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Book Review: When You Are Mine (The Bennetts #1) by Kennedy Ryan @kennedyryan1

When You Are Mine
The Bennetts #1
Kennedy Ryan

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Forever is a heartbeat away . . .

Kerris Moreton knows how to make things work. Bounced from foster home to foster home as a kid, she adapted; when opportunity arose, she thrived. Now, about to open her own business and accept a marriage proposal, Kerris is ready to build the life she’s always wanted. The only thing missing? A passionate connection with her would-be fiancé, Cam. Kerris wants to believe that sparks are overrated-until Walsh Bennett lights her up like the Fourth of July.

. . . but what about love?

As one of the East Coast’s most eligible bachelors, Walsh enjoys financial independence, fulfilling work with his family’s nonprofit, and plenty of female attention. But lately he’s been distracted by the one woman he can’t have. Lovely to look at and even sweeter to know, Kerris is the soul mate Walsh never thought he would find. The problem is, his best friend found her first . . .

My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

 

The room narrowed to the width of his smile, and Kerris felt herself leaning toward him, on the verge of toppling.

Walsh’s eyes held hers for an extra beat of her heart. That same jolt struck right down the middle of her soul. The intensity of that stare left her insides crackling.

Skepticism twisted Jo’s mouth, lifting one side and not bothering with the other.

Meredith tilted her head, studying Kerris with telescopic intensity. Kerris always felt like the edges of her soul had been peeled back under that look.

Kerris felt like a mouse lured into a trap by fake cheese.

Sanity was a fugitive on the run from reason.

 

My Review:

 

I fell right into this one and resented having to tumble back out for pesky things like eating and sleeping. I adore this crafty wordsmith’s phrasing and word skills. Ms. Ryan’s word voodoo is strong and alluring and held me entranced, even when I was so deeply annoyed with her characters that I wanted to give them a swift kick to their nether regions to dislodge their gray matter from their colons.

 

A RITA® and Audie® Award winner, USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Her heroes respect, cherish, and lose their minds for the women who capture their hearts. Kennedy and her writings have been featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, TIME, O magazine, and many others. She is a wife to her lifetime lover and mother to an extraordinary son.