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Showing posts with label Lorelie Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lorelie Brown. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Review: "Wayward One" by Lorelie Brown
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Wayward One
by: Lorelie Brown
Publishing Date: 2/5/13
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Genre: Historical Romance
Source: Provided by Author
Description:
He’ll protect her with every vicious bone in his body.
During her ten years at the prestigious Waywroth Academy, Sera Miller clung to a strict code of propriety to shield herself from rumors that she isn’t an orphan at all. She’s a bastard. Now she wishes she had never allowed her friends to talk her into snooping into the mysterious source of her tuition.
Her benefactor isn’t the unknown father she dreamed of one day meeting, but Fletcher Thomas—underworld tycoon, gambling den owner, and a man so dangerously mesmerizing that he could spark the scandal Sera has worked so hard to avoid.
Fletcher is only two steps away from leaving the life of crime he inherited from his father. First he plans to join an aboveboard railroad consortium, then claim the one thing his ill-gotten gains have kept safe all these years—Sera.
With every wicked caress, Sera fights harder to remember society’s rules and reject the painful memories his touch resurrects. Accepting Fletcher’s love means accepting her past—a risk too great for a woman who has always lived in the shadows. No matter how safe she feels in his arms.
Warning: This book contains a do-gooder heroine, an accidentally charming hero with tendencies toward caveman-itis, inappropriate household décor and fabulous sex against a wall.
My Review:
I seriously want to gush over the cover for a minute before I go into my review.
The cover alone had me sold on reading this book. I love the colors chosen for the cover and how the cover models are placed....and the dress of course is GORGEOUS!!!
Sera Miller had a very rough life when she was younger and when her mother passed away, she went off to Waywroth Academy where she learned how to become a very proper woman and to keep herself from being disgraced from society. She never knew who took care of the expense of going to the Academy and when she finds who the person is that helped her...she is more in shock than ever.
Digger, otherwise known as Fletcher Thomas now has always felt compelled to protect and look after Sera. He has known for awhile and all he wants is for her to be happy and be loved. He knows he did bad things when he was younger, but he's trying to make up for it.
He wants to help Sera further than giving money for her to attend school and now he wants her to help him be accepted into society as well.
When Sera decides to help she is thrown into a world where she's not used to and a world where she wanted to avoid at all cost. Fletcher keeps being a very difficult man to be with and she cannot help, but start to really have feelings for him.
She's even being threaten in Fletcher's home to leave, but she has no idea who the culprit is.
It's going to be very difficult for Sera to keep herself proper around the handsome Fletcher, especially when he tends to be there for her whenever she needs him the most.
Lorelei Brown gives you a historical romance that has a lot of angst, romance, and sweetness.
She gives you two characters that you will rooting to get together because they are made for each other. They have known each other for awhile and it also helps when you have the sexy Fletcher trying everything to let Sera know he loves her and then Sera trying to fight her feelings, but she just cannot after so long. It's inevitable. =)
Fletcher is definitely a character who I adore a lot of in the story. He had his bad ways, but when he was around Sera, he was different. He stole my heart and when the steaminess happen between him and Sera....yeah...he kind of stole my heart more.
Sera got on my nerves during certain parts of the book, especially towards the ending. She kind of overreacted over something and I felt bad for poor Fletcher. Although, Sera did have qualities I loved about her. She could be difficult at times because she was all about not being snubbed by society...but she did put Fletcher in his place several times in the book when he truly needed someone to.
Overall this book definitely was a very enjoyable and sexy book from the very talented Lorelei Brown, who readers know her as Katie Porter. I had a hard time in certain parts, but other times I had to keep turning the page on my iPad. I am a sucker for a historical romance book though because I love when a author can make me feel like I am back in time and that is what Lorelei Brown did.
I look forward to reading more of Lorelei Brown's books in the very near future.
I give "Wayward One" 4 full moons and highly recommend it to historical romance readers out there.
I received a complimentary copy of the book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Blog Tour: Inside Bet by Katie Porter (Guest Post/Giveaway)
Go Crazy for a Sharp-Dressed Man
By Katie Porter
(Confession: I wanted to be the ordinary shop girl who got a
make-over by the cool ZZ Top chicks in the video for “Legs.”
Could those clothes be any cooler? Could the sentiment that a make-over snags a
man be less feminist? Don’t care. I wanted those little anklets over tights.)
Anyway, yes, that little aside was brought to you by the title
of this post, which was inspired by ZZ Top’s famous “Sharp-Dressed Man.”
