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Exposed (Jaded Regret #4) by L.L.Collins-Review and Book Tour

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EXPOSED (Jaded Regret #4) by L.L. Collins-Review and Book Tour

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About the book: Release Date October 27, 2016

What do you do when all your secrets– and your heart– are exposed?

Natalie Anderson has spent her life being strong for everyone else, always putting herself last. But that has come with a price because the stress and secrets are affecting every part of her life. Looking and acting the part is one thing, but feeling it is another. She knows she’s at a crossroads and she needs to make a change, starting with loosening up and living a little.

Kai Pierson is done being a grunt. He’s finally worked his way up the ladder and he now finds himself a rep at the hottest label, representing the hottest band in all of rock music. He’s living the life…alone, but he’s okay with that. It’s the way it needs to be.

Though they’ve never met in person, they become friends and spend hours talking about life. When the chance to meet arrives, neither of them are ready how they feel when they see each other for the first time.

But when Natalie’s secrets are exposed, will she be able to put it all behind her and find her own happiness, or will the lies destroy her once and for all?

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REVIEW: EXPOSED is the fourth and final instalment in L.L. Collins’s contemporary, adult JADED REGRET romance series focusing on the members of the rock band Jaded Regret. This is the band’s manager Natalie Anderson, and their recording company rep Kai Pierson’s story line. EXPOSED can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty but for cohesion and back story I recommend reading the series in order. For fans of the Jaded Regret series Natalie is Beau’s (Snared/Jaded Regret 2) sister.

Told from dual first person points of view (Natalie and Kai) EXPOSED focuses on the long distance, and building relationship between Jaded Regret’s band manager Natalie Anderson, and company representative Kai Pierson. Natalie and Kai have never met but work together long distance through emails, phone calls and text. With the bands’ upcoming international tour on the agenda, Kai and Natalie arrange to meet in New York to finalize the plans and get to know one another… but Natalie has a dark secret that she keeps from the people she loves, and it is this secret that will set off a series of events placing our heroine’s life in danger, revealing more than one secret Natalie has kept from the band. What ensues is the growing love between two people whose lives have intertwined for months, and the revelation that all is not well in Natalie’s well-ordered life. Beau and Natalie’s past continues to haunt the siblings but none more so than our story line heroine.

The relationship between Natalie and Kai is one of instant attraction, insta-lust, and for Kai a case of insta-love. Throughout the series, up until our couple meet for the first time, Kai insists on exchanging photos with the woman that calls to his heart but Natalie continues to ignore, refuse or change the subject. Natalie does not like having her picture taken for reasons only she can understand, and when they finally exchange online images both are pulled into the other’s life. The $ex scenes are intimate and seductive.

All of the previous story line couples and band members play secondary and supporting roles. L.L. Collins pulls the reader into the lives and loves of Jaded Regret where we witness the growing family of children and friends.

EXPOSED covers another controversial topic; an emotional and physical disorder that affects millions of people but a disorder that is hidden by guilt and shame. The premise is engaging and revealing: the characters are heartbreaking, tragic and animated; the romance is provocative and fated.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Sentenced
Snared
Hartstrings
Exposed

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Reviewed by Sandy

*PREVIOUS BOOKS IN THE SERIES: *

*SENTENCED (Jaded Regret, #1)

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*SNARED (Jaded Regret, #2)

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HARTSTRINGS (Jaded Regret #3)
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L.L. Collins loves spending her days in the Florida sun with her husband and two boys, reading, and writing. LL has been writing since she was old enough to write. Always a story in her head, she finally decided to let the characters out made her lifelong dream of becoming an author come true in the self-publishing world. She’s the author of the Living Again Series and the Twisted Series, plus a new standalone, Back to the Drawing Board. Visit LL on her WEBSITE

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Hartstrings (Jaded Regret #3) by L.L.Collins-review and book tour

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HARTSTRINGS (Jaded Regret #3) by L.L. Collins-review and book tour

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HARTSTRINGS
Jaded Regret #3
by L.L.Collins
Genre: adult, contemporary, rock band, romance
Release Date: June 16, 2016

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 16, 2016

Tanner Hart, the All-American bad boy bass guitarist of Jaded Regret, has one motto— play women’s bodies like he does the strings of his guitar— hard, in tune, and giving it his all until the show is over. The only strings he wants attached to him are the ones he plays on the stage.

He has quite the reputation, even with his own band, and he likes it that way. It keeps the truth of who he really is locked deep inside. But there’s so much more to him than anyone really knows…

Now that he’s successful, he can afford to find out what really happened to the only girl who’s ever held his heart. The only thing is…will he really want to know the truth?

When Mackenzie ‘Mac’ Shepard finds herself in a situation she’s been in too many times before, she expects to do what she’s always done— cover it up, accept the apologies, and move on. She knows trying to get out is futile. What she doesn’t expect is for the world famous Tanner Hart to burst into her life like a knight in sexy armor.

When their lives collide and hearts get involved, can Tanner keep his heartstrings from being tangled up in his past, or can he make a new kind of music… with his heart?

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REVIEW: HARTSTRINGS is the third installment in L.L. Collins’s contemporary, adult JADED REGRET rock star, romance series focusing on the members of the rock back Jaded Regret. This is bass guitarist Tanner Hart, and PI Mackenzie Shepard’s story line. HARTSTRINGS can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

NOTE: HARTSTRINGS is a story line focusing on domestic abuse and violence therefore the premise and some scenes may be triggers for sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person points of view (Tanner and Mackenzie) HARTSTRINGS follows the relationship between rock star Tanner Hart, and private investigator Mackenzie Shepard. While drunk and roaming the halls of a local hotel, Tanner accidentally gets caught up in a case of domestic violence. Mackenzie Shepard is found beaten and bruised, and Tanner refuses to accept what has happened and her inability to say no. What ensues are Tanner’s attempts to set Mackenzie free of her abusive boyfriend, and impotence in the face of future abuse and continued threats.

