Preppy: The Life & Death of Samuel Clearwater, Part Two (King #6) by T.M. Frazier

Preppy: The Life & Death of Samuel Clearwater, Part Two (King #6) by T.M. Frazier
SUMMARY

Preppy finds himself back in a world he once loved, but no longer recognizes. His dim smile can’t hide his inner turmoil and the people he views as family all suddenly feel like polite strangers. 

Except for one person. A girl with dark eyes and even darker hair. 
A girl who isn’t even an option. 

At least, not anymore. 

Dre can’t decide who she’s going to listen to. Her heart, her head, or her body. Because two out of those three things have her heading right back to Logan’s Beach. Closure is what she tells herself she’s seeking, but when she unlocks doors that were never meant to be opened she soon discovers that when it comes to Samuel Clearwater, closure might NEVER be an option. 

This is book six in the King Series and the second part of Preppy and Dre's story.

MY REVIEW

Preppy tries to fix himself:
"I’ll always be a bit broken" 

Dre tries to have her closure: 
“Did you find it?” Preppy asked. “Your closure?
I looked over to the dark corner and felt his eyes on me when I whispered, “Not even close.” I pressed my teeth against my lower lip. I sighed and let my head fall back against the water tower.
“Why not?” Preppy asked.
I looked up at the perfect cloudless night sky and the thousands of twinkling stars overhead. I closed my eyes tightly. “Because I found you instead.”

Obviously they haven't succeeded. 
There was no fixing.
There was no closure.

Two unconventional people sharing an unorthodox life with their weird friends who are also their chosen family.

Preppy will learn to be alive again “ALIVE. I feel fucking ALIVE.” 
and Dre will forgive him
and then she will leave him again.

Favourite scene: Samuel Clearwater sharing moonshine tequila with Diego Martinez over Grace's grave. Awesome.

Preppy: The Life & Death of Samuel Clearwater, Part One (King #5) by T.M. Frazier

Preppy: The Life & Death of Samuel Clearwater, Part One (King #5) by T.M. Frazier 

SUMMARY 

You thought Preppy was dead...you thought wrong.

Samuel Clearwater, A.K.A Preppy, likes bowties, pancakes, suspenders, good friends, good times, good drugs, and a good f*ck. 
He s worked his way out from beneath a hellish childhood and is living the life he s always imagined for himself. When he meets a girl, a junkie on the verge of ending it all, he s torn between his feelings for her and the crippling fear that she could be the one to end the life he loves. 
Andrea Dre Capulet is strung out and tired. 
Tired of living for her next fix. Tired of doing things that make her stomach turn. Tired of looking in the mirror at the reflection of the person she s become. Just when she decides to end it all, she meets a man who will change the course of both their lives forever. 
And their deaths. 
For most people, death is the end of their story. 
For Preppy and Dre, death was only the beginning."

MY REVIEW 

You thought Preppy was dead...you thought wrong.

Yes, I thought he was dead....and that's the reason I delayed reading his story for more than 3 years. I hate reading about dead men walking.
What a huge mistake! The beginning of his trilogy was heartwrenching, but also so much more. 

We finally learn everything about Mr Clearwater, his childhood, his absent mother, his abuser, what shaped him to be Preppy.

I loved this guy! Although as a typical pig-headed man does everything to drive the love of his life away.

Favourite scenes:
1. When his mother asks for his forgiveness and he manages NOT to kill her slowly and painfully. 
2. Preppy, Dre and Bear. What an unexpectedly hot scene!

Dark Needs (King 0.5) by T.M. Frazier

Dark Needs (King 0.5) by T.M. Frazier 
SUMMARY 

"A revenge kill is the best kind of kill.
But a revenge kill for your family, with your woman's permission?
That's borderline erotic." - Jake, The Dark Light of Day

Jake has come back home to Abby after violently disposing of the man who almost destroyed his family. With blood literally still on his hands, the only thing on Jake's mind is making up for lost time with the woman he loves.

Dark Needs is a companion novella to The Dark Light of Day. 

MY REVIEW 

Perfect short novella to accompany the Dark Light of Day. 
FINALLY, we learn the story from Jake's point of view. 
Highly recommended if you loved the first book and if you crave to learn more about how broken Jake and Abby saved/healed each other.

RELEASE BLITZ: Darker Than Love by Anna Zaires & Charmaine Pauls

Title: Darker Than Love
Authors: Anna Zaires & Charmaine Pauls
Genre: Dark Romance

Release Date: January 28, 2020

Blurb

Once upon a cold, dark night, a Russian killer stole me from an alley.

I’m dangerous, but he is lethal.

I escaped once.

He won’t let me do it twice. 

The revenge is his. 

The betrayal is mine.

But so are the lies to protect the ones I love.

We’re cut from the same twisted cloth. Both merciless. Both damaged. 

In his embrace, I find hell and heaven, his cruelly tender touch destroying and uplifting me at once.

They say a cat has nine lives, but an assassin has just one.

And Yan Ivanov now owns mine.

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Anna Zaires is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of sci-fi romance and contemporary dark romance. She fell in love with books at the age of five, when her grandmother taught her to read. Since then, she has always lived partially in a fantasy world where the only limits were those of her imagination. Currently residing in Florida, Anna is happily married to Dima Zales (a science fiction and fantasy author) and closely collaborates with him on all their works.

