Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Wanting You – Ryan Michele

Savannah ‘Vann’ Kelly knows the pain that love can bring, whether from family or a love lost. Being ripped from her home and forced to leave behind her boyfriend, has caused an ache she’s unsure will ever heal.

Five years later, Vann is back. While her day job is kept secret from most, the threat it poses throws her entire world off balance, putting her and those closest to her in danger.

Deke Sullivan’s life has been in a tailspin ever since his brother’s death. Everyone in his life has either betrayed or left him, making him who he is today. But behind his tough persona is still the man that craves the woman who left him all those years ago. One look into those blue-gray eyes sends his heart into overdrive, anger pulsating through him.

Can Deke move past the hurt? Will what became of Vann’s life after she left cause greater tragedy? Can first love prevail?

**Please note. This book is for mature audiences only. It contains very sexually explicit material, including a non-consensual sexual scene.**

Series: Forever Mine #1
Release Date: November 2, 2013
Publisher: Ryan Michele
Source: Reality Bites Tours
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

I liked the premise to this story…girl moves back to her hometown after being ripped away by her mother and her parent’s ugly divorce.  Five years later, she moves back and is ready to move on with her life.  Moving on also means making peace with Deke Sullivan, the boy she loved and left behind.   But the storyline to this one went down a really weird path with Vann’s stalker and I just couldn’t get behind her rekindled romance with Deke.

I didn’t really like Deke.  Plan and simple, he was an ass.  I could see past his man whorish ways, but the way he treated Vann was appalling.  It was really hard to find one redeeming quality in the man, especially when we got to see that not everything Deke put out there was real.  I could see Vann wanting to make peace with him and get some closure, but to try and do anything else with him grated on my nerves.

Then there was the stalker storyline.  Vann is secretly an erotic romance novelist.  Only a few people know who she is, yet she has a stalker who is able to get in contact with her true identity instead of her alias.  All believable, but then the identify of the stalker and his accomplice became known and their reasoning behind it lost me.

This was another one of those reads where I had to say “is it me?”  Others have liked it and more undoubtedly will too, but this was not one of my favorites.

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Ryan Michele is a mom and wife, who also works full time. Her biggest obsession (besides reading) is collecting paperbacks. When she needed an outlet and escape from feeling like “just a mom & wife,” she turned to writing. And while she never set out to become an author, it just sort of happened, and she couldn’t be more grateful for those who’ve read her books.

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