Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Ignite – Tessa Teevan

After nearly a year and a half of grieving the loss of her husband, twenty-seven year old Alexa Sullivan Tate is headed back to her hometown after a decade of being away. She has no idea her high school crush, Jace McAllister, the guy who stole her heart the same night that he broke it, is more than ready to pick up the pieces.

Jace has spent the last ten years in the Army defusing bomb after bomb, trying to forget the girl who ignited all his passions. Little does he know that the spark still exists.

Ten years ago they had smoldering chemistry, but the spark between them now might light a fuse that leads to an explosion even Jace can’t stop. Not that he wants to. If only Alexa can get past her guilt and trust her heart again.

But how do you put it all on the line when you’ve already lost everything once before?

Series: Explosive #1
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Publisher: Tessa Teevan
Source: Love Between the Sheets tours
Reviewer: Carolyn
Rating:

Buy the book at:

Reviewer’s Thoughts

“I fucking hate you sometimes”

I don’t think I will be forgetting that sentence for quite some time. Often times we say things in the heat of the moment that we really don’t mean, but sometimes you can never take them back.

I’m a lover of military romance and sports romance and lucky for me this book has both. This book is about best friends, first loves, heartbreak, loss, and second chances.

Jace and Alexa were best friends in high school, while they loved each other neither of them are willing to admit to those feelings until Jace’s graduation night. Jace tells Alexa how he feels, but he also drops a bomb….that he was joining the Army and would be leaving the next day. Jace tells Alexa that he will return for her and she agrees to wait for him, but sometimes things just don’t work out like we hope they will.

“I’ll remember this night for the rest of my life. I’ll always have a special part of you in my heart. I want…no, I need it to be you. Please, if you’re leaving tomorrow, give me this piece of you to hold on to.”

When Jace finally makes it back, its to find out that Alexa and her family have moved. Jace goes to see Alexa’s best friend to try to find out where Alexa is, but she tells him off for hurting Alexa and not contacting her and than slams the door in his face.

Alexa is heartbroken when she doesn’t hear from Jace, but life goes on. She meets Ty at a baseball game, falls in love and marries him. While Jace was her first love and she will never forget him she’s actually happy until Ty is tragically taken away from her. After Ty dies she just can’t seem to move forward until Brady (you will end up loving Brady, he is AWESOME) walks into her life.

Jace keeps track of Alexa through social media and while it devastates him to learn that she is married, he refuses to contact her and just wants her to be happy.

Jace’s ten-year reunion is coming up and it just so happens that Alexa will be there. Even though it’s been 10 years they still have explosive feelings for each other and decide to give a relationship a try.

“Do you know how many times I’ve thought about doing this for the last ten years? Do you know how much it’s killed me not to have you? To know that someone else had his hands on you? I can’t hold it in much longer, Alexa. I need to touch you. I need to taste you. I need you, more than you could ever imagine.”

The secondary characters…Brady, Sierra, Jeremy, Ava, and Knox (who is getting his own story) are simply wonderful. Jace and Alex are blessed to have so wonderful friends and family.

This book has some awesome quotes, some wonderful characters, some laugh out loud moments, some cry your heart out moments, some HOT sex scenes, but most of all it’s a believable second chance story.

There is a tour-wide giveaway.  To enter, complete the Rafflecopter form below (if the form doesn’t appear, click the link to be taken to it).

GRAND PRIZE – Kindle Paperwhite

(5) Signed Paperbacks of Ignite (US Only)

(1) eBook copy of Catch My Fall by Ella Fox

(1) eBook copy of Fraternizing by C.C. Brown

(1) eBook copy of Very Bad Things by Ilsa Madden-Mills

(1) eBook copy of The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

(1) eBook copy of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

(1) eBook set of A Beautiful Lie and Because of You by T.E. Sivec

(10) $5 Amazon Gift Cards

(1) Signed Paperback of The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines (US Only)

(1) Signed Paperback of The Vincent Brothers by Abbi Glines (US Only)

(1) Signed Paperback of Just For Now by Abbi Glines (US Only)

(1) Signed Paperback of Slammed by Colleen Hoover (US Only)

(1) Signed Paperback of Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover (US Only)

(1) Signed Paperback of Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire (US Only)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Jace has me pressed up against the side of his car, his hands cupping both sides of my face. Looking into my eyes, he leans in, stopping just inches from my lips. I think he’s about to kiss me when he speaks instead.

“I told you I’d come back.”

A smile breaks out on my face when he closes the space between us, pressing his lips against mine. His kiss is soft and slow to begin with, but I’ve been aching for his touch for weeks, so I slide my hands up his t shirt, letting out a soft moan when I make contact with his skin. At the sound, his kiss hardens, and his tongue is against my lips, begging for entrance. They part immediately, allowing his tongue to collide with mine and our kisses turn frantic as we try to make up for lost time. His hands move to the small of my back before he slips them under my shirt and he traces small circles over my skin, causing me to shiver. My hands move over his taut abs as I make my way up his muscular chest. My thumb grazes his nipple, and he groans, breaking our kiss.

“Fuck, I’ve missed you,” he says in a husky voice, wrapping his arms around me in a tight embrace. My head leans against his hard chest, where I can hear his heart pounding. Smiling silently to myself, I’m secretly thankful that he still seems to be as affected by me as I am by him.

I’m a twenty six year old book junkie who is also obsessed with sports. Bengals, Buckeyes, Reds are my teams! I work for the government during the day, hang out with Air National Guard on the weekends, and am married to a guy 15 inches taller than me. We’re quite the pair! We currently live right outside of Dayton, OH with our two cats.

I’ve been reading since I was a kid. My mom was a librarian, so it was a given. Heck, she even made sure we watched Wishbone instead of the Smurfs. In 2011 when I graduated from college, my mom bought me a Nook, and then in the summer of 2012 I found this amazing site called Goodreads. I was introduced to so many amazing indie/self-published authors. After reading almost 400 books that year, my husband gave me the push to finally sit down and write my own. It was a rocky start, but over time the words started flowing and I couldn’t get Jace and Lexi out of my head.

If I’m not writing or looking through tons of photos of hot men, all in the name of research, then you can probably find me curled up with my Kindle, ignoring the rest of the world. I love my sports almost as much as I love my books. My other obsessions include red wine, hot men, country music, and all things Grace Potter.

I LOVE to hear from readers, so please feel free to contact via any social media site listed below.

Connect with the Author

Website: http://tessateevanauthor.blogspot.com/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/tessateevanauthor

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tessa_GGBR

Email: tessateevanauthor@gmail.com

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7170636.Tessa_Teevan