5 Smooches
Synopsis
Brilliant geneticist Kat Ciaramitaro is, and always has been, a bit of a nerd. She’s also the only level-headed member of a big Italian family where crazy reigns supreme. A life-altering medical diagnosis seven years ago changed a lot of things, but most days, Kat handles the emotional and physical baggage just fine. Because that’s what strong women do, right? They stand and they deal. Or, if they can’t stand, they sit and they deal.
Cleveland Police Officer Danny MacDonough is broken. Eighteen years of being passed from foster home to foster home left him feeling unwanted and totally unlovable, but Danny’s spent every moment since his eighteenth birthday making up for lost time, grabbing happiness wherever he can, with whomever he can, however he can…all while making sure no one gets close enough to see all the cracks in his well-honed façade.
When Kat’s sister married Danny’s best friend, their lives became forever intertwined. Despite their different backgrounds and polar opposite personalities, Danny and Kat formed a visceral connection the moment they met. They fought it with all they had, but one fateful night changes everything – thrusting them into an all-consuming, passionate relationship that threatens to tear down the walls they’ve so carefully constructed around their hearts.
But Kat is ill and Danny is wounded. And nothing about what’s developed between them is easy or neat. Their love is messy and chaotic and its intensity ultimately forces them into one final showdown where Danny and Kat must decide once and for all what will win–
His past, her future or their love?
Review
“I will never be at anyone’s mercy again. Not physically. Not financially. And not emotionally. Not ever again.”
What can I say but WOW! AMAZING! and WHEN CAN I GET MORE! All Of You by Gina Sorelle is the second book in All Of Me Series and as much as I loved the first book I absolutely loved the second one. I am in love with Kat and Danny and I am actually a bit sad their story is over. As long as it was I only want more and more. Gina hooked me from the beginning with Danny’s man-whore ways and Kat’s absolute hatred for him! You just know with strong feeling like that that this is going to be intense and intense it was!
“He would have a dimple , wouldn’t he? Being the perfect physical specimen on manhood, and all. And it goes so well with that subtle little cleft in his chin.”
If you have read book one than you already know Nathan and Stella. Danny is Nathan’s best friend and partner and Kat is Stella’s sister. If this isn’t asking for drama and trouble I don’t know what is. These two together are force to be reckoned with. Both coming with their on insecurities and trust issues, you would think that this would be doomed from the start. What I wasn’t expecting was to absolutely fall in love with Danny. He is so kind, gentle, and loving with Kat it made me yearn for a man like that. When they couldn’t stand each other their feelings were strong but when they couldn’t stay away from each other their feelings and emotions were out of this world strong.
“That kiss – their mouths together, her body leaning into him, his hands buried in her hair – had been so powerful, so surreal, that Danny felt changed by it somehow. Different.”
Now, all this being said you would think that this would be an easy love story but sadly that is not the case. If you have read Gina before then you know she is going to make you work for it and damn if she does. Kat is sick and in all honesty she is not going to get better. MS is a disease that she will have for the rest of her life and she knows that any person she commits herself to will have to deal with her body’s gradual deterioration and she isn’t willing to put anyone through that. She is determined to live a life without a relationship and focus on her family and work. That would be enough to drive any reader to tears but Danny’s personal struggle of being left alone and having no one will have you bawling like a baby in the corner. But damn if the ugly cry isn’t worth it!
“I knew it would be big . . . but that thing is ridiculous.”
I knew going in that this would be an emotional tear jerker, anyone who read the blurb could see that. What surprised me the most was how funny it was. I found myself constantly laughing which was a great change of pace after crying my eyes out. On top of the well placed bits of humor Gina has a way of taking the most serious thing you can think of and still making it all come off so sexy and erotic. In her books very serious diseases and afflictions are tackled but they always seem like a background story never really overshadowing or overpowering the true intention of the book which is an intense love story. I can honestly say that I highly recommend this book and that I hope that she does not take too long to release the next one.
“I’ve been waiting for you my entire life. I just didn’t know it till I met you”
~miranda
“I. Don’t. Give. A. Flying. Fuck. About. Your. Disease.”
