Release Day Review & Giveaway
Big Rock
by
Lauren Blakely
Big Rock
by
Lauren Blakely
~ Synopsis ~
It's not just the motion of the ocean, ladies. It's definitely
the SIZE of the boat too.
And I've got both firing on all cylinders. In fact, I have ALL
the right assets. Looks, brains, my own money, and a big cock.
You might think I'm an asshole. I sound like one, don’t I? I'm
hot as sin, rich as heaven, smart as hell and hung like a horse.
Guess what? You haven't heard my story before. Sure, I might be
a playboy, like the NY gossip rags call me. But I’m the playboy who’s actually
a great guy. Which makes me one of a kind.
The only trouble is, my dad needs me to cool it for a bit. With
conservative investors in town wanting to buy his flagship Fifth Avenue jewelry
store, he needs me not only to zip it up, but to look the part of the committed
guy. Fine. I can do this for Dad. After all, I’ve got him to thank for the
family jewels. So I ask my best friend and business partner to be my fiancée
for the next week. Charlotte’s up for it. She has her own reasons for saying
yes to wearing this big rock.
And pretty soon all this playing pretend in public leads to no
pretending whatsoever in the bedroom, because she just can’t fake the kind of
toe-curling, window-shattering orgasmic cries she makes as I take her to new
heights between the sheets.
But I can’t seem to fake that I might be feeling something real
for her.
What the fuck have I gotten myself into with this…big rock?
BIG ROCK is a standalone, dirty romance novel written
from the guy’s POV by NYT Bestselling author Lauren Blakely…
I do my best work in the bedroom. This is completely my domain.
So it should be no big deal that she asked me to wait here. But
something about being in Charlotte’s bedroom is wigging me out.
Mostly because there’s nearby nudity transpiring mere feet away.
She’s taking a shower, and no matter how you slice them, New York apartments
are approximately thimble size. Let me spell this out—wet, naked, hot woman in
a ten-foot radius.
Got it? Okay. Moving on.
I pick up a picture frame on her sky blue bureau of the dog her parents have. A
fluffy brown summa dog—some of this, some of that. I’m going to focus on this
mutt. Zero in on him. Look at his tail. Check out his ears. Yup, this picture
is doing the trick. It is helping me not to linger on the naked woman and how
well she kisses.
Or how much I liked it.
Why the fuck did I like it so much?
Of
course you liked it, idiot. A pretty woman kisses you, and you’re
straight—you’d be stupid not to like it. End of story. Doesn’t mean
anything. Stop analyzing.
Especially since she just turned off the shower.
Maybe she forgot a towel. Maybe she’ll open the door a crack, and ask me to
grab one for her.
I smack my forehead. Get it together, Holiday.
I set
down the picture, draw a deep inhale and straighten my shoulders. The door
creaks open. She steps out of the bathroom wearing only a white fluffy towel
wrapped above her breasts.
“You
might be wondering why I asked you to wait in my bedroom instead of the living
room,” she says, in the most matter-of-fact tone.
I have no clue how she can be talking like we’re having a business transaction
when droplets of water slide down her bare legs. But I’m a strong man. I can
handle this. I’m not tempted at all by my best friend. Though my dick begs to
differ, the traitorous prick.
“The thought crossed my mind,” I say, as I lean against the bureau, striking a
casual pose.
“Because if you’re my fiancé, you need to be comfortable with me being naked,”
she says with a crisp nod.
Shit, she’s going to do it. She’s going to drop the towel. She’s going to make
us practice fucking. I am the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Wait. No. I can’t fuck my best friend. I absolutely, positively, can’t screw
Charlotte. Even if she tosses the towel on the floor and begs me to.
I lace my fingers together behind my back, linking these twitchy hands.
“Okay, so you’re getting naked,” I say, doing my best to imitate her
cool-as-a-cucumber tone that is throwing me off big time.
“No. It’s the idea of me naked,” she corrects.
I give her a pointed look. “Seems to me it’s both the idea and the reality.”
