Title: Inside Out

Author: Lia Riley

Series: Off the Map

Published by: Forever Publishing

Date published: Dec. 2, 2014

Genres: NA Contemporary

Book Length: 244 pages

Steam Rating: Steamy

Main Characters: Bran & Talia

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“I fell in love with Lia’s voice  – her writing style and poetic humor adds so much that her way of turning stories into art is an amazing journey.”

When Talia first moved from California to Australia to study abroad, she never dreamed she’d find the love of her life. Bran understands her like no one ever has before. And despite the numerous challenges they’ve faced, they’ve always managed to figure out how to stay together. But this time they’ll face their toughest hurdle yet. Is their love strong enough to keep them together?

Holy Aussie, did I love the Off the Map series! Inside Out by Lia Riley was the final novel in the series and left me with the perfect HEA ending to this realistically beautiful love story.

 

I fell in love with Lia’s voice in Upside Down – her writing style and poetic humor adds so much that her way of turning stories into art is an amazing journey for the reader. Now, I find myself speechless writing this review because there is little I can say about Bran and Talia’s journey that I’ve not already said.

 

Inside Out began with Bran and Talia in different parts of the world, reeling from their choices in Sideswiped. What I loved most about this novel was seeing their relationship develop from young and in love in Upside Down and Sideswiped to learning from experience and making the hard choices (even with the best of intentions) in their quest to find themselves.

 

Both Talia and Bran were pushed to the bottom of the mountain and managed to find their way back up, to uncover their happily ever after’s with each other. These two are one of my all-time favorite MFEO couples and I will miss them terribly!

 

While I’m sad to see Bran and Talia’s story end, I wholeheartedly look forward to reading what else Lia Riley has in her poetic arsenal in 2015.

Lia Riley

Lia Riley writes offbeat New Adult Romance. After studying at the University of Montana-Missoula, she scoured the world armed only with a backpack, overconfidence and a terrible sense of direction. She counts shooting vodka with a Ukranian mechanic in Antarctica, sipping yerba mate with gauchos in Chile and swilling XXXX with stationhands in Outback Australia among her accomplishments. When not torturing heroes (because c’mon, who doesn’t love a good tortured hero?), Lia herds unruly chickens, camps, beach combs, daydreams about as-of-yet unwritten books, wades through a mile-high TBR pile and schemes yet another trip. She and her family live in Northern California.

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Title: Up for Grabs

Author: Heather Young-Nichols

Published by: Swoon Reads

Date published: May 6, 2014

Genres: Contemporary New Adult

Book Length: 179 pages

Main Characters: Flannery Tate & Cain Dorsey

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What’s a girl to do when her scholarship well runs dry? Return home? Get a job? 

Flannery gets creative..she decides to sell her virginity to the highest bidder.

What’s the best way to pay for college? Think you know? Guess again. 

When Flannery Tate left home for a college halfway across the country in Michigan, she’d only planned on getting an education. But when Cain Dorsey walked into her life, she had no choice but to fall for him. However, what’s a girl to do when her scholarship well runs dry? Return home? Get a job? 

Flannery gets creative. She decides to sell the most precious and valuable thing she can – her virginity – to the highest bidder. When Cain discovers her plan, their world crumbles. Will they be able to move past her betrayal and find a way back to each other? Or, is this the beginning of the end?

UP FOR GRABS is a story of love, heartbreak and truth.

Heather Young-Nichols

Heather Young-Nichols was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan and graduated from nearby Saginaw Valley State University with a degree in sociology. The only thing that rivals her love of reading and writing is her love of baseball. When not with her husband and three kids or the cat that likes to bite, she is working to bring the characters in her head to life.

Adam leaned back in his chair with his feet propped up on mine. I kicked his hoofers off so I could sit.

“No coffee?” He doesn’t try to whisper or anything.

I thought the class rather enjoyed the twice a week comedy we provided. They watched us close enough but could also have been trying to decide if we were a couple. We tried that once. Just a kiss but I imagined that was what kissing a blood relative would’ve been like. So, it didn’t work out. It wasn’t an unrequited love kind of thing either. He’d laughed equally as hard as I did. Then he hooked up with Lara Sanders, the village bicycle in West Hall.

“Overslept.”

“That stinks.” I knew he was messing with me by the tone of his voice. The next thing I heard was loud slurping as he emptied his very large cup of coffee. He even did a satisfied “ahhh” at the end, the rotten son of a bitch.

Turning just enough for him to see me, I gave my absolute best dusty eyeball. “You suck.”

“You can have mine,” the warm voice beside me suggested. Cain Dorsey was offering me his coffee?

“I can’t take your coffee.”

“Why not? I don’t have cooties. Plus, I haven’t had a drink yet. Take it.” He reached the cup out so that I could smell the roasted goodness lurking beneath the plastic lid. The black silk seduced me with one sniff.

Trying to stifle the smile that was breaking out across my face, my natural talent for witty come backs disappeared. I was thinking that maybe his cooties wouldn’t be so bad to catch anyway. My stomach tingled slightly under his gaze.

“Take the fucking coffee so we’ll be able to stand you,” Adam interrupted and I reached back with a playful, yet significant, smack to the top of his head.

In the end, I took the coffee. It felt so good going down and the effects started immediately. I felt more awake and sharp.

“Oh god,” my eyes rolled back in my head in a slightly orgasmic way. Yup, I loved coffee that much. “I think I need to marry you.” I said to Cain without thinking. So used to sparing with Adam, it didn’t occur to me that Cain might not take my comments as intended.

My nerves calmed when he broke into a hearty laugh, filling the entire room and drawing Hendrick’s attention.

He didn’t seem to notice the added attention. “If I’d known it’d be that easy … ”

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