Title: No Regrets Book #2)
Autor: Lauren Blakely
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance
This ebook contains the following books:
• The Thrill of It
• The Start of Us
• Every Second With YouThe Thrill of It – A new adult story of Love. Sex. Addiction. Blackmail. And Power…
When Harley and Trey meet again in love addiction recovery, they must confront all their temptations, as well as her damaged, broken past and his dark family secrets, before they face the question — how do you love with no regrets when regret is all you know?-The Start of Us – A new adult story of First Times. Last Times. Connections. And No Regrets… When Harley first meets Trey, she only wants a tattoo. What she gets is the most intense connection she’s ever had. Trey can’t forget her either and doesn’t want to let her go. How can one night be the start of something when tomorrow it has to end?
– Every Second With You – A new adult story of Sex. Love. Addiction. Heartache. Pain. And Hope.
Harley and Trey face new challenges that will make battling blackmail, sex addiction, and a virgin call girl past look easy…
Title: Every Second With You (No Regrets Book #2)
Autor: Lauren Blakely
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Every Second With You = Sex. Love. Addiction. Heartache. Pain. And Hope.
In the sequel to the bestselling new adult romance THE THRILL OF IT, Harley and Trey face new challenges that will make battling blackmail, sex addiction, and a virgin call girl past look easy…
I used to think love was a lie. Now I know it’s real, powerful, and I don’t want to lose it…But my future scares me, and there’s no way this can be happening, especially since I’ve finally broken free from all the people who wanted pieces of me. I don’t even know how to start over, but I have to find a way. So when I discover what my mother’s been keeping from me, it doesn’t make me hate her. It gives me hope for a new life, outside of New York. But the ties that bind me to this city are so strong, sometimes they are chains. If only I could leave with…
Trey…
I will do anything for her. She owns me, heart, mind and body. But when Harley tells me this, I am rocked to the core, and terrified of what happens next. Especially when now it’s not her past that chases me, it’s someone from my own. And that someone is messing with my head when I’m trying to be strong for Harley. But all I really want is to escape with the girl I love…For the rest of our lives.
How can you move forward when the past keeps chasing you?
I love the No Regrets series…check out my review of the first book, The Thrill of It and interview with Harley and Trey.
Title: The Thrill of It (No Regrets Book #1)
Author: Lauren Blakely
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 21, 2013
A new adult story of Love. Sex. Addiction. Blackmail. And Power…
Some say love can be an addiction. Others say it’s the thing that makes life worth living. Let me tell you everything I know about love…Love isn’t patient, love isn’t kind. Love is a game, a chase. A thrill. Love is wild and war-like, and every man and woman must fight for themselves. At least that’s how it was for me. A high-priced virgin call girl by the time I started college, I was addicted to love and to sex. Even though I’ve never had either. I controlled love, played it, and held the world in the palm of my hands. Then I fell down from those highs, and I’m being blackmailed for all my mistakes, forced to keep secrets from everyone, except the only guy I don’t regret.
Trey…
With all the other women, I knew what they were. They were temporary. They were pills, they were bottles, they took away all the pain, and numbed the awful memories that wore down my ragged, wasted heart. Until I met Harley. She’s the only girl I ever missed when she walked away. But now she’s back in my life, every day, and there are no guarantees for us, especially since I don’t know how to tell her my secrets. What happened to my family. All I know is she’s the closest I’ve ever come to something real, and I want to feel every second of it.
How can you love with no regrets when regret is all you know?
Make sure you check out the FREE prequel novella to The Thrill of It…you can read it before or after (I recommend after) and hear all about that one night that started it all!
Title: The Start of Us (No Regrets Book #0.5)
Author: Lauren Blakely
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 25, 2013
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A new adult story of First Times. Last Times. Connections. And No Regrets…
I only wanted a tattoo. A mark on my body to remind me of who I used to be. Something to hold onto when I started my penance for all the things I’d done wrong, the bad choices I’d made by the time I turned nineteen. Instead, I found a night of possibility, of truth, of hope for the future. And the most intense physical connection I’ve ever had.
The only one I’ve ever had, and one I will never forget.
Trey…
When she walked into my tattoo shop, I knew she was like me. Harley had secrets. She had a messed-up past, and things she wanted to run from, or forget ever happened. I couldn’t let her go. So we agreed on one night – to spend it together wandering around the city, getting to know each other, the clock ticking because we knew tomorrow would bring an end to the possibility of an us.
Unless tonight was only the start.
How can one night be the start of something when tomorrow it has to end?
10 things Harley and Trey want to do together…
Every Second with You by Lauren Blakely
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
*ARC Given to Blog for Honest Review*
4 “Hope” “cherry blossom tree” Kisses
I was so excited to get my hands on the conclusion of Trey and Harley’s story. I absolutely adored them in The Thrill of It…they pulled me in with all the angst and sexual tension and emotion…I couldn’t get enough. Plus that ending – hello! If you have no idea what I am talking about…then we have a problem…Every Second with You is the sequel to The Thrill of It…and these books must be read in order.
Harley…oh Harley…so much wiser than her age…it’s hard for me to think that she’s only 20 – it just seems to young because she doesn’t act like a 20 year old. At all. She’s been through a lot. A call girl who doesn’t have sex with a pimp that is more like father to her and a mother who is more concerned with her boyfriends than the emotional well-being of her daughter. Oh and let’s not forget being blackmailed by an evil twat with a grudge (not that she didn’t have reasons to be angry, I just think the anger is a little misdirected and a tad over the top!). I think anyone dealing with that bucket of fun wouldn’t mature real quick! Harley was the first one to piss me off in the book…in the beginning I struggled with Harley’s decisions because I didn’t agree with them and I understood her logic…that didn’t mean I had to like it! Luckily…she got over that pretty quickly and truly showed me how awesome she is. She has clearly been through a lot and things don’t just become a walk in the park because she has Trey by her side, as much as I wish that for her. Harley is my tough little soldier…she’s got this protective shell that she has built up to save her from the harsh reality of her life – the fact that she really hasn’t had a family or anyone to love her and treat her like she deserves. Until Trey.
