Review: The Bourbon Kings by J.R. Ward

Title: The Bourbon Kings

Author: J.R. Ward

Release Date: July  28, 2015

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood delivers the first novel in an enthralling new series set amid the shifting dynamics of a Southern family defined by wealth and privilege—and compromised by secrets, deceit, and scandal....

For generations, the Bradford family has worn the mantle of kings of the bourbon capital of the world. Their sustained wealth has afforded them prestige and privilege—as well as a hard-won division of class on their sprawling estate, Easterly. Upstairs, a dynasty that by all appearances plays by the rules of good fortune and good taste. Downstairs, the staff who work tirelessly to maintain the impeccable Bradford facade. And never the twain shall meet.

For Lizzie King, Easterly’s head gardener, crossing that divide nearly ruined her life. Falling in love with Tulane, the prodigal son of the bourbon dynasty, was nothing that she intended or wanted—and their bitter breakup only served to prove her instincts were right. Now, after two years of staying away, Tulane is finally coming home again, and he is bringing the past with him. No one will be left unmarked: not Tulane’s beautiful and ruthless wife; not his older brother, whose bitterness and bad blood know no bounds; and especially not the ironfisted Bradford patriarch, a man with few morals, fewer scruples, and many, many terrible secrets.

As family tensions—professional and intimately private—ignite, Easterly and all its inhabitants are thrown into the grips of an irrevocable transformation, and only the cunning will survive.

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This book consumed me from the very first page. 

It was suspenseful and riveting. You didn't know what was going to happen next so you couldn't sit it down. I couldn't wait to see what was about to unravel! Once it did start to unravel it didn't stop. It was one skeleton after the other being unveiled. 

This books has it all! Family, Money, Love, Lust, Lies and most of Betrayal. 

The book follows The Bradford family they are The Bourbon Kings of Kentucky. To say the least they are a very Wealthy, Southern family. 

Four kids, Edward being the eldest, then Lane, Maxwell and then Gin.

Edward story was absolutely heartbreaking especially when we find out what he really went though and I am sure that we didn't even get the half of it in this book. Hopefully more of his past to come.  

Lane was the main character in this book. His and Lizzie's (Who's also the grounds head gardener.) whirlwind romance and along with all the drama of past mistakes and the familys lives and business. 

“You’re the love of my life, whether you’re with me or not.”

Maxwell we didn't see him at all in this book. I can't wait to finally be introduced to him. 

Gin, the only sister sibling and I guess you could even call her the "blacksheep". Her story was intriguing. Her relationship with Samuel T is.... WILD. They have always loved one another yet never actually been together for stupid reasons.

This book is something like a soap operas with all the drama that makes one and it's told in each characters point of view so it's all the more intriguing I say.

If you want a story packed with Drama, mystery and suspense, then you found it with this book. J.R. Ward blew me away with the story. 

I LOVED it and never wanted it to end. Sadly it did and too soon. I can't wait for the next installment in this series! 

Oooh!! New series from JR Ward that has already been optioned for TV/film as well!

Quotes:

“There is no fight – I’m yours. If you want, here and now. Or later. A week, a month, years from now.” 

“I’ve never stopped wanting you, Lizzie. Thinking about you. Wishing you were with me. Hell, I feel like I’ve been in a relationship with a ghost … I see you in my dreams every night – you’re so real that I can touch you, feel you, be with you.”

“You’ve got to stop.”

“I can’t. Lizzie…I can’t.” 

“I can’t change what happened and I know there’s no going back…all I ask is that you don’t fall for appearances, okay? You’ve had ten years around this family, but I’ve been with them and the people who surround them all my life. That’s why you’re the one I want. You’re real. You’re not capable of being what they are and that’s a very, very good thing.”

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J.R. Ward is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. She lives in the South her family.

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Title: Tainted Black

By Shanora Williams

Release Date: August 2015 (Official date TBD)

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Dear Mr. Black, I know you were hurting. I heard your cries. I wished over and over again that I could make 

it better, but as you stated I was too inexperienced; too good for someone as bad as you.

Perhaps you were right, but it didn’t matter because what I did know was that I loved the way you felt—loved the way you smelled. I loved how hard you got for me, and when you called me your Little Knight. I can still remember that day in the park, when you held me close and kissed me deep. How you effortlessly made me cry your name on top of sweet smelling grass, making me feel like the only girl in the world. I loved how you looked at me, how you spoke to me. I 'd been madly in love with you ever since I was twelve years old, but I shouldn’t have been. Isabelle would have hated it—my best friend. I couldn’t afford to lose her. Besides, you two had already lost enough. Losing Mrs. Black was the epitome. It’s Chloe Knight. I wanted to be there for you no matter what, but Isabelle needed me too. 

