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Blurb
Let your hair down,
Caroline, they said. It'll be fun, they said.
I know I've closed
myself off in a major way in the past year, ever since “the incident” where I
messed up my life completely. It's past time I try to live again or just give
up completely. But this is quite possibly the craziest thing I've ever done. In
a last ditch effort to invigorate myself, I'm standing outside Oren Tenning's
bedroom, I just peeled off the sexiest pair of underwear I own, and my hand is
already raised to knock. My brother would disown me for doing anything with his
best friend, and he'd probably kill Oren. But if I play my cards right, no one
will ever know about this. Not even Ten.
Maybe after tonight,
I’ll finally get over this stupid, irrational crush I hate having on the
biggest jerk I’ve ever met. Or maybe I’ll just end up falling for him even
harder. Maybe I’ll discover there’s so much more to my crude, carefree hunk
than meets the eye.
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EXCERPT
She was
Noel Gamble’s one and only sister; I could not fuck her. No matter what.
Ergo, I
needed to take drastic measures to keep her at arm’s length. I needed
to...okay, fine. Fuck. I just needed to be me. Not really so drastic once you
think about it, even though it probably seemed that way to her.
So I let
her have the full intensity of Ten. I stopped watching what I said when she was
around, and I let all my base, disgusting thoughts bleed out of my mouth like I
usually did. I stopped smiling at her, stopped paying her special attention
with little courteous things like holding doors open for her or asking her how
her day went. I completely stopped being a nice guy. I backed off and pretty
much ignored her, unless I could think up something crude to say in her
direction. I made sure to chase other women when she was around. And I felt
like shit every night I lay in bed, unable to get to sleep, because I’d relive
every awful thing I’d done to her that day.
No matter
how deeply my actions ate at me, though, it didn’t stop me from making her hate
me and killing any soft feelings she’d ever had for me.
It
should’ve been easy to accomplish. Everyone who knows me knows how fast I can
piss off a woman.
But nothing
about Caroline has ever been easy.
That’s the
curious thing about temptation. It festers and grows. You feed that bitch
enough and she morphs into craving, and then craving turns into obsession.
Pretty soon, nothing in your life is as important as that one thing you want
but can’t have.
I wanted
her and I couldn’t have her, so I fed the temptation, I flooded the craving, I
would’ve fucking nursed the obsession from my own tits if I could’ve. I made
sure I got little doses of her here and there. Except something incredibly
enlightening happens when you spend enough time in one woman’s company. You
start noticing shit about her, little useless shit that actually begins to mean
everything, like how she brushes the hair out her face—even if there isn’t any
in her eyes—whenever she’s unsettled, or how she chews on the end of a pen
during class whenever she’s listening to something that captivates her
attention. You learn all her different laughs and know what each one means. You
learn what pisses her off the most, or what makes her the happiest. You
discover how smart and witty and sarcastic she is, and that her mind is almost
as dirty as yours. You see how passionate she becomes when she defends those
she loves, and you start to fall. Hard.
So, this is
my Pathetic Loser’s confession: I am Oren Tenning and I have fallen. Hard.
My review
"So this is my Pathetic Loser's confession: I am Oren Tenning, and I have fallen. Hard."
I never thought I would say this, but Ten is my favorite Forbidden Man now.Actually, I shouldn't be surprised, Linda Kage has such a way with her characters, she makes them lovable and her series is simply addictive.
At first I was a bit reluctant about Ten and how will he deal with his feelings for Caroline because we all know he loves the ladies, but I think that the love for his girl was the most genuine.I really appreciated that he fought so hard his feelings for Caroline because he wanted to respect his best friend's wish to stay away from her, that only proved how loyal he can be, but I also appreciated Caroline's stubbornness and her clever ways of getting Ten.
Even though they are both fuuny and loud, they also have secrets and a tragic past, and their need for a fresh start brought them together.Their love for each other healed them.
The one that disappointed me was Noel, he was supposed to be Ten's best friend and to always have his back, but the words he had said to Oren were really cruel, not to mention his stunt at the bar.
The epilogue was perfect and made me really happy for Oren and Caroline, they really deserved that gift.
The heart felt moments and the dirty flirty encounters made this book deserve a +5 stars rating.I recommend this series with all my heart and I can't wait to read the next book!
"Why couldn't I stay away from you?" he demanded with another long, slow thrust. "Why can't I get enough of you?" Thrust. "Why do I want to own every fucking piece of you?" Thrust."
About the author
Linda grew up on a dairy farm in the Midwest as the youngest of eight children. Now she lives in Kansas with her husband, daughter, and nine cuckoo clocks. Her life’s been blessed with lots of people to learn from and love. Writing’s always been a major part of her world, and she is so happy to finally share some of her stories with other romance lovers.
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