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Blog Tour, Review, Teaser, Giveaway for Wasted Heart By Nicole Reed
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Synopsis
ROCK STAR? RECOVERING ADDICT? MURDERER?
Yeah, they all hold true.
How can you explain to someone what it's like not to care? Not about yourself or the person standing next to you. I've lost that, the ability to feel and show affection.
I DO, HOWEVER, HAVE A HEART.
Sometimes, when I chase the dragon, it thunders through my head like a drum, reminding me it still beats.
It's still there.
HOLLOW. EMPTY. WASTED.
My agent says I have one more shot. A single, solitary chance to stay in the music biz, but there is one massive problem.
HER. SYN LANDRY.
My 5 Star Review
Absolutely Rock Star Awesome. Nicole Wrote Rhye's Story beautifully...
Rhye... we first met him in The Ruining Series. I loved him in that series. I am so happy that Nicole gave him his own book!!!!! I would suggest to FULLY understand this book read the first two in the Ruining series first. That way you can completely understand Rhye and why he is the way he is.
Anyone that know Nicole know that she LOVES angst, she thrives on it!!! She brings it out in her books amazingly with every word.She writes so amazingly that she has you feeling every emotion with her characters.
We all love a bad-boy rock star and with Rhye we get that and so much more.
“Who are you?”
The image in the mirror staring back at me feigns disinterest.
Rock star? Recovering addict? Murderer?
”Everyone I’ve ever cared about turned away, chose someone or something else.”
Rhye, we pick up with him 4 yrs after he is a discovered Rock Star. He made it big, but now 4 years later he feels like a wasted space person, he is lost, a tortured soul broken, and he does not feel anything anymore. He does have a heart but he does not feel he has a right to use it or to show anyone his feelings. He has one chance left with his record company to bring himself out of the whole he is in and make something of his group. If he fails they will drop him at the record label.
“The music doesn’t run through my veins like it used to. It doesn’t lead me. It doesn’t sing through my blood and bleed out through my lyrics. It doesn’t make me feel anything anymore.”
Watching Rhye in the beginning and seeing the struggles he was going through with himself broke my heart. When he decided to take the deal from the record label for someone else and not for himself it reminded me once again how much I loved Rhye and his BIG heart.
Syd, I LOVED her. She uses her music as her own therapy. She has a grief filled past. She pours her heart and soul into her lyrics and music. She gets her big break with a record label where she has to record a duet with Rhye in Nashville. Rhye who in the beginning does not care about anyone or anything. We soon see what these two mean to each other. We see first hand how one person can help a person bring themselves out of the hole they are in. Syd loves with everything she has, she is passionate, she is caring 100% and she does everything in her power to help Rhye. In the process she falls in love with him completely.
Will Syd change Rhye? Will she be able to get him to open up and realize that his heart is not wasted after all?
Some of my other favorite quotes from the book :
"I suffer greatly for my sins. I've never needed a judge or jury because I crucify myself just fine."
"His voice. God that voice. The deep, raspy tone gives me chill bumps just thinking about it. It reaches down inside and tugs at every string you possess."
“If I take you, I can’t say what you need to hear. Not because I wouldn’t mean it, but because I don’t know what it really means. Something is so fucking wrong inside of me that I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to be fixed. Even at this moment, if it was a choice between a hit of smack or you, I wish I could tell you, without another thought, that it would be you, but I can’t,”
“After spending today with you, I know you could live here forever and be content, but even now, I’m becoming jittery, needing more than the silence and the peace. I can’t fix me for you anymore than you could dirty yourself up enough for me. I don’t want to sleep with you and tell you thanks for the fuck and walk away. I know that it would shatter something inside me that really would be unfixable.”
Love.
A four letter word.
So beautiful in its spelling.
So simple in its arrangement.
So innocent in its meaning.
So fragile in its time.
So devastating in its aftermath.
