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Review: Playing with Fire


Title: Playing With Fire
Author: L.J. Shen
Release Date: September 15


Blurb:

A broken boy on the path to destruction.
A scarred girl without direction.
A love story carved in secrets, inked with pain and sealed with a lie.

Grace Shaw and West St. Claire are arctic opposites.
She is the strange girl from the food truck.
He is the mysterious underground fighter who stormed into her sleepy Texan college town on his motorcycle one day, and has been wreaking havoc since.
She is invisible to the world.
He is the town’s beloved bad boy.
She is a reject.
He is trouble.
When West thrusts himself into Grace’s quiet life, she scrambles to figure out if he is her happily-ever-after or tragic ending.
But the harder she pushes him away, the more he pulls her out of her shell.
Grace doesn’t know much about anything beyond her town’s limits, but she does know this:
She is falling in love with the hottest guy in Sheridan U.
And when you play with fire—you ought to get burned.






I... I am utterly at a loss for words right now.

I just finished playing with fire and I absolutely loved this story.

Grace is a scarred girl in her little town who wants to be invisible. Hide away from the world, after being the talk of the town for so long.

West is the bad boy from out of town who rolled in on his motorcycle. Both have secrets they wish to keep to themselves.

They're love story is written in pain, will it end in a happily ever after, or tragedy?

I'm still struggling to come up with words for this story. It was beautiful, and heart felt and tragic and amazing all rolled into one. I laughed, and cried, and cheered.

Grace was a normal teenager, who had the  world at her feet, until one fateful day changed everything. Her strength shown through, when she faced each and every single day. She was a sarcastic, nineties-loving small town Texas girl.

West was the out of town bad boy, who the girls adored. He was a bully, a brute, but also was broken. Fate gave him a blow he couldn't recover from. Where Grace rose up, from her past, West ran from his.

The town's hottest guy, zeroed in on the girl who didn't want to be seen. And an unexpected friendship occured.

Their banter was funny, the sex was steamy, and the characters swoon worthy. I adored Grace. She was brave, strong, and funny. And I fell for West. Yes, he was a class-A jerk, but he was also sweet too. Their stories brought me to tears, their banter and playfulness made me laugh, and the ending had me cheering.

I love LJ's writing, and this is no different. I resonated with Grace. I fell madly in love with West, and I was enamored by their tale.


Round of applause to LJ for writing such an amazing story. 5 ⭐ out of 5⭐. 







Goodreads - https://bit.ly/MDVljgr 

Amazon Universal: http://mybook.to/PWFLJShen
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