Blog Tour Stop including Review & Giveaway – Impossible Promise by Sybil Bartel

Impossible Promise by Sybil Bartel

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

ok…so my thoughts and feelings for this book are all over the place.

i really liked the writing. her style is right up my alley. i can see her becoming an auto-buy for me. most of the character development was great…and i get that there is/needs to be some intrigue with these characters so too much information doesn’t fit.

what i loved:
– layna’s strength and perseverance (although neither of these fit her age or maybe it was because her age that she just fought to live)
– um…special forces military men…big ones, bad a$$ ones, funny ones (really nothing else to say here)
– layna and talon’s banter
– talon
– the suspense of the story – it grabbed me from the first page and never let go; this was a really great, unique suspense story

what i didn’t love:
– the triangle (it almost wasn’t but there was enough of it that i wasn’t happy)
– talon getting hurt
– buck/blaze being a bit wishy/washy on what he wanted and then acting like a petulant child when he almost didn’t get it
– blaze’s lack of personality – soldier or not, he just didn’t have much personality

despite the things that i didn’t love, i REALLY liked this book and couldn’t put it down once i picked it up. i will definitely be reading the rest of this series. if talon gets his own story it will be phenomenal, he completely stole the show in this book.

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I grew up in Northern California with my head in a book and my feet in the sand. I dreamt of becoming a painter but the heady scent of libraries with their shelves full of books drew me into the world of storytelling. I love the New Adult genre, but any story about a love so desperately wrong and impossibly beautiful makes me swoon.

I now live in Southern Florida and while I don’t get to read as much as I like, I still bury my toes in the sand. If I’m not writing or fighting to contain the banana plantation in my backyard, you can find me spending time with my handsomely tattooed husband, my brilliantly practical son and a mischievous miniature boxer…

But Seriously?

Here are ten things you probably really want to know about me.

I grew up a faculty brat. I can swear like a sailor. I love men in uniform. I hate being told what to do. I can do your taxes (but don’t ask). The Bird Market in Hong Kong freaks me out. My favorite word is desperate…or dirty, or both—I can’t decide. I have a thing for muscle cars. But never reply on me for driving directions, ever. And I have a new book boyfriend every week—don’t tell my husband.

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