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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Blog Tour: Fighting for Everything by Laura Kaye + Review!

 


From New York Times bestselling author Laura Kaye, comes the first standalone title in her brand, new Warrior Fight Club series, FIGHTING FOR EVERYTHING. Join the Warrior Fight Club world today!



   


Loving her is the biggest fight of his life…

Home from the Marines, Noah Cortez has a secret he doesn’t want his oldest friend, Kristina Moore, to know. It kills him to push her away, especially when he’s noticing just how sexy and confident she’s become in his absence. But, angry and full of fight, he’s not the same man anymore either. Which is why Warrior Fight Club sounds so good.

Kristina loves teaching, but she wants more out of life. She wants Noah—the boy she’s crushed on and waited for. Except Noah is all man now—in ways both oh so good and troubling, too. Still, she wants who he’s become—every war-hardened inch. And when they finally stop fighting their attraction, it’s everything Kristina never dared hope for.

But Noah is secretly spiraling, and when he lashes out, it threatens what he and Kristina have found. The brotherhood of the fight club helps him confront his demons, but only Noah can convince the woman he loves that he’s finally ready to fight for everything.



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REVIEW:

3.75-4 stars
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This was a good book. Fighting for Everything is Noah and Kristina's book. Noah and Kristina were platonic best friends their whole lives. Now Noah has returned to their hometown from being deployed in the military. He is fighting some big demons with PTSD and has no idea how to deal with moving on from military life. Kristina wants to help him, but doesn't know how. They are also dealing with a new found attraction between them to complicate things. Noah has a lot healing to do before he can face his future and his love for Kristina.

I liked Noah and Kristina. They were best friends for so many years and were both good people. Their journey from friends to a romantic relationship was not easy but it was realistic and emotional. This book is a slow burn. There is a lot of pushing away by Noah for most of the book. He had a lot to deal with and I definitely understood why he felt the way he did. It was heartbreaking reading how he felt about himself and all he went through with his PTSD. Noah was tortured by his demons. It did make me feel like the pacing was off a bit in the book. Most of the book was him being tortured inside and her trying to help him, while he pushed her away. It took Noah reaching rock bottom before he is able to begin to heal emotionally. This happened pretty late in the book and I felt that rushed the ending a bit.

This book is not a light, easy read. It is raw, emotional and heavy, dealing with subjects like PTSD, suicidal thoughts and depression. It felt very realistic. I felt very bad for Noah, but I also felt bad for Kristina. He hurt her badly and she forgave him easier than I could have. There is a separation and conflict that is wrapped up at the very end of the book. I wanted to see more happy times of them together as a actual couple.

I did really like the idea for this series. The Warrior Fight Club was introduced late in this book, but it is intriguing and I look forward to more from the series. I do hope the next books are a little lighter. Still, I did enjoy this book. Noah and Kristina were great characters who went through so much together. I enjoyed seeing their relationship develop and seeing them get their well-deserved HEA. I look forward to more from Ms. Kaye and the Warrior Fight Club series!




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EXCERPT:

“All done,” Noah said. He gently applied tape to hold the bandage in place, but with the way the back of her hand was swelling, there wasn’t any safe place to press. Sonofabitch. He couldn’t believe this had happened to her. And on his watch.
“You’re taking really good care of me, Noah. Thank you,” Kristina said with a small smile.
“I will always take care of you,” he bit out. And then he realized what he said, and just how vehemently he’d said it. And damn if it hadn’t sounded a whole lot more than friendly. He chanced a glance at Kristina, and it was clear that she’d registered something in his tone, too. He threw away the trash and sat against the edge of the desk. “Why don’t you sit with the ice for a few minutes?”
She rose and stood right in front of him, her pretty eyes even with his given how he was leaning. “I don’t need to sit,” she said in a low voice, her gaze boring into his.
“Well, I need you to sit. So sit.”
Her eyebrow went up. Just the one.
Under other circumstances it might’ve made him laugh. Could she ever just fucking listen to him? But he was wound so tight over witnessing her getting hurt, over the idea that it could’ve been so much worse, over seeing her spilled blood, that it was all he could do not to redecorate Mr. Johnson’s office along the lines of his shower wall. He was nearly vibrating with pent-up frustration.
And now Kristina was boxing him in, observing him too closely, not giving him an out.
“Here’s the part where I’m gonna say ‘thank you,’ and you’re going to say ‘you’re welcome.’ Ready? Thank you for protecting me and taking care of me, Noah.” Her expression was expectant, and not a little amused.
Something about her playfulness wound him a notch tighter. Because he wasn’t playing. His gaze dropped from her eyes to her full pink lips, and desire sucker-punched him so hard he nearly gasped. “Does your mouth hurt?” he rasped.
“Why would my—”
Noah was on her in a flash. Hand cupping the side of her face, arm hauling her tight up against him, mouth claiming hers on a deep, needful, soul-healing kiss. Kristina’s muscles braced in surprise, but then she melted against him, going soft and pliant against all his hardness. And he was hard. So hard, so on edge, so in need of release, that he could’ve spun her around, lifted her onto the desk, and buried himself deep right here and right now.
He needed to be more gentle with her, but the need roaring through him wouldn’t allow him to slow down or back off. And her eager responsiveness didn’t help, either.
Her good hand fisted in his hair, her mouth sucked maddeningly at his tongue, and her body writhed against his erection. And goddamn the noises she was making, because the desperate moans and little mewls of need were hot as fuck, every one stroking his cock and making him harder.
Instinct told Noah that Kristina wouldn’t hinder him playing out his little fantasy on the desk.
Except she was hurt. And they were in a fucking sub shop. Annnd, he couldn’t forget about what was behind door number three—they were supposed to be Just. Friends.
“Shit,” he rasped. “I did it again.”
She grasped at his face. “Yes, thank you for that, too. Keep doing it.” Kristina went in for another kiss. This time, her tongue penetrated him, like she wanted to fight him for control. And hell if that didn’t set off all kinds of heat inside him.
He flipped them around and pinned her to the desk, nearly leaning her backwards over it. The position brought his hard-on flush with that sweet, hot spot between her legs. She cried out and tried to grind against him, but his weight and her skirt kept her pinned tight.
Hurt. Sub shop. Friends.
“Shit, wait.” He stepped back, putting space between them. Because he didn’t think he’d have the strength to resist a third time. Especially when she stared at him with such abject fucking need, her cheeks flush with desire, her hair mussed from his hands, her luscious breasts heaving under that clingy V-neck top. “You’re hurt.”
“And?” Kristina asked.
Noah glared. “Kristina, I’m kinda on the edge here, if you can’t tell.”
She slipped up onto the desk and spread her legs, just the little bit the skirt allowed.

