A Thousand Boy Kisses Blog Tour!

Title: A Thousand Boy Kisses

Series: Standalone

Author: Tillie Cole

Release Date: 15 March, 2016

Rating: 4.5 stars

Cliffhanger:. No

One kiss lasts a moment.
But a thousand kisses can last a lifetime.

One boy.
One girl.
A bond that is forged in an instant and cherished for a decade.
A bond that neither time nor distance can break.
A bond that will last forever.
Or so they believe.
When seventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen returns from his native Norway to the sleepy town of Blossom Grove, Georgia, where he befriended Poppy Litchfield as a child, he has just one thing on his mind. Why did the girl who was one half of his soul, who promised to wait faithfully for his return, cut him off without a word of explanation?
Rune’s heart was broken two years ago when Poppy fell silent. When he discovers the truth, he finds that the greatest heartache is yet to come.

Standalone Young Adult Tearjerker Romance.
For ages 14 and up.

Tillie Cole hails from a small town in the North-East of England. She grew up on a farm with her English mother, Scottish father and older sister and a multitude of rescue animals. As soon as she could, Tillie left her rural roots for the bright lights of the big city. After graduating from Newcastle University with a BA Hons in Religious Studies, Tillie followed her Professional Rugby player husband around the world for a decade, becoming a teacher in between and thoroughly enjoyed teaching High School students Social Studies before putting pen to paper, and finishing her first novel. Tillie has now settled in Austin, Texas, where she is finally able to sit down and write, throwing herself into fantasy worlds and the fabulous minds of her characters. 

Tillie is both an independent and traditionally published author, and writes many genres including: Contemporary Romance, Dark Romance, Young Adult and New Adult novels.

When she is not writing, Tillie enjoys nothing more than curling up on her couch watching movies, drinking far too much coffee, while convincing herself that she really doesn’t need that extra square of

chocolate.

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Write down where you were when you were kissed. You'll have a treasure jar of all the precious kisses that made your heart soar.

Tillie Cole is one of my favorite authors. She’s absolutely and wonderfully skilled at winning me over with her stories. I think she has some secret ninja skills that help her play with my emotions and tug at my heartstrings. She just made me weep for hours and hours. I think my eyes are still a little bit puffy. Now I desperately need someone to hug me! My poor, poor heart..

How to describe the experience of reading A Thousand Boy Kisses without giving away everything? I’m not sure I’m capable of that! I feel like I’m a second away from bursting and spilling EVERY. SINGLE. DETAIL. That book just made me feel so much and I have this strange urge to share all of thoughts and feelings it had evoked.

On the other hand, I would commit a serious bookish crime if I decided to spoil this story for you. It’s best to go into Poppy and Rune’s world without any additional knowledge (beside what was mentioned in the blurb) and slowly sink into this romantic, poignant coming of age story. So although I’m itching to write more about them I will not overshare (though it seriously kills me!).

One kiss lasts a moment.
But a thousand kisses can last a lifetime.

I loved the main characters. Seeing them grow, fall in love, share their ups and downs, it was all an amazing experience. The Dual point of view helped me understand Poppy and Rune better, it also made this story richer, more intricate and mixed with Tillie’s fabulous writing, it was a complete winner. I think I highlighted most of the book.

"It was so special that my heart almost burst."

A Thousand Boy Kisses is a special story and will definitely stay with me for a long while. It’s a young adult novel (I rarely read them anymore), but at the same time it’s very complex and mature (don’t be afraid to give it a chance just because you consider YA novels to be juvenile/frustrating/immature);

In this case the book is sweet and heart melting where it needs to be, and completely wrecking, gritty and angsty in other parts.

Tillie once again managed to mix sweetness with real hard life and created something so vivid, true and meaningful that I am still very much trembling from the emotions overload.

‘Rune pressed a kiss just below my ear and whispered, “Sleep, baby. I got you.” And he did. He had me. Just like I had him.’

