Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Fly – T. A. Foster

Not everyone’s good at one-night stands.

Skye Stephens has the worst day of her professional career, and all she wants to do is shed her power suit and get lost in the sheets with the hot guy she met at the bar. The problem is, this uptight ad exec doesn’t know how to do one-night stands. She has strict rules about dating and when to let a man in her bedroom.

Fighter pilot Ben “Bolt” Hardcastle is used to lovin’ and leavin’. But, after he meets Skye, one night doesn’t seem to be enough.

When these two crash-land into each other, a connection strong enough to make the loner pilot and the sexy businesswoman shed their rules about love and relationships begins to burn deeper than either of them ever expected.

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Release Date: August 28th 2014
Publisher: Self Published
Source: Inkslinger PR
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

FLY had elements that I always enjoy in a good story:  a hero who is destined to fall hard, despite what he ways, a heroine who’s afraid of being hurt by the hero and it didn’t hurt that the hero was a pilot.  But as I read the story of Ben and Skye, I found myself not loving either character, but not disliking them either.

Ben “Bolt” Hardcastle is a marine fighter pilot who’s used to flying fast, both in his job and when he deals with women.  He’s a love’em and leave’em type who have never apologized for who he was.  But when he mets Skye Stephens, by chance, and she doesn’t fall immediately for his charms, Ben finds himself doing what he can to prove himself to her.  There were times when Ben would rise above and do something that made me think he was the man for Skye.  To prove to her that he was more than sex and could be there for her.  But then he would say or do something that had me smacking my head, making me wonder why she bothered.

Skye was a tough woman.  She had a job that didn’t value women the same way it did men which all fed into her feelings that no man could ever be what she needed.  So was determined to be self sufficient and at times came across as pretty cold.  Stepping out of her character and bringing Ben home that first night was the first glimpse at the woman she could be, if she let go.  But she fought against what she truly wanted and who she thought she needed to be.  That times meant she fought against how she was feeling towards Ben too.

Together, these two were very hot when their own personal demons didn’t get in the middle of them.  I think if their characters had a bit more time to develop their relationship (after they figured out what they wanted) I would have liked them a bit more.  Towards the end of the story seemed rushed and made the final chapters seem a bit unrealistic…at least to me.

A solid effort and not a bad story.  There were elements I enjoyed, but I really wanted those characters to develop more and make their relationship seem more realistic.

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T.A. Foster met, fell in love with, and married her own Marine fighter pilot. Through deployments, trainings, and sometimes living oceans apart, their own love story continues every day.  

She grew up catching rays and waves along the North Carolina Outer Banks and now resides in the state with her husband, two children, and two canine kiddos.

T.A. has an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate degree in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University.  When she’s not chasing her two-legged and four-legged children or trying to escape for date night, you can find her reading, writing, or planning her next beach trip.

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