Like the previous installment, L.L. Collins takes the reader on an emotional journey where fiction becomes real in the face of violence and abuse. HARTSTRINGS looks at the battered spouse syndrome wherein our heroine is unable to walk away because of guilt, threats and proclamations of love further hindered by a father who is unaware of his daughter’s current condition. Our heroine is physically and emotionally abused; her psyche and psychological well being are threatened along with her life. Tanner Hart is a man determined to save Mackenzie Shepard in the hopes of atoning for the sins of his past. Mackenzie and Tanner are kindred spirits in that they have both experienced abuse and violence at the hands of someone who was supposed to have loved.

All of the members of Jaded Regret play secondary and supporting roles. We watch as the band struggles with their inability to understand the trauma that is currently claiming one of their own-a trauma they know very little about because Tanner has revealed very little about his past or his connection to the woman with whom he is falling in love. What the band members do know is that Tanner is a manwhore, a player, and worry about his involvement with a woman so fragile and broken.

HARTSTRINGS continues to follow Jaded Regret on the road, behind the scenes, and into the hotel rooms and bedrooms of the members of the band. With all of the members now married or falling in love, that leaves Beau’s – SNARED book 2– sister Natalie Anderson, the band’s manager, as the lone single member of the group. I am hoping for a story line for one of the security guys -A.J.-maybe he and Natalie will get together 😉 .

HARTSTRINGS is a story that runs the gamut of emotions from heartbreak to sorrow; anxiety to frustration; despair to relief. The premise is powerful and dramatic; the characters are affecting, courageous and tragic; the romance is comfortable and slow to build. The $ex scenes are intimate and seductive. L. L. Collins pulls at the ‘hartstrings’ with her emotional subject matter and happily ever afters.

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Reviewed by Sandy

*PREVIOUS BOOKS IN THE SERIES: *

*SENTENCED (Jaded Regret, #1) *

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*SNARED (Jaded Regret, #2) *

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L.L. Collins loves spending her days in the Florida sun with her husband and two boys, reading, and writing. LL has been writing since she was old enough to write. Always a story in her head, she finally decided to let the characters out made her lifelong dream of becoming an author come true in the self-publishing world. She’s the author of the Living Again Series and the Twisted Series, plus a new standalone, Back to the Drawing Board. Visit LL on her WEBSITE

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Snared (Jaded Regret #2) by L.L.Collins-a review

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SNARED (Jaded Regret #2) by L.L. Collins-a review

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About the book: Release Date March 1, 2016

BEAU has never known a good life, only the torment that lives inside his head every day. The only way to block out the darkness that shrouds him is through the rhythmic beat of his drums. Knowing what happens when he opens up to anyone, Beau buries his pain deep inside, keeping it all to himself.

APRIL has lived a life of wealth and privilege, full of love and support. Her only insight into what it’s like to have a rough life is through her work with foster children. When she meets Beau, it starts as a challenge to get through to him but quickly turns into much more than either of them bargained for.

TOGETHER, they are mismatched, ill-fated, and COMBUSTIBLE. But when their connection is challenged by the collision of past, present, and future, will they be snared by love…or circumstances?

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REVIEW: SNARED is the second installment in L.L.Collins contemporary, adult JADED REGRET romance series focusing on the members of the rock band Jaded Regret. This is drummer Beau Anderson, and social worker April Knight’s story line. SNARED can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is imparted where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Beau and April) SNARED follows the building relationship between April and Beau, and Beau’s destructive fall into the abyss. SNARED begins with a look back at Beau’s earlier years-his father’s suicide, his mother’s rejection of her only son, and the mental breakdown of a young boy who would have a difficult time forgetting about the past. Beau is a broken man whose mental and emotional health is a house of cards waiting to fall.

Throughout the story line the reader is up front and personal with Beau’s slow descent into hell. The voices in his head are a constant reminder that he is worthless and imperfect, and in this Beau’s pattern of self-degradation and low self-esteem is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg of psychological problems. But meeting April Knight finds our hero looking forward to a possible future until, once again, the proverbial rug is ripped from beneath his feet.

SNARED is an emotional story line filled with angst ridden inner turmoil and demons from the past. Beau is a man on the cusp of self-destruction, and it is only with the help of his band mates does our hero not implode on a daily basis. April’s introduction into his life keeps some of the demons at bay, but when the past, once again, begins to weave another path of destruction, Beau will be lost to an emotional and psychological fall out from where he may never return.

For those who take issue with story lines heavy on the angst, anxiety and despair, this story may not be for you. The hero’s constant negative outlook, his very low self esteem and inability to see any good in the world, and the turmoil about his past, is as depressing as the character’s mental health. Our hero has been destroyed; he is broken; and his mind is fractured in too many directions.

All of the previous story line characters (including the members of the band) play secondary and supporting roles. We are also introduced to April’s mother and father who know a thing or two about dark demons and emotional break downs.

The world building focuses on family dynamics, the foster care system, and mental health. Music and the band are secondary to Beau’s struggles with reality, and April’s battle to keep safe the man that she loves.

SNARED is a story about one man’s struggle with issues of mental health, emotional abuse, and the possible familial predisposition to pass on the affected genes. The premise is emotional, sensitive and gripping; the characters are heartbreaking and dramatic; the romance is impassioned and tortured.

Reviewed by Sandy

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