Tony / Alonzo (Bossy Brothers #6 & 5) by JA Huss-Review tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 12, 2020
Belinda Baker and I were not made for each other.
We are not soul mates, or lovers, or even frenemies.
She is the one who needed to get away.
What we had together wasn’t blind love, it was sick rage.
We were a match made in hell, it was hate at first sight, and when she walked away from me and never looked back—it was a relief.
It was bliss.
So why did I travel two thousand miles so I could be near her?
Why can’t I stop thinking about this girl I never want to see again?
Why. Am I. Here?
And what do I have to do to make her disappear for good?
Bossy Brothers: Tony features two girls falling for the wrong men and two men falling for the right girls. A family of tatted up brothers and a town filled with secrets and danger. A story of earned chances and first dates. Of coming to terms with the past and finding a way into the future. It is book six in the Bossy Brothers series and should be read after book five, Bossy Brothers: Alonzo.
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REVIEW: TONY is the sixth instalment in J.A. Huss’ contemporary, adult BOSSY BROTHERS erotic, romantic suspense series. This is Tony Dumas, Belinda Baker, Vann Vaughn and Soshee Ameci’s story line. TONY should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up after the events of book five ALONZO, and makes references to several other events in other series.
NOTE: TONY and the Bossy Brothers series is interconnected with, and makes references to several events in the previous story lines, and from the author’s other numerous series including the Rook and Ronin Series: The Company Series : Meet Me in the Dark: Three, Two, One: Wasted Lust: the Mister Series- all with connections to the author’s new Creeping Beautiful series.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Tony and Belinda) TONY follows several pathways but focuses on the unfinished ‘business’ between Tony Dumas and Rosalie Thompson. Eight years earlier, Rosalie Thompson, now known as Belinda Baker witnessed something she should not have seen in Key West, Florida, and found herself in Fort Collins, Colorado, a town whose numerous residents are currently in the American WITSEC program but eight years never stopped the hate and vitriol between Rosalie Thompson, and Tony Dumas. Rosalie aka Belinda’s return home (ALONZO #5) to Key West, Florida brought back too many memories and the anger between Tony and Rosalie, and when Rosalie (now Belinda) headed back to Fort Collins, Tony found himself sent on a mission to discover the who and what of the town where Belinda now resides. But all does not go according to plan as Tony and Rosalie’s tempestuous, hate filled relationship pulls in many of the locals, including Vann Vaughn and Soshee Ameci. As Belinda and Tony continue their heart breaking and hostile battle of malevolence and animosity, Fort Collins’ begins to reveal a few secrets of its’ own, secrets that are going to directly affect everyone involved.
TONY is an unconventional and atypical story of romance and love; a story of hostility and pain between Tony Dumas and Belinda Baker; of the developing relationships between Vann and Belinda, and Soshee and Tony. Rosalie aka Belinda is unable to forgive Tony for sins of the past, and Tony struggles with the real reason he has returned to confront the woman he once knew as Rosalie Thompson. Tony and Belinda will find love and their own happily ever after, but not with one another.
J.A. Huss pens an original story and series of secrets, lies, mystery and betrayal. The interconnected premises reveal some of the classified information, the skeletons, and the networks and relationships that will directly affect the story lines going forward including the author’s new Creeping Beautiful series. So it is with this knowledge, you have been forewarned, that all is not as it has appeared to be, or will be in the future.
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Reviewed by Sandy
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ALONZO
(Bossy Brothers #5)
by JA Huss
Release Date: January 13, 2020
Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic, romantic, suspense
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 13, 2020
Bossy Brothers: Alonzo is an enemies-to-lovers trope that can be read as book five or as a standalone story.
ALONZO
Tara Tanner and I are not a couple.
We don’t do real life. We don’t do real numbers. We don’t do real names.
We do phone sex, and text sex, and email sex.
Everything about our ‘relationship’ is a lie.
You call it catfishing, I call it being careful. And I do not feel bad about it. Because my life is an ocean of secrets that could all wash ashore if I’m not careful.
TARA
Alonzo Dumas is the King of Catfishermen.
