Review: Ripped (Real #5) by Katy Evans

Title: Ripped
Author: Katy Evans
Series: Real #5

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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Pandora, the gothic friend of Brooke (Real, Mine, Remy) and Melanie, thought that getting her heart broken by her bad boy rocker ex could only happen once. But now, he's back in town with the biggest concert of the year. Pandora hates him so much that she gets Melanie to come with her and play a prank on him at his gig. But when they are caught by security, and her ex himself is summoned, he decides not to press charges if she'll follow certain conditions. Pandora likes none of his rules, or that he's in charge of her, especially since they seem designed to make sure she's in close contact with him again. But the closeness reignites the passion they once shared, and soon no matter how much she wants to hate him, it's clear she's still hung up on him. And worse: he knows it too.

-Is this a promise ring?
-What are you promising me?
-Me."

This is the first book by Katy Evans that blew me away. I loved the previous books in the series but none affected me as much as this one did.

Pandora, should have been no stranger to us since we have seen her in previous books but when I tried to recall what info I knew about her, I came up with almost nothing.

Pandora’s story goes like: boy meets girl, they fall in love, boy leaves without reason, girl gets her heart broken, they never recover from it. Before reading Pandora’s story, I was surprised that a woman like he, was a man-hater. After finishing her story, I finally understand everything. She was so guarded, always kept everything to herself because she was afraid of getting hurt. But when an opportunity presents itself to extract revenge from the man who destroyed her life, she can’t but take it.

Mackennna Jones, lead singer of Crack Bikini, is a man with many regrets. He knows that he made a lot of mistakes in his life but now he’s on his way to make up for them. In public he appears to be a tough rock star but inside he is a beautiful person. He wants to fight for what he lost but he never expected the truth that Pandora kept to herself, would hurt so much.

Ripped is a story of a second chance love, forgiveness and broken hearts. Pandora and Mackenna were two amazing and strong characters. They had fallen in love when they were both very young and they had to separate die to some circumstances.

It was a great journey with a rock band, healing hearts, hot scenes, many great new and old characters. This book was also filled with many emotions. Once again, I have to admit that I couldn’t but compare Pandora and Mackenna’s story to the stories of the previous characters.

I can’t wait for the next installment in the series (if there is a next one)!

Totally recommended!

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WAITING ON WEDNESDAY #18 Ripped (Real #5) by Katy Evans

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine and is where we can talk about books we are looking forward to being released.

Title: Ripped

Author: Katy Evans

Series: Real #5

Expected publication: December 9th 2014

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Every woman wants me--except the one I sing for.
Seattle shakes with anticipation: they call it the concert of the year. They say girls are getting pregnant just thinking about my band being in town.
But when you love a girl, you don't leave her with nothing but a ring and a promise. Any man with half a brain should know.
So what did I expect my girl would do when she saw me again?
Well, for starters, she loathes our music. Particularly the song I wrote about her.
When I sing it, the stadium is in an uproar. Thousands of fans scream my name like I'm a god--but yeah, not her. Crystal clear: the girl's not happy to see me.
Black hair, black boots, a bad attitude, that's her -- Pandora Stone is a freaking man-eater and she's out for my blood.
That's alright.
Let her come at me. Because I'm out for her heart and, this time, there's no way she can stop me.

What are you waiting on Wednesday??? 

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Review: Rogue (Real #4) by Katy Evans

Title: Rogue
Author: Katy Evans
Series: Real #4

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

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Greyson King...
My boyfriend. My friend. My protector. He's the reason I wake up every morning with a smile on my face, and the reason I fall asleep limp, worn out, and aching for his warm arms around me. When we make love, he says my name like it means something. Like I mean something.
He
Lied.
His name is Greyson King, but his alias is Zero.
There's zero trace of him, he has zero past, and now I know that with him, I will have zero future.
He may leave no trace of him anywhere, but his imprint is in me, in my very soul--and I hate that a mere look at him commands the beat of my heart. The temperature of my body.
I've looked for love my entire life. I've waited for the butterflies, the rainbows...
Instead I'm in a free fall of emotions and there's no one to catch me but the one man I should be running away from. The one man I thought was my prince charming.
Except this prince charming went rogue.
Greyson will stop at nothing to make me be with him. He'll let no one stand in our way, will allow no one to threaten me, and maybe this is what scares me most of all...
What will my rogue do to keep me?

“You may be zero in your world…but you’re everything to me.”

Rogue is the fourth book in the Real series by Katy Evans.

I'll start by saying that since I've read and totally enjoyed the previous books in the series, I expected the same to apply and here. But yeah, far from it.

For me Rogue wasn't that bad of a book, I really did like it, but it was far from what I had imagined and that disappointed me.

Rogue tells the story of Melanie, Brooke's bff. Melanie is the most optimistic person you'll ever meet. She's always positive, cheerful and always searching for the one thing she can't have, her one true love, her soulmate. But searching her soulmate isn't as easy as one would think. Until him.

Enter Greyson King. Greyson is far from what Melanie is looking for, dangerous, dark and a man with a past full of secrets. What Melanie doesn't know though is that Greyson is collecting unpaid debts

for the Underground fights on behalf of his father. Greyson may not have wanted the job but if he wants answers then he'll have to take it. His life has always been ruled by his father's decisions, even now, but things are about to change.

Greyson has a deal with his father. Collect all the debts owned to him and in exchange get his mother. His relationship with Melanie is something new for him but he wants to make it work. Because with her he may have found something he never knew, love.

Rogue was an enjoyable book. I liked both Greyson and Melanie, I just didn't love them. They were both so imperfect and troubled but together they managed to find what they both were looking for. Although, there was much drama, little action and lots of romance the author managed to give the story some suspense as well (which I totally loved).

I'm going to keep it short and just say that althought I wasn't very impressed by the book, and if you have read the previous books in the series, then you should definitely give it a try.

Note: Rogue can totally be read as a stand alone!

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