BIG ROCK by Lauren Blakely-Review and Release Blitz
We are so excited to bring you the Release Week Blitz for Lauren Blakely’s BIG ROCK! A standalone sexy romantic comedy, BIG ROCK takes everything you love about a Lauren Blakely novel –witty dialogue, smoking hot sex scenes, and heartfelt moments –and puts them into one fantastic book! BIG ROCK is releasing Wednesday, January 6th! Readers can start their new year off right with Spencer! BIG ROCK is a standalone, dirty romance novel written from the guy’s POV. Come join us as we meet Spencer-parts, heart and all!
Big Rock
by Lauren Blakely
Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic romance
Release Date: January 6, 2016
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 6, 2016
It’s not just the motion of the ocean, ladies. It’s definitely the SIZE of the boat too.
And I’ve got both firing on all cylinders. In fact, I have ALL the right assets. Looks, brains, my own You might think I’m an asshole. I sound like one, don’t I? I’m hot as sin, rich as heaven, smart as hell and hung like a horse.
Guess what? You haven’t heard my story before. Sure, I might be a playboy, like the NY gossip rags call me. But I’m the playboy who’s actually a great guy. Which makes me one of a kind.
The only trouble is, my dad needs me to cool it for a bit. With conservative investors in town wanting to buy his flagship Fifth Avenue jewelry store, he needs me not only to zip it up, but to look the part of the committed guy. Fine. I can do this for Dad. After all, I’ve got him to thank for the family jewels. So I ask my best friend and business partner to be my fiancée for the next week. Charlotte’s up for it. She has her own reasons for saying yes to wearing this big rock.
And pretty soon all this playing pretend in public leads to no pretending whatsoever in the bedroom, because she just can’t fake the kind of toe-curling, window-shattering orgasmic cries she makes as I take her to new heights between the sheets.
But I can’t seem to fake that I might be feeling something real for her.
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REVIEW: BIG ROCK is a stand alone contemporary adult, erotic romance storyline from author Lauren Blakely. This is bar owners Charlotte, and Spencer Holiday’s friends to lovers/fake fiancé story line.
Told from first person point of view (Spencer Holiday) BIG ROCK focuses on Spencer Holiday’s need for a fake fiancé. When Spencer’s father decides to sell the family owned jewelry business, Spencer inserts his foot into his mouth and tells the gathered crowd that he is engaged to his best friend and business partner Charlotte. What ensues is a series of lies and rules to keep up the charade in the face of potential failure if his father’s business arrangement fails because of Spencer’s lies. Charlotte offers up one week of ‘fake fiance’ then they fall back to best friends and partners.
Spencer is a bit of a man-whore, with a reputation as a ‘love’em and leave’em’ kinda guy with an ego to match the size of his ‘big rock’. Our hero has never once considered settling down but pretending to play house with Charlotte starts Spencer on a different path towards love and a happily ever after-but Spencer doesn’t think Charlotte wants the same thing and is willing to walk away when the proverbial sh*t hits the fan. Charlotte also benefits from Spencer’s need for a fiancée, when her cheating ex-boyfriend continues to push the limits of Charlotte’s patience.
The relationship between Spencer and Charlotte is a friends to lovers scenario but Charlotte has been in love with her best friend for years. Lauren Blakely adds some steamy sex scenes, plenty of humor and fast one-liners especially as it pertains to Charlotte’s inability to tell a lie, as well as the ultimate evil in the shape of a jealous and vindictive seventeen year old girl.
We are introduced to Spencer and Charlotte’s friend Nick Hammer-a television producer who specializes in late night, adult entertainment. Nick’s story is to be told next-he may or may not have an interest in Spencer’s sister Harper Holiday. The secondary and supporting characters were real, fallible, and full of life.
BIG ROCK has a little bit of everything: love, romance and sex: heartbreak and humor; friends and family; sexual tension and emotional fallout from a lie that was never met to be. The premise is delightful and fun; the characters are colorful and energetic; the romance is provocative and alive.
