BLOG TOUR & REVIEW - Melt for You (Slow Burn #2) by J.T. Geissinger

About MELT FOR YOU

A wallflower gets seduction tips from a playboy athlete—until love changes the rules.

Socially awkward Joellen Bixby has a date every Saturday—with her cat, a pint of ice cream, and fantasies of the way-too-handsome Michael Maddox. She’d give anything to win over the unattainable CEO of her firm, but how can she when she blends in so well with her cubicle? The answer may be closer than she thinks.

Cameron McGregor is a cocky, tattooed Scottish rugby captain who just moved in next door. He’s not Jo’s type—at all—but the notorious playboy is offering to teach the wallflower everything he knows about inspiring desire. Though a lot of women have rumpled Cam’s kilt, Jo is special. Far from the ugly duckling she thinks she is, in Cam’s eyes she’s sharp, funny, and effortlessly sexy. Now, thanks to him, Jo is blooming with confidence and has the man of her dreams within reach.

Unfortunately for Cam, he’s just helped to push the woman of his dreams into the arms of another man—and now he’s in the fight of his life to keep this beauty from getting away.

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I loved this book from start to finish! My goodness, there were quite a few times that had me gasping out loud, and not in a good way. There were also a few times where my heart hurt for Joellen and how she was treated by some people. I gotta say that I love Cameron though; he's like a giant teddy bear, but extremely perceptive when it comes to reading people. Being the star athlete he is, of course he's objectified, but he's got the ability to see through Joellen to get to the root of her self-esteem issues. The chemistry between them is electric, but Joellen's on a mission of romance that doesn't involve Cam, especially seeing as that he's in town temporarily. But the more time they spend together, the more things begin to change for Joellen.

About J.T. Geissinger

A former headhunter, J.T. Geissinger is the author of more than a dozen novels in contemporary romance, paranormal romance, and romantic suspense. She is the recipient of the Prism Award for Best First Book, the Golden Quill Award for Best Paranormal/Urban Fantasy, and is a two-time finalist for the RITA® Award from the Romance Writers of America®. Her work has also finaled in the Booksellers’ Best, National Readers’ Choice, and Daphne du Maurier Awards. Join her Facebook reader’s group, Geissinger’s Gang, to take part in weekly Wine Wednesday live chats and giveaways, find out more information about works in progress, have access to exclusive excerpts and contests, and get advance reader copies of her upcoming releases. 

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RELEASE TOUR & REVIEW - Beg (God of Rock #2) by Eden Butler

Title: Beg

Series: God of Rock #2

Author: Eden Butler

Genre: Erotic Romance

Release Date: February 6, 2017

I am a liar. My words were poison and everything I touched got filthy. Except Iris.

She was the best part of who I was. The only bright spark in my dull, gray world.

But denial made me stupid and a cruel insult destroyed everything I hoped to have with the girl of my dreams.

Now I will crawl on my knees and grovel because sometimes, even rock Gods have to beg.

After that jaw-dropping ending to Kneel, I was on pins and needles waiting for this book and as soon as it hit my iPad, I put life on hold until I finished. Luckily I was able to read this in one sitting, since there was no way I was going to be able to be a productive member of society until I found out what was going to happen with Jamie and Iris.

Book one was told from Iris' point of view, and with Beg we get the story from Jamie's side. There were a few flashbacks in this story, and not a lot from secondary characters. With Kneel, the story was about first loves and sacrifices made in order to achieve the dream. With Beg, the story is more focused on redemption, being able to really look inside one's self and letting the world see the true person hidden behind the onstage persona.

Jamie was still the arrogant a-hole at the start of the book, which picks up 6 months after the end of Kneel. No one knows where Iris is and Jamie's taken to hiding out back home. A surprise visitor throws Jamie's life off-kilter (even more than it already is), and with that person Jamie learns more about life and love than he thought he knew. He also learns about acceptance, what it means to be selfless and most importantly, recognizing when it's time to let go and move forward in life without hiding.

We don't see a lot of Iris in this book because again, it's focused on Jamie and his journey of self-realization, and when we (and Jamie) finally see Iris, things get interesting, but I won't say more than that as to not give away any part of the story. But I did like seeing how relationships changed and grew throughout the story, and seeing Jamie with the choices he made by listening closely and following his heart. The epilogue (2 years after the end of the story) was especially sweet, given how his life turned out.

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She was starlight, bright and brilliant and out of my fucking reach. There was a hardness to those beautiful features now, a glint of something distant I’d never be able to take from her face. 

Didn’t mean I wouldn’t try. 

“You good, mami?”

The endearment bothered her, had Iris jerking a glare my way and I couldn’t decide if I loved or hated it. 

