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Colors of Us (Book 1, The McAvery Brothers Series) by Sandra Bunino

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About this Book:

This is an amazing first story in a three book series you are absolutely going to love! This is a New Adult Contemporary Romance. (Adult 18+)

“Everything she knew to be true fell apart. Then fell apart again…Michelle Willis is running from her past. What better place to hide than in the anonymity of New York City. Finding refuge in a tiny SoHo art gallery, she rebuilds her life one painting at a time.   A wrong turn sends Hunter McAvery on a crash course with disaster. He fights his own demons by following his big brother’s lead – drinking and bed-hopping his way through Manhattan.
A glance at Michelle’s self-portrait triggers emotions Hunter can’t tamp down. Driven to meet the artist, he discovers a fiery chemistry as their lives collide. But when their past threatens to tear them apart, can their love survive?”

My Five star Review:

I read this book back in September 2014 but since I wanted to put a review on my new blog I decided I would skim the book as a refresher before I actually began typing up the review.  I skimmed the first chapter smiling the entire time but once I began chapter 2, I was reading every word.  Next thing I knew I did a complete re-read.  This book will not disappoint you!

A chance meeting at a coffee shop brings two amazing characters together in a thoroughly entertaining love story.  Michelle is an artist trying to start over in the big city.  Hunter is a born and breed New Yorker trying to get his life back under control.  They become “friends” over peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and an art project Michelle’s working on for Hunter’s older brother Alex.  The McAvery bar is one of the main focal points in this book and Sandra invites you in with each of her words making you want to take up a stool and never leave.  The secondary characters pull you in and make you beg Sandra to tell you more about them.  (So happy Alex, Miranda and Liam will have their own stories.)

The chemistry between Hunter and Michelle feels so real it’s a joy to read.  I absolutely loved Michelle’s pink gloves but you’ll need to read the story to understand what I mean.  Both characters have difficult past they’re trying to overcome and they help each other along the way.

Alex’s McAvery’s story is next and I can’t wait to get more of the bar owner and Miranda.  You are going to love the glimpse you get of the Art Gallery owner.  She is a strong, independent, no nonsense, you don’t really want to be on my bad side, kind of woman.  I loved her immediately.  So stay tuned, Passion of Us is coming soon!

For a sneak peek at Passion of Us hit the link below:

http://sandrabunino.com/2015/07/08/mid-week-tease-eyes-up-here-wip-passion-of-us/

Reading order:

Colors of Us – Hunter’s Story

Passion of Us – Alex’s Story – Coming Soon

Rhythm of Us – Liam’s Story – Coming Soon

Find Sandra Here:

https://www.facebook.com/SandraBuninoAuthor?fref=ts

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The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon

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About The Law of Moses Book:

This was an emotional, inspirational, moving story that has become one of my favorite reads this year.  EVERYONE should read this story.  It’s so much more than a love story.

“Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him Baby Moses when they shared his story on the ten o’clock news – the little baby left in a basket at a dingy Laundromat, born to a crack addict and expected to have all sorts of problems. I imagined the crack baby, Moses, having a giant crack that ran down his body, like he’d been broken at birth. I knew that wasn’t what the term meant, but the image stuck in my mind. Maybe the fact that he was broken drew me to him from the start.

It all happened before I was born, and by the time I met Moses and my mom told me all about him, the story was old news and nobody wanted anything to do with him. People love babies, even sick babies. Even crack babies. But babies grow up to be kids, and kids grow up to be teenagers. Nobody wants a messed up teenager.
And Moses was messed up. Moses was a law unto himself. But he was also strange and exotic and beautiful. To be with him would change my life in ways I could never have imagined. Maybe I should have stayed away. Maybe I should have listened. My mother warned me. Even Moses warned me. But I didn’t stay away.

And so begins a story of pain and promise, of heartache and healing, of life and death. A story of before and after, of new beginnings and never-endings. But most of all . . . a love story.”

My Five Star Review:

Moses and Georgia were amazing characters to read.  Moses struggled all throughout his life and painted as a way to deal with the things he had no control over.  He didn’t have friends, he didn’t love, and he was just biding his time until he could be out on his own.  Georgia loved her horses, she loved riding them, she loved fixing troubled horses and all she wanted to do was “fix” Moses and be his friend.

This book, of course, was a love story because that’s what I love to read but it also had some mystery, a few heartbreaking emotional ups and downs and a bunch of really good lessons everyone should learn. I would encourage readers of any age to read this book.  It is well worth your time.

You meet a young man named Tag in The Law of Moses who has a different kind of troubled background.  I fell in love with this character as well and was happy to find out his book, The Song of David, is due out in June 2015.  Just a few days away.

I leave you now with the first sentence in the second paragraph of The Law of Moses:  “If I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear.”  Don’t let this sentence scare you.  Jump in and enjoy Moses and Georgia’s story.  I did.

Find Amy Harmon here: Internet, Facebook, Goodreads, Twitter

Pick up The Law of Moses on kindle here: http://a.co/cwUbUQN

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As Always, Keep Writing/Keep Reading ~ janisf