Showing posts with label romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romance. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Review: Enamor (Heart of Stones #3) by Veronica Larsen

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GENRE: NEW ADULT, ROMANCE
PUBLICATION DATE: NOVEMBER 19TH, 2015

SUMMARY:
He’s infuriating on purpose.
She’s too irresistible when she hates him.

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The first step in solving a problem is recognizing there’s one to begin with. Here’s mine. My new roommate is a conceited, womanizing jerk. He pushes my buttons and drives me so crazy I want to strangle him daily. 
There’s a million reasons why I should stay far away from him, the most obvious of which being that I hate him with the fire of a thousand suns. 
Except that I don’t hate him. 
I sometimes wonder if this back-and-forth between us is all just pretend. All part of a diversion, a line of defense against the heat we generate whenever we are near each other. 
It's a reckless game we're playing, treading the edge of an attraction so intense it might as well be a grenade.


REVIEW:
"Because, together, we're bulletproof" 
This was a surprising and heartwarming read. I didn't think I'd love it more than the other books by Veronica Larsen because I really loved the last one (Entice). I didn't know much aboutEnamor, I didn't even read the summary, I just knew that it's by Veronica Larsen and that I really enjoyed her previous works. Again, out of all the three this is by far my favourite.

Julia Castillo had a pretty bad time with her ex and she wants to forget, move on and escape her past. She moves into this house and met her roommate Ava, but what Ava forgot to tell her is that their other roommate (Giles), Ava's cousin, is a guy whom Julia already met before and didn't really like. 

The beginning was really funny. There was the two main characters playing pranks on each other. Obviously, they'll end up falling in love with one another, but even though it was kind of predictable, they were still a lot of small details that surprised me. 

One of the things I really love about this book is that Giles is very honest about what he wants from Julia. He wants to get into her pants and he's not afraid to admit it (which was really funny by the way). Julia is not the weak character I thought she was. I liked how she acts around Giles and how both of them treat each other. I like how the author doesn't focus a lot about sex, but focuses more on the characters' problems and on how their (Giles and Julia) relationship develops. 

There's a lot to say, a lot of things I really enjoyed and loved, but I don't want you to know all of the details. I think you'll really enjoy it more if you don't know a lot of things about it. 

Veronica Larsen's books keep getting better and better. I really enjoyed Entangled, then I read Entice and that was even better than the first book she wrote and now this. Enamor, just wow.

I highly recommend it. Enamor is better than a lot of best-selling romance books I've read. It's always nice to explore underrated books. Believe me, you won't regret giving this book a try. 

Received an ARC from the author in exchange for my honest opinion.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
She wrote two other amazing books and I had a chance to review both of them. They are called Entangle and Entice. 

Thursday, July 16, 2015

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Friday, May 1, 2015

Entice (Heart of Stone #2) by Veronica Larsen

Genre: Romance
Publication date: May 25th, 2015
Read: May 2015
Rating: 5/5

Summary:
Coming soon!
A story of reconciling the past with the present in order to glean new beginnings. Entice is a sexy, humorous, second-chance love story. 


Turns out I’ve been faking being an adult. 
My job? My apartment? The pretty life I've built? 

Let's just say I've made some mistakes.

I'm knee-deep in the mess I've made when I find him. Tall, dark-haired, and rough around the edges. The boy I never noticed is all grown up, in all the right ways. And he's not about to let me forget it. 

He can try to pretend he's immune to our attraction. I'm trained in the art of persuasion and I love a challenge.

But how can he know the answers to questions I haven't thought to ask? I’ve been putting out fires, fighting like crazy to get my life back on track. And this man? He acts like he knows who's holding the match. 

Maybe there's no such thing as mistakes. 
What if it's all just sabotage?


Entice can be read as a standalone, but contains major spoilers to Entangle.


My review:

Received an ARC of this book from the author herself.

This book was two times better than the first book! Don’t get me wrong, I loved the first book, but I enjoyed Emily’s story even more.

This is probably one of the books  I’ve read in the “romance” genre where  the two main characters (man and woman) saw each other again after years of being apart and they’re not obsessed with each other.

