We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the Review & Excerpt Tour for Lori Foster’s TOUGH LOVE! TOUGH LOVE is the next novel in her Ultimate Series published by Harlequin HQN. This amazing book releases on August 25th! If you haven’t before, make sure you grab the other books in this fantastic series today!
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TOUGH LOVE Review & Excerpt Tour Schedule
August 17th
A girl and her books – Review
books chocolate and lipgloss – Review
An Aussie Girls WILD Book Addiction! – Excerpt
Books, Coffee & Passion – Excerpt
Adventures in Writing – Excerpt
NightWolf Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Talk Books to Me – Review& Excerpt
August 18th
Romance Bytes –Excerpt
The Bookworms Obsession – Review
Indy Book Fairy– Excerpt
Romance Reviews and More – Review & Excerpt
Mythical Books –Excerpt
Read more sleepless – Review & Excerpt
August 19th
Reads All the Books –Review & Excerpt
Best Book Boyfriends – Excerpt
What Is That Book About – Excerpt
Tome Tender –Review
Red Cheeks Reads –Review & Excerpt
I Heart YA Books –Excerpt
From the TBR Pile – Review & Excerpt
August 20th
A Bookish Escape –Review & Excerpt
Riverina Romantics – Excerpt
Author Groupies – Review
Pages Abound –Review & Excerpt
2 Greek Girls Reading – Excerpt
BookWorm221 –Review & Excerpt
Romancing the Readers – Excerpt
August 21st
grownupfangirl –Excerpt
Friends Till The End Book Blog – Excerpt
Those Crazy Book Chicks – Review & Excerpt
Life With Two Boys –Excerpt
stories and swag –Review
Reading Between the Wines Book Club – Excerpt
August 22nd
Books, Booze, and BDSM – Excerpt
Wicked Babes Blog Reviews – Review
naughty Book Eden – Excerpt
The Book Review –Review & Excerpt
Nose Stuck in a Book –Excerpt
The Smut-Brarians – Review & Excerpt
Making it Happen –Review & Excerpt
August 23rd
Cruising Susan Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt
Ashleyz Wonderland – Excerpt
YOLOFORALIVING – Review& Excerpt
mommas secret book obsession – Excerpt
Books and Warpaint –Review & Excerpt
August 24th
Will Read for Feels –Excerpt
Wild and Dirty Book Blog – Review & Excerpt
Becky on Books – Excerpt
Book Munchies – Review & Excerpt
Vera is Reading –Excerpt
Jen’s Reading Obsession – Review & Excerpt
BJ’s Reviews – Excerpt
August 25th
Naomi’s Reading Palace (Previously – Nomi’s Paranormal Palace) – Review
SnoopyDoo’s Book Reviews – Excerpt|
Alleskelle Blogs – Review &Excerpt
Boundless Book Reviews – Excerpt
Obsessed With Myshelf –Review
Books Like Breathing – Review
August 26th
Oh My Growing TBR –Review & Excerpt
Stormy Day Reading Books – Review & Excerpt
Between The Lines – Review
Sultry, Steamy Reading –Review
I Bookin’ Love To Read – Review & Excerpt
Short and Sassy Book Blurbs – Review
BBF BookBoyfriends – Review & Excerpt
August 27th
KT Book reviews –Excerpt
PBC – Review
Kimmy Loves to Read – Excerpt
The Book Maven – Review
This Mom Loves Alphas – Excerpt
August 28th
Talking Books Blog –Excerpt
Fic Central – Review
Coast to Coast Book Besties – Review & Excerpt
Caroline Jane Reads –Excerpt
The Book rogue – Review
mignonmykel : reviews – Review & Excerpt
J&J’s Southern Spice Blog – Excerpt
August 29th
G&T Indie Café – Excerpt
My YA NA Book Obession – Review & Excerpt
Love, Laughter and Happily Ever Afters – Excerpt
alpha book club –Review & Excerpt
Naughty Moms’ Story Time – Excerpt
Read-Love-Blog –Review
Romantic Reads and Such – Excerpt
August 30th
JB’s Book Obsession Blog – Excerpt
Books Need TLC –Review
Margie’s Must Reads –Excerpt
Renee Entress’s Blog –Review & Excerpt
Rock ‘n’ Romance – Excerpt
Books and Friendz – Review & Excerpt
Sexy Bibliophiles – Review
Review
Storyline: 5
Angst: 2
Tissue: 0
Value: 5
Panty Scorching: 5 Plus
Over All Rating: 4.75 Stars
Kindle eArc reviewed by Robin
I read all 3 books from the Ultimate series for this review but Tough Love could be read as a standalone. Vanity is an independent woman with California good looks. She sets her sights on Stack, an MMA fighter, and makes a plan to snag him by not being clingy and providing amazing sex. They agree to be dates for a wedding for one night of sex with no strings attached. She’s the perfect woman…..friend/lover. Will her slow and steady love win the race?
“Vanity was the one of the sexiest women he’d ever known, but she was also real. Bold. He didn’t have to wonder at her thoughts, because she spelled out what she wanted and how she wanted it.
She also made it clear that their time together had a short time frame, and after they’d settled the lust, she fully expected him to mosey on out of her life.
Should’ve been perfect, only…it nettled him that she didn’t push for more.”
