Slash (Slay 4.5) by Laurelin Paige-Review & Excerpt tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 25, 2020
Camilla Fasbender has a secret.
Underneath her posh accent and designer clothes lies the evidence of her pain.
Every heartbreak, every bad day, every setback has left a scar.
From behind her camera, she shows the world what to see. And it isn’t her.
Until him.
He sees right through her carefully constructed facade.
And he’s going to slash it all to pieces.
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REVIEW:SLASH by Laurelin Paige is the latest instalment in the author’s contemporary, adult SLAY erotic, romance series, and the latest novella in the multi-authored 1001 Dark Nights series. This is photographer and single mother Camilla Fasbender, and wildlife photographer Hendrix Reid’s story line. SLASH can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Camilla is the sister of Edward Fasbender (Slay 1-4)
Told from first person perspective (Camilla Fasbender) SLASH focuses on the rekindling romance between photographer and single mother Camilla Fasbender, and wildlife photographer Hendrix Reid. Seven months earlier Camilla Fasbender met Hendrix Reid at a photography convention but ran out after a one-night stand, never to see Hendrix again. Teaching a photography class at the local college, Camilla will come face to face with the man who has starred in her fantasies and dreams, the man currently enrolled in her photography course Hendrix Reid. As Hendrix tries desperately to rekindle their romantic involvement, Camilla struggles with demons from the past, demons that continue to control her daily life. What ensues is the rebuilding romance and relationship between Hendrix and Camilla, and the potential fall-out as Camilla reveals the truth as to why she feels the need to run and hide.
SLASH is a fast paced, haunting and spicy story of revelations and reconnections; a second chance romance about a wounded woman struggling to move on with her life. The premise is heart warming and inspiring; the romance is tender, emotional and provocative; the characters are tragic yet dynamic and energetic.
Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Slay: Rivalry
Slay: Ruin
Slay: Revenge
Rising
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Reviewed by Sandy
Why on earth, then, would he believe that there could be something worth seeking out with me? If that’s what he meant at all. Which…he did, didn’t he?
It’s confusing, and confusion makes me hide, on the whole. But since I can’t hide because I’m the fucking teacher in this class—seriously, how did this happen?—and for some reason the educator is expected to stay present, I find my confusion turning to anger. It works itself through me until the beauty of our night together is cropped out of my memory and what’s left is trite and fleeting. His presence feels nothing like flattery—which it did feel flattering, admittedly, for a half second there in the midst of everything else. Now, though, it just feels invasive and unprofessional and mean.
Perhaps I’d confront him about it, if I were a different sort of person, one who isn’t afraid to stand up to a challenge. One who isn’t afraid to live her life.
But I’m not that sort of person, so after I give out the assignments and send the students on their way, I plan to gather my things and get on my way as soon as possible, so fond of hiding that I am. I was stupid enough to believe—or perhaps hopeful is the better term—that Hendrix would let me do that, as he’d let me leave that night in Paris, not that I’d given him a choice.
He doesn’t, though, of course. Of course. He approaches me, his leather camera bag slung over his shoulder, a man satchel underneath.
“Camilla,” he says in that American accent that makes me both cringe and swoon all at once, and for the briefest of moments I find myself considering something different for a change. I consider staying.
But underneath my long sleeve polo neck, my skin throbs with an intensity that equals the blaring of a car alarm, and I think of Fred waiting for me at home to take him out for ice cream and the dead husband who hurt me as much as he loved me and the ugliness that marks me inside and out. And in the chaos of those thoughts, there is no option to stay.
“You being here is in bad taste,” I say before he has a chance to say anything else. “Don’t do this to me.”
I brush past him then, and with the heat of that brief contact following me in radiating waves, I rush outside to disappear among the Saturday-morning Londoners who are out enjoying the early signs of spring.
In 2013, Laurelin Paige self-published her first novel. Her husband was just laid off, she had three kids, one with special needs, and they had just filed for bankruptcy so she needed this novel to work. Less than 1 year later, her debut novel, Fixed on You, was at the top of the bestseller lists and was named one of the top ten selling books of 2014 by Publishers Weekly (the only self-published book to do so) and a Top Ten Favorite Read of 2014 by People Magazine. Her successive self-published novels have been smash hits with readers.
Laurelin Paige is the NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of the Fixed Trilogy. She’s a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters.
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