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~**~ ARC Review: The Upside of Falling (The Blue Line Duet #1) by Meghan Quinn ~**~



***4.5 ‘I Think You’re Mine’ Stars***

Ummm...what the…*Slowly puts the Kindle down so I don’t throw it as a plethora of curse words come out of my mouth that the beep is really just one long annoying sound with no breaks*?!?!?!

Yes, a cliffy was expected ~ it is a duet after all, but seriously??

THAT?!?

Nope. No. Just...I refuse...so we are just going to pretend that it doesn’t exist and move on.

(Why do I feel as if the author is giggling in devious delight right now at my reaction?)

*Time for deep, cleansing breaths*

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Okay. I’m chill. I’m good. I hope.

This one was definitely a journey and the feels were all kinds of real. Not only with Colby and Rory’s journey together (as can be verified by the start of this review) but with them as individuals. Both are driven, focused and stubborn. So. Very. Stubborn. And that works for and against them, but has made them into the people they are, which are human’s with huge hearts. I will say that it took me a bit to warm up to both of them, but once their pasts were revealed things started to click and I ended up loving both of them, there we still things that frustrated me, but such is life.

As for their romance. It really was all kinds of sweet and smexy when things finally got rolling. I loved how they communicated and really took the time to get to know one another. The smexy between them was hot and to be honest they were kinda sickeningly sweet - you know that couple you want to hate because they are so cute and just good together but you can’t? Yeah that’s them.

Now. I’m still not in a headspace where I want to address that which I am still in denial about, but I will say that had I not been so invested in Colby and Rory, my reaction would be what it is and for that I must kowtow to Ms. Quinn. She brought these two to life with her words and made them pretty damn amazing. But now we wait…

~ Copy provided via InkSlinger PR/author & voluntarily reviewed ~


Tucked away at the base of the Rocky Mountains lived a little boy with one singular dream: leave this broken and battered home and become someone.

Be somebody’s hero.

That boy was me—Colby Brooks. Except I’m not that same little boy anymore.

My dreams might still be the same, but my reality isn’t.

I’m smarter. Stronger. A man.

And I learned a long damn time ago, the only way to achieve my dreams was to avoid distractions—at any cost.

Focus. Resolve. Determination.

But all it took was one single night. One night and my entire life…changed.

One night had me colliding head first with the biggest distraction of my life; Rory Oaks.

Smart. Charming. Beautiful.

Rory changed everything.

Quickly, my one-track mind started to bend.

Each kiss faded decade-long dreams.

And with one single incident, I fly off course.

Release Date: June 21st, 2018
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Born in New York and raised in Southern California, Meghan has grown into a sassy, peanut butter eating, blonde haired swearing, animal hoarding lady. She is known to bust out and dance if “It’s Raining Men” starts beating through the air and heaven forbid you get a margarita in her, protect your legs because they may be humped.

Once she started commuting for an hour and twenty minutes every day to work for three years, she began to have conversations play in her head, real life, deep male voices and dainty lady coos kind of conversations. Perturbed and confused, she decided to either see a therapist about the hot and steamy voices running through her head or start writing them down. She decided to go with the cheaper option and started writing… enter her first novel, Caught Looking.

Now you can find the spicy, most definitely on the border of lunacy, kind of crazy lady residing in Colorado with the love of her life and her five, furry four legged children, hiking a trail or hiding behind shelves at grocery stores, wondering what kind of lube the nervous stranger will bring home to his wife. Oh and she loves a good boob squeeze!



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