BLOG TOUR: Slow and Steady by Kendall Ryan 5 STAR REVIEW

When Greyson Archer tosses a twenty on the stage of a strip club, the last thing he expects to see are the haunted green eyes staring back at him. Finley should be home raising her infant daughter and baking cookies, not tucking singles into her G-string and giving lap dances.

Greyson can't deny that he'd like his own private show, but there's not a chance in hell of that happening. The last time the former Navy SEAL saw her she was dressed in black, holding a folded flag and sobbing that it was all his fault... and he agreed with every single word. He couldn't do anything to help her then, but he can now.

Finley deserves better than this dingy club, and when an obsessed customer crosses the line, Greyson leads the rescue and will do whatever it takes to make amends for their broken past.

He never expected to want to settle down, but with Finley, everything is different. For the first time ever, he can breathe. But Greyson will have to fight for what he wants in order to keep the woman with the green eyes he's dreamed about so often.

Slow & Steady is book 2 in the Alphas Undone series, but can be read as a standalone novel, as it features a new couple.

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Kendall Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance novels, including Hard to Love, Unravel Me, Resisting Her and When I Break.

She's a sassy, yet polite Midwestern girl with a deep love of books, and a slight addiction to lipgloss. She lives in Minneapolis with her adorable husband and two baby sons, and enjoys hiking, being active, and reading.

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EXCERPT:

It was nine o’clock on a Saturday night and I was totally out of my fucking element. A bottle of red wine tucked under one arm. A bouquet of wild flowers in the other. A condom tucked into my wallet, just in case. I was in foreign territory, and my entire body knew it – tense shoulders, my heart beating like a drum, and arousal barely contained beneath the surface.

Finley was standing at the doorway, watching me with a confused expression.

She looked gorgeous, makeup free, pink-painted toes, hair mussed and loose. Little cotton pajama shorts and a tank top that hugged her lush breasts.

“Maple’s not here.” She said the words, but she knew as well as I did I wasn’t here for Maple.

“I know that.” My voice was sure and confident.

“Then why are you … oh.” Finley shifted her weight, her eyes dropping from mine as she saw the wine and flowers. She could read it all, plain as day. I knew she could see my intentions, my uncertainty, and underneath it all, my desire. Maybe it was the desire to fix everything I’d broken, or maybe it was just my desire for her as a man desires a woman.

Normally when I felt that primal urge for sex, I headed to West’s bar. I’d pick out a woman for the night. Share a few drinks with her, a few laughs. Later, we’d head back to my place and fuck until dawn. And that was it. I’d be set for a few months.

This … with the courting and the nerves … it was nothing like my standard operating procedure.

I’d never felt so stripped bare and vulnerable. Never put myself out there so completely with a woman before. But then again, Finley was unlike any woman I'd ever met.

And she was still just standing there. “Can I come inside?” I asked, heart in my throat.

She didn't say anything. But she opened the door wider.

With Nolan’s words ringing in my ears, I stepped over the threshold, sure that whatever happened tonight had the power to heal us both.

5 STAR REVIEW by Shanean 

I remember the first book I ever picked up by Kendall Ryan, Resisting Her.  I was hooked before I even started reading it just by seeing a small blurb in another book.  Kendall never disappoints me and I always know I will be greatly satisfied not only with her books, but also with the characters in them.  

So when I opened up Slow and Steady I wasn't surprised how fast I was hooked.  Finley and Greyson are both strong willed stubborn people.  Both have faced a great loss, have regrets and feel the guilt of not doing what could or should have been done.  Both have a hard time with letting go of the past and both know deep down that the need they have for each other can only be fought off for so long.  

Neither of these character are perfect, but both are perfectly flawed.  Finley pushes so hard to keep Greyson out of her life but he is always there when she needs him most.  Although she is determined to make it on her own (love this about her) she finally lets down a few walls and leans on Greyson for help.  This is where the story really picks up.  And just when you think everything is okay it's not.  Kendall Ryan throws in some quick heart pounding moments just to keep you on your toes.  

Although this felt like a quick read for me it was perfect for a weekend of relaxing with a hot cup of tea and two amazing characters ready to fall in love.  I would absolutely read it again and recommend anyone looking for a NOT so "Slow and Steady" read to pick this one up and indulge yourself.  

Review ~ Hold On to Me by Lucia Franco ~ JMAC

John Jackson. 

He’s a sweet talking Georgia boy, rough around the edges with an irresistible smile. John sets his sights on the new girl, determined to show her what his small town is about. But she isn’t as accepting as he thought and she rejects him at every turn.

The beauty and boldness of Alyssa Winters stirs John’s blood. She quickly works her way under his skin and becomes a constant in his life – his best friend, his other half. As the attraction between the two friends grows, John wants more. 

