Teaser Tuesday: Dare You To (Pushing the Limits #2) by Katie McGarry

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can tease others. 

Here’s how: 

• Step 1: Grab your current read. 
• Step 2: Open to a random page. 
• Step 3: Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Be careful not to include any spoilers so as not to ruin the book for others. 
• Step 4: Make sure to share the title and the author so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR piles!

And that’s how you make a successful tease (as far as a book goes). 

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Yesterday, the girl would have been the main suspect in my murder. This morning, she's hot and friendly. Talk about mood swings.

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COVER REVEAL: Smash Into You by Shelly Crane

Title: Smash Into You

Author: Shelly Crane 

Expected release date: Summer 2013

Genre:  Contemporary

Age Group: Young Adult

Cover Designed by: Okay Creations 

Cover reveal organized by: AToMR Tours

Book Description: 

Jude has spent the whole twenty three years of his life running. From what, he wasn't quite sure. His mother tried to keep him safe; a low profile, a constant move on the horizon, a week's pay always stashed away. She tried to instill in him that he was special somehow, though would never elaborate. He never felt different. He was so completely normal and vanilla that he wondered if it had all been in her head. But then she was murdered and all he saw was a running silhouette of a man as his mother said three final words to him. Three words that changed his whole being.

Never stop running…

Now he's semi-settled into a big town. The college is huge and easy to blend into. It's been three months since he had to move because 'Biloxi', as he calls the man who killed his mother, found him once more.
Then Marley, an eighteen year old girl who is as infuriating as she is blissfully ignorant of her gorgeousness, smashes into his car with hers. Then smashes into his life as he realizes that whatever it is he has that Biloxi wants, she has it, too. And now, they're after them both.

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About the Author: 

Shelly is a New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author from a small town in Georgia and loves everything about the south. She is wife to a fantastical husband and stay at home mom to two boisterous and mischievous boys who keep her on her toes. They currently reside in everywhere USA as they happily travel all over with her husband's job. She loves to spend time with her family, binge on candy corn, go out to eat at new restaurants, buy paperbacks at little bookstores, site see in the new areas they travel to, listen to music everywhere and also LOVES to read.

Her own books happen by accident and she revels in the writing and imagination process. She doesn't go anywhere without her notepad for fear of an idea creeping up and not being able to write it down immediately, even in the middle of the night, where her best ideas are born.

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Review: This Girl (Slammed ,#3) by Colleen Hoover

This Girl

(Slammed, #3)

Colleen Hoover

New Adult/ Romance/ Contemporary 

4.5 stars out of 5

There are two sides to every love story. Now hear Will’s.

Colleen Hoover’s New York Times bestselling Slammed series has brought countless readers to their knees with a whirlwind of love, passion, and heartache.

Layken and Will’s love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances and the young lovers, now married, are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union. As much as Layken relishes their new life together, she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband, even though Will makes it clear he prefers to keep the painful memories of the past where they belong. Still, he can’t resist his wife’s pleas and so he begins to untangle his side of the story, revealing for the first time his most intimate feelings and thoughts, retelling both the good and bad moments, and sharing a few shocking confessions of his own from the time when they first met.

In This Girl, Will tells the story of their complicated relationship from his point of view. Their future rests on how well they deal with the past in this final installment of the beloved Slammed series.

My Thoughts

I can’t even begin to tell you how much I really REALLY loved this book!! Now, those who have read Colleen Hoover’s books know, this chick can write! Every word that she puts down on paper is amazing, breathtaking and brilliant. This being said, the Slammed series by her, brilliant! I have enjoyed this series so much by her. However, it is once again such a bittersweet moment to see a wonderful series, one that I hold close to my heart come to an end. (If only books could just go on and on forever)

The Slammed series is three books that are very close to my heart. I have fallen in love with the characters and their wonderful journey. Then to see it all come to a close, reading that last page, it brought all those memories, from reading the first book to reading that last page in the final book, it all came together in a wonderful moment. I’m not able to put down just one thing I love about these books, I can’t because I love so many things about this series. And This Girl, it was just an incredible read.

This moment is incomparable

Now, This Girl is different from the first other books; however, just as amazing. This one is told from Will’s POV.  Reading from his point of view is just breathing. His mind is a place that can make any girl swoon. Boy, did I swoon a lot reading this book!  If you thought you couldn’t fall more in love with Will, well, get prepared to fall even more in love with him.

This Girl just recounts certain events that happened throughout the first two books, but from Will’s point of view. I was able to get more of the story this way, understand why he made the decisions he made. It was just so wonderful reading events and seeing how Will saw things. Seeing how he saw Layken. A more in-depth aspect is achieved just seeing through Will’s eyes.

Though I do which that Colleen gave us more events from Will. I also thought that how Colleen wrote the scenes by flipping back and forth from the present to the past. It helped the transition into each event that Will would tell Layken about.

I lie back on my pillow and think back to that day. The day that I fell for my wife.

