Title: Beautifully Awake
Author: Riley Mackenzie
Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 2, 2013
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Synopsis
Diagnosis: Sleep-running
Treatment: Truth
Prognosis: Beautifully Awake
Lili Porter hates the rain. Bad things happen in the rain. As a small
town social worker dedicated to protecting children, she is forced to
start over to escape her rural disaster. Determined to follow her father’s
advice—head up and chin high—Lili finds herself in a new city, taking
on a new system, this time healthcare. In doing so, she gets something
she never expected, an intimate behind-the-scenes look at life in the
hospital.
Lili learns that a surgeon’s hands have the power to heal more than
physical wounds. And a prescription for truth can cure three years of
sleep running and leave you beautifully awake.
Excerpt
“Baby, I want to sleep with you.” His voice softened. “This
isn’t about sex. This is about sleeping ... with you ... in our bed,
just sleeping, no talking. Just silence, me listening to your soft breaths.
That’s truth.” And once again this man had completely disarmed me
with words alone. “See you soon, baby.”
Silence filled my ear. I turned and dropped my phone on the bed.
"You're not going to tell him, huh?" Sierra raised her eyebrows
and frowned.
"I don't know, but I'm definitely not ready tonight."
"This thing with Dr. Hot-as-Balls is serious, isn't it?"
I couldn't help but nod. My gut told me she wasn't wrong.
My Review
I truly enjoyed this book, at first it was kinda typical. But I loved the characters from the beginning. Lili and Siera are a hoot, both are sassy in their own ways. But we don't see the real sassy Lili until about mid-way through the book. Siera is definitely my kind of girl-no filter!! Then we meet Dr. Chase Colton or as Lili and Seira call him: Dr. Sexy, Dr. Intense and so on. They have some funny and crazy nicknames for him.I did however get tired of reading the word "truth". I get it, they were trying to get to know each other at first, then made sure each other was telling the truth. But it was definitely word overkill. Look past that, and you have a freakin' awesome HOT book on your hands.
We get a lot about Lili's past and a good bit of Chase's, but I know there is more to Chase than we got in this book. I am on the fence if I want more background on him or if I'm good with what I got.
I can't wait to read more by these authors, I "hear" we will get another book about Asher, Chase's best friend. I want more of Siera!
I have to say my friends at Nicely Phrased summed up the book extremely well. I highly encourage you to go read their review as well.
About the Authors
Yep. That's an “s.” There are two of us!
We’re East coast girls separated by Long Island Sound who met in Physician
Assistant School and have been besties ever since. We can safely say
that thirteen miles of water does not get in the way because we talk
or text, no exaggeration, at least 150 times a day. No, really, we do—about
everything and nothing. Shockingly, we never (we mean never) run out
of things to say. Umm, ever. We definitely laugh A LOT and we’re a
tad sarcastic. And if we’re being totally honest, one or two people
might have, on occasion, used our names and ‘dramatic’ in the same
sentence. But it’s hard to trust the sources since they married us.
It only took twelve years, two husbands, five kids, two dogs, and
a two-week vacation in Cape Cod later to decide the romance world needed
a splash of medicine. Write what you know.
So you can easily find us at 4 o'clock on Bank Street beach with a glass of cold Prosecco brainstorming. And guaranteed if we bump into you, literally, it’s only because our iPhones are glued to our hands (totally out of our control) either writing or editing our next novel (and yes, it is possible to do from your iPhone, we mastered it … damn those straight quotations).
When we are not working on our book or reading the latest angsty romance
on our kindles, you basically name it and we have it going on. Soccer,
lacrosse, golf, swimming, dance, gymnastics, football, chess, baseball,
basketball, skiing, ice skating, school, homework, and more school.
Oh yeah, did we forget to mention our careers in medicine?
Needless to say, we realized fast that something had to go, so we
opted for sleep. It’s completely overrated (yet so AMAZING) and delirium
makes everything funnier. Good thing we share a brain and can pretty
much complete each other’s sentences (definitely weird, we know),
otherwise it might have taken us two years to write Beautifully Awake
rather than one.
So that’s our story, who we are … just add AUTHORS to the list!
Connect with the Authors
Website: http://www.rileymackenzie.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/
Giveaway
Grand Prize: Kindle Paperwhite
(5) Signed Paperbacks of Beautifully Awake (US Only)
(5) $5 Starbuck's Gift Cards
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