Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Mad Love – Colet Abedi

23-year-old aspiring artist Sophie Walker can think of no better place than the exotic paradise of the Maldives Islands to escape the wrath of her controlling parents, the monotony of her boring legal work and her passionless boyfriend. With her two best friends along for the ride and to help her find herself again, Sophie is not prepared for the enigmatic Clayton Sinclair. Clayton comes from another world of privilege that seems like a fantasy to Sophie. Can this man introduce her to the passion & seduction she never realized she was desperately searching for? Sophie quickly becomes ensnared in Clayton’s seductive web until a shocking treachery makes her question her judgment and actions

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Release Date: March 11th 2014
Publisher: Bird Street Books
Source: Inkslinger PR
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Colet Abedi was new to me and with my review schedule being quite busy, I almost passed on this.  I’m so glad I didn’t.

Sophie Walker and her best friends Erik and Obie are off to the Maldives where Sophie hopes to find some kind of message that quitting law school and dumping her long time boyfriend was the right thing to do.  Her trip there may have had a rocky start, but things start to look up for her (and Erik and Obie) when she meets Clayton Sinclair.

I connected with Sophie immediately.  The poor girl spent a lot of time in her head second guessing every decision she made and some of the decisions made for her.  You could tell she was frustrated with her inability to let go and knew she wanted to change and become someone who enjoyed life.  Getting a glimpse at her home life, you knew a lot of her problems hinged on her somewhat high strung parents and their need to dictate what was acceptable for her and what wasn’t.  I could see why she was drawn to Clayton, because he made her forgot about the what ifs and focus on right now…something she’d never been able to do.

If there was one thing I didn’t like about Sophie, it was how she didn’t let Clayton explain what she saw in the tabloids while at the airport.  I could understand her being upset and hurt by what she saw, but she never gave the man (who she said she loved) the chance to explain what she saw.  From the preview into book 2, I saw that decision was coming back to bite her in the ass, but I would have hoped Sophie would have thought more of herself and Clayton to talk to him before she threw the baby out with the bathwater.

This was a fun, sexy and easy read.  I was desperate for something to lose myself in and this was just what I needed.  I know anxiously wait MAD LOVE 2, because I really do need to know what happens when Clayton and Sophie meet again.

Colet Abedi has been an entertainment industry executive for over ten years. In addition to working on many television programs for NBC, ABC, FOX, and most cable networks, she is best known for her work as head writer for the telenovela serials American Heiress and Fashion House, the latter of which starred Bo Derek and Morgan Fairchild, on the FOX-owned MyNetworkTV. Abedi currently has one television series in syndication, Unsealed: Alien Files, and has completed Five Souls, her first feature film. She is also the co-author of young adult fiction novel, FAE. Book one was released July 2013 by Diversion Publishing Group and was an instant online bestseller. The Dark King, the second in the planned FAE trilogy, was released May 2014. FAE was recently optioned by Ridley Scott. Colet is a native of California, graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the University of California at Irvine, and currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three dogs.

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