Oh, yes. I know who he really is.
But he has no idea who I am.
I feed on secrets. They’re my lifeblood. He has no idea that I’ve been stringing him along, casting him a line of lies like bait, and now I’ve got him on my hook.
Watch out, Alonzo Dumas. Because I’m about to reel you in.
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REVIEW: ALONZO is the fifth instalment in J.A. Huss’ contemporary, adult BOSSY erotic, romance series. This is Alonzo ‘Lonnie Derringer’ Dumas, and Phoebe ‘Tara Tanner’ Covington’s story line. ALONZO can be read as a stand alone but I recommend reading the series in order for back story and cohesion.
NOTE: I have not read any of the previous story lines, and I felt a little lost going into this particle arc of the series.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Lonnie and Tara) ALONZO follows the enemies to lovers/ relationship of lies between Alonzo ‘Lonnie Derringer’ Dumas, and Phoebe ‘Tara Tanner’ Covington. Alonzo Dumas had been catfishing Phoebe Covington for close to two years but to both of their shock, anger and total surprise Lonnie Derringer and Tara Tanner did not exist. Phoebe Covington has been in hiding for close to two years, and meeting Lonnie Derringer online gave Phoebe something to look forward to but Phoebe’s life is about to spiral out of control, and along with her best friend Belinda (aka Rosalie) and her co-worker Vann, the trio head to Key West, Florida where Phoebe aka Tara’s life will take an ominous turn. What ensues is the building relationship between Tara and Lonnie, and the fall-out when secrets and lies, and a case of mistaken beliefs forces Tara to reconsider everything she thought was the truth, and is now a lie.
The relationship between Tara and Lonnie is predicated upon numerous lies. A two year, long distance online romance involving sexting and phone-sex begins to dissolve when our couple is hoping for something more but something more means revealing themselves to one another, a reveal that comes with heart break and pain. The $ex scenes are erotic, intimate and intense.
ALONZO is a story of secrets and lies. Both Lonnie and Tara are not whom they present themselves to be, and their equally questionable stories will eventually back fire when the truth is revealed. While Alonzo is reluctant to reveal the truth and the depths to which his secret entails, Phoebe aka Tara, is under the mistaken belief that Alonzo is involved in something seedy and dark. The slow building premise is engaging and entertaining (once you get past the long-distance, online, somewhat tedious, affair); the romance is provocative and dirty. Most of the secondary and supporting characters have been introduced in the previous story lines including Johnny, Joey and Jesse Boston.
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Reviewed by Sandy
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J.A. Huss never wanted to be a writer and she still dreams of that elusive career as an astronaut. She originally went to school to become an equine veterinarian but soon figured out they keep horrible hours and decided to go to grad school instead. That Ph.D wasn’t all it was cracked up to be (and she really sucked at the whole scientist thing), so she dropped out and got a M.S. in forensic toxicology just to get the whole thing over with as soon as possible.
After graduation she got a job with the state of Colorado as their one and only hog farm inspector and spent her days wandering the Eastern Plains shooting the shit with farmers. After a few years of that, she got bored. And since she was a homeschool mom and actually does love science, she decided to write science textbooks and make online classes for other homeschool moms. She wrote more than two hundred of those workbooks and was the number one publisher at the online homeschool store many times, but eventually she covered every science topic she could think of and ran out of shit to say.
So in 2012 she decided to write fiction instead. That year she released her first three books and started a career that would make her a New York Times bestseller and land her on the USA Today Bestseller’s List eighteen times in the next three years. Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook Mr. Perfect was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her book, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Johnathan McClain is her first (and only) writing partner and even though they are worlds apart in just about every way imaginable, it works.
She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.
WARNING: The excerpt is intended for mature readers 18+ due to strong language and content
“What?”
“Are you blind? Or deaf? Or dumb? Or what?”
I just stare at him.
Vann takes a step forward, forcing me to take a step back too. And my step is actually a step up. He points his finger at me. I swat it away.
“I’m gonna say this once, OK? Just once.”
“Say whatever the fuck you want. I don’t care what you do.”
