5 Smooches!
Synopsis
This is a spin off duet for Kalli from The Never Series. This book can be read without reading any previous Never books. The book is part of a duet, so the final conclusion will come at the end of book 2.
I’ve spent my life avoiding attachments. I learned early on, from the person who should have loved me most, I only drag others down. So instead, I made it my goal to live in a way that never affected anyone else. I don’t build friendships. I don’t start relationships. I move from place to place, from person to person, never standing still and never putting down roots.
That is, until one day when everything comes crashing down around me and I’m left with the one person who needs me the most. He opens me up and makes me vulnerable. He’s not a secret, but a treasure, and I’ll protect him the only way I know how – even if it makes loving anyone else impossible.
This is a full-length novel and is intended for adult readers due to mature themes.
Review
TWO WORDS. RIOT BENTLEY.
SIGH.
I love him so hard. It’s funny, his name that is. It completely contradicts his personality.He is sweet, so sweet. While my first choice is a sometimes over-bearing alpha male book boyfriends but I fell so hard for Riot. He is sweet, caring he’s playful with hints of a cocky side to him sometimes. He’s honest, hot and did I mention I love him?
“He was absolutely breathtaking. His eyes. My God, his eyes. I’d never seen eyes that color. They were golden, a shiny caramel color. And he was smiling. His smile was heartbreaking.”
This is my first book from Anie Michaels and I certainly loved it. Kalli has her work life and home life and both are very different and very separate. She works hard as a costume designer for movie/music video sets. Your heart will immediately ache and break for her. Due to her past she builds a wall and completely withdraws herself from any emotion possible. The only emotion that is allowed in is when she is at home, the part of her life she lets no one in to and even though she has made some friendships she even keeps them at arms length.
“…denying my best friend the ability to get close to me. It hurt keeping her at arm’s length, but I’d been so burnt in the past, this gentle sting was no comparison.”
Riot Bentley. Ok so before I go on and on declaring my love for him again. He is a newbie actor that is getting into the business and is recruited to be the model in a music video that Kalli is also working on as the costume designer. While from the very start Riot is nothing but a gentleman and sweet he makes his feelings and intentions known and begins to try chip away at the walls around Kalli. He proves himself to Kalli time and time again and now he just has to make her believe it, in her heart.
“He knew he was breaking me down, cracking away the glass walls I’d put up around me. With every sway of our hips, with every breath I felt feather across the skin of my neck, I was sure he could feel me crumbling.”
There is so much emotion that will be pulled and picked at from reading this book. Every time you think you know, like the know it all readers we are, we’re are proven wrong. Kalli can be a bit of a complicated character, frustrating even and that can be understandable and forgiven because she has it tough from her past and her present. Saying that though, I may be the only one with this thought, but it got to a certain point in the book (you will possibly know when you read it, what I’m talking about) and I got pissed off at her from there on out and even when my heart should have been breaking for her I couldn’t. I got even more pissed off at her actions I seriously wanted to slap her. I’m not sure if she deserves Riot but I want Riot to be happy. This book has pulled such a reaction from me and I can’t fault Anie at all or her writing although I’d like to take a star from Kalli, this story was powerful and beautiful. I honestly have no idea how or where Anie is going to go with the conclusion of Kalli and Riot’s story and that makes me nervous but I need it like now.
– Jade x
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