"Emotional, layered, sexy, and deeply satisfying, with stunning prose and a sweeping storyline, REEL is everything that has Kennedy Ryan fans devouring her books.”-- Lexi Ryan, New York Times bestselling author
Reel, an all new epic CONTEMPORARY STANDALONE love story from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kennedy Ryan, is available now!
One moment in the spotlight.
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Excerpt
“Turn around.”
It’s a guttural command. He bends me over the arm of the couch, and my hands hit the cushion for support, to steady myself. At the sound of the condom tearing, my inner muscles contract, bracing for him. He spreads my cheeks and, slipping his whole hand between my legs, cups the trembling flesh. I’m unprepared for the swipe of his tongue. For the subtle abrasion of his beard scraping the inner skin of my thighs. For the sound of him eating me. I push back against his face, helpless, no shame. Digging my nails into the cushions, I widen my legs to give me more, to take more for myself. He grips my thighs, holding me steady for his devouring mouth until, with a sob that sails over the rooftop, over the city, I contract around his delving tongue. The orgasm hits hard, tightening the muscles in my thighs and calves. With staccato breaths, I bury my face in the couch, biting my lip to the point of pain.
“Canon,” I beg. “Stop teasing me and—”
He shoves in, and the words tumble back down my throat, recessing into the shock of this pleasure.
“Jesus.” Need shreds my voice to ribbons.
He coasts his hand up my back, gently cuffs my neck. Ass in the air, I rise up on my toes, begging for breath, petitioning for more dick. He gives it to me, pushing impossibly deeper.
“So damn good,” he grunts behind me.
I hope I never get over how perfect he feels inside me, like I was molded to his specifications. Shaped for his dimensions. I moan and reach my hand back to pull at one of my cheeks, widening the way for his cock. It feels like he goes where no dick has gone before, deeper, better. Somehow I feel each thrust in my heart. His every touch plays on my emotions, and tears sting my eyes. His hand tightens at my hip, and he slides the other hand up my arm, finds my hand on the couch and laces our fingers together. He sets a frenetic pace that sends the blood singing through my body again. The cushion absorbs my scream as I come, and I punish the soft cotton with clawing nails. With his voice strangled, his fingers fisted in my hair, he comes.
Collapsing against my back, a heavy, happy burden, his breath stilted and warm at my neck, he snakes one muscled arm around my middle, clutching me. After the urgent, feral coupling, it’s a cherishing hold. I cross my arm over his at my waist and tangle our fingers. It’s fragile and sweet, this moment, like flakes of sugar disintegrating on your tongue when you’ve barely had time to taste.
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About Kennedy Ryan
A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Kennedy Ryan and her writings have been featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Cosmo, TIME, O Mag and many others. A RITA® Award winner, Kennedy writes empowered women from all walks of life and centers those who have found themselves perennially on the margins of traditional storytelling.
Her Hoops Series (Long Shot, Block Shot and Hook Shot) and All the King's Men Series (The Kingmaker, The Rebel King and Queen Move) have been optioned for television.
An autism mom, Kennedy co-founded LIFT 4 Autism, an annual charitable initiative, and has appeared on Headline News, Montel Williams, NPR and other media outlets as an advocate for autism families. She is a wife to her lifetime lover and mother to an extraordinary son.
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"Every single one of us is in a race, and a race against time is one you'll never win. But how will you run?
Live with what you'll leave behind in mind"
Pay attention: we have in our midst a gifted and ingenious author who has book and book again shone the spotlight on burning issues plaguing women and POC repeatedly. She makes a conscious effort to match her revolutionary prose with the tumultuous world outside, all against the rosy backdrop of the deepest emotion of love.
"History is so picked over, by the time you get to the tree, there's barely any fruit left"
Kennedy is fast becoming synonymous with the title of - Substantial Writer. Pulling threads from history, her thorough research and acute sensibilities have created a significant story which take me behind the glitz and glamor of the tinsel world of Hollywood. The racism, sexism hiding behind minute men sitting on big thrones. The scene where Dessi is asked to darken her skin to soothe fragile egos of the producers, made me cry in shame and indignation.
Her characters are people of color and already at a disadvantage in a world ruled by light-skinned people in power. The Movers & Shakers. Her creations, an upcoming actress, Neevah Saint is picked up by Canon Holt the director and unbeknownst to them both, she becomes his muse. He is making a biopic Dessi Blue and she's his Dessi, Odessa Blue. A Jazz Singer from 30s & 40s.
Kennedy takes us on colourful journey on a glittering rainbow of celluloid world. She showcases The workings behind the screen which is extreme hard work and millions of cogs working perfectly in tandem to work the mammoth movie making machine.
But this is not just a story of Canon & Neev, it's about the struggles, the roadblocks,the heartbreak, the debilitation, the stresses, the pitfalls and the cost of making it in Hollywood.
But there is also gigantic, all encompassing, healing LOVE in caps present front and center.
Canon and Neevah are sheer perfection, completely made for each other.
And in particular this book is an ode to the artists of color, upcoming and the ones lost in oblivion, some who changed the world through cinema and some who washed off the warpaint to walk the streets in protest.
Time and history has not been kind or fair to them..to us...to all non-white persons in any part of America. This battle has not ended and shows no sign of abating.
"It's all America, Dess"
Ms Ryan's story has made me ponder, made me shudder, made me bawl, all the while keeping the hope alive till the last page. My frustration climbed the charts, my heart bled for the characters and tears flowed freely throughout.
Thank you Kennedy, I'm fortunate enough to live in your time, read your words and experience the warmth of your smiles and hugs.
Fellow readers, Pick up this radical and profound book as your next read to be astonished and amazed at the immense talent we are so blessed to make acquaintance with.
5 stars for "Come What May Kinda Love"
