New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author
Lexi
Ryan
Adult
Contemporary Romance
Release:
December 22, 2014
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He talks dirty to me, but I don’t know his name.
He wants to tie me up, but I don’t know his face.
He turns me on, but I couldn’t point him out in a
crowd.
I’ve fallen for an anonymous stranger, and tonight the
anonymity ends. Tonight I want more than typed secrets and texted promises. I
want something reckless. Heat. Passion. The thrill of being entirely possessed.
Because I suspect this anonymous stranger isn’t a
stranger at all.
Lizzy Thompson met riverrat69 online through Something
Real, a service promising to deliver meaningful relationships by forbidding its
users to share names or photos until they’ve reached a certain benchmark. She
was looking for love. He was researching an investment. They hit it off. Talked
and flirted, hid behind screen names and cartoon avatars.
Now they’re breaking the rules and meeting in person.
But Liz is prepared. She’s picked up hints and followed clues.
She’s ninety-percent convinced she’s discovered the
identity of her dirty-talking online friend.
She wonders if her ex-lover Sam Bradshaw knows her identity
too.
When she rolls the dice on one reckless night, her
chance at something real could crumble.
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Review by Leeann
Liz has has a crush on Sam since she was a kid. At 17 she tried to get him to sleep with her and he refused. He was trying to do the right thing and it backfired. She just went and slept with his friend Connor. Connor is now married to Sams sister Della.
Sam and Liz have since been together several times, but the timing is just never right. After each encounter Liz shuts him out. He has made it clear he is not after a relationship, he just wants no strings sex.
Then one day Sam and his sister Della walk in on Liz and Connor in bed together. Even though Della and Connor had broken up and were not together at this point, Della hates Liz with a passion. Sam has gotten over it, but he and Liz were not together when it happened either.
Then Liz gets a job with Sam and Della's father. Della is not at all happy and neither is Sam because it means she will be around Connor every day as he is their fathers right hand man.
The only person that seems to have come out of this unscathed and apparently blameless is Connor. In fact he is also trying to get rid of Liz. Sam does hold Connor just as responsible as Liz, but Della is laying all the blame at Liz's feet.
While all this is going on, Liz has joined an anonymous dating site and has been a having conversations with a mystery man that she is convinced is Sam. When she finds out it is not him, she starts trying to figure out who it really is.
She works it out right at the end of the book. This is cliffhanger so she finds out at the same time as Sam. We need to wait for book 2 to see how it plays out.
Look out for the Mrs Robinson situation revelation too!
This book is well written, essentially is is about 2 young people, that are not very good at communication with each other unless it is in bed. There are some moments when you just want to shake Liz as she has many opportunities it is to tell Sam about her mystery man she though was him and she doesn't. She is very immature and that really comes across strongly. Sam on the other hand has had to learn to tow the line early on as his father is a politician there is no room for mess ups. Liz really needs to grow up, Sam needs to put his sister in her place, and Connor needs to be held accountable for his roll in everything too, I hope this all happens in book 2.
This story highlights how complex relationships can be, and how things aren't always as they seem.
This is a good holiday read.
4 Stars
Review by Erin
WOW! I love this story! Spoilers!
Sam has wanted Liz for years. Liz has wanted Sam too. It just hasn't been in the cards for them. They have both hurt each other with things they have done. But now that they have their chance, will previous events ruin it?
This story has twists and turns I didn't see coming and the ending threw me for a loop! Need book 2 pronto!
Cliffhanger!
5 Stars
Review by Cristina
Finding love is never an easy thing especially when you are at a point in your life where you want to settle down with a happily ever after. Lizzy Thompson met an anonymous stranger, Riverrat69 through Something Real, an online dating website leading to a connection she least expected. Over the course of their conversations she is convinced she had figured out who her mysterious internet friend is and finally decides to break the rules and meet in person.
This is the first book and series I have read by this author and it DID NOT fall short! From the start it had me anticipating a hopeful outcome of a happy ending for the heroine but surprises and emotions kept getting in the way. Plus just when you realized you think you have figured out the mysterious stranger is I was left dumbfounded and needed to know what happens next! The 4 stars read will keep you on the edge of your seat with all the steamy moments and the need to find out the truth of the many different secrets in the story!