I’ve fallen for him… into a million pieces. Separately, the pieces don’t make a lick of sense, but together, all my questions in the universe are answered. I feel this is where my life has been leading me. To him.
Rhye... we first met him in The Ruining Series. I loved him in that series. I am so happy that Nicole gave him his own book!!!!! I would suggest to FULLY understand this book read the first two in the Ruining series first. That way you can completely understand Rhye and why he is the way he is.
Anyone that know Nicole know that she LOVES angst, she thrives on it!!! She brings it out in her books amazingly with every word.She writes so amazingly that she has you feeling every emotion with her characters.
We all love a bad-boy rock star and with Rhye we get that and so much more.
“Who are you?”
The image in the mirror staring back at me feigns disinterest.
Rock star? Recovering addict? Murderer?
”Everyone I’ve ever cared about turned away, chose someone or something else.”
Rhye, we pick up with him 4 yrs after he is a discovered Rock Star. He made it big, but now 4 years later he feels like a wasted space person, he is lost, a tortured soul broken, and he does not feel anything anymore. He does have a heart but he does not feel he has a right to use it or to show anyone his feelings. He has one chance left with his record company to bring himself out of the whole he is in and make something of his group. If he fails they will drop him at the record label.
“The music doesn’t run through my veins like it used to. It doesn’t lead me. It doesn’t sing through my blood and bleed out through my lyrics. It doesn’t make me feel anything anymore.”
Watching Rhye in the beginning and seeing the struggles he was going through with himself broke my heart. When he decided to take the deal from the record label for someone else and not for himself it reminded me once again how much I loved Rhye and his BIG heart.
Syd, I LOVED her. She uses her music as her own therapy. She has a grief filled past. She pours her heart and soul into her lyrics and music. She gets her big break with a record label where she has to record a duet with Rhye in Nashville. Rhye who in the beginning does not care about anyone or anything. We soon see what these two mean to each other. We see first hand how one person can help a person bring themselves out of the hole they are in. Syd loves with everything she has, she is passionate, she is caring 100% and she does everything in her power to help Rhye. In the process she falls in love with him completely.
Will Syd change Rhye? Will she be able to get him to open up and realize that his heart is not wasted after all?
Some of my other favorite quotes from the book :
"I suffer greatly for my sins. I've never needed a judge or jury because I crucify myself just fine."
"His voice. God that voice. The deep, raspy tone gives me chill bumps just thinking about it. It reaches down inside and tugs at every string you possess."
“If I take you, I can’t say what you need to hear. Not because I wouldn’t mean it, but because I don’t know what it really means. Something is so fucking wrong inside of me that I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to be fixed. Even at this moment, if it was a choice between a hit of smack or you, I wish I could tell you, without another thought, that it would be you, but I can’t,”
“After spending today with you, I know you could live here forever and be content, but even now, I’m becoming jittery, needing more than the silence and the peace. I can’t fix me for you anymore than you could dirty yourself up enough for me. I don’t want to sleep with you and tell you thanks for the fuck and walk away. I know that it would shatter something inside me that really would be unfixable.”
Love.
A four letter word.
So beautiful in its spelling.
So simple in its arrangement.
So innocent in its meaning.
So fragile in its time.
So devastating in its aftermath.
I’ve fallen for him… into a million pieces. Separately, the pieces don’t make a lick of sense, but together, all my questions in the universe are answered. I feel this is where my life has been leading me. To him.
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Meet Nicole
I love angst….I thrive on it, but only the fictional kind. I adore a story that grips the reader from the beginning and doesn’t let go…EVER. I’m an avid reader who just recently discovered my love of writing. My favorite things in life include my three wild & crazy kids, Reese’s Pieces, and every genre of music. I reside in the Deep South.
Currently, I am writing a new adult/contemporary romance story that I can’t wait to share. I also plan to release Rhye’s story, Wasted Heart, in 2013.
