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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.
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"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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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.
Connect with Courtney
Website: http://courtneycolewrites.com/
Author
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/courtneycolewrites
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/courtwritesYA
Novel
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17032328-if-you-stay
Author
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3112212.Courtney_Cole
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Roxy,
ReplyDeleteYour 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
Thanks for stopping by, Courtney!!
DeleteGlad 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 :)