B L U R B:
What happens when the kink between the pages leads to heat between the sheets?
All Blake Crawford wants is to pass his creative writing course, get his university degree and take over his dad’s ailing family business. What Amanda Newland wants is to graduate at the top of her class, as well as finally finish her novel and prove to her family that writing is a respectful career.
What Blake and Amanda don’t want is to be paired up with each other for their final project but that’s exactly what they both get when they’re forced to collaborate on a writing piece. Since Amanda thinks Blake is a pushy asshole (with a panty-melting smirk and British accent) and Blake thinks Amanda has a stick up her ass (though it’s brilliant ass), they fight tooth and nail until they discover they write well together. They also might find each other really attractive, but that’s neither here nor there.
When their writing project turns out to be a success, the two of them decide to start up a secret partnership together using a pen name, infiltrating the self-publishing market in the lucrative genre of erotica. Naturally, with so much heat and passion between the pages, it’s not long before their dirty words become a dirty reality. Sure, they still fight a lot but at least there’s make-up sex now.
But even as they start to fall hard for each other, will their burgeoning relationship survive if their scandalous secret is exposed or are happily-ever-afters just a work of fiction?
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M Y R E V I E W:
I just had so much fun with this book. I took my kids to the pool the morning after it arrived on my Kindle. As they dove into the water I dove head first into this book. Half way into the prologue I was laughing so hard that I had to wipe my my tears away with beach towels. Seriously! Did I look like a crazy person? Probably. Do I care? Not even a little bit. :) So Totally worth it!
Needless to say I fell head over heels for these characters almost immediately. Amanda has crazy Book Bestie potential. She's smart, fun, quirky, she has strong will power and doesn't take crap from anyone. She has set her eye on her goals and she's not willing to loose sight of them, she knows that her hard work will pay off...
Enter Blake. Fully prepared, and fully intending to turn her whole world upside down...
Blake has been labeled as a playboy at the University where Amanda goes. From what she can tell he has no respect for women, he doesn't take their writing class seriously and he's just the opposite of everything she would ever consider looking for in a guy.
Through no choice of their own they get paired up to do a writing assignment together. Of course Amanda expects Blake to blow off the whole thing... and Blake expects Amanda to be overbearing about the whole thing, but as they work together they they find out that maybe neither of them were correct in their pre-concieved expectations.
I don't want to give too much of this book away... so I will wrap up but I just want to say that this book is just absolute FUN. Its laugh out loud funny. There is a great combination of suspense, drama, angst, giggles, and plenty of SEXY TIME. ;) As always Karina writes with heart & soul, always leaving me with just a little more then I had even hoped for. This book did not dissapoint for me at all. I couldn't put it down, didn't want to put it down, and it broke me a little when the book came to and end and I knew it was time to put...the book...down. Don't Leave Me Blake!!! :)
Blogger Disclaimer: I'm writing this at 3am because I wanted to be sure to get this review posted in time for release day. Please excuse typos and know that I do this because I love you. Read this book, you'll be so very happy you did. XO
E X C E R P T:
Needless to say I fell head over heels for these characters almost immediately. Amanda has crazy Book Bestie potential. She's smart, fun, quirky, she has strong will power and doesn't take crap from anyone. She has set her eye on her goals and she's not willing to loose sight of them, she knows that her hard work will pay off...
Enter Blake. Fully prepared, and fully intending to turn her whole world upside down...
Blake has been labeled as a playboy at the University where Amanda goes. From what she can tell he has no respect for women, he doesn't take their writing class seriously and he's just the opposite of everything she would ever consider looking for in a guy.
Through no choice of their own they get paired up to do a writing assignment together. Of course Amanda expects Blake to blow off the whole thing... and Blake expects Amanda to be overbearing about the whole thing, but as they work together they they find out that maybe neither of them were correct in their pre-concieved expectations.
I don't want to give too much of this book away... so I will wrap up but I just want to say that this book is just absolute FUN. Its laugh out loud funny. There is a great combination of suspense, drama, angst, giggles, and plenty of SEXY TIME. ;) As always Karina writes with heart & soul, always leaving me with just a little more then I had even hoped for. This book did not dissapoint for me at all. I couldn't put it down, didn't want to put it down, and it broke me a little when the book came to and end and I knew it was time to put...the book...down. Don't Leave Me Blake!!! :)
Blogger Disclaimer: I'm writing this at 3am because I wanted to be sure to get this review posted in time for release day. Please excuse typos and know that I do this because I love you. Read this book, you'll be so very happy you did. XO
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She holds my gaze for a moment and something passes over her. Regret, maybe. Then she nods. “Sit down. Let’s work.”
