BOOK REVIEW ~ RIGHT NOW BY MARIE HALL

Title: Right Now ( Moments, Book Two)
Author: Marie Hall

Release Date: September 15, 2013

ARC provided by NetGalley

Sometimes in life....

Things were supposed to get better when Ryan met Lili. I was supposed to move on, get a life... but I'm stuck and lost. Things with my father are not good. There are demons in our closet, big ones. Ones I want to kill him for, I'm seeing a shrink, I'm trying to get better... but my life feels out of control, like I'm a raft adrift on the sea. I don't know where to look, how to get anchored again, and then I meet Zoe Stone. Something about her draws me out of my rut, makes me laugh for real, smile, and for the first time in years I want to be more. But what will she think when she discovers who I really am?

...all we have...

When Alexander Donovan, aka The Golden Adonis, walks into my tattoo parlor, I know I'll do anything to make that man mine. There's an instant connection, a need to know more about him. Everything about him. But there's also a mystery surrounding the guy, when people look at him they only see the man that laughs, that cracks jokes and makes the world think that everything's okay, but I see the truth... I see the darkness that lurks so deep inside few would ever recognize it. I want to help him, I want to be with him, now I just have to make him trust me enough to let me in.

Is Right Now

Book Review

Right Now is part of a series, and I think one that should be read in order. That being said, be prepared to have your heart torn open, your emotions crush you, and tears to fall uncontrollably.

I love a story that has depth, despair, and redemption. One that is hard on the heart and emotions of the reader. Marie Hall delivers an engrossing tale about Alex, a young man we get to meet in Hall's first book, A Moment. And in Right Now, Alex's life and secrets are sliced open, with shocking detail.

Alex has always had something to anchor him in his life--his cousin, Ryan. He had a purpose--to keep Ryan alive. But Ryan now has Lili, and Alex falls apart. He seeks to numb the pain with an endless string of women and meaningless sex. But hollow sex and insignificant women aren't doing it anymore.

And the simple words of a fortune cookie send Alex in a direction that could ultimately save him.

Be opposite.

Marie Hall writes a caustic tale, at times unpleasant, but necessary in order for Alex to heal.

And let's not forget a great secondary cast of characters that I look forward to read about in another installment of Moments, a series that will remain close to my heart.

ARC BOOK REVIEW ~ A MOMENT BY MARIE HALL

Title: A Moment (Moments, Book One)

Author: Marie Hall

Release Date: March 12, 2013 

ARC provided by NetGalley

Ryan Cosgrove and Liliana Delgado are on a collision course with destiny. They don’t know it yet, but before the night is over their lives will be forever changed.

Spending Valentine’s Day at a burlesque bar, hadn’t been Liliana’s ideal way of spending a Friday night. She’d much rather be back on campus doing homework… until she meets Ryan. Tall, athletic, and gorgeous, Lili can’t keep her eyes off him, and despite his gruff manners and drunken disposition she’s intrigued.

Ryan’s got demons, and they’re deep, dark, and eating him alive. Regardless of his attraction to the petite brunette he’s tired of fighting, of pretending the last fifteen years haven’t been a daily struggle just to get out of bed every morning. That night he decides to end his pain, to leave it all behind and float away into the blessed darkness of oblivion. But fate has other plans for him, Lily finds and rescues Ryan, determined she’ll not only save his body, but his soul too.

This is their moment…

Book Review

I truly enjoyed Marie Hall's brutal and sometimes very dark telling of Ryan and Liliana's story. And I loved her approach to the telling the tale. How, in our lives, a moment can change everything. 

Although Ryan and Liliana share one brief moment when their life is on the precipice of something major--and will be changed forever--it is not until seven years later that the two meet up and collide in a moment that will rock their very foundations. 

Liliana struggles as a single mother whose son is autistic, an ailing mother, and college classes. She has put relationships on hold to focus on the three things that matter to her the most: her son, her mother, and her future. 

The closest she has come to having any type of a relationship with the opposite sex is with the cute guy at the local coffee shop--Alex--who at one time showed an interest, but now is just a good friend. 

Alex asks her to hang out with him and his brother for Valentine's Day night and for once, Liliana accepts. Especially after much prodding from her mother, who wants Lili to live her life and have fun for once. 

When Liliana comes face to face with Ryan, Alex's brother, she is instantly attracted to his dark looks and his moodiness only intrigues her. And the moment when Ryan's pain bleeds out literally in the bathtub when he tries to take his life, Liliana cannot pull herself away. 

Ryan and Liliana are drawn to each other and over time their relationship develops with very small baby steps. Ryan still struggles with the shame and pain that engulfs him from his past. And Liliana is desperate for him to share that pain with her. Only he cannot break the silence and it may end up killing any chance they have of a future together. 

A Moment is a brutal, heart-wrenching story with dark secrets that may be hard to swallow. But Marie Hart doesn't back down and paints her words with painful truths of abuse and the traumatic effect they can leave on our soul. 

A Moment is riveting and honest.

SEXY SNIPPETS ~ A MOMENT BY MARIE HALL

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I absolutely love kiss scenes. Especially when they make your toes curl. 

My fingers twine through the curly ends of his hair, tugging gently on the strands. Our tongues twirl, moving in a rhythm as old as time itself. Our kiss is so raw and wild that our teeth keep knocking against one another, his tongue is twirling inside my mouth, running along my lips, my gums, twisting with my own and my head is spinning. My body is shaking, heat zips through my thighs, settles into the bundle of nerves at the center of me and I moan, loud and long. It's never been like this, no kiss has ever made me this insane, this desperate. 

I am really enjoying this book and the author's voice. It's very angsty and I know I'm gonna need a box of Kleenex pretty damn soon. I can feel it. 

Now it's your turn to show me your sexy!