Before We Fall
(Beautifully Broken # 3)
By: Courtney Cole
Pub. Date: December 3, 2013
Publisher: Forever
Pages: 336
Source: Netgalley
Sometimes, one dark moment is all it takes to turn your world black...
For 24-year old Dominic Kinkaide, that moment took place on the night of his high school graduation. One dark incident changed him forever. He's a hardened actor now, famous in the eyes of the world, but tortured in his own. He doesn't care about much of anything, except for losing himself in the roles that he plays.
23-year old Jacey Vincent doesn't realize how much her father's indifference has affected her. She is proof that sometimes it isn't one specific moment that wrecks a person, but rather it's an absence of moments. She's like a bird with a broken wing-strong yet fragile, as she tries to float through life, finding acceptance in the arms of random guys, one after the other... to fill the void that her father left in her.
Until she meets Dominic.
After jaded Dominic and strong-willed Jacey are thrown together, his secret and her issues create a dark and damaged energy that will soon turn their attraction to each other into an explosive storm.
Even though when the clouds have cleared and the dust has settled, both of them are almost obliterated... they've learned a priceless lesson.
Sometimes, before we fall... we fly.
I received this galley
in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Netgalley and Forever Pub.
I have been a huge fan of Courtney Cole and her beautifully
broken series ever since I read the first book, If You Stay. Her characters are
wonderfully written, and her stories are just so captivating. When I received a
review copy of Before We Fall I was beyond
excited, and I started reading it right away.
Dominic Kinkaide is a world famous actor. He is gorgeous and
everyone wants something from him. He is also an extremely private person who
holds in a lot of pain and guilt from his past. Not letting anybody in can get
lonely, and Dom deals with that loneliness and pain by participating in as many
sexual acts as possible. Pain and sex is the only way he can feel something.
When waitress Jacey Vincent walks into Dom’s life, everything will change for
both of them. Jacey is also someone who is dealing with guilt, and she can’t
seem to get her life together. She always chooses the wrong guy and makes the
wrong decisions. The two of them were perfect for each other! They were both
stubborn and headstrong, and both were so broken, I thought it would never get
better for either of them. I loved watching them break down each other’s walls,
especially Dom’s walls. Boy, did that boy break my heart.
Dom and Jacey had an extremely hot chemistry and I loved every single moment of it. The two characters were saw raw, and the pain they were dealing with felt so horrible at times, I had to stop reading and take a moment to process everything. It's things like this, that make a good book, great, in my opinion.
Dom and Jacey had an extremely hot chemistry and I loved every single moment of it. The two characters were saw raw, and the pain they were dealing with felt so horrible at times, I had to stop reading and take a moment to process everything. It's things like this, that make a good book, great, in my opinion.
The Beautifully Broken series is one of my favorite series
and I highly recommend it. Cole is such an amazing and talented author. Her
writing is beyond words. I will be a faithful fan of hers for years to come.
Excerpt and Teasers
Are you feeling warm yet?”I watch his lips as he speaks the words, husky and low. His lips are full, yet manly and suddenly I ache to lean over and press mine to his, to touch them in any way that I can.But I don’t.Because I’m not a girl who gets used. Not anymore.“No, not at all.”But Dominic takes that as a challenge. He’s not used to hearing the word no and he’s not about to start now. I see that in his dark eyes a scant moment before he dips his head and consumes my mouth.I say consume, instead of kiss, because that’s what he does.He consumes me.His lips are fiery and hot and he kisses me with a fierceness that touches a secret part of me; moist, hot, firm, sexy. I want to inhale him, to suck him down. I vaguely feel his hands on my back, his warmth emanating through my clothes, his hardness pushing into my softness.I’m breathless when he pulls away.“What about now?”For the life of me, I’m afraid to answer that. Instead, I pull away, just a bit, just enough that there is some space between us, but I can still absorb his warmth. As my teeth chatter, both from the cold and from the suddden absence of his lips, I answer.“I’m good.”He laughs, a husky, low, naughty sound.“Oh, I’m sure of that.”And just like that, I’m drawn back in… in toward his sexy smile, his arrogant gaze and his knowing smirk. He’s bad for me. Very bad for me. I’ve got to remember that.He will decimate you, I tell myself.But my problem is, every time I look into his dark eyes and see the mysterious things that lurk there, I forget that. I forget everything that is supposed to matter.
About the Author:
Courtney Cole is a novelist who would eat mythology for breakfast if she could. She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds. She loves chocolate and roller coasters and hates waiting and rude people.Courtney lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake Michigan, with her real-life Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small chance that they get their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic zoo.
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