And so we do. And for the first time in a long time, it’s strained. I’m about to suggest maybe we need the Estonian vodka anyway when she lets out an exasperated sigh over something she’s reading.
It happens to be something I wrote.
“What?” I ask, wondering what I did wrong.
She gives me the are you kidding me? look. “Okay, I was ignoring it earlier but I think you need to get a grip on some of this shit. This simply does not happen.”
“Explain, please.”
“I just think it’s unrealistic for there to be so much talking, let alone the fact that the first time they do it it’s in a public place.”
“Too much talking?”
“Yeah.” she scans over the document. “You know, give me your cock, oh you feel so good, harder, harder, you’re so big, fuck me harder big boy.”
“Have you even had good sex?” I ask incredulously.
She flinches. “Of course I have. And it’s none of your business.”
“We’re writing about sex. It’s completely my business. I’m not letting you interject your edits based on your personal experiences about sex because believe me, if the sex is good, you’re moaning my name.”
She raises her chin. “Maybe all those girls were faking it.”
Oh, brilliant.
“Excuse me?” I say, hands pressed against the table, nearly getting out of my chair. “You have no idea. I pride myself in giving a girl as many bloody orgasms as she can handle.”
“Bloody orgasms don’t sound like fun,” she jokes softly.
“They can be if you’re into knife play,” I tell her, even though that’s not exactly what I meant. Still, she scrunches up her nose. “Don’t knock it until you try it, but that’s neither here nor there. When you were with Alan, he must have made you come at least a few times.”
If he didn’t, I feel like finding the guy and showing him a thing or two for wasting four years of her life.
“Yeah,” she says flatly.
“And in the middle of that orgasm, didn’t you want to yell a few things?”
“Sometimes.”
“And why didn’t you?”
She looks at her nails as if they’re suddenly fascinating. “It didn’t seem right. It was…too intimate. I would have felt dumb. He didn’t like any of that stuff.”
The plot thickens. “Any of what stuff?”
“Sex that didn’t involve the missionary position or the bed.”
My mouth drops open. My brain and penis can’t compute this. “I feel so sorry for you.”
We must remedy this.
She glares at me. “It’s not like I didn’t want to do it. I did. And he did try it. Most of it. But it always went back to the same old.”
I knew it. She’s a nerd on the streets and a freak in the sheets.
“I don’t mean to brag,” I tell her in all seriousness. “But you do realize that I could give you an orgasm in thirty seconds.”
Her eyes widen. I can’t tell if she’s horrified or intrigued. “I don’t believe you and I don’t want you to try.”
She’s not getting it. I frown, trying to explain. “If you’re having good sex and it’s with someone you’re comfortable with, you won’t worry about holding back. You’ll cry out all the nonsense you want, you’ll make noises like a pig and scream like you’re on fire because you truly can’t have a good orgasm unless you’re letting go on all accounts.” I lean back in my chair and study her, running my fingers along my jaw. “I would venture that every time you came with your ex, you were only experiencing half of what you should have been. How is it with your vibrators?”
I expect her to tell me to fuck off, that I’m getting too personal but to my surprise she gives me a small smile. “It’s better. But I do have a roommate with exceptionally good hearing.” She clears her throat. “Anyway, so I guess I’m wrong. The heroine can make all the noise she wants.”
“And have first time sex in public.”
“I don’t know…”
“Believe me, when you finally get a chance to fuck, you don’t care where it is. That’s why I always have a condom in my pocket. And the more public the sex, the sneakier you have to be, the hotter it is.”
“But in the book you would never get caught.”
“You don’t always get caught in real life too.”
I can see she wants to ask me where I’ve done it but she loses her nerve. “Okay.” She looks back to the document. “I accept defeat.”
But I don’t want her to. I want to prove to her I’m right and not have her take my word.
Is there a non-creepy way to show her just how amazing good sex can feel? I’m thinking not.
Or…maybe there is.
A B O U T T H E A U T H O R:
Karina Halle is a former travel writer and music journalist and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of The Pact, Racing the Sun, Sins & Needles and over 25 other wild and romantic reads. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband and her rescue pup, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.
Halle is represented by the Waxman Leavell Agency and is both self-published and published by Simon & Schuster and Hachette in North America and in the UK.
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