Book Review: Fall To You

About the Book

Title: Fall To You

Author: Lexi Ryan
Series: Here and Now #2

Publication Date: June 2, 2014

Genres: New Adult, Romance, 

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Torn between two men…
When I woke up after the accident, I couldn’t remember anything from the last year—including my relationship with Max Hallowell or anything about Nate Crane. Now my memories are returning, but instead of answering my questions, they’re leaving me with more.
The man who broke my heart and wants to be my future…
Max is all I ever wanted, and now he wants to marry me. He’ll do everything he can to fill my life with love, family, and security. I need those things now more than ever. But can I trust him?
The man who stole my heart and wants to let me go…
Nate never made me promises, and I never asked him to. I’d been on the rebound, looking for a distraction, and he made me feel beautiful and wanted when I needed to feel those things most. He says he has to let me go, but what if I can’t let go of him?
With every revelation and every passing day, I feel more like Alice down the rabbit hole. I’m falling. Who will catch me?
Fall to You is the second book in the Here and Now series. It is not a stand-alone and is intended to be read following Lost in Me. Hanna’s story concludes in book three, All for This.

My Review of Fall To You

Lexi Ryan is the master of the cliffhanger ending, and if I thought that the Lost in Me cliffhanger was bad. It is nothing compared to the Fall to You cliffhanger. Seriously how much longer until All for This is released, because I have to know how this story ends. There are still a few unanswered questions, and a very important decision to make. Hanna regains most of her memories except for the last few days before her accident, but Fall to You starts three months before Hanna’s accident. This time though it is not solely Hanna’s point of view we get to experience. Max and Nate also get to share a bit of their viewpoint and gives more insight into the events the led up to Hanna’s accident. 

I personally do not always like love triangles, but Lexi Ryan makes it work really well. I have to say that in Lost in Me I was totally Team Nate. In Fall to You, I am still defiantly Team Nate, but I am not so against Team Max as I was in Lost in Me. I think that is due to seeing glimpses of what happened through Max’s own eyes. I also cannot help for root for Nate who has sworn off putting anyone over his son, to find a bit of happiness. 

Hanna goes through so much in Fall to You, and I really just want her to find out exactly what happened the day she fell, because I think it is going to blow this story wide open. I have my suspicions, but with Lexi Ryan I never know what is coming. Hopefully, All for This answers all the questions, and Hanna gets some much deserved happily ever after. Although if it is anything like the previous two books, there is going to be a lot of complications and obstacles before that happens. 

Lexi Ryan has captured me in again and has me impatiently waiting for the next installment; thankfully, I do not have to wait an extremely long time before All for This. I think I may lose it if that happened. I also really need to know what Hanna’s final decisions are going to be, and how this story is going to end. 

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Fall to You Release Day: Excerpt and Giveaway

Welcome to the Release Day Event for Fall to You by Lexi Ryan! For release week ONLY: Fall to You will be $2.99 and Lost in Me the first book in the series will be only $.0.99 for a limited time for anyone who has not started the Here and Now series. 

About the Book

Title: Fall to You

Author: Lexi Ryan

Series: Here and Now #2

Publication Date: June 2, 2014

Genres: New Adult, Romance, 

Amazon | Barnes and Noble | iBooks

Torn between two men…
When I woke up after the accident, I couldn’t remember anything from the last year—including my relationship with Max Hallowell or anything about Nate Crane. Now my memories are returning, but instead of answering my questions, they’re leaving me with more.
The man who broke my heart and wants to be my future…
Max is all I ever wanted, and now he wants to marry me. He’ll do everything he can to fill my life with love, family, and security. I need those things now more than ever. But can I trust him?
The man who stole my heart and wants to let me go…
Nate never made me promises, and I never asked him to. I’d been on the rebound, looking for a distraction, and he made me feel beautiful and wanted when I needed to feel those things most. He says he has to let me go, but what if I can’t let go of him?
With every revelation and every passing day, I feel more like Alice down the rabbit hole. I’m falling. Who will catch me?
Fall to You is the second book in the Here and Now series. It is not a stand-alone and is intended to be read following Lost in Me. Hanna’s story concludes in book three, All for This.

About the Author

Once a college English professor, I now write full time. I live in rural Indiana, where, when I'm not
writing, I get to hang out with my husband and two kids--a six-year-old boy and a two-year-old hellion, er, girl. Not surprisingly, reading and writing remain my favorite activities, though both come in bits and pieces these days, not the big hunks of time I enjoyed before I had children. When I'm feeling virtuous, I like to go running (I use that word liberally. I'm really, really slow) or do yoga. Don't worry, I'm always careful to balance out such activities with a hearty serving of ice cream or a chocolate martini.
   

EXCERPT FROM FALL TO YOU

Three Months before Hanna’s Accident

“I want to introduce you to Nate Crane.”

I lift my head and suddenly I’m sucking in air because my eyes are connected with the man who flirted with me earlier. He’d had a hat and sunglasses on in the bar, and I hadn’t recognized him, but this time his identity is clear.

“Hanna, this is Nate Crane. Nate, this is Hanna, my sister.”

