Escaping Reality (The Secret Life of Amy Bensen)
My rating = A brilliant and five amazing stars!!
*ARC received via Netgalley and Julie Patra Publishing in exchange for my honest review
From the first page of this book I was hooked and there I was till dawn the following day. The intrigue, the questions, the mystery, the sex, the danger, the tattoo, the triangle, THE SEX! Oh my word I was on flippin’ tenterhooks all way through but this book was so utterly compelling it was DEVINE!
Okay I'll try...TRY to summarise what this book is about and what I thought but then that might be hard as even after finishing it I'm left with millions more questions than I had after the first chapter.
We are first introduced to Amy when she is at a party gets a call from her “handler” who tells her she needs to run again and she needs to do it now. This throws her into a panic as only now, just now, she had thought she could finally relax again and start to make a life without looking over her shoulder all the goddam time. She’s had some serious eff'd up crap happen in her past and it has something to do with her parents but nothing is revealed except little snippets of memory scattered in between the current day happenings. So off she goes, direct to the airport where she is to collect packages and a walk on, nothing else. She can't even tell her new found BFF goodbye. It’s here at the airport she first makes eye contact with Liam Stone, *pauses to breathe and pant* the enigmatic and ultimate image of a love god if ever there was one. By some strange coincidence and due to a mix up with her ticket she finds herself upgraded to first class and sitting next to this sexy man she saw in the waiting lounge.
Neither can fight the attraction between them but Amy knows she can’t get involved with Liam; it will only put him in danger. But Liam is a man used to getting what he wants and he wants Amy. Amy cannot let him in so she puts up her walls but Liam quickly latches onto this and knows she needs to trust him so he lets her in on some of his secrets, his life. She finds out he is a reclusive billionaire, a protégé architect with his own demons to kill. When they land in Denver, Liam latches onto the strong connection they had built over the flight and quickly establishes himself into Amy’s ‘new’ life.
But for Amy this ‘new’ life just doesn't add up. Who is her new boss? Why is her new friend Meg never at work? Who is Jared and why does he keep randomly appearing when she least expects it? Why does he seem so familiar to her? What is the connection with the triangles? Why did her ‘handler’ have one tattooed on his wrist? Why does Liam have one tattooed on his stomach? (Which she finds out in a scintillating and overtly sexy way – rawr!) The questions go on and on leading you further into this compelling read.
In between all the mystery and drama, the relationship of Amy and Liam just builds and builds, each learning to let the other in. There are some seriously sexy ‘sexy times’ that are just off the scale. Liam likes to control and Amy likes to be controlled, leading to some scorching scenes.
Page after page I was continually asking question after question, suspicious of everyone and everything. This book keeps the tension building, keeps your mind pushing itself to find a conclusion but each time you think you might have sussed it, another curveball gets thrown.
This book was absolutely amazing and Lisa Renee Jones has built a spectacular storyline that you want to know but then you don't want to know what the hell happened in both their pasts and how they are now connected.
Oh and did I say about the cliffhanger? THE CLIFF HANGER?!!! Oh.Em.Gee. Nooooooooooo! Don't leave me this way. I cannot wait any longer! I have to know NOW! But wait I must and the next book, Infinite Possibilities is due in October 2013. Is it bad to want summer to end already? A brilliant book, absolutely brilliant.
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