And she would have hated me if she ever found out I was sleeping with her father.

Tainted Black is a forbidden love-story about a young girl who helplessly falls for her best friend’s father. After a tragic accident ends the life of Theo Black’s wife, he turns to the one person he has always found interesting. 

Chloe Knight, the girl from across the street, his daughter’s best friend, and a person that is considered completely off limits for him.

** Tainted Black is a forbidden love-story about a young girl who helplessly falls for her best friend’s father. After a tragic accident ends the life of Theo Black’s wife, he turns to the one person he has always found interesting.Chloe Knight, the girl from across the street, his daughter’s best friend, and a person that is considered completely off limits for him. **

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Manwhore +1 by Katy Evans

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 Review

PREFECTION!

If you didn't think you could fall more in love with Malcolm Saint after the first book, you are dead wrong. Prepared to be ROCKED! Katy Evans made this story so completely captivating. 

I DEVOURED this book in 2 hours. I couldn't have sat it down even if I wanted to. I was in complete and utter bliss. 
I finished the book and just held it to my chest. Hugging it. Holding on to it for dear life because I didn't want it to end.
In this book we get to see the REAL Malcolm Saint, the one he tries to keep hidden and hot damn. He is even HOTTER!! SWOON!! 
It was everything I had hoped for and more. Real, raw, and intense full of emotions that will have you sweating bullets one minute and the sighing happily the next.  
The feels this book gives me are indescribable. Complete freaking mess of all over the place emotions. 
The story wraps you up with all the romance. lust and sex so you never want to leave. 
I will never get enough of Malcolm Saint. I NEED him for myself!



Quotes
“And I realize that love is as ever-changing as a sky or as an ocean: always there, but not always sunny or clear or calm.”

“He’s a cyclone and I walked straight into the eye of it when I agreed to write that expose.”

Falling hadn’t been in the plans. Falling for a guy had never ever been in my life plane. 

I have a hole in me, So huge and empty, every pleasure in my life feels like nothing without him.

“But you didn’t teach me how to survive the storm that is you.”

“He’s standing there, beautiful beyond the imagination. He oozes power and class, sophistication. He oozes testosterone and every woman inside has noticed him-even the ones here with other men,” 

“A love inside me, so very trapped there he might never get to know how much, how very much I’ve come to love him.” 

“So determined, are you, to get me under your command?” I tease. He looks at me. He looks at me so deeply, I haven’t felt this seen in a while. “You have no idea.” 

“Well….I lose” I whisper “What do you lose?” I lost my mind and my heart, my muse, and, I think, my soul to you.” 

“Saint says nothing for a long time. Then: “Do you miss me?” He rolls to his side and the fabric of his shirt is about to tear open under the flex of his muscles as he searches my face. He leans close to my ear and says, “Do you think of me sometimes when you don’t want to….do you need me….do you still feel me?” “I feel you everywhere.” He curls his hand around my throat, leaves it there, hot and enormous, pinning me down on the bed with gentle firmness. For minutes and minutes he starts there, with his forehead on my temple, his lips on my ear and his hand on my throat ow”ning me. “I can’t breathe when you’re near, but i can’t live without you.” I pant, quietly, and he squeezes his eyes shut, drops his head on mine, and we say nothing else. We lie here with his body leaning over mine, strong and hard, and me , panting in bed, weak and warm. We lie here as if we broke and there’s no more glue to put us together no matter how much I wish for it to…. but we also can’t pull apart, as if something else entirely different from glue keeps us together.

“I want to forget you, Rachel, but I know you’re right, you weren’t lying. At least not to me. You were lying to yourself. You told yourself you’d get tot he truth of me and all that time, you wouldn’t admit that you were falling in love with me.” 

“DIBS”

I used to thinks she’d need a man so compelling, her stories couldn’t live up to him; he’d make her reality so much more compelling than anything else.

“Say it,” he demands. “Does a piece of your soul belong to me?” 
“Yes,” I say. And somehow, that’s enough. Just one word.
He ducks his head too, in each of my lips, and now he’s the their, stealing a kiss from me.
“Dibs,” he whispers.

“M4 is you, Saint. You’re bidding on Edge? Why?”
“I’m not bidding on Edge. I’m bidding on you.” 

“Do you know what I’d do for you?” A huskiness enters his voice as he circles my chin with his thumb. “You’re the only heaven I will ever know, Rachel” he looks into my eyes “and if you were a hell. I’d sin my whole life just to stay with you.” 

