RELEASE DAY BLITZ: REVIEW AND TEASERS: Blocked by Lisa N. Paul

About Blocked

Racing hearts, Toe curling kisses, Sexy whispers…

Decker Brand has spent the past four years earning back his man-card. He’s got the calloused hands, the dirty jeans and the toned body to show for it. Now that he’s satisfied with whom he is he intends to stay true to himself even if it means remaining alone.

Lingering glances, Soft touches, Shallow Breaths…

April Maddox thought she’d lucked out when she found her prince at the early age of sixteen. Unfortunately, their kiss turned him from king to croaker right before her eyes.

Forsaken and cynical, she fears all men will leave her with warts before hopping off to another woman’s lily pad.

Smooth strokes, Light nips, Gentle tugs…

When it comes to relationships, they say timing is everything, and everything has its time.

History has played a part in Decker’s and April’s desire to give up on love. Fate will bring them together. It’s up to them to battle the outside forces, life’s interruptions, and daily dramas… together. With a little faith, they can undo everything that’s been…

Blocked

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Review

Barricaded. Closed Off. Hindered. Prevented.

All of these terms hold the same stymied meaning, and for April Maddox and Decker Brand, memories of their past relationships, wrecked feelings, and putting others before themselves have deterred them from moving on, holding on to the pain that shredded their lives. But with a little help, luck, and a leap of faith, April and Decker try to permeate the walls wrapped around each other’s hearts and open up to the potential that each other could bring to their lives.

I absolutely loved this book! Not only are the main characters vividly portrayed and their complexity examined fully but the honesty and realism that surrounds April and Decker’s story is something that captured my mind and my heart from the very beginning.

The devastation April faced after her scumbag of an ex left her while pregnant and in dealing with being a single mother for numerous years clearly illustrates the emotional torment that any woman in a situation like hers would feel. Lisa N. Paul takes April through the ups and downs of a woman who is holding onto her pain far too tightly and takes her in a direction that allows April to slowly loosen her hold, fighting with herself and those around her to stop cutting herself off to any happiness, especially the one standing in front of her offering her the world.

Decker Brand is 100% swoonworthy. He’s strong, protective, and one hell of a fantastic single father. His relationship with his wife before her death was not ideal, but he always gave everything he had to her and his baby girl. Decker’s baggage is just as heavy as April’s, but, most of the time, he feels ready to move on with April and unfetter himself from his memories, but he knows April’s blockage may take a bit more work. Good thing he’s willing to fight for the woman who completes him in a way he never imagined having.

Blocked is an absolutely gem of a read. It’s humorous, romantic, infuriating, and passionate. The buildup of Decker and April’s relationship is perfectly drawn out and the stops and starts as well as road blocks that seem to get in their way along the path to coupledom as well as creating a family with April’s son, Elijah, and Decker’s daughter, Charlie, clearly show how difficult a past riddled in pain and heartache can be freed by the right person.

A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

5 poison apples

About Lisa N. Paul

Lisa N. Paul is a wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, reader, writer, blogger, and self-proclaimed comedian—just not always in that order. Ever since she was a little girl, she has devoured books. Falling in love with the Sweet Valley High series at a young age drew Lisa to series books and inspired her to write her own. Thursday Nights is the first book in her Charistown series.

When not writing, Lisa can be found eating french fries and Godiva raspberry truffles, or hanging out with her husband and two sons.