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Blog Tour, Excerpt, Review & Giveaway for Moore To Lose By Julie A. Richman
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Release Date: September 30th 2013. Adult Contemporary Romance
Book Two in the Needing Moore Series. Adult Contemporary Romance
Continuing the fight for their happily ever after that began in Searching for Moore, Schooner Moore and Mia Silver struggle to overcome the ghosts and baggage they accumulated during their time apart.
Exploring the missing 24 years when they were separated, Moore to Lose follows Mia's journey from heartbroken teen to kickass businesswoman to her emotional reunion with Schooner and the exploration of the love that was ripped from them.
But is their love really strong enough to overcome the damage of those missing 24 years or will they continue to be ripped apart by pasts that can't be changed?
This is Book 2 in the Needing Moore Series. This is not a stand alone book. It is meant to be read after Searching for Moore.
Excerpt:
As he hardened beneath her fingers, Mia's devil smile grew wider and wider.
"You're incorrigible."
Mia looked at him with her "You didn't just figure that out now, did you?" look and he laughed.
She could feel his erection straining against his jeans and she wanted to take it out probably as much as he did. With a quick kiss on the lips, she ducked her head down the bed.
He started to protest and Mia looked up at him and put her finger to her lips, "Shhhh."
And then she did what he did not expect. She did not undo the top button of his jeans, she did not unzip his fly, she did not reach inside his jeans to pull him out and fondle him (even though she was dying to). With her teeth, Mia outlined his cock through his jeans. As she moved from base to tip at an excruciatingly slow pace, she opened her mouth so that her top teeth were on one side of his cock, her bottom teeth on the other.
The sound of his moan and the feel of his fingers in her hair, made Mia ache to have him inside of her. She nibbled the soft head of his cock through the rough fabric.
"Oh God, Mia." He reached down and pulled her on top of him so that they were laying face to face. Both panting, he took her face in his hands and pulled her lips down to his, kissing her roughly.
She could feel his cock between her legs and pressed down, "I want you," she said into his mouth, rubbing along the length of him slowly clockwise, and then lifting her mouth off of his slightly to smile, she changed the direction of her grinding to counterclockwise.
As he hardened beneath her fingers, Mia's devil smile grew wider and wider.
"You're incorrigible."
Mia looked at him with her "You didn't just figure that out now, did you?" look and he laughed.
She could feel his erection straining against his jeans and she wanted to take it out probably as much as he did. With a quick kiss on the lips, she ducked her head down the bed.
He started to protest and Mia looked up at him and put her finger to her lips, "Shhhh."
And then she did what he did not expect. She did not undo the top button of his jeans, she did not unzip his fly, she did not reach inside his jeans to pull him out and fondle him (even though she was dying to). With her teeth, Mia outlined his cock through his jeans. As she moved from base to tip at an excruciatingly slow pace, she opened her mouth so that her top teeth were on one side of his cock, her bottom teeth on the other.
The sound of his moan and the feel of his fingers in her hair, made Mia ache to have him inside of her. She nibbled the soft head of his cock through the rough fabric.
"Oh God, Mia." He reached down and pulled her on top of him so that they were laying face to face. Both panting, he took her face in his hands and pulled her lips down to his, kissing her roughly.
She could feel his cock between her legs and pressed down, "I want you," she said into his mouth, rubbing along the length of him slowly clockwise, and then lifting her mouth off of his slightly to smile, she changed the direction of her grinding to counterclockwise.
My 4 Star Review :
Moore to Lose is the second book in the Needing Moore
Series. If you have not read Searching for Moore. Then I suggest you do before
reading this one.
In searching for Moore we got to see what happened in
Schooner’s life from the time that he and Mia separated 24 years ago. We
watched them reunite and start to build a relationship together.
In this one we get to see what Mia went through with her
life for the 25 years that she and Schooner were away from each other.
This is Mia’s journey. We all knew she was one tough cookie
living the life in New York. In Moore to Lose we see what happened to Mia during
college and all her relationships until the day she saw Schooner again 24 years
later.
