Hard to Handle , an emotionnaly but powerful 1st book in the Hard Series by K Bromberg

New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg is back with an all new second-chance, standalone hockey romance.

At first, the request seemed simple—sign a new athlete to the agency.
Then I found out the new athlete was none other than the most wanted man in hockey today: Hunter Maddox
Gifted. Sexy. At the top of his game. And the only man who has ever broken my heart.
If signing him will help save our family business, I’ll swallow my pride and do what’s asked.
But when it becomes clear his uncharacteristic antics off the ice are a hint of something deeper, keeping things strictly professional between us becomes more than complicated. But I know better than to cross that line.
I’ll never date a client. Not even for him.

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Win the Stanley Cup and do it before time runs out.
Not a small feat, but it’s what’s motivated me since the start of my career.
And time is running out.
Enter Dekker Kincade.
Feisty. Dogged. Damn gorgeous. The one I let get away.
I have no idea why she’s traveling with the team, but hell if resisting her is going to be easy.
But I have a job to do, and I refuse to lose sight of that end game. Even if she confuses me. Even if she sees parts of me I’ve hidden from the world.
I can’t lose focus. Not even for her.

Release Date : 30 juin 2020
Publisher : AE
Price : 3.60 ou 15.09 euros
Pages : 362 pages

Note :

Avant de vous donner mon avis le plus complet, je tiens à dire un grand merci à Valentine PR et à K Bromberg pour leur confiance et pour m'avoir permis de lire en ARC ce 1er tome. 

My review: Once again K Bromberg takes us into the universe she brilliantly created and you will love this sports romance in the hockey world but also these sisters who haven't finished making us laugh and move us. Hard to Handle was a great read.

Dekker Kincade is the eldest of the Kincade sisters and after the death of their mother when she was only 15 years old, she took her place and played this role to the perfection. Yet this has deprived her of many things and she is afraid of commitment because it can mean suffering. Working for their father Kenyon as part of Kincade Sports Management, they are outstanding sports agents who always put their heart into the task. The boss will therefore give her a mission of the utmost importance because for some time, they have been robbed of  many customers. They will somehow take their revenge and turn the situation to their advantage. To do so, she will be the only master on board in an almost impossible mission because it will involve recruiting the famous sportsman Hunter Maddox a man Dekker knows very well. I really loved the personality of this young woman because she was able to stand her ground in a very masculine universe and she takes good care of her customers. She listens to them and when she looks after them, she is more interested in their story than in their wallets and the assets they will give to her company. She is therefore professional with her clients and it is therefore out of the question to cross the limit and be more intimate with one of them.

But it's too late because she and Hunter have a liability. They had a great time together before she made a radical decision three years ago. Does she regret it? No doubt but not as we understand it. She will have to play it fine if she wants to reach this sportsman who is on the way to become uncontrollable. She wants to dig and discover the evil that gnaws him away and prevents her from playing properly. But it will not be easy to be in the same room as her former lover because the chemistry is always present and she will have to do everything to resist him. It will not be easy because he loves pushing her to the limit and he knows how to push her buttons. She won't therefore first reveal the reasons for her presence around the members of the Lumberjack team. We will therefore enjoy their verbal jousting and we will obviously start to count the points. Will she dare to open up to him in the hope that he will do the same? Will she have all the cards in hand to carry out this original negotiation. Will she be able to get around the rules to finally hope to be happy?

Hunter Maddox is a 32-year-old man who appears to be on the verge of implosion. He is sabotaging his ending career but also the dream he promised to fulfill for his brother Jonah. These twins share more than a unique relationship with each other and it could be a huge burden on the shoulders of our hero. We will discover together their past, their error but above all the consequences they will cause. Hunter is a person full of rage and anger and this leads him to sabotage his game on the ice. His team would like him to pull himself together, but it will not be easy when like a bull he sees red constantly. I also loved this character who will make me experience a myriad of emotions. He often moved me to tears because he tries to do the best but facing Gary, his father, it will never be enough. He has been forgotten in his brother's profile and this therefore generates a lack of self-confidence. In appearance, one might think that this man doesn't doubt his charisma but it will not be his agent Finn Sanderson who will put him back on track. This sports agent is deplorable and doesn't even try to understand what is wrong with his customer. Where he fails, Dekker could succeed. But to do so, our hero will have to take off his reinforced concrete armor to let others enter his life. He has only one goal in mind and failure is unthinkable. Doesn't he risk getting lost and losing everything at the same time?

Anyway, if you like sports romances with heroes we want to discover more deeply but also we want to take in our arms, if you read in english, then do not waste any more time and go get read this first book that will satisfy you on many points. K Bromberg offers us characters who will break our hearts but we will appreciate every second of it.

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Don't miss Pretty Reckless by LJ Shen

From USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author L.J. Shen comes an intense, high school enemies-to-lovers standalone romance with a twist.


Penn

They say revenge is a dish best served cold.
I'd had four years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to me, and now my heart was completely iced.
I took her first kiss.
She took the only thing I loved.
I was poor.
She was rich.
The good thing about circumstances? They can change. Fast.
Now, I'm her parents' latest shiny project.
Her housemate. Her tormentor. The captain of the rival football team she hates so much.
Yeah, baby girl, say it--I'm your foster brother.
There's a price to pay for ruining the only good thing in my life, and she's about to shell out some serious tears.
Daria Followhill thinks she is THE queen. I'm about to prove to her that she's nothing but a spoiled princess.