“Fine, fine. They’re one and the same, and it’s part of the
debrief.”
“Is this the exam portion?”
She walks past me, her arm brushing against mine before she yanks open the top
drawer of the bureau. “Yes. This is the practical portion.”
“And this is because you somehow think we’re going to be required to be naked
together in front of Mr. Offerman in order to pull this off? This isn’t like
some feats-of-strength style fake engagement where we have to pass certain
skill sets in an obstacle course. You know that, right?”
She nods, as she hunts around in the drawer. “I’m aware of that. I see this as
more like the Newlywed game.”
“And in this version of the game we’re quizzed on how I get used to the idea of
you naked and vice versa?”
Her breath hitches when I say that—vice versa.
I don’t
know what to make of that small gasp, or if it means something about the idea
of me au naturel.
She
spins around, and holds up two pairs of panties, one in each hand. “Quick. Do
you prefer it when your fiancée wears the black lace thong?” She waggles a
scrap of silky-looking fabric that is so hot my face might be engulfed in
flames right now because Charlotte owns that? “Or do you
prefer her in the white side-string bikini?” She waves the white pair before my
eyes, and all I can see is a tiny triangular patch of fabric that’s the
slightest bit see-through.
Forget the flames. I am a fucking inferno right now knowing she owns this too.
White panties that reveal pretty much everything
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~ Review ~
~ Rating ~
Opportunities to read Lauren Blakely’s works are not
ones I pass up. Again she delivers
another book that I absolutely devoured.
This book was entertaining, engaging, sexy, sassy and fun all at the
same time. I enjoyed watching Charlotte and Spencer see what they had been
apparently missing all along hidden beneath their close knit friendship.
Oh it’s not every day you get asked by your best
friend if you would play like to play make believe. Well, not as adults anyway. Spencer takes Charlotte by surprise with his proposition
but she in turn uses it to dissuade her ex-boyfriend that suddenly wants her
back.
No doubt about it, I LOVED this book! Spencer had me at word one with his “cocky”
attitude and level of adoration for Charlotte.
Their chemistry seemed to be there but wasn’t released until it was time
to practice their “relationship”.
Spencer appeared to realize his feelings for Charlotte
a little sooner than she did making their interactions seem a tense…..the
underlying sexual tension was fun to watch them experience. The fact that he was able to survive the “bedroom”
test seemed to be a feat in itself. But
Charlotte proved her point…she knows what Spencer does and doesn’t like.
Yes, their relationship blooms under false pretense
but I was so happy to see that there were real feelings and that they were both
willing to sacrifice their own happiness to make the other happy.
If you haven’t discovered the writing of Lauren Blakely this is a great introduction to her. Her writing is flawless. The story flows and you not only get engaging main characters but supporting ones too. Go check out Big Rock today!
If you haven’t discovered the writing of Lauren Blakely this is a great introduction to her. Her writing is flawless. The story flows and you not only get engaging main characters but supporting ones too. Go check out Big Rock today!
~ About the
Author ~
Lauren
Blakely writes sexy contemporary romance novels with heat, heart, and humor,
and she has had eight books on the New York Times Bestseller list and fifteen
on the USA Today Bestseller list. Like the heroine in her novel, FAR TOO
TEMPTING, she thinks life should be filled with family, laughter, and the kind
of love that love songs promise. Lauren lives in California with her husband,
children, and dogs. She loves hearing from readers! Her bestselling series
include Sinful Nights, Seductive Nights, No Regrets, Caught Up in Love, and
Fighting Fire. She recently released SWEET SINFUL NIGHTS, the first novel in
her new sexy romance series Sinful Nights that became an instant New York Times
Bestseller. Her new adult forbidden romance, 21 Stolen Kisses, hit e-readers in
May and landed on the USA Today Bestseller list. In January, she'll release BIG ROCK,
a standalone contemporary romance sure to make you swoon. She also writes for
young adults under the name Daisy Whitney. To receive an email when Lauren
releases a new book, text BLAKELY + your email address to 678-249-3375 (please
use the actual + sign).
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