Mia did not have one easy journey, we witnessed her
struggles with life, trying to get over what had happened with Schooner was not
an easy task for her. We got to see how broken Mia truly was. This was one
emotional rollercoaster. We even got a
part of a real life drama that affected those in New York, which will break
your heart and have you holding your breathe through the whole situation.
Julia did an amazing Job writing this story and I cannot
wait for the conclusion of Mia and Schooner’s love story. I am glad that we got
to see things from Mia’s POV and all that she went through.
I cannot wait for Book #3 and for Mia and Schooner to finally get their HEA !!!!!!
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Attended by reality TV star wannabes and
Southern California social climbers, Schooner Moore knows the party his wife is
throwing for his forty-third birthday has little to do with him and everything
to do with her social standing in Orange County. The evening turns out to hold
more surprises than just his wife's Botoxed friends groping at his privates,
when a conversation with his old college roommate, Beau, reveals the biggest
surprise of the night.
Beau has had contact on Facebook with Mia
Silver. Just hearing her name sends Schooner into a tailspin, as he is now just
a Friend Request away from the one who got away when she disappeared without a
goodbye, leaving him wondering why she left.
A serial failure at romance, Manhattan
boutique ad agency owner, Mia, gets a blindside of her own when a Facebook
Friend Request from first love, Schooner, appears in her email. Going with her
gut reaction, Mia hits accept, propelling her past to catch up with her in a
New York minute, as a forceful Schooner is determined to understand what tore
them apart and to explore the possibility of a second chance at love.
From a 1980's Southern California college
campus and a devastating first love to present day New York City, Searching for
Moore explores how technology has eradicated the divide between our past and
our present, and asks whether you would give up everything to reconnect with
The One in a single keystroke?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author
Julie A. Richman is a native New Yorker living deep in the heart of Texas. A
creative writing major in college, reading and writing fiction has always been
a passion. Julie began her corporate career in publishing in NYC and writing
played a major role throughout her career as she created and wrote marketing,
advertising, direct mail and fundraising materials for Fortune 500
corporations, advertising agencies and non-profit organizations. She is an
award winning nature photographer plagued with insatiable wanderlust. Julie and
her husband have one son and a white German Shepherd named Juneau.
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Blog Tour, Excerpts, Review , & Giveaway for Hell's Knights and Heaven's Sinners by Bella Jewel
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Hell’s
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Heaven’s
Sinners (The MC Sinners #2)
Author: Bella Jewel
Genre: Biker Erotica
HELL’S KNIGHTS SYNOPSIS
Sex. Who really knows sex? I mean, we've all had sex, great sex
even but when you get down to the details, how many of us actually see sex for
the raw, primal act that it is?
I thought I knew sex. I've had sex. Heck, I've felt lust. Once,
I've even felt love. I thought I knew exactly what sex was.
Until I met Cade.
He's the meaning of sex.
He's a biker.
He's dangerous.
He's powerful.
He's dominant.
He wants me.
My world is about to change, for the better? I don't know. But
here's my story, I hope you're ready for it because it's not the beautiful,
heart wrenching story most people have to tell. It's passionate, forbidden,
morally incorrect and downright, fucking beautiful.
Excerpt:
“Fuckin’
love you, sugar. You know that, yeah?”
I
nod. “Cade, I know that. I’ve known that for a while now. The thing is-”
“I
want you to know how much.”
Stubborn
man is cutting me off at the one moment I want to tell him I love him.
“I
know how much, the thing is-”
“Sugar,
you’re fuckin’ changin’ everything I am.”
“You’re
changing everything I am too, that’s why I wanted to-”
“Sugar,
fuck,” he growls. “Do you ever stop talkin’ for five minutes?”
“I’m
trying to-”
“Sugar!”
he says, tugging my hands. “Shut the fuck up!”
“Why?”
I cry.
“Because
I’m tryin’ to fuckin’ ask you to marry me.”
