Canary by Tijan – Review and Excerpt Tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 4 , 2021.
We were on the front lines in that world, the mafia world.
There was nothing soft or glamorous about it.
Who you were before no longer mattered. Names didn’t exist.
I joined anyway. I had no other choice because they took my sister.
Join. Find her. Try and make it out alive.
Then he won me in a poker game.
I hated him instantly, thinking he was like my other bosses before him.
He wasn’t. He was worse.
He wasn’t just cold. He was dead inside.
It didn’t matter that he was gorgeous.
He was the most lethal thing I’d ever met.
He was also the only person who could keep me alive, if he didn’t kill me himself.
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REVIEW:CANARY by Tijan is a contemporary, adult, dark, erotic, Mafia, criminal underworld romance story line. This is Clay Raize, and Girl/Brooke/Ash’s story line. For followers of Tijan, there is a very slight cross-over with the author’s Bennett Mafia series.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Raize and Ash) CANARY follows Girl aka Ash as she works alongside Clay Raize in an effort to find her sister, and take down the people involved but Girl /Ash has a special ability, one that all of the heads of the Mafia/Cartel want, and because of her ability, our heroine has been tagged the ‘canary’, and targeted for what she does. Along with a small crew of hitmen (Jake and Cavers), Raize and Ash find themselves on the run but needing to rescue two lost souls, lost souls who may or may not want to be found. What ensues is the building relationship between Raize and Ash, as our couple must navigate a series of attempts on their lives, and the possibility of betrayal from within.
The relationship between Raize and Ash begins as an established partnership of sorts, one in which, Ash has jumped from the Mafia to the Cartel as she searches for sister she barely knows but Ash struggles with the world in which she has been forced to live, a world where only Raize is able to calm her demons. The $ex scenes are intimate and erotic, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
The colorful and often questionable secondary and supporting characters include Raize’s current number one and number two Cavers and Jake; Cartel boss Marco Estrada, Bratva head Roman Marakov; and Raize’s half sister Veronica and Abram Basil. The requisite evil has many faces. I am hoping the author has plans for a story for Abram, Veronica, and Cavers.
CANARY is a story of family, relationships, betrayal and revenge. A story of power and control, desperation and obsession, love and moving forward. The character driven premise is haunting, and dramatic; the characters are tragic and controversial; the romance is edgy and intense.
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Reviewed by Sandy
NOTE: Excerpt intended for mature readers 18+
“There is no other way.” couldn’t explain what I didn’t know. “Ask me about Jake in a different way.”
“You know there is! Ask it in a different way.” I shoved up to my feet. This was the fight here.
I was sick of the killing.
I could not handle one more body, especially not someone I knew.
My chest heaved. “Ask it in a different way.”
I liked Jake. I was hurt by what he said, but he wasn’t on my list anymore.
I frowned. “What happened with Cavers?”
“None of your business!” he erupted, his hands flying in the air, but he was moving farther away from me. His back hit the wall, and he let me see him, how haunted he was, how stricken. He let it all out for me to see and read, though wasn’t sure he knew it. “I don’t run my decisions through some pussy I like plowing.”
Okay, now I was mad.
I
“Take that back,” I said quietly.
He swore, low and long. Then he moved, flipping a chair into the wall. It impaled there, and the wall held it. It looked like an abstract piece of art.
“Take it back!” I clipped out, folding my arms over my chest.
He looked away.
I didn’t know what was going on here, but fuck him if he didn’t take back calling me pussy he liked to plow.
I screamed, “Take it back!”
“No!” He was across the room and in my face in the next second. I braced myself, but he didn’t touch me.
He stopped just short of it, his breath in my cheek, his eyes taking me in, scanning my face.
He was panicking.
I saw it now, lurking there.
Good! That filled me with satisfaction.
My chest started pounding.
No, that was my heart.
It was thumping in my chest, getting stronger, faster—a steady and powerful beat now. I could feel it all the way to my toes—in my fingers, my neck. His eyes lingered on my lips.
He couldn’t look away.
Stark hunger flashed in his eyes, and he raised a hand, holding it in the air.
It curved gently, as if he wanted to touch my neck, or the side of my face.
But he didn’t move. He just held it there, a few inches from my skin.
His eyes lifted to mine. “You bitch.”
My heart still pounded, trying to reach him. “You’re a murdering asshole,” I whispered back, seething.
“What?”he sneered. “You want to fuck now? Forget you put a fucking gun to your head?”
“Don’t kill Jake.”
He pressed into me, his eyes wild, on the edge of control. “Why?” His breath was hot on me. He bent down, his eyes glittering now.
Then he found his control. He rested one hand against the wall, next to my head. The other found my hip and slid up, moving under my shirt, raising it.
God. I almost moaned.
Wetness flooded me, and I started to throb.
I wanted him.
So fucking bad.
He bent and his lips grazed over mine, my cheeks, my chin. Tingles raced through me.
Jesus.
I wanted him deep inside of me. I shifted, pressing against him, and both of us groaned from the contact.
I began moving, a slow grind, and he was quiet, grinding back.
This was different from the other times.
The terms had flipped. Roles were changing. Everything was being upended between us.
Tijan is a New York Times Bestselling author that writes suspenseful and unpredictable novels. Her characters are strong, intense, and gut-wrenchingly real with a little bit of sass on the side. Tijan began writing later in life and once she started, she was hooked. She’s written multi-bestsellers including the Carter Reed Series, the Fallen Crest Series, and the Broken and Screwed Series among others. She is currently writing a new YA series along with so many more from north Minnesota where she lives with a man she couldn’t be without and an English Cocker she adores.
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