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Human Hieroglyphix #2
Crys and Gabe
Crys and Gabe grew up together in the woods outside of Grantham, Colorado. They were each others best friend and champion. But things have a way of coming between people, especially as they grow into adulthood. School, families and distances all worked in creating a wedge that moved them from best friends to acquaintances.
Gabe's come back, though, using words like 'forever' and 'love' in ways Crys has never heard him speak. And she wants him, has always wanted him. But Crys knows that history, their history, can repeat itself. While she agrees to give Gabe a chance, she is determined to protect her heart.
Can Crys learn to trust Gabe again, and in doing so, learn to trust herself?
Human Hieroglyphix 2 is the second book in the series and is intended for mature readers. Contains graphic language and explicit sexual situations.
Gabe's come back, though, using words like 'forever' and 'love' in ways Crys has never heard him speak. And she wants him, has always wanted him. But Crys knows that history, their history, can repeat itself. While she agrees to give Gabe a chance, she is determined to protect her heart.
Can Crys learn to trust Gabe again, and in doing so, learn to trust herself?
Human Hieroglyphix 2 is the second book in the series and is intended for mature readers. Contains graphic language and explicit sexual situations.
280 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 1, 2013
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About the author
J.A. Hornbuckle
20 books396 followersMy heart was beating so freaking fast. I could hear the murmurings of the crowd behind the curtain where I was hiding, that separated me from them.
It was time. Time for me to come out and talk with them, those people from Goodreads that had read my books, rated my books and that wanted to know the person behind the words.
I stepped my way carefully out onto the stage, my heartbeat the only sound my ears could hear.
"Hi," I mumbled into the microphone. "My name is Judy and I write as J.A. Hornbuckle."
Damn. My voice sounded as hesitant as I felt.
"Tha-thank you so much for your interest." I was fumbling. But, I'd done this before. The public speaking thingie. And I really hadn't ever been this nervous before. But, geesh, I'd had notes then.
Not now.
Deep breath, my mind instructed.
Okay, that I could do.
"I, ah, I don't know what to…uhm, I'm uncertain what I'm supposed to talk about," I began.
The fact that I couldn't see into the crowd was a problem. Talking to crowds is supposed to be like talking to other people. But I couldn't actually SEE the other people.
Crap.
Just start at the beginning.
"I started writing because of a migraine," I started, my voice reedy and thin even in the amplification of the microphone. "I'd read three crap books in a row and thought I could do better."
I cleared my throat which I hadn't realized beforehand would be captured by the speakers.
"Sorry," I mumbled and tried again.
"I read three books that convinced me that I could write better. I'm an avid reader. A voracious reader that consumed four to six fiction books a week. Three books, three crap books, meant that I had wasted fifty percent of my reading time. And I knew that I could do better, could write better."
The noise in the large room lessened as I spoke and I gained courage from that silence.
"As I laid on the floor of my walk-in closet because it, of all the rooms in my apartment, had no noise, no light, and with my frozen pack of corn on my head, thought of the book I might write."
I remembered that time of pain. Of hurting so bad that my stomach would roil, where every heartbeat was torture and I couldn't breathe without the air hurting my teeth.
"I started to think about Caitlin and Jake, about what was to become 'Pole Dance', and eventually I found that I could shove that pain to one side as I planned. I learned to stash a steno pad and pen in there with me and use my baby finger to hold the end of the steno pad and write in the dark."
I heard a couple of chuckles which made me bolder.
"I tried to capture the story on my computer in my 'dull roar' times. And, in a word? It was crap. I didn't know what I was doing. So I started to study. Read, absorbed. But you know what I found? Writing is like driving a car. You can read about driving, learning the rules of the road, reading about safety tips and precautions. But until you are actually behind the wheel? Oh, baby. Completely different story."
More laughs this time. My knees were steadier and I felt my voice strengthen.
I needed to finish up.
"My name is Judy. And I'm a new author who is learning by the seat of her yoga pants as she goes. Thank you so much for reading and reviewing my books. You mean a lot to me."
I smiled and waved into the glare that was hiding the group that had come to hear me speak.
Because I've never spoken so much and with such honesty from my heart at one time.
It was time. Time for me to come out and talk with them, those people from Goodreads that had read my books, rated my books and that wanted to know the person behind the words.
I stepped my way carefully out onto the stage, my heartbeat the only sound my ears could hear.
