Title: The Traveling Man (Traveling, #1)
Author: Jane Harvey – Berrick
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Blurb
I was ordinary. Nice. He was extraordinary. And he wasn’t always nice.
Moody and difficult, brilliant and beautiful, Kes scared me and he protected me. He could be incredibly hurtful and incredibly thoughtful. He wasn’t perfect, but he was perfect for me. He challenged me, he took me out of my safe little box and showed me the world could be magnificent. He was everything I wasn’t.
Aimee Anderson is ten when the traveling carnival first comes to her nice little town. She doesn’t expect her world to change so completely. But meeting Kestrel Donohue puts her life on a different path.
Even though she only sees him for the two weeks of the year when he passes through her home town, his friendship is the most important of her life. As a child’s friendship grows to adult love, the choices become harder, and both Kes and Aimee realize that two weeks a year will never be enough.
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I was so excited to read The Traveling man and i was lucky enough to get an ARC. I loved every page, every word of it. I have never been to a carnival but Jane made me feel like i was in one.
The book is based around our 2 main character Amiee and Kes. Amiee comes from a very strict family where children should be seen and not heard. Kes has been brought up in the carnival life, moved from place to place every year and never real had a real home.
Amiee has always thought there was something magical about the carnival and would see it arrive in her small home town every year but was never aloud to go. Until one year she asked to go on her on her 10th birthday and her parents allow it. Amiee goes to carnival where she meets Kes for the first time. There is an insist connection made and the become close friends. But the carnival is only there for a couple of weeks and then moves on to the next place and Amiee and Kes have to say goodbye. But they don't let this ruin their friendship. Every year the carnival rolls into Amiee's small town and her and Kes get to be friends again for a couple of weeks and each year their friendship build and they become closer and closer and their feeling turn into something more than friendship. Then the year Amiee turns 16 and the carnival comes to town the same as always expect this time her and Kes are determined to have their relationship but limits are pushed and boundaries are tested and everything goes horrible wrong and they don't get to see each again for years.
8 Years has passed and Amiee has grown up and moved away from her family home. But that summer shes home to visit and low and behold the carnival has come at the same time it did every year. Amiee goes to the Carnival with her sister and her nephew only to discover that Kes is back. The second part of this book we get the see Amiee and Kes react as adults and see how the try to move forward from what happened in the past. Their feelings have become stronger and i was so excited for them to get their second change. But can they work through everything to get their HEA? well we have to wait for book 2 to find out.
This book has everything. Its has a super hot sexy dare devil that will have you drooling. It has magic, it has angst, heartbreak, love, some smoking hot scenes and some laugh out loud moments. One other reason i love this book so much is we get a little surprise visit from a character we have met before and if you have read some of Jane's other work you will know exactly who <3
Yes this book is a cliff hanger but don't let that put you off it one hell of a read! If i could give this book more than 5 stars i would!
Excerpt
I gripped his biceps then pulled him closer, sliding my hands over his satiny skin.
The feel of his erection digging into my hip made me pause.
“We can’t,” I whispered.
“Why not?” he mumbled as his hand disappeared up my t-shirt.
“Because everyone saw us come in here—they’ll all know what we’re up to.”
“So?”
“So! I’ve only just met them—it’s embarrassing!”
Kes chuckled. “No secrets between carnies, Aimee. We all live too close to each other for that. Cut one, we all bleed.”
“How sweet. But I don’t want my new family to know that we’re in here fucking, five minutes after I met them.”
“They won’t care,” he said, squeezing my nipples hard enough to make me gasp.
“I care,” I said, as my voice wobbled unconvincingly. “And there are kids out there, Kes! We can’t give them the wrong impression.”
This time he laughed loudly.
“I never knew you were such a prude!”
“I am not!”
“Jesus, Aimee! These are carnie kids. They live in trailers and RVs like us. They’ve heard their parents fucking a thousand times. They’ve seen the stallion take the mare when she’s in heat, and believe me, once you’ve seen that, every guy has performance anxiety.”
I laughed a little when he said that, but he wasn’t finished.
“Do you remember when we were kids and you asked me how I knew that Madame Cindy was Dono’s girlfriend? I heard them. I knew what sex was before I could say the word. These carnie kids are just like that. We’re not doing anything wrong, we’re not hurting anyone.”
His tone had started off light and amused, but had become more serious and insistent as he’d gone on.
“Maybe I am prudish,” I said quietly. “It was the way I was brought up. I just happen to think that making love is a private thing between two people: not a public display of your testosterone, unless you’re doing it to make that stallion blush.”
He sighed and shifted onto his back. “Did I imagine you rubbing my cock while we were laying in the field at the carnival when we were kids?”
I didn’t answer, but fiddled with the hem of my t-shirt.
“You want to wait until everyone has their backs turned, pretending that they don’t know what we’re doing in the privacy of our own home?”
“Yes, exactly.”
He turned his head to smile at me. “My funny girl.”
I smiled back, and he reached out to wind his long fingers around mine. He brought my knuckles to his lips and kissed them one at a time.
It was the sweetest gesture, and I fell a little more under his spell.
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