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It's Monday! What are you reading? #50

COSA HO LETTO LA SCORSA SETTIMANA

Per la Chiara's Reading Challenge 2018, categoria "Un libro di un autore che non hai mai letto", ho concluso questo bel dark romance! Mi è piaciuto molto, e ho messo tante fascette :D Il protagonista è un gran bel pezzo di sicario, non c'è che dire xD Un Jason Bourne erotico ahahahahahah Avevo deciso di dare 4.5 stelline, ma purtroppo, non so per quale motivo, alla fine c'è un epilogo in pieno stile ROMANCE – yep, avete letto bene, perciò sicuramente avete intuito di che genere di epilogo sto parlando – che è totalmente fuori luogo. Ecco, se lo leggete, vi prego, fermatevi all'ultimo capitolo che è coerente sia con il genere di appartenenza sia con il personaggio di Six!

COSA LEGGO QUESTA SETTIMANA

Riley, arrivooohhh xD Con il vostro permesso, io mi spoglio e mi metto a fare la danza della luna con la mia lupacchiotta :3

COSA LEGGERÒ LA PROSSIMA SETTIMANA

Voglio terminare i libri in inglese in formato cartaceo che ho sullo scaffale. Anche questo romanzo mi è stato regalato da Els ♥ Finalmente anch'io conoscerò la famosissima Lili St. Germain, grande firma del dark romance e del mafia romance!

E voi, invece?

Lasciatemi il link del It's Monday! What are you reading? o del WWW Wednesday sul vostro blog,
oppure commentate e fatemi sapere cosa state leggendo!

Excerpt Reveal
Verona Blood by Lili St. Germain

San Francisco is going to burn if the coveted princess of California’s criminal underworld isn’t returned to her family in one piece…

Avery Capulet is missing.
Taken by a madman. Kept in the dark.
She might not survive.
He’ll use her body. Destroy her mind. All before he ever lays a hand on her.

Rome Montague is a drug dealer. A criminal. A thief.
And he needs the secrets Avery and her family are keeping – even if it means cutting them out of her pretty Capulet flesh.
Rome Montague is missing – but nobody will miss him.
Not that it matters; After the things he’s done to this girl, he doesn’t deserve to be found.

Verona Blood by Lili St. Germain
Serie: California Blood #1
Genere: Dark Romance
Data di pubblicazione: 30 Gennaio 2018
Prenota: Amazon | iBooks

Preparatevi a entrare negli oscuri e sanguinosi bassifondi della California, perché Lili St. Germain vi porta una moderna rivisitazione di Romeo e Giulietta!

LEGGI UN ESTRATTO

AVERY

I need somewhere to wipe my palms; but the puffy skirt of my designer gown doesn’t seem appropriate.

“Avery Capulet, everyone!”

Five hundred pairs of eyes look my way as I sashay down the middle of the glass-ceilinged ballroom my father has decked out with nauseating arrays of flowers, of twinkling fairy lights and enough champagne to fill the San Francisco Bay that shimmers beyond the heights of our palatial hotel.

Really, that’s what it’s called: The Palatial Hotel. Because it’s like a damn palace built on the edge of the financial district, full of Austrian crystal chandeliers and Calacatta marble floors.

It’s unseasonably hot in San Francisco this year, especially since we’re in the middle of a heat wave. People in Southern California would probably laugh at us as they roast through their regular hundred-plus summer days, but in the North we’re a little more used to clouds and fog.

I could blame my sweaty palms on the heat wave, but it’s crisp and cold inside the hotel’s grand glass enclosure. Cold like a refrigerator. Like a morgue.

You’re daydreaming again, Avery.

I take a deep breath and focus on my father’s booming voice, forgetting about the crowd of family and my father’s friends. I feel like a head of cattle being marched through a market to fetch the highest bidder. Because although this is merely my twenty-fifth birthday and not an auction, almost everybody is here for one reason.