"Hi," I mumbled into the microphone. "My name is Judy and I write as J.A. Hornbuckle."
Damn. My voice sounded as hesitant as I felt.
"Tha-thank you so much for your interest." I was fumbling. But, I'd done this before. The public speaking thingie. And I really hadn't ever been this nervous before. But, geesh, I'd had notes then.
Not now.
Deep breath, my mind instructed.
Okay, that I could do.
"I, ah, I don't know what to…uhm, I'm uncertain what I'm supposed to talk about," I began.
The fact that I couldn't see into the crowd was a problem. Talking to crowds is supposed to be like talking to other people. But I couldn't actually SEE the other people.
Crap.
Just start at the beginning.
"I started writing because of a migraine," I started, my voice reedy and thin even in the amplification of the microphone. "I'd read three crap books in a row and thought I could do better."
I cleared my throat which I hadn't realized beforehand would be captured by the speakers.
"Sorry," I mumbled and tried again.
"I read three books that convinced me that I could write better. I'm an avid reader. A voracious reader that consumed four to six fiction books a week. Three books, three crap books, meant that I had wasted fifty percent of my reading time. And I knew that I could do better, could write better."
The noise in the large room lessened as I spoke and I gained courage from that silence.
"As I laid on the floor of my walk-in closet because it, of all the rooms in my apartment, had no noise, no light, and with my frozen pack of corn on my head, thought of the book I might write."
I remembered that time of pain. Of hurting so bad that my stomach would roil, where every heartbeat was torture and I couldn't breathe without the air hurting my teeth.
"I started to think about Caitlin and Jake, about what was to become 'Pole Dance', and eventually I found that I could shove that pain to one side as I planned. I learned to stash a steno pad and pen in there with me and use my baby finger to hold the end of the steno pad and write in the dark."
I heard a couple of chuckles which made me bolder.
"I tried to capture the story on my computer in my 'dull roar' times. And, in a word? It was crap. I didn't know what I was doing. So I started to study. Read, absorbed. But you know what I found? Writing is like driving a car. You can read about driving, learning the rules of the road, reading about safety tips and precautions. But until you are actually behind the wheel? Oh, baby. Completely different story."
More laughs this time. My knees were steadier and I felt my voice strengthen.
I needed to finish up.
"My name is Judy. And I'm a new author who is learning by the seat of her yoga pants as she goes. Thank you so much for reading and reviewing my books. You mean a lot to me."
I smiled and waved into the glare that was hiding the group that had come to hear me speak.
Because I've never spoken so much and with such honesty from my heart at one time.
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November 24, 2014
2 Almost DNF Stars
After reading book #1 in this series, Human Hieroglyphix, I admit I was pretty excited to find out what was going on between the sassy, tattooed and spirited Crys and Gabe, the man that she couldn't forget.
A lot of trouble, sex, discussion and heartache later, I somehow lost interest in everything. One-dimensional characters, superficial feelings, non-existent plot outside the romance and too much trouble for nothing, the only reason I decided to finish this book is because it's Summer and I spend a lot of time under the sun...
Sunburned, hot and bothered, this book didn't help my situation. Immature characters and insufficient plot also didn't help. If this was a novella I would have given it a higher rating, but a full length book? I was bored out of my mind..
So first book:
This book:
J.A. Hornbuckle is a very talented author that somehow missed with this one...
Lesson learned!
After reading book #1 in this series, Human Hieroglyphix, I admit I was pretty excited to find out what was going on between the sassy, tattooed and spirited Crys and Gabe, the man that she couldn't forget.
A lot of trouble, sex, discussion and heartache later, I somehow lost interest in everything. One-dimensional characters, superficial feelings, non-existent plot outside the romance and too much trouble for nothing, the only reason I decided to finish this book is because it's Summer and I spend a lot of time under the sun...
Sunburned, hot and bothered, this book didn't help my situation. Immature characters and insufficient plot also didn't help. If this was a novella I would have given it a higher rating, but a full length book? I was bored out of my mind..
So first book:
This book:
J.A. Hornbuckle is a very talented author that somehow missed with this one...
Lesson learned!
November 29, 2018
Crys ends up getting hurt at work and has to spend some time in the hospital from it. While in the hospital, Gabe decides it's time to make his move, and make Crys for once and all. However, he didn't expect to have a lot of negative reaction from his friends and family, but that is what seems to happen.
