IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME by Kylie Scott-Review and Excerpt Tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 7, 2018
Returning home for her father’s wedding was never going to be easy for Adele. If being sent away at eighteen hadn’t been bad enough, the mess she left behind when she made a pass at her dad’s business partner sure was.
Fifteen years older than her, Pete had been her crush for as long as she could remember. But she’d misread the situation—confusing friendliness for undying love. Awkward. Add her father to the misunderstanding, and Pete had been left with a broken nose and a business on the edge of ruin. The man had to be just as glad as everyone else when she left town.
Seven years on, things are different. Adele is no longer a kid, but a fully grown adult more than capable of getting through the wedding and being polite. But all it takes is seeing him again to bring back all those old feelings.
Sometimes first loves are the truest.
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REVIEW: IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME by Kylie Scott is a contemporary, adult, second chance, erotic, romance story line focusing on twenty-five year old Adele Reid , and forty-year old Pete Gallagher.
Told from first person point of view (Adele Reid) IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME follows the rebuilding relationship between twenty-five year old Adele Reid , and forty-year old Pete Gallagher. Nine years earlier, a then sixteen-year old Adele Reid, was pawned off onto her father’s new hire, thirty-one year old Peter Gallagher. For six weeks, every summer, Adele would visit her father, only to find herself ‘babysat’ by her father’s employee, an employee for whom Adele had developed feelings, feelings she revealed after her eighteenth birthday. Adele’s father Andrew, having discovered by accident, his daughter’s feelings towards his most trusted employee, inadvertently forces his daughter out of his life, and that of the man with whom she had fallen in love. Fast forward to present day, wherein Adele’s father Andrew is about to remarry, leaving Adele, once again, in the hands of Peter Gallagher, the man who destroyed her heart, and continues to send mixed messages with every taunt, rejection, and condescending remark. What ensues is the acrimonious but rebuilding friendship and growing love between Peter and Adele, and the fall-out as Peter continues to push away the woman with whom he was falling in love.
Peter Gallagher struggles to accept change in his well-ordered life, and the return of Adele Reid, dredges up too many painful memories of a time long ago. Adele has never stopped loving the man who broke her heart, a man who will continue to send mix messages of love and hate for a woman he had hoped moved on from the past.
The relationship between Adele and Pete is one of second-chances, of a sort, for two people whose friendship was destroyed by misunderstanding, betrayal, heart break and humiliation. At one time, Pete was able to tell Adele everything about his life but time, maturity and a sense of loss, has hardened Peter Gallagher’s heart to love and a happily ever after. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and seductive but our hero’s inability to let go; his back and forth, bi-polar emotional up and downs with Adele Reid was disheartening and disappointing. Our heroine is left floundering as to the how, what and why of Peter’s battle between wanting Adele Reid or letting her go, an unattractive quality for any story line hero.
We are introduced to Adele’s father Andrew, and his new wife Shanti; Peter’s current / ex-girlfriend Leona; furniture designer Jeremy Karas; as well as Adele’s roommates Maddie and Hazel.
IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME is an emotional read; a heart breaking story about two people caught up in memories from the past, a past mired in pain, bitterness, rejection and regret. Although some of the scenes were intended to add humor and fun, the desired affect was lost due in part to the ongoing rejection and heart breaking turmoil. The premise is engaging; the characters are colorful and dynamic; the romance is conflicted, infuriating and suffers from the hero’s constant rebuffs and dismissals.
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Reviewed by Sandy
The minute my lips touched his, however, everything changed. Callused hands grabbed the sides of my face and my mouth opened on a gasp. His tongue swept inside, taking me over. Holy hell. Shoes and purse hit the floor, forgotten. Nothing about this kiss was slow or easy. The man devoured me. Every ounce of emotion poured into that kiss, all of the anger and frustration between us. His tongue was teasing and tasting, driving me wild. Then he drew back to suck and nip at my bottom lip. One hand slid around the back of my neck, the other over my hip to grab at my ass. His hold was firm, a little rough even. He treated my body like it belonged to him and I wasn’t gentle either.
Apparently experience mattered. Because all I could do was try and keep up.
I held on tight to his open shirt, straining against him, trying to get closer. I’d have crawled inside the man if I could. Turned out that under certain circumstances, the taste of scotch worked for me in a big way. Against my hip, his cock hardened, digging into me. And oh my God, I’d done that to him. Me. How amazing! Meanwhile, my body felt liquid, core aching and empty. I needed him inside of me and it seemed like I’d already been waiting forever.
“Pete. Please.”
“Fuck,” he muttered, breath hot against my ear.
I fumbled at the remaining buttons on his shirt. My damn fingers didn’t seem to be working. Easier to just push the whole thing upward. Luckily, the man decided to help, tearing the shirt off over his head. More skin was good. And he was so hot and smooth, a thrill to the touch. The solid flesh of his pecs and the flat plane of his stomach.
He tore at the zipper on the back of my dress, dragging fabric down over my shoulders. A growl came from the back of his throat, a noise of frustration, impatience. I’m reasonably certain I heard the silk rip. I didn’t care. His hands and mouth seemed to cover every bit of skin revealed, touching and tasting me everywhere. The dress got stuck on my hips. Out of the way enough for now.
He didn’t even bother undoing my bra, simply peeling down one of the lace cups to free my flesh. My breast filled his hot palm as it took the weight. Fingers plumped me, his thumb flicking over my hard nipple. The sting of pain followed by the heat of his kiss made my head spin and my body ache. There was no room for thought as he fed me deep, wet kisses. Slowly, he took us to the floor. No time for anything else. Just the urgent need to have him inside me.
The hardness of the polished wood was cool against my back. My legs were spread, his body between them. And with his broad chest above me, his weight taken on one arm, he was all I could see. I swear even the insides of my thighs were wet, I was so ready. It would have been embarrassing with anybody else. But this man, he had to know, he had to understand. It had always been him.
“Pete, I need—”
“I know,” he said, voice harsh and low.
Kylie is a long time fan of erotic love stories and B-grade horror films. She demands a happy ending and if blood and carnage occur along the way then all the better. Based in Queensland, Australia with her two children and one delightful husband, she reads, writes and never dithers around on the internet
Kylie is represented by Amy Tannenbaum at the Jane Rotrosen Agency, New York.
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Great review, Sandy. Looks like an emotional story line.
Thanks for the wonderful review .
I love books like this, with so much emotional turmoil and angst. Awesome review.
Great review, Sandy. Looks like an excellent story line.
Thanks for the wonderful review and excerpt.
Great review and excerpt
Very nice review and excerpt, thanks Sandy.
great review, sandy. sounds very good.
Thanks for another great review and excerpt.
Another wonderful review and except, thanks Sandy.