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Tug Of War (Bloodlines Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by K. Larsen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 out of 5 stars 610
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Impulsive, YES. Irresponsible, SURE. Necessary, PROBABLY. Going to end badly, most likely. Does any of that matter to me, no. I decided that I can't please everyone so this week my only goal is to please me. I’m a selfish cow but I can’t seem to help it. I’m Clara Lord. I own Bloodline’s Tattoo Parlor, have a filthy mouth, no filter and a really strong objection to bossy idiots, pet names and wealthy men. You will hate me, love me or love to hate me but either way, it doesn’t matter. Everything I touch turns to crap and it’s all my fault. See, I lived through hell. Then I escaped hell and carefully spent the next eight years crafting a perfect little life until Domini Napoli screwed it all up. Now nothings right. Everything’s wrong and all my secrets are coming out. Obviously, I have to fix it, my life, the problem is I don’t really trust anyone and I don’t know how. Dominic baffles me. Sawyer adores me. Amanda and Marg try to keep me in line and I live for Allie. This whole thing is a cluster F***. I want them both in different ways but I have Alliecat to protect in the mix. I keep thinking the only way out of this is to take Allie and run...again. Leave both men behind and go back to Allie and Clara take on the world...is thirty-three too old to do that now? It didn’t seem so bad at twenty-four but to have to do all that work again... crap.
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"With its quick wit and dark humor, Tug of War breaks you down and then builds you up, leaving you reeling. Raw, gritty, sexy--Clara and Dom ignite the page and tug hard at your heartstrings." --Trisha Wolfe, author of Born, Darkly

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This book was challenging to write. Clara is hard to love. She is not whiny, or a push over. She is loud, and stuck in her ways and she has faults. I love a strong female lead and I wanted to write one that isn't perfect. I wanted a real life type story. We all have that friend who does stupid stuff or makes mistakes that we still love in the end. This story is for all those women. The ones who are imperfect, works in progress.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B074JDTZFF
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 2, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1738 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 186 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 out of 5 stars 610

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SherryP
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read!
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2013
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K. Larsen takes you for an interesting ride with this one. The main character Clara is independent on the outside but struggles so much on the inside. You really do love to hate her at times. Ugh, and Sawyer...I just ache for him. He loves her so and she uses him so. I wished she could have just cut him loose earlier so his pain wouldn't have been so deep. Dom just made me want more. He was so determined and strong. Perfect for Clara even though she didn't think so. I liked 30 Days and Committed but K. Larsen...this book, I loved! Excellent read woman!
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Amjedi
4.0 out of 5 stars Tug of War on How I Feel About This Book
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2014
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Let me start by saying I basically liked this book. I read it in one day and couldn't put it down. It was entertaining and kept me engrossed. There were times when I laughed, wanted to cry, was shocked, and was pissed off. I was mostly pissed at Clara for the way she treated Sawyer. Now, don't get me wrong, I know plenty of men and women like Clara, who stay in a relationship with someone like Sawyer, even though they know that the person is in love with them and even though they know they can't reciprocate that love and that it's selfish to stay in the relationship with them. So, I vacillated between feeling compassion for Clara and being pissed at her for the way she treated Sawyer. On the other hand, sometimes you can't help who you fall in love with: the heart wants what the heart wants and Clara clearly loved Dominic and Dominic clearly loved her. I loved how much both of the men loved and doted on her daughter Allie and I loved how good Sawyer was to both Allie and Clara. I liked Dom a lot too, I just loved Sawyer more. So I'm giving the book 4 stars, although there were times when I really was mad at Clara, but in the end at least she knew she had problems and went into therapy so she could work on them and I'm mostly glad that she got her HEA.
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Dorothy L. Dootson
3.0 out of 5 stars I didn't Love it, but I did Like it.
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2014
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I really wanted to LOVE this book. I did LIKE the book. The story line was realistic enough that I wanted to keep reading. There were just a few things that irked me enough to knock off a star. The main character, Clara, is old enough to know better. She has an 8-year-old daughter that should come first, and I felt as though she was always second - regardless of what Clara believed.

The love triangle was okay, I guess. I mean, there was a great guy and then there was Dom. Personally, I am at a point in my life that I don't need all that mess, so I think I had a harder time connecting to the relationship (considering I actually have an 8-year-old I thought I would connect a little better to the characters and their relationships).

That out of the way, I STILL liked the book because the author wrote it well. There weren't any major grammatical errors that drew me away form the story, and I enjoyed reading it.

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Shandra Torbett
5.0 out of 5 stars Who do you think you are?
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2014
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Clara Lord doesn't know who she is from page one and watching her struggle to figure herself out was a badass, reckless ride that I'm glad I got to take. She's fierce and ferocious and everything fabulous that I love in a female character yet is rarely shown because there's some weird thinking out there that all female readers want a damsel in distress who faints at the first sign of danger.

I like my women wild.

Clara doesn't disappoint. She's got this mouth on her that makes me laugh all too often; there are times when I wonder what it has to feel like to hate yourself the way that she does, yet to be utterly helpless to change either. Her life is a mess because she's got this beautiful little girl to take care of, to consider in her decisions, and she's all that Allie has since the father isn't in the picture. All Clara has ever known has been fight-or-flight responses to situations that overwhelmed her so when she meets Dominic Napoli and he's everything she's been running from, what else should she have done?

She ran.

Only he's a creeper who didn't let her get very far before tracking her down to hijack her into a whirlwind relationship that is down more than it's up except for the passion! Wow! I admit it. I was a little breathlessly in love with Dom, too. He swept me away with his overwhelming desire for Clara that couldn't be compartmentalized the way that everything else in his rich, high-society life could be. She was this chink in the cogs of the well-oiled machine that had been his life, knocking everything out of gear. It was amazing to fall for him.

Sawyer was a casualty in the war in this one. He's that guy that everyone should love since he's The Good Guy. He's a victim of Clara's humanity since she is only human and everyone needs someone on their side.

He was her guy. He was on her side.

It was only that she didn't know what side she really stood on that caused him to not be Mr. Right instead of Mr. Right Now.

This book, for me, was about someone coming to grips with themselves, coming to accept themselves and their circumstances in all their horrific, flawed glory, and I think that Clara did that in the end. I think she became who she was meant to be. I'm glad I got to watch her grow.

Fantastic work! I'm so thankful I got the opportunity to stand on the sidelines for K. Larsen's Tug of War.

***COMPLIMENTARY COPY PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR TO THIS REDHEAD LOVES BOOKS BLOG IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW. I HAVE SINCE PURCHASED A COPY FOR MYSELF TO KEEP AS A PART OF MY PERMANENT LIBRARY.***
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Wolverhampton
5.0 out of 5 stars enjoyable story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2014
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I did enjoy reading this book yes you can easy dislike the character but fully understand were she was coming from and great ending she deserve to be happy.
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vjp
4.0 out of 5 stars and I am glad I did
Reviewed in Australia on December 22, 2014
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At first I was not sure where the story was heading, it was a tug of war whether I kept reading or not, and I am glad I did, as the story went along I became intrigued and happy the story was not what I thought at first, nice work
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BeautifulNorth
4.0 out of 5 stars Tug of War
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2014
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The sex was smoking and the balance with the crazy storyline good. Clara the flawed lead is very likeable, not sure about Dom the rich boy, I preferred her room mate.
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R berrill
4.0 out of 5 stars Tug of War
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2014
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Very good book, one of those books that you have to keep reading. Definitely would like to read more books by this author
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violetsky
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2017
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