Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Ruin You Completely – Calia Read

I met Mathias Sloan in a club.
Truth.
I told him I was twenty-four.
Lie.
I told him my name was Olivia.
Lie.
I thought that I would have a one-night stand and be done with him.
Truth.
I didn’t know that he was my new piano instructor for the next six months…
Truth.
We would come together and fall apart. After him, every man was ruined.
Truth.
If I knew what I know now, I wouldn’t have walked to him. I would’ve turned and run…
LIE.

Series: Sloan Brothers #3
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Publisher: Self Published
Source: Shh…Mom’s Reading
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

After having read the previous two books in the series, I wasn’t sure what to expect from oldest Sloan brother, Mathias.  When we met Mathias in the previous books in the series, he was always a bit standoffish, but with RUIN YOU COMPLETELY we finally get the story behind Mathias and why he’s the way he is.

Hired by his grandparents friend to be their granddaughter’s piano instructor, Mathias finds himself in Germany trying to get Katja ready for competition while fighting his growing attraction to her.  At the same time, Katja fights the same fight…something that’s been building since the day they meet.  But Mathias fights his past and those ghosts cause him to push away the one thing that truly makes him happy.

Mathias was quite complex and not at all what I was expecting.  He was trying to figure out how to move forward each day when the one thing he loved had been ripped away from his life.  It wasn’t until Katja, that he started to feel again.  Of course, that brought along a whole set of other issues…considering she was his student.

Despite the age difference, the circumstances of how they met and the emotional issues they had, I liked Mathias and Katja together.  She gave him hope, even when he didn’t want to see it. And he, despite what he may have done, showed Katja how to love.  Theirs isn’t an easy romance and their path to HEA is very happy, but they found a way to fight old demons and make their relationship work.

I looked back on my time with Mathias Sloan as an experience—one that couldn’t be dodged or ignored. He swept into my life like a hurricane, destroying everything in his wake.

Because of him I learned that there’s a learning curve to love. Because of him I realized that there’s always that one person that destroys and sends you back into the world to fend for yourself. And it doesn’t matter how hard they hurt you. Whether you like it or not, the scars on your heart spell out their name.

You will always remember them.

I knew I had to get this over with. Swallowing loudly, I opened the door. He turned around. And there he was. All six feet three inches of him.

Mathias Sloan.

His hands were tucked into his jeans. His dirty blonde hair was cut short. A five o’clock shadow appeared on his face. I remembered what that stubble felt like against my neck.

Tension was etched in his hazel eyes. He looked haggard, like he hadn’t slept in days.

But it didn’t matter what he looked like; my heart beat against my chest, begging to burst, and reach for him.

“Hi,” he said deeply.

I gripped the doorknob so hard, my knuckles turned white. I tried to force words out of my mouth, but nothing would come out. I just stood there, staring at him with wide eyes.

“Can we talk?” He nudged his head toward the cobblestone street behind him, and when he turned, the sunlight reflected on my ring.

I quickly put my hand behind my back, but it was too late.

His voice faded into nothing and his eyes clouded over. For a second, I saw fear. A flash of anger. And then, something that I never thought I’d see from Mathias: hurt.

Thousands of questions appeared in his eyes. The last thing I wanted to do was answer him; the longer I stood there the further I drifted from my fury.

“I’m marrying him,” I blurted out. My voice was shaking. I knew if I stayed here, so close to him, I would crumble and I would be back at the beginning.

Mathias took a step back, as if I’d punched him. He stared at me with hurt and accusation. “What did you do, Katja?”

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Calia Read lives in Indiana with her husband and their four kids.

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♥READ THE SERIES♥

Book 1 – Every Which Way – Amazon | B&N

Book 2 – Breaking the Wrong – Amazon | B&N

Book 3 – Ruin You Completely – Amazon | B&N