Review: Raw and Real .. Steel & Ice will set your heart on fire!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2014
I was gifted this book from the Author for an honest review.this is book one in the L&J; series.I gave this book 5 stars.This is Elle and J's story.And what a story it is.Elle is a tough girl, no nonsense kind of girl. She has been hardened by the streets and the people on it. She works at Applebee's, parties with her friends when she can, smokes as much weed as possible and loves to drink. She is not interested in a relationship with anyone, I don't think that she even believes in love. But when she goes to a bar with her friends after work one night she sees him from across the room and she feels an instant connection to him. She fights it of course and ignores it. When they finally do meet it's because he comes up beside her a few days later at a different bar after he recognizes her. He is a mysterious man, dark and inviting and she finally gives in. His name is J and he has been watching her since the moment she walked into the first bar and he felt the connection too. He knew at that moment that his life would never be the same. He knows how to talk to Elle, he knows the things to say to her that won't make her run like she usually would with other men. But when she does run, he also knows what to do so that she won't run very far. He doesn't push her buttons and he knows how to back off.With his lifestyle and the things that he does will she stay when she finds out or will she run again? Can her walls come down? And if they do will they go back up when she discovers who J is? These two both have things that they need to work on in order to be together. But that doesn't stop them and it doesn't stop the mad chemistry that they have going on between them. He seems to calm her and center her, and she is just what he needs to keep him interested and wanting more. These two set the pages on fire!J is as real as they come, he is a man and a beautiful one at that. He had me swooning all over the place, and these two together just had me smiling the whole time and chuckling to myself. It was just ridiculous when it came to them doing the things that they do. Where they go on their first date was just awesome. I loved the way this Author wrote her story. It was like reading about a real life relationship. I grew up in Chicago and the way that she describes her life and how hard it was and the words that she uses to describe this were perfect. Elle was a hard woman, the way she converses with her friends and with J is blunt and straight forward and she is just in one word REAL. Some might not like the way the story was told and the language in which it was told, but I cannot see Elle any other way then the way she was portrayed. Mouthy, feisty and loud. Someone who thinks that she has to be tough all the time in order not to be hurt. Someone who believes that life's happiness is for everyone else, but not her.Thank you for your amazing story. I cannot wait to read the next one in the series. <3