FOR YOU & NO ONE ELSE (Say Everything 3) by Roni Loren
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 5, 2022
She has the perfect life…and it’s a perfect lie.
Behind the careful façade, she’s struggling:
To feel like she fits in. To find her true voice.
Now, finally, she’s ready to start living her own story.
Eliza Catalano has the perfect life. So what if it actually looks nothing like the story she tells online? As a therapist, it’s part of her job to look like she has all the answers, right? But when Eliza ends up as a viral “Worst Date Ever” meme, everything in her Instagram-filtered world begins to crumble.
Enter the most obnoxiously attractive man she’s ever met, and a bet she can’t resist: if she swears off social media for six months, Beck Carter’ll teach her the wonders of surviving the “real world.” No technology, no dating apps, no pretty filters, no BS.
It seems like the perfect deal—she can lay low until her sudden infamy passes, meet some interesting new people, and maybe even curate this experience into a how I quit the online dating racket book along the way. But something about Beck’s raw honesty speaks to Eliza in ways she never expected. She knows he’s supposed to be completely hands-off…but as complex feelings grow and walls come tumbling down, rough-around-the-edges Beck may be exactly what Eliza needs to finally, truly face herself—and decide who she really wants to be.
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REVIEW: FOR YOU & NO ONE ELSE is the third instalment in Roni Loren’s contemporary, adult SAY EVERYTHING erotic, romance series. This is twenty five year old, computer game designer/hacker Beck Carter, and thirty –two year old, therapist Eliza Catalano’s story line. FOR YOU AND NO ONE ELSE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Eliza and Beck) FOR YOU AND NO ONE ELSE focuses on the building romance and relationship between twenty five year old, computer game designer/hacker Beck Carter, and thirty –two year old, therapist Eliza Catalano. Eliza Catalano and Beck Carter both rent work space at the four-story WorkAround building, a converted New Orleans’ warehouse where podcasters, gamers and social media influencers rent space and hone their crafts but a disastrous date found on a dating app finds Eliza Catalano the talk of the town when images and videos go viral from the night before. With the help of fellow WorkAround tenant and hacker Beck Carter, Eliza’s walk of shame is permanently removed but not without some humiliating pictures burned into her mind. With neither Beck nor Eliza looking for anything permanent, our couple begin a friends with benefits relationship that quickly turns into something more, something Beck refuses to accept or acknowledge. What ensues is the building romance relationship between Beck and Eliza, and the potential fall-out as Beck’s past demands our story line hero, and Eliza is pushed to the side when Beck refuses to admit his attraction and need for the woman he loves.
The relationship between Beck and Eliza begins as a ‘workplace’ romance, a friends with benefits relationship that quickly spirals into something more but Beck doesn’t do relationships having been burned in the past, and Eliza is looking for a love and her own happily ever after. Beck has a secret, that is revealed, could destroy everything for which he has worked and strived; and Eliza’s secret, although not as damaging or dark, pushes Beck to walk away feeling betrayed and used. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and seductive without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
The secondary and supporting characters include online movie and television reviewer Hollyn Darling Tate (Yes & I Love You 1), Eliza’s best friend, author/podcaster Andi Lockley (What If You and Me 2), as well as Beck’s friend Will.
FOR YOU & NO ONE ELSE is a story of secrets, perceived betrayal, trust and seduction. The premise is captivating and inviting; the romance is flirtatious and passionate; the characters are energetic, charismatic and charming.
Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Yes, And I Love You
What If You and Me
Copy supplied by Netgalley
Reviewed by Sandy
Roni wrote her first romance novel at age fifteen when she discovered writing about boys was way easier than actually talking to them. Since then, her flirting skills haven’t improved, but she likes to think her storytelling ability has. If she’s not working on her latest sexy story, you can find her cooking, watching reality television, or picking up another hobby she doesn’t need–in other words, procrastinating like a boss. She is a RITA Award winner and a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.
Places to find Roni Loren:
Site: www.roniloren.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RoniLoren
Twitter: https://twitter.com/roniloren
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4877863.Roni_Loren
