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Indulging in Irelyn

Blurb -

NFL quarterback, Zolt Hamil was America’s heartthrob until a career ending injury changed his life. Years later, he’s picked up the pieces and carved out a new path for himself. But the mental and physical scars of that day have left him moody and reclusive, and his only relief is indulging in pleasure and pain with his many one night stands. Though many of women have tried, Zolt refuses to care about any of them. Only one woman has his heart; a hallucination of a young, sable-eyed, blonde beauty whom he conjured that painful day on the football field.

On the first day at his new job at a law firm in Scottsdale, Arizona, Zolt comes face to face with his hallucination, Irelyn Wilkes. Their fateful connection, and explosive passion for each other pulls them together, and this time, Zolt refuses to let her slip from his life.

But Irelyn has her own demons to fight, and her controlling boyfriend is one of them. He doesn't take kindly to other people playing with his toys, and he’ll stop at nothing to keep her by his side. 

Can Irelyn and Zolt defy the odds and find a way to be together? Or, will the events set in motion years ago keep them apart forever?

New Adult. Recommended for eighteen and above due to adult content, language, and sexual situations.

 

 

 

 

 

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Krystle's Thoughts

 

I was asked to be a beta-reader for this book, and I fell in love with it! I blew thru it in about a day and was left wanting more, it had a nice even flow that made you not want to put it down. This is quite different than what I'm used to reading from this author, since I've only read her Fantasy-Romance. Now seeing that she can also write a Smexy Contemporary-Romance with a bite of tasteful eroticism, I truly know I'm a fan for life.

The story's point of views are split by both the main heroine Irelyn, and the main hero, Zolt. We learn pretty early on that Zolton is a conceited A$$-hole, who likes to have H-I-S way with women – no repeats with them when he's thru with them, either – or driving his viper at way-the-hell-too-fast-speeds, as a coping mechanism for relieving stress in his what seems like “cushy” life. He's a swanky lawyer now-a-days, but years ago, he was the star quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals. That dream was taken from him due to a career ending knee injury. When he was taken down on the field, he laid, sprawled out in excruciating pain. He couldn't scream out in agony for the pain he was feeling, he just looked over on the sidelines and found refuge in the eyes of a beautiful girl. A girl he thought he'd conjured up as his own “Seraph”

With Zolt starting new job at a firm back in Arizona where he used to play football, he finds out that his “Seraph”...is real, and that she's also his new boss' daughter! Ouch! Kind of puts him in an awkward position. Should he make it big with his new boss and leave Irelyn alone, or see if what they had out on the field all those years ago still exists. Now come on, this wouldn't be an awesome romantic story if he let the girl of his dreams get away from him now, would it? Ha-ha!! I really loved the chemistry that Zolt and Irelyn had with each other, it's what made me stay up into the late hours of the night reading!

What's even wilder about this book is that Irelyn's current boyfriend, Marcus, is a super creepy troll. He treats Irelyn as if she's some sort of possession of his and not a woman he cares for, or even a human being at all, seeing that he gave her a “dog collar” to wear and all. Later on in the book you'll find out what the “dog collar” is all about, and that's something I really didn't see coming!!

I can't wait for book 2 and 3 and 4 (if she writes that many for this series) !! Thanks for letting me get an early start on this book Dawna! :)

 

 

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Sky's Thoughts

 

Yikes, *fans self*
Just finished my beta read for this book, and lemme tell ya, make sure you have a cold drink of your choice handy, hell, maybe even a rag to dab away at the sweat that will break across your neck and forehead LOL.
Irelyn is the type of female MC I adore; she’s strong, full of ambitions and has a good head on her shoulders.

Zolt, a bad boy with no qualms to his actions and an ex-quarter back for the NFL who took a career-ending blow to his knees mid-game by a later to be found out bounty job, took the time to go back to school and is now a successful and a highly sought out lawyer by other employers.
Now working for a new law firm several years after the tragic mishap on the field, serendipity takes its course.
The girl with soulful brown eyes and blonde hair who has haunted his dreams every night since that dreadful day as he lay sprawled out on the turf in pain, the girl he was so sure was just a hallucination nothing more other than an ethereal image his mind created as he lay there injured, to help him overcome the pain and help him see through it… is now staring back at him through a family portrait on his new employers desk. His seraph, it’s her.
Zolt is shocked back to life and his world is suddenly turned upside down and begins to change deep inside more than he would have ever expected.

While this story is soooo freaking steamy and hot, there is also an underlying issue that keeps the reader gripped into the story with page-turning suspense. Irelyn has to end her relationship with her no-good controlling boyfriend whom she felt she inherited anyway because her daddy has a close relationship with and was her deceased brother’s best friend. Little does she know, just how difficult a task that will be. The domineering piece of **it had a dark, hidden agenda for his pretty and has her marked for…well no spoilers, and like I said I was going to keep this short for *now* LOL, oops. 0=)

But leaving Marcus will not be easy as he has, unknowing to her, plans that will severely degrade her lower than she deserves. As the story progresses, Zolt received vital information that put him in the know after a friend with connections had helped him investigate a mysterious case Ire’s father bestowed on him for suspicious reasons, and tries his damndest to bring it to her attention, and he will do what it takes to protect her.