Money.

My money.

The money that, according to the antiquated rules of our family’s trust, cannot be accessed by women heirs until they marry.

Which is complete fucking bullshit. We’re living in the age of equality, yet, according to the Capulet decree, all women born bearing the Capulet name would be penniless unless they marry a man of their father’s choosing.

Arranged marriage in the twenty-first century? In America?

I almost wish somebody in the crowd would shoot me, put me out of my misery.

“Think of all that money,” I hear somebody whisper as I walk through the middle of a parted crowd. I look in the direction of the voice, finding a guilty face staring straight back at me. Jacob Goldstein. Preppy guy, Ivy League, all that crap that people spend their lives and their fortunes making sure they’ve got. I went to high school with Jacob, the most exclusive prep school on the West Coast of the United States. He’s been trying to get into my pants since his voice broke and I grew out of my sports bra. Sorry, buddy, you were never on my shortlist.

Yes, I am the only child of the most powerful man in California. Daddy has enough collective money and assets to rival anyone on the Forbes rich list, but he prefers to be discreet with his fortune. If for no other reason than the fact that his wealth isn’t entirely honest. The Capulet family is the Rothschild family of the criminal underworld. Instead of owning and controlling banks, we own and control other things. Diamonds. Guns. Drugs. People. The crisp Benjamins in our vaults might be legal tender, but they likely weren’t obtained through legal channels.

And yes, we own hotels. Lots and lots of hotels. After all, you have to launder the money somewhere, right?

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Chapter Reveal
Gun Shy by Lili St. Germain

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS GIRL?

In the middle of a fierce snowstorm in Gun Creek, Nevada, seventeen-year-old Jennifer Thomas disappears without a trace.

The second girl in nine years.

Identical cases. Identical conditions. Only last time, the girl was found. Dead, stuffed in a well beside the creek that feeds the town's water supply.

The killer was never found.

As the small town mobilizes and searches for newly vanished Jennifer Thomas, one suspect comes to the fore. But did he do it? Or is there something else at play? Something nobody could have anticipated?

For Jennifer's friend Cassie Carlino, the worst is yet to come. As she pins MISSING posters to store windows and joins the search, she begins to suspect that Jennifer's disappearance might be much closer to her than she could have ever imagined.

GENERE
Psychological Thriller

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LEGGI IL CAPITOLO

CASSIE

The center of town is teeming with reporters when we arrive. The mood is somber, self-conscious, even. Can an entire town be collectively self-conscious? They’re shy, that’s for sure. We don’t get a whole lot of visitors in Gun Creek. Certainly not ones who stick microphones in your face and blast you with questions while you’re still half-asleep.

Damon parks the patrol car right across the front doors of the police station, his face drawn and tense. It must be a fucking nightmare, being in charge of an entire town like this. Especially when something like this happens.

I can only imagine how bad things are going to get at home if they don’t find this girl soon.

“These people are fucking vultures,” he mutters, and I make a noise signaling my agreement. He gets out, opening my door for me.

I muster up a plastic smile as Damon holds out my purse, the strap dangling on his outstretched finger.

“Thanks,” I say, taking the bag and slinging it over my shoulder. I put my oversized dollar-store sunglasses on my face, the day already too bright for me to bear.

“You okay?” Damon asks.

“Always,” I reply, walking away from him before he can say anything else. I should ask him if he’s okay, but that would mean pretending that I care.

I have something important that I need, something immediate.

I’m an asshole because I know I should care about the fact that a girl I’ve grown up with is missing, but I have more pressing personal matters.

I need to take care of myself, first. I head for the diner, fifty feet away, already late for my shift. I push past reporters, hanging eagerly at the doors they’re forbidden to cross. They have to hover outside in the snow for their pound of flesh, their soundbites, their newsworthy quotes from Jennifer’s distraught friends and family. I see Casey Mulligan, a girl I went to school with, twirling a strand of long blonde hair around her finger as she musters up a couple of fat tears for a news camera, and it strikes me, just like last time, that the people who get the most attention in this world are the ones who least deserve it.

