Book Review – Rebel Heir (Rush Duet #1) by Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland

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Kindle Edition 294 pages

Published April 7, 2018

Genre(s): New Adult, Romance, Contemporary

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From New York Times Bestselling authors Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward, comes the first book in a new, sexy duet.

How to kick off a great summer in the Hamptons:

Snag a gorgeous rental on the beach. Check.

Get a job at a trendy summer haunt. Check.

How to screw up a great summer in the Hamptons:

Fall for the one guy with a dark leather jacket, scruff on his face, and intense eyes that doesn’t fit in with the rest of the tony looking crowd. A guy you can’t have when you’ll be leaving at the end of the season.

Check. Check. Check.

I should add—especially when the guy is your sexy, tattooed God of a boss.

Especially when he not only owns your place of employment but inherited half of the town.

Especially when he’s mean to you.

Or so I thought.

Until one night when he demanded I get in his car so he could drive me home because he didn’t want me walking in the dark.

That was sort of how it all started with Rush.

And then little by little, some of the walls of this hardass man started to come down.

I never expected that the two of us, seemingly opposites from the outside, would grow so close.

I wasn’t supposed to fall for the rebel heir, especially when he made it clear he didn’t want to cross the line with me.

As the temperature turned cooler, the nights became hotter. My summer became a lot more interesting—and complicated.

All good things must come to an end, right?

Except our ending was one I didn’t see coming.

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4.75 – The perfect summer read with all the imaginable FEELS

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Gahhh so ridiculously swoony, romantic, and just awesome. Rush and Gia are so perfect together and I just cant… Rebel Heir completely stole my heart and I loved every moment.

Okay so I started reading this book as soon as it was released, but unfortunately I had to stop to take care of some personal stuff and mostly prepare for my mom’s 60th birthday. Fortunately, I was able to finally pick it up again Monday, July 16, and quickly found out that it was very difficult to put down. I wanted to keep reading and just spend time with Rush and Gia, but unfortunately, I was stuck at work. Fortunately, (and I love when this happens) work was really slow so I was able to finish. Yes, I pretended and took very long bathroom breaks and spent my entire lunch reading as much as I can. It was so worth it and I couldn’t wait to read Rebel Heart when I got home… and that’s exactly what I did. Suffice it to say that I undeniably and absolutely enjoyed everything about this achingly beautiful series… even the sad and ugly parts.

“Sweetheart, sometimes the risk of what bad things could happen keeps up from experiencing all the good things life has to offer.”

I’ve only read one other book by Vi Keeland, which I loved, and have several books by both Keeland and Ward on my Goodreads TBR. I’ve been meaning to binge their novels for a while, but it was Rebel Heir that really caught my attention. Totally the cover’s fault. It’s just so damn delicious, alluring and smoking hot that I just couldn’t resist!! Not to mention the synopsis sounds like oodles of fun. I mean who doesn’t love a tattooed, dark, and devastatingly handsome bad boy who’s actually an amazing, sweet, funny, and lovable guy?!?! I seriously have the biggest weakest for this trope and Rebel Heir exceeded my expectations. It was beautifully written, charmingly heartwarming, and so incredibly hilarious!

“When you’re afraid to fall in love with someone, it’s usually because you’ve already started to fall. “

This book had me hooked. Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward’s writing style was witty, heartfelt, and addictive. I loved the angst, drama, humor, the unexpected twist that tore me to pieces, and of course the swimmingly adorable and steamy romance. Rush and Gia captured my heart and I rooted so hard for them. Their instant chemistry, playful bantering, and sexy moments made me smile and swoon the entire time. It was undoubtedly one of the most delicious, seductive, and deeply moving love stories I’ve ever read. My emotions were completely all over the place, going from extreme highs to the most painful lows, but every dialogue meant something and every moment hit all the right FEELS. LOVE LOVE LOVE this book so much!

I’m most definitely a big fan of Keeland and Ward now and cannot wait to read all their other books and collaborations. Rebel Heir was a fun, quirky, sweet, and amazingly heartfelt story. The perfect summer read with all the imaginable FEELS you won’t want to miss.

I purchased an electronic copy of this book and all thoughts and opinions are my own.

favequotesHere are some of my other favorite quotes from the book. 

“It’s like I want to protect you and corrupt you at the same time. It’s fucked-up.”

“They don’t compare to you. They’re fantasy. All the things that make them beautiful… the strength they seem to convey… that’s all brought to life whenever I look at you.”

“Because when you finally accept that you found the one, it’s terrifying that you might lose them and then there’d never be another.”

 


Well, I hope you enjoyed reading my review and get to meet Rush and Gia really soon.

Have you read this book/series? What did you think? Are you fans of romance and bad boys to heroes stories? What are some of your favorites? Let me know in the comments.

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Book Birthdays – July 17, 2018

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Wishing these BEAUTIES the happiest Book Birthdays! 


Letting Go of Gravity by Meg Leder

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Publisher: Simon Pulse

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary

Hardcover 432 Pages

Twins Parker and Charlie are polar opposites.

Where Charlie is fearless, Parker is careful.