Crys and Gabe must work through past hurts, and work through coming out to their friends and family. But, this is a lot easier said than done. And when some people from Gabe's past come back to haunt him things get even worse for these two.
This book was not nearly as good as the first one. I was disappointed in that regard.
I did like this one for the most part. I thought the plot line was interesting, but I was a little annoyed with a few things in the story.
(May contain mild spoilers)
1) I hated that what caused Crys to get hurt in the beginning of the book was never really resolved. That bothered me, and another instance of something happening to her house as well.
2) I also didn't like the fact that Gabe and Crys were "hiding" their relationship. That really pissed me off, and made no sense what so ever to this story in my opinion. I didn't get it.
But, other than these two things I really did like it. I loved Crys the most. I thought she was a very smart and stubborn woman, and even though she got with Gabe, who made a ton of mistakes, she still stuck it out through the end.
Crys and Gabe must work through past hurts, and work through coming out to their friends and family. But, this is a lot easier said than done. And when some people from Gabe's past come back to haunt him things get even worse for these two.
This book was not nearly as good as the first one. I was disappointed in that regard.
I did like this one for the most part. I thought the plot line was interesting, but I was a little annoyed with a few things in the story.
(May contain mild spoilers)
1) I hated that what caused Crys to get hurt in the beginning of the book was never really resolved. That bothered me, and another instance of something happening to her house as well.
2) I also didn't like the fact that Gabe and Crys were "hiding" their relationship. That really pissed me off, and made no sense what so ever to this story in my opinion. I didn't get it.
But, other than these two things I really did like it. I loved Crys the most. I thought she was a very smart and stubborn woman, and even though she got with Gabe, who made a ton of mistakes, she still stuck it out through the end.
April 11, 2013
I wanted to like this book so much, but it left me so frustrated. I liked Crys from the other books, and I liked that the mains had a history, twisted as it might be. I felt that the storyline contradicted itself in several places and didn't like what Benny and Trish added to the story. HH was so good, I had high expectations. I will continue to follow this author, you can't knock it out of the park every time you come to bat.
July 1, 2013
I was torn by this book. I gave it four stars because it was well written, a good story, and the heroine rocked! However, I wanted to punch the douche bag "hero" in the throat. Who treats peolle like that? What an asshat!!!
April 11, 2013
3.5 stars.
June 16, 2017
Well... I loved the first book, but this one was definitely out of order. Sex scenes were awesome. Crys was awesome. But what hit me most - Gabe was a HUGE GINORMOUS ASSHOLE all the time. It was like ordering a lovely salad and finding a roach after roach in it. Fuckup after fuckup and he NEVER LEARNED! Hell, he did not even seem to understand that he hurt the woman who loved him. And she forgave him every friggin time!!! No. NO. Where Dex actually understood what he did, and it killed him and he only did it once, Gabe was just a douche. No love for him.
April 22, 2013
Ok i liked a lot so i going to be honest and to do that I going to my mother language.
Su estilo de redacción es muy similar al de Kristen Ashley, y por lo visto creo esta serie de historias para continuar en un ritmo similar al de ella, de manera que entrelaza todas sus series, en esta nos enfocamos en Crystal y Gabriel, amigos de la infancia, enamorados uno del otro de manera que solo se interponen sus inseguridades y desiciones de jóvenes, como en sus anteriores libros el romance esta ahí, las complicaciones están ahí, en este caso enforma de una ex novia obsesionada, pasados romances que molestan a Gabe (OMG ella era soltera y tuvo novios, Macho!) enfermedad paterna y odio de parte de este encontra de este romance. Lo tiene todo, pero le faltan a la vez cosas claves, como la atención a los detalles, tengo todos los libros de esta autora, y me gusta y la seguiré comprando pero en verdad me molesta cuando forzan las cosas solo por caer en una clasificación, por ejemplo Timeline, por que en HH1 suceden cosas que no suceden en el mismo orden o en definitiva no suceden en Tap Dance y llegamos a HH2 y todo esta tan revuelto que un personaje que suponemos es importante como lo es Sam el abogado(ya que han mencionado mucho la influencia del banquero con las hipotecas y herencias, todo esto para que, y además le cambian la edad al abogado, raro) se introducen a los personajes de la nueva serie bewitched, lo que supongo será el romance de HH3, pero no sabemos nada de la serie Dance. Espero me este dando a entender. En verdad me gustan sus historias pero si le hace falta poner atención a su línea de tiempo, los detalles dw sus personajes y los eventos en que estos se involucran.
