BIG SHOT (Sexy Jerk World #2) by Kim Karr-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: RELEASE DATE July 27, 2017

To believe one person can change your destiny sounds absurd. But it happened to me… twice.

Ten years ago I had no idea what I wanted out of life, until I met Hannah Michaels. She was a computer-engineering student ready to conquer the social media world, and I was smitten. Even though I knew she was taken, I had to have her.

Being the big shot that I was, I didn’t let her status stand in my way. It wasn’t long before my hands were on her thighs and my name a whisper on her lips. This smart, sexy girl inspired me to greatness, helped me grow into the kind of man I never knew I wanted to be. The man I am today.

Too bad I hadn’t grown fast enough to keep her.

Moving on wasn’t easy, but I knew I had to let her go. Eventually, I found someone to share my days and nights with, and together we had a daughter. My life was nearly perfect until my world turned upside down.

A single father has challenges, and one of those is learning how to calmly deal with your child coming home in tears. I had no idea the day I pounded on my daughter’s classmate’s door, Hannah would be the one standing on the other side.

The wild, burning desire that roared through my veins was unwanted, and yet impossible to ignore. Letting her in meant so much more this time around. Guilt hit me like a hammer. I hated myself. I hated her. The problem was I really didn’t hate her—I wanted her more than ever.

But this time around I can’t have her.

This time it’s my status that stands in our way. And going up against myself just might be the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

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REVIEW: BIG SHOT is the second installment in Kim Karr’s contemporary, adult SEXY JERK WORLD erotic, romance series focusing on a tight knit group of friends. This is successful IT developer and single father Jace Bennett, and computer engineer Hannah Michaels’ second chance story line. BIG SHOT can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary. Jace was first introduced in book one SEXY JERK.

NOTE: BIG SHOT contains mature scenes of M/F/M sexual interactions.

Told from dual first person points of view (Hannah and Jace) with present day and memories from the past BIG SHOT focuses on regrets and second chances between successful businessman Jace Bennett-a widower and single father of his five year old daughter Scarlett, and the woman he has always loved Hannah Michaels, divorced mother of a five year old boy named Jonah, and a woman struggling with memories from the past. Jace and Hannah’s reunion, of sorts, is brought about by the school yard bullying of their primary school children, as well as the new hiring of a computer programmer for Jace’s Fortune 500 Company-Flirt Enterprises. Ten years earlier Hannah was very much a part of Jace Bennett, and his best friend Ethan Miller’s life-a life that centered on friendship, sex and an unconventional relationship between a girl, the men in her life, and the secret and lies that destroyed her trust in the man that she loved. Fast forward to present day wherein Hannah comes face to face with the man she has never forgotten but a man so lost in a world of grief and guilt that he is willing to throw away a second chance at love. What ensues is the back and forth, rebuilding but struggling relationship between Hannah and Jace, and the potential fall out when Jace is unwilling to admit that Hannah is the woman he has always loved. Feeling sorry for himself Jace is unable to look beyond the past or the guilt that encompasses his life.

The relationship between Hannah and Jace is one of second chances; a rekindling romance that reveals the backstory about three friends who found love, laughter, and heartbreak when the truth about Jace’s past is finally revealed. It is here that the build up to destruction of their relationship becomes lost in a less than powerful reasoning-in fact, Hannah’s need to push Jace and Ethan out of her life was more of a ‘hurt feelings’ and ‘immature emotional response’ than a true betrayal or set of lies. Their rekindling romance continues to suffer as Jace and Hannah’s back and forth emotional battle lends too much fodder to an already tepid but sexually charged reunion. The $ex scenes are intimate, passionate and intense.

We are reintroduced to Nick and Tess, Ethan and Fiona (Sexy Jerk), Nick’s brother Lucas Carrington, as well as a IT app developer Amanda Woodward, Hannah’s immediate boss at Flirt Enterprises Perry Reeves, Jace’s nanny Mrs. Sherman, as well as Hannah’s son Jonah, and Jace’s daughter Scarlett. Lucas’s story line is next in HOT STUFF.

BIG SHOT is a little darker than book one SEXY JERK. There are emotional highs and lows, heartbreak and pain, guilt, perceived betrayal, and a happily ever after. The premise is tragic but encouraging; the characters are broken but inspiring; the romance is fated and tense. BIG SHOT is a dramatic look at two people whose lives went in opposite directions when a lack of communication and perceived betrayal tore them apart.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one- SEXY JERK

Copy supplied for review.

Reviewed by Sandy

I live in Florida with my husband and four kids. I’ve always had a love for reading books and writing. Being an English major in college, I wanted to teach at the college level but that was not to be. I went on to receive an MBA and became a project manager until quitting to raise my family. I currently work part-time with my husband and full-time embracing one of my biggest passions—writing.

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