning up to kiss his lips. When I finished this book all I wanted to do was tell all my book buddies that if they have yet to read this then they must!!!!!! But I must warn you, this book is NOT for the faint of heart. It’s for those of you that wish to spend the entire day in angsty romance that will hold onto you relentlessly even days after you finish reading it! “You know why I want you? I didn’t know I was lost until you found me. I didn’t know what alone was until the first night I spent without you in my bed. You’re the one thing I’ve got right. You’re what I’ve been waiting for, Pigeon.” Most everyone knows I’m a HUGE Fifty Shades of Grey, and Bared To You fan, and while these books are very different than Beautiful Disaster yet it’s recommended for fans of those two books because the relentless dysfunction of characters in love are displayed with very similar when you think of insecure, confident, powerful, hot mess of totally dysfunctional characters, so if you can handle and enjoy a good emotional read that tugs at your heart strings the entire time you read it, yet at the end your left wanting more but the ending is completely beautiful nonetheless? “I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.” Well if you can then please read Beautiful Disaster. Travis might be the boy your momma warned you about but I can assure you, he will leave you breathless and looking for key to his heart immediately upon reading this. If you like bad boys…..and lucky for me, I revel in them. This book is one of my ultimate favorite reads of 2012 and it was disastrously beautiful!! Please do me a favor when you do, and come back to share your love for this book with me. “WELL I BELONG TO YOU!” The veins in his neck bulged as he shouted, and I met his glare, refusing to even flinch. He looked at my lips, panting. “I belong to you,” he whispered, his anger melting as he realized how close we were.” To check out my review with my visual of Travis visit here: http://missvainsparanormalfantasy.com...(less) | Notes are private!
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