She pushes, he pulls. 

When one reckless night of fun wreaks havoc on John, Alyssa risks it all to ease his pain, giving him the one thing he desires most...her. But John’s sadness runs too deep, the damage, irreparable.

He runs, she falls.

John must work to prove himself. Despite everything, Alyssa is the one person he doesn't want to live without. The stakes are high, and he’s willing to bet it all. Even if it means he’s left to suffer alone. 

*JMAC'S REVIEW*

I had to give myself a little over a week to process this book.  Goodness, I’m still not positive my review will really do justice to how much I loved this book.

Alyssa has to be one of my favorite heroines.  Like if I could ever bring a character to life to be her best friend, Alyssa is my pick!  She spoke her mind without a worry of the consequences.  Which is honestly my favorite thing, probably because I’m the same way.  Because of moving around so much she was super skeptical about getting close to anyone when she first arrived in South Fork.  Alyssa quickly became friends with John, Jace, and Ford. 

Gosh I fell hard for these 3 boys.  Like really really hard.  Of course I had no idea going into the story what would come of it.  I totally thought it was going to be a cutesy summer romance, god do I love those.  Honestly I don’t think anything could have prepared me for what actually happened in this book.  Like one second I’m laughing at the banter between Alyssa and the boys, and the next thing I know I’m crying so hard I can seriously feel my heart ripping apart.  Yes, this book RIPPED MY HEART APART.  Totally shredded it to pieces.  And I never expected it. 

Alyssa and John’s relationship is something I don’t think I could ever forget.  It was so raw, so real.  Almost too real.  The situations they are faced with are just, god I couldn’t even imagine.   There were times I wanted to punch Johnny and tell him to wake the hell up.  Then there were times I wanted to slap Alyssa and tell her to open her freaking eyes.  But when it was all said and done, I understood their feelings.  I understood why they each did what they did. 

I honestly couldn’t tell you who I felt worse for.  Both John and Alyssa were put through things that I wouldn’t ever, couldn’t ever imagine happening or going through.  I wanted to jump in this book and just comfort the both of them, for extremely different reasons.

There were many points in this book where I wanted to message the author and tell her how horrible she is for doing this to them.  For making me witness this type of pain.  I can’t even explain how torn I was while reading.  Lucia has a way with words.  I was hooked from start to finish.  This story is not what it seems.  It is SO MUCH MORE. 

Hold On to Me is the story of love, loss, and finding love all over again.  It’s one of those things where you think it can’t possibly get worse, like there’s no way, then BAM.  Hold On to Me is easily one of my favorite reads of 2015.  I felt every emotion Lucia poured into her words, and I loved every second of it. 

Trust me when I say this review doesn’t even do this book justice. It’s a special book that I feel everyone needs to read.  It was so good. I can’t stop saying how good it was.  Like really really good… Please do yourselves a favor and read this book ASAP... I promise you won’t be disappointed.

Lucia, you did it again.  You made me fall hard for another book.  Thank you for John and Alyssa’s book.  Words can’t even explain how much I loved this story!

<3 JMAC

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Lucia Franco lives in South Florida with her husband and two boys. When she's not hard at work on her next novel, you can find her relaxing with her toes in the sand at a nearby beach.

RDB & REVIEW ~ Let It Be Me by Barbara Speak ~ JMAC

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TITLE: Let It Be Me

AUTHOR: Barbara Speak

COVER MODEL: Mac Robinson & Alexandra Jones

RELEASE DAY: June 16^th, 2015

"I love a book that can keep me guessing! With twists and turns you won't see coming this is a must read for 2015!"

#1 NYT Best Selling Author Rachel Van Dyken

 

Arianna Dubray is nothing like the girl she left in Baltimore. Once a Prada shoe wearing, Michael Kors bag carrying, on top of the world seventeen-year-old girl, Arianna knew that her life would never be the same when she got out of the car in middle-of-nowhere Montana.

Canyon Michaels is the keeper of his own dark secrets. Plagued by his family name, he's forced to prove the town wrong and make it on his own.

The last thing Arianna needs is a reason to stay, but with every passing day the decision to leave becomes harder. Once their paths cross nothing can tear them apart, other than the secrets that start to surface and the nightmares that soon become their reality.

 

 

 

 

JMAC'S REVIEW

 

 

 

I really enjoyed Let it be Me.  Number one we all know I love anything that has to do with a cowboy/ southern romance.  I fell in love with Barbra’s writing when I read her Flawless series.  I knew going into Let it be Me, it was going to be nothing short of fabulous, and I was right.

Both Ari and Canyon had their own secrets.  Secrets that they didn’t want to share.  But what started out as friends, turns into something much more than that, no matter how hard they try to fight it. 

