A Little Too Far
Author: Lisa Desrochers
Genre: New Adult
Release date: September 17th, 2013
Hosted by: Love Between the Sheets
Have you ever gone just a little
too far?
Lexie Banks has.
Yep. She just had mind-blowing sex
with her stepbrother. In her defense, she was on the rebound, and it’s more of
a my-dad-happened-to-marry-a-woman-with-a-super-hot-son situation. But still,
he’s been her best friend and confidant for the better part of the last few
years … and is so off limits. It’s a good thing she’s leaving in two days for a
year abroad in Rome.
But even thousands of miles away,
Lexie can’t seem to escape trouble. Raised Catholic, she goes to confession in
hopes of alleviating some of her guilt … and maybe not burning in hell.
Instead, she stumbles out of the confessional and right into Alessandro
Moretti, a young and very easy-on-the-eyes deacon … only eight months away from
becoming a priest. Lexie and Alessandro grow closer, and when Alessandro’s
signals start changing despite his vow of celibacy, she doesn’t know what to
think. She’s torn between falling in love with the man she shouldn’t want and
the man she can’t have. And she isn’t sure how she can live with herself either
way.
I rated A Little Too Far with FOUR AND ONE HALF LEAVES! This was such a fun and exciting book to read. Do you know how it is when someone says you aren't allowed to do something? You want to do it so much more just because you aren't supposed to do. When something...or someone...is off limits, it makes you want to fight for that so much more. We always want what we can't have. I think this is one of the main reasons that I really enjoyed this book. Lexie is playing with fire. She is eating the forbidden fruit.
Lexie and Trent are not only stepbrother and sister but best friends. Ever since their parents married, they have been extremely close. They can tell each other everything. When Lexie runs into her ex-boyfriend and is sad about seeing him, she confides in Trent. Things get out of control and her and Trent end up sleeping together. This story is about the internal battle that Lexie has over sleeping with her stepbrother. Where will they go next? What happens when Lexie moves to Rome? Read this book to find out and I promise you won't be disappointed!
I rocket out of the confessional, and because I’m
looking back at the curtain and not watching where I’m going, I don’t see the
thing in front of me until I slam into it. All the air leaves my lungs in a
whoosh, and it takes me a second to get my breath back. The thing is a person
or a horse. I know this because it’s warm, it moves, and it’s bigger than me.
That’s all I know for sure until I turn around and see him.
“Oh! I’m sorry, Father,” I say with a bow of my head
when I see the person I’ve stumbled into is wearing a black button-down
cleric’s shirt and a white collar. He’s taller than Trent, so something over
six feet, and though he’s slender, I can tell he’s no stranger to the gym. He’s
cut and solid—which I know because he barely budged when I ran into him, and
yet he left me breathless. He’s got a hint of dark stubble on his cheeks and
chin, where there’s a dimple, and I’d guess he’s older than me, but not by a
lot. Maybe mid-twenties. His wavy black hair is combed off his face, and, with
his high cheekbones and straight, narrow nose, he looks like the half-naked guy
in the Abercrombie jeans ads in my Elle
magazines. Except he’s not half-naked. He’s in a priest’s collar.
And I’m staring at him.
With his dark eyes and olive skin, I’m expecting
Italian to pour out of his mouth when he opens it, so when his glance flicks to
the open confessional door then back to me, and he lifts an eyebrow, and says,
“Greater sins have been perpetrated, I’m quite sure,” in a mild Italian accent,
my knees go a little weak.
Lisa Desrochers lives in central California with her husband and
two very busy daughters. There is never a time that she can be found without a
book in her hand, and she adores stories that take her to new places, and then
take her by surprise.
Look for her New Adult novel, A LITTLE TOO FAR ,
courtesy of HarperCollins Sept 17, 2013, and companions, A LITTLE TOO
MUCH (Nov 12, 2013), and A LITTLE TOO HOT (Jan
21, 2014). Also in stores is her YA PERSONAL DEMONS trilogy
(Macmillan).
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