4 Stars
Excerpt
from Something Reckless
“You look amazing in this dress. I’ve been pretending
all night that there’s something I want to do more than get you out of it.”
“What would you do with me if you got so lucky?”
“I’d keep you up all night, for starters.” He slides a
hand into my hair and traces the side of my neck with his thumb. His groan
rumbles through me. “Tell me what you came here for.”
I
thought that was pretty clear. “I’m wearing extremely
slutty underwear. What do you think?”
His nostrils flare and his breathing goes thready. “I
think I’m going to have to up my game, because now I want to see it.”
I have to bite back a smile. “Good,” I say. My heart
thumps out a beat, probably Morse code for please
and thank you.
“How slutty is this underwear of yours?”
I lick my lips. “Oh, it’s damn near whorish.”
“Let me see it, Liz.”
I lift my chin and prop my hands on my hips.
“Seriously? That’s all the seduction I get? Let
me see it?”
He steps closer until I have to crane my neck to look
at him, and holy hell he smells good. “What game are we playing here, Rowdy?”
he murmurs against my ear. “Is this the one where we pretend we don’t want each
other and sleep alone . . .” His fingers skim down my shoulder and my eyes
float closed. “Or is it the one where I make you come so hard you scream my
name and tomorrow you act like you want nothing to do with me?”
“Are those my only choices?” I ask, but I keep my eyes
closed, focusing on the feel of his rough fingers dancing across my skin. The
truth is, I don’t want to play either game. I’m done playing games when it
comes to Sam. I’m done pretending I don’t want him when I do, and I’m done
pretending our annual one-night stand is enough for me.
“Tell me you aren’t going to run away in the morning.
Promise me you won’t shut me out again.”
I don’t know what that means, and I’m too scared to
analyze it. My eyes are still closed when he takes my chin in his fingers and
tilts my face up to his, still closed when he brushes his lips over mine and
when I open under him because I’m helpless to this man’s kiss.
“Promise me,” he repeats.
“I won’t run away.” Then I unzip my dress and let it
fall to the floor in a puddle, and my boldness is rewarded. Sam’s lips part and
his breath escapes him in a rush.
He steps back and takes me in. The bra is strapless,
black lace demi-cups that lift my breasts until they threaten to spill out. The
panties—what there is of them—are a thong in matching black lace. Their fine
lace straps sit in a sharp V high on
my hipbones.
A ringlet of hair escaped my up-do, and he takes it
between his fingers and twirls it around. I deserve a medal for not melting
right here at his feet.
He hooks his index finger under the black bow between
my bra cups. “Did you wear this for me?” His voice is a husky whisper that I
can’t deny.
“Yes.”
His fingers skim my belly, trace over my hip,
following the lace of my thong behind me to where the straps meet at the small
of my back. My breath catches as he takes the fabric path over the curve of my
tailbone and down, his fingers bringing every nerve ending to life as they
pass. Electric pleasure whips through me.
“Fourteen months since I’ve touched you,” he says.
“Fourteen months since I’ve gotten to hear the way you breathe when you’re
turned on, since I’ve gotten to listen to you scream as I make you come. Tell
me you haven’t thought about it.”
“I’d be lying.”
“Don’t lie,” he says, eyes hot and intense. “Just tell
me you want me.”
Copyright Lexi Ryan, 2014
Adult Contemporary
Romance
FREE introductory
novella to the SOMETHING RECKLESS
“You
need a good guy. A long-term guy. One who does dates and romance and emotional
strings…I’m just an asshole who wants to tie you up, make you come, and walk
away.”
Samuel
Bradshaw is a man with a reputation—the kind of reputation that should have me
running the other way. Instead, it has me searching for the shortest distance
to his bed. I won’t be the starry-eyed girl who thinks she can change a man
like Sam, and despite what he thinks, forever is not what I need. I need the
things he makes me feel, the way he turns me on, and the promise of pleasure in
his eyes. This promises to be SOMETHING WILD.
About
the Author
New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author Lexi Ryan’s
novels have been described as intense, emotional, and wickedly sexy. A former
college professor, she now writes full-time from her home in Indiana, where she
lives with her husband, two children, and a neurotic dog. Find her on Facebook
or Twitter to chat about books, TV, and her children’s latest antics.
I loved this book so much and can not wait for the next one.
ReplyDeleteGreat review!!