Twisted Duet by L.L. Collins-Review, Book Tour & Giveaway

TWISTED DUET by L.L. Collins-Review, Book tour and Giveaway

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Twisted Duet

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release July 2017

Life is a series of choices, and every one we make sends us down a different path…

It is easy to look back at your life and see the mistakes you’ve made and wonder how it all could’ve been different. But when the path you thought would last forever comes to an end and you have to choose a new one, do you follow the route that looks the straightest and easiest? Or do you follow your heart and choose the one that might have more twists and turns but could lead you to the happiest tomorrows?

Follow the story of lifelong friends Liane and Blake as they navigate life, love, and the twists that both inevitably take you on as fate tries to straighten their path once and for all.

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REVIEW: Told from three first person points of view (Blake, Liane, Ronan) TWISTED DUET is the re-release of L.L. Collins contemporary, YA to New Adult to Adult romance duet- Twisted Souls and Twisted Paths (originally released in 2015). TWISTED DUET is a story line that spans close to forty years in the life of soul mates Blake McIntyre and Liane Kelly but a case of mistaken belief, a lack of communication, and the interference of Liane’s former flame Ronan Collier push our story line couple in opposite directions until years later a chance meeting at the very place they first met washes away years of heartbreak and pain only to face deception-once again. Lives were destroyed but their love never died in the face of perceived betrayal, and a separation of miles and years. Scars that have barely healed will be ripped open when the truth is finally exposed. The $ex scenes are mostly implied or fade to black.

The TWISTED DUET is a love-triangle romance that follows Blake McIntyre and Liane Kelly from childhood friends to lovers to the day everything fell apart as the two, then eighteen year olds, prepared for their future-together. Twisted Paths advances the duet approximately eighteen years wherein life for Liane and Blake could not have been more different. Returning to Sanibel Island, Florida where it all began Liane and Blake will reconnect, and the truth about the past will slowly be revealed until the explosive announcement that will change everyone’s lives-once again. The love-triangle aspect focuses on jealousy, lies, secrets and betrayal as Ronan Collier sets into motion a series of events that will destroy and change Liane and Blake-forever.

THE TWISTED DUET is an emotional but predictable story line. Liane and Blake’s fairytale romance will be destroyed by jealousy and deceit, outside factors and a distinct lack of communication. Two families, once closer than blood, will watch from the sidelines as their children grow up without the person they love. The premise is tragic but encouraging; the characters are passionate and impulsive but broken; the romance is heartbreaking and fated. L.L. Collins’ THE TWISTED DUET is an engaging and poignant look at two lost souls who finally found their happily ever after.

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Reviewed by Sandy

 

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Twisted Souls

“Liane?” I open my eyes, wondering where I had heard my name. Geez, I had fallen asleep again, this time in the chair with my feet in the Gulf of Mexico. I need to get a grip. The warm sun must’ve lulled me into a stupor again.
“Li?” When that one syllable reaches my ears, I stand up so suddenly that I fling the magazine I had been holding into the water. I watch it for a moment, floating then sinking into the water before a hand reaches past me and picks it up, throwing it behind me into the sand. Turning around slowly, I have no idea if I make any sound outwardly, but I sure as heck inwardly gasp. I’ve seen pictures of him over the last four years. We’d sent each other our senior pictures. But never did I expect that the man standing in front of me was Blake McIntyre. The young teenage boy I had left standing on this beach four years ago was gone, and in his place was the hottest man I’d ever seen. His blonde hair is still unruly, and his chocolate brown eyes still exude kindness. But while before he had been very thin, now he is all filled out. Cuts of muscle define his arms, chest, and stomach, and he looks like he has already gotten tan.
I’m staring; I know it. But I can’t make myself stop. This is my best friend. My lifelong friend; my everything. Standing in front of me looking like he just posed for GQ. “Blake,” my mouth finally works, a grin that would rival a Cheshire cat’s spreading over my face. His eyes drink me in, trying to read my reaction and my thoughts. At this moment, nothing in the world matters but him. I fling myself into his arms and he catches me with a laugh, his large hands splaying on my bare back as I wrap myself up in him. He’s so much bigger than I remember. I’ve grown a few inches, sure, and am heavier and more womanly than I was when I was fourteen, but am still mostly the same. Blake, however, has grown a good six inches and gained at least 40 or 50 pounds since I have seen him last, and not an ounce of it is fat. He’s Adonis-like. And just my friend, I chant inside my head.

