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ABOUT THE BOOK: Launch Date October 22, 2024
Romance writer Riley Cooper all the time dreamed of dwelling by the water. However inside a day of touchdown within the charming seaside city of Port Stewart to work on her newest e book, she’s getting calls and texts for some dude on her new quantity. Bizarre ones. Unhappy ones. Horny ones. Ones that make her need to meet him. For curiosity’s sake…if nothing else.
After years of being on-again, off-again together with his highschool sweetheart, all Connor desires is to maneuver on together with his life. If solely everybody in Port Stewart would let him. What he wants is to be seen with another person. So when destiny places him within the path of the brand new lady on the town who acquired his previous quantity, faking it collectively looks as if the proper answer.
Spending time with the attractive former promenade king is likely to be nice analysis for Riley’s romance writing…if solely she will hold her emotions in test. However the extra she will get to know him, the tougher she’s falling. Can their serendipitous assembly flip into one thing actual and true?
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REVIEW:TEXT APPEAL is the primary instalment in Kylie Scott’s up to date, grownup PORT STEWART erotic, romance collection. That is romance writer Riley Cooper, and mechanic Connor’s story line.
Instructed from first individual perspective (Riley) TEXT APPEAL follows romance writer Riley Cooper as she struggles to jot down her newest e book however a brand new cellphone quantity finds Riley on the receiving finish of quite a lot of texts for somebody known as Connor, texts that pique her curiosity within the supposed recipient. Inside days, the small city gossip mill of Port Stewart begins monitoring down Riley Cooper, a possible suitor for our story line hero, a lady who’s seen a contest for the guts of Connor. Connor’s ex girlfriend Ava is coming residence, and Connor desires nothing to do with the girl who broke his coronary heart. Alongside together with his household, the city of Port Stewart prepares a welcome residence celebration within the hopes of pushing the previous couple collectively however Connor has moved on, and makes Riley a suggestion for the foreseeable future: a pretend relationship to maintain his household at bay, and Ava in the direction of one other path on her personal. What ensues is the constructing however pretend relationship between Riley and Connor, and the potential fall-out when their time collectively involves an in depth.
The world constructing focuses on Connor’s prolonged household and their refusal to just accept that Connor and Ava aren’t any extra. From his mom’s determined makes an attempt to push the couple again collectively, to his grandmother’s fierce protectiveness over our story line heroine, the meddling folks of Port Stewart can’t depart properly sufficient alone.
The connection between Riley and Connor is a pretend relationship predicated upon secrets and techniques and lies. Connor’s lengthy struggling, on / off relationship with Ava ended a number of months earlier however all through the story everybody together with Connor refuse to let go of the previous. As Connor struggles to face his floor in opposition to his household and the residents of Port Stewart, Riley finds herself the unintended goal of the pushy however properly which means folks in Connor’s life. As Connor and Riley’s relationship begins to develop, Riley struggles to maintain her coronary heart from getting concerned. The $ex scenes are passionate and seductive.
There’s a massive ensemble forged of attention-grabbing and quirky secondary and supporting characters: together with Connor’s mom Denise, grandmother Martha, brother Stuart, and ex girlfriend Ava.
TEXT APPEAL is a narrative of secrets and techniques and lies, household and friendships, relationships and love. The premise is charming and entertaining; the romance is awkward but attractive; the characters are determined and dynamic however Connor’s conduct and lack of pleasure concerning our story line heroine is questionable-I didn’t really feel any palpable sexual attraction-the relationships undoubtedly appeared one-sided.
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Reviewed by Sandy
Kylie is a very long time fan of erotic love tales and B-grade horror movies. She calls for a cheerful ending and if blood and carnage happen alongside the way in which then all the higher. Primarily based in Queensland, Australia together with her two kids and one pleasant husband, she reads, writes and by no means dithers round on the web
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