5 SMOOCHES
Synopsis
Do you take me seriously? Because I don’t. I use my jokes and easygoing personality to hide the pain I’ve felt since he took his last breath. I’m adrift without my partner in crime, my best friend…my brother. I can taste the vengeance just within my grasp.
Until she barges into my life. Promising me happiness and a peace I’ve been craving for years. She is the sun to my darkness, the happy to my despair.
But she holds secrets. Just like I do. She holds hers close, where I just pray mine don’t rock the walls we’re trying to build.
Now I’m stuck at a crossroads between my desire for revenge and my craving for her and the life we could have together—and I have no idea which road I should travel.
All I know with crystal clear certainty is that the past has the power to destroy it all.
Review
“I thought you didn’t do relationships, Ash?” she mocks. “I didn’t. You’re a game changer.”
Wow! Where do I begin . . . I have been a fan of Harper’s books since I first got my hands on a copy of Axel and have since read every one that has come out the minute I was able to get it. Not once have I ever been let down by her amazing ability to wrap me up in her story and make me fall in love with her alpha men. I went into Cooper thinking that Asher was going to be my least favorite of Harper’s men. We haven’t known him from the beginning like we have the others and I was worried he was going to be a poor replacement for his brother. Nope! I was wrong! COMPLETELY! Ash is all sexy and protective and LORDY did I love it all!
“There isn’t anything to be ashamed of. Your tits though . . . Damn, now those make up for the extra weight.”
One of the hardest things in this book was watching Ash waste his life away by drinking and pretty much being a grade A asshole! I honestly feel for him and he has plenty of reason to want to drown out real life. But boy was he an ass. (Although to be honest don’t we kinda love an ass in our books sometimes.) He was an ass who knew who he wanted though and that was Chelsie. Chelsie had her own drama to bring to the table and it was nothing to be taken lightly! She is keeping a HUGE secret from Ash and it is something that could really destroy the only happy things he feels like he has left. OK, I am going to stop talking plot before I give anything big away.
“I’ve told you before, you have nothing – not one damn thing – to be afraid of when you’re with me. Why do you keep acting like I’m going to hurt you? I take a deep, much needed breath. “Because Asher . . .Because you hold the power to crush me.”
I will say this book was very different for me than the others. I didn’t find it to be action packed like Axel, Cage and Beck but instead the emotions were the driving force here. While true to Harper’s form Cooper was super sexy with some of the best one liners writer, this story and these characters were more about learning to trust each other and be honest, Much like Uncaged was for me this was a deeply emotional ride that. At times I just had to put my kindle down and breathe. I felt so deeply for the pain these two have encountered and so desperately wanted them to get their happy ending!
“Holy Shit, I could come right now – just from sucking his cock.”
On the whole this book was as good as if not better than other in the series. There is not a book written by Harper that I would not whole heartily recommend for people to read. She tell a great story and with each book her writing gets better and better. Cooper is 100% 1-click worthy!
“Feeling her lips against mine – finally – is like finding water after years of drought. It was like coming home.”
~miranda
