Friday, February 27, 2015

Review---A Stone in the Sea by A.L. Jackson







He wanted nothing at all…

Until he found she had everything to give…

Sunder lead singer and guitarist Sebastian Stone has everything—fans, fame, and fortune. He also has a heart full of bitterness and a reputation for a short-fused temper. But an outward reputation rarely reveals the true man inside. Facing assault charges after trying to protect his younger brother, Sebastian is sent to Savannah, Georgia to lie low until the dust settles in L.A.

Shea Bentley is beautiful, kind, and hiding from the very lifestyle Sebastian has always embraced.

When the mysterious, tattooed stranger begins hanging out at the bar where she works, Shea is quick to recognize he is nothing but trouble, but she's helpless to the way her body lights up every time his intense gray eyes tangle with hers.

They both soon find themselves drowning in a sea of desire and passion that won’t let them up for air.

Sebastian knows firsthand secrets never die, and he’s not the only one who’s hiding them.

Loving someone always comes with a price. But will it be Shea’s past that costs them everything?




Review:

So beautifully written is this book by the phenomenal A.L. Jackson. A Stone in the Sea is the first book in her new Bleeding Stars series and holy crap did it BLOW ME AWAY! This book was fantastic. I absolutely adored it, but then again, I am such a huge sucker for a bad boy with tattoos.

A.L. Jackson told the story of Sebastian Stone, the lead singer of Sunder and the all around bad boy who just can't manage to stay out of trouble. Because of his colorful past, Sebastian and his band land themselves in a sort of forced purgatory in Tybee Island, Georgia. Distraction is the last thing Baz needs but when a night out to distract himself from the hell his life currently is, runs him straight into the demure and sassy Shea Bentley, there is nothing that can keep Baz away from her.

The chemistry between these two was instant. It was gorgeous and palpable on the pages of this book from the very start. Neither one can afford the opportunity of distractions but that doesn't mean anything to their heads or their hearts. They are inexplicably drawn together but forces beyond their control and god did it make my heart ache, in both a good and a bad way.

I felt their struggle. I felt in my bones, my heart. Ugh the emotions this book made me feel. They held me. I wanted to hug Baz and make him see he was loved. I wanted to tell Shea everything would be ok! I just felt for them.. The feels in this book were so beautiful and magnetic and so powerful. A.L. Jackson out did herself with this book. It instantly became my favorite A.L. Jackson book. Easily.

I think it may have even taken on the role of my favorite book of the year. The writing was easily flowing. The words just as easy to read. I just, I honestly loved every single thing about this book! It was so broken in so many ways but still so effortlessly flawless. A.L. Jackson stole my heart with A Stone in the Sea. And I don't think I will get it back until I have more Sebastian and Shea!

*This book ends on a cliffy.. BEWARE!*

5 STARS!




EXCERPT


I dug in my bag for my keys and slipped the front-door key into the lock, turned the knob, and cracked open the door.
“Goodnight, Baz.” I turned away and went to cross the threshold.
I felt him move before I felt the blazing heat of his hand on my neck, beneath my hair, his thumb at my jaw to force me to look back at him.
Indecision swam through his eyes, voice rough. “You’re beautiful, Shea. Need you to know that.”
Slowly, I shifted, turning to face him, his right hand gliding around to the side of my neck in the same second his left came up to the other side. Holding me. Thumbs ran along the contour of my jaw, strong fingers at my nape tipping back my head.
I felt like I would drown under the intensity of him—my body coming alive—a rapid-fire of sensation licking through my body with the simple touch.
I stopped breathing when he slowly leaned in. His mouth brushed over mine in a feather-light caress.
Once. Twice. Three times.
Testing.
As if he were curious to see what it might feel like.
Like he’d gotten the answer, he gripped my face. There was little movement, just the dizzying sweetness of his lips as they pressed earnestly against my mouth. Baz inhaled, breathing the moment in. I grabbed his wrists to hold him closer as my knees went weak, the man again having the power to evoke the most foolish kind of reaction from me.
He fed from it, I could tell, the way every inch of him hardened and a rumble of pleasure vibrated from his chest.
Spinning us, he pushed me up against the wall. My back hit it with a thud, and his hands were in my hair, yanking me forward in the same second his mouth closed fiercely over mine.
He was no longer gentle, and he swept his tongue along the rim of my bottom lip, teasing at the corner, nipped me once before his tongue slipped inside.

It was an all-out assault.



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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

A.L. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Take This Regret and Lost to You, as well as other contemporary romance titles, including If Forever Comes, Pulled and When We Collide, as well as the New Adult Romance Come To Me Quietly due out January 7, 2014. 

She first found a love for writing during her days as a young mother and college student. She filled the journals she carried with short stories and poems used as an emotional outlet for the difficulties and joys she found in day-to-day life.

Years later, she shared a short story she’d been working on with her two closest friends and, with their encouragement, this story became her first full length novel. A.L. now spends her days writing in Southern Arizona where she lives with her husband and three children. Her favorite pastime is spending time with the ones she loves. 


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