Twisted Paths

The first thing I notice is that the man is seriously beautiful. His body is cut and sculpted like he spends hours a day in the gym, and even in the dim light from the pool deck, I can tell he’s tan. His board shorts hang low on his hips, and the defined cuts of muscle on his chest and abs is enough to send women running to him and dropping at his feet. Had I been a single woman, he would definitely be my type. My eyes lift past his impeccable body to the face and head that’s attached, and that’s when my heart completely stops. I must’ve gasped out loud, because I feel Mia turn and look at me as he gets closer.

I feel my mouth drop open as his eyes meet mine for the first time in years. “Blake.” He stops in his tracks, both of us staring at each other for what seems like every moment of the time we have been apart. I can’t believe he’s standing here, and had it not been for Mia standing next to me, I might’ve thought I was dreaming.

He lifts his eyes back to my face, a small smile playing on his lips. “Well, well, well,” he drawls, his South Carolina accent more pronounced than I remember. “Look what the cat dragged in.” He smirks at me before hauling my dripping wet body to his. The second our skin touches, I inhale sharply. It isn’t lost on me that we’re wearing the equivalent of underwear and our bodies are pressed together like they belong there. His hard muscles press into my softness as his hands caress my back, and my mind goes back to that alcove all those years ago where we had first touched. I’ve purposely stayed away from that area of the beach since I arrived; there are some things better left alone.

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LL Collins is the self published author of the bestselling Living Again Series, the Twisted series, Back to the Drawing Board, and the Jaded Regret series.

LL has been writing since she was old enough to write. Always a story in her head, she finally decided to let the characters out and start writing and try to make her lifelong dreams of becoming an author come true. She has been a teacher for over ten years and lives in Florida with her husband and two sons.

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Ravenous by L.L. Collins-a review

RAVENOUS by L.L. Collins-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date April 20, 2017

Raven: To seek, plunder, or prey. To devour ravenously. To seize as spoil.

I am Raven.

I knew what it meant to fight my way through life.
To be the victim, the spoil, the prey.
I decided long ago I would take control of my future.

No more bug infested couches.

No more drug-addicted mothers or absentee fathers.

No more welfare checks or moldy bread.

No more settling.

I thought I had it all figured out, a way out of the hand I’d been dealt.

Until my life got turned upside down by two very different men who look at me with mirrored lust in their eyes.

Their want is palpable, heady. Their desire makes me reckless.
I no longer know who I am or who I want.

The only thing I do know is, I am ravenous.
Voracious. Intensely eager for gratification or satisfaction.

Despite the fact I know it is a disaster waiting to happen, I can’t stop it.

I’m afraid I will never be sated.

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REVIEW: RAVENOUS is the first installment in L.L. Collins’s contemporary, adult, erotic, romance series. This is former soldier, and thirty year old high school English teacher Brecken Kingsley, and twenty one year old college student Raven Phillips’s story line.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Raven and Brecken) RAVENOUS follows the building relationship between Raven Phillips and Brecken Kingsley-a relationship predicated on a lie; an arranged after hours business affair; and a building love for two people walking separate paths towards a future together. Raven Phillips is desperate and struggles with the choices in her life when an opportunity presents itself ensuring Raven the possibility of easier times ahead for herself and her younger sister Chrissy. Meeting twins Dr. Porter Kinglsey, and high school English teacher Brecken Kingsley never entered into the equation but two men vying for the affections of our story line heroine pits brother against brother until the truth is finally revealed. What ensues is Raven’s battle between her heart and her head, and Brecken’s desire for a woman he barely knows.