He climbs one step. And so do I. “I like you,” he says, climbing another step. So I climb another step. “I like your filthy mouth, Belinda Baker. I like your stupid cowboy boots. I like your pink hair.” He keeps climbing the steps, so I have to keep climbing the steps. “I like the way you road-trip.”
“What?” I’m so confused.
He’s still climbing the steps and now my back is against my front door. “I like the way you wear that glitter shit on your eyelids in the summer. And the way you wear fingerless gloves in the winter even though you complain, every single day, that your fucking hands are cold. I like the way your hair smells when you show up for work and it’s still wet. I like the way you spin on your stupid stool in front of the shop cash register and glare at the giggly sorority girls like you can’t wait for them to wake up sober tomorrow and realize they just paid a hundred bucks for a My Little Mermaid tramp stamp. I like the way you bite your lip when you’re tattooing and the way you always have a smear of ink on the side of your face by the time you’re done.”
I reach up to touch my face.
“Yes, you have ink there, right now. And I love that. Because you don’t even care enough to check the mirror after you’re done with a client to notice that you always have ink smeared on your fucking face after you tattoo someone. I like the way you kick at stones when you walk down the street like you’re some troubled teen with pregnancy issues.”
“What?” I laugh.
“I like the way you bitch, and moan, and complain that no one takes you seriously. In fact, I love that no one takes you seriously, because then they’d figure out just how awesome you are, and I’m afraid you’ll actually find someone else before I can convince you that I am good for you. I want to date you, Belinda Baker. And you know what really pissed me off tonight?”
He pauses.
I become uneasy. “Am I supposed to guess?”
“I’m not mad that you fucked Tony in the alley. OK? That’s not it. I’m angry that you gave him the chance that I deserve.”
My stomach… falls. I don’t know of any other way to describe the feeling I get when I internalize those last few words of his. Except… falling. Like the world has just been yanked out from under me. Like I’m adrift in a sea of mistakes.
Because he’s absolutely right.
“Vann—”
“No,” he says, still seething. “No.” He holds up one finger. “I’m not done. You don’t get to talk yet. I’ve been holding this in all fucking night while you laughed and joked with my goddamned brother and his stupid yoked-out army friend. Who, by the way, was leering at you the entire time.”
“He was not!”
“He so was!”
“He was lying face down, Vann!”
“I just want to say this.” He pauses again and his chest is rising and falling very quickly, like he’s really upset. And his lips are falling into a deep frown. And his face is becoming flushed with heat. “I have earned my chance, Belinda. I didn’t become your friend because I wanted to get in your pants. I didn’t get you the apprentice job because I thought we’d be good together. I didn’t drive you and Tara two thousand miles to Key West because I thought maybe you’d finally see me for what I am. I did all those things because I like you. With no expectations whatsoever. I did all those things because I enjoy you. And when we’re together, life is fun. Even when we’re running from guys called Diablo, and smuggling people on boats, and especially when we’re just hanging out doing nothing. Saying nothing. That’s my favorite time with you. Because we’re at that place now. That place where we’re comfortable. And I keep waiting for you to see how good we are. And you just”—he shakes his head—“refuse! You just refuse to even consider me. But this asshole Tony Dumas shows up out of nowhere and you give him all the considerations. You say you don’t like him—”
“I don’t!”
“You say that, but then why, Belinda? Why do you give him all the chances he hasn’t earned?”
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Great reviews, Sandy. The premise looks exciting and suspenseful.
Wonderful reviews, Sandy. Sounds like a series I should be reading.
Thanks for the heads up about reading in sequence! Great review and thanks again!
Another wonderful review. I love the Bossy Brothers series.
Looks great, thanks Sandy.
Thanks for the very nice reviews Sandy
Wonderful reviews and excerpt, thanks Sandy.
great review, sandy. sounds very good.
Excellent reviews, thanks Sandy
Terrific review, Sandy. I like the premise of this book. Thanks.
I’d rather make the one who got away fall in love with me. He was my first love & I still think of him & even hear from him now & then. Would love to live out what might have been.