Playing with Fire: A Bad Boy College Romance

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Grace was the epitome of a spitfire full of sass and fiery spirit. A young woman rising from the ashes of who she used to be to become the woman she was born to be. I absolutely loved her determination and grit. West likewise was as battered and broken as they come reeling from a painful past. But together they made one another want to live life to the fullest again.

L.J. Shen decided to play with my heart in Playing With Fire. And I am surrendering without fight. Because there is no way to escape the lethal emotions in this small town romance. It was a breathtaking mix of intense feels. My heart has been taken over by this angsty, inspiring and unique romance. She wrote about some truly unique, inspiring and riveting things here. She gave us beautiful, unique characters with heartbreaking pasts and troubled presents. Grace is an incredible woman, her strength shines bright in this book and her story, the way she battles is one of the many reasons I love her, she’s without a doubt my absolute favourite heroine this author has ever blessed us with. West is Something else. He’s an alphahole that doesn’t give a shit but buried deep is a loveable alphahole just waiting to come out. I love his strength and fierceness. I'm hovering my mouse over the 2 and 3- star rating. I usually love any and everything Tess Gerritsen writes. Her Rizzoli and Isles series is one of my favorites. When I got word that she had written a standalone, I was beyond excited to get my hands on a copy. Working alongside each other an unlikely friendship of sorts was established. Sparks flew, attraction ignited, and over time they depended on each other and realised in the big scheme of things how alike they actually were.The basics: Violinist Julia finds an intriguing piece of handwritten and challenging music in an antique store. However, after she plays it for the first time, she begins to believe that her toddler daughter hates her and is capable of depraved violence. Is something wrong with the child? Or is it all in Julia's mind? After all, when Julia was young, her mother went crazy...

Sometimes a book finds you when you don’t even know you needed. Sometimes the theme developed is something you needed to hear when the world feels like it weighs a ton on your shoulders. Playing with Fire by LJ Shen was the book I didn’t even know I needed.

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The plot is quite unique alternating between past and present times and in some way the story reminded me of one of my favorite books, Letters from the Lost by Iona Grey, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Playing With Fire” is the latest novel, a standalone thriller, by Tess Gerritsen, a physician living in Maine. Most of us are familiar with the Rizzoli & Isles series, by this New York Times bestselling author. I must say that this is a change in style for the author, from her previous series, but it works well as she is a master storyteller. As a long suffering Leaf fan, I’ve read Curtis Joseph’s biography, but generally sports athletes’ bios are not something I would normally read. However, we are reading it as part of a book club that I’m a part of and I was interested in hearing the story, so I was eager to read the book. I have read many books about the atrocities of WWII and the Jewish concentration camps and didn’t know that I was in for yet another story about the Holocaust. A horrible event in the history of our world but not one I wanted to read about at this time. Interspersed with Julia's battles to master this complex composition, and the atrocities perpetrated by her three year old daughter Lily, is Lorenzo's story which takes place as the rights of the Italian Jews are being eroded, and eventually as they are rounded up and sent north to 'labour camps.' But as we all know, they were no labour camps. The reality was far more grim.Playing with Fire a Novel by Tess Gerristen was a beautiful, fast paced and extremely satisifying read. In the present day, Julia Ansdell, a professional musician, married and the mother of a very young girl, happens upon an old piece of music during a music-oriented visit to Italy. From that point on, her life and the lives of everyone around her seem to change. The music itself seems to carry a mystery and possible danger. Before I give my review I have to say that I don't read small-town romances just because I have never been interested in them, but when I heard LJ was writing one I knew I had to give it a shot.