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Charmaine Pauls was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. She obtained a degree in Communication at the University of Potchestroom, and followed a diverse career path in journalism, public relations, advertising, communications, photography, graphic design, and brand marketing. Her writing has always been an integral part of her professions.

After relocating to Chile with her French husband, she fulfilled her passion to write creatively full-time. Charmaine has published over twenty novels since 2011, as well as several short stories and articles. Two of her shorts have been selected by the International Literary Society for an anthology from across the African continent.

When she is not writing, she likes to travel, read, and rescue cats. Charmaine currently lives in France with her husband and children. Their household is a linguistic mélange of Afrikaans, English, French and Spanish.

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GUN MOLL

by Bethany-Kris & Erin Ashley Tanner Gun Moll, #1 Publication Date: May 23, 2016 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Organized Crime, Mafia, Romance, Interracial Romance

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James “Mac” Maccari’s career in the mafia is at a standstill. As the best solider in his Capo’s crew, all he wants is to be noticed enough to get Made in the Pivetti Crime Family. But instead, his Capo’s interests seem more focused on keeping his solider hidden from the boss, and every other Made man he can. Seemingly stuck right where he is with no chance of going up, Mac doesn’t know what will finally get him the attention he needs to earn his button.

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Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to four young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.

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Erin Ashley Tanner is a hopeless romantic, avid collector of Marilyn Monroe items, an honorary Princess, soap opera fanatic and a four time college graduate. A Northwest Florida transplant, she currently moonlights as a health care professional near “The Happiest Place On Earth.” With a mixture of organized crime romances, soap opera romances, and paranormal, Erin hopes to create stories in all the genres she so loves. “Sometimes romance is just a little reckless.”

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The Dark Light of Day (The Dark Light of Day, #1) by T.M. Frazier

The Dark Light of Day (The Dark Light of Day, #1) by T.M. Frazier

SUMMARY 

Homeless, sleeping in a junkyard, and on the run from a system that has failed her over and over again, Abby meets Jake, a tattooed blue-eyed biker with secrets that rival her own. Two broken souls that can't be healed, they can't be saved. Abby and Jake have to decide if they can accept the darkness not only within one another, but within themselves. 

If they can accept each other for who they really are they might learn that love isn't always found in the light...

WARNING: This is NOT your typical romance. 
The story of Jake & Abby contains disturbing situations, graphic violence, sex, strong language, drug use, and all types of abuse.

MY REVIEW 

TM Frazier does not hesitate to torture her female characters until they reach their breaking point and then she lets them been tortured a bit more until they reach a new limit. And only then she lets them rise from their ashes like a phoenix and live as normal and happy as they should live.
I started this book because I got a glimpse of Jake at King's books and he looked interesting in a twisted short of way. I wanted to learn more about him. I cannot say I understood his actions, his behaviour with this book. Instead, I learnt a lot about Abby, the girl he fell in love with. She was strong, self contained, life inspiring. I am glad I read her story and I am glad she let Jake in her life. It was the best thing it could happen to him.
The book was hard to read -even painful sometimes- but it is definitely life inspiring and is worth every second you will spend reading it. 

BOOK COVER REVEAL: Man Crush Monday by Kirsty Moseley

Title: Man Crush Monday

Author: Kirsty Moseley

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Release Date: February 3, 2020 Cover Design: Outlined With Love Designs

Perma-single Amy Clarke prides herself on three things: her pink hair, her Converse collection, and her ability to drink copious amounts of margarita without puking. She isn’t looking for love. She’s perfectly content with her simultaneous love affairs with Netflix and both Ben and Jerry. The trouble is, sometimes, love finds you.

Five months ago, he climbed aboard her train, and nothing has been the same since. Fast-forward to now, she still doesn’t know his name, but she knows she wants his babies.

Her crush—this tall, dark, and handsome dork who gets on her train every other Monday—has no idea he brightens her day with his panty-wetting smile and laugh that makes her pulse quicken.

When a chance encounter outside of workforces them to have their first proper conversation, things quickly go from loving him from afar to up close and very personal. With a string of disastrous exes in her past, has Amy finally found her Mr. Perfect? Or does fate have other plans?

A new stand-alone romcom from Kirsty Moseley, best-selling author of The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window and Nothing Left to Lose.

Kirsty Moseley has always been a passionate reader since she was a little girl, devouring books overnight, barely sleeping and paying for it at school the next day. Writing has come similarly to her and once she discovered Wattpad, she finally plucked up the courage to post one of her stories. Seven million reads later, she self-published her debut novel THE BOY WHO SNEAKS IN MY BEDROOM WINDOW, which later became one of 10 Finalists for the 2012 Goodreads' Choice Awards, Best YA Fiction. Shocked and overwhelmed by the response, she published her second novel ALWAYS YOU a few months later and hasn’t looked back. 

If she had to sum herself up in one word, it would probably be 'daydreamer' - but unlike most of her school teachers, she doesn't necessarily view that as a bad thing. After all, she read somewhere once that books are like waking dreams....

She lives in Norfolk, England with her husband and son.

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