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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

blitz || FREEFALL

Come take a trip and fly in the infamous and sexily scandalous

Indigo Lounge and meet Keely & Mason, in FREEFALL by Zara Cox.

Freefall by Zara Cox

Publisher: Self-Publisher (3/31/2015)
Series: The Indigo Lounge, book 5
Genre: Erotica
Source: Barclay Publicity
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Rating: rating and review soon

Keely Benson:

Nineteen. The age I threw my life away.

Twenty-Five. The age I decided to try it a second time.

Twenty-Five plus one day. The age Benedict Mason Sinclair III walked into my life.

Mason Sinclair III:

She was a curse.

A sex bomb.

A perfect reminder that not having a heart was the best choice I ever made.

Zara Cox has been writing for almost twenty-five years but it wasn’t until nine years ago that she decided to share her love of writing sexy, gritty stories with anyone outside her close family (the over 18s anyway!). The Indigo Lounge Series is Zara’s next step in her erotic romance writing journey and she would love to hear your thoughts.

{ excerpt } .

His hands capture mine, holding them prisoner against his chest. I blink at him through the water cascading down my face and glare harder.

“Get the fuck out of my way.”

“Anyone tell you you have a very dirty mouth?”

“Do I look like I care what anyone has to say about my mouth?”

His gaze drops to my mouth. The water running over it intensifies the sudden tingle and I have to fight the impulse to lick it. Just as I fight the urge to stare at his mouth.

“No, you don’t. It’s still no excuse to talk like a goddamn sailor,” he says.

“I believe in getting to the point as quickly as possible. Equivocating isn’t really my thing.”

“I hear you fine without the extra filth.”

“I don’t think you do. Because here you are, still in my fucking way.”

Something dark and dangerous gleams in his eyes and a residual shiver crawls up my spine. His chest expands beneath my palms and he slowly exhales.

“If you were mine, I’d spank that dirty mouth right out of you,” he murmurs, his voice once against that deep and mesmerising quality that makes me want to stand on tiptoe and strain closer so I can hear more of his voice.

“Well, I’m not yours, Rusty. And FYI, I hate being spanked.”

“Probably because it hasn’t been done in the right way. But I could teach you love it,” he replies, those eyes raking my face with an intense intimacy that fires up a spark in my belly. “I can teach you to love a whole lot of things, Keely.”

That spark turns into a flame. For a moment, I can’t define what the feeling is. Then I realise it’s arousal. I’m at once sad and elated. Sad because it’s been so long that I’ve forgotten what arousal feels like. Elated because…well, I’m not dead below the waist after all.

But this arousal isn’t the kind I normally feel for a guy I want to sleep with. This feeling is different. It’s sharper, more intense, as if it could actually cause damage if ignored. Which is ridiculous. I pull my hands away and he lets me go. But he doesn’t move from his guardian position. I turn around, let the water cascade down my back. My silk Donna Karan dress is ruined, but what the hell, it feels good to be warm. Despite the guilt and pain clawing through me, it feels good to be alive.

“You can go now. I promise I won’t try to drown myself,” I mutter loud enough for him to hear.

He doesn’t move.

I sigh. “I wasn’t really going to drown myself. I was just trying to clear my head a little.”

“With a bottle of champagne inside you? You have to do better than that.”

“Look, Rusty—”

“My name is Mason. Mason Sinclair III. You can call me Mason or Sinclair. Rusty doesn’t work for me.” There is a hard command in there that impresses the seriousness of his dislike for the nickname.

{ giveaway } .

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Dirty Saint: A Secret Baby Sports Romance by Vesper Vaughn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book almost failed to get my attention. Why?

The hero.

He is the exact public person I despise. You know the type -- all biblical with publicized praying and verses all over his public persona. Great. Good for you. Bet you're not like that behind closed doors...

Which is exactly what Esther thinks of him.

Saint and Esther attend the same super religious college. Esther is on the fast track to becoming a nun, and no I do not kid, and Saint, given name Francis, can do just about whatever he wants, because he is the star athlete and the school knows he has connections. What in the world can these two have in common? The actions of their parents.

But where Saint does what his father says, usually, because his father is pushing him toward a pro-football careers, Esther follows her parents (father) because if she didn't... Her life would literally be a living hell.

I really enjoyed these two, once we started to get to know Saint a little bit better. My only drawback with the book would be the last half goes by in super-fast time. While it helped to keep the story moving, I would have liked to see more of that time drawn out so the feelings and emotions of our two characters felt more genuine and real -- rather than simply a two month courting that their lives demanded.

I'm giving the book the full 5 stars because it came out of left-field for me. It was a book that I didn't expect to like, but the author wove it in a way that I fell hard for our characters both as individuals and as a couple. I liked watching Esther grow and find her voice in life, just as I liked watching playboy, always for the chase Saint, settle down and find a person to be terribly protective over. I loved him most in the last two chapters.

*ARC received in exchange for an honest review

Everything by Erin Noelle
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Here's something you may know about me if you've followed my reviews -- I'm an epilogue reader. I will almost always read the epilogue first. Call me a spoilsport or no fun, or whatever but that's how I've been reading books for years. It's no wonder that when I write books, I tend to have the epilogue all figured out before I even start with "Once upon a time...".

That said... I read this epilogue and while I liked it, I just couldn't get past the ages of our characters. Couldn't do it. So I read the beginning. Still... If anything, the age of our characters was even more pronounced. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to read this. You see, I have an issue with "Happily ever after" and the hardly-twenty crowd, let alone an eighteen year old.

But that's my hang-up.

Another thing you may know about me? I will sometimes read a book in what I call a inside-out fashion. I jump all over the place until I find a snippet of story that absolutely grips me. And people -- there are a few of those parts in Everything. So because I found those gripping parts, I put my faith in Erin Noelle, and I started from page one -- and I gave Everett and Belle a chance.

And I'm so glad I did.

Everett and his twin sister have been making music forever -- literally. They're the children of a rockstar; music has always been their life. When their father's group decides to get back together (dad always said he'd go back when the twins were done with school), Mason tells the label -- if you take me, you're taking my kids: thus, giving Everett and Ashlynn the opportunity to take their music to a larger level than they have before.

Along the way, with a local gig, Everett meets Belle -- and so begins their story.

This is a story about growing up. This is a story about following your heart -- be it for a person or a career, or even both. It is about learning to trust the person you are giving your heart to, and about taking the ever-looming jump into unknown feelings. When you put your life, your wants, your desires in someone else's hands, the world opens up -- and it certainly does for Everett and Belle.

The part I most appreciated was that the author made Everett true to his age and situation. Belle was too, yes, but it was Everett and his new lifestyle that had me wanting to see true characterization for. He's a guy; he's a musician; he's new to love. He makes mistakes. And for those mistakes, I truly got on board with this story.

Everett and his Tinker Bell were incredibly cute. I liked that there's a decent time jump at the end, further allowing -- you guessed it -- growth of our characters. I'm excited to watch more of them when (if?) Ashlynn's story comes out.

*ARC received in exchange for an honest review

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