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Book Synopsis:
**** Mature Content, Sexual
Situations, Adult Situations, Alcohol Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Strong Language
*****
Eighteen-year-old Devin McKay is a complete and total emotional wreck. Fresh out of high school and on her own for the first time in her life, she’s reeling from rejection of a relationship gone very, very bad. Emotionally battered and tormented by the pull of her narcissistic first love, she wants to make a clean break in a small mountain town where he is everywhere... with his new girlfriend.
Ronin Andrews is still battling his own cataclysmic ghosts. He recoils from anything heartfelt, choosing instead to work hard and live wild. Outside of his job, parties and causal hooks-ups are his life until Devin walks in. With her short skirt and her sad green eyes, he can’t help but want her… badly. His protective streak wants to provide her with a haven, to shelter and sustain her.
Through a flash of torrid intensity, they struggle to be friends... just friends. She relies on him to nourish her shattered soul and shield her heart from the clawing, gnawing loss that has consumed her. Before long, the attraction proves too tenacious, and the passion between them becomes undeniable. But will the shadows of the past prove too much to overcome?
Eighteen-year-old Devin McKay is a complete and total emotional wreck. Fresh out of high school and on her own for the first time in her life, she’s reeling from rejection of a relationship gone very, very bad. Emotionally battered and tormented by the pull of her narcissistic first love, she wants to make a clean break in a small mountain town where he is everywhere... with his new girlfriend.
Ronin Andrews is still battling his own cataclysmic ghosts. He recoils from anything heartfelt, choosing instead to work hard and live wild. Outside of his job, parties and causal hooks-ups are his life until Devin walks in. With her short skirt and her sad green eyes, he can’t help but want her… badly. His protective streak wants to provide her with a haven, to shelter and sustain her.
Through a flash of torrid intensity, they struggle to be friends... just friends. She relies on him to nourish her shattered soul and shield her heart from the clawing, gnawing loss that has consumed her. Before long, the attraction proves too tenacious, and the passion between them becomes undeniable. But will the shadows of the past prove too much to overcome?
Review of Little Conversations
Little Conversations by Sibylla MatildeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
ARC kindly provided in exchange for a fair and honest review. Spoiler-free review. No cliff hanger and HEA. 4 stars!
Little Conversations by Sibylla Matilde tackles some tough subjects including emotional abuse, love, trust and everything in between.
Here is my short and sweet breakdown of Little Conversations:
-Girl meats boy when she moves to a new town.
-Boy turns out to be an emotional abuser. Girl doesn’t realize what an ass the boy really is. Boy has been cheating/stringing girl along.
-Girl meets another boy who is just a “friend” with pseudo benefits.
-Girl still has high hopes that emotional abuser boy will dump his other girlfriend and stay with her.
-Me – I want to bitch slap them all at one point or another :)
I really enjoyed Sibylla Matilde’s debut book. While the LC felt a little predictable and YA at times it was still a solid read. Kudos to Sibylla’s impressive character and plot development. She crafted characters that felt so real. Devin was a high school grad and working in a restaurant. Ronin was a construction worker and Jake…well Jake was “that guy” from high school that was just a douche bag. I think everyone has encountered a “Jake”(I know I have). What I’m trying to say is that Devin wasn’t a leggy supermodel, and the Ronin and Jake weren’t uber rich CEO types. It was it was a refreshing change from the hot/rich heroines/heroes I usually read about.
Little Conversations turned up the heat a few degrees and the story picked up some momentum in the second half of the book. I had a few ONWTFM (Ohhh No WTF Moments) while reading LC. There is a gut wrenching twist of fate that I didn’t see coming. If you’re in the mood for a steamy, sexy, emotional book then Little Conversations is for you. Impressive debut book. 4.5 stars of Orion (you will understand the star reference when you read this book).
I loved Devin’s drink recipe book at play list…effing brilliant.
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Excerpt:
Well, now I need you to kiss me. Make out with me. Otherwise she’ll know I was full of shit and start hittin’ on me again.”
“You want me to slut it up with you so you don’t look like an asshole to some little ho-bag you’re trying not to nail? You know, Ronin, you could just tell her you’re not interested.”
“I like my way better,” he grinned. “Besides, you could use a true tongue-mashing make out session. I get the feeling it’s been a while and you’re starting to get crabby,” Ronin teased with a smirk. He dropped to a knee and gave her a pleading look, grabbing her right hand and kissing her fingers. “C’mon, baby, please…” A humorous glint in his eyes reflected the bright moonlight.
“Fuck, Ronin…” Devin rubbed her forehead with an exasperated motion. “Fine. But you owe me!”
“Oh, baby, I’ll make sure you like it.” And he stood with a devious smile, giving her a quick kiss on the forehead. “Now hop on my back. I’ll give you a piggyback ride back to the fire.”
“You’re insane, you know that, right?” she muttered in his ear as she climbed on his back. Making their way back to the fire, Devin slipped into character, letting out a twitterpated giggle as they approached the others.
“Soooo, everything, um, okay now, Devin?” Joe asked with a grin while Devin slid down from Ronin’s back. Ronin quickly pulled her to his side, eliciting another exaggerated giggle. Devin gazed up at him with a besotted expression and then snuggled against his broad chest, nuzzling the softly worn chambray of his shirt.
“Mmmm, never better.”
Ronin cupped her jaw, bringing her lips to his, kissing her softly, then deepening the kiss. She softly moaned into his mouth.
At some point, somewhere in the midst of that kiss, Devin’s mind began to fog. She could taste a bitter hint of beer on his lips, and somehow she began to forget that this was an act.
