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Loving the Sykes #2
Carter
CARTER
For the last seven years, I’d managed Wilson’s Gym. It made a nice reprieve from the significant lack of romance in my life. I wasn’t the settling down sort of guy. Even for the gorgeous spitfire who’d plagued my days for years; it was more fun riling her up.
Until one night and one mistake show me that maybe a guy can have it all. Of course, we’d need to find a middle ground between arguing and sex.
There’s a fine line between love and hate.
EMMA
For the last four years, I’d trained at Wilson’s Gym. Exercise was a poor substitute for sex, but it kept me from making stupid mistakes. Especially when it came to the gym’s sex-on-legs manager, who I’d clashed with since the first day I’d walked into that place.
All it takes it one moment and one monumental mistake to change the course of my life. But I’m not sure I’m ready to open up again, even for him.
There’s a fine line between love and hate.
A STANDALONE enemies to lovers romance with a HEA.
For the last seven years, I’d managed Wilson’s Gym. It made a nice reprieve from the significant lack of romance in my life. I wasn’t the settling down sort of guy. Even for the gorgeous spitfire who’d plagued my days for years; it was more fun riling her up.
Until one night and one mistake show me that maybe a guy can have it all. Of course, we’d need to find a middle ground between arguing and sex.
There’s a fine line between love and hate.
EMMA
For the last four years, I’d trained at Wilson’s Gym. Exercise was a poor substitute for sex, but it kept me from making stupid mistakes. Especially when it came to the gym’s sex-on-legs manager, who I’d clashed with since the first day I’d walked into that place.
All it takes it one moment and one monumental mistake to change the course of my life. But I’m not sure I’m ready to open up again, even for him.
There’s a fine line between love and hate.
A STANDALONE enemies to lovers romance with a HEA.
- GenresContemporary Romance
302 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 31, 2020
52 people are currently reading
57 people want to read
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Elizabeth Stevens
77 books368 followersWriter. Reader. Perpetual student. Nerd.
I started out writing fantasy. But, I like to write anything, honestly. These days, I mainly stick to YA and there's always at least a sprinkling of romance, if not a 'whoops, I dropped the whole packet in'. Almost all my books are set in my home state of South Australia, either in real or fictional places - gotta write what you know - with Netherfield being the only current exception.
Like most writers, I love to read. Although, time for reading at the moment is hard to come by. When I'm not too busy writing, I'm usually reading a number of authors. Some of my favourites are Rick Riordan, Jane Austen, Kate Forsyth, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Kasie West, John Flanagan, Terry Pratchett, Isobelle Carmody, Christina Benjamin, Emily Rodda, and many more.
I'm an avid fan of Marvel, DC, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Red Dwarf, IT Crowd, and pretty much anything similar. I've recently discovered Richard Ayoade's Travel Man and it's brilliant. I love watching soccer (go Gunners) and thoroughly look forward to seeing Eurovision every year. Celebrity crushes include Anna Kendrick and Chris Evans, because they are wonderful.
I live in Adelaide with my husband and a menagerie of animals – a cat reliving her (sixth) youth, a cowardly Beagle-Cavalier who thinks he’s smaller than he is, one meeping guinea pig who thinks any plastic bag has his greens in, two chickens who are terrified of free-ranging, and a turtle with a penchant for sticking her head up her filter pipe.
I have a Master of Arts (Writing) from Swinburne University of Technology. I also have a Master of Arts (Editing and Publishing) at University of Southern Queensland and, am now working towards my PhD. I also hope to one day undertake a PhD in Creative Writing - perpetual student, am I.
I also organise the Sleeping Dragon Emerging Fantasy Writers’ Collective writing group. The group self-published their anthology Tales from the Sleeping Dragon in 2012.
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I started out writing fantasy. But, I like to write anything, honestly. These days, I mainly stick to YA and there's always at least a sprinkling of romance, if not a 'whoops, I dropped the whole packet in'. Almost all my books are set in my home state of South Australia, either in real or fictional places - gotta write what you know - with Netherfield being the only current exception.
Like most writers, I love to read. Although, time for reading at the moment is hard to come by. When I'm not too busy writing, I'm usually reading a number of authors. Some of my favourites are Rick Riordan, Jane Austen, Kate Forsyth, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Kasie West, John Flanagan, Terry Pratchett, Isobelle Carmody, Christina Benjamin, Emily Rodda, and many more.
I'm an avid fan of Marvel, DC, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Red Dwarf, IT Crowd, and pretty much anything similar. I've recently discovered Richard Ayoade's Travel Man and it's brilliant. I love watching soccer (go Gunners) and thoroughly look forward to seeing Eurovision every year. Celebrity crushes include Anna Kendrick and Chris Evans, because they are wonderful.
I live in Adelaide with my husband and a menagerie of animals – a cat reliving her (sixth) youth, a cowardly Beagle-Cavalier who thinks he’s smaller than he is, one meeping guinea pig who thinks any plastic bag has his greens in, two chickens who are terrified of free-ranging, and a turtle with a penchant for sticking her head up her filter pipe.
I have a Master of Arts (Writing) from Swinburne University of Technology. I also have a Master of Arts (Editing and Publishing) at University of Southern Queensland and, am now working towards my PhD. I also hope to one day undertake a PhD in Creative Writing - perpetual student, am I.
I also organise the Sleeping Dragon Emerging Fantasy Writers’ Collective writing group. The group self-published their anthology Tales from the Sleeping Dragon in 2012.
You can also find me on:
Wattpad
If you'd like to keep up with all my shenanigans, you can sign up for my newsletter here.
NB: I'm usually happy to discuss review copies of my books. A track record of reviewing is preferable, but not completely necessary.
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December 21, 2020
It wasn't as good as the first in this series, Caden. It was missing some of the things that I liked most about the first. Sure, the family aspect was still there, but it didn't flow as well as the first one. I didn't feel like you got to know the characters as well either. I'm never really a fan of casual hook-ups in books either, and that's what their relationship was supposed to be based on from the start. I don't know...just felt like it was lacking all around. It was still good to continue the story of the Sykes family, and what Lucy and Caden were up to. Then, of course, it sets up for the next book, which will be Luther. Even so, it was still better than a lot of NA books that I read. I just always expect more from Stevens because I know what she's capable of with her writing. The banter and easy conversations are still there...she's always good at that. Now I just wait for the next one.
March 26, 2021
Confused
Is how I felt for much of this book. I did like many parts, and when the main couple stopped coming across like teenagers, I liked them.
And no it is not the excessive slang, (yes I am a Yankee, but I can figure out most of it) it was the juvenile behavior, and the he said, no she meant, etc that was ridiculous.
Felt like smacking them in back of their heads and saying grow up and speak like the adults you are.
Now I am a little annoyed at ending. It was finely at a point, where they were adulting when the author left us hanging with out a conclusion.
I recommend she get some beta readers that are not in their twenties. Because she is talented but frankly if I will stop reading her books if the characters speak like this one, and the. End is like this.
Is how I felt for much of this book. I did like many parts, and when the main couple stopped coming across like teenagers, I liked them.
And no it is not the excessive slang, (yes I am a Yankee, but I can figure out most of it) it was the juvenile behavior, and the he said, no she meant, etc that was ridiculous.
Felt like smacking them in back of their heads and saying grow up and speak like the adults you are.
Now I am a little annoyed at ending. It was finely at a point, where they were adulting when the author left us hanging with out a conclusion.
I recommend she get some beta readers that are not in their twenties. Because she is talented but frankly if I will stop reading her books if the characters speak like this one, and the. End is like this.
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