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Ravage by Jessica Prince
Series: Civil Corruption Book 4
Release Date: September 10, 2018

Rating:  4.5 Stars

Told in the first person.  Alternating persons.

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received this book for review from Social Butterfly PR and the author.  I was not compensated nor was I required to write a positive review.  The opinions I have expressed are my own.  I am posting this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255:  "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising".

Synopsis: 

Mason Keller is broken, destructive, and the only man I’ve ever loved.

I met him when I was just a child, but I knew there would never be anyone else.

He lit my world with each smile and warmed my heart just by looking at me.

But he was my brother’s best friend...

Which meant I was off limits.

So he let me go and took my heart with him.

Now everything has changed, and the obstacles that kept us apart all our lives are no longer in the way.

He wants to claim me.

He wants to own me.

He wants to ravage my world.

And if I’m not careful...

I just might let him.

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My Thoughts:

Lyla Tolliver reminisces about her first crush.  Mason “Mace” Keller may have his head on straight but that doesn’t excuse his actions.  This is a story that seems so realistic.  Our author created a story that I could picture each scene clearly.  At times everything was happy and then tragedy happened and it turned very emotional.

Part of what made this emotional is how alcoholism has touched both our main characters.  Besides the emotional there is the physical.  If there are certain things that are a trigger for you, be mindful that this could be one for you.  The author handled it perfectly.  She shows how much a family and a friend can be affected by an addiction.  And if there’s something that means the world to you, it’s worth the fight to change.  But our author knew when to rein it in so the scenes didn’t drag out or seem preachy. 

She also did a great job in showing Lyla’s love for a man that has his own demons.  He’s part of a rock band and that seems to feed into our assumptions of how they act when out on tour.  I have no trouble sitting down and reading this book again, or even the other books in the series, while listening to my favorite music.  I had no trouble following the storyline and didn’t feel as if I was missing anything because I hadn’t read the previous three books. 

But I did find the book to be addicting.  I hated all the times that I had to put it down but every chance I got I would pick it back up.  My morning began very early.  I didn’t want to miss anything – that includes my “it’s about time” moment.  Ms. Prince gave me the perfect ending as well as a great introduction to her next book – I have some catching up to do.

Excerpt:

I stopped in the doorway, propping my shoulder against the jamb. Then I did what I’d done every night for the past four and a half years. I looked to that picture on her nightstand, feeling that familiar swell in my chest at the sight of it. Then I turned my gaze to her and watched as she lay on her stomach, stretched across our bed with her feet kicked up in the air while she scrawled in that old leather-bound journal I’d bought her years ago. It was something she’d done every night since we found it in a box in that storage building, taking a few minutes to herself to recount her day on paper. It was her own personal quiet time that she loved, and I always made sure to give her the privacy she needed to do it.

As if sensing my presence, she turned her head and hit me with a beaming smile. “Hey.”

“Hey, baby. Am I interrupting?”

“Nope,” she answered, using the ribbon to mark her page and flipping the journal closed. “All done. Will go down okay?”

“Out like a light.”

She bit her bottom lip and lowered her eyelids to half-mast as she pushed up and sat back on her haunches. The pale purple nightie she was wearing teased at all the beauty that lay beneath. “Perfect, ’cause I’m in the mood to play.”

About the Author:

Born and raised around Houston Texas, Jessica spent most of her life complaining about the heat, humidity, and all around pain in the ass weather. It was only as an adult that she quickly realized the cost of living in Houston made up for not being able to breathe when she stepped outside. That's why God created central air, after all.

Jessica is the mother of a perfect little boy--she refuses to accept that he inherited her attitude and sarcastic nature no matter what her husband says.

In addition to being a wife and mom, she's also a wino, coffee addict, and an avid lover of all types of books--romances still being her all time favs. Her husband likes to claim that reading is her obsession but she just says it's a passion...there's a difference. Not that she'd expect a boy to understand.

Jessica has been writing since she was a little girl, but thankfully grew out of drawing her own pictures for her stories before ever publishing her first book. Because an artist she is not.

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