Title: Bleeding Love
Series: Hope Town #2
(standalone series)
Author: Harper Sloan
Release Date: July 14, 2015
I've loved once. I gave everything that I had to that love. Blindly believing that nothing could ever take that feeling away from me. Away from us. And when my little world of happiness was ripped from my fingers, I felt a loss that still haunts me to this day.
Now I use that lingering grief as a shield to keep my heart from loving again. It's that fear that keeps me from letting anyone, except my daughter, get close enough to make it hurt. To make my heart bleed when I inevitably lose again.
Until the day I met Liam Beckett and everything I thought I had protected myself from was shoved back in my face.
He's on a mission to prove to me that a love worth having is a love worth fighting for.
I give him what he wants, but not because he told me to. I give him what he wants because when his hand leaves my leg and pushes into the mattress, bringing his body up he goes even deeper into my body and those heels push hard.
Just as he demanded earlier, my hands go to his shoulders on my own accord and as he takes my body hard, my nails dig in with my heels still pushing hard against the small of his back. Our eyes never leave each other’s probing gaze. Never once do I take my eyes away from his, so full of lust that I know there isn’t an ounce of control left in his body.
He drops his head and I lift up to meet him in a kiss so sweet it doesn’t match the powerful way that he’s taking my body. A kiss that gives me more than words ever could at this moment. His hips slow and as his tongue rolls against mine, his hips start to take me in slow, deep rolls. He doesn’t pull back, just rocks his hips against mine.
I push up and cry out when he slips even deeper.
His lips come from mine and his hooded eyes open a sliver. “Feels like heaven,” he says softly. “Everything, darlin’. Feels like everything.”
4-4.5 Lee Stars
ARC received from TRSoR for an honest review
"One thing I know for sure, I want this. I want this and Liam's going to give it to me."
Auto-buy, auto-read, whatever Harper Sloan writes, I will happily read. Bleeding Love is the second book in the spinoff and what I so lovingly refer to as the second generation Corps Security, the Hope Town series where all the babies from the CS are now grown-up and falling in love. Oh, how time flies.
Who wouldn't love a guy like Liam? Liam "Lee" Beckett, the only child of the fun and crazy Beckett couple. He is swoon-worthy sexy and a real treat to girls. Lucky, Megan! Lee was so patient with her, making it clear that he wants her, that he would love to be a part of her and her daughter's life, and that he will do everything to achieve that. Respect, I have so much respect for Lee because of this.
Megan has had a painful past, a heartbreaking experience which got me tearing up once or twice. What I love most about her, though, is how much she loves. Not just Molly, her daughter, but Lee, and her new friends. It took a while for her to open up and accept the fact that she now has friends to be her support system and just be there for her and Molly when she needs them. It was a sweet experience reading Megan starting to live again, enjoy life, with Lee and the rest of the gang's help. And that daughter of hers, Molly, such a sweetheart! I always enjoy books with adorable kids. They add so much life and emotions to the story, I think.
You know when you have that friend who frustrates you but you still love them and listen to their problems because you love them? That's how I felt at first with Megan. I'm the friend who wants to scream at her and tell her to get her head on straight and just let Lee in, on the other hand, I sympathize with her and I can understand the guilt she's feeling and the guard that she has up. I'm so glad Lee is a persistent guy! Once Megan opened up, Lee drove right in and didn't let go.
Now, being an open, self-proclaimed Harper Sloan fan, you're probably wondering why this is not a 5-star read. Yes? I read this after reading Kristen Ashley's new release (I love KA, too, by the way) and at some parts, I had to double check that I am indeed reading a Harper book. That just put me off a teeny tiny bit because I love the way Harper Sloan wrote her earlier books and reading lines like a KA novel especially since I just actually finished reading one, wasn't what I expected. Other than that, go forth and 1-click Bleeding Love because Lee, Megan, and Molly will make you fall in love!
Stars: 4-4.5 stars
Recommended to: Harper Sloan junkies.
Series: Yes. Interconnecting characters.
POV: First person. Dual POV.
Extra Comment: Of course, the bonus in reading Bleeding Love? Everyone makes an appearance!
Harper lives in small town Georgia just a short drive from her hometown of Peachtree City. She (and her 3 daughters) enjoy ruling the house they dubbed 'Estrogen Ocean', much to her husband’s chagrin. Harper has a borderline unhealthy obsession with books; you can almost ALWAYS find her with her eReader attached. She enjoys bad reality TV and cheesy romantic flicks. Her favorite kind of hero--the super alpha kind!
Harper started using writing as a way to unwind when the house went to sleep at night; and with a house full of crazy it was the perfect way to just relax. It didn't take long before a head full of very demanding alphas would stop at nothing to have their story told.
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