Review & excerpt: Queen Move, Kennedy Ryan

“This thoroughly modern soulmate story blew me away!” 

-- Talia Hibbert, USA Today bestselling author 


Queen Move, an all-new passionate and
unforgettable friends-to-lovers romance from RITA® Award-winning and Wall Street Journal bestselling author
Kennedy Ryan, is available now!

The
boy who always felt like mine is now the man I can't have…
 
Dig
a little and you'll find photos of me in the bathtub with Ezra Stern.
Get
your mind out of the gutter. We were six months old.
Pry
and one of us might confess we saved our first kiss for each other. 
The
most clumsy, wet, sloppy . . . spectacular thirty seconds of my adolescence.
Get
into our business and you'll see two families, closer than blood, torn apart in
an instant.
Twenty
years later, my "awkward duckling" best friend from childhood, 
the
boy no one noticed, is a man no one can ignore.
 
Finer. Fiercer. Smarter. 
Taken.
 
Tell
me it's wrong. 
Tell
me the boy who always felt like mine is now the man I can’t have. 
When
we find each other again, everything stands in our way--secrets, lies,
promises.
But
we didn't come this far to give up now. 
And
I know just the move to make if I want to make him mine.



 
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REVIEW
There is no author out there that can write a story like Kennedy Ryan does. She has such an incredible power with words, the way she writes a story is just out of this world. Her words touch my soul. They are so poetic and beautiful and the relationships she wieves are just so real, so exquisite, alluring and sensual. She is hands down my unicorn author.

Ezra and Kimba were absolutely magical! Everything about them screamed soulmates. Their connection gave me goosebumps. Their love, their chemistry jumped off the pages. There is no way you won't fall madly deeply in love with these two. They were both amazing, strong characters. The best kind of people. Getting to watch them grow up together as best friends who were on the cusp of more was amazing. I loved watching them grow up and fall in love. It hurt to watch them be thrown apart by life but watching them reconnect after all those years became even more amazing. To see how even after so much time, it was all still there, tenfold.

None of their journey was easy. There is so much happening in their individuals lives, with their families, their work, themselves... these two have to fight for their love. I loved the secondary characters...Kimba's family, Mona, even though she was hard on both Ezra and Kimba sometimes. I still loved her and the friendship she had with both Ezra and Kimba. I love how every Kennedy Ryan book is more than just a beautiful love story, it's a riveting one that depicts real social issues and those two things entwined together make one brilliant masterpiece that moves you in a way few authors can do.

Queen Move is yet another fantastic, magical, powerful, spellbinding story with two beautiful people as main characters. I adored every single moment between these two, even the ones that hurt. Their love was so delightful and I devoured every page. I wish I had more to read of these two because that didn't feel like nearly enough. Ezra and Kimba quickly became a couple that I won't soon forget!

Excerpt: 

 

“You’re fucking brilliant.”

“Huh?” Ezra asks absentmindedly,
paying more attention to the flame under his pan than to my compliment. “What’d
you say?”

“I said you’re brilliant.” I hold up
the iPad I’m using to read his manuscript. “Your book, the YLA story, is
incredible, Ez.”

“Oh. Thanks.” He flashes me a smile
and then goes back to his French toast. “The key to getting this right is the
milk-to-bread ratio.”

I hop off the counter and walk over
to stand beside him at the stove. “Would you forget about your French toast for
a minute and listen to me?”

“But it’s stuffed French toast.” He takes the pan off the burner and pulls me
into his arms. “And I could listen to you all day. What were you saying?
Something about me being a handsome, sexy genius?”

“Um…those weren’t my exact words.” I
laugh up at him.

“I could have sworn that’s what you
said, and I’m never wrong.” He slides his hands over my ass in a pair of his
boxer shorts. “Some even say I’m fucking brilliant.”

“They probably just like your big
dick,” I whisper and blink up at him as innocently as I can manage.

“I get that a lot.” He drops a kiss
on my head and turns back to his French toast. I lean down to rest an elbow on
the counter and watch him work. 

“A lot?” I ask teasingly. “Have there
been a lot?”

He pauses mid-toast-flip and slants
me a glance. “Are you asking how many people I’ve had sex with?”

“I mean, it’s none of my business. If
you don’t want to—”

“Eight.”

Eight?

Lord above, only eight?!

“Oh.” I straighten and rest my hip
against the counter. “What a, um, single-digit number that is.”

“What about you?”

What about me? I’m tabulating years of hook-ups, one-night stands, fuck
bois and carrying the one.

“If you don’t want to,” he says,
cracking an egg into a bowl, “it’s fine. I don’t care how many people—”

“I don’t know.”

He glances up from whisking eggs, a
small frown puckering his dark brows. “You don’t know what?”

“My number. I don’t know how many
people I’ve been with.”

He resumes whisking, his frown
clearing. “Oh.”

The whisking eggs and whirring
refrigerator are the only sounds in the kitchen. I’ve never been embarrassed by
my choices. I enjoy sex. I’ve had it with a lot of people. People I really
liked…or tolerated…but didn’t want to commit to. I’ve always been safe and
never mean about it. I was upfront, and when someone wanted more, I let them
know “more” wasn’t an option.

“I just never…” I cross my arms over
my stomach, fold one bare foot over the other. “I haven’t been interested in
committed relationships. There hasn’t been anyone I wanted that with.”

“Tru.” He stops whisking and gives me
the full impact of his undivided attention. His eyes are placid blue. No
shadows or undercurrents. “I don’t care.” Ezra pushes the bowl aside and faces
me. “But there is something I feel like we should be clear on regarding how
you’ve handled sex in the past.”

Here we go.

“You’ve never wanted to commit
before,” he says.

“Right. I’ve never wanted any strings
attached.”

“I know I said we could be just sex,
no emotional attachments.” He shoves his hands in his pockets. “But I feel like
I have to be honest with you. Having you back in my life has been…it’s been
exactly what I need, and what I felt last night… I’ve never felt that way
before.”

I’m not even sure my heart is
beating, but it also feels like there’s a tumult in my chest. “What are you
saying, Ez?”

His mouth flattens into a hard line
and his jaw hardens to stone. “I want strings.”

“Y-you do?”

“I want strings.” He links our
fingers, strokes his thumb across my palm. “Ropes, if necessary. I want
anything that keeps you with me and me with you and tells everyone else don’t
even think about it.”

I’m stunned and incredibly turned on,
but that doesn’t take much where Ezra’s concerned.

“You…you do?” I ask faintly…again.

“I wouldn’t do well sharing you."

About Kennedy Ryan

 

RITA® Award Winner, Wall Street
Journal and USA Today Bestseller,
Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and
placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own
destinies. Her heroes respect, cherish and lose their minds for the women who
capture their hearts

Kennedy and her writings have been featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA
Today, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour and many others. She has always
leveraged her journalism background to write for charity and non-profit
organizations, but has a special passion for raising Autism awareness.The
co-founder of LIFT 4 Autism, an annual charitable book auction, she has
appeared on Headline News, The Montel
Williams Show, NPR and other media outlets as an advocate for ASD families.
She is a wife to her lifetime lover and mother to an extraordinary son.

 

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