Rival by Penelope Douglas ~ Blog Tour!
Title: Rival (Fall Away, #2)
Author: Penelope Douglas
Genre: NA | Contemporary Romance
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Tour Hosted by: As the Pages Turn
Synopsis
From the New Adult sensation and New York Times bestselling author of Until You
Madoc and Fallon. Two estranged teenagers playing games that push the boundaries between love and war…
She’s back.
For the three years she’s been away at boarding school, there was no word from her. Back when we lived in the same house, she used to cut me down during the day and then leave her door open for me at night.
I was stupid then, but now I’m ready to beat her at her own game…
I’m back.
Three years and I can tell he still wants me, even if he acts like he’s better than me.
But I won’t be scared away. Or pushed down. I’ll call his bluff and fight back. That’s what he wants, right? As long as I keep my guard up, he’ll never know how much he affects me….
~ Rival - Excerpt ~
Reaching around, he twisted my chin towards the mirror, and I sucked in a breath. “What do you see?!” he shouted.
“You and me!” I blurted out. “Madoc and Fallon!”
My heart was racing.
I looked at him through the mirror. I sat on one side of his lap, so he could see from the other side, and we stared at each other, my chest rising and falling more urgently.
“That’s not what I see,” he said in a low voice. “Those names mean nothing to me. They’re simple and empty. When I’m with you, I don’t see the daughter of a gold digging bitch and an Irish drug lord or the son of a crooked lawyer and a vegan Barbie.”
I almost wanted to laugh. Madoc had an ironic way of looking at the world.
But he wasn’t smiling. He was scowling. He was dead serious, and I knew from experience that his genuine moments were few and far between.
He reached up, threading one hand into my hair while the other hand rested on the chair.
“I see everything I want for as long as I can have it,” he continued. “I see a woman that wears the cutest little scowl like she’s two years old and was just told she couldn’t have candy. I see a guy that went and got an apadravya piercing, because he wanted to live in her world for even a little while.”
I closed my eyes. Don’t do this to me, Madoc. Please.
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Top 5-10 things that you liked/disliked about Madoc and Fallon's dynamic
LOVE:
The forbidden nights
The playfulness that Madoc displayed with her
The way she eased into friendships with his friends
How he was so cavalier but clearly liked/loved her a lot.
The way they went for it. No holding back. Madoc knew the life he wanted and who he wanted it with, and he wasn't afraid the seize it.
The only thing I disliked was showing so little of their high school relationship. We felt it was better to concentrate on their relationship now rather than in the past, plus some readers would find such a mature relationship between 16 years olds inappropriate, so I tried not to dwell on it. But…we’ll have a deleted scene on the tour! Stay tuned!
Review
I can't tell you how much I love this series! Madoc and Fallon are simply the best of both worlds... Love and hate. So young and spiteful when they started, only to ripped apart and lied to. What happened the hate festered but deep down the love lingers, like that little voice in the back of your mind guiding you. But hate can destroy, if you let it. How do you not let it? You fight it and you fight harder than anyone to make the love be more than anyone thought it could possible be. That is Madoc and Fallon, they love more than anyone thought possible.
Every word pour on to the page was intensified by the emotion i felt reading it. I felt their hate, I felt their love and I felt the loss and emptiness the each felt when they were separated. Penelope Douglas is amazing and her writing is powerful. Creating not only romantic characters but girls with power to make their choices known and strong enough to fight for what they want. Girl power at it's best.
Don't get me wrong it isn't just the girl power but the power that makes Madoc fight for the girl he fell in love with when he was so young, the kind of love that you know is going to last despite all of the heart ache that he had to endure.
Fun, exciting, sorrowful, Romantic and HOT! This book sizzles when Madoc and Fallon connect, so make sure that you have a cool drink ready. I loved it and I can't wait to see what else Penelope has in store for us maybe some more Jared and Tate???
Every word pour on to the page was intensified by the emotion i felt reading it. I felt their hate, I felt their love and I felt the loss and emptiness the each felt when they were separated. Penelope Douglas is amazing and her writing is powerful. Creating not only romantic characters but girls with power to make their choices known and strong enough to fight for what they want. Girl power at it's best.
Don't get me wrong it isn't just the girl power but the power that makes Madoc fight for the girl he fell in love with when he was so young, the kind of love that you know is going to last despite all of the heart ache that he had to endure.
Fun, exciting, sorrowful, Romantic and HOT! This book sizzles when Madoc and Fallon connect, so make sure that you have a cool drink ready. I loved it and I can't wait to see what else Penelope has in store for us maybe some more Jared and Tate???
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~ About Penelope ~
Penelope Douglas is a writer in Las Vegas. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, she is the oldest of five children. Penelope attended the University of Northern Iowa, earning a Bachelor's degree in Public Administration, because her father told her to "just get the degree!" She then earned a Masters of Science in Education at Loyola University in New Orleans, because she hated Public Administration. One night, she got tipsy and told the bouncer at the bar where she worked that his son was hot, and three years later they were married. To the son, not the bouncer. They have spawn, but just one. A daughter named Aydan. Penelope loves sweets, The Originals, and she shops at Target almost daily.
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