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Give Me You by Caisey
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Blurb
Corin Connelly left
her past far behind her in New York City. Along with her mother and an
ex-boyfriend who had no plans to let her go. Starting over in college in
California seemed like a vacation in paradise compared to her old life, and if
anyone needs a fresh start, it's her. But her new roommate has a
life-threatening secret, and soon paradise becomes even more intense than New
York. When she loses a bet to the university soccer team's star goalie, Skylar
Martin, he claims a prize she didn't ever plan to give him.
A weekend in her
hometown.
Skylar Martin is used to getting what he wants. Growing up in a
world of privilege has made his life easy, which is exactly how he likes his
women. But when a feisty redhead tells him no, he becomes determined to figure
out what makes her tick. And what she's hiding.
Spending a weekend together will change everything they think
they know about each other. The closer they become, the harder it is to hide
the mistakes they thought they'd left behind--mistakes that will stand in the
way of what they both want.
Corin and Skylar will have to stop hiding from the darkness in
their pasts if they want a bright future together. But how can you love someone
if you can't forgive them?
Excerpt
Skylar’s
jaw clenches and frustration rolls off of him in waves, slamming all around my
tiny room with nowhere to go.
“I
shouldn’t have been pressuring you, saying the things I was. After everything
you’ve—”
“No.
Stop.” I put my hand out and touch his arm. “Not the same thing. I get that you
thought I was a good time girl—hell, I used to be—so you were trying to get in
my pants. We’re attracted to each other and we flirt. Yeah, sometimes it’s a
little over the top, but I’m a big girl now. I can handle it. You are nothing
like—”
“I’m
exactly fucking like him,” Skylar explodes upward, propelling off my bed so
hard I’m scared for him. “You moved across the goddamn country to get away from
guys like that, guys who only wanted one thing, only to run smack into me. And
there I was at every turn trying to convince you to sleep with me.”
I
shake my head but I can see that he’s beyond reach. “Still not the same, Sky.
You never manipulated or threatened me or made me feel afraid. If I was any
other girl, then it wouldn’t even matter.”
“Jesus
Christ, Corin. Don’t make excuses for me. How do you even fucking stand me?
Because right now, I honestly can’t stand myself.”
With
that, Skylar bolts for the door.
“Please
don’t,” I call out just before he grabs the knob. “Don’t leave, Sky. Please. I
really don’t want to be alone and it’s not exactly safe for you to be walking
around at night…in your underwear.”
He
eyes meet mine and I can see that he’s torn. He has all this excess energy to
burn and nowhere to put it. He’s angry—at me, at himself, at the situation—I
can’t be sure. But it’s there, white-hot anger contorting his beautiful,
usually carefree features.
“You
should slap me. Or knee me in the balls. Something. I deserve some sort of
punishment for how I’ve treated you.”
I
bite my lip as if contemplating my options, desperate to change the heavy,
depressing mood. “I could spank you. Once for each dirty thing you’ve said to
me. So…a lot.”
My Review
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KEEP ME STILL
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About the Author
Caisey Quinn lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her
vivacious six-year-old daughter. She is the bestselling author of the Neon
Dreams series (Avon/William Morrow) and the Kylie Ryans series as well as
several New Adult and Contemporary Romance novels. You can find her online at www.caiseyquinnwrites.com and Tweeting entirely too often as
@CaiseyQuinn.
She is represented by Kevan Lyon of the Marsal Lyon Literary
Agency.
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I
seriously need to start doing just the slightest bit of research before I dive
right into a book. When I saw the blurb for Give Me You I had to have it. I
checked out the author, saw a heap of 4+ star average books on GoodReads and
threw my grabby hands in the air. But then I guess if I had actually realised
this was a spin off I might have put it on the back burner and taken forever to
get to it so maybe it all worked out for the best because I fucking loved this
book.
Since
I hadn’t read any books by Caisey Quinn before I had no idea what I was getting
into, but damn am I glad I started. I am now an official Caisey Quinn stalker,
in fact before I was even 25% into this one I went and one clicked Keep Me
Still so I could get the story of Landen and Layla.
I
think it’s fair to say this book is no fairy tale love story. It’s a new adult
book of heartbreak and forgiveness. And damn did my heart break while I was
reading it. There was so much that I loved about this book I am going to
apologise now if this review is a little ranty.
You
probably know that I loved a reformed man whore, especially one that sees what
he wants and goes balls to the wall to get it. Who, from the second he meets her
can’t see anyone but her and Skylar ticked every single one of those boxes
with just a few minor semi hiccups, that were so well written I couldn’t even
get up the slightest bit of anger over them.
“In a hundred lifetimes I could never do enough
good to deserve you.”
But
the main attraction here was absolutely Corin. Oh My God I love her. Everything
she went through was devastating but not once did she sulk or wallow in her much
deserved misery. She just pulled up her big girl panties and got right on with
it. Not one excuse or pity party.
Skylar
was pretty damn awesome but from the blurb I expected the book to be more about
Corin’s life before she moved across country to college since they were going
there for the weekend so I was not expecting the book to mainly be about Skylar.
I
loved that despite the fact they came from very, very, very (I can’t stress how
very :P) different backgrounds it wasn’t
once an issue. In fact every single one of the new adult clichés I expected from
reading the blurb didn’t come into play and I couldn’t be happier. And I have
to put it all down to the perfection of Corin, and I suppose a tiny little bit
to Skylar but mainly Corin.
So
now I need to go build my shrine to the perfection of Corin and stalk Caisey
while you one click this book. Oh and if your worried because I was unclear this
is absolutely a stand alone and I didn’t feel like I needed to read Keep Me
Still first I just loved the writing and a few of their interactions had me
wanting to know wtf their story was. So if you just want to jump into this one
go for it but be prepared to want more.
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