“”I love you, Malcolm.” 
“Do yo really?”
“Yes, really.” 
“The first time I heard it, I couldn’t think of anything else. Even when all the shit came down, I’d think of anything else. Even when all the shit came down, I’d think of those three words. I’ve loved you for a while, Rachel. All the fortune I’ve amassed and I’d never wanted to lay it out there for someone the way I want to lay it out there for you.” 
“You wanted your world to go still, stand still with me. I may be thirsty, ambitious; Ill charge out there, but this… what we have. Let’s stand still here, you and me.” 

I never imaged that I could stand in the middle of the storm that is Malcolm Kyle Preston Logan Saint, and truly fell like my world is finally becoming still. 

“I’d do anything for you. Fuck over anyone to protect you. Do anything to keep you. Crush the world for you.”

“I love you, Rachel.” “I love you like nothing else in my life.”

“I am obsessed with you.” 
“I adore you,” 
“I am crazy about you.” 
“Let me own you, Rachel, and I’ll let you own me right back. You’re my lady now.”

“Tie the knot with me. Be safe with me. Reckless with me. Be who you are with me. Be my wife, Rachel-marry me.” “You once told me you wanted the world to stand still, you wanted a safe spot to stand still. I want to be that place for you.” His hands are almost swallowing my face, but it’s his star that swallows me whole. “Even if I’m spinning through life, the spot beside me will be the eye of the hurricane, and nothing there can be touched or harmed. I want you here with me, beside me.” 
“Have you wondered what a man in love looks like? As confident as ever, he kneels, ducks his head and kisses my naked hand. “This is what he looks like.”

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My Life in 8 Words: “Hectic, wonderful, complete; everything I ever wanted.”
Katy Evans grew up with books and book-boyfriends until she found a real sexy boyfriend to love. They married and are now hard at work on their own happily ever after. Katy loves her family and friends, and she also loves reading, walking, baking, and being consumed by her characters until she reaches “The End.” Which is, hopefully, only the beginning.

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"Saint is the embodiment of luxurious and decadent and sin. He is Sin Itself and I feel like an absolute...virgin."

Review

Do you ever come across a book, that you know will always be a part of you? That no matter how long it has been, you will always come back to reread it because you want to experience all over again, like it the very first time for you to read. Well this book/series is it for me. 
Mind Blowing
Heart Wrenching  
Soul Awakening 
Katy Evan ROCKED me world.
Mother of Cliffhangers!! 
How could you do that to me Katy Evans???
I need more!
I will not survive without him! 
What do I need to do to get an ARC?
Ill give you my soul! Its yours to take! Im begging! 
Malcolm Saint aka "Sin" is a Billionaire, Alpha, Playboy, and with all the good looks to go with it. Dark headed, green eyed, with a body that was made to make YOU sin. 
I couldn't get enough. I DIDN'T get enough. I NEED MORE! 
I DEVOURED this book! 
Katy Evans truly brought this book to life with her amazing writing skills. Her gift to be able to draw you into a story and make it seem as you are apart of the beautiful story she created truly astounds me. Every single time.  
It is one of the very reason she is one of my all time favorite authors.  I can't wait for the next book to come out. I do believe I'm going to stalk Katy Evans in till It's released. ;) 

#Manwhore #Sin #Saint #swoon #5Stars #Favorite #MustRead #MalcomSaint 

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Katy Evans grew up with books and book-boyfriends until she found a real sexy boyfriend to love. They married and are now hard at work on their own happily ever after. Katy loves her family and friends, and she also loves reading, walking, baking, and being consumed by her characters until she reaches “The End.” Which is, hopefully, only the beginning.

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They were a storm I never saw coming, an unforeseen heartbreak on the edge of a
dangerous cliff.

Amber Moretti’s life changes in the span of minutes. An orphaned outsider, she is desperate to start fresh the moment she walks onto campus. In the time it takes to cross the university’s dining hall, she meets two men who bring color, air, and light to her darkened world.They became my addiction, each a needle to my next hit, my high. Brock Cunningham’s appeal is dizzying, a potent force Amber can’t deny. A green-eyed smooth talker, he instantly attracts Amber. It doesn’t take long for him to consume her every thought, her every breath. Ryder Ashcroft, a blue-eyed, tattooed, and pierced bad boy, turns Amber off immediately—that is, until he kisses her, stealing a piece of her heart, her soul. They were as opposite as fire and ice, yet I ached for them equally. Never knowing she could be broken down in so many unexpectedly beautiful yet petrifying ways, Amber finds herself falling for both men.

Immoral? Maybe. I say undeniable. Uncontained.

But one devastating event changes everything, shattering each of their lives...and Amber isn’t sure she can recover from it.

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WHOA!! 

I have met my newest book boyfriend! RYDER ASHCROFT!! Holy mother of HOTNESS! He is MINE!!!