My
entire world stops. I feel like I’ve been punched in the chest, but in the best
possible way. He wants to marry me? Cade Duke – big, bad biker – wants to marry
me? I feel my eyes burn with unshed
tears, as a feeling of pure joy rushes through my body.
My 4 Star Review :
That ended way to fast But it was damn GOOD !!!! "It’s a shitty feeling to have no one in the world that wants to love you. Not one, single person."
This is the story of Cade and Addison. Addison had a crappy life growing up, her mom dies and she is left with turning to a father who is the president of Hell's Knights MC Club, she never knew or met him. She has no choice but to go to him now for his help.
After she meets her dad, she then meets his vice-president Cade, and although their first meeting is not all it's cracked up to be Cade and Addison start to feel things for each other. “Your life was bad; I see it in your eyes. When you grin, your face is empty, and I have no doubt when you smile, your eyes won’t shine like they should. One day though, baby, I will make them shine.”
These two broken people find love within each other and when Addison's past comes after her Cade is there to protect her and make sure nothing bad happens to her.
"Cade fits me. There’s just something about him that fits. He molds into me in a way no one has before. It both frightens me and thrills me."
For a debut Novel Bella did a fantastic job with this one. It was full of Hot Alpha Biker Men, hot sex scenes,( that will leave you saying OMG ). The only thing I disliked about it was I felt it was kind of rushed. I wanted more of Addison and Cade
That ended way to fast But it was damn GOOD !!!! "It’s a shitty feeling to have no one in the world that wants to love you. Not one, single person."
This is the story of Cade and Addison. Addison had a crappy life growing up, her mom dies and she is left with turning to a father who is the president of Hell's Knights MC Club, she never knew or met him. She has no choice but to go to him now for his help.
After she meets her dad, she then meets his vice-president Cade, and although their first meeting is not all it's cracked up to be Cade and Addison start to feel things for each other. “Your life was bad; I see it in your eyes. When you grin, your face is empty, and I have no doubt when you smile, your eyes won’t shine like they should. One day though, baby, I will make them shine.”
These two broken people find love within each other and when Addison's past comes after her Cade is there to protect her and make sure nothing bad happens to her.
"Cade fits me. There’s just something about him that fits. He molds into me in a way no one has before. It both frightens me and thrills me."
For a debut Novel Bella did a fantastic job with this one. It was full of Hot Alpha Biker Men, hot sex scenes,( that will leave you saying OMG ). The only thing I disliked about it was I felt it was kind of rushed. I wanted more of Addison and Cade
"Who knew a group of bikers really could be my happy ending?"
HEAVEN’S SINNERS SYNOPSIS
Spike knows tragedy, he knows that feelings are better left
hidden. He refuses to put his heart out there again, it's a pain he's not
willing to ever let himself feel. He's got a mission. He's got a goal. Nothing
is going to get in his way. He will seek his revenge.
But then there's Ciara, the sister of his deceased wife. She's
beautiful and damned determined to throw herself into his life in hopes they
can reform an old friendship, but Spike won't hear of it, and Ciara refuses to
give up.
Who will win the battle of wills?
Excerpt:
“No,
I guess I didn’t. I wanted to, but then Cheyenne came in and you took a liking
to her, so I didn’t bother.”
“I
went to her, and I fell in love with her, but she wasn’t what I wanted for
myself, Tomcat. I wanted you, but you wouldn’t give me a God damned inch.”
“You
didn’t think of telling me?” I snap, crossing my arms. “You didn’t think that
maybe you should have said something before you just ran off with Cheyenne?”
“What
was the fuckin’ point? You couldn’t fuckin’ see it. I tried, fuck knows I
tried, and yet you didn’t see me. I was sick of tryin’. Cheyenne threw herself
on me, and I thought what the fuckin’ heck?”
I
feel my body begin to shake. “I didn’t see it, Spike. It wasn’t because I
didn’t want to, it was because I was so scared I would ruin everything if you
knew how I felt.”