L.L. Collins writes a sexy, creative and engaging story about one woman, two brothers and their passionate relationships both in and out of the bedroom. Raven Phillips must choose between security and love, self esteem, pride, survival and letting go. The premise is spirited; the characters are passionate; the romance is fated by circumstance and time. RAVENOUS is an enticing tale that will captivate your imagination.

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Exposed (Jaded Regret #4) by L.L.Collins-Review and Book Tour

EXPOSED (Jaded Regret #4) by L.L. Collins-Review and Book Tour

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About the book: Release Date October 27, 2016

What do you do when all your secrets– and your heart– are exposed?

Natalie Anderson has spent her life being strong for everyone else, always putting herself last. But that has come with a price because the stress and secrets are affecting every part of her life. Looking and acting the part is one thing, but feeling it is another. She knows she’s at a crossroads and she needs to make a change, starting with loosening up and living a little.

Kai Pierson is done being a grunt. He’s finally worked his way up the ladder and he now finds himself a rep at the hottest label, representing the hottest band in all of rock music. He’s living the life…alone, but he’s okay with that. It’s the way it needs to be.

Though they’ve never met in person, they become friends and spend hours talking about life. When the chance to meet arrives, neither of them are ready how they feel when they see each other for the first time.

But when Natalie’s secrets are exposed, will she be able to put it all behind her and find her own happiness, or will the lies destroy her once and for all?

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REVIEW: EXPOSED is the fourth and final instalment in L.L. Collins’s contemporary, adult JADED REGRET romance series focusing on the members of the rock band Jaded Regret. This is the band’s manager Natalie Anderson, and their recording company rep Kai Pierson’s story line. EXPOSED can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty but for cohesion and back story I recommend reading the series in order. For fans of the Jaded Regret series Natalie is Beau’s (Snared/Jaded Regret 2) sister.

Told from dual first person points of view (Natalie and Kai) EXPOSED focuses on the long distance, and building relationship between Jaded Regret’s band manager Natalie Anderson, and company representative Kai Pierson. Natalie and Kai have never met but work together long distance through emails, phone calls and text. With the bands’ upcoming international tour on the agenda, Kai and Natalie arrange to meet in New York to finalize the plans and get to know one another… but Natalie has a dark secret that she keeps from the people she loves, and it is this secret that will set off a series of events placing our heroine’s life in danger, revealing more than one secret Natalie has kept from the band. What ensues is the growing love between two people whose lives have intertwined for months, and the revelation that all is not well in Natalie’s well-ordered life. Beau and Natalie’s past continues to haunt the siblings but none more so than our story line heroine.

The relationship between Natalie and Kai is one of instant attraction, insta-lust, and for Kai a case of insta-love. Throughout the series, up until our couple meet for the first time, Kai insists on exchanging photos with the woman that calls to his heart but Natalie continues to ignore, refuse or change the subject. Natalie does not like having her picture taken for reasons only she can understand, and when they finally exchange online images both are pulled into the other’s life. The $ex scenes are intimate and seductive.

All of the previous story line couples and band members play secondary and supporting roles. L.L. Collins pulls the reader into the lives and loves of Jaded Regret where we witness the growing family of children and friends.

EXPOSED covers another controversial topic; an emotional and physical disorder that affects millions of people but a disorder that is hidden by guilt and shame. The premise is engaging and revealing: the characters are heartbreaking, tragic and animated; the romance is provocative and fated.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Sentenced
Snared
Hartstrings
Exposed

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Reviewed by Sandy

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*SENTENCED (Jaded Regret, #1)

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*SNARED (Jaded Regret, #2)

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HARTSTRINGS (Jaded Regret #3)
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L.L. Collins loves spending her days in the Florida sun with her husband and two boys, reading, and writing. LL has been writing since she was old enough to write. Always a story in her head, she finally decided to let the characters out made her lifelong dream of becoming an author come true in the self-publishing world. She’s the author of the Living Again Series and the Twisted Series, plus a new standalone, Back to the Drawing Board. Visit LL on her WEBSITE

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