review || FORBIDDEN TEMPTATIONS { blog tour } by Janine Infante Bosco

Janine Infante Bosco | November 10, 2015 | Contemporary Romance
Tempted, book 2
★★★★1/2

SOURCE: INDIESAGE PR

Anthony Bianci

Since I was a kid all I ever wanted to be was a gangster. I wanted to be feared, to be respected, and for everyone to know my name.

And then she came into my life.

I never planned on falling in love with the mob boss’ daughter. She was forbidden but somehow she became mine. She made me crave things I didn’t even know existed and made me forget about the things I thought I wanted. My quest for power faded away and was replaced by my undying love for her.

Until reality bit me in the ass and I was sent to prison for three years, doing time for a crime I didn’t commit.

Now I’m out and she is creating a life for herself, just like I always wanted for her. Only I’m not a part of that life. I won’t ruin her any more than I already have with my poisonous lifestyle.

No matter how tempted I am.

Adrianna Pastore

I wanted him from the very first time I laid eyes on him.

He was everything to me, my first love and probably my last.

Then my father ruined our perfect little life, and he walked away from me.

I tried to fight for him, for our love, but he pushed me away. When the love you crave is beautiful, yet forbidden, you can’t help being tempted.

So I’ll fight for him. For us.

Even if I’m the only one fighting.

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{ about janine infante bosco } .

Janine Infante Bosco lives in New York City, she has always loved reading and writing. When she was thirteen, she began to write her own stories and her passion for writing took off as the years went on. At eighteen, she even wrote a full screenplay with dreams of one day becoming a member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Janine writes emotionally charged novels with an emphasis on family bonds, strong willed female characters, and alpha male men who will do anything for the women they love. She loves to interact with fans and fellow avid romance readers like herself.

She is proud of her success as an author and the friendships she's made in the book community but her greatest accomplishment to date would be her two sons Joseph and Paul.

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I knew all years ago nothing would come close to making me feel the way I did whenever Anthony kissed me. Even when he was kissing me goodbye he made me feel like he cherished me. I believed him when he said he’d love me forever, his actions speaking louder than his words. I hope he knew I felt the same way.

I angled my head, giving him better access to devour my mouth. The thing about kissing someone goodbye is you don’t get a second chance to do it right. In that moment you have to put everything into one kiss and that’s exactly what we did. The last several years, everything we had gone through, everything we had felt for one another entangled in this kiss.

I savored his taste. I memorized the way his teeth felt scraping against my raw lips, the gentle lap his tongue took across them to soothe the sting. I didn’t want him to take away the sting, wishing I would always feel the burning sensation that prickled against my sensitive flesh as a reminder of my Anthony.

His mouth left mine and kept going back to press butterfly kisses against my lips before dropping his hands to my shoulders and taking a retreating step backwards. I swallowed as I dared to meet his gaze.

“Let me grab a shirt and I’ll walk you out,” he said, gruffly. I nodded wiping my cheeks with the sleeves of my sweater. He turned around to walk into his bedroom and that’s when I saw the ink taking up his entire back.

The shocked gasp that escaped my mouth caused him to look over his shoulder at me. The instant he saw my face realization set into his features and he closed his eyes.

“Turn around,” I demanded, softly.

He sighed, his shoulders went lax, and he dropped his head. I took a step closer and stared in awe at the beautiful artwork covering his skin. There are beautiful clouds drawn across his shoulder blades all of them shaded in hues of gray and blue, almost matching his eyes. Through the clouds, there are rays that shoot down the center of his back like rays of an eternal light. The year two thousand five looks as though the rays illuminate the numbers. My eyes travel down to the center of his back where there is the letter A written in a familiar handwriting. My first thought is that my eyes are playing tricks on me but when I take, a closer look there is no denying it. The A inked onto his skin is a replica of the A I scribe every time I sign my name .Just when I thought there were no tears left to cry, I feel my eyes fill with water as understanding dawns on me. I push back the tears and force myself to continue my perusal of the intricate tattoo he has forever etched into his flesh. There are flames that begin just beneath the waistband of his sweat pants and travel wildly, vibrant oranges, yellows and reds, all depicting an inferno as they make their way to the A. The year two thousand ten scribed between the flames of hell. I reach out and trace the A with my index finger, feeling him flinch at my touch. He gathers his bearings and remains completely still as my fingertip continues to trace the A. My eyes fixate on the two years, two thousand five was the year it all began for us, and two thousand ten was the year it ended.

He must’ve been reading my mind because he turned around shielding his tattoo from me as he gazed in to my eyes.

“My heaven and my hell,” He whispered, roughly explaining the sentiment behind the ink that forever marks his skin. I stare at him for a moment, stripped of any words. What do you say to that? To the man telling you to forget he exists only to discover he’ll take a piece of you with him wherever he goes.

You say nothing because nothing you could ever say would be enough.

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{ review } .

Adrianna and Anthony have loved one another for as long as they could remember, but she was the boss's daughter, and he wanted a life in the family -- and with that, he had to give up any thoughts of Adrianna. But still, he couldn't say no. Just when things seem to be going right for them, though, Anthony's way in involves going to jail for a crime he didn't commit -- and the protective, loving man that he was, tried pushing Adrianna away.

These two...

Their story was very push-pull, and from Adrianna's view point, she does all of the work. But thankfully, we get Anthony's views, too, and we see how much he does for her, for them, and for a potential future. Anthony's love for Adrianna was palpable; it fell from the pages. I absolutely loved the way he loved her -- and everything that was a part of her. Their story isn't an easy one; it takes place over many years and there are a number of trials these two need to overcome -- but in the end, it just goes to further prove just how strong their bond is.

...immediately upon finishing, I went and looked up what book one was, and was a bit surprised to find it was Nikki and Mike's book -- as Nikki was semi-with Rico in this book, and only with Mikey at the end! So, of course, I one-clicked that bad boy and did my epilogue thing, to discover that these two books essentially take place at the same time, with the couple of weeks in question at the end of this one holding a bigger chunk of Nikki and Mike's story, which further explains the author's use of months/years with FORBIDDEN TEMPTATIONS. So. Anyway. I'm in the process of reading Nikki and Mikey's book, and am waiting impatiently for the rest of this series -- because I. Am. Hooked.

My biggest pet-peeve with this story, though? Tense changes (can be noted in the excerpt, but that is not the reason why I chose that excerpt), and editing problems. I hope that these are things that were fixed in the final publishing process, but I suppose I'll learn for sure when I read ILLICIT TEMPTATIONS.

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