His eyes sweep over me the way a guy’s eyes are supposed to sweep over a girl. The way Asher’s eyes sweep over Maggie every time she enters a room. The way William’s eyes sweep over Cally when he doesn’t think she’s looking. It sends a little buzz through me that’s not quite a chill but not quite electric either. Just a nice, warm shimmy of sensation that starts at my core and radiates out through my limbs.

Then I check behind me because I’m sure I’m mistaken. He was just playing around at the bar, right? I mean, guys don’t look at me like that. They look at my sisters like that; they look at my best friends like that.

“Maggie never told me her sister was so gorgeous,” Nate says, putting an end to any debate over his attraction to me.

My cheeks warm with a flush I can feel all the way from my chest to my hairline.

“Maggie, I did tell you I have a thing for sweet girls who blush, didn’t I? Is she my birthday present? I’d say you shouldn’t have, but I’d be lying.” He says all this without taking his eyes off me. His gaze drifts over me again, slower this time, lingering at my waist, my hips, my feet in strappy, heeled sandals. “I was a good boy this year. I deserve her.”

Maggie thumps him in the chest with the back of her hand. “She’s a woman, not some trinket or object that can be given.”

“Oh,” he says, his voice so low I can barely make it out, “I noticed she’s a woman.”

“We met earlier,” I say quickly. “In the bar. He’s just teasing.”

Maggie huffs. “Deserve or not, you can’t have her. Hanna has a boyfriend.”

Oh, no. No, Hanna doesn’t. But I didn’t tell Maggie about Max. It hurt too much to share what I’d learned. I’m too proud to share it. And if I want to keep our split a secret, I couldn’t really tell her if I wanted to. I can’t risk telling anyone.

Nate takes my hand, clearly undeterred by the mention of competition. “Tell me she’s lying. Please? It’s my birthday tomorrow.”

“And you wanted me to jump out of a cake for you?” I retort, but I let him play with my fingers and try to keep my breathing steady. His touch brings back something I didn’t think anyone but Max could make me feel.

“I wouldn’t complain.”

I’m fresh out of spunk, and stare stupidly. Nate Crane is six feet some-odd inches of deliciously tatted, freshly showered rocker. In ripped-up jeans and a Star Wars tee, he exudes a geekiness that’s only amplified by the tattoos peeking out from under the sleeves. The rest of him is essentially a catalogue of every woman’s fantasy. Broad shoulders, narrow hips, shaggy, dark hair still wet from his shower and curling slightly at the ends. Those intense eyes that seem to be smiling at me as he follows the lines of my palm with his calloused fingertips. He hadn’t really been on my radar until this year, when he started performing with Asher at a lot of his tour stops. They’re old friends, apparently.

“You didn’t tell me you were a rock star,” I murmur.

“You didn’t tell me you have a boyfriend,” he counters. 

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Waiting on Wednesday: Fall To You

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we cannot wait to get our hands on.

 I am waiting on:

Title: Fall To You

Author: Lexi Ryan

Series: Here and Now #2

Publication Date: June 2014

Torn between the man she's always wanted and the man she can't remember...and yet can't let go.

Why am I waiting?

The cliffhanger at the end of Lost in Me has had me dying to read Fall To You. Thankfully I do not have to wait much longer. I am very curious as too what is going to happen with Hanna's story now. 

What are you waiting on?

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Cover Reveal and Giveaway: Here and Now Series

A new series from New York Times Bestselling Author Lexi Ryan, Here and Now is a sexy New Adult Contemporary Romance series that fans are sure to love.
Torn between the man she's always wanted and the man she can't remember...and yet can't let go.

Series: Here and Now #1

Expected Publication: April 7, 2014

Cover Design by Okay Creations

The last thing I remember is having drinks at Brady’s and trying to avoid eye-contact with my life-long crush—the gorgeous, unattainable Maximilian Hallowell. They tell me that was a year ago, but I have no memories of anything since then. What I do have is this ring on my finger that Max says he gave me, and this much-thinner body I’ve dreamed of most of my life. Aside from a case of retrograde amnesia, everything seems almost…perfect.

But the deeper I immerse myself into this new world of mine—planning a wedding to a man I don’t remember dating, attempting to run a business I don’t remember starting—the clearer it becomes that nothing is as it seems. Do I have the life I’ve always wanted or is it a facade propped up by secrets I don’t even know I have?

I need answers before I marry Max, and the only person who seems to have them is the angry, tatted, sexy-as-sin rocker Nate Crane. And Nate wants me for himself.

Series: Here and Now #2

Expected Publication: June 2014

Here and Now #3

Expected Publication: August 2014

 About the Author

Once a college English professor, I now write full time. I live in rural Indiana, where, when I’m not writing, I get to hang out with my husband and two kids–a six-year-old boy and a two-year-old hellion, er, girl. Not surprisingly, reading and writing remain my favorite activities, though both come in bits and pieces these days, not the big hunks of time I enjoyed before I had children. When I’m feeling virtuous, I like to go running (I use that word liberally. I’m really, really slow) or do yoga. Don’t worry, I’m always careful to balance out such activities with a hearty serving of ice cream or a chocolate martini.

   

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