Every once in awhile you will open a book, start reading the first page and you'll realize this book is about to do something to you...

This book ROCKED my world!! 

Gail McHugh is a freaking literary genius. 

I read her other books Collide and Pulse but I just wasn't a fan but damn! This book...

This book was fantastic.. Jaw dropping... Earth Shattering. It was freaking amazing. 

I couldn't put this book down. Once you start reading you are sucked into the story and you don't want to leave. EVER! 

This book is a love triangle at its finest with a story of raw, gritty emotions, with thrilling mystery and suspense and some HAWT sex scenes. 

A story where a broken yet beautiful girl falls in love with two hot guys, who just happened to love her for all her broken beauty. 

There is nothing that I can say that will do this story justice, so do yourself a favor and go get this book for yourself because its a beautiful, mind blowing, full of angst story of heart ache. You will not be let down.

Okay, I lied about not being let down... You will be, only because of the Mother of all Cliffhangers!!!! 

I sat there just looking at the last page for about 10 minutes until I could gather my thoughts... Not very nice thoughts but thoughts all the same. 

I cannot wait for the next book to be released!! 

  

Quotes: 

"But here I am, my heart bleeding out for two different men, the organ split down the middle between who it truly belongs to and who it truly loves and needs in order to produce another beat."

”I won’t take no for an answer, and whether or not you want me to, I’m gonna find your pieces so I can put you back together.” 

”Fuck. It should’ve been me. Not him. Me.” 

”My feelings for Amber, her feelings for me, Brook wanting to share her: it’s all a dangerous shit storm of emotions brewing, waiting to demolish us all.” 

”I’d rather die than fuck up this girl, this unique gem.” 

”Still, as she kisses me, her feverish little tugs on my hair, urgent strokes, and hips bucking against mine like crazed nympho says all this cat needs to know.” 

”I…Brock…God, Brock, I…love Ryder just as much as he does me, if not…more. But I don’t love him any more or less than I do you. I don’t ….think, at least.” 

”I can live without the sun, but I can’t exist without you.” 

"I think you're gonna be the ride of my life."

"I'm gonna kiss you, Ber." His words come out as a husky whisper as he lifts his head, pulling my face a breathe a away from his. "And it's gonna be a kiss you won't soon forget. It's gonna be a kiss I want burned into your fucking memory whether or not we get together. One that'll make you hate every other kiss from anyone else after me. You'll have no other choice but to think of this kiss when another dude gets his lucky chance." 

"Holy shit of all fucking shits. I'm making you mine. You know this, right?"

"You're gonna be mine, do yo hear me? No matter what I have to do, I want you to be my girl."

"I hope that you'll become my first for a lot of things."

"I hope that I become everything you need in your life." 

"I hope there never come a times when you think I'm an asshole. I hope that at least once a day, even if only for a second, I can make you smile." 

"I hope that nothing I ever do makes you cry, and most of all, I hope that some part of you eventually trusts me enough to let me into your heart. Really let me into it." 

"It's her eyes-not her face, ass, or tits-that nearly mutilated my heart the first time she looked at me." 

"Through she's completely oblivious to it, and a little of her rocker, theres nothing about her that is truly phenomenal. She's a spitfire. My match in every way possible." 

"There's not a second that goes by that I'm not thinking about you." 

"I knew she was cut from a different cloth from all the rest. I felt it in my bones, in the hollow of my chest. Completely rocked, I felt it in the way my lungs burned, making it hairdos fuck to breathe. I don't believe in premonitions and stupid shit like that, but I saw it all the day she fell in my lap. I saw her not only in my bed but as a permanent fixture in my life. I saw her wrapped in my arms after a long day, felt her lips on mine before I kissed her. It was as if I knew she was suppose to be mine. But I fucked it up, and the only place she wound up, other that hanging out with Brock, was in every waking thought I've had since."

"Sweet Christ, her smile is the most goddamned beautiful thing I've ever seen. Pure fucking candy to each and every single one of my senses." 

"I may not be in her every waking thought the way she is mine, but right now, Amber's giving me something greater than that.... She's allowing me to enter her empty heart, guiding me through her bent past."

"What I don't like is the control she has over me. The unrelenting steel hand she has wrapped around both my dick and heart. She doesn't know it, but she owns me, and I don't even exist in her world. Christ. In less that thirty minutes, she's disarmed me, fucking breaking down every molecule of who I've been for a while." 

"Death. Though plenty think they are, no one's immune to it. Every breath we take is one step further from our birth.......one step closer to our ultimate dismissal. The Reaper come for each of us, and when he show's up, he lacks prejudice. But fuck if he should be allowed to."