I fell in love with Canyon.  God he’s perfect.  OH, and he’s a bull rider!!!

Canyon has had it rough, and it’s like never ending for him.  Arianna was dealt a crap hand.  With a mother who isn’t even there, and a stepfather who hates her, the only thing she has to live for is her baby sister.  Arianna lives dealing with so much abuse it was hard to get through at times.  Once she started giving in to what her and Canyon could have, it was beautiful. 

Let me tell you, this book has you guessing the wholeeeee time.  I swear I kept thinking I was guessing the plot, and nope, I did not see what was coming at all.  When I finished the book I definitely wanted more.  I just loved these characters so much I needed more from them.  I wasn’t ready for their story to be over.

Barbara you did an amazing job on Let it be Me, I recommend it to everyone.  It was a romance suspenseful book that was just a really great read. Do yourself a favor and one click this book.

 

 

 

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The truck was just as ugly the second time I had seen it as it was the first. Nothing was endearing or cute about it. He must have bought it off an elderly farmer who couldn't drive anymore because no one would be selling this beast in a car lot that's for sure. Opening the door, the same wave of stale cigarette smoke hit me. This time I slid myself over to the passenger side and rolled down the window doing the same on my side after I was done. The cracking noise could still be heard when I pulled the door closed too.

"I can't say I expected you to change while I was in class but it sure would have been nice."

I put the key in the ignition and turned it over only to hear a click and then nothing.

"NO, NO, NO! Please don't do this to me!"

Four more attempts with the same result. Nothing.

"SHIT!"

I pulled out my phone to call for someone to get me but that someone didn't exist. He would rather me never come back. My mother wouldn't dare go against his wishes and Shelby obviously can't drive.

Grabbing my purse and backpack I started doing the only thing I could, I walked. I tried to find positive in a negative situation but there really wasn't one. My feet hurt, I was thirsty and if one more person drove by staring at me without even offering me a ride I was going to flip out. I thought country people were supposed to be nice. Isn't that what everyone says? Well, they're wrong or there aren't any in Highgrove, Montana.

My cell phone died sometime around four-thirty. Well, that was the last time I checked it and around ten minutes later it was dead. I had been walking for over an hour and a half and saw a total of two cars.

"WHAT THE HELL HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS?" I screamed it at the top of my lungs hoping God would just finish the job and take me out of my misery.

All of a sudden, I heard the engine of a car coming from behind me. This was it. My final hope for humanity to restore itself. It got closer. I could feel the wind change and the vibration within it.

"Please, please be someone nice enough to give me a ride or someone crazy enough to off me ‘cause I can't take this anymore."

I turned around just as the truck approached me praying for a miracle but sure enough the prick kept his foot on the pedal.

"That's fucking it!"

I grabbed a handful of rocks from the side of the road and threw them right at that pretty truck he was driving.

"Have that, asshole!"

The brake lights came on just as the clang from the rocks started hitting the tailgate. The tires screamed against the blacktop while the back end kicked to the side from stopping so fast. My eyes practically bulged out of my head when the driver side door flew open.

"OH, SHIT."

And oh shit was mild compared to what I would have said if I had known who the fury coming at me was before I decided to throw rocks at his truck. How could I not have thought it was him? I had seen that truck before.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

"ME? YOU’RE THE ASSHOLE THAT WOULDN'T EVEN STOP FOR A POOR GIRL WALKING DOWN A FREAKING ENDLESS ROAD!"

"WHY WOULD I?"

"UGH!"

I can't believe I did it. Never in a million years would I have ever even thought to do something like this but I reached down in my rage, grabbed a handful of rocks again and threw them right at his chest. Wall of muscle or not he could take that and suck on it.

EXCERPT #2

"John, is it? Well, John, let me try this again. My name is Canyon Michaels. My house is the last one you pass before you get here from town. Your daughter seemed to be desperate for someone's attention and decided her only option at the time was to throw rocks at my truck. Now, I could make you pay for it, but I think a better lesson for Ari here is to work it off."

John openly laughed. Loud. "You want her to work? Seriously? She doesn't have a clue how to do anything for herself other than screw up."

Canyon's hands began to flex into fists and the light in his eyes left. "Well, it can go my way or yours. She can work every day after school on my ranch or you can go inside and get your wallet to pay me in cash. It's up to you."

My jaw fell to the ground. As much of an ass as my step-dick was, he was also right. I didn't have a clue what to do on a farm and there was absolutely no way in hell I was shoveling crap.

"You got yourself a deal."

I didn't know which way John was going with this but regardless I was going to suffer from my actions once again. "What will it be? Work or cash?"

