Thursday 30 June 2016

REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: INSEVERABLE by CECY ROBSON


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Inseverable
A Carolina Beach Novel (Book One)
By: Cecy Robson
Releasing June 21, 2016 
Self-Published
In Inseverable (Carolina Beach #1) by Cecy Robson, Callahan has come to Kiawah Island for one reason and one reason only -- the peace and seclusion the Island has to offer. However, it doesn't seem possible he's going to get what he wants when the gorgeous and too perky Trinity sets her sights on him, determined to make friends. At first, he's annoyed by her persistence. Yet, the more time he spends with her, the harder it is for him to resist her.   
Trinity is determined to have the best summer ever before she moves on to bigger and better things for her life such as working overseas with the Peace Corps. However, she never expected to meet a man that would change her life. Yet, that's exactly what happens. Will she be able to walk away from her Mr. Right at the end of Summer to fulfill her dreams of helping those in need? 
Well what can I say other than Ms. Robson has done it again. Every time I sit down to read one of her books, I find myself so captivated by the story that I forget about everything else. Right from the beginning, I was charmed by this story, although it was introducing me to a difficult moment in the hero's life, which will affect him for the rest of his life due to the painful reminders of all those he lost. However, it was the moment that Callahan and Trinity first met that really drew me into this story, as Callahan didn't know what to make of the heroine.
The dialogue was intense due to the main characters back stories and the challenges that Trinity and Callahan face on their journey to happy ever after. Yet, there were some really delightful light-hearted moments that had me smiling or laughing. Trinity was unlike any heroine I've ever read, which was a good thing, and she made me enjoy this story a lot. Her tendency to overshare on certain subjects and her persistence in getting through to the hero definitely provided plenty of amusement for me as a reader, and I couldn't wait to read what she would do next to help Callahan find his way back to the light and not continue to be weighed down by his dark memories in his time as a Sniper. 
I really liked both Trinity and Callahan as well as the secondary characters. The heroine and her friends have a really tight bond, and I liked how they welcomed the hero into their group. Then there's the relationship Trinity has with her family. I found the heroine's family funny, especially when her brother was trying to rile Callahan. As for Trinity, she's kind, caring and I enjoyed how determined she was to befriend the hero because he needed someone to help him move on from his past and start to heal. To make him see that he should forgive himself. Also, she's strong and brave for the decisions she's made about her future, although when the time comes to choose between her future endeavors and Callahan it isn't easy. While Callahan, it's hard for him to adjust to civilian life when certain things remind him of his time in the Army, and end up stressing him out. So, I liked how Trinity helped him to deal with his PTSD. Not only through their growing romance that eventually spilled over onto the pages in hot sex scenes, but the way they conversed. The heroine has a way with words, and definitely proves that being persistent pays off. 
Overall, this first book in Ms. Robson's Carolina Beach series was a delightful read that has me looking forward to future books of this series. I really liked how this story ended with the way Callahan surprised Trinity, and then how the epilogue revealed how much their relationship had progressed after they found their way back to each other. I would recommend Inseverable by Cecy Robson, if you enjoy ex-military heroes, or persistent heroines that have a love for help people.
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BLURB:
How can you imagine forever with someone who's leaving everything behind?
 
Callahan, a former army sniper, wants to make an escape from his past and everything he experienced at war, but most of all, just not feel. Feeling leads to pain and he's suffered enough. When he inherits a house on South Carolina's Kiawah Island, he packs his bags, lured by the peace and seclusion he thinks it will bring. But, Callahan never counted on meeting anyone like Trinity . . .
 
Trinity has always been the cute, and funny one, who most guys overlook in pursuit of her "hot" friends. She became used to being everyone's pal, until the day the young man she was attracted to, was drawn to her in return. He became her first great love, and first crushing heartbreak when she found him in bed with one of her closest friends.
 
To move forward, and to carry out her commitment to helping those in need, Trinity enlists in the Peace Corps, but not before returning to Kiawah for one last memorable summer. She just never imagined it would be so unforgettable.
 
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Prologue
Callahan
Three days.
That’s all I have left until this shit ends.
Three days shouldn’t feel like forever, not compared to the eight years I’ve bled to the Army. Thing is, good men have been killed in less time. In as quick as a blink, a squeeze of a trigger, or a small breath right before a grenade blows is all the time it takes to shove someone right out of life and well into death.
That’s what makes three days as long as it is. Three days is plenty of time to die.
My eyes tear when the wind picks up and shoots grime through the small hole of my lookout point. This blown out piece of cinderblock is only big enough to allow me a view of the street below, but not so small I don’t get smacked in the face with more filth. The tarp flaps above me as I spit out another layer of the dirt-sand mix spackling my teeth. Christ Almighty, I need a swig of the water resting near my elbow. But my thirst, like everything else has to wait.
I have a job to do.
I adjust my hips against the cracked cement of my bed, bathroom, and home all rolled into one, thankful that the agonizing ache stretching over the lower half of my body has settled into a now familiar numbness.
Out of all the points I’d scouted, and all the accumulated years spent in this position, I should be used to it. And in a strange way, it should almost be home. Yet nothing ever has been home.
But in three days, maybe something finally will be . . .
I shove my thoughts away and breathe as my fellow Rangers stalk along the street. It’s then I see them, a mother and daughter walking straight toward my team. Less than one city block separates them from the men counting on me to keep them alive.
The hell? How did they get past the other sniper unreported? Rogers is new on watch. But the quick paces these two are taking should have clued him in that something’s up. I train my scope on their faces; their expressions are blank, unreadable. ‘Cept that’s not what keeps my attention.
The little girl can’t be more than five. So why the fuck isn’t her mother holding her hand? I lift my radio and bark a warning, dropping it beside me as I lock my scope dead center on the woman’s head.
The radio crackles and Modreski chimes in, yelling at his team to hold their positions. He asks me what my plan is, knowing if something’s caused the short-hairs on my neck to rise, he and the boys damn well need to listen. But I don’t hear him, with a breath and a squeeze of the trigger, I leave a kid without a mother.
Just beneath the sleeve of her abayah―the dress completely covering her body―I see it, a detonator that would trigger the explosives likely strapped to her chest. A few Rangers I know―Simons and Boreman, rush forward. I start to mutter a curse, pissed at her for making me shoot her in front of her kid. But the curse lodges in my throat when I see the kid isn’t looking at her mother lying next to her dead.
She’s watching my advancing team as she lifts the detonator clasped tight in her hand. 

 
 
 
Cecy Robson is a new adult and contemporary author of the Shattered Past series, the O’Brien Family novels and upcoming Carolina Beach novels, as well as the award-winning author of the Weird Girls urban fantasy romance series. A 2016 double nominated RITA®finalist for Once Pure and Once Kissed, Cecy is a recovering Jersey girl living in the South who enjoys carbs way too much, and exercise way too little. Gifted and cursed with an overactive imagination, you can typically find her on her laptop silencing the yappy characters in her head by telling their stories.

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2 comments:

  1. Great review and feature of INSEVERABLE! Thank you so much!

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  2. Thank you for sharing your lovely review!

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