"With a killer personality-one I'm sure she has no idea she possess-and a gorgeous mouth that spits out words like a filthy trucker, Amber was placed on this earth to multiply with me. She's the kind of girl who'll make it impossible to not fall hard and fast for, offering no apologies as she slowly turns yo into the man you never thought you were capable of being. The kind of girl who'll let you see her shadows, but will keep you guessing every time she reveals a new layer of herself, a new path through the maze of her heart. The kind of girl who'll have you begging on your knees, questioning your sanity, faith and reason for continuing to live if you were to ever lose her." 

"When I'm around Amber, every lone I'm not suppose to cross becomes zigzagged, blurring the direction of my moral compass. She blinds me to what I know is wrong, provoking what I'm sure is inevitable. I'm about to commit the sin of all sins: I'm gonna steal Brock's girl right out from beneath him without giving it a second thought."

"Yup. She's my missing half." 

"Ah, I see. Now you have me wondering just how sweet your lies will taste on my tongue." 

"I need all of you." "Every inch. Your heart, soul, your past, present, future. All of it. Say it, Ber, tell me you're mine, baby girl." 

"But even if I've fucked any chance of being with you, I can't say either kiss is something I'll soon forget. I'd kill to experience them over....and over.... and over again." he pulls back slightly, his eye moving across my face. His smile again, and it nearly stops my heart a second time. "Our lips fit perfectly together, and I'm pretty fucking sure you know it. Felt it. Want to feel it again as much as I do. I see it int he way your're looking at me. Those gorgeous eyes hide nothing. Neither does your body. The way your breathing's picking up. The way you're shaking just enough to let me know you want another taste of what I have to...offer." 

"Christ. No doubt I'm in deep, this girl the owner of every filthy, twister beat of my heart."

"Amber Moretti is my blow, my need for her the and worst kind of addiction."

"I'll never be worthy of the girl of flew into my life like an avenging angel, consuming me hard, stealing my heart faster." 

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You kind of..... complete me."

"Christ, I fucking want you so bad." Ryder whispers hoarsely. He drags his lips back to mine, his kiss urgent, greedy. However, he brings it down a notch, his movements revisiting slow, sensual, worshipping this moment for everything it is. Worshipping me for all I am. '"So badly, peach. More than I've ever wanted anything or anymore. You drive me crazy. Your smell, skin eyes." He sucks my between his teeth, a groan punching from his chest as he runs his fingertips along my bare arms. 
"Your little giggles, pouts, personality. Every single fucked-up scar you own in and out. All of it. All of you." He licks into my mouth, his tongue exploring mine with precision as his hands find my nape, their hold possessive. "Fuck. It should've been me. Not him. Me." 

"Because you're playing with someones mental state. Your actions can ruin their life, murdering their trust in anything real. Your indiscretions might as well be a hand wrapped their throats, squeezing their air frothier lungs. You can kill someone's faith in what love is supposed to be. I shrug again, feeling no different from Charles Manson for what I did to Brock "Murder. Just a tamer definition of the word." 

"If falling in love can turn into a bullet in your skull, what's the point of giving your heart away? Yet how do you stop your heart from reacting to what it needs?" You can't.
The Organ has a mind of its own, disregarding what might be unhealthy for you. Once it's been jolted by the spark, awakened by that all-consuming flame, it plays the dirtiest game of all. With each curious beat of wanting to touch, taste, and feel love, the heart routes all logical thoughts from your brain, siphoning them out of that sucker like a thief, spitting them back our onto a highway piled high with nothing but bloody wreckage.
Causing mass destruction to our mental well-being since the beginning of time, our hearts are public enemy numero uno."

"You're surface happy." He glances at me, his voice soft. "Don't think I can't see through you. I love you,and I want every bit of you happy. Not just the outside." 

"I don't know how you  did it, but you did." he says into my ear, his voice soft, sincere. "I know telling you this in the middle of rush hour traffic isn't cool or romantic, but I love you. I love you something fierce, and it scares the fuck out of me, but I couldn't keep it in any longer. I don't except you to say it back, or even feel the same way about me, but I wasn't about to let another day go by without letting you know that I love you, Amber Moretti." -Brock

"I gotta get the girl out of my head, but how the fuck do I let her go of someone who I feel was made for me?" -Ryder

"As lethal as I am to her, Amber's no less poisonous to me. She knots me up, twisting my emotions sideways. She drums up every inch of my head,  testing my sanity and making me question everything I believe. Her soft, curvy frame, cushioned against mine, hijacks each of my senses." -Ryder

"She can throw a man off balance, leaving him with nothing but tiny fragments of what used to be a pretty sane mind." 

