Fusion (Explosive #5) by Tessa Teevan
Release Day: October 30, 2015
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Models: Don Allen and Faith Danielle
Photographer: Kelsey Keeton at K. Keeton Designs
Cover Designer: Robin Harper at Wicked By Design
Where do babies come from?
The question every parent dreads hearing has finally fallen from the lips of six year old Ava Banks, the curious, precocious little girl that you fell in love with in Ignite. Jeremy and Sierra, normally blunt as can be, struggle to find the right words to answer her. So instead, they rewind sixteen years to that one fateful day where a game of Seven Minutes in Heaven inevitably led to life-long romance filled with laughter, love, and many, many mishaps along the way.
Falling in love with your best friend? It's the most incredible thing in the world. But when a love comes so easily, will it truly be able to last? When the world comes crashing down around you, can even the strongest relationship withstand great tragedy?
Stay tuned for lots of laughs, teenage awkwardness, a few tears, and most of all, mullets. Because what good love story doesn't do business in the front, and party in the back?
**While Fusion is a standalone romance, it’s best read after Ignite.
Ignite (Explosive #1)
Excerpt
“It’s fine, Jeremy. I promise. I have no problem being the Tod to your Copper. Or the Joey to your Dawson. That’s who I am.” She hesitated for a brief moment. “That’s who I’ll always be. You’re my best friend, Jeremy. It’s okay that you don’t see my boobs. Hell, it’s probably better that way.”
My stomach plummeted and if I was man enough to admit it, my eyes burned with an unexpected rush of tears. I stepped back, out of the streetlight so she couldn’t see me. It was a move she misinterpreted, but before I could find a single ounce of courage, she was waving goodbye and running into her house, leaving me there to watch her go.
Something I never wanted to do again.
It wasn’t until after Sierra left for Ohio and I had a chance to reflect on her words that I realized what she’d said. Dawson and Joey, as of right then, weren’t even speaking. Copper and Tod went their separate ways, and even though their friendship remained, they were still apart for the rest of their lives.
I didn’t want to be Copper anymore. I sure as hell didn’t want to be Dawson.
But it was too late. I’d lost my chance. I’d missed my window. Sierra was gone and there was nothing I could do about it.
Jenna was right.
I was an idiot.
I enjoyed reading Fusion
very, very much indeed. Soft and fluffy as a cashmere sweater, with
the occasioal sting of the price tag, this
is a really good romance novel, one full of sweet awww-moments and
sprinklled with tears of joy and sadness, but above all it is a
celebration of Love in all its declinations.
When Jeremy Banks first
meets Sierra Sullivan, they are too young to go to the movies
unaccompanied, let alone date. But they are absolutely sure the other
is The One.
From that first encounter
on the beach, we watch them grow both physically and emotionally; we
experience the unwavering force of their pure love and become
witnesses to its healing power. In what is probably the best Prologue
I've come across so far, Jeremy and Sierra forewarn you about what
you are getting into: not an angsty book, neither one full of plot
twists. A boring story, more likely. But their willingness to tell
their tale called to my heart, and I couldn't help but stop and
listen.
In spinning Sierra and
Jeremy's story, Ms Teevan actually makes the ordinary extraordinary:
all the relevant events in their story are those we all get to
experience at some point in our own lives, but they don't feel
'clichey' at all here . Cliches are usually frowned upon as much in
literature as they are in real life.... until you are actually living
them and you realize that what you are experiencing is special,
peculiar, and unique – it's you, you attitude, your lookout on
things, that makes all the difference. When I read Jeremy's and
Sierra's words, I thought they summed everything up
Jeremy: 'You may think you know our story. And, in truth, you
probably do.'
Sierra: 'But it's ours and in my book, it's the best story ever
told.'
and it all clicked into
place for me. I realized then and there why the book's title is just
perfect: it hints to two different entities melding together into one
but also to real life being made of fairy-tale moments too. To each
of us their own.
Like everybody else on
this earth, our lovebirds go through some rough patches; life throws
some nasty curve balls at them, and the pain from that hidden price
tag is almost overwhelming. a real threat to everything they have
been building for themselves and their family. They learn how they
can face everything together, and come out on the other side stronger
and more 'together' than before.
I have been taught that
book beginnings and endings would provide me with a surer way to tell
a skilled author from a less accomplished one. Well, if the book's
Prologue and Epilogue are anything to go by, Tessa Teevan is here to
stay. Good for me because I'm eager to know what life has in store
for the Banks' younger generations.
***ARC recived for an honest review***
***ARC recived for an honest review***
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About the Author
I'm a twenty something book junkie who is also obsessed with sports. Bengals, Buckeyes, Reds are my teams! I work for the government during the day, hang out with Air National Guard on the weekends, and have been married to my own book boyfriend for over seven years. We currently live right outside of Dayton, OH with our two cats.
If I’m not writing or looking through tons of photos of hot men, all in the name of research, then you can probably find me curled up with my Kindle, ignoring the rest of the world. I love my sports almost as much as I love my books. My other obsessions include red wine, country music, and all things Grace Potter.
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