I think this was my favorite book out of the Ultimate series. Vanity is adorable with her self-assured personality. She gets along great with women or men. Stack is a perfect alpha who had a loving set of parents to show him a healthy relationship and the meaning of commitment. As unsure he is of wanting a long term relationship, he can’t picture letting Vanity get away. I adored reading this as the love story unfolds.
My absolute favorite part of the books is every single woman feels like she has no family until she gets involved with these MMA fighters and finds a whole new loving family waiting to take care of each other. It’s beautiful. I am anxiously awaiting Armie’s story. I have a strong feeling that will be my favorite Ultimate book of all.
Excerpt
STACK FROWNED OVER her raised voice. “Calm down.” Her quick glare befuddled him. “Look, all I’m saying is that you’re shaking. And your arm is burnt and—”
“And you made promises.” While looking at her arm, she added, “Sexual promises, so don’t even think of dodging out on me.” She winced when she saw the burn. “Damn it. It wasn’t hurting, but now that you’ve pointed it out, it is.”
“I wasn’t…” All her attention remained on her arm, so he gave up trying to explain that he’d only made an attempt at nobility. No way was he “dodging out,” as she’d accused.
The burn on her arm didn’t look serious. Slightly bigger than a quarter, it was red, angry, but only slightly blistered. “I can take care of that for you once we get to your place.”
“What will you do?” She held her arm to her chest protectively.
Stack felt the crooked grin pulling at his mouth. The woman would brave a car fire, dismiss any danger, but at the thought of him patching her up, she grew wary. “I have a first aid kit in the trunk,” he explained, hoping to soothe her. “We’ll put some ointment on it and wrap it, that’s all. You can take some ibuprofen for pain.”
Her shoulders relaxed. “Oh, good. Nothing too awful.”
“Nothing awful at all,” he promised. But the way she continued to study him prompted him to add, “You know I wouldn’t do anything to hurt you, right?”
“It’s not that, it’s just…” She looked at her arm again, then deliberately dismissed it. “Before we do that, I need to shower.” She licked her lips. “And so do you.”
A hint? “You’re sure you’re okay?”
“Positive.”
Thank God. “Then how about we shower together?”
A hint? “You’re sure you’re okay?”
“Positive.”
Thank God. “Then how about we shower together?”
He shook his head. Telling her she was the first woman to thank him for sex wouldn’t be a good idea.
She scowled and repeated with more insistence, “What?”
Again he took her hand, then lifted it to his mouth and kissed her palm. “Like your enthusiasm, that’s all.”
“I am enthusiastic.” She shifted her hand so her palm cupped his jaw. He’d shaved before the wedding, but now, as her thumb moved back and forth, he heard the rasp of new whiskers. “It seems like I’ve been waiting for this forever.”
Yeah, no kidding. “You’re the one who set the stipulations, darlin’.” Hell, the second she’d propositioned him, he’d been ready. But she’d spelled out the rules—most importantly that they had to wait until the night of Cannon’s wedding to seal the deal. Something about her not wanting to take the chance that they’d get together, hit a snag, and she’d end up without a date to the wedding after all.
As if she expected him to annoy her right off. As if having him as an escort to the wedding was more appealing than having sex with him.
What had burned his ass the most was her assertion that in the meantime, they should both carry on as usual, dating others, sleeping around, as if they hadn’t made an intimate deal.
Who did that?
TOUGH LOVE is part of the Ultimate series. Check out all the books in the Ultimate series today!
Hard Knocks
No Limits
Holding Strong
Tough Love
Fighting Dirty
About TOUGH LOVE:
She’s playing hard to get…to win the MMA fighter of her ultimate fantasies in a sultry new novel from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster Vanity Baker loves a good, clean match, but she’s not above playing a little dirty. She’s wanted Stack “The Wolf” Hannigan from day one. Seems as though the best way to corral the famously commitment-phobic fighter is to insist on keeping it casual. And her plan works—deliciously well—until Stack’s past steps out of the shadows.
Stack learned early to stay free of attachments. But with sexy, forthright Vanity, he’s the one always left wanting more. Then his trouble making family comes back into the picture, threatening everything Stack cares about—Vanity included. Suddenly he realizes they’re much more than friends with benefits. He’s ready to go to the mat for her…but will it be in time to protect the woman who’s tamed him for good?
Praise for TOUGH LOVE:
“Foster brings her signature blend of heat and sweet to her addictive third Ultimate martial arts contemporary. Foster ably tosses out red herrings and also seamlessly lays the foundation for the next book in this series. This luscious tale will appeal to Foster’s legion of fans and attract new ones—even those who aren’t fans of professional fighting.”– Publishers Weekly
About Lori Foster:
Since first publishing in January 1996, Lori Foster has become a USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and New York Times bestselling author. Lori has published through a variety of houses, including Kensington, St. Martin’s, Harlequin, Silhouette, Samhain, and Berkley/Jove. She is currently published with HQN.
Lori hosts a very special annual “Reader & Author” event in West Chester, Ohio. Proceeds from the event have benefited many worthy causes, including the Hamilton County YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter, the Animal Adoption Foundation, The Conductive Learning Center for children with spina bifida and cerebral palsy, and The One Way Farm, Children’s Home.
Each year Lori donates all proceeds from one book to charity. You can see the benefit romance books here: http://lorifoster.com/benefit-books/
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