Release Day Blitz & Review
Something Real
(Reckless
& Real #2)
by
Lexi
Ryan
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Synopsis ~
After
everything blew up on Christmas, Liz walked away from me, and I let her. She
said she needed space and a chance to pursue her dreams. But we both knew she
was running from the mess she made. Now the political campaign she used as an
excuse to leave is bringing us back together and I’m proving to her what she
really needs—not just the hot nights, greedy hands, and undeniable physical
chemistry. What she really needs is something real. What she really needs…is me.
~Excerpt ~
Sam
Security had better not have let one of those asshole
journalists from downstairs up to my floor. I swear, those soul suckers would
do anything to get a new detail to add to their nothing stories. I open the
door without removing the chain and feel as if I’ve been punched in the gut
when I see the woman on the other side.
Liz is worrying her lower lip between her teeth and
watching down the hall. Is she looking for Sabrina or trying to make sure no
one sees her coming to my room? My insides twist at the sight of her—an
internal tug-of-war between conflicting emotions. I want to pull her into my
room and kiss her until she can’t see straight, touch her until she promises
never to leave me again, and at the same time, I want to demand that she go
back to her room because having her close makes me hope for things I can’t
have.
I remove the chain and tug her inside by the arm before
closing the door behind her.
“No one saw me,” she says, her eyes locked on the
floor. “I made sure.”
“I saw you,”
I growl. It’s painful to be this close—to breathe her air, to smell her
perfume. I never knew how much it could hurt to want and be denied.
She swallows and avoids my eyes. “Is she here?”
“What do you want, Liz?”
She lifts her head and stares at me. “Is she here?”
“Sabrina’s on her way to meet her mom in South Dakota
for a campaign stop.”
Her gaze dips to my bare chest and back up. “I’m
surprised they didn’t ask you to go with them.”
“They did. I declined.” I sound like a fucking
dickhead, and I make myself take two steps back so I don’t do something equally
dickish. Like kiss her until she melts in my arms and forgets about the other
guy, until we both forget that this is hopeless.
“I’m sorry that video was leaked. You didn’t deserve
that invasion of your privacy.”
She has red lipstick on, and it matches her shoes. Ever
since I saw her tonight, I’ve been picturing her on her knees in nothing but
those shoes, those red lips stretched around my cock. I can’t help myself, and
I skim my thumb over her bottom lip.
The second I touch her, she draws in a ragged breath.
“You came to my apartment yesterday.”
“I did.”
“Why?”
I trail my thumb down her neck and over the red strap
of her dress. “Probably for the same reason you came here tonight.”
“To talk about Sabrina?”
“You knocked on my door in the middle of the night to
talk about Sabrina?” I follow the strap down and graze my fingers across her
cleavage. “Is this about her, or is it about you and me?”
“There is no you and me,” she says. “We both know
that.”
“There’s so much you and me, there’s no air left when
we share a room. There’s always you
and me.”
“Even when you’re making sex tapes with someone else?”
“And even when you’re keeping warm in another man’s
arms.”
~ Links to Buy ~
Amazon ** Barnes & Noble ** iTunes ** Kobo ** GooglePlay
~ Playlist ~
From
Lexi:
Because
I so frequently have to switch gears at the drop of a hat—from Mom to writer,
from the business side of writing to drafting an intensely emotional scene—I
rely on music to quickly plant me in the zone for any given book. Every time I
start to write a book, I create a playlist that makes me think of the
characters and I listen to it and add to it as I write. Here’s what I was
listening to while I was writing Something Real. I hope you like it!
Amnesia—5
Seconds of Summer
Over
You—Ingrid Michaelson (feat. A Great Big World)
How
Long Will I Love You—Ellie Goulding
You
Ruin Me—The Veronicas
Don’t—Ed
Sheeran
All
You Had to Do Was Stay—Taylor Swift
Changed
by You—Between the Trees
Thinking
Out Loud—Ed Sheeran
Crazy
in Love—Sofia Karlberg
Love
Me Like You Do—Ellie Goulding
~ Review ~
Another outstanding novel from Lexi Ryan featuring some of my favorite people from New Hope. Oh Sam and Liz, how I missed you! Was looking forward to seeing how things would turn out for Sam and Liz upon the identity of Riverrat being exposed.
Yet another book from Lexi Ryan that I devoured in just hours, sleep is just so overrated when you can get lost between the pages of book and be consumed by the characters.
This book featured a bit more deception than Something Reckless. Just when I thought I had figured something out there was yet another twist. What I knew I could count on was steamy love scenes, angst, heartache and catching up with the rest of the New Hope Crew.
Sam and Liz are like the forbidden fruit to one another and yet they are both too stubborn to see things for what they are, what they need. They spend a good portion of the book sacrificing their happiness for others. But when you know it's "Something Real" you've got to take a stand.
"With some people, love becomes your air, like the oxygen that you can't live without. You need it, and once you find it, you'll do anything to keep it."
~ Liz
I was soooo happy to see that karma visited all the necessary parties in the story and gave Sam and Liz what they needed the most......each other.
"There's so much you and me, there's no air left when we share a room. There's always you and me."
~ Sam
The one twist I didn't see coming at all involves some of our other New Hope friends. Now I can't share cause it would ruin the surprise but just know there is more to come. Grab your copy of Something Real and see for yourself.
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Rating ~
See where it all began………
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Synopsis ~
He
talks dirty to me, but I don’t know his name.
He wants to tie me up, but I
don’t know his face.
He turns me on, but I couldn’t
point him out in a crowd.
I’ve fallen for an anonymous
stranger, and tonight the anonymity ends. Tonight I want more than typed
secrets and texted promises. I want something reckless. Heat. Passion. The
thrill of being entirely possessed.
Because I suspect this
anonymous stranger isn’t a stranger at all.
Lizzy Thompson met riverrat69
online through Something Real, a service promising to deliver meaningful
relationships by forbidding its users to share names or photos until they’ve
reached a certain benchmark. She was looking for love. He was researching an
investment. They hit it off. Talked and flirted, hid behind screen names and
cartoon avatars.
Now they’re breaking the rules
and meeting in person. But Liz is prepared. She’s picked up hints and followed
clues.
She’s ninety-percent convinced
she’s discovered the identity of her dirty-talking online friend.
She wonders if her ex-lover Sam
Bradshaw knows her identity too.
When she rolls the dice on one
reckless night, her chance at something real could crumble.
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Links to Buy ~
Amazon ** Amazon
UK ** Barnes
& Noble ** iTunes ** Kobo
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About the Author ~
New York Times and USA Today bestselling
romance author Lexi Ryan’s novels have been described as intense, emotional,
and wickedly sexy. A former college professor, she now writes full-time from
her home in Indiana, where she lives with her husband, two children, and a
neurotic dog. Find her on Facebook or Twitter to chat about books, TV, and her
children’s latest antics.
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