For example, it wasn’t like “I never stopped loving her, she’s the only woman I’ve ever loved, I can’t live without her…” and the girl would be like, “He’s the most beautiful person I ever saw, I’m nothing without him.” I’m probably exaggerating, but you know what I mean.

 It wasn’t cheesy, which was AWESOME and refreshing. They say the right things at the right time. There are romance novels that are really unrealistic, but I try to not pay attention very much and just focus more on the story instead of the couple’s sweet/romantic dialogs. I’m getting tired of men who are playboys in the beginning and suddenly they see this beautiful girl and they start changing right away. That’s not very realistic and I’m starting to not like it. *oups*

Anyway, back to Entice…

“I wanted you. You were all I could think about.”

The story focuses more on Emily and Owen. I thought I would learn more about Lex’s and Emily’s mom, but nope. It doesn’t really bother me, I just thought I would get more info on their family issue.

I loved how Emily doesn’t remember Owen at first and I really enjoyed reading the parts when she started flirting with him. It was very entertaining it made me laugh a few times.

I also liked the fact that it took Owen a little while until he started to show how he really felt about Emily.

There are more things in this book that I really loved and that made me crush on Owen, but I don’t want to spoil you guys!!!

I’d like to add that you should expect to read really HOT SCENES GUYS! HOT SCENES!

HOWEVER,
Please tell me there’s another book about Emily because after reading this I was just like… “Whaaaaat? That’s it!?” Her story is far from over and if there’s more, I’ll buy it without a doubt! If not, I’m writing an ending for them because the end is just unacceptable, it can't end that way!

About the author:

My review on the first novel of the Heart of Stone companion series: Entangle






Thursday, February 26, 2015

Review: Entangle by Veronica Larsen (Hearts of Stone #1)

Genre: Romance
Publication date: December 1st, 2014
Read: February 2015
Pages: 248
Rating: 4/5

Summary:
It begins small.
His smoky blue eyes strike hers until the air between them flickers.
Her whispered suggestion blows the spark into a flame.
A guarded heart. A relentless pursuit.
An insatiable chemistry that yields to a torrid affair.

Alexis Stone 
I tried to do things the right way. I wore the big white dress and rode off with Prince Charming. Then Charming changed his mind. Now I'm left to face the truth. I haven't moved on, not because I'm not over my ex but because I've been closed off to anything new.
Enter Leo. A gorgeous, blue-eyed specimen of a man. Tenacious in a way that stirs my desires alive for the first time in years. He also happens to be my newest employee.
I have two choices, I can either edge around the intense chemistry between us or walk right through it. I've never been afraid to go after what I want, but nothing can prepare me for what's on the other side. 

[A standalone romantic drama. First book in a series of interconnected novels. Contains explicit content.]


My review:

“I guess the mind simply wants what it wants.”
Allow me to begin by stating that I truly loved this book. I was determined to finish Entangle because I had to post my review within three weeks. I was so happy because it was really easy to read and the story was very interesting.

“Because love makes you crazy. We become fools that think love, in and of itself, is enough to fix broken things, broken people.”
I loved Alexis, she was a strong, sassy and beautiful woman who was frightened of being heart broken again, that was why she didn't give in easily. I realized why she was like a bit cold and serious at times considering the fact that she was divorced and had a terrible childhood. I wasn't bothered with the way she acted before, during and after her time with Leo which was good because who would want an annoying main character right?

“Because our love will be worth baring our souls for.”
Leo was a genuinely good man. At the beginning I thought he was a player and there were going to suffer a deal of jealous ex-lady friends who will try to destroy the relationship between him and Alexis. But no. There was one, but that was it. Leo was such a patient and romantic person. He and Alexis had been perfect.

I’d like to experience more about Alexis' past. I wouldn't want flashbacks, but I’dd want to know more about what happened to her and her mother. I hope I'll know more about her family issues in the next book with her sister Emily.


Lastly, I really recommend this book to all readers who’s looking for a sexy and romantic story. This is the author's debut novel and is the first book of the Hearts of Stone series.

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