Daria

Everyone loves a good old unapologetic punk.
But being a bitch? Oh, you get slammed for every snarky comment, cynical eye roll, and foot you put in your adversaries' way.
The thing about stiletto heels is that they make a hell of a dent when you walk all over the people who try to hurt you.
In Penn Scully's case, I pierced his heart until he bled out, then left it in a trash can on a bright summer day.
Four years ago, he asked me to save all my firsts for him.
Now he lives across the hall, and I want nothing more than to be his last everything.
His parting words when he gave me his heart were that nothing in this world is free.
Now? Now he is making me pay.
Release Date : April 29th
Price : 2.99 euros
Pages : 386 pages

Before starting my review, I'd like to thanks Sarah at Social Butterfly PR for allowing me to read this 1st tome as an ARC.

My Review: I loved the Sinners of Saint series so you can imagine how happy and impatient I was to discover the stories of our dear Hotholes and the least we can say is that the Totholes are the worthy heirs of their dear parents. This volume is dedicated to Daria Followhill, Melody and Jamie's daughter. But we also discover Knight, Dean and Rose's son but also Vaughn, Vicious and Emilia's son. As for Luna, Trent's daughter, even if she is not very present, she undeniably makes me want to discover her.

Daria is a character I loved discovering. As soon as we read the prologue, we understand the atmosphere is going to be epic and we see that she always spells it out and she seems to be a very nasty girl who acts as if she were the queen oh All Saints High . But all this is just a facade or the tree that hides the forest becauseshe hides a lot of things behind her armor. I can tell you that my heart has tightened many times when discovering her story, her evolution, her personality and her feelings. She will bear a lot of things from an early age and I think she defended herself admirably with the weapons she had. She is an 18 year old teenager who will make many mistakes but who will pay the highest price . I loved the relationship she has with her father Jamie because she often moved me, especially in a certain scene that made me shed some tears. I was surprised and stunned by the attitude of another key character because I didn't expect that from her and I was slapped in the face b her attitude. This situation aroused in me strong emotions, oscillating between anger and hatred but once again the understanding came later.

She pretends to give a certain image in high school and we will learn some of her secrets. When Penn Scully enters her life, it will be an extra pain as he became her worst enemy since she was only 14 years old when she met him. Four years later, hatred has steadily increased and the time for revenge may have come. In her family, we also discover her sister Bailey who is a sunshine and a real chatterbox. With her there is no doubt, you never get bored. The two sisters could not be more different but the tensions will not be as sharp as between her and Penn. The past seems toslap her in the face and to make her pay for her sins. Redemption doesn't seem to be there yet and you have to be careful not to burn your wings. As captain of the cheerleaders' team, she will witness the clash between the All Saints team and the Las Juntas team. When two worlds collide, the damage could leave indelible marks.

Penn Scully is a great character I loved both his past and psychology. What's great is the fact that we also have his point of view and this allows us to know his darkest thoughts. Everything could have started well between him and Daria if there had not been Via, his sister, and his very tense relationship between the latter and Daria. The "crime" is very deep and neither time nor trials can appease the different. The game is only beginning and it will be necessary to choose precisely its camps. Penn wants to do his best to get out of his very peculiar family context. Whether Rhett or his own sister, the choices will be crucial and some secrets will absolutely have to be kept. His talent as an American football player will probably be what could save him but still it would be necessary that this hothead take the time to think instead of rushing ahead.

He also made feel deep emotions and I had only one desire: to try to decipher him because his attitude is often ambivalent and we don't really know if we can trust him completely. His family context is very tense and very peculiar. He is not from the same world as Daria and when he must live at her home, the tensions will be even more strong. I won't talk about his mother or his father to spoil you but just know that it is tough.. He plays American football and it will undoubtedly be his ticket out of this very difficult context and a futurewhich could be a little more bright. He is bound to have a strong love for his sister Via because they are twins, but he takes his protective side very seriously. They know how to give fists to defend themselves but we also feel that they want to get out of it. His vengeance will no doubt be a poison that will sink in his veins and prevent him from seeing more clearly. He will make some choices that will guide his life as a man and he will have to stay on his grounds up to the end to keep his mouth shut.

In short, I can give you only one tip: go and read Pretty Reckless because I read it without stopping it once.  The tension was present throughout my reading and I took my time to immerse myself in this special atmosphere. These totholes won't stop surprising us and I'm looking froward discovering each children's stories . Daria and Penn are awesome, tortured, suffering, wrong, but you'll love them.

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L'auteur Colleen Hoover a vu Fifty Shades of Grey et voici ses impressions

Beaucoup d'entre vous veulent savoir comment est le film. Je suis très difficile et j'ai trouvé qu'il était fabuleux. Jamie Dornan était génial, mais c'est vraiment Dakota Johnson qui m'a épaté . Elle est tellement marrante et elle apporte tant au film. Le public a rigolé de nombreuses fois. Il y a un équilibre parfait entre le sexy, le torride, l'humour et le drame. Le film met en évidence le fait que EL James avait à coeur les meilleurs intérêts de ses lectrices. L'adaptation du livre sur grand écran n'aurait pas pu être meilleur. Vous allez adorer le film .

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