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“Would you dare to defy destiny? Are our destinies written in stone? Do we become nothing more than the self-fulfilling prophesies of other people's opinions? Or can we dare to become who we believe we were born to be?”

Have you heard already?

Katie Mcgarry has fantastic news.

A new book coming next year.

ONLY A BREATH APART is a YA novel as marvelous as everything Katie has written in the past, with so much love, passion, and remarkable characters.

A little about the story:

“Jesse dreams of working the land that’s been in his family forever. But he’s cursed to lose everything he loves most.

Scarlett is desperate to escape her “charmed” life. But leaving a small town is easier said than done.

Despite their history of heartbreak, when Jesse sees a way they can work together to each get what they want, Scarlett can’t say no. Each midnight meeting between Jesse and Scarlett will push them to confront their secrets and their feelings for each other.”

ONLY A BREATH APART will be available on all retailers on January 22, 2019!

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Author Bio:

Katie McGarry was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.

Katie is the author of full length YA novels, PUSHING THE LIMITS, DARE YOU TO, CRASH INTO YOU, TAKE ME ON, BREAKING THE RULES, and NOWHERE BUT HERE and the e-novellas, CROSSING THE LINE and RED AT NIGHT.

Her debut YA novel, PUSHING THE LIMITS was a 2012 Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction, a RT Magazine's 2012 Reviewer's Choice Awards Nominee for Young Adult Contemporary Novel, a double Rita Finalist, and a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Teen Pick. DARE YOU TO was also a Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction and won RT Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Best Book Award for Young Adult Contemporary fiction in 2013.

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A COWBOY'S SWEETHEART

Author: Crista Mchugh

Year: 2018

Genre: Contemporary Romance.

Rate: 3.5 stars.⭐⭐⭐✩

“Pampered New York Socialite and dressage rider, Kensington Pope

 has been exiled by her jet-setting parents to her aunt’s Rodeo Academy in Wyoming. She wants nothing to do with the rough and tumble students there, especially one particular handsome cowboy, Javier. But she won’t be there for long. She has a plan in place to break out after her next international competition.

Javier Cruz takes one look at the spoiled city girl and instantly dismisses her. The school of tough knocks has already educated him on what the important things in life are, and he has bigger things on his plate.  He’s counting down the days until his eighteenth birthday when he can pull his younger siblings from the foster care program and reunite his family.  But as he gets to know Kensi, he sees a kindred spirit and discovers there’s more to her than meets the eye.

Kensi begins to question her desire to flee the ranch as her relationship to Javier deepens and she learns the importance of family. But when he discovers her escape plan, will he be able to trust her again? And when tragedy comes to the ranch, will Kensi be able to step up and take her place in the family?”

I read this book in one afternoon and putting aside some repetitions and the excessive background, the narrative is great. Good pace and good dialogues.  

I could say that A Cowboy’s Sweetheart is a story about discovering yourself, while you’re growing up but is not. Kensi the main character knows exactly who she is and how much capable she is. Yes, she’s a spoiled child but the pretensions are part of herself and no in a wrong way but in a funny way. I love strong characters and Kensi is a real heroine.

But there is much more in this book, there are compassion, family’s love, romance, (actually the first kiss scene is absolutely adorable,) frightening scene and others sensitive issues that the author handles well.

Now, if it is just for Kensi, this book would deserve a higher rate, but because her love interest, it didn’t happen. Javier just isn’t the best choice for the heroin, his constant change of mind about her made me think he never believed in her and that was just wrong.

Another thing that it didn’t work for me was Uncle Bobby, the character is a jerk. Yes, that shouldn’t be a problem, after all, there are lots of jerk in many books, but in this case, he’s an authority and he behaves like a little boy with a tantrum, plus, when he and Javier talk about Kensi, well let say that, it’s really creepy. And, even when the story shows how important family is, sometimes the family dynamic wasn’t the best. Kensi’s relatives want her to understand their world, but they don’t take their time to understand hers, so it isn’t fair or the best attitude.

I felt like nobody sees the real Kensi.

And the end was chopped when in my opinion the reader should have a little more. However, despite the few things that I wasn’t convinced of, this is a great reading, sweet and heartfelt, with, I insist, a strong heroine, that’s why I full recommended.

Enjoy!

 I received an ARC from Victoria Editing through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. And I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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