{Release Blitz & Book Review}: HATE CRUSH by A.Zavarelli

 

HATE CRUSH by A. Zavarelli 

Release Date: November 21st

        

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Blurb: They call him the devil.

When I crash-landed into him on my first day at Loyola Academy, I was sure that couldn’t be true.

He was the most gorgeous man I’d ever seen in real life.

Little did I know he was also the cruelest.

I went from starstruck to stunned the moment his cynical eyes cut through me.

I can’t tell you what it was that made him want to punish me. But from that day forward the brooding recluse of a man made it his goal to torment me.

I want to loathe him, and some days, I do.

But good or bad, nobody’s attention has ever tasted so sweet.

What do you do when you have a hate crush on your bully?

Worse yet, what do you do when he’s also your teacher?

        

Excerpt: 

There’s something about Stella that makes me believe she will always go the extra mile to seek approval from those with authority. I can see it every time she looks at me. And before the end of the hour, I’ve made up my mind. In the past, I picked easy, obvious targets for my projects. Without fail, they failed me. They couldn’t withstand the expectations of their peers and their family and the machine that is Loyola Academy.

But Stella won’t fail. I feel it deep in my gut. A spark of hope that I haven’t had with any of the others. A want I haven’t experienced since my own college days. I will push her harder than I’ve pushed anyone else before her, and she will cling to hold onto herself in the face of any storm I might bring her way. I will open her eyes to the realities of this world. And in the end, she will despise me for my ruthlessness, but she will be grateful.

Stella LeClaire, welcome to my final project.

        

About the Author: 

A. Zavarelli is a USA Today and Amazon bestselling author.

She likes all things chocolate, books that come with warnings, and putting her characters through hell. Her tales have been known to flirt with darkness and sometimes court it unabashedly altogether. Revenge themes and tortured souls are her favorites to write and this gives her an excuse to watch bizarre and twisted documentaries in her spare time.

She currently lives in the Northwest with her lumberjack and an entire brood of fur babies.

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MY REVIEW 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Four stages of Forbidden romance - Lust, Denial, Passion, Guilt and Ash explores each in depth with her trademark flair for gut wrenching angst and frustrating intentions.

This one is an off beat norm for her, and a standalone to boot. I just fell in love with Stella LeClaire. She's back trodden but not for long. She has a lot of fight and grit in her, despite her tender age and horrendous familial background. She's trapped, first by her parents' induced guilt and then by "Mr. Lucifer Hot Teacher of Doom Carter."

Her day one at the prestigious and elite Loyola Academy start on the wrong foot with the resident Mean Girl Posse, the burgeoning of strange feelings and unwanted attraction for Sebastian Carter.

He himself is a walking talking dichotomy. His Hot/cold brusque attitude, gruff and abrasive personality keeps his heart shut tight and Stella's head in a spin.

"I could freeze to death waiting for your warmth." 

The sizzling chemistry set the pages on fire, the secret trysts in detention room were regular scorchers. They throw caution to the wind and I was stressed, lest they be caught. It was dangerous and thrilling to watch them escape with hair's breadth everytime! 

Their relationship was doomed from the start. It's expiry date written before the manufacturing date it seems.

“I’m handing you the loaded gun, All good love stories end in tragedy,” 

He was hiding a huge secret, so was she..

He was running from home, so was she..

He was madly in love with her, so was she...

They're opposites that attracted like magnets and readers get glued to them like voyeurs.

There's the usual suspects of jealous colleagues and spiteful teens plotting against them. There's missing in action parents who ditch and run, there's scorned and scornful staff who threatens to bust them open.

“cruelty is a just pain's gatekeeper” 

And amidst all this is this young, mismatched couple trying to battle the calls of their heart and body.

It's saturated with explosive passions and soaking guilt so naturally there's angst in all its full range

A euphoric and visceral ride into this well written and deeply romantic book will make you Ashleigh's hard-core fan instantly, if you're not there yet

4 stars Love Poison