Playing with Fire: A Bad Boy College Romance

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Beautiful writing, great, solid plot and characters that resemble actual people and not models out of a magazine. I fell in love with West and Grace. I cannot recommend this book enough. Amazing chemistry, sizzling scenes and emotion. Read this gem of a book!!! Theoren "Theo" Fleury was born in Oxbow, Saskatchewan, and grew up in the small town of Russell, Manitoba, the eldest of three boys. This is one of the best memoirs I've ever read. Actually, it's one of the best books I've ever read. I've read a lot of memoirs and biographies, and this one is brutally honest -- heartbreakingly so.

However, there is a correlation between all these incidents and Julia is determined to find out what it means. No one can ever say that Shen pulls her punches. Playing With Fire is an explosive one-two combo of perfection and pure excellence! Grace and West were absolutely incredible. Two damaged people hiding from themselves and their pasts who find one another and the strength to face their fears and traumas. Because at the end of the day, we are all just phoenixes, rising from our own ashes, taking flight to an unknown destination, our wingtips forged by flames.” Grace and West's love story is one of a kind, they stole my heart in the sweetest way possible. LJ nailed the small-town romance. What trope can this woman not write? The writing was bang on, the plot was FANTASTIC and the ending gosh! The sweetest way to kill me. West and Gracie are here to steal hearts y’all.

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Grace was the epitome of a spitfire full of sass and fiery spirit. A young woman rising from the ashes of who she used to be to become the woman she was born to be. I absolutely loved her determination and grit. West likewise was as battered and broken as they come reeling from a painful past. But together they made one another want to live life to the fullest again. This is a story set in two time frames, modern day and Venice just before the Second World War. I loved the easy transition between past and present in the story. The characters are interesting and well developed and the plot was just music to my ears. I've had to sit with my feelings about Playing with Fire for two days. For me it's not only some of L.J.'s best writing but it's one of the best stories this year. All you fans of Leigh's AH heroes, do not fear. West St. Claire is the depiction of her usual heroes, only better! He is something else and you will love him and feel so much for him and Grace as well. She was such a breath of fresh air. I loved how she gave West as good as she got and that even though there was a lot of hiding due to her situation, she still showed so much strength and in the end she really was a phoenix rising from the ashes and it was beautiful to watch that whole journey! The love between Grace and West is, although at times difficult, transformative. Shen brought us REAL ROMANCE, the ugly, passionate, sweet, hurtful, and kind love. My heart was breaking when it was over because I never wanted to let them go. I wanted one million epilogues. Alas, a reread is what I will have to do, and I’m not mad about it.

The review above give details about how this book is ridiculous and how the hero is a total irredeemable piece of shit Pros: The title says it all: Fire. Magic. Romance. Comedy. This book contains lots of great one liners, unexpected occurrences, and a very sexy hero. I never guessed what came next. Partially because I had no idea what was going on...but even that was enjoyable. Light, fluffy, fun writing. Creative characters - I particularly loved Perky.In the second thread of the novel we are introduced to the Todesco family, particularly Lorenzo, an aspiring violinist. It is 1938 and the weight of fascist change is slowly descending on Italy's Jews like the Todescos. I have read many books about the atrocities of WWII and the Jewish concentration camps and didn’t know that I was in for yet another story about the Holocaust. A horrible event in the history of our world but not one I wanted to read about at this time. I read a lot of non-fiction on this time period and it was just nice to read a well written and entertaing historical fiction story.

The story comes across as raw and authentic. Some have made comments about Theo having a huge ego, but I don’t think a small guy in a big guy’s league could have survived, let alone thrived, without thinking and living large. Is there some repetition that only serves to inflate an already large ego even more? Yes. But that was the life he was living at the time, so I get why those repeated references are there. It serves to build higher the mountain from which our hero falls. But this book focuses on a hard topic, and it's hard to describe a life that Theo probably absolutely hates. It seemed like he was steering away from talking about James, and that makes sense. It must be hard to talk about stuff like that after so long.Quinn was a lot of fun, too, though maybe a little too perfect (both "perfect for her" and "perfect in general"). I bought it and didn't care for Bailey's sake. Well, that and he was the perfect snark partner. THE AUTHOR: Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. The basics: Violinist Julia finds an intriguing piece of handwritten and challenging music in an antique store. However, after she plays it for the first time, she begins to believe that her toddler daughter hates her and is capable of depraved violence. Is something wrong with the child? Or is it all in Julia's mind? After all, when Julia was young, her mother went crazy... Playing With Fire” is the latest novel, a standalone thriller, by Tess Gerritsen, a physician living in Maine. Most of us are familiar with the Rizzoli & Isles series, by this New York Times bestselling author. I must say that this is a change in style for the author, from her previous series, but it works well as she is a master storyteller. As a long suffering Leaf fan, I’ve read Curtis Joseph’s biography, but generally sports athletes’ bios are not something I would normally read. However, we are reading it as part of a book club that I’m a part of and I was interested in hearing the story, so I was eager to read the book.

in the book and I knew this book is going to have a special place in my heart. Just the way the characters are flawed in their own unique way makes this book so much sweeter. Every teaser and snippet that has been released of Playing With Fire did NOT prepare me for this story and the emotions that follow it. The emotions that are forced upon you are so unexpected, I felt like I was in a whirlwind being hit in every direction with different emotions and in the end, I was an absolute mess. I know without a doubt this book and the characters will stay with me forever, there’s just no forgetting these two, they’ve etched their way deeply into my heart and I’m captivated by everything that is them. The assorted supernatural beings, their interactions and their [reproductive] habits were original, including the bizarre version of angels, and especially the "cindercorn" (a firebreathing, napalm-eating unicorn!) that transformation potions turn the heroine into. The plot was never boring, if requiring heavy suspension of disbelief (e.g., a gorgon and a centaur somehow mated, and their offspring appears completely human?!). Gah, I just I adored their story to bits. It was emotional on a lot of levels, it was gripping, entertaining and just a wonderful story with a beautiful message! Just well done Miss Shen!GRACE AND WEST ARE PERFECT, PURE PERFECTION YOU GUYS. BY FAR THE MOST WHOLESOME BOOK I’VE EVER READ. Julia doesn't understand what is happening to her daughter, but she thinks she knows what's causing it. She is terrified for Lily, and for herself, but what scares her more is that no one believes her.