Monday, March 21, 2016

review || SNATCHED 1+2 { book blitz } by Candy J. Starr



Publisher | Date, 2016 | Genre
Gothic Billionaires, book 1
★★★★1/2

SOURCE: AUTHOR
TOUR HOST: XPRESSO BOOK TOURS



I need to stop this wedding. My mother snuck behind my back to marry a gold-digger but he’ll not get his dirty hands on our company. Only, I arrived too late and now have to cool my heels. I never let emotions interfere with my life but I’m so pent up that, when I noticed that hooker working the room, I figure a play session will relieve my stress.

Her innocence is just an act – and we both know what the game is here. Don’t we?

A stranger, a hotel room, no word and no names. Who better to have a wild fling with? I’d been numb to the world for so long with nothing but a mountain of crushing debts. Then my father offered me a wad of cash to attend his glitzy wedding. I don’t do casual flings but, just this once, I want to be wanton and crazy. It’s not like I’ll ever see him again.

{ about candy j starr} .

Candy J. Starr used to be a band manager until she realised that the band she managed was so lacking in charisma that they actually sucked the charisma out of any room they played. “Screw you,” she said, leaving them to wallow in obscurity – totally forgetting that they owed her big bucks for video equipment hire.

Candy has filmed and interviewed some big names in the rock business, and a lot of small ones. She’s seen the dirty little secrets that go on in the back rooms of band venues. She’s seen the ugly side of rock and the very pretty one.

But, of course, everything she writes is fiction.


{ excerpt } .

He backed me up against the pillar with my hands held by my sides. His face was so close to mine that I could feel his hot breath on my neck. He had that rich people smell too. He must’ve been able to hear my heart pound, it was so loud. My whole body pounded. I’d become a pounding, blushing idiot.

“You shouldn’t,” I said, but instead of sounding insistent, my words came out in a husky whisper. Like a plea.

“Oh, I should.”

The deep rumble of his voice vibrated in my ear, sending delicious sensations through my body, down to my feet. He didn’t sound like he was going to take no for an answer.

My common sense told me to stop him but it’d been so long since I’d been with a man.

His lips hovered near mine and all common sense fled my mind. The only thought I had was how much I wanted him to kiss me. Every fibre of my being screamed for him to kiss me. It thudded through my body and reverberated with my pulse. The edges of my self blurred and I melted into the space around me.

That plump bottom lip of his called to me. It told me it held the keys to dreamland. That everything I’d ever fantasised about could be fulfilled.

He fixed me in the glare of his steely eyes until I quivered from the anticipation. My attention moved from his lip to those eyes. I couldn’t move. Even if I wanted to, he had me trapped. Nothing else mattered. The wedding, the dancing, all these people milling around. They no longer existed. There was only his eyes, so cold and vicious, as though he could see into my soul and didn’t like what he found there, but he wanted it just the same.

{ review } .

While this blitz is only for part 1, I was lucky enough to receive part 2, as well through the author.

I wasn't always a fan of serials. I do enjoy having my entire story in one sitting. Part of that is because I like my epilogues -- I have this unbearable need to know how it ends. But part of that is because I'm generally a one-sitter reader. I like to start and finish a book in as close to one go as I can. So having the first and second parts at least got me close.

This is the story of Veronica and Dom -- and yes, his name is a great portrayal of his character. Ms. Starr writes steamy fiction with hot alpha men, and Snatched is no less than what she typically writes. Their meeting is less than meet-cute and sets out to make Dom an ass, of course, but watching these two... It's been a fun ride so far.

Each part is short and quick, but the emotion, the chemistry, the heat... it all packs a punch. I can't wait for the third part.

{ giveaway } .


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