‘I want to cry, I want to sob, I want to hold him close and never let him go. I wam in heaven with him, and I have one foot in the hell of my own fear, so I need to lose myself in sex, in love, in connection. Maybe this is the druggie in me, the junkie that doesn’t know how to deal without her fix.’
Trey Westin you get me every time. He’s so not what you would expect…behind this tough tatt’d bad boy image with a scar that holds his troubled past…is this huge heart, this warm, caring and affectionate guy that would give anything and everything to protect those he loves. It’s so endearing…I test anyone not to fall in love with him. It’s funny because what I think is Trey’s strongest feature is what he hid for so long – his ability to feel was repressed and he chose to hide behind sex, ignoring his desire to love…and it got him nowhere. Well…it got him somewhere but that somewhere was a permanent mark to remind him of every mistake he had ever made. So…Harley might have been the first out of the two of them to piss me off…but Trey just about made me scream when he almost did what I thought he was going to do (if that makes any sense, but I’m being intentionally vague to not give anything away!). I’m serious…I had to put down my Kindle, I was that angry. But…his reaction to not doing what I thought he was going to do…totally made me fist pump because…it shows how much he has changed. He had the opportunity to run back to his old patterns, to give up on all the progress he made…ruin everything he built with Harley…and he didn’t. Yay for growth!!!
‘I shake my head. “I don’t want to talk. I just want you.” I fall into her again, the press of her body some kind of balm for my fearful heart. Because it’s working. It’s fucking working. The feel of her is an anesthetic. “I love you,” I murmur in her ear, as much to remind myself as to get her in the state I need her in. Because I wante her blissed out, drunk from sex, too. We can et wasted together. “I love you so fucking much,” I say, and she moans softly from the words. I know her, I know this girl. She loves hearing it, she can’t get enough of it, and it turns her on to no end.
“I love you too,” she says, roping her arms around my neck, and he voice is so honest, so pure, that it nearly jolts me from the haze that’s coating my brain.’
I think that was what I appreciated the most from this book…all the growth I saw in Harley and Trey. Obviously…they have come through a lot…I get that, believe me…I was right there with them, imagining myself holding their hands…but up until about 20-30% on ESwY, I was ready to drop kick both of them. I already said it, they were completely pissing me off and I really wanted to just shake them and say ‘Ummm….excuse me?!?!!? I didn’t just suffer through TToI for both of you to mess it up! It’s not happening!’ Yes…I was tempted to throw my kindle…I internally screamed…it was a rough period of time. They were both making crazy decisions that I didn’t think fit with what they had been through and how far they had come. Granted, the baby is a huge stressor for both of them and it’s easy to fall back into old patterns. But, thank God…then the clouds parted and my glorious little duo made me so proud. So…was all that anguish worth it? The bitter part of me wants to say no…but honestly? Yeah…it was. It made me value what they had…and it needed to happen…it really drove home how much they have changed and matured. It wouldn’t have been Harley and Trey if there wasn’t a little ‘ugly beautiful’ to get through…its part of what makes them…them. With everything they went through, they were the ones who needed to figure their stuff out and come to terms with their pasts so that they could live a happy, healthy life together. It’s true to who they are and it made me appreciate what they had that much more.
‘“Did that work?” I ask into the quiet night.
“Um, yeah. Couldn’t you tell?”
I shake my head. “That’s not what I meant. I meant, did I show you love?”
“Yes. You and me, this is what love is.”
We learned it together.’
I have to say ESwY was a very complete way to end Trey and Harley’s story. On top of the baby aspect, there were a lot of issues that needed to be resolved…least of all were Trey’s parents & Harley’s mom. I was hopeful on both fronts…because you never want to truly believe that a parent would give up on their child the way that their parents gave up on them…and I don’t even know if ‘gave up’ is the right term for what they did but it’s the best generalization I can give. Trey’s parents…surprised me, in a good way. I understand their pain but at the same time I feel their pain kept them from bonding with the son they did have…which is sad. Barb is just a whole other beast – she proved me right…she is in fact a complete waste of a human being. Very sad. But I did like the development with Harley’s family that I didn’t see coming…it was a little bit of a welcomed curveball but it was cute and I liked what it added to the story. And don’t worry…that wasn’t the only curve ball…oh, there were plenty – and I won’t spoil them but boy did Lauren Blakely give me heart palpitations with some of them. Yeah…like the one at 90-something% when I was thinking there was no way she was really going to make me cry that late in the book – but yeah…she totally did.
‘That’s what she’s been teaching me, in her own quiet way. To live each day, to embrace it, to seize the moment, because that’s all we ever have.
Moments. With each other. Without regret.’
ESwY was definitely an emotional rollercoaster that kept me on my toes…I didn’t know what I was expecting, but I can definitely say I was pleasantly surprised. Harley and Trey’s beautiful story of overcoming their pasts, learning to thrive in love and their unending passion is one I won’t soon forget.
Lauren Blakely writes sexy contemporary romance novels with heat, heart, and humor, and her books have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iBooks bestseller lists. Like the heroine in 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. Her novels include Caught Up In Us, Pretending He’s Mine, Playing With Her Heart, and Trophy Husband. She also writes for young adults under the name Daisy Whitney.
