Darker Water

Lauren Stewart

Once and Forever #1

Release date : October 3rd 2014

Rating : 5 Stars

After another painful breakup, Laney Temple finally understands that love is a fairytale and sex rarely comes with a happy ending. She’s too busy for it right now anyway–she has a business to run, art to create, and candy to crush. Eventually she’ll be ready to switch from her plastic-or-silicon lover to a flesh-and-blood one. But before that happens, she needs to be sure she won’t feel any of those annoying emotions that make her heart do things it wasn’t meant to do…Like breakCarson Bennett is completely upfront about what he wants, and it has nothing to do with Laney’s heart. Her lips? Hell yeah. Other parts of her body? You better f*cking believe it. But her heart? Nope, not even a little. Until it does… a lot. But having feelings for someone isn’t allowed. It’s the kind of thing you’re supposed to push down deep and cover up with one-night stands, sarcasm, and booze…Like secretsTwo people want the same thing—a commitment to nothing more than great sex in a bunch of different positions. Simple. Enjoyable. A win-win. Problem is, those two people have families and fears and pain that spill into every moment of their lives, control what they do and who they are. And if either Carson or Laney can’t free themselves from the past, they’ll both be pulled under by it. Darker Water is a stand-alone contemporary romance that does not end in a cliffhanger.

Darker Water (Once and Forever #1) by Lauren Stewart just blew my mind. Actually I have to admit that it was kind of an accident that I ended up reading this book. But NOW ? now I would say I am so lucky I did not miss to read it.

I can honestly HARDLY wait to read the next book in that series.

The writing style of Lauren Stewart is amazing. She drew me into her storytelling like only few authors have been able to so far. I am talking Colleen Hoover, Katy Evans or Rachel van Dyken style.

Some books get subtitles from me when I tell my friends about them and I think this book will receive the title

“Best declaration of love I have read so far”.

I read too many books to count on the subject of why a person is not able to have a relationship with another person. But this is the first book ever that made me feel all those reasons. I do not say they were justified – oh no – I only say that I actually FELT why the characters thought they were justified.

There is not much that I can say about the book, because there is too much I feel about it. I will spoiler if I say anymore because I can hardly contain myself just now. If you read the Blurb and you think you would like that story

– READ IT …

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