Once upon a time they had been more than friends….
Harley & Rose by Carmen Jenner is NOW AVAILABLE!!
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Blurb
Ever since she was a little girl, thirty-year-old Rose dreamed of the day Harley would carry her across the threshold on their honeymoon. So what if this isn’t her actual wedding day, and that she’s only here because Harley was left at the altar just a few hours earlier?
Trading San Francisco for paradise and swapping her bridesmaid’s bouquet for a Blue Hawaii, Rose hopes she can finally escape the friend zone.
Once upon a time they had been more than friends, but life got in the way. She’s spent every day since wishing Harley would get a clue.
She’s always been his best friend.
He’s always been hers.
She’s in love with him.
He’s … not in love with her.
He’s … marrying someone else.
He’s … hiding something.
He’s … well—it’s complicated.
REVIEW
How do I write this review? How do I
pick the pieces of my heart and soul off the ground, find my barrings
and write something down? And last but not least, how do I write a
review on a story that I will give 5 stars to and admit that I didn't
even finish. I didn't even make it half way. How do I convince you,
the unknowing reader, to take a chance on a book that I couldn't even
read the last lines of?
I'm not sure, but I'm going to try. I
am a huge Carmen Jenner fan. Sugartown addiction, MC perfection and
M/M bliss had me chomping at the bit for her next adventure. Little
did I know, I will FOREVER be cautions and apprehensive one clicking
this amazing author.
Will I one click in the future.
Absolutely, without a doubt...YES. I mean this is the amazing CARMEN
JENNER.
Now...this book. This story. This
Adventure. Where do I begin.
I read a lot. I love the world of
romance and I love the world of fiction. BUT, with that being said,
every reader, I believe, has their hard limits. I know I do. I love
a story that takes me to a different place and time. I love when the
girl gets the guy of her dreams. I love feeling like I am apart of
the ride. And I love a happily ever after. I don't even mind
shedding tears....
But, when my hard limits come in to
play. I can't...I just can't.
I realized at some point something in
this story was very wrong. I felt that uneasiness in my gut. No,
it's not that time of the month so where is this cramping coming
from. Why do I feel sick to my stomach. Something is very wrong.
My gut instinct told me to skip to the
end. When I get that feeling something is way off, that I am about
to be blindsided and not in a good way, I am that reader that authors
probably want to bitch slap. I go to the end just to see if my heart
will still be intact. I don't do this very often. As a matter of
fact, I only recall one other time that this happened. I owned up to
it then and I'm owning up to it know. The only difference is the
endings were quite different. One I could live with and one I
couldn't.
Hard limit's breached. Notice I did
not say limit...singular. I said limits. This is because every
single thing I don't want to happen in a story did. Not only did it
happen, it came at me like a fucking brick wall. I found myself,
chin hitting the floor, skimming through the pages backwards.
Skimming this story from the end. It was like there were words
jumping out at me. They might has well have been highlighted because
I noticed immediately. I don't need to read the story from beginning
to end. I know what happens. I know that my heart would NOT have
been able to handle a story like this. Even skimming my heart
dropped. I noticed my self flipping the pages in reverse quickly and
I said out loud, “No. No no no no no no. Please no.”
Now, I gave it 5 stars because if a
story I can't even finish has me crying uncontrollably, enough to
where I want to scream and yell and throw things...it's wonderfully
written. I fell for each one of these characters. I read enough to
be sucked in and that's why the hard limits were even more gut
wrenching to witness. How can I give it less stars just because
there were topics and situations in here that I don't like to read
about? This author brought her A-game.
If you like ugly cry...the kind of cry
where the hits just keep on comin'? Grab this book. If you are a
Carmen Jenner fan, which I would say almost everyone is, buy this
book.
Carmen, you gutted me. I know I have
told you that in the past. But this time, I mean it. I love you, I
hate you. I'm mad at you. I want to hug you because you had to live
through every moment of writing this, I was allowed to skim.
I will be hungover for weeks on a book
I couldn't even finish.
A 5 star read that I want to completely
erase from my memory.
~Review by Stacey
Excerpt
Harley bangs on the door. “Rose, what’s the hold up?”
“Shut up, ass face,” I say, scowling in his direction.
“You haven’t even put it on yet, have you?” He chuckles, leaning against the frosted glass panel. “I’m giving you five seconds, babe.”
I know he isn’t kidding with this, either, so I let the towel fall to the floor and I yank on the bikini. I’m just snapping the bottoms into place when he bangs again.
“Time’s up.”
“I can’t wear this,” I say as he opens the door. My body is turned toward him, but only because half of my ass is hanging out of the cheeky-cut swimwear. Harley doesn’t need me to turn around in order to see how much skin they expose. The huge mirror over the vanity is doing a fine job of showing it to him. He takes a slow sip from the paper coffee cup in his hand.
“Well?” I demand, snatching the cup from his grasp and gulping down a huge mouthful. It burns my tongue and throat and brings tears to my eyes that are in no way related to the fact that he hasn’t said anything yet.
“You wanna know what I think?” He takes a step toward me and reflexively I take one back, only I have nowhere to go because my ass hits the bathroom vanity, and I swallow hard and nod. Harley’s arm snakes around my waist, his fingers sliding down to the fabric of my bikini bottoms and across my exposed flesh. My body thrums. I hold my breath and he leans in close to whisper in my ear, “I think it’s lucky you’re not my wife, because you’d be walking with a limp for the rest of our honeymoon.”
Author Information
Carmen Jenner is a thirty-something, USA Today and international bestselling author.
Her dark romance, KICK (Savage Saints MC #1), won Best Dark Romance Read in the Reader’s Choice Awards at RWDU, 2015.
A tattoo enthusiast, hardcore makeup addict and zombie fangirl, Carmen lives on the sunny North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, where she spends her time indoors wrangling her two wildling children, a dog named Pikelet, and her very own man-child.
A romantic at heart, Carmen strives to give her characters the HEA they deserve, but not before ruining their lives completely first … because what’s a happily ever after without a little torture?
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