Charlie is confident while Parker aims to please.

Charlie is outgoing and outspoken; Parker is introverted and reserved.

And of course, there’s the one other major difference: Charlie got leukemia. Parker didn’t.

But now that Charlie is officially in remission, life couldn’t be going better for Parker. She’s landed a prestigious summer internship at the hospital and is headed to Harvard in the fall to study pediatric oncology—which is why the anxiety she’s felt since her Harvard acceptance is so unsettling. And it doesn’t help that her relationship with Charlie has been on the rocks since his diagnosis.

Enter Finn, a boy who’s been leaving strange graffiti messages all over town. Parker can’t stop thinking about those messages, or about Finn, who makes her feel free for the first time: free to doubt, free to make mistakes, and free to confront the truth that Parker has been hiding from for a long time.

That she keeps trying to save Charlie, when the person who really needs saving is herself.

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Wrong in All the Right Ways by Tiffany Brownlee

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Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Hardcover 336 Pages

Everything in Emma’s life has always gone according to her very careful plans. But things take a turn toward the unexpected when she falls in love for the first time with the one person in the world who’s off-limits–her new foster brother, the gorgeous and tormented Dylan McAndrews.

Meanwhile, Emma’s AP English class is reading Wuthering Heights, and she’s been assigned to mimic Bronte’s style in an epistolary format. With no one to confide in, she’s got a lot to write about. Emma and Dylan try to constrain their romance to the page–for fear of threatening Dylan’s chances of being adopted into another home. But the strength of first love is all-consuming, and they soon get enveloped in a passionate, secretive relationship with a very uncertain outcome

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All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

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Publisher: Atria Books

Genre: Contemporary, Romance

Paperback 320 Pages

Colleen Hoover delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it.

Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.

All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people?

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When Life Gives You Demons by Jennifer Honeybourn

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Publisher: Swoon Reads

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance

Hardcover 272 Pages

Sixteen-year-old Shelby Black has spent the past year training to be an exorcist. Her great-uncle Roy—a Catholic priest and Shelby’s guardian—believes she has a gift for expelling demons, and he’s put her through exorcist boot camp hell, but he still doesn’t trust her to do an exorcism on her own.

High school is hard enough without having to explain that you fight demons for a living, so Shelby keeps her extracurricular activity quiet, especially from Spencer, her cute math tutor. Secrets run in Shelby’s family, though: her mother has been missing ever since an exorcism went horribly wrong, and Uncle Roy is tight-lipped about it. But Shelby’s hell-bent on finding her mom, no matter what—even if what it ends up costing her her soul AND a date with Spencer.

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Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

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Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers

Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction

Hardover 400 Pages

Getting to Eden brought Emmett and his crewmates one step closer to their promised fortune. But surviving Eden may be the biggest reward of all. Discover book two in the trilogy Marie Lu called, “a high-octance thriller.”

Emmett Atwater thought Babel’s game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn’t take long for him to learn that Babel’s competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one.

Now Emmett and the rest of the Genesis survivors must rally and forge their own path through a new world. Their mission from Babel is simple: extract nyxia, the most valuable material in the universe, and play nice with the indigenous Adamite population.

But Emmett and the others quickly realize they are caught between two powerful forces—Babel and the Adamites—with clashing desires. Will the Genesis team make it out alive before it’s too late?

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Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

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Publisher: St Martin’s Press

Genre: Thriller, Fiction, Horror

Hardcover 320 Pages

Sweetness can be deceptive. 

Meet Hanna.

She’s the sweet-but-silent angel in the adoring eyes of her Daddy. He’s the only person who understands her, and all Hanna wants is to live happily ever after with him. But Mommy stands in her way, and she’ll try any trick she can think of to get rid of her. Ideally for good.

Meet Suzette.

She loves her daughter, really, but after years of expulsions and strained home schooling, her precarious health and sanity are weakening day by day. As Hanna’s tricks become increasingly sophisticated, and Suzette’s husband remains blind to the failing family dynamics, Suzette starts to fear that there’s something seriously wrong, and that maybe home isn’t the best place for their baby girl after all.

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Love Machine by Kendall Ryan

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Published by Kendall Ryan July 16, 2018

Genre: Contemporary, Romance

Kindle Edition 288 Pages

A best-friends-to lovers standalone romance from New York Times bestselling author Kendall Ryan. 

She says she needs some help … in the bedroom.

Come again? No, really come again.

Sweet, nerdy, lovable Keaton.

She’s my best friend and has been for years. Sure she likes numbers and math, and thinks doing other people’s taxes is fun. And I like … none of that stuff. She’s obsessed with her cat and reads novels I’ll never understand, and yet we just click. There’s no one I’d rather share breakfast burritos with or binge watch hours of Netflix. She’s my person. And so when she takes off her glasses and asks me to help her improve her skills in the bedroom, I barely have to think about it.

Of course I’ll help her. There’s no one better for the job.

I’ve been there for her through everything, why should this be any different?

But what happens when she’s ready to take her new-found confidence and move on?

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Have you read any of these? Which one are you most excited about. Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day loves!!!

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