"I think she knows what she does to a man." "How she completely takes over every goddamn thought he owns. Whether he's awake or not, she's there in his head, jacking up his universe. But hell if he want her to stop. He's addicted to her eyes, the way her sweet taste lingers on his tongue, and the way she moves when she's near him." He takes a breath, his barbell peeking out as he licks his lips. "So Fucking in tune with her, he hears the silent call from her body when she craves his touch."  -Ryder

"Because I'd die without you. Thats why. She was a mistake, something I can never erase, But you..Christ, Amber, you'd never become a mistake to me. It's impossible.  Ryder was right; you are a gift. One neither of us deserves. But you're one we'd treasure, making sure to take care of  your every mental and physical need." He drags his lips to mine, kissing me soft, deep. "I fucking love you, Ber. You're the purest air that I have around me. I need you to breathe, to wake up. To just....Exist. You're my lifeline. That's why you are and will always be to me. I need you to know that." 

"Through she's Brock's, the girls supposed to be mine. From the second I saw, something in my gut, a premontition of some sort, told me that. Fuck. I don't know what the hell it was--What the hell it is--it happened and it hasn't let up, its claws digging into the hollow of my chest more with each passing day. Yeah. Way past physical." 

"You have no idea what she's like in bed. The filthy things she says. The way she moves. It's like she was a dude in a former life. She kills it, knowing exactly what to do. No joke, my girl was created to fuck a man into oblivion." 

"Amber's got you hooked, and you have yet to fully experience her." 

"I love you," Brock whispers, something parallel to paranoia surfacing across his expression. "You'll never understand how much I cherish you, baby girl. I'd do anything fir you. Anything."

"You're the most goddamn beautiful thing ever created," he croons, his words spoken soft against my cheek. "I might be a little hemmed ip, but that doesn't mean I can't see straight. I'm positive I'll never come across anything as breathtaking as you." -Ryder

"Asking me not to worry about you is like asking me not take my next breath, Amber." -Ryder

"Christ, I never meant to hurt you." he whispers, his voice cracking as he holds me tighter. "I'd die first before ever trying to hurt you, peach. I'm sorry." -Ryder

"I care more for you that I know I should," I whisper, aware I'm crossing a dangerous line as I press up on my tiptoes, laying my mouth over his. I kiss him soft and slow, my need for the truth growing. "I have from the second you stole that first kiss from me. Your smile, your laugh. The way you love and take care of you family. All of it, Ryder. you're a magnet I know will never stop pulling me to you. even when you're not near me, I can feel you. Hear your voice. See your face in my dreams." "The feelings I have for you scare me. You scare me. But even if I wanted to stop them, I couldn't because I down't want to. I'm tired of fighting what feels....right. You feel right to me Ryder, and I need you in my life. Couldn't imagine it without you." 

"I know you're not mine to claim. Hell, you might not ever be. This I know all too well. But the little bits of you I've got-the beautiful, painful, amazing, Swizzler-Loving, crazy pieces of yourself you've shared with me-mean way too much to my goddamn sanity to give you up." -Ryder

"I need you a hundred times more than I need my next breath, a thousand times more than I need my next heartbeat, and a million times more than I need to wake up to the sun hanging in the sky." -Ryder

"Staring into my eyes as though I'm the only thing that natters, the absolute center of his existence, Ryder kisses me, each soft, slow sweep of his tongue opening my heart to him even more." 

"and I don't care what Brock thinks. Your pussy was made doe me. Not him." -Ryder

"Shh. I have you," he whispers, his gaze moving over my face. "I've always had you, Amber. Always."

"You're mine, Amber." he whispers raggedly against the shell of my ear, his hands cradling the back of my head. Opening his baby blues, he gives me a slow, passionate kiss. "You've always been mine, peach. I think you know it too." My hearts swells with equal parts of confusion, emotion, and my own temporary insanity, my insides lighting up like lighting as my conscience screams that he's right. Though i"ve tried to fight it, Lord know I have, it was a battle fought in vain from the second our worlds collided, our pull to magnetic, strong and powerful to ignore.

"I can't help but fell like we're all standing in the path of a dangerous storm. A storm i'm positive is gonna take one us out-if not all of us-leaving the bloodied remnants of our hearts spread over a field of nothing but pain, hurt, and regret."

"Love changed us-changes the dynamics of everything we ever believed in. Love's pure and selfish. It can make us want things we shouldn't and  hate what it's turned us into. It's giving, greedy, indecisive, vindictive, and magical all at once. It makes us jump from one delusional emotion to the next, all the while patiently keeping us dangling in its malicious yet euphoric web. A web that's laced with beautiful lies and horrible truths. But one thing love remains constant at- the most important feeling it controls in us-is jealousy. When we live someone wholeheartedly, truly can't imagine getting through single day with them, that's when love can show her rage. Once released, love's jealousy can never be taken back, her desire to forget her pain breaking all the rules, uncaring of every obstacle she destroys in her path. It's unlike any God-given emotion we're born with." 

