ALERT: UNICORN BOOK!
Check out our review with this new teaser and excerpt for DRIVE by Kate Stewart!
Contemporary Romance
Stand Alone
Designer: Q Designs
Scheduled to release: October 17, 2017
Add to: Goodreads
Book Description:
Music . . . the heart’s greatest librarian.
The average song is three and a half minutes long; those three and a half minutes could lead to a slow blink, a glimpse of the past, or catapult the soul into heart-shattering nostalgia.
At the height of my career, I had the life I wanted, the life I’d always envisioned. I’d found my tempo, my rhythm. Then I received a phone call that left me off key.
You see, my favorite songs had a way of playing simultaneously. I was in love with one man’s beats and another’s lyrics. But when it came to the soundtrack of a life, how could anyone choose a favorite song? So, to erase any doubt, I ditched my first-class ticket and decided to take a drive, fixed on the rearview.
Two days.
One playlist.
And the long road home to the man who was waiting for me.
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Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars
***ARC received for an honest review***
“You have to wait one minute past
desperation...”
To be honest, 5 stars is not enough for this book. Out of
the thousands and thousands of books I have read I have two all-time favourites
that I recommend to anyone who will listen. These two books have been on that
list for a long time with no stand out books that have deserved to match
them…until now. I have read this book three times already, three times this
book has destroyed me and each time of reading, despite knowing what is coming,
it hurt just as much as the first. That is testament to this authors innate
ability to master emotion. With a Kate Stewart read you experience everything,
she immerses you into the lives of her characters so naturally and absolutely
that when they hurt, you hurt. You take her characters into your heart and
soul, you live and breathe their love, their pain, their highs and their lows,
they smile you smile, they love you love. I experienced this like life itself,
it felt real, and despite the many highs, the lows hurt like a b***h.
“You can’t go beating up everyone that pisses you off. Use your words,
I promise you they are much better weapons. But be careful with them because
bruises heal.”
For me, this was one of those EPIC reads. One of those reads
that you will remember for a lifetime, a book that I will read time and time
again and one that will never age. I know I am harping on about the tears I
spilled, but for me, emotion is everything. I am an emotional reader, I have to
live and breathe a book to truly connect with the characters and when a book
truly destroys me, the way that this book did, it deserves ALL the PRAISE. I am
trying to convey just how special this book was. This book is one of my
unicorns, I am now the proud owner of three.
“Even in hindsight, with all your
mistakes disappearing in the distance, the things you got right are right
alongside them. I’d made the mistake in only looking for the hurt…”
Drive is an epic journey of self-discovery, life lessons,
love lessons and everything else in between. Music plays a huge part in this
book, for all the characters, and if you experience this book the interactive way,
by clicking on the music link on each chapter heading you will only fall deeper
into the Kate Stewart abyss and truly experience this book heart, mind, body
and soul. The balance and flow of this book was PERFECT. Angst in spades, but
more importantly heat and passion, laughs, a lot of love and that all-encompassing
emotion.
“Welcome to adulthood…It f***ing
sucks here.”
This book was captivating from start to finish as you live
Stella’s life as she tries to find her place in the world. We start in the
present but Kate Stewart soon takes us back to how Stella, became Stella.
Stella was a journalist and her specialty was music. Her father in particular
had born her love of music and music was her blood, her life line, her
de-stress, her true love. Stella wasn’t Stella without her music. Along her
travels, making her mark and discovering new talent we also follow Stella’s
love life which is full of highs and lows and this is where Kate Stewart comes
into her own. Kate Stewart always writes fantastic hero’s and with Drive there
is more than one to choose from and I dare anybody not to fall in love with
them both. This is not a love triangle per se, there is no cheating, just one
heck of an all-encompassing love story, that will have your heart beating a
mile minute, the tears plentiful and the highs far outweighing the lows.
“When it came to the men in my
life, my emotions were my kryptonite, and so was my indecision.”
Stella was an amazing heroine, it is rare for me to love a
heroine as much as the hero but with Stella she wore her heart on her sleeve,
she was an open book, opinionated, sassy but vulnerable with her charming personality
a mask for the naïve and fearful woman underneath. As this book progresses
though you witness Stella’s metamorphosis to the strong, independent, yet still
extremely lovable woman she becomes. Her journey was tough and hard fought,
there were no winners and losers, Kate Stewart brought this book to a close
perfectly.
“Because music is the heart’s
greatest librarian. A few notes had the ability to transport me back in time,
and to the most painful places.”
As I said above, this is more than a book, it is an
experience, like a movie that you are watching in glorious technicolour. It
will infuriate you, it will make you laugh, it will make you cry, but at the
end, even though you will be physically and emotionally exhausted you can only
look back in stunned silence and wonder what the hell you had just read. This
is by far my favourite Kate Stewart book. This author truly outdid herself with
one hell of a memorable book, one that as I said before I will read time and
time again. This is a slow burn, as Kate Stewart sets the scene, but once this
book comes into its own around the 40% mark there is no going back. Captivating
and unputdownable this is definitely a book you should read with a glass of
wine, a huge bar of chocolate and a box of Kleenex, especially if you are a
soft sap like me.
“Money used to be the whole
f***ing problem and now it can’t solve anything.”
I could harp on about this book forever, but then it will
just be boring, so all I am going to say is READ IT. Experience this as the
author intended, go in blind and live, breathe and feel this book, it is truly
AMAZING!!
“I used to think I was cursed for
having fallen in love with two men. But, in hindsight, I realized what a gift
it was. They were my lovers, my teachers, my best friends, and I would love
them both until I took my last breath.”
Excerpt:
I sometimes wished I had a foggy memory. That I couldn’t remember the details, the dates, the story.
It was both my gift and my curse.
And music was my navigation. I had followed the music my whole life. My guidance, my protection, my ammunition. I followed it to Austin and into the arms of my first love, only to be ripped apart. But music was loyal and stayed with me, my constant, my comfort and at times, my enabler.
I rolled over in bed facing the wood paneled wall. Though I wanted nothing to do with the damn time machine in my hand, I had no choice, because despite our differences about the journey, I remained loyal and took direction. And because I followed, the road narrowed and shed light on memories that just kept circling, begging to be acknowledged long after the last note.
About the Author:
Kate Stewart lives in Charleston, S.C. with her husband, Nick, and her naughty beagle, Sadie. A native of Dallas, Kate moved to Charleston three weeks after her first visit, dropping her career of 8 years, and declaring it her creative muse. Kate pens messy, sexy, angst-filled contemporary romance as well as romantic comedy and erotic suspense because it's what she loves as a reader. A lover of all things '80s and '90s, especially John Hughes films and rap, she dabbles a little in photography, can knit a simple stitch scarf for necessity only and does a horrible job of playing the ukulele. Aside from running a mile without collapsing, traveling is the only other must on her bucket list. On occasion, she does very well at vodka.
Contact Kate- Email- authorkatestewart@gmail.com
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