Su estilo de redacción es muy similar al de Kristen Ashley, y por lo visto creo esta serie de historias para continuar en un ritmo similar al de ella, de manera que entrelaza todas sus series, en esta nos enfocamos en Crystal y Gabriel, amigos de la infancia, enamorados uno del otro de manera que solo se interponen sus inseguridades y desiciones de jóvenes, como en sus anteriores libros el romance esta ahí, las complicaciones están ahí, en este caso enforma de una ex novia obsesionada, pasados romances que molestan a Gabe (OMG ella era soltera y tuvo novios, Macho!) enfermedad paterna y odio de parte de este encontra de este romance. Lo tiene todo, pero le faltan a la vez cosas claves, como la atención a los detalles, tengo todos los libros de esta autora, y me gusta y la seguiré comprando pero en verdad me molesta cuando forzan las cosas solo por caer en una clasificación, por ejemplo Timeline, por que en HH1 suceden cosas que no suceden en el mismo orden o en definitiva no suceden en Tap Dance y llegamos a HH2 y todo esta tan revuelto que un personaje que suponemos es importante como lo es Sam el abogado(ya que han mencionado mucho la influencia del banquero con las hipotecas y herencias, todo esto para que, y además le cambian la edad al abogado, raro) se introducen a los personajes de la nueva serie bewitched, lo que supongo será el romance de HH3, pero no sabemos nada de la serie Dance. Espero me este dando a entender. En verdad me gustan sus historias pero si le hace falta poner atención a su línea de tiempo, los detalles dw sus personajes y los eventos en que estos se involucran.
April 18, 2013
I enjoyed this book I really did and the characters. I don't agree with some people saying that Gabe was basically a horrible guy I thought that he went through some rough times and made mistakes in high school but just like everyone else grew up and realized what/who he really wanted.
The only problem with the story line was the keeping the relationship a secret part from the group and Ben (who BTW I do not like... I don't care if there is a reason for his attitude) Gabe made the announcement during the begging and then they act like it never happened.
All in all another good read from J.A.
The only problem with the story line was the keeping the relationship a secret part from the group and Ben (who BTW I do not like... I don't care if there is a reason for his attitude) Gabe made the announcement during the begging and then they act like it never happened.
All in all another good read from J.A.
February 3, 2016
It was an okay read. There were a few things that either were not resolved or I just completely missed it. I don't want to get into detail due to spoiling the story. Benny got on my nerves. I wanted someone to just shut him up. His ending was appropriate. I liked seeing the involvement of the other characters that I read about previously and how they pull together to support each other. I also like how this story overlapped theirs. If you have not read Tap Dance, read it first due to a few spoilers. Otherwise, this was okay. A few characters were annoying, but I liked the story. The reflections on their childhood really helped enrich the storyline.
April 8, 2013
I would have scored this story higher if the Alpha-male main character was not such an arse-wipe for a good portion of the book. The story was, as per usual with this author, extremely well written and the dialogue and characters full of life and emotion. But Gabe, really just needed to grow a set much earlier and stand up for his love. Even with that opinion I did love the majority of this story and it's only my personal opinion after all. :)
August 12, 2016
I didn't love this book as much as the other books in the series. For some reason, I couldn't connect with Crys even though I liked her character in the other books.
not-gonna-be-able-to-do-it
October 28, 2015I am just not feeling this one, like at all. I don't have any connection between these two. Sad because I liked the others. I may come back once there are more reviews but so far the reviews I have read aren't promising.
June 27, 2013
Ah I loved this even more than the first book, Crys and Gabe are just an awesome couple. I adore JAH's characters, they are gritty and honest, warts and all and she lays it all out there.
A brilliant, brilliant series and I am hooked. I need more, NOW!
A brilliant, brilliant series and I am hooked. I need more, NOW!
April 9, 2013
Started off really strong, but fell kinda flat. Not bad, just not as good as Marianne and Ram's story.
April 14, 2013
Awesome love story. Review to come.
April 7, 2013
loved the relationship with Crys and Gabe! as always, JA, awesome job!
April 15, 2013
Slightly disappointing my least favourite book from this author.
July 18, 2013
Great job J.A. I have read all 4 books and looking forward to the others in each trilogy. Just saying your sex scenes have gotten better in each book yowza yummy
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