“Don’t.” It was all she said, all that seemed able to move beyond the anger and bitterness that had tightened the muscles around her mouth. I did that. I’d caused all that rage, all that venom. I should take it for the medicine it was; gulp it down because I deserved it. But Iris was my past, the sweetest and best part of who I hoped like hell I could be again. More than that, she was my end game, my forever more. I’d do anything to have her back, anything at all to deserve her again. 

I took two steps—slow, careful, like she was a landmine easily triggered by the wrong words, the wrong look from me. The closer I came, the straighter her back went and I knew not to push. She hated me and I understood why. I got that I’d done something unforgiveable. 

“If saying sorry was enough, it’d be the first thing I’d utter every time I opened my mouth.”

She kept silent, staring straight ahead, watching the nurses shuffle around their reception area, thumbing through files, answering phones. I could only watch her, profile sharp, face tense, but none of that lessened that beautiful lines of her face or the sweet swell of precise features that gave her the look of a statue—something formed with love and care, something far too beautiful for this ugly world. 

Blinking brought images straight to my mind of Iris and me, her laughter, her smile and how many times I’d put it there; how often it was my words, my music, my jokes that kept her face lit up and sweet. But that had been a long damn time ago and I hadn’t been the cause of anything remotely similar to those expressions. 

“Sorry means nothing,” she started, focus still on the movement of activity around us. “Especially when it comes alone.”

“Alone?”

She nodded once and her voice was tight, the inflection shaking with what felt like anger to me. “Words are just words, sounds and syllables that fade to nothing. Actions. Deeds. Those are the things that matter.”

“Tell me what to do,” I said, moving closer than I should have, making Iris step away from me. “Please.”

Iris inhaled, wetting her lips with her tongue before she shot one sharp, furious glare at me. “Forget you know me and for God’s sake, Jamie, leave me the hell alone.” 

The click of her boots sounded like slaps against my face as she moved down the hallway, further and further away, and I fought the urge to chase after her. Her hair was longer now, sliding against her back, grazing her waist as she moved. I wanted to tangle all that hair between my fingers. I wanted to know if that honeysuckle scent still hung in her hair. 

“Sorry,” I told her, knowing she was too far away to hear me. “You can’t forget the only good you’ve ever known, mami.” I walked forward, scrubbing my face as I watched her. “Forgetting you is that last thing I’ll do.”

 

Eden Butler is an editor and writer of Mystery, Suspense and Contemporary Romance novels and the nine-times great-granddaughter of an honest-to-God English pirate. This could explain her affinity for rule breaking and rum. 

When she’s not writing or wondering about her possibly Jack Sparrowesque ancestor, Eden patiently waits for her Hogwarts letter, edits, reads and spends way too much time watching rugby, Doctor Who and New Orleans Saints football. 

She is currently living under teenage rule alongside her husband in southeast Louisiana. 

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RELEASE TOUR & REVIEW - Really F*cking Complicated by Rachel Schneider

Title: Really F*cking Complicated

Author: Rachel Schneider

Genre: New Adult/RomCom

Cover Design: Murphy Rae with Indie Solutions

Release Date: November 7, 2017

What does a Hollywood Actress - with a leaked sex tape - have in common with a pizza delivery boy? Absolutely nothing. 

She is one hot mess... 

A walking, talking, Hollywood cliche, Falcon James is hiding out in the middle-of-nowhere Louisiana, on a mission to clean up her image, clean up her personal life, and avoid any kind of scandal. At all costs. 

He is one hot single dad... 

The last thing Jeremy needs is someone interfering with the life he's built in the quaint country town he grew up in. Between working odd jobs to pay the bills, the town's loose-lipped gossips, and raising his impressionable young daughter, something is bound to give. But when one routine pizza delivery turns into an unlikely friendship, Jeremy knows he's in over his head. With the bright lights of Hollywood beckoning Falcon back, how can they keep their feelings in check? Feelings that just make everything...really effing complicated.

So this was my first Rachel Schneider book and I really enjoyed it. From the blurb I went in thinking it was going to be possibly one long laugh track of a book, but I was quite surprised by the depths of the story. We got a front row view of what I could assume being a celebrity might be like, complete with all the scrutiny and eagle eyes watching your every move. I felt bad for Falcon after the tape got out; it's such a double standard for women (which sucks donkey balls unfortunately).

I liked how Jeremy ended up befriending Falcon, because he really didn't have to do it, especially since his personal life isn't such a grand walk in the park. But seeing the friendship evolve was sweet, and Jeremy gave not one flip about Falcon's celebrity status, or even her misstep from grace, he was just all about her. And the relationship with his daughter was the best. As much as I liked this book, I kind of hope we'll get to see more of these two in a future book.

Rachel Schneider is from a small town in South Louisiana. When she's not replying sarcastically to her husband or trying to sneak in cuddles with her daughter, she's writing about life, love, and things unexpected. But let's be real...she's probably on Facebook.

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