Still, I’m glad it’s not me. Last thing I want is a camera in my face. I slip by, unassisted, unseen, an invisible girl with a hollow spot inside me. I notice the crates of milk that get delivered to Dana’s every morning are still stacked out front and I grab one as I approach, throwing my purse on top and bracing my stomach muscles to carry the thirty-odd pounds worth of liquid weight. One of our regulars holds the door open for me and I smile in thanks, lugging the milk crate through the diner and toward the cold storage out back.

I’m making my way down the main entrance, past rows of tables and customers talking feverishly about Jennifer, my arms full of milk bottles when it happens.

I see him. Him.

I stop.

My arms stop functioning. I drop everything; the milk crate, my purse, my practiced neutral expression. The purse wafts to the floor, the milk bottles hurtle down with an unceremonious crash, and blue plastic lids burst off and go skittering in every direction.

I sink to my knees, in shock. People are looking at me, but I don’t pay attention to them. I’m too busy fixated on the green-eyed ghost standing in front of me. The splinters in my knees sting like fire-ant bites, and I curl my legs to the side, coming to a sitting position.

“Shit!” Leo says, dropping his backpack to the ground and crouching in front of me. “Cass. Cassie. Are you okay?”

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Release Blitz
My Sweet Villaintine
by T.M. Frazier, Skye Warren, Callie Hart, Shari Slade and Lili St. Germain

Happy release day to these wonderful authors 💖

Esce oggi il loro My Sweet Villaintine, una straordinaria antologia firmata dalle autrici più amate nel panorama del Dark Romance‼ Sto parlando di T.M. Frazier, Skye Warren, Callie Hart, Shari Slade e Lili St. Germain *_* Ma volete sapere qual è la cosa più straordinaria? L'antologia è disponibile per il download gratuito! OMFG *O* CORRETE IMMEDIATAMENTE SUL SITO PER AVERE LA VOSTRA COPIA ♥ io ho già avuto la mia :3 e avete visto i graphic teaser?! DA BRIVIDO *-*

Dark Romance • 13 Febbraio 2017

MY SWEET VILLANTINE

T.M. FRAZIER, SKYE WARREN, CALLIE HART, SHARI SLADE, LILI ST. GERMAIN

MY SWEET VILLAINTINE – A VALENTINE'S COLLECTION OF DELICIOUS DARKNESS

Happy f*cking Valentine's Day.

That's what your favorite sexy-as-sin villain would say to you, right? And he'd probably say it with one hand around your throat and your dress bunched around your hips.

It’s doubtful that he’ll buy you flowers.

He definitely won't serenade you.

But there's a good chance he'll tie you up and spank you if you ask nicely. And the only jewelry you'll be getting? Is a pretty pearl necklace. Unless you count the rope bracelets he threads around your wrists when he straps you down and f*cks you until you forget your own name.

Leave the chocolates and the jewelry to the good guys. It's time to go dark side this Valentine's Day.

SCARICA GRATIS L'INTERA L'ANTOLOGIA

Clicca sul sito di My Sweet Villaintine per ottenere la tua copia!

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Waiting On Wednesday #6

Ideata da Breaking the Spine.
Rubrica mensile in cui metto sotto i riflettori le uscite che aspetto con trepidazione.