 

Laura Kaye’s FIGHTING FOR EVERYTHING – Review & Excerpt Tour Schedule:

May 21st
Angie and Jessica's Dreamy Reads – Review & Excerpt
Books and Bubble bath – Review & Excerpt
Catty Jane Book Lovers – Review & Excerpt
Coffee Books Life – Review & Excerpt
I Love HEA Romance Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Knotty Girl Reviews – Review & Excerpt
Obsessed by books – Review & Excerpt
Read more sleep less – Review & Excerpt
Romance as a first language – Review & Excerpt
The Reading Cafe – Review & Excerpt
May 22nd
RELEASE DAY!!
May 23rd
2 Amys Love Reading – Review & Excerpt
Blogging by Liza – Review & Excerpt
Elenasbookblog – Review & Excerpt
Feeling Fictional – Review & Excerpt
Hot Kindle Reads – Review
Les Chroniques Aléatoires – Review & Excerpt
Melena's Reviews – Review & Excerpt
The Book Disciple – Review & Excerpt
May 24th
Books of My Heart – Review & Excerpt
Cara's Book Boudoir – Review & Excerpt
I Love Romance – Review & Excerpt
Nice Ladies, Naughty Books – Review & Excerpt
Obsessive Reading Disorder – Review & Excerpt
Reads All the Books – Review & Excerpt
Sofia Loves Books – Review
Wickedcoolflight – Review & Excerpt
May 25th
Angel Reads – Review
Bobo's Book Bank – Review & Excerpt
My Favorite Things – Review & Excerpt
NallaReads – Review & Excerpt
Novel Addiction – Review
Relentless Romance – Review & Excerpt
Romancing the Readers – Review & Excerpt
May 26th
AC Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Fern's Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
KDRBCK – Review & Excerpt
The Staircase Reader – Review & Excerpt
The Book Boyfriend Addict – Review & Excerpt
May 27th
Book Angel Booktopia – Review & Excerpt
Bookishly Yours – Review & Excerpt
Kari Gillespie – Review
Lynn's Romance Enthusiasm – Review & Excerpt
Total Book Addicts – Review & Excerpt
May 28th
Booknerd1107 – Review & Excerpt
Deluged with Books Cafe – Review & Excerpt
JordansBookReviews – Excerpt
Rad Babes Read – Review & Excerpt
Ripe For Reader – Review & Excerpt
Romance Reviews and More – Review & Excerpt
Thoughts of a Blonde – Review & Excerpt
May 29th
Book Freak – Review & Excerpt
My Book Snack – Review & Excerpt
Sip Read Love – Review
The Book Hammock – Review & Excerpt
May 30th
Bookgasms Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Books 2 Blog – Review & Excerpt
I'm A Sweet And Sassy Book Whore – Review & Excerpt
Jax's Book Magic – Review & Excerpt
Literary Misfit – Review & Excerpt
Somewhere Lost in Books – Review & Excerpt
May 31st
Blissfully Bookish Besties – Review & Excerpt
Book Bitches Blog – Review & Excerpt
Love Notes Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Spoons, Hooks, and Books – Review & Excerpt
The Book Reading Gals – Review & Excerpt
June 1st
Book Nook Nuts – Excerpt
Books A-Brewin' – Review & Excerpt
Only One More Page – Review & Excerpt
Red Hot + Blue Reads – Review & Excerpt
Renee Entress's Blog – Review & Excerpt
She Hearts Books – Review & Excerpt
Wicked Babes Blog Reviews – Review & Excerpt



Laura is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over thirty books in contemporary and erotic romance and romantic suspense, including the Blasphemy, Hard Ink, and Raven Riders series. Growing up, Laura’s large extended family believed in the supernatural, and family lore involving angels, ghosts, and evil-eye curses cemented in Laura a life-long fascination with storytelling and all things paranormal. Laura also writes historical fiction as the NYT bestselling author, Laura Kamoie. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two daughters, and appreciates her view of the Chesapeake Bay every day.      


 
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