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Reviewed by Sandy
I do my best work in the bedroom. This is completely my domain. So it should be no big deal that she asked me to wait here. But something about being in Charlotte’s bedroom is wigging me out. Mostly because there’s nearby nudity transpiring mere feet away. She’s taking a shower, and no matter how you slice them, New York apartments are approximately thimble size. Let me spell this out—wet, naked, hot woman in a ten-foot radius. Got it? Okay. Moving on. I pick up a picture frame on her sky blue bureau of the dog her parents have. A fluffy brown summa dog—some of this, some of that. I’m going to focus on this mutt. Zero in on him. Look at his tail. Check out his ears. Yup, this picture is doing the trick. It is helping me not to linger on the naked woman and how well she kisses. Or how much I liked it. Why the fuck did I like it so much? *Of course you liked it, idiot. A pretty woman kisses you, and you’re straight—you’d be stupid not to like it.* *End of story. Doesn’t mean anything. Stop analyzing.* Especially since she just turned off the shower. Maybe she forgot a towel. Maybe she’ll open the door a crack, and ask me to grab one for her. I smack my forehead. *Get it together, Holiday.* I set down the picture, draw a deep inhale and straighten my shoulders. The door creaks open. She steps out of the bathroom wearing only a white fluffy towel wrapped above her breasts. “You might be wondering why I asked you to wait in my bedroom instead of the living room,” she says, in the most matter-of-fact tone. I have no clue how she can be talking like we’re having a business transaction when droplets of water slide down her bare legs. But I’m a strong man. I can handle this. I’m not tempted at all by my best friend. Though my dick begs to differ, the traitorous prick. “The thought crossed my mind,” I say, as I lean against the bureau, striking a casual pose. “Because if you’re my fiancé, you need to be comfortable with me being naked,” she says with a crisp nod. Shit, she’s going to do it. She’s going to drop the towel. She’s going to make us practice fucking. I am the luckiest man on the face of the earth. Wait. No. I can’t fuck my best friend. I absolutely, positively, can’t screw Charlotte. Even if she tosses the towel on the floor and begs me to. I lace my fingers together behind my back, linking these twitchy hands. “Okay, so you’re getting naked,” I say, doing my best to imitate her cool-as-a-cucumber tone that is throwing me off big time. “No. It’s the *idea *of me naked,” she corrects. I give her a pointed look. “Seems to me it’s both the idea and the reality.” “Fine, fine. They’re one and the same, and it’s part of the debrief.” “Is this the exam portion?” She walks past me, her arm brushing against mine before she yanks open the top drawer of the bureau. “Yes. This is the practical portion.” “And this is because you somehow think we’re going to be required to be naked together in front of Mr. Offerman in order to pull this off? This isn’t like some feats-of-strength style fake engagement where we have to pass certain skill sets in an obstacle course. You know that, right?” She nods, as she hunts around in the drawer. “I’m aware of that. I see this as more like the Newlywed game.” “And in this version of the game we’re quizzed on how I get used to the idea of you naked and vice versa?” Her breath hitches when I say that—*vice versa. * I don’t know what to make of that small gasp, or if it means something about the idea of me *au naturel*. She spins around, and holds up two pairs of panties, one in each hand. “Quick. Do you prefer it when your fiancée wears the black lace thong?” She waggles a scrap of silky-looking fabric that is so hot my face might be engulfed in flames right now because Charlotte owns *that? *“Or do you prefer her in the white side-string bikini?” She waves the white pair before my eyes, and all I can see is a tiny triangular patch of fabric that’s the slightest bit see-through. Forget the flames. I am a fucking inferno right now knowing she owns *this *too. White panties that reveal pretty much everything.
Lauren Blakely writes sexy contemporary romance novels with heat, heart, and humor, and she has had eight books on the New York Times Bestseller list and fifteen on the USA Today Bestseller list. Like the heroine in her novel, FAR TOO TEMPTING, she thinks life should be filled with family, laughter, and the kind of love that love songs promise. Lauren lives in California with her husband, children, and dogs. She loves hearing from readers! Her bestselling series include Sinful Nights, Seductive Nights, No Regrets, Caught Up in Love, and Fighting Fire. She recently released SWEET SINFUL NIGHTS, the first novel in her new sexy romance series Sinful Nights that became an instant New York Times Bestseller. Her new adult forbidden romance, 21 Stolen Kisses, hit e-readers in May and landed on the USA Today Bestseller list. In January, she’ll release BIG ROCK, a standalone contemporary romance sure to make you swoon. She also writes for young adults under the name Daisy Whitney. To receive an email when Lauren releases a new book, text BLAKELY + your email address to 678-249-3375 (please use the actual + sign).
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