OMG, chiedo perdono! Mi stavo dimenticando che oggi c'è anche il Waiting On :P
Domani e lunedì prossimo usciranno due romanzi che sono nei miei Futuri Acquisti, e qui di seguito vi svelo quali sono e le loro belle trame ;)

AMORE SENZA LIMITE di Jay Crownover
New Adult | HarperCollins Italia

23 Giugno 2016 ★ COMPRA ORA CON 1-CLICK ★

A volte è necessario distruggere tutto per costruire qualcosa di nuovo ... Sayer Cole sente freddo dentro. Almeno, così si è sentita da quando riesce a ricordare. E non permette a nessuno di andare oltre la sua gelida esteriorità, e l' unico ragazzo che pensa potrebbe sciogliere il suo cuore può non essere interessato a una persona così rigorosa. Ruvido, duro e terribilmente eccitante, Zeb Fuller ha dovuto ricostruire la sua vita e la sua attività di costruzioni in quanto tanti anni fa per proteggere la sua famiglia finì in prigione. La sua elegante cliente, Sayer, lo fa sentire come un uomo di Neanderthal in denim, ma nonostante lui cerchi in tutti i modi di conoscerla meglio, lei sembra ignorare il suo fascino. Proprio quando le cose finalmente iniziano a scaldarsi, il passato di Zeb torna a tormentarlo e ha bisogno dell' aiuto professionale di Sayer per rimediare a un errore e salvare molto più che se stesso. Mentre queste due personalità opposte si impegnano nella lotta della loro vita, il fuoco e il ghiaccio si scontrano in un'esplosione inarrestabile...

PERCHÉ LO ASPETTO

Sento sempre tanto parlare di questa autrice, e finalmente anch'io potrò conoscerla, in quanto questa nuova serie verrà pubblicata da una CE che seguo :D sono molto, molto curiosa! E adoro la cover, decisamente (: mi innamorerò anch'io di Jay Crownover? ;)

GUN SHY by Lili St. Germain
Romantic Psychological Thriller

27 Giugno 2016

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS GIRL?

In the middle of a fierce snowstorm in Gun Creek, Nevada, a teenage girl disappears without a trace.

The second girl in as many years.

Identical cases. Identical conditions. Only last time, the girl was found. Dead, floating face-down in the creek that feeds the town's water supply.

The killer was never found.

As the small town mobilises and searches for newly vanished Jennifer Thomas, one suspect comes to the fore. But did he do it? Or is there something else at play? Something nobody could have anticipated?

For Jennifer's classmate Cassie Carlino, the worst is yet to come. As she pins MISSING posters to store windows and joins the search, she begins to suspect that Jennifer's disappearance might be much closer to her than she could have ever imagined.

PERCHÉ LO ASPETTO

Lo aspetto perché la trama su Goodreads mi ha attirato fin dal principio e poi, leggendo l'estratto che vi ho postato qualche giorno fa, ho deciso di aggiungerlo direttamente ai miei Futuri Acquisti! So che questa autrice è molto amata nel panorama dark, e questa potrebbe essere un'ottima occasione per conoscere il suo stile :D

E voi invece cosa aspettate con ansia?
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Friday Finds #18

Ideata da MizB del blog A Daily Rhythm.
Rubrica del venerdì in cui vi svelo i libri che ho scovato e aggiunto alla mia TBR o nei Maybes. Possono essere libri scoperti online, in una libreria, in biblioteca, su Goodreads... ovunque! (Possono anche essere romanzi che non necessariamente acquisterò.)

Good morning and happy friday ^-^
Il bottino di questa mattinata è molto interessante! Abbiamo dei romanzi che vi ho presentato ieri e nei giorni scorsi, nuove scoperte e storie ormai ben note :D che ne dite, li vediamo insieme? ;)

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Excerpt Reveal: Gun Shy by Lili St. Germain

Mi stavo dimenticando che stamattina abbiamo altri post :P
Il primo riguarda un romanzo che mi ha decisamente attratto :3 si intitola Gun Shy ed è firmato Lili St. Germain, autrice molto amata nel mondo Dark (: leggendo la trama su Goodreads (che è diversa da quella che c'è in questo post) nella mia testa sono risuonati taaanti bei campanelli ihihihihihih e leggendo questo estratto... addio, Chiara xD TBR, TBR, TBR right now! Everyone >.<