New Release Tour and Review | Distraction (Club Destiny #8) by Nicole Edwards | #NEW #Erotic #Review #SecondChance #MustRead

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Title: Distraction

Series: Club Destiny #8

Author: Nicole Edwards

Genre:  Erotic Romance

Published:  31 January 2017

Time doesn’t always heal a broken heart. Sometimes the only thing it does is fill the darkness with more shadows, more pain. Dylan Thomas has spent the past decade living in the shadows, mourning the loss of his wife, his best friend, his very reason for breathing. He long ago accepted that he would never feel again, that he was damned to a world without light, without hope. That was the day the bottle won, and he gave himself over to the darkness. Until the one night that rocked his brittle, crumbling world on its axis. She told him what they shared was simply a distraction, a way to forget for a little while. It would’ve been, except the tiny glimpse of how it feels to live again, to feel again, gives him the strength he needs to pull himself up by his boot straps. But sobriety comes one day at a time, and three years later may be three years too late.

The final book in the Club Destiny series, Distraction can be read as a standalone.

Sarah and Dylan have both had a past filled with loss and despair and while Sarah hid herself away, Dylan found his coping mechanism at the bottom of a bottle. Having once been a short term romance at high school, both had gone down different paths and found other loves. It is the loss of their spouses that took them to separate lives. However after both their tragedies they were brought back into the same circle but when the budding new friendship was cut short after a misunderstanding after a passion filled joining they separated again. However three years later it looked like fate was a knocking on their door again.

This was a deeply emotive and thought provoking book that dealt with two serious issues – alcoholism and mental health. It made you consider what could happen in life and the repercussions of loss. But there was redemption in the storyline and even though there were lots of heartache and pain there was also lots of second chance romance and passion.

The pairing between the two was tangible and you could feel the electricity and chemistry between Sarah and Dylan. I was so connected to both characters and I was rooting for them to heal and find love again.

Sarah was one tough cookie who was overly harsh on herself at the start but then she took life by the nuts and rejuvenated herself to not be the doormat anymore. She learns to love life again and goes out for what she wants. Dylan was one hot but vulnerable man who I just fell in love with from the start. The way he turned his life around after over a decade of pain was devastating. When he says that final goodbye to his wife at the grave had me in buckets.

This was another fabulous read from Ms Edwards and one that really pulled at the heart strings. It is sad that this is the end of the series but one that is a definite read again to treasure. Five glorious stars. 

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Amazon Review Tour: Blue by D P Denman |#Review #MMromance #AgeGap #MustRead #FiveStars

Title: Blue

Author: D.P. Denman

Genre: M/M Romance

Published: September 25, 2015

Long before he was a successful songwriter and black-belt badass, Blue was a survivor.

He escaped a program designed to cure him. One that left him near death with nothing to rely on but the kindness of a stranger. Hostile and headstrong, he needed a calmer influence to balance his fury. Someone to save him from himself.

Brady’s life was quiet and orderly until fate sent him a blue-eyed hurricane. Bursts of temper and flashes of despair battered his efforts to quiet the storm in a man he doubted he could tame. One drowning in the wreckage of his past.

With a head full of lies and a body full of scars, Blue worked to rebuild his life with the help of a man who showed him sometimes trust is worth the risk.

Blue features one of the most popular characters from the Saving Liam saga! Destined for greatness, he reveals the past that made him the scarred bad boy readers love.

*ARC kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review

I love the Saving Liam series so I was eager to read all about Blue and what happened in his earlier life. Also, as I love age gap romance, especially in the m/m genre, I was bursting to read this one and I was not disappointed. Not at all.

Blue and Brady meet in unique circumstances, that being Blue collapsing in Brady’s back yard after escaping a camp he was sent to by his parents after he told them he was gay.

Banished to the outside world and having nobody he could trust, he finds an affinity with Brady and little by little he lets him in to his life. With nobody looking out for the young blue eyed man, Brady finds himself wanting to gain his trust and become the one person he can rely on, no matter how many attempts he makes to push Brady’s help away.

This was a deep and angst filled journey of a read that just kept me engrossed into the storyline. There were some frustrating times but also some extremely heart wrenching and tender moments that delivered a well-balanced and engaging age-gap romance. Even knowing how Blue turns out in the end – a successful songwriter and kick-ass dude, it was still an anxious and emotive read to see how this young damaged man took on every knock and push back that was thrown at him. It was rewarding to see how he fought back and overcame his nightmares of the past to become the better person and who he was always meant to be. But it was with Brady’s belief in him and his devotion that helped him the most and gave him the desire to trust again.

I loved how the story dealt with mental health issues and was wonderfully portrayed in Blue’s struggles. But it was the emotion and the connection of Blue and Brady that was the winner for me. The depth of love and trust between them was a joy to unfold and be part of.

Another great book by DP Denman and I highly recommend it. Five stars. 

Award winning author DP Denman writes character-driven contemporary romance about gay men. Her stories are real and intense, but resolve in endings that make people want to read the book all over again. She lives among the moss and trees of the Pacific Northwest with a rambunctious pair of fur babies.

In her spare time, she is a dedicated LGBTQIA rights activist with a special focus on the thousands of rejected and abandoned kids who end up on the street every year. To support the cause, 25% of the royalties from every book go to LGBT charities.

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