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~**~ Release Blitz for NEW ORLEANS RUSH by Kelly Siskind w/ Review ~**~

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New Orleans Rush, an all-new standalone Contemporary Romance by Kelly Siskind is NOW LIVE!

 
Falling for your surly boss is a rotten idea. Letting him saw you in half is even worse… 

Beatrice Baker may be a struggling artist, but she believes all hardships have silver linings…until she follows her boyfriend to New Orleans and finds him with another woman. Instead of turning those lemons into lemonade, she drinks lemon drop martinis and keys the wrong man’s car. 

 Now she works for Huxley Marlow of the Marvelous Marlow Boys, getting shoved in boxes as an on-stage magician’s assistant. A cool job for some, but Bea’s been coerced into the role to cover her debt. She also maybe fantasizes about her boss’s adept hands and what else they can do. 

 She absolutely will not fall for him, or kiss him senseless. Until she does. The scarred, enigmatic Huxley has unwittingly become her muse, unlocking her artistic dry spell, but his vague nightly activities are highly suspect. The last time Beatrice trusted a man, her bank account got drained and she almost got arrested. Surely this can’t end that badly...right?


***4 ‘Smurf’ Stars***

Being a fan of Kelly Siskind’s words, I was all in when New Orleans Rush was announced.  I mean NOLA, and Louisiana in general, is one of those #bucketlist places I will visit one day, and the whole magician thing definitely peaked my curiosity.  And though there were a few things I would have like more of, I found the book to be a fun and quirky read with a lot of heart and characters I enjoyed getting to know.

I ADORED Huxley. This man is all about taking care of those he calls his own, and has a tendency to go a little overboard on it, but his heart tends to be in the right place most of the time. Sweet, compassionate and a little surly, the man had that laid back alpha vibe that had me wanting to cuddle up next to him.  I loved Beatrice, I did. I loved her quirks and how she totally owned everything that she was and followed with her heart. But there were times where I wanted to reach out and shake her, I got why she felt the way she did and I did give her props for standing her ground, but sometimes her impetuous nature definitely worked against her.

Huxley and Bea’s journey was filled all kinds of slow burn goodness and totally worked considering the various issues they were both dealing with, a couple of which were quite intense and emotionally draining on them both. But the good part of slow burn was that they had time to truly get to know each other. Huxley gave Bea stability and security, while Bea helped Huxley take the time to relax and enjoy life. They had quite a few issues to work through, and though I did tend to side a little more with Huxley than Bea, I always liked how things worked out between them.

This was a fun read. The writing was engaging and though the pacing did drag in some places for me, things did move at a decent pace. My main issue with the book is that I feel as if there were quite a few things left unresolved, not necessarily between Hux and Bea ~ I’m good with where things between them were at in the end ~ but more with their respective families. I would have liked a little more closure, or at least a HFN type of closure, between them. Now there could be more books to come in this world and those will deal with the issues I have, but as I couldn’t find any information on future books, I’m left with quite a few unanswered questions. But I truly enjoyed were the supporting cast of characters. Fox, Axel and Della were a lot of fun and I absolutely loved them and the depth they brought to the story as a whole and I’m crossing my toes that we’ll get more of them at some point in the future!

~ Copy provided by Social Butterfly PR & voluntarily reviewed ~

   

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About Kelly Siskind

A small-town girl at heart, Kelly moved from the city to open a cheese shop with her husband in northern Ontario. When she’s not neck deep in cheese or out hiking, you can find her, notepad in hand, scribbling down one of the many plot bunnies bouncing around in her head. She laughs at her own jokes and has been known to eat her feelings—gummy bears heal all. She’s also an incurable romantic, devouring romance novels into the wee hours of the morning.


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