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Patrycja's Review: First Comes Love by Emily Goodwin

Title: First Comes Love

Series: Standalone

Author: Emily Goodwin

Release Date: 11 February, 2016

Rating: 3.5 stars

Cliffhanger:. No

First comes love.
Then comes marriage.
Then comes a—

Hold up. You’re joking right? As if life works off a neat little list like that, moving down, checking things off before jumping to the next task. We’re not married. We’re not lovers. Hell, we’re hardly even friends. Noah Wilson isn’t exactly “life partner” material, and he sure as hell isn’t “father material”. He’s my older brother’s best friend, and has been off limits, sworn off, locked in the highest tower and out of reach since we met over ten years ago. With his devilish good looks, tattoos, motorcycle, and trail of broken hearts and tears, I’ve had good reason to stay away from the bad boy my mother warned me about.

Until one night. One stupid, regrettable night that changed both of our lives forever. And now I only have nine months to decide our fate, to see if Noah’s rebel heart is capable of anything more than a one night stand.

This isn’t a love story. This is a life story. And life doesn’t go according to plan.

“Someday, she'll be mine.

Someday Lauren will love me.”

First Comes Love is very cute and entertaining read. Sweet, adorable and definitely full of fluff. I enjoyed it. It’s fast paced and quick so it was perfect book to read in one sitting and relax after few tiring days.

The plot is very simple, nothing new there, so I didn’t have to be much absorbed to get it. I would love to say that there’s much more in it than the blurb reveals but that would be a lie. Reader gets exactly what’s there – a story about a bad boy (who’s the heroine brother’s best friend) and a nice girl who share drunken one night stand, decide to pretend nothing happened, but after a while it’s not possible because there would be a baby!

"They say you can't change someone, but someone can change for you".

I liked this simplicity, because I needed something predictable yet cute and First Comes Love was it. I also enjoyed the tension between main characters (they had a ‘spark’), the humor was great too – I had a smile on my face through most of the book, so I guess Emily Goodwin’s done a decent job.



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Patrycja's Review: How to Save a Life How to Save a Life by Emma Scott

Title: How To Save A Life

Series: Standalone

Author: Emma Scott

Release Date: 9 February, 2016

Rating: 4.5 stars

Cliffhanger:. No

Josephine Clark is trapped. A harrowing past haunts her every time she looks in the mirror, and she can’t escape the violence of her everyday life. More and more, her thoughts turn to Evan Salinger, the boy she knew in high school. The boy they called a mental case. A loner. A freak. The boy who seemed to know things no one could know. For a few short weeks, Jo had found perfect solace in Evan’s company, sneaking every night to meet him at the local pool. In the cool of the water and the warmth of Evan’s arms around her, Jo had tasted something close to happiness.

Cruel circumstances tore them apart, and four years later, the sweet memory of their time together is dissolving under the punishing reality of Jo’s life now. Evan seems like a fading dream…until he reappears at the moment she needs him most. Guided by Evan’s strange intuition, they flee her small Louisiana town, and Jo begins to suspect there is something more to his sudden return than he admits.

Over twelve days across America’s heartland, deep secrets come to light, buried pasts are unearthed, and the line between dreams and reality is blurred as Evan and Jo fight to hold on to their soul-deep love, and discover that there is more than one way to save a life.

***

How to Save a Life is a complete second-chance STANDALONE novel with shades of the paranormal. It carries the characters from high school through to their early twenties. It is not YA; mature subject matter, and sexual situations. TRIGGER WARNING: domestic violence (on the page) and mention of sexual abuse (off the page) For readers 18 years and up.

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How To Save A Life completely bewitched me. What a heart breaking,stunning, beautiful and unique story. I am still overwhelmed by all of the emotions it caused inside me. This story is simply unforgettable!

Josephine ‘Jo’ Clark has been through a lot. Her life was neither sweet nor full of unicorns and rainbows. It was lonely, depressing and full of hurt. She lost her parents as well as a big piece of herself. Now only poetry can soothe her soul.

Evan Salinger is a boy that carries a stigma of a ‘town freak’, a loner. Everyone believes he’s a mental case and kids at school make sure he knows it. His life is no easy…

Evan and Jo meet at school and are drawn to each other and…

“We exchanged looks, a commiseration; the girl with a scar and the boy with the freaky rep, and something shifted between us. An unspoken understanding that drew me closer to him without having moved an inch.”

Please, let me stop here! It’s better to go into this story blind and find all the answers by yourself. I don’t want to spoil this book.

