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was a great read from start to finish, definitely one of those hard to put down page turners.
Ashley Claudy has created an exciting romance novel that has substance, depth of character, intrigue, laugh and cry moments, along with exciting action scenes.
I have read a few sports/romance books in my time and this one is probably the best I've ever read.
I loved the characters, Gage is a bad ass alpha male but he is also so much more and Reagan, our heroine, is no shrinking violet.
Infact all the characters throughout the book really come to life, The author is skilled at dialogue, throughout the story I found it all very believable,
When I first started reading I was a little unsure if I would like the first person point of view as I tend not to like reading in this pov.
But once past the first page I'd have had to think twice about which pov it was written in.
It completely disappeared. Kudos to the author.
My only negative about the whole book is that this is bookand I have to wait until March for the second part! Advance Readers Copy ARC provide to me by the lovely author sitelinkAshley Claudy.
Thank you
Title: Outside The Ropes
Series: Book
Author: Ashley Claudy
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Genre: New Adult
Source: eARC
Release Date: Januaryst,
Overall Rating:
Character Casting:
Character casting amp to come.
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Να πω ότι αυτό το βιβλίο δεν είναι για όσους επηρεάζονται εύκολα από ζητήματα όπως βία και χρήση ναρκωτικών. Οι χαρακτήρες έχουν θέματα εμπιστοσύνης, εθισμό, ψυχικά τραύματα και κουβαλάνε πολλά ψυχολογικά. Το box δεν είναι και από τα πιο γλυκανάλατα σπορ που υπάρχουν και είναι μεγάλο μέρος της ιστορίας από την αρχή έως το τέλος. Επίσης έχει πολύ γραφικό σεξ και αρκετές φορές δεν είναι στο πλαίσιο μιας σχέσης ή friends with benefits. Όλα αυτά τα αναφέρω γιατί το πρότεινα σε μια φίλη και αφού το διάβασε είχε σχόλιο για όλα αυτά και άρα προφανώς δεν ήταν του στυλ της οπότε ενημερώνω
Η Regan Κύρια χαρακτήρας δεν είναι και από τα πιο συμπαθή άτομα, Τα ψυχολογικά που έχει επηρεάζουν άμεσα τη συμπεριφορά της το οποίο για εμένα ήταν ρεαλιστικό. Με όσα έχει περάσει και ζει η κοπέλα θα ήταν ψεύτικο να είναι μέσα στην τρελή χαρά. Είναι δυνατή και βάζει πάνω από όλα τον εαυτό της, ούτε θέλει να της λύνουν άλλοι τα προβλήματα. Ωστόσο καμιά φορά ήταν για χαστούκια. Επίσης δεν μπορούσα να πιστέψω ότι χωρίς να χαλαρώσει λίγο κάποιος την ερωτεύτηκε και μάλιστα τόσο γρήγορα. Έσπρωχνε τους πάντες μακριά της από την αρχή και όταν ήθελε γινόταν αδικαιολόγητα σκύλα.
Ο Cage το ερωτικό ενδιαφέρονμου ήταν πολύ συμπαθής χωρίς όμως να προσπαθεί να είναι. Έχει τα μυστικά του, έχει κάποιο παρελθόν και έχει και ο ίδιος τραύματα όμως πάντα έμοιαζε ότι το μυαλό του είναι στο έδαφος και ούτε ήταν υπερβολικός. Ναι έλεγε ψέματα για να επωφεληθεί ή να προστατεύσει κάποιον όμως δεν σε πειράζει γενικά γιατί αυτό τον έκανε πολύ πιστευτό. Ο καθένας μας θα έκανε το ίδιο στη θέση του κατά πάσα πιθανότητα. Επίσης αν και είχε χρήματα και φήμη πάντα φαινόταν χαμηλών τόνων και δεν άφηνε την αναγνώριση που είχε ως μποξέρ να επηρεάσει την καθημερινότητά του. Δεν της αξίζει της Regan κατά την γνώμη μου.
Τώρα θεωρώ θα πρέπει να παραβλέψετε κάποια πράγματα που δεν είναι τόσο ρεαλιστικά. Για παράδειγμα η Regan ποτέ δεν είχε κάνει μποξ ή κάποιοι είδους άθλημα παλαιότερα ωστόσο κερδίζει με άνεση τις πρώτες της
μάχες απέναντι σε μακράν πιο έμπειρες κοπέλες που έχουν χρόνια εξάσκησης ήδη. Και η Regan και ο Cage δεν συμπεριφέρονται καθόλου σαν την ηλικία τους. Μας θύμιζε η συγγραφέας ότι αυτή είναικαι αυτόςκαι κάθε φορά η δυσπιστία μου έφτανε στον ουρανό. Η Regan φέρεται σαν είναικαι ο Cage έχει την σοφία και την εμπειρία ενόςχρονου. Μάλιστα τους φανταζόμουν σε αυτές τις ηλικίες. Μου ήταν αδύνατο να πάω πιο κάτω βάσει αυτών που διάβαζα.
Το προτείνω
Πάει κάπως γρήγορα δηλαδή θα μπορούσε να προσθέσει λίγο περισσότερο ζουμί στην ιστορία και να το τραβήξει, Βέβαια είχε αρκετές εκπλήξεις και suspense κατά τη διάρκεια και το cliffhanger στο τέλος σίγουρα σε κάνει να θες να πιάσεις το επόμενο. Δεν είναι και από τα πιο αξιομνημόνευτα βιβλία ωστόσο διαφέρει από κάθε τι άλλο διαβάζω συνήθως και μου κράτησε το ενδιαφέρον από την αρχή μέχρι το τέλος. I've been meaning to write this review and I felt awful that I haven't done it when I've read it a while back.
