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Christina Lee
Book ArchiveContemporaryNew AdultMolten
In this powerfully emotional debut New Adult novel, Avery has just met her hot upstairs neighbor. He’s irresistible. Tattooed. And a virgin.
Nursing student Avery Michaels wants nothing to do with dating—she’s perfectly happy single. Privy to too many of her mother’s bad decisions and even worse taste in boyfriends, all Avery can handle is a string of uncomplicated hookups whenever the mood strikes.
When she meets smoking hot tattoo artist Bennett, she wants him—for just one night. But he won’t accept a no-strings-attached arrangement. He lives by a straight-laced code of values based on his own troubled upbringing.
Bennett sees something special in Avery and he wants more from her. Way more. As Avery wrestles with her emotions for Bennett, danger and tragedy force them to open up to each other. And Avery must face the terrifying realization that she wants more from him, too.
So she needs to make a choice—let Bennett go or finally let him in.
Finally FINALLY a book with characters that are more realistic than fantasy. Yes, of course we want the fantasy, the ridiculous, to live vicariously through the characters; that’s the point of fiction. And then when I get to read a book like this, with characters that are so real and so realistic, I revel in their story, reluctant to finish because I want more. All of You has so much that I want more of this, that I hope and wish on a star that there will be more to read about the hot chemistry of Avery and Bennett. Avery is a character I can relate to more than most any other character I’ve ever read. She’s real, she’s honest, and she learns from her mistakes. All of You is a must-read, must-revel book. [September 2013]