How To Save A Life is a love story like no other I’ve read before. It’s unique, captivating and epic! This is a very emotional ride through the darkest of places a person can wander to in order to find at least one ray of sunshine and just a bit of hope. And yes it shows that hope and love can be found in the weirdest places…

“You believed me. Or maybe you didn’t, but you accepted me. And that had never happened to me before.”

Emma Scott is very talented author and I am dying to read more of her work; her style of writing is just precious – the words she’s put on the paper moved me. Her storytelling is vivid, intense and the words seem to flow… it is all very poetic and powerful. Her words broke my heart many times and then glued it together.

"Do you ever… Do you think about us?

What we had?"

"Every minute… 

I think about us every minute of my life."

This story was absolutely brilliant – from the falling in love to absolutely shocking, astounding climax and conclusion. I was absorbed in it till the end.

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Patrycja's Review: BUILT by JAY CROWNOVER

Title: Built

Series: The Saints of Denver #1

Author: Jay Crownover

Release Date: 5 January, 2016

Rating: 4 stars

Cliffhanger:. No

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men books comes an electrifying new spin-off series,Saints of Denver, featuring all the characters fans have been dying to read about.

Sayer Cole and Zeb Fuller couldn’t be more different. She’s country club and fine-dining, he’s cell-block and sawdust. Sayer spends her days in litigation, while Zeb spends his working with his hands. She’s French silk, he’s all denim and flannel.

Zeb’s wanted the stunning blonde since the moment he laid eyes on her. It doesn't matter how many smooth moves he makes, the reserved lawyer seems determinedly oblivious to his interest—either that or she doesn't return it. Sayer is certain the rough, hard, hot-as-hell Zeb could never want someone as closed off and restrained as she is, which is a shame because something tells her he might be the guy to finally melt her icy exterior.

But just as things start to heat up, Zeb is blindsided by a life altering moment from his past. He needs Sayer’s professional help to right a wrong and to save more than himself. He can’t risk what’s at stake just because his attraction to Sayer feels all consuming. But as these opposites dig in for the fight of their lives, battling together to save a family, the steam created when fire and ice collide can no longer be ignored.Sayer Cole and Zeb Fuller are as different as two people can be. She’s country club and fine-dining, he’s cell-block and kill it and grill it. Sayer spends her days in litigation, while Zeb spends his working with his hands. She’s French silk while he’s denim and flannel.

The differences between the two of them don’t stop Zeb from dropping every hint he can think of that he would like to get to know her on a more personal level, but Sayer seems oblivious to his interest or is just too nice to tell him to take a hike. To Sayer, a guy like Zeb could never be interested in someone as reserved and boring as she is. She’s never been with anyone that was hot enough to melt the icy exterior she’s had wrapped around hera since her awful childhood. But what if Zeb is the one who might finally thaw her out…?

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Few months ago, when I reached the end of the final novel in Marked Men Series I was very sad to say goodbye to all of the characters. They stole a piece of my soul and I literally could feel my heart breaking at the thought of letting them go.

Fortunately for me, Jay Crownover decided to rescue my poor little heart and write a spin-off of the series I adored so much.

In few short words, Built is incredibly sexy and sweet story. I was absolutely pumped to read it and felt glued to the pages!

In her usual style Jay Crownover delivered strong, intense and heart melting romance. It was witty, flirty and filled with great sexual chemistry as well as with some complex issues.

However, I won’t lie and tell you that I loved every single twist and turn of the plot, because it definitely had its ups and downs. Some elements of the storyline were a little bit stretched (I won’t be pointing them out as I don’t want to write any spoilers) and overused.

To be honest those parts annoyed the hell out of me, I rolled my eyes quite a bit. Fortunately the rest of the plot was very good and engaging so in the end I took down only one star from my rating.

The best of Built? Definitely Zebulon Fuller. Absolutely delicious, heartwarming giant of a man that I fell in love with. He was such a good person: dedicated, caring, loving.. I could go on and on why he changed me into a crazy fangirl. Perfect alpha hero! *swoon*

I was hoping that The Saints of Denver will deliver enough glimpses of Marked Men crew to satisfy my craving. So yes I was super excited to read Built! And I am not disappointed at the least. I got to see characters I love so much and meet new ones, that are really making me thrilled to see in what direction Saints of Denver will go.

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