This book is from the womans POV and she is the female boxer, I like that more authors are writing very strong female character lately and Regan Sommers is certainly that.
Getting to know Regan and Gage now that theyve been actually published was almost as wonderful as being introduced to them in Wattpad.
The story followsyr old Regan Sommers who has done a fair amount of maturing due to living a hard life growing up in a foster care system.
She works as a waitress, struggling to make ends meet, She found a career as a boxer but also found herself inside dangerous circumstances,
She met Anthony, the overly clingy nice cop and Gage, the bad ass gym owner, She was drawn to him like a magnet, It had a great secondary cast of characters from allies to villains too!
I loved and hated these characters which makes them more believable to me.
The storyline was very interesting, There's more to it than boxing and romance,
If you're looking for strong perfectly flawed female characters, I recommend giving this book a try,
/of the book was so good, Didn't like where it was going after that ARC kindly given by Netgally for a honest review, .
I absolutely loved this book, Once I started I could not put my Ipad down, Ashley Claudy can write some amazing characters and tell a story that will draw you in, .
Regan “Rae” Sommers had a hard life growing up, She was in and out of the foster care system then dumped into the real world with no high school degree, no money, and no family.
. Going from couch to Couch and working a dead end jobs is her only means of survival,
On her way “home” one night from work with very little cash in her pockets she is heading to her friends house to crash for the night.
. she is attacked and becomes part of a ridiculous game of videotaping the brutal beating of an unsuspecting victim.
It doesn't matter that she is severely outnumbered, every cell in her body she refuses to be the victim again so she fights back.
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This is when Regan meetsmen who will change her life forever, .
Anthony is a SUPER SWEET Cop, He is helping assist on her attack case, . He is always there for her, . Offering her a place to stay, a shoulder to lean on, an ear to talk to, . he wants to be the man she can fall in love with, . But Regan has made it clear from the get go she does not want that kind of relationship.
. so they agree on a “friends with benefits relationship”, .
Silas is the CoOwner of The Boxing Club and he offers her the chance of a lifetime He has offered to train her and enter her in some local boxing matches.
. This guarantees her some money and the ability to learn some amazing fighting skills,
Dexter “Dex” is the sweet loving goofball of a friend who is there to help her learn some new fighting techniques and to be her trainer along with Silas.
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Gage is the Sexy as sin boxer who acts as though he cannot stand Regan but whenever she turns around there he is.
. Gage repeatedly reminds Regan she doesnt know anything about the sport, But all it takes is one fight, and Regan knows shes not about to give up,
Regan knows she should steer clear of Gage but her body keeps fighting her mind, . which will win out. .
There are soooo many twist and turns in this book, . It will keep you on the edge of your seat, . This book was released in January, . There is a slight Cliffy at the end but bookwas released in march and bookis due out soon June I believe
I highly recomend adding to your TBR!!
Regan is fierce both inside and outside the ring.
She has had to be in order to survive, A childhood spent in foster care, emancipated at seventeen, and always struggling to keep safe, She doesn't trust anyone really and is only close to one person who is even more at risk.
After she is beaten and robbed, she discovers boxing and views it as her way out of this kind of life.
She also meets two men Anthony and Gage, Anthony is a cop and feels safe, She knows what he wants, Gage is way too intense and is not a risk she wants to take,
The book is really intense and I am so happy to have discovered this author, I couldn't stop until I finished the book and am eager to see what is next for Regan.
She is a complicated, conflicted young woman who deserves much more than she has been given, The author is great at conveying the emotional state of Regan and revealing the motivation for her actions.
There is still a lot of her history to discover, The other characters are just as complicated and it is exciting to discover more about them, Gage is more like Regan that you realize at first, You can really feel their chemistry sizzle, Anthony is still more of a mystery, Just when you think you understand him, he reveals a different side,
I highly recommend this book, I really loved it and am happy to discover a new favorite author, I loved the emotional ride and didn't want it to end, I received a copy in return for a honest review, I always love it when I find a book that I just cant put down, Work and everything else gets put on hold until I finish the book, This was definitely one of those books, From beginning to end, I was utterly sucked in, constantly wondering what is going to happen next, This was the first book Ive read by Ashley Cluady, but it will absolutely not be the last!
I think my favorite thing about this book was that, that Regan was anything but a damsel in distress.
She was strong and did anything she had to, to survive, Though you might always agree with what she does, you were always rooting for her to persevere, Regan never had a stable home or a steady income, but one night after being severely beaten, totally changes her life.
Regan gets invited to join a gym and is offered to fight, She agrees, needing the money right away because where shes staying now isnt really safe, Shell do anything to get enough money to get away from her past and everything surrounding it,
When Regan meets Gage, you can almost feel the passion between the two, You know that once these two get together, theyre going to be hot and never be the same.
But with Regan being Regan, she fights what she feels for Gage, She doesnt want to be controlled by a man and she knows that he will try to take control.
Once Regan finally gives in to Gage, its like you expected, The pages explode with heat, but it doesnt last long, Regan and Gages past collide and may just tear these two apart, Will they be able to be strong enough to fight their way to be together, or will the past have a stronger hold that rips them apart
Like I said before I seriously loved this book! Ive already preordered book two and anxiously counting down the days until release so I can see what happens next with Regan and Gage.
Though the ending is sort of a cliff hanger, DO NOT let it stop you from picking up this book! I have just become a HUGE fan of Ashely Claudy, and cant wait to see what she comes up with next!
ARC was provided thru NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.