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Shattered Truths (Lies Hearts & Truths 3) by H. Hunting-review

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Shattered Truths (Lies Hearts & Truths 3) by H. Hunting-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 28, 2023

The first time I met Winter Marks, I almost took her out with my Jeep.
To be fair, she came out of nowhere.

I flirted with her, and she flipped me off and disappeared into the woods on her bike.
But she left me a souvenir: a single hockey skate.

Seemed to me that divine intervention shouldn’t be ignored.

She was my icy Cinderella and I would be her Prince Not-So-Charming.

Winter was more than just a sassy, badass hockey-playing hottie.
She’s stuck in a prison of a life. And I’m the perfect escape.

Neither of us expected to fall.
Or for the truth to shatter us.

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REVIEW: SHATTERED TRUTHS is the third full-length instalment in H. Hunting’s contemporary, new adult LIES, HEARTS AND TRUTHS erotic, romance series, a spin off/next generation from the author’s PUCKED and ALL IN series. This is twenty-one year old, figure skater Randall BJ Ballistic Jr, and twenty year old, hockey player Winter Marks’ story line. BJ is the son of Lily and Randy Ballistic (PUCKED OVER by Helena Hunting).

Told from dual first person perspectives (Winter and BJ) SHATTERED TRUTHS follows the building romance and relationship between is twenty-one year old, figure skater Randall BJ Ballistic Jr, and twenty year old, hockey player Winter Marks. The day Randall BJ Ballistic Jr ‘accidentally’ met Winter Marks changed everything for our story line couple. BJ is one-half of a pairs figure skating team, a figure skating coach, and a young man with a reputation among the opposite $ex. Winter Marks is a twenty year old, ice hockey player whose home life is about to come crashing down, leaving Winter struggling with a direction going forward. Coming from an abusive home, Winter battles between head and heart but an attack against someone she loves will force Winter’s choice, a choice that will change everything for our story line couple. As Winter comes to terms with her life at home, an opportunity of a lifetime will alter her future but another ‘accident’ threatens the man with whom she has fallen in love. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Winter and BJ, and the potential fall-out as jealousy and betrayal threaten the lives of our story line couple.

The world building continues to focus on the next generation of hockey players and athletes. We are up close and personal with the children of the characters first introduced in the author’s PUCKED and ALL IN hockey romance series. As the young adults come into their own, life is about to throw everyone a proverbial curveball.

The relationship between Winter and BJ begins by ‘accident’ but BJ is rapidly falling for a woman whose home life is questionable and dark. Winter struggles to keep afloat both at home and on the ice, while BJ’s life is the opposite of everything Winter has known. The $ex scenes are provocative and passionate.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and familiar secondary and supporting characters including the second generation children of the couples we met in the original series, as well as the return of said original couples. We are introduced to Winter’s embittered and embattled parents, as well as BJ’s skating partner Adele.

SHATTERED TRUTHS is a story of betrayal, abuse, addiction and forgiveness; family and friendships, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is edgy, heart breaking and emotional; the romance is intimate, seductive and impassioned; the characters are flirty, fun and inspiring.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one LITTLE LIES

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Reviewed by Sandy

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FOLLOW: NYT and USA Today Bestselling author of The PUCKED Series, Helena Hunting lives outside of Toronto with her amazing family and her two awesome cats, who think the best place to sleep is her keyboard. Helena writes everything from contemporary romance to romance comedy, sports romance and angsty new adult romance.
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Little Lies by H. Hunting-review & excerpt tour

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LITTLE LIES by H. Hunting-review & excerpt tour

 

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 16, 2020

I don’t want you.
You mean nothing to me.
I never loved you.

I turned my words into swords.
And I cut her down. Shoved the blade in and watched her fall.

I said I’d never hurt her, and I did.

Years later, I’m faced with all the little lies, the untruths, the false realities, the damage I inflicted, when all I wanted was to indulge my obsession.

Lavender Waters is the princess in the tower. Even her name is the thing fairy tales are made of.

I used to be the one who saved her.
Over and over again.

But I don’t want to save her anymore.
I just want to pretend the lies are still the truth.

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REVIEW:LITTLE LIES is a contemporary, new adult, stand alone story line focusing on Lavender Waters, and Kodiak Bowman. LITTLE LIES is set in the author’s PUCKED and ALL IN romance series, and focuses on the next generation of the Helena Hunting’s series characters.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise there may be some triggers for more sensitive readers.

SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Heroine: Lavender Waters (Alex and Violet Waters’ youngest daughter, PUCKED and FOREVER PUCKED couple origin, Pucked Series )

Hero: Kodiak (Kody) Bowman (Rook and Lainey Bowman’s son, A LIE FOR A LIE couple origin, All In Series )

Told from dual first person perspectives (Lavender and Kodiak) covering fifteen years, and numerous time lines, LITTLE LIES focuses on the childhood friends to enemies to lovers relationship between Lavender Waters, and Kodiak Bowman. Years earlier, Lavender Waters was the potential victim of a childhood abduction, and Kodiak Bowman, and Lavender’s twin brother River blame themselves for what almost happened to our story line heroine. Fast forward several years wherein Kodiak becomes Lavender’s protector and guardian until the day their co-dependent relationship and friendship is destroyed by the well-intentioned actions of adults who cared. Focusing on the present, Lavender is about to enter her sophomore year at college, and reluctantly opts to move in with her brothers, bringing her closer to the man who destroyed her heart. Living on ‘hockey row’ near the college in Chicago where most of her siblings and cousins now study and live, Lavender struggles with the toxic relationship between she and Kodiak, a relationship destroyed by the continuing hurt and painful words by the boy / man she once loved. What ensues is the emotional, destructive and heart breaking relationship between Kodiak and Lavender, as our couple traverse a minefield of pain, memories, PTSD and impassioned sadness of the who, how, when and why of a life-long friendship destroyed by secrets and lies.

Both Lavender and Kodiak suffer with severe emotional and physical anxiety, and with it had become one another’s single source of rescue and support but their co-dependent relationship began to worry their parents, and in an effort to protect the children they love, inadvertently destroy the tether that held one another together.

The relationship between Kodiak and Lavender is a volatile friends to enemies to lovers relationship with all of the emotional and heart breaking angst of young love, misunderstanding, regret and obsession. Kodiak and Lavender had been one another’s rock but a tear in their relationship pulled at the seams until there was nothing left to repair. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, energetic and animated characters most of whom are the second generation children of the author’s PUCKED and ALL IN series, as well as the Alex and Violet Waters (Pucked), and Rook and Lainey Bowman (A Lie for a Lie). The requisite mean girls are present and accounted for. I am hoping the author has plans for Lavender’s brothers, their cousins and the numerous friends we met in LITTLE LIES.

LITTLE LIES focuses on the broken and wounded; the tragic and complex lives of the emotional fall-out of a potential tragedy that almost destroyed so many lives. The premise is raw and impassioned; the characters are damaged and barely surviving; the romance is fractured yet the sexual attraction is palpable and angry. LITTLE LIES is a haunting look at two people struggling to come to terms with the past, the present and the foreseeable future.

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Reviewed by Sandy

 

 

 

The front door swings open, and the never-ending nightmare that is this day smacks me in the face like a long-expired sausage. Kodiak stands in the doorway wearing only a pair of swim shorts, wet hair sticking out all over the place, water dripping on the damn floor. But God, is he ever glorious. Muscle layered over muscle, thick biceps flexing as he holds the doorjamb, a mischievous grin popping the dimple in his left cheek.
My heart seizes and gallops. I miss this version of him: the one that smiles and doesn’t hate me.
He ruins everything a moment later by bellowing, “Who’s fucking in the driveway?”
His gaze moves to Dylan, who looks as horrified as I feel, but as it shifts to me, his smile drops and my stomach tightens.
“You should really go,” I tell Dylan.
“I’ll see you around.” He disappears into his car and barely has the door closed before he’s backing out of the driveway and screeching down the street.
I adjust my backpack on my shoulder and head for the house, steeling my spine and my nerves because Kodiak is still standing in the middle of the doorway, his face a mask of indifference. I try to brush by him, but he stays where he is, making it impossible.
I sigh, exhausted beyond belief. I just want to go upstairs and have a good, cathartic cry. I try to mirror his apathy. “Can you move so I can get into my house?”
His brow furrows as his eyes move over my face. He lifts his hand, like maybe he’s thinking about touching me. There’s no way I can handle that. I jerk back and swat his hand away. “What are you doing?”
“Your lip is bleeding.”
“Don’t act like you actually give a shit, Kodiak.”
“Tell me what happened.” His voice is low and soft, and for whatever reason, that makes me even angrier, so I lash out, wanting to wound him the way he keeps wounding me.
“You, Kodiak. You happened, and you ruined my goddamn life. Now get the hell out of my way.” I elbow past him, almost tripping over several sets of running shoes.
I head straight for my bedroom and lock the door behind me. I slide down the wall until my butt hits the floor and close my eyes, taking deep breaths.
I imagined the concern in his voice.
I imagined the pain that sat heavy behind his eyes.
We see what we want to, not the truth, especially when it hurts.

 

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FOLLOW: NYT and USA Today Bestselling author of The PUCKED Series, Helena Hunting lives outside of Toronto with her amazing family and her two awesome cats, who think the best place to sleep is her keyboard. Helena writes everything from contemporary romance to romance comedy, sports romance and angsty new adult romance.
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