The Two Brains of Book Reviewers: Leave the Lights On by Karen Stivali!!

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Leave the Lights On by Karen Stivali!!

Synopsis:

"When love throws you a curve, swing for the fences."

Parker Wood's dreams of becoming a professional baseball player are shattered when he's injured in a devastating car crash. After two years in hospitals and physical rehab facilities, he's ready to move back to his childhood home and take over the family landscaping company. The house and business are his, now that his father has passed.

Sophie Vaughn has suffered through a hellishly public divorce from a husband who couldn't manage to stay faithful for two months of marriage. Determined not to let her personal drama impact her successful wedding and party planning business, she buys her parents' old house, hoping the comfort of familiar surroundings will help her heal.

When Parker and Sophie discover they're neighbors once again, it's as if time has stood still. Their friendship is quickly rekindled, along with the decade-long crush neither of them ever admitted having. Then the heat between them exposes a long-held secret that threatens to tear them apart...unless they can detach from their painful pasts and move forward-together.

Warning: Contains sultry summer nights, steamy pool-side encounters, and you'll never look at a jar of peanut butter the same way again.

Sunny's Review:

I really liked this book. It was a very sweet and gooey book. There was a lot of heartache in the past for Sophie and Parker. First off I love that Parker was a baseball player (we have gone over my athlete fetish) and the fact that they were best friends growing up. So Parker and Sophie both move back into their parents homes for different reasons and see each other again for the first time in years. They both have had major disappointments and had crushes on each other when they were growing up.

They each want to have more with the other and it is fun to watch as they get to know each other again. They also start hanging out with the 3rd best friend from school. It is true...you will never look at peanut butter again. LOVE IT!

I say go get this book and read it. It is a good snuggle up as winter comes to Houston for a couple of days and enjoy a summer romance. I am giving it 4.2 stars. I think you will enjoy and fall in love just like I did.

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About the Author:

Karen Stivali is a prolific writer, compulsive baker and chocoholic with a penchant for books, movies and fictional British men. When she's not writing, she can be found cooking extravagant meals and serving them to family and friends, who never seem to mind the excessive quantities she tends to prepare. She attributes her ability to multitask to the fact that she rarely sleeps, which gives her more hours every day.

Karen has always been fascinated by the way people relate to one another so she favors books and movies that feature richly detailed characters and their relationships. In her own writing she likes to explore the dynamics between characters and has a tendency to craft romantic tales filled with sarcasm and sexy details. Although she writes in three genres (erotic romance, contemporary romance and women's fiction) all of her stories are love stories with happily ever after endings.

Karen has published several erotic romance novels with Ellora's Cave including two award winning stories: Always You (published September 2011, First Place Winner of the RWA Passionate Plume Award - 2012)and Marry Me (published June 2012, First Place Winner in the NEC-RWA Bean Pot Reader's Choice Award - 2013).

To learn more about Karen you can visit her website where she blogs original recipes, sassy commentary on The Bachelor, and tidbits about her journey in the writing world. Karen can also be found attempting witty banter on Twitter.

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