BLOG TOUR: LIVE FOR YOU (BOYS OF THE SOUTH #1) by MARQUITA VALENTINE

 

Welcome to my stop on the Live For You Blog Tour!

The tour is being hosted by AToMR. Follow the tour schedule  to see all the tour stops, reviews, guest posts and excerpts.

My stop includes a review and giveaway.

 

Series: Boys of the South #1

Category/Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Self-Published

Publication Date: 5/20/13

Format: eARC
Pages: 195

Source: Received from author for review

 

On the surface, twenty-two year old Cole Morgan is exactly what any girl would be proud to take home to meet her parents: He’s charming, intensely handsome and goal-oriented...Only he has some secrets of his own, which include provoking bar fights and a former drug-addict of a mother slowly wasting away in a medical facility.

At barely twenty, Violet Lynn is Country Music's hottest star, until one night of partying gets out of control. Violet ends up in jail and on TMZ. Suddenly, she’s the girl least likely to be invited anywhere. Sick of the drama and keeping secrets, she runs away from the prying eyes of the paparazzi to her grandmother’s home in Forrestville, North Carolina.

A chance meeting knocks Cole off his feet, but he doesn’t recognize Violet for who she is. In fact no one does and Violet plans to keep it that way.

Circumstances, however annoying,keep throwing Violet and Cole together. Unable to stop themselves they give into the inevitable.

But when Nashville is ready to forgive and forget, Violet is forced to choose between Cole and claiming her spot as the new and improved Princess of Country Music.

Will Violet and Cole have the courage to live for their dreams...Or their hearts?

 

With it's troubled yet charming characters and a love story that will have you hoping against hope for a happy ending, Live For You is a story that had me smiling and swooning all the way.

 

Based on the synopsis, I definitely had good expectations of Live For You. I wanted a heroine with whom I could sympathize and embrace. I got that in sweet, sad Violet Rae Lynn. She's a country star who's fallen out of Nashville's graces and has gone to the comfort of her grandmother's country home. I wanted a lovable bad boy who could get things fired up, yet was as nice as can be. Once again, I got it exactly what I wanted in Cole Morgan. He's a good guy wrapped up in a bad boy package, complete with ear gauges (my secret 'hot guy' trigger!), a few tattoos, a hot bod, and a whole bunch of swagger. But don't let what I've said fool you into thinking Cole's bad, because he's really not. He takes care of his family's bar, his brother, and little sister, all while struggling to fit in higher education.

 

Besides Cole and Violet's story, Live For You also gave some glimpses at the secondary characters, all intriguing.  We have Cole's brother Parker, friends Wyatt and Beau, Lacey, and more. I have a feeling these characters have some great stories to tell.

 

I was also looking for a love story that would have me smiling and hoping that the couple could fight the outside world that would keep them apart. Live For You definitely delivered in that area as well. Cole and Violet Rae's story is not exactly anything new, but it was very endearing and honestly left me slightly wondering until the very end, which was a little rushed, but still so emotionally satisfying. Since reading LFY, I've learned that Violet and Cole get another story soon, which makes me feel so much better about the ending. And even though it comes in at under two hundred pages, the author managed to pack so much emotion and heart into the characters and this story.

With a vibe that reminded me of a nice cross of The Vincent Boys and Tidal, Live For You was quite the treat. This is only the beginning of the Boys of the South series, and I cannot wait for more!

 

 

Favorite Quotes:

    Before I can turn him down again, he walks away, pauses and shoots me a wicked grin over his shoulder.
  That grin does things to parts of me that have no business coming to life. Heat skims from my body. "What?"
  I sure hate offending you." He drops his towel, exposing a very fine butt. There are dimples on each side and at the base of his back. "Close your mouth, darlin'." Muscles ripple and flow as he strides into his bedroom.
  I snap my jaw shut.
  Dear God, I need to sit down. Maybe in the freezer with a bucket of ice.  ~eARC, 12%


  Confession number one: I didn't mean to drop trou and go full monty. Sure, I let the towel dip a little, just to tease her, but the damn thing slipped out of my hand. So extra swagger -- while exiting and re-entering -- was required.  ~eARC, 12%

   Our eyes meet and I'm undone by the emotion in them. I am undone by him. I thought I wanted to forget, but he makes me remember all the very good things about being vulnerable with a guy. ~eARC, 54%

 

 

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(1) Print copy of Live For You – International
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About the author:

Nationally Bestselling Author, MARQUITA VALENTINE, writes small town romances that are anything but small. She met her husband aka Hot Builder at Sonic when they were in high school. She suggests this location to all of her single friends in search of a good man -- and if that doesn't work, they can console themselves with cheesy tatertots. She lives in North Carolina in a very, very small town with Hot Builder and their two children.

 

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