This review can also be found on my blog.It took me a day to figure out what I want to say about this book. It ain't your typical erotica/romance, that's for sure. It'll pull you out of your comfort zone. It'll make you scratch your head in confusion, grit your teeth and ball your fists in anger. It...
So wow. Probably closer to 4.5 stars, because it wasn't perfect, but it was darn good. This turned out to be different than I thought it would be, but not in a bad way, just different. We have Allie, who was raped by the guy who had been her best friend since third grade. But what happened after the...
Allie´s been through a lot, betrayal by her best friend, coping with life as a single mother and the insecurity of her income. One way she blows of steam is seeking love in a rougher style, hooking up with men in the bar once a month. Meeting Colin changes things, even if she doesn´t want to. He sho...
A review for The Romance Reviews.Amber Lin's debut novel, GIVING IT UP is intensely sensuous, wrought with emotion, and so well written that I absolutely could not put it down!This story is about Allie, a single mom with more baggage than an airport, who meets up with bad boy Colin one night when sh...
I will not review it due to me not finishing the story. I read the first hundred pages and Allie just didn't work for me as a heroine. In my opinion, as this story is told from first person POV, you need to feel a certain connection in order for the story to work.A more detailed eleboration to come ...
For some reason when I finished this one, I got the old Pink Floyd lyric stuck in my head: "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl."I could understand Allie's anguish at the beginning, but not her guilt. But then you find out why and it a lot of it makes sense. And then you find out more,...
When Allie and Colin meet, it’s randomly at a club. She is expecting a quick, rough lay but she ends up getting a man who is gentle and considerate to her sexual needs. He gives her oral sex only a few hours after they meet. I wasn't sure if this was realistic but I consulted with some of my GR frie...
See more reviews at www.tattooedbookreview.comGIVING IT UP is a dark and portrait of people caught in lives they didn't ask for, with pasts they must escape. Allie and Colin must save themselves, in order to save each other."Allie prowls the club for a man who will use her hard and then ditch her. H...
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