Tuesday 12 February 2013

Release Day Launch: If You Stay by Courtney Cole




Hello Therians!

I am over the moon, crazy excited to be included in the release day launch for If You Stay by Courtney Cole. There's so much I want to say about this amazing book but I fear that words cannot express how phenomenal it it.

Check out my review below and enter for a chance to win!


"Love Never Fails"


 
SYNOPSIS


24-year old Pax Tate is an asshole.
 
Seriously.
 
He’s a tattooed, rock-hard bad-boy with a bad attitude to match.
 
But he’s got his reasons.
 
His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with guilt although he doesn’t understand why. What he does know is that he and his dad are left alone and with more issues than they can count.
 
As Pax grew up, he tried to be the kid his father always wanted; the perfect golden boy, but it didn’t work. His dad couldn’t overcome his grief long enough to notice and Pax couldn’t keep up the impossible perfect façade.
 
So he slipped far, far from it.
 
Now, he uses drugs and women to cope with the ugliness, the black void that he doesn’t want to deal with. If he pretends that the emptiness isn’t there, then it isn’t, right?
 
Wrong.
 
And it’s never more apparent than when he meets Mila.
 
Sweet, beautiful Mila Hill is the fresh air to his hardened frown, the beauty to his ugly heart. He doesn’t know how to not hurt her, but he quickly realizes that he’s got to figure it out because he needs her to breathe.
 
When memories of his mother’s death resurface from where he’s repressed them for so long, Mila is there to catch him when the guilt starts making sense. Mila is the one…the one who can save him from his broken troubled heart; from his issues, from the emptiness.
 
But only if he can stop being an asshole long enough to allow it.
 
He knows that. And he’s working on it.
 
But is that enough to make her stay?
 
**Warning-Contains sex and violence**


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REVIEW
 
This has to be one of the most amazing books I have had the pleasure of reading!
 
From start to finish I was enthralled and I couldn't put it down. I mean, WOW, what a way to introduce us to sexy, bad-boy, Pax Tate. And poor Mila, she deserves a medal for what she had to go through in the beginning.
 
The story is well paced and jam-packed with emotion. There wasn't a second that my heart wasn't in my throat. I loved the development of Pax and Mila's relationship, and boy, oh boy, are there some scorching hot scenes in this book! I especially loved the tantalising second date. It really upped the ante on the sensuality of this story...and it made me want to start painting!
 
 
Underneath it all, there is a really beautiful love story. One in which two people learn to accept, and love each other – as well as themselves. Everything about this couple felt real. They faced many hurdles but they also shared many beautiful tender moments.
I cannot express enough how much I loved the characters. Pax is flawed in so many ways. All he's ever known are bad habits, trashy people and the dark void that fills his soul. He doesn’t apologize for being a bad-boy. In fact, he quite clearly puts it out there that he has problems, take it or leave it. And I admired him for his brutal honesty. But his bad-boy side was clearly a shield and I was intrigued as to why he’d become that way. So when the truth was revealed, my heart shattered into tiny pieces.
 
Mila on the other hand, although more grounded and stable, really seems to be missing something. It felt like she was holding back and only started to live again after meeting Pax. She is such a wonderful, strong female MC, and I think we can learn a lot from her. She is independent, and even when she starts a relationship with Pax, she holds her own. She doesn’t become needy and clingy. She has doubts about him but they are all within reason, and when it does get to breaking point, she takes a step back. It takes all of her willpower but she does it, and I felt a sense of pride that she took the risk of letting go for the sake of their love.
 
These days it’s too easy for people to make promises and then break them without a thought, so I loved that Pax didn’t promise Mila the world, he only told her that he would try to not hurt her. And because of his love for her he turned that try into a lasting promise, proving that Love Never Fails.
 
As far as rating systems go, this book can get nothing less than...
 
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Times that by a trillion, and that is what it truly deserves!!


 
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Courtney Cole is a novelist who would eat mythology for breakfast if she could. She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds. She loves chocolate and roller coasters and hates waiting and rude people.

Courtney lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake Michigan, with her real-life Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small chance that they get their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic zoo.









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  Don't forget to follow the Blog Tour for interviews, excerpts and more!!

February 11th

The Bookish Brunette-Interview
Book Briefs-Interview with Pax’s Dad

February 12th

Hypable-Interview
RELEASE DAY LAUNCH

February 13th


February 14th

Books Over Boys-Guest Post
Book Whisperer-Guest Post

February 15th

Bound by Books-Interview with Mila
Insightful Minds-Guest Post

February 16th


February 17th


February 18th

3 Chicks & Their Books-Excerpt
Crazy Book Chicks-Interview with Pax

February 19th

I Read Indie-Top 10 Interview
Hackaroo Reviews-Guest Post

February 20th


February 21st

Reader Girls-Interview
The Autumn Review-Guest Post

February 22nd


 


2 comments:

  1. Roxy,
    Your review gave me goosebumps. Thank you so much for hosting me here today. I am so, so happy that you liked If You Stay. <3

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, Courtney!!
      Glad you liked my review!
      If You Stay is definitely in my top 5 books of 2013, and even though it's early in the year, I know it will stay there :)

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