Zolt is an alpha hero that I could fall in love with over and over again. His pride and alpha streak remains, but his heart grows full for a woman just perfect for him, and blows away every rule he had ever made for himself when it came to relations.

Can’t wait for book two T_T
I will update this once the book goes live!
I CAN’T WAIT FOR YOU ALL TO READ THIS! I am telling everyone LOLOL

 

 

 

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NFL quarterback, Zolt Hamil was America’s heartthrob until a career ending injury changed his life. Years later, he’s picked up the pieces and carved out a new path for himself. But the mental and physical scars of that day have left him moody and reclusive, and his only relief is indulging in pleasure and pain with his many one night stands. Though many women have tried, Zolt refuses to care about any of them. Only one woman has his heart; a hallucination of a young, sable-eyed, blonde beauty whom he conjured that painful day on the football field.

On the first day at his new job at a law firm in Scottsdale, Arizona, Zolt comes face to face with his hallucination, Irelyn Wilkes. Their fateful connection, and explosive passion for each other pulls them together, and this time, Zolt refuses to let her slip from his life.

But Irelyn has her own demons to fight and her controlling boyfriend is one of them. He doesn't take kindly to other people playing with his toys, and he’ll stop at nothing to keep her by his side.

Can Irelyn and Zolt defy the odds and find a way to be together? Or, will the events set in motion years ago keep them apart forever?

New Adult. Recommended for eighteen and above due to adult content, language, and sexual situations.

Krystle's Thoughts - Severed Colours by Dawna Raver

 
 
                            

Severed Colours

Dawna Raver

Expected Release - 11/18/2013

 

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Book 2 of The Colour Wielders Series is awesome! I love, love, looooved it. The way Ms. Raver writes, you get immersed and can easily lose yourself in her imagination. I love the world building for Severed Colours; as well as book 1, Colour Wielders.

SC picks up right where book one left off, with Arik handing Quinn over to his Bitch of a mother Morgana. Although poor Quinn has no idea what's happening and thinks the love of her life is betraying her, Arik knows his mother is her only chance of survival. Course even though the all-knowing Morgana knows what her son is up to, she still thinks she has the upper-hand...

Boy, was she wrong. (I love what unicorn blood does to her BTW Dawna, LOL, I lost it laughing..)

“After centuries, Morgana Le Fay's beauty was over. She looked like a zombie in search of brains as she held out her arms and grabbed at empty air”

LOL

So any-who, after Quinn goes thru her awakening in the Marbh Chamber constructed by Morgana, she's a changed person. No longer a child with baby-like skin, but now a woman. Her body, hair, and features all go thru a painful change, leaving her a more mature, adult Magykal. What's even better is that she and Arik soul-touch during the process, meaning that they will both be battling each others' emotions in their minds. This was pretty neat to see thru-out the book, I thought. Not sure if I'd want it done to me, but could be handy!

The author throws in a lovely – and crazy – curve ball after Quinn's Awakening, that really shocked the Hell out of me. I just sort of sat there and thought, Omgggggg!!! And I can't tell you!!!!! It leaves Arik desperate and no choice, but to summon the most powerful beings in all the lands. The Triarchia.... Where they have him answer a yes or no question with a no win scenario.

“Can love surrounded by hate, survive, or is the end of an endless knot forever lost? Yes or No?”

After Arik's answered and made his sacrifice, both he and Quinn will have to work extremely hard to get around this obstacle thru-out the rest of the book. Let's just say that I hate The Triarchia, and A lot, and you all will too, ha!

Although Quinn has changed so much from her Awakening, that after The Triarchia are thru with her, she's even more changed than before. She may now seem like a brat, but without her new attitude adjustment the story wouldn't make sense or get to where it needs to be.

“I do care for you. I – You are my everything.” Arik Morgaine

Ms. Raver answers a lot of questions and ties the book up perfectly for the end, all the while, still leaving some things that need to be worked out for book 3. Which I can't wait for!

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Things I loved -

Like I mentioned before, her world building technique and the way she writes her characters. Now I really want to go to the club Ersatz she made up for the book, LOL!

I enjoyed how the author has her characters dress like 'normal human beings', since they are Magykals living in a Magykal Realm, sure it'd be easy to dress them for the time period of beautiful gowns, etc.. But they still wear band t-shirts, jeans, leather jackets, etc... That's great! :)

Since I read an early version of the book, she is making some changes, and one of those changes is hysterical. Where Princess Quinn has her own Royal Guard, she calls them Mutts...In the version I read they were humans, but in the new version, they're going to be actual dogs that walk on 2 legs. Very different, and very cool. !