BUY LINK: Ink and Lies
Ink & Lies by S.L. JenningsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Copy provided by author in exchange for an honest review
“Being Hope Hughes, romance novelist, was much more profitable and ego-indulging than being August Rhys Calloway, struggling writer. So I ran with it— all the way to a sweet book deal with a top publishing house and a massive following.”Stories are meant to be told. Books are meant to be read. And pages of the written word are meant to be felt. So when the ink dries, it's a reminder of what imaginations, secrets, truths, and lies are waiting to be revealed and exposed. And in S.L. Jennings newest release, Ink & Lies, Ms. Jennings has written a friends to lover story where the truth and matters of the heart are meant to be read between the lines.
“I keep writing for Fiona. Because she is the only person on earth that can decipher my empty words and reveal my soul.”In this fun, fresh, witty, sarcastic, sweet and sexy tale, Ms. Jennings captures the true raw essence and nature of love. Love between friends and the love between two soul-mates and lovers. She has captured this intense and sweet love that can only be read and felt through pages and pages of the written word.
August Rhys Calloway is an author. He has published a book and written several editorial pieces but he is not famous. No one really knows who August Rhys Calloway is but everyone knows Hope Hughes, a famous best-selling romance author. Well it turns out August is Hope Hughes. August has taken upon himself to be a romance author. Romance books sells. Romance aficionados want an amazing love story that will change their lives and having them swooning. And with the pen name, Hope Hughes, August sells thousands of books and has a legion of fans. He sells love stories. Stories that make readers swoon and lust for a hero. Stories for hopeless romantics. Stories that are built on lies. Well lies and imaginations. Stories that he knows can sell.
“Before this moment, before me and her. Before kiss-burned thighs and peach-tipped nipples and honey -flavored lips, I’d never known love. Because to me, love was a fantasy. A fairytale. And Fiona is and always has been the happiest of ever afters. She’s my ghost. My reason for trusting in something as intangible and lucid as the air whistling through my clenched teeth as I push inside paradise. And, as I dip my head to kiss her through the pleasure of drowning in her ocean, the pain of letting go of all my inhibitions and insecurities, I know that for the first time, I irrevocably, intensely, insanely believe.”So who is the real August Rhys Calloway? Well he is just an ordinary author who has two important people in his life. His grandfather and his best friend, Fiona. Fiona is the one person who truly knows the real Rhys. Fiona is someone who will be there for him in an instant. They are each others confidant. There is no Rhys without Fiona. And so what happens when Rhys finally starts to realize that love stories are indeed real when he begins to see his best friend in a whole new light. Will Rhys be able to write and put into perspective of what Fiona means to him? Or will this hero discover that love stories in books is not the same in real life?
“I once told myself that I wanted to write something that made Fi fall in love. And now that I see that it wasn’t the words I wanted her to hold so dearly that she couldn’t help but weep as she read. I wanted to write something to make Fiona fall in love with me. Not my pretty words or my pretty face or any of the other inconsequential bullshit I had deemed important. I just wanted her to love me, her Rhys.”Ink & Lies was a fun, witty and sweet. Ms. Jennings truly delivered a story that was filled with humor, vulnerability and raw characters. She did not just give us an ordinary friends to lover story but she gave readers a fun spin on the happily ever after. It is often said we make our own stories and ending. So in this story, the ink is fresh and never runs dries because the story of the happily ever after is how we choose to write it so in a sense we each have to get in touch with our own inner Hope Hughes. And all we need to do is tap into our inner hopeless romantic and write that line, page, chapter and journey in our life. And just maybe we can end our story with a HEA ending. So if you are in the mood for a light entertaining sweet read and are a hopeless romantic then this book is for you because SL Jennings truly delivers a love story with her heartfelt prose that will make us laugh, cry, swoon and smile.
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