Reader Girls Blog

We may not have made it onto the blog tour, but we are appreciative to both author Courtney Cole and InkSlinger PR for enabling us to participate in this Special Feature for the release of If You Leave . Here is our review. If You Leave (Beautifully Broken #2)  by Courtney Cole New Adult contemporary romance Paperback/eBook, 336 pages  Published August 6th 2013 by Forever 26-year old Gabriel Vincent is a badass hero.  Or he used to be, anyway. As an ex-Army Ranger, Gabe never thought he needed anyone. But after one horrible night in Afghanistan scars him in a way that he can't get past, he needs someone who can help him heal...even if he doesn't realize it. 25-year old Madison Hill doesn't need anybody...or so she thinks. She grew up watching her parents' messed-up abusive relationship and she knows there's no way in hell that she's ever letting that happen to her. They don't know it in the beginning, but Gabriel and Madis

If You Stay (Beautifully Broken #1) by Courtney Cole New Adult contemporary romance Paperback/eBook, 220 pages Published February 5th 2013 by Lakehouse Press 24-year old Pax Tate is an asshole.  Seriously.  He’s a tattooed, rock-hard bad-boy with a bad attitude to match.  But he’s got his reasons.  His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with guilt although he doesn’t understand why. What he does know is that he and his dad are left alone and with more issues than they can count.  As Pax grew up, he tried to be the kid his father always wanted; the perfect golden boy, but it didn’t work. His dad couldn’t overcome his grief long enough to notice and Pax couldn’t keep up the impossible perfect façade.  So he slipped far, far from it.  Now, he uses drugs and women to cope with the ugliness, the black void that he doesn’t want to deal with. If he pretends that the emptiness isn’t there, then it isn’t, right?