At least there, it’s the guy who gets the make-over!
Look around your office or at the me you pass walking down the
street. Do any of them catch your eye in a positive
way because of how they dress? Likely not. But the sexual effect of a man
dressed to the nines is undeniable. In fact, studies have been done on women
and their reaction to how men dress. Show a male model dressed in a janitor’s
uniform, and few neural signs of attraction fire up in the female brain. Show
her the same man decked out in a three-piece suit? That unconscious chemistry
goes crazy.
Dressing well says confidence, style, success, power—and those
things generally call to the secret need (and biological imperative) most women
have to be taken care of.
It can also say conceited asshole, but you take the good with
the bad.
Jon from Inside Bet is just such a man. He comes from money. Lots
of money. Thus he wears five thousand dollar suit like a second skin, or as
Vesper said to Bond in Casino Royale,
“Naturally you think
human beings dress like that.”
Aside from power and money, a man who dresses well is
intriguing. What would it mean, on an intimacy scale, to see him wears jeans
and a t-shirt around the house? To go barefoot? To wake up first thing in the
morning, looking the complete opposite of a man of empire? Aside from the need
for security, we often feel the need to be so singularly important to a lover
that these little intimacies are revealed.
Consider when Heather Morris, the heroine of Inside Bet, sees Mr. Three-Piece Suit,
Jon Carlisle, wearing “ordinary” clothes. Oh, and one additional piece of
clothing that brings home the fact he’s more than a million dollar trust fund
baby:
Dressed in a black T-shirt and
jeans, he actually looked his age. Young. Relaxed. Less intimidating. Less like
a well-groomed cat on the prowl. Less in control of the world and his place in
it. This version of Jon was a little closer to real, and a hell of a lot
scarier.
She knew his suits and his suave
bearing. She had no idea how to handle him being ordinary. His version of
ordinary was magical. Same sharp jaw, sarcastic mouth and dark, dark eyes. The
glare from the light above their table added silver tips to the ends of his
buzzed hair. Shoulders and arms, all shown to perfection by that simple
T-shirt.
And the flight jacket. Holy
Christ, she hadn’t been prepared for that at all. Aside from the war stories
Leah and Dash had told at the club, she had proceeded with Jon’s military
service as mere background knowledge. He was so different from the servicemen
she’d known growing up— her dad’s men, or the guys she’d eventually made her
hobby. No way was her pretty flyboy of that same ilk, ready to fight and die
for his country.
But he was.
Stories about Jon had chipped
through that artificial barrier. Seeing him in his flight jacket when he’d
walked into the diner— that had crumbled them altogether. She glanced at where
he’d hung it across the back of the booth. The man in the three-piece suit was
the slick nighttime version of this genuine fighter pilot.
So the sharp-dressed man? Oh, my oh my, if you thought the suit
looked good, you should see the man underneath—with all that implies.
Up next for Katie Porter, the co-writing team of Carrie Lofty
and Lorelie Brown:
Now that both RT BookReviews 4½ Star Top Picks DOUBLE DOWN and INSIDE BET
have been released, we're looking forward to the September 25th
arrival of HOLD 'EM,
featuring wild child Leah and a surprising reunion with a fellow pilot. The
final two installments of the "Vegas Top Guns" series will follow in 2013.
November brings the
m/m Christmas-themed CAME UPON AMIDNIGHT CLEAR,
and in January, LEAD AND FOLLOW will launch
the five-part “Club Devant” series of erotic multi-partner romances set in a
hot New York City burlesque club.
Where to find us:
http://KatiePorterBooks.com
Twitter: @MsKatiePorter
Or individually: @carrielofty and @LorelieBrown
We'd like to give away a copy of DOUBLE DOWN or INSIDE BET
(winner's choice) in any format. Just answer the question: Who’s your favorite
sharp-dressed man? Let’s see if we get any replies that don’t involve James
Bond *g*
Thanks again to Book Lovin’ Mamas for featuring Katie Porter and
Inside Bet!
Giveaway
To enter for a chance to win the copy of Double Down or Inside Bet (winner's choice) please leave a comment below, with your email included, and answer Katie's question. This contest will last for 5 days and end at 11:59PM on Sept. 6. (This giveaway is for everyone)
You can find my review of Inside Bet HERE. Review for Double Down is coming soon. :) Thanks so much for being here today Katie! I LOVED these two books and I'm so excited for the next one.
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