“Fuck,
Ciara, I was constant with you. I picked you up every mother fuckin’ day, I
spent every mother fuckin’ weekend with you, I was there all the time.”
“I
know that!” I cry. “God, Spike, I know you were ok? I didn’t see it. I was
young and I didn’t fucking see it. Then she came along and I stopped believing
there was a chance. It was not just on me, or you, it was on us both. We both
walked away without telling each other there was so much more to it. I know
what I gave up, I know I passed you over to her, and I regret it every day.”
“I
don’t regret it, Tomcat. I loved Cheyenne, and I don’t regret marrying her…bu-”
I
get to my feet, hurt. His words are something I already knew, but it’s the way
he said them. He grips my arm before I can spin away, and yanks me back down. I
land harshly, and slap his hand away but his grip is too strong, and I can’t
get my hand out of his.
“One
fucking moment,” I spit. “One fucking moment can’t go by without her being
better. One fucking moment, I’d like to mean a tiny bit more than her. You
can’t fucking see it, can you? You walk around with those stupid fucking rose
colored glasses on, unable to see anything she did. I never doubted you loved
her Spike, I knew you did. I saw it. I lived it. But for one fucking moment I
wish it was me.”
I
jerk my hand out of his grip, and spin, getting to my feet and turning to walk
off.
“It
was you,” he yells, stopping me in my tracks. “I don’t regret her, Ciara. Not
for a fuckin’ second, I don’t regret lovin’ her, I don’t regret marryin’ her.
Cheyenne changed my life, she changed a part of me, but you, Ciara, were the
one who opened my heart. You were the first one to claim it, and you were the
one who fuckin’ tore it out of my chest the day you ran off. You never gave me
a mother fuckin’ chance to explain myself to you. I woke up after we slept
together, and you were gone. Couldn’t fuckin find you. It was you who took my
heart, and you who fuckin’ broke it. She picked the pieces up when I couldn’t
find you, and so I stopped fighting. Cheyenne might have had me in the end,
Tomcat, but my heart was always yours first.”
My 4 Star Review:
I would recommend if you have not read Hell's Knight which is the first in this series, you need to before reading this one to better understand Spike. With that being said this will contain spoilers as I am going to reference the first book.
This is the Story of Ciara and Spike.
Spike is dealing with the death of his wife ( which she died in a car accident while he and Cade where being chased) and since her death he is still feeling guilty about it and living life while keeping everyone closed off to himself. He has closed himself off to the thought of love and anything having to do with it.
Ciara is Spike's deceased wife's sister. Yeahh so his sister In law if you will. She was always second best to everything when it came to her sister She had been Spikes best friend and had fallen in love with him when she was a teenager, but as everything else in Ciara's life her sister snuck in and took Spike from her. She never told Spike that she loved him and he never told her that he loved her.
“I want to save you. I want that friend that I know is in there. I can’t walk away, Spike. I hate you, and yet I can’t walk away.”
So here we are years later and Ciara is finally going after what she wants and she will stop at nothing until she gets Spike to realize he does deserve love and he does deserve to be with her. She is going to get him to work through his guilt from her sister's death as well.
“It was you who took my heart, and you who fuckin’ broke it. She picked the pieces up when I couldn’t find you, and so I stopped fighting. Cheyenne might have had me in the end, Tom Cat, but my heart was always yours first.”
I thought this book was better then the first one, the steam factor in this one was great. The characters where great ...
I can't wait for Jackson's book and I would LOVE to see Muff get his own book hahahah
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bella Jewel is an Aussie girl through and through. She spent her
life in Western Australia, growing up in many different areas of the state. She
now currently lives in Perth with her husband, children and mass amounts of
pets. She's crazy, fun, outgoing and friendly. Writing is her passion, she
started at the young age of 18 but finally got the courage up to publish, and
her first novel Hell's Knights will be released in August 2013.
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