COVET BY ELLA JAMES
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Designer: Candi Kane
Cover Photo: Wander Aguiar
Model: Colton R.
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Blurb:
Homer Carnegie. Admit it—you know my name. Your kid’s got my e-trading card. Your husband sits up straighter when I stroll onto the TV screen. He knows I’m going to crack the bat and save the day. Even your grandma’s jonesing for my autograph. But women my age? They’re the worst. Or would that be the best?
It’s not my fault they line up at the door. They catch my balls all right, two at a time sometimes, or even three. Believe me, everybody wins.
At least they did—until the video. I heard TMZ paid a million for a bird’s eye view of Homer on his A-game. The only folks who didn’t watch with eager eyes? Red Sox management. They want me benched, or worse, shipped off to rehab.
It’s a long story, what happens next. How I end up on a boat, bound for the world’s most remote island: Tristan da Cunha. Just a speck of dust in the Atlantic.
Except my heart is there.
I don’t know that when I step onto the boat.
I don’t know a lot of things.
What I’ll covet…
What I’ll lose…
Excerpt:
“You’re a liar.” The words are like velvet, and his face is set like stone.
“No, I’m not! Now go away from me!”
I shove his chest without forethought and then recoil as fear pounds through me.
“Tell me you don’t want me. C’mon, fucking tell me, Finley. Make it easy.”
“I want you, and I hate it. I hate you!”
“Tell me you don’t want my hands on you. My mouth right there.” His finger points to my throat. I can’t swallow. His hands run down my arms, the warm palms feather-light. His face is grave as all the universe.
I can say nothing. I’ve made unforgivable mistakes, so many errors in judgment. My foot is caught in moss I’ll never break free of...and still I crave him.
“I don’t want to want you,” I say, the words barely there.
To my surprise, he laughs, his prince’s mouth twisting before he tosses me over his shoulder and makes off toward the curtain, striking it aside to stride toward the beds.
“I don’t want to either, so I guess that makes it even.”
About the Author:
Ella James is the USA Today and Amazon Top 10 bestselling author of twenty teen and adult love stories. She’s an angst-a-holic who loves exploring difficult situations and the emotions of the people caught up in them. Also, smut. But always, always romance.
Ella is an Alabama native who makes her home near Boulder, Colorado, with her writer husband, three young children, and hyperactive dog. When she’s not writing, she can be found hiking the foothills, taking nature photos for her Instagram account, and swilling vanilla cream soda.
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I popped my Ella James cherry with this one and the setting itself stole my heart.
Set in a beautiful remote island far away from the Madding Crowds, the characters are very earthy, pure and untarnished.
Ella writes a compelling tale of love which is both salvaging and redmptive for both Homer and Fin.
Homer Carnegie the suave Red Sox star is on a voyage to escape from the world and find himself. His legacy drives him to their foundation foster island of Tristan Da Cunha
"Of all the islands in the world, this one is the most remote— the most isolated patch of land where humans live. "
He needs to vanish, erase his habits and rewrite his character. So he cuts down to basics and gets closer to nature.
This island has ties to his memories of a girl with stunning eyes who has occupied his thoughts since he was a kid, Finley Evans.
They end up working together and helping each other
Now there a couple of things here. The blurb caught me by the collar and I couldn't pass it by.
The cover is smoking hot too, but though not misleading, the cover has NOTHING to do with the story.
The book itself is very very long. I love a good context and precis in the story but every tiny detail about landscape and space management gets a tad boring and ends up stretching the plot. I had to skip quite a few paragraphs which had inane details
The twist towards the end is so infuriating that I was almost ready to stop.
The "sickness" is dealt with lot of stark matter-of-factness and truthfulness. It's a lifelong malaise and is treated as such.
The story itself is powerful and packs a punch, characters are endearing and relatable in their frail humanity. Poignant and raw it's a story about love enduring in sickness and in health
4 stars for The Sailor And The Siren
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