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Maldeamores (Love Sick) by Mara White Blog Tour

"Exquisitely sensual, Maldeamores is the most unforgettable forbidden romance I have ever read."  Katy Evans, New York Times Bestselling Author of the REAL Series.

"Refreshingly 'taboo' - in a community where we're inundated by novels claiming this title, it's wonderful to finally find a book that not only truly lives up to the word, but is also well written, moving, and beautiful in its prose."   Stylo Fantome, Best Selling Author of the Kane Trilogy.

Belén: I’ve loved Luciano ever since I can remember, desired him before I even knew what it meant. He’s always been the only man in my life—my constant protector, and his rejection only intensifies my need.

Luciano: I’ve never known a love more fierce than the one I feel for Belén. But I force myself to deny her no matter how much it hurts.

Our love is a sickness and both of us are infected.

Because there’s no cure for being from the same family

***Warning***

This novel contains graphic sex scenes, including: incest, F/F, and ménage, M/M/F. Some drug use and violence.   
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Now that Luciano lives in the same building, he comes over all the time. Both he and Titi have a key, and I have one to their apartment that I keep on my key chain.

Our front door opens while I’m sitting at the dining room table doing homework. I look up, expecting to see Mami coming in with the groceries, but instead it’s Luciano and he doesn’t look good.

His lip is swollen and bleeding—his eye took a punch too, and it’s almost closed from the pressure. He’s hurt and it startles me. I stand up and my pen rolls to the floor, but I stay silent, waiting for him to say something first.

"I didn’t think you’d be home," he says. His face is totally straight, lacking any emotion.

"The library was closed for a special event. Was there a fight? Are you okay? You’re bleeding."

He nods and says nothing.

"Let me get you some ice," I say, running to the kitchen.

I put ice in a bowl and run a clean towel under water, then grab some gauze and peroxide from the bathroom and take it all to the living room where he’s sitting.

Kneeling down beside him, I put ice cubes in the wet towel and lift it to his face. I ask permission with my eyes and Luciano gives me a quick nod. He winces from either the cold or the pressure and I put my hand on his chest to calm him. It’s an automatic gesture.

"Does it hurt?" I ask him.

He shakes his head.

His chest feels solid under his T-shirt and touching it does strange things to my body. I try to focus on the task in front of me.

"Titi will kill you," I say, pulling my mind away from his hard chest. "You should try to stay out of fights," I add, resisting the urge to wrap my arms around him or crawl into his lap. Luciano is, and has always been, the only man in my life. I look to him for reassurance all the time, even though we’re almost the same age.

I dab at the gash under his eye that is bleeding the most.

"Easier said than done," he says, and then grabs my wrist hard. I stare at the juncture where his hand meets my arm. His knuckles are white and my skin under his grip is turning bright pink.

My lips immediately part and my stomach fills with unease. I can always read Luciano, but right now I can’t tell what’s happening. He has sweat on his brow and there’s dirt smudged on his face and his arm. He doesn’t release my hand.

"Luciano, you’re scaring me."

He drops my wrist disdainfully and his eyes graze slowly down my body. I glance down at my own chest and suddenly remember that I took my bra off when I got in. I’m wearing a white button-down shirt, unbuttoned a little bit. My nipples are hard from the cold ice in the tea cloth. The shirt brushes over my breasts just enough to make shivers skirt up my back.

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Mara White is a contemporary romance and erotica writer who laces forbidden love stories with hard issues, such as race, gender and inequality. She holds an Ivy League degree but has also worked in more strip clubs than even she can remember. She is not a former Mexican telenovela star contrary to what the tabloids might say, but she is a former ballerina and will always remain one in her heart. She lives in NYC with her husband and two children and yes, when she’s not writing you can find her on the playground.

"You don't get to choose who you fall in love with and the heart is blind."

Mara White Posted the cover of this book and I had to have it.

Come on with a cover like that you have to know what are hidden among those pages, plus I've read her other books in the Heights of Desire series and completely fell in love with her writing! 
I read the Prologe and seen this at the end...

***Warning***
This novel contains graphic sex scenes, including: incest, F/F, and ménage, M/M/F. Some drug use and violence. 

