Today we welcome Marquita Valentine to our blog with Cathy’s review of Live For You.
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Title: Live For You (Boys of the South ~Book 1)
Author: Marquita Valentine
Release date: May 29, 2013
Age Group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tour organized by: AToMR Tours
Synopsis:
On the surface, twenty-two year old Cole Morgan is exactly what any girl would be proud to take home to meet her parents: He’s charming, intensely handsome and goal-oriented…Only he has some secrets of his own, which include provoking bar fights and a former drug-addict of a mother slowly wasting away in a medical facility.
At barely twenty, Violet Lynn is Country Music’s hottest star, until one night of partying gets out of control. Violet ends up in jail and on TMZ. Suddenly, she’s the girl least likely to be invited anywhere. Sick of the drama and keeping secrets, she runs away from the prying eyes of the paparazzi to her grandmother’s home in Forrestville, North Carolina.
A chance meeting knocks Cole off his feet, but he doesn’t recognize Violet for who she is. In fact no one does and Violet plans to keep it that way.
Circumstances, however annoying, keep throwing Violet and Cole together. Unable to stop themselves they give into the inevitable.
But when Nashville is ready to forgive and forget, Violet is forced to choose between Cole and claiming her spot as the new and improved Princess of Country Music.
Will Violet and Cole have the courage to live for their dreams…Or their hearts?
Cathy’s Review:
This is a somewhat sad story about Violet, a young and famous country singer who is forced to flee from her current life to her grandmother’s home in North Carolina.
Violet keeps her identity a secret and becomes “Violet Rae”. Rae then meets Cole by chance, a gorgeous tattooed guy who runs a bar and who is hiding lots of secrets of his own, including a drug addicted mother.
Both Rae and Cole do not think they deserve each other. What I liked about the book are the characters and their connection. The alternating POV’s were a little confusing to me as a reader and I think issues were resolved a little too quickly between chapters. I did love the hot sex scenes between Cole and Rae!
Although this is a fairly quick read, I do feel the author has written a great storyline, and I am looking forward to reading more stories from her!
(Advanced Reader Copy of Live for You provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.)
About the Author:
Nationally Bestselling Author, Marquita Valentine, writes small town romances that are anything but small. Lisa Kleypas, Carly Phillips and Rachel Gibson are her favorite contemporary authors. Marquita met her husband aka Hot Builder at Sonic when they were in high school. She suggests this location to all of her single friends in search of a good man — and if that doesn’t work, they can console themselves with cheesy tatertots. She lives in North Carolina in a very, very small town with Hot Builder and their two children.
Nationally Bestselling Author, Marquita Valentine, writes small town romances that are anything but small. Lisa Kleypas, Carly Phillips and Rachel Gibson are her favorite contemporary authors. Marquita met her husband aka Hot Builder at Sonic when they were in high school. She suggests this location to all of her single friends in search of a good man — and if that doesn’t work, they can console themselves with cheesy tatertots. She lives in North Carolina in a very, very small town with Hot Builder and their two children.
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Tour Giveaway:
(1) Print copy of Live For You – International
(1) $75 Amazon Gift Card – open to countries able to accept Amazon Gift Cards
Tonya Hauser says
Every cool giveaway and blog.
tori whitaker says
thanks for the giveaway
SHELLEY S says
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR BOOK AND THANKS FOR THE GIVEAWAY!