"Oh, she can work. I'm not paying a damn dime for this one. She's already cost us everything." He looked over at me with disdain. "Have you told your new friend here about that yet? I bet not. Well there, I gave you something to talk about while you shovel shit. Ha! This is priceless!"

My step-dick had proved what a dick he actually was as he walked back into the house laughing, leaving me to face Canyon. I couldn't. I stared at the ground while I heard the crunch of gravel under his shoes as he approached me.

The tips of his red Nike shocks were now all I could see before his finger came to rest under my chin and forced me to look up at him. The long journey up his body brought me to his black workout pants first, then the red t-shirt that clung to his body perfectly until his sharp jaw, amazing lips and finally those eyes were all I could see.

"Don't, Arianna," was all I kept repeating in my head. He's nothing but another man that can hurt you.

"Are you okay?"

Damn, why did he have to ask that? Letting my eyes fall, I thought to myself, “No, I am not okay. Did you not just hear what I deal with every day?” How could I even answer that question?

"Hey, look at me. Please?"

My eyes came back to his but I was done. Spent. I didn't want to do anything but go inside and cry myself to sleep. "Don't let him do this to you. Don't let it break you."

"You don't understand."

"I do. More than you could ever know."

I went to speak again but Canyon cut me off.

"I did this for you, you know. I saw what you have here and was trying to get you out, not make things harder. That man would never want to pay and I knew it. Now you can spend every day away from this."

"But it will never end..."

A tear slid down my face at the same time his thumb wiped it away.

"It will. Someday it will."

 

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Blog Tour ~ Losers Weepers by Nicole Williams ~ JMAC

 

 

If we didn’t know darkness, we couldn’t fully appreciate the light.
 
Garth Black’s more familiar with this concept than most people are. He hadn’t just lived in the dark for the majority of his life—he thrived in it. With a mom who’d bailed on him and a dad whose understanding of coddling started and ended with a bottle of whiskey, Garth had never been expected to rise to any sort of occasion other than following down the same dead-end paths.
 
That changed when he fell in love with Josie Gibson. After years of pulling each other closer before shoving the other way, they finally stopped shoving. Josie’s love is like nothing Garth’s ever experienced. He holds it close. He holds it sacred. He would do anything to preserve it and keep it from pollution, even if that means removing himself from the picture.
 
Garth might have been allowed a temporary furlough to bask in the light, but that pass has been revoked, and he’s been swallowed again by the dark. Will he revert to his old ways of hurting those he cares for most? Will he go back to the same destructive patterns . . . or will it be worse this time?
 
We can’t know light without first knowing dark . . . and Garth Black’s about to get acquainted with the dark in a whole new way.

 

 

*JMAC'S Review*

 

 

Gosh, I love Nicole Williams.  Losers Weepers (Lost and Found #4), is the continuation to Finders Keepers.  Garth might just be my fav ever. 

Not going to lie, this book was one helluva emotional ride.  It picks up right where Finders Keepers leaves off.  So Garth and Josie are figuring things out.  They are officially together, and everything is going well.  Until the unthinkable happens.  OMG.  When I read THAT SCENE I think a part of me died.  (You'll know what I'm talking about when you read it)  Garth's whole world changed.  He no longer felt like he was worthy of Josie, or anyone for that matter.  It was honestly sad.  My heart broke for Garth, but mostly for Josie. 

Losers Weepers leaves you feeling so much.  This book is the definition of love.  Real, gut-wrenching, beautiful, LOVE.  It's hard to not push someone away when something in your life goes terribly wrong.  In Garth's case that's exactly what happened.  But in trying to push Josie away, he wasn't realizing that he was making the decision for Josie.  And boy oh boy Josie was not having it.  She loved Garth and would love him no matter what. 

It's really hard to write this review, and I'm sure it seems rambled, but it's only because the big THING happens right in the beginning and I can't say what it is.  Therefore this review is a bit confusing. 

All you need to know is this book was AMAZING.  Everything about it was perfectly executed, but that's what you get when you read Nicole Williams books.  Do yourself a favor and read this series.  All the characters have a different story to tell, and are each as lovable as the one before.  LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SERIES HARD!!!

Nicole, you did it again.  You already know you have me as a forever fan, thank you for writing such an awesome book!!!

<3 JMAC

 

 

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I’m the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the CRASH series (HarperTeen, S&S UK), LOST & FOUND series, UP IN FLAMES (S&S UK), The EDEN TRILOGY, and a handful of others. I write stories about everyday kinds of people who find themselves in extraordinary kinds of situations. I tell love stories with happy endings because I believe in making the world a better place, and that’s one tiny way I can make it so. I’m one of those people who still believe in true love and soul mates, and would rather keep my head in the clouds any day over having my feet firmly on the ground.

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