Colleen’s writing style is just perfect; just like it was in the first two books. It’s just the way Colleen writes that can sweep me away, make me so absorb in her books. She has a way with words, and a way to make me just fall for all her characters.

This Girl wrapped up the series flawlessly.  And the Epilogue was just, let’s just say it brought tears to my eyes and put the biggest smile on my face. 

In all honesty, I enjoyed everything about this book, and having to put it done, see it end, was a very sad and nostalgic moment. However, this is another series that I won’t just pick up once; it’s a series I will always come back to. Re-experience the wonderful story that Colleen created. 

The entire series of Slammed was sweet, endearing, and touching! 

I want to be your soulmate, even if I don’t believe in them.

Quote of the Week: J.R. Redmerski

Quote of the week is a weekly bookish post.

Each Friday, I will pick one of my favorite quotes from a book I have read or am currently reading to share with you, my wonderful readers!!

Quote of the Week: 

“I think if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.”

― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

 

Review: CRUSH (CRASH, #3) by Nicole Williams

Crush

 (Crash, #3)

Nicole Williams

NA/Romance/Contemporary

4.5 stars out of 5 

Football glory. A giant diamond. A wandering eye.

Jude and Lucy are happily engaged . . . but that doesn't mean life's a bed of roses.

Once again, Jude and Lucy are torn apart by football training and a summer job that creates new tensions. This time Jude's the one with trust issues. Will Lucy's life-changing news bring them back together or end their relationship for good? Can love triumph forever?

My thoughts

Having a series come to end such as Crash is always so heartbreaking in its own way. Reading that last page, closing the book, it’s almost like watching a friend change, grow and then say goodbye right in front of your eyes. It’s a very bittersweet, happy but sad moment. A moment I both love, and hate.  Reading that last page, that last paragraph, that last sentence of Crush brought all these jumble of emotions; happy, exultant, and  jubilation but also sad, heartbreaking, and tear-jerking.

I have been on every step of Lucy and Jude’s wild journey. Ever bump in the road, every heartbreak, and every joyous moment. Ever tear; every smile.  I have been there to see them in their best moments and their worst events. I have lived the story that is Jude and Lucy. And I have loved every second of it. So, to see the series come to a close, I have both pride and nostalgic in my heart for this book; for these characters.

Jude always caught up with me. Sometimes he gave me a head start, but he never let me get too far.

Just like in the first two books, Crush was a wild ride.  Jude and Lucy’s love has never been easy, and they know it never will be. But what makes them great characters in my eye is the fact they will not give up on each other, no matter what odds are stacked against them. They fight for each other. Now, though Crush is just as amazing as the first two books, I felt it also brought more to the table.

It’s Jude who’s now having the doubts, the insecurities this time. With so much change happening for both him and Lucy, keeping their relationship strong is a fight. A fight both are working hard for; however, doubt keeps popping up in the back of Jude’s head.  The change both Lucy and Jude face make them not only characters in a book, but real characters in my mind. And with the obstacles they face; they really do shine through in the end.

Lucy has grown so much in this book; I really got to see the depth of it. I've also come to like her character in Crush! Jude has also ‘cooled’ down quite a bit, too. Both have come to grow together and they can also work so well together, too. It’s amazing and wonderful to see who they have become now.  Though it wasn't an easy journey for them; it made me so proud to see the characters they became at the end of the book.

He was oozing that notorious Jude Ryder ego when I leaned back. He knew what he did to me. And he loved it.

Not only are Lucy and Jude, once again, amazing but so are the other wonderful characters that Nicole created. Holly and Little Jude, oh how I love LJ!! That boy had me smiling everything time he appeared. Also India is back, along with Thomas and a new character. However, not only do Jude and Lucy have a challenge to face, but also some of the other characters as well. I’m really proud of them all.   

Nicole also gives some really sexy, hot and steamy scenes that can make the reader's toes curl and need a nice tall glass of ice cold water.  Nicole’s pacing and story-telling is just amazing, like in the other books. I was able to be engaged into the world she created.  Engaged with each and every character; every event that took place.

Than that ending! It was just, in my eyes, perfect!! I loved it! I had tears, actual tears, flowing down my face by the last sentence. I feel Nicole did a great job bringing the story to a close, wrapping it up.

“Better make it a good one.” 

Crush was not a wild roller-coaster of emotion like Crash or Clash, but it still will have your emotions all over the place. I’m so happy to see the growth of both Jude and Lucy's characters. It’s made the journey of this series all the more remarkable.  I can say without a doubt, I love this series and it will always stay close to my heart. Jude and Lucy have their own special place within my heart, and I will always re-read their story, their journey.

I've thought of all the ways he’d gotten me to a yes. That first day at the beach, when I’d known he wasn't good for me but couldn't stay away. That morning at my locker, when he’d gotten me to say yes to going to Homecoming with him. His proposal at the fifty-yard line in front of fifty thousand fans. And finally, at the alter becoming his wife, when I couldn't say yes fast enough.