A little Vanilla can be sexy...

Right Now (Moments #2) by Marie Hall

5 out of 5 stars

556 Book Chicks has a moment...
Marie Hall delivers yet another emotional roller coaster with Right Now! OMG lady please stop making us cry. We will have no tears left to shed if we keep reading Marie Hall. But her books are so consuming you can step away from them.

Now that Ryan is finally happy with his new family, we thought everything would be roses. But poor Alex is still battling the demons of his childhood. Seeing his father rape his cousin, has placed many years of guilt on his shoulders. He is trying hard to work through his emotions, but now that Ryan no longer needs him to watch over him...Alex finds himself lost and confused. Until he gets a fortune cookie that tells him to be opposite...now Alex is on a mission to be just that. Opposite!

On his way to being opposite, he walks into a tattoo shop and comes to a halt upon seeing the Asian Hottie Zoe. She has him by the balls at hello. He went in for a tattoo and came out with a lip ring! You see Zoe didn't do tattoos she only did the piercing in the shop. But Alex could not walk away from her...and she was not bowing down to Alex the God either. She was giving him all the feisty she could conjure up. 'Walking toward me, she placed her hands on either side of my legs and I swear I was trembling like a freaking virgin.' We did tell you Zoe had Alex by the balls...right? 'No matter that she'd made me look like a pathetic boy toy back there, the girl had turned me on. My cock was still heavy, my balls aching.'

What we liked about this book...Misaki aka Zoe! She is freaking awesome! We love all the nicknames she uses for Alex...vanilla, cowboy, frat...she keeps them coming. LOL! We love that she used to be super geek valedictorian (crushing over Alex in High School) and she went against everything her parents had planned for her to be find her own happiness. We love that she makes Alex work for her and she is not taking his excuses! Even with Alex trying to hide his family secrets...she just refuses to let his secrets control his life. We love her and Alex together - their chemistry is amazing. "Sometimes in life, all we have is right now. I don't know anything about anything, Zoe. But I want to be with you, I want to hang out and I want to see where this can go."

What made us hold our breath...Alex's relationship with his parents. We felt bad for his mother...you can clearly see she loved her son, but the situation with his father had destroyed their relationship too. Alex could not see past the hate for his father to understand his mother and her choices. We really liked the fact that Marie Hall gave us closure on the situation. Alex and Ryan were able to comfort his dad and Ryan's parents. We have to say that we are still upset over Ryan's parents lack of compassion. But we were screaming with excitement that they were finally able to put the demons to rest. 'Though his words made me think for a moment that maybe I should forgive him, it dawned on me that he was using his cancer just like he used everything else.'

But the book is not all emotional...its fun and happy! You get to catch up with Ryan, Lili and Javier - and you get to attend their wedding. Yay! Kudos to Marie Hall for writing such a great sequel to A Moment.

A Moment is FREE on Amazon and Right Now is on sale for 99 cents.

Reading thru blurry vision...

A Moment by Marie Hall

5 out of 5 stars

556 Book Chicks get emotional:
Talk about emotional - emotional - emmmmoottttiooonaaal. I have to say at first I wanted to put the book down because my first thought was this is going to be too depressing! Well let me just say that I could not put this darn book down!!! You become so engrossed in this story you forget about the world existing around you.

Liliana is a young mother of an Autistic child, pregnant at 14 years old, her life has not been easy. She is working hard to finish college and care for her sick mother. There is no time for anything else - especially another man that could walk away just like her father did. Until she meets Ryan... 'He silences me with one of his drugging kisses. The ones that make me forget what day it is, what school I go to, how to breathe properly.'

Then there is Ryan. OMG I can't even begin to tell you how deep he is story is...you really have to read it. Ryan is an ex-military - now fighter - and he is running from his past. And it will have you cringing and in tears. OMG - OMG - OMG! But he is not the only one carrying around this burden - his cousin Alex has declared himself Ryan's savior. So every Valentine's Day the secret is not only destroying Ryan, but it is also destroying Alex. When Alex introduces Ryan and Liliana, she too becomes part of team save Ryan. Everything is going great until it's almost V-day again, and the past is back to torment Ryan and destroy their relationship.

What we loved about this book - it's real! It is a fictional book with a real life story. When you are reading this book you can feel the pain, the love, the need to change. At some point it's like watching a Lifetime Movie. I am warning you to grab you a box of tissue because this story touches your heart. I love the way Ryan becomes Javier's father. He finds ways to communicate with this child and it melts your freaking heart. Now picture this...Javier does not liked to be touched, so when he almost falls at the ice skating rink but it is Ryan who he reaches for and it so sweet. 'One instant Javi's getting ready to eat it; the next, Ryan is reaching out with his hand. I cringe the moment their hands clasp and they make skin-to-skin contact. I hold my breath, waiting for Javi's screams...Javi doesn't scream. And he doesn't let go...Javier's holding his hand, not looking at him, but hanging on and smiling as he skates with Ryan around and around and around.' 

The scene that broke me down - when they are grocery shopping and Ryan runs into his dad. My fists are curled in tight balls at this point. I can't breathe...I didn't know what to expect. And his father starts to tell him how worthless he is and how he should have made the mom have an abortion. I swear I was seeing RED! 'Sometimes when someone tells you a sob story you think it can't honestly be bad, right? But this is worse. How can a man just look at his son like that? With such contempt and scorn, such hate? It's visceral and biting and I want to slap the smug smirk off the man's face.' Believe me if I could prepare you more for this particular part of the book. I would...but there is nothing that can prepare you for this evil man.

I can't really tell you things without spoiling the book for you. You need to read the book! Marie Hall does a great job telling this story of hurt and break through and leaves you smiling! 'And when he whispers my name again, I know in that instant he'r ruined me for anyone else. Because this is love. And it's beautiful.'