{"id":1796,"date":"2013-11-29T01:45:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T09:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2016-03-28T11:17:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T18:17:43","slug":"review-stinger-by-mia-sheridan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Review: Stinger by Mia Sheridan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cSometimes you don\u2019t even realize anything is wrong until someone comes along and changes you, and makes you want more.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I LOVE THIS BOOK! Not only is it a beautiful, heart-clenching romance, but the story took me by complete surprise, and I love it when that happens!<\/p>\n

It starts off ordinarily enough, when straight laced law student, Grace travels to Las Vegas for a legal conference. With her life planned out, and everything right on schedule, the last thing she was expecting was to literally run into a gorgeously hot sex-god wearing a nametag that reads \u2018Carson Stinger, Straight Male Performer, Adult Entertainment Expo\u2019. Yep, Carson is a porn star. Living free and in the moment, he is cocky, confident and scorchingly flirty, he is everything that Grace isn’t and she takes an instant dislike to him, even if he is sexy as all hell.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy traitorous body liked his damn, deep sugary voice and purposefully titillating words. <\/i>Stupid body! I might never have sex again, just to punish her and her non-sensical, whorish reactions.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When the two of them get trapped in an elevator together, masks are dropped, secrets are revealed and the chemistry between them takes over and Carson convinces Grace to spend the weekend with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cLose control, baby. Just for a weekend. Let me take charge. I\u2019ll take good care of you, I promise.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ummmm, yes please!!! And oh yeah, he takes VERY good care of her, and the smexy time is HOTTTT!! Really, really hot! But it\u2019s so much more than that \u2013 they talk, they laugh, they have fun, and they share so much. And they learn that two people who appear to be complete opposites, can share something incredibly special. And the epic, mind-blowing sex becomes even more intense as things between them grow a lot deeper.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one else has ever made me feel the way you do. Not even close.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I loved this part of the book\u2026 LOVED IT! The connection between Grace and Carson is electric, and it feels so real! There is a great mix of fun and flirty with deep and meaningful, and I fell in mad love with Carson, right along with Grace. And they are so functional! Yeah, they\u2019ve only known each other a few days, but they share so much, and they are so beautifully honest with each other, the way they talk about what they were feeling is absolutely gorgeous.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really, really like how you make me feel \u2013 like if you looked at me every day, the way you\u2019re looking at me right now, I could do anything, be anything, <\/i>be more.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But neither of them could predict the way that their one weekend together would change both of their lives forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere would be consequences to this weekend, I knew that now and I wasn\u2019t lying to myself anymore. But maybe they wouldn\u2019t all be negative. Maybe I would walk away a better person because of my encounter with this man. Yes, it sure was, <\/i>life was wild.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not going to give a lot of detail about this book, because it\u2019s definitely one of those reads that you need to experience without having too much idea of what\u2019s coming. I was really surprised by the direction the story took, and I thought the whole thing played out beautifully. The dual POV is fantastic, and reinforces over and over the incredible connection that Grace and Carson share.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe took part of my pain and made it her own. I didn\u2019t want her to hurt, but to share my scars with another human was a relief that I hadn\u2019t even known I needed until I got it.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although this appears to be part of a series, it actually reads as a standalone with no tie in to previous books at all. Although I sense that there is a set up here for future books linking into this one, and if I\u2019m right, then I am completely on board for that! Carson\u2019s boys are a fantastic bunch, and I\u2019d be thrilled if they got their stories told.<\/p>\n

I absolutely loved this book, and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough! The banter is sensational, the romance is incredible, and all of the other stuff adds so much to the story to make it so much more than a \u2018standard\u2019 romance book. It has a deeper message and it\u2019s really well done and beautifully written. And even though my heart broke at times, it has a beautifully happy (though slightly unrealistic) ending, and I loved every minute of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cTell me you\u2019re mine,\u201d he whispered.
\n\u201cI\u2019m yours. I\u2019ve always been yours,\u201d I breathed out. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

4.5 stars.<\/p>\n

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