Monday, 24 March 2014

BLOG TOUR - Sex on the Beach Series (Review & Giveaway)


NOTE FROM THE AUTHORS
Dear Reader,

Prepare yourself for Sex on the Beach, a trilogy featuring BETWEEN US (Jen McLaughlin), BEYOND ME (Jennifer Probst), and BEFORE YOU (Jenna Bennett). Three separate novellas. Three different authors. One literary world. Read them all, or just read one. It's up to you! No matter which route you choose, these standalone novellas are sure to satisfy your need for sizzling romance and an emotion packed story.

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BETWEEN US by Jen McLaughlin
March 4, 2014
New Adult Contemporary Romance 

BOOK SUMMARY: 
I’m just a girl…

I’m a famous country star who’s spent her life cultivating a good girl persona to avoid bad press, but I’ve reached my limit. I’m going away for spring break with my two best friends from college, and we’ve vowed to spend the vacation seeking out fun in the sun—along with some hot, no-strings-attached sex. The only thing I needed was the perfect guy, and then I met Austin Murphy. He might be totally wrong for me, but the tattooed bad boy is hard to resist. When I’m in his arms, everything just feels right.

And I’m just a guy…

I’m just a bartender who lives in Key West, stuck in an endless cycle of boredom. But then Mackenzie Forbes, America’s Sweetheart herself, comes up to me and looks at me with those bright green eyes…and everything changes. She acts like she’s just a normal girl and I’m just a normal guy, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. My past isn’t pretty, you know. I did what I had to do to survive, and she’d run if she learned the truth about my darkness. But with her, I’m finally realizing what it’s like to be alive. To laugh, live, and be happy.

All good things must come to an end...



BEYOND ME by Jennifer Probst
March 4, 2014
New Adult Contemporary Romance 

Book Summary:
CAN FUN IN THE SUN TURN INTO LASTING LOVE?

Spring break in Key West with my besties was supposed to be casual fun. But I never expected to meet James Hunt. Sex and frolic? Yes! A relationship? No. But his hot blue eyes and confident manner drew me in. And when he let me see the man behind the mask, I fell hard, foolishly believing there could be a future for us. Of course I never considered our relationship might be based on lies...or that his betrayal could rock my foundation and make me question everything I believed in...    
OR WILL A LIFE BUILT ON LIES RUIN EVERYTHING?

The moment I saw Quinn I knew I had to have her. She hooked me with her cool eyes and don’t touch me attitude. I had it all, money, social status, and looks. I could get any girl I wanted...until her. When my friends challenged me with a bet to get her into bed by the end of the week, I couldn’t pass it up. But sex wasn’t supposed to turn into love. She wasn’t supposed to change me, push me, and make me want more for myself. She wasn’t supposed to wreck me in all ways. And now, if I can’t turn my lies into truth, I just might lose her forever...



BEFORE YOU by Jenna Bennett
March 4, 2014
New Adult Contemporary Romance 
One of the “Sex on the Beach” Novellas

Book Summary:
It’s all fun and games

I had a simple plan for spring break.

Sun, sand, and a hot guy. Sex on the beach, with no strings attached.

A chance to get rid of this pesky virginity once and for all.

And when I met Tyler McKenna, I thought I had it made.

Until someone gets hurt

But then girls started turning up at Key West landmarks. Girls who looked like me, but with one crucial difference: They’d all been drugged and relieved of their virginity.

The virginity I still have. The virginity Ty refuses to take.

And now I’ve begun to wonder whether there isn’t more to him than meets the eye.
Suddenly, sex on the beach doesn’t sound so good anymore...



BUY LINKS:
BEYOND ME BY JENNIFER PROBST
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BETWEEN US BY JEN MCLAUGHLIN

BEFORE YOU BY JENNA BENNETT



4/5

These were really quick, enjoyable reads. At only roughly 150 pages each, I got through them in no time. Once I started I couldn't stop. They were very engaging and I found myself fully immersed in each story.

 All three books follow the lives of 3 friends as they venture to Florida for Spring Break. A week of sun, sea...and sex. Each book is told from a different girl's POV. All books are interconnected though so we get glimpses of the other girls in each book. 
All 3 books are filled with sweet and tender moments with some very moving scenes. Before You was the most interesting and suspenseful as it was focused on the assault of young girls and trying to figure out who was behind it. And why they all seemed to look like our main girl Cassie. For once I didn't figure out who it was early on so kudos to the author for doing a good job at keeping it a mystery. Between Us and Beyond Me are told in dual POV between the guy and girl, and Before You is told just from Cassie's POV. I love dual POV so I was glad that we were able to get into the guys head. I understood why we weren't given the guys POV in Before You but I would have liked maybe the epilogue to be in his POV. Just to have some bit of insight into his mind and what he felt. 

 Each book was well written but the one thing that really annoyed me was that all 3 books had an awful case of insta-love. I knew going into them that this would be the case as it said so in the blurbs. The books take place over the course of one week but all the characters seem to attach really strong feelings to one another within a day or two. It wasn't very realistic and so this was the main reason I didn't give the books 5 stars. Apart from that though I did really enjoy each book and I liked how each one ended. 

 So if you can over look the insta-love I suggest you give these books a try. If you are looking for something quick and sweet and sexy then I recommend these. Perfect holiday reads.


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AUTHOR BIOS:
Jen McLaughlin is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She writes steamy New Adult books for the young and young at heart. Her first release, Out of Line, came out September 2013. She also writes bestselling Contemporary Romance under the pen name Diane Alberts.Since receiving her first contract offer under the pen name Diane Alberts, she has yet to stop writing. She is represented by Louise Fury at The Bent Agency.
Though she lives in the mountains, she really wishes she was surrounded by a hot, sunny beach with crystal clear water. She lives in Northeast Pennsylvania with her four kids, a husband, a schnauzer mutt, a cat, and a Senegal parrot. In the rare moments when she’s not writing, she can usually be found hunched over one knitting project or another. Her goal is to write so many well-crafted romance books that even a non-romance reader will know her name.

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Jennifer Probst wrote her first book at twelve years old. She bound it in a folder, read it to her classmates, and hasn’t stopped writing since. She took a short hiatus to get married, get pregnant, buy a house, get pregnant again, pursue a master’s in English Literature, and rescue two shelter dogs. Now she is writing again.

She makes her home in Upstate New York with the whole crew. Her sons keep her active, stressed, joyous, and sad her house will never be truly clean.
She is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of sexy and erotic contemporary romance. She was thrilled her book, The Marriage Bargain, was ranked #6 on Amazon's Best Books for 2012. She loves hearing from readers. Visit her website for updates on new releases and her street team at www.jenniferprobst.com.

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jenna Bennett (Jennie Bentley) writes the Do It Yourself home renovation mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime and the Cutthroat Business mysteries for her own gratification. She also writes a variety of romance for a change of pace. For more information, please visit her website, www.jennabennett.com

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Website:  www.jennabennett.com 

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