RELEASE BLITZ: REVIEW AND TEASERS: Crash by Amity Cross

Violet Fuller has been through a lot in her short life.

After being viciously attacked, she’s hidden herself away from the world for the past five years, fearing everyone and everything. That’s until the day she finally gathers the courage to go outside.

Violet decides to take a job at Ash’s new gym, Pulse, to reacquaint herself with the male dominated world of MMA. She used to be her brother’s biggest supporter, going to all his matches and cheering him on. There’s no one he trusts more to help him run the admin side of his new business, but when Violet walks through the door for the first time, she sees someone she wasn’t expecting.

Handsome, AUFC fighter, Lincoln Hayes.

The same Lincoln Hayes that she’s had a crush on since she was sixteen.

All muscled, disciplined, hot as hell, six-foot two of him. He’s definitely not a boy anymore.

Things are about to become more difficult than Violet had hoped. So much for easing back into reality.

And Lincoln? He’s only got one thing on his mind.

How do you win over a woman who is afraid of everything?

Simple.

You fight.

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Review

I love how Amity Cross incorporates heavy, sensitive issues into complex and steamy story lines in all of her books; she exposes the raw emotions that are felt in a way that is in your face enough for the readers to understand how exposed her characters feel due to what they went through and the manner in which they strive to live not to simply exist.

Amity Cross does a great job of illustrating Violet’s fears and insecurities in Crash. She is someone who has been held captive by the scars of her past for five years now, and she can’t just jump right into interacting with society or trying to find love because her fear consumes her…it’s a tangible idea…it lives and breathes in her and forces her to reject society and all of the risks that could happen by being on the outside. For Violet, her recovery is a process…a grueling sometimes devastating process and Cross focuses on Violet’s recovery and its highs and lows and provides hope for women who feel as afraid and insecure as she does.

I always liked Lincoln in Ash and Ren’s books, and I still do now, but I definitely wanted to throttle him for thinking with his dick instead his brain early on, but I guess I would be a bit skittish in knowing how to handle Violet and her past, so I can absolutely forgive him for his choices because he more than makes up for it with the sensitive way he handles Violet once he realizes what she needs. Lincoln, with his patience and care, helps Violet to live again…to see what sexual intimacy can be like when you give yourself to someone wholeheartedly and he helps her to take risks and be fearless.

Violet’s transformation plays out so well in the story and Lincoln changes as well as he begins to understand what and who he wants. Their journey is definitely emotional – it moves forward and back a number of times, but once Violet and Lincoln figure each other out and Violet starts to heal through honesty and hard work, their chemistry ignites and readers see the beautiful and amazing woman that Violet is.

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Amity Cross isn’t her real name. That’s no secret.

She is the author of wicked stories about rock stars looking for redemption, gritty romances featuring MMA fighters and dark tales of forbidden romance. She loves to write about screwed up relationships and kick ass female leads that don’t take s**t lying down.

Amity lives in a leafy country town in southern Australia and can be found chained to her desk, held at ransom by her characters.

Don’t send help. She likes it.

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