Let me start off by saying I came into this book with an open mind. 
I usually don't read the whole "forbidden" books because it's just too hard for me to get comfortable with whole situation and really get into the book but knowing what an amazing writer Mara White is, I knew right away I was going to have to keep an open mind and just absorb the love story.
WHOA! I am so freaking glad I did!! 
This book changed my complete mindset regarding the "forbidden" category! 
This story proved to me that I don't need to be so closed minded about the "forbidden" side of the story and at least just give the story a chance because you might be completely blown away, and thats what happened with Belén and Lucky story. 
Mara White completely blew me away with not only her writing skills but her bravery of actually writing this story and releasing it. She deserves a round of applause.
This isn't just a love story. It's a Dark, Raw and Emotional story about just happening to have found the one person that your soul recognizes as you other half and not being able to act on those feelings because its your Cousin...The angst and pain you feel for the characters will have you wanting to rip your own heart out. It's gritty and raw and at times you feel uncomfortable but it's a beautiful master piece all the same, because..

"I think that nobody can help who they love. That shit just happens and you've got figure out how to deal with it. I don't believe it's a choice. Ever." 

Did Belén and Lucky get their happy ending? Guess you are going to have get the book and find out. Trust me you want to find out, because the ending is what MAKES this book! 
The ending completely took me surprise! I am talking about made me hold my breathe and was thinking no this is a joke. Mara White can't be ending it on this note. SHE CANT!!!! But ill be damn if she did. SHE FREAKING DID!!! 

Let me ask you this, Do you love books that leave you wondering what the heck just happened?
Wondering if the author is pulling a huge prank on you?
Do you LOVE when a book leaves you breathless and in complete awe? Well guess what this book is for you! Because Mara White did just that. 
This book is a MUST read! 
Give it a chance and the story will BLOW YOU AWAY! It will leaving you wanting more and wanting to start emailing asking a ton of questions! 

Maldeamores is to be releasing on June 22, 2015

Quotes:
"We're both each others poison, but we're also each other's only antidote." 

"She is raw. Pure emotion. Savagely in love with me and willing to sacrifice whatever it takes."

"When the pen falls into our hands, we can't erase the past. All we're allowed is the chance to create a new ending." 

"I'll die without you," she whispers, her eyes ow out of their daze. "There will never be anyone else for me, Lucky. Ever. I don't want there to be."

"Pretending that I want what everyone else wants. Walking away from Lucky will be my own funeral procession with the real Belén lying dead in the coffin. I'll never let her out for anyone else to see. She's not perfect if she's in love with her cousin. She's defective and so is he."

"Loving you, Bey, she not be something that's hidden from the world. your love should be a privilege, not a dirty secret. I want you to have a happy life, one that you're proud of." 

"I love my pain, Lucky, and I love how it hurts me, When I no longer feel it, it means I've lost my connection to you, and I never want that to happen. I love this pain because it's part of loving you."

"Once I tasted your lips it ruined every other kiss for me. I don't want them. I resent every caress that isn't yours, Lucky. Your touch branded me first and I'm ruined."

"I'm in love with you, Belén. Always have been. I don't want to fuck you-I want to be the first man to make love to you."

"I love him. Lucky. The only one. Finally." 

"Lucky owns every part of me, my past and my future. I don't think moving on is possible. How could I ever want to come on from a love this full and prefect?" 

"I was yours regardless. I always belonged to you."

"We fall asleep together, wrapped in one another's bodies, becoming each other's soft blanket of comfort. I don't know what will happen to us, but no matter what, at least Lucky and I share this same sick love for one another." 

"I'm thinking about Len when the vehicle behind me blows up." 

"Gene mutations I can tell you about Belén. But love, that is the universe;a greatest mystery." 

"My pain from Luciano isn't a sickness-it's a source of magnificent strength, it's the most beautiful part of me."

"I don't consider myself cursed; I consider myself lucky." 

"Len, you are the best and worst thing that's ever happened to me." 

"We love deep down at the bottom of a well, where my glass heart bears his name and neither one of us, ever, feels any shame."

"Luciano takes up all of my heart and is forever a part of me." 

"I promise you, Lucky that no matter what happens-jhere or there-to you or me, nothing else will ever compare to this love. Nothing." 

"We fall asleep together under the sweet, heavy honey, our love buried underneath like a beautiful secret, when we hide from the world. We love deep down at the bottom of a well, where my glass heart bears his name and neither one of us, ever, feels any shame for it." 

"Belén's problem isn;t just that she love you like nothing else, Lucky. It's that she's convinced herself that it's a disorder-that she's somehow abnormal."

"I learned something from him, man. That you fucking know when it's real love and you don't get to choose when or with who it happens. You got to hold onto it, because life is too short." 

""Are you in love, Jaylee?" I ask him as. This is his predicament. He is fighting against love now just like Lucky did his whole life.  
"First time" he says and thumps his fist against his heart."wrong fucking person, who makes everything feel right. You get how that goes, Bey, huh?"

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