Secret Lucidity is LIVE!!!!
I absolutely adored this student/teacher romance and can highly recommend it!!!!
Title: Secret Lucidity
Author: E.K. Blair
Genre: Student/Teacher Forbidden Romance
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Book Description:
This wasn’t supposed to happen.
But it did.
This wasn’t supposed to be my life.
But it was.
I was just a typical girl, living a typical life. Nothing was out of the ordinary until tragedy threw me into a turnstile I couldn’t see my way out of. That was, until him.
I never could’ve imagined my heart falling the way it did. Hard, fast, and with unbounding beauty.
The only problem?
He was off limits.
Forbidden.
But he became my everything, and I became his, so we risked it all. It was only a matter of time until I realized that our risk came with unimaginable consequences.
My name is Camellia Hale and his is David Andrews, and this is our love story.
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Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars
***ARC received for an honest review***
“This is us – victims of love.”
Two five star reads on the bounce and EK Blair is back with
a bang with Secret Lucidity. This is EK Blair at her very best and this book
has earned its place on my EK Blair favourites list. I have always had an
incredibly soft spot for Fading, Freeing & Falling, but this one is right
up there with them.
“…if I’m going to give you the
broken pieces of me, then I’m going to want yours too.”
EK Blair brings to the table a forbidden love book, student
and professor and while I absolutely love this trope, the best bit about this
book…EMOTION!! I literally spent the first 30 odd percent of this book in
floods of tears as our heroine’s life is changed forever. I felt Camellia’s
pain, I lived and breathed it, I experienced it and was in total awe as EK
Blair made this character bleed on every page. This was raw and emotional and
what an incredible start to a book. When an author nails a character like this
I always sit back in admiration, my whole body was literally wrung out and if
there is ever a character you will find yourself rooting for, it is our
Camellia.
“I feel unlovable…I’m too far
beyond lost, and I don’t know how to find my way back. I’m starting to wonder
if there even is a way back.”
This book was beautifully crafted, perfectly paced and one
of the most hauntingly emotional books I have ever had the pleasure of reading,
but it is not all doom and gloom. Oh no, as I said, student/teacher and this
one has all the feels. I loved the slow burn, at no point did I feel that David
was a predator. Although Camellia was considered underage at seventeen, here in
the UK, legal age is sixteen, so for me, age wasn’t a problem. But, for me,
these two were believable. I felt their connection, the chemistry was off the
charts and these two fell for each other hard, when the world wanted to keep
them apart.
“…know that, no matter what they
say, no matter how wrong we were for doing what we did, together all those
wrongs created the most exquisite right. So, this is it. This is how our love
story ends.”
The depth of these characters was flawless, sheer brilliance
as EK Blair immerses the reader into the desperate lives of two people that are
incredibly flawed and yet bring out the best in one and other. Each heals the
other and while you would scream dependency, it wasn’t like that, these two
just clicked, they worked, and they loved hard.
“This is wrong. But when the
whole world is spitting its wrongs at me, what the hell is just one more?”
The angst level was way up there, but nothing superfluous.
The twists and turns had my guts churning, my heart breaking, my eyes leaking
and my emotions all over the place. Expertly crafted this book is one
incredible roller coaster of emotions that will have you running the gamut of
every single feeling you can muster. This is one of the most epic love stories
I have ever had the pleasure of reading and is proof that age is just a number.
The heart wants who the heart wants, you don’t choose who you love…love chooses
you.
“Because that’s what love is;
it’s the same as death – it’s a separation from reality. It’s a moment
suspended in time, and when it’s over, that’s it – your moment is gone. All
you’re left with is this – this right here – mourning memories of what will
never be again.”
Seriously amazing, emotional, unputdownable and a love story
I will never forget and will definitely be re-reading. My only gripe…I wanted
more. Keeping my fingers for a very extended epilogue in the future.
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About the Author:
New York Times, USA Today, and International bestselling author, E.K. Blair, takes her readers on an emotional roller coaster with her books. Blair tends to drift towards love stories that are deeply layered with emotional angst. Give her a character and she will dig into their core to find what lies beneath.
Aside from writing, E.K. Blair finds pleasure in music, drinking her Starbucks in peace and spending time with her friends and family. She's a thinker, an artist, a wife, a mom, and everything in between.
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