Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Betting On It – Violet Blake

Recent college grad Blair Bartlett thought she had it all—until one near-death experience destroyed everything. Now she’s starting over halfway across the country with zero confidence, zero trust, and zero in the bank.

On the eve of her canceled wedding, her so-called friends formulate a bet to dig Blair out of her rut: in the next thirty days, she has to complete ten erotic dares that would make most married women blush. The stakes are high, and this is one bet she can’t lose.

Wary of messy entanglements, she recruits her best friend’s older brother—and longtime friend—Sawyer Callahan. Deemed Colorado’s most eligible bachelor, he’s successful, fun-loving, and knows exactly how to make a girl, um…swoon.

But as the weeks tick by, Blair knows the friendship has become much more than she’s bargained for. And something dark in Sawyer’s past is threatening to ruin their future before it even had a chance.

Series: Callahan Brewery #1
Release Date: November 18th 2014
Publisher: Violet Blake
Source: Inkslinger PR
Reviewer: Shannon
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BETTING ON IT was such a fun book.  Blair and Sawyer were funny and hot together and despite the change to their relationship (friends to lovers) you knew these two were going to be good for one another if they could just be honest about their big issues.

Blair was scrapping by at a temp job in an ad agency trying  to build a solid foundation for herself away from her controlling family.  She relied on her best friends knowing they would be there to support her, even if she falls.  But she should know it would be her best friend that would push for her to move on from her past and become the person she was meant to be, which includes a sex bucket list that her long time running partner, and her best friend’s cousin, Sawyer is only too happy to help her work through.

It was hard not to like Blair and Sawyer, but the two of them together was perfect.  The friendship that had built was a great foundation to their new relationship.  Despite the rules Blair put in place to protect herself, she was falling for Sawyer and discovered he was the person she wanted to reach out to with news, whether good or bad.  She wanted to be there to support him and help him with his own issues, even if she wasn’t sure he could share it with her.  They just made sense together and the chemistry between them was smoking hot.

I look forward to more in this series.  Violet Blake is an author who is new to me, but her voice and writing style was definitely one that I enjoyed.  I’ll definitely be looking forward to more from her.

Violet grew up wanting to be many great things. However, she quickly found out she was too accident-prone to be an astronaut, veterinarian, or surgical nurse, and had to take some time off from college to formulate a Plan B. By the time she got to Plan X, she settled on a degree in public health. But while she was supposed to be studying for a pathophysiology test, she took up writing romance.

Career commitment issues aside, she is fiercely dedicated to her family, and those who are patient enough to overlook a few…quirks. And no, she’s not going to swap writing (Plan Z, if you’re keeping track) in for a new career any time soon. She’s run out of letters, for one. Violet loves to write contemporary and fantasy, and one day hopes to get up the nerve to dive into futuristic.

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