Glitterland (Spires)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1626490252 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 226 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fantastic I'm not sure how to start this review. I loved this book, I mean, really, really loved it. There had been all the hype about it, and I wasn't sure what it was about, but I've read some of Alexis Hall's blogs and really liked those. For Real won the RITA for Best Erotic Romance, and I already had Glitterland and For Real and I decided to read it. I'm usually a Historical Romance fan, not a contemporar. Pavellit Off said A recipe for a effortlessly successful romance.. ***Ingredients:1. A sympathetic main characters and unique voice/narration.The story is told entirely from Ash's POV in a ironic wit way. A bipolar and depressed writer who was extremely selfish. An open wound and pleasure-wracked guy who was really bad at expressing his feelings and couldn't accept that somebody might like him.And my favorite one Darian. An Essex model who is not probably the smarte. Amazon Customer said A MOST UNLIKELY PAIR!. Ash & Darian - a most unlikely pair. I admit it took me a bit to get into this, I started with the Audible and I thought how can this guy (Ash) be such a nasty mean guy and what would redeem him? I also thought Darian spoke less intelligently than he actually thought which was also re-inforced with his over-use of "babes". Ash was spot on, but Darian was a colorful person, loving giving person and he
Can a man who doesn’t trust himself ever trust in happiness? And how can a man who doesn’t believe in happiness ever fight for his own?. Then a chance encounter at a stag party throws him into the arms of Essex boy Darian Taylor, an aspiring model who lives in a world of hair gel, fake tans, and fashion shows. But Ash has been living in his own shadow for so long that he can’t see past the glitter to the light. The universe is a glitterball I hold in the palm of my hand. Once the golden boy of the English literary scene, now a clinically depressed writer of pulp crime fiction, Ash Winters has given up on love, hope, happiness, and—most of all—himself. He lives his life between the cycles of his illness, haunted by the ghosts of other people’s expectations. By his own admission, Darian isn’t the crispest lettuce in the fridge, but he cooks a mean cottage pie and makes Ash laugh, reminding him of what it’s like to step beyond the boundaries of
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