L A Cotton

From bestselling author L A Cotton, comes a forbidden age-gap romance. Angst... drama... friendship... and football. Will you survive senior year? Peyton Myers has always been the life of the party. But behind her smile and sass is a girl lost and alone, searching for her place in the world. Xander Chase has always been on the outside looking in. But behind his cool indifference and hard exterior is a guy afraid to open his heart to anyone. When he saves Peyton from a tragic accident, their lives are entwined forever. But Xander's not the hero of her story... no matter how much she wants him to be. She’s a girl with her whole life ahead of her. He’s a guy who is drifting through life. And although these two lost souls might be able to heal each other, there's one glaring problem. She's still in high school... And completely forbidden.

Tragic Lies

Megan Lowe

This was a solid book. 
I’ve been waiting for it since the end of the previous one, and I was only slightly disappointed.
I loved Xander and Peyton’s story. It was a beautiful story of two damaged people finding each other and overcoming their pain.
But I don’t know if I missed something, but Xander’s behaviour never made sense to me. I get he had a rough childhood, but I never understood where he went off the rails.
Another thing that bothered me was how the original raiders treated him. They said some truly horrible things to him, as did Peyton’s friends to her.
I guess it goes to show how people don’t understand grief and how they react to it, but it was a little infuriating to read some of those things.
Still, the beauty of this book overwhelms that. I love that this book is raw and unflinching.
There are massive triggers here for suicide and self harm, so please be aware!
I do think it’s worth giving a go though.

Emilie Adele Rognmo

it hurts my heart to give a book by la cotton 1 star. i love this woman and she’s one of my auto-buy authors, but this book just wasn’t one i enjoyed.

let me start of by saying i had quite a few issues with this book. 1 she was a minor when they started their relationship. 2 he’s a coach at her hs. 3 the way peyton treated bryan…

age gap is a trope that makes me very uncomfortable, but despite it i went into this book with an open mind. but the fact that peyton was a minor when they started their relationship really gives me the ick and i can’t see past it.

i loved peyton in off-limits but her character took a turn for the worse in this book. i found her annoying and very immature. and as for xander, i couldn’t connect with his character like i have the rest of the rixon family. and him having sexual relations with a minor… just no. i don’t care how you put it, it’s disgusting. i had to skip through the smut bc it made me so uncomfortable.

however, the side characters, my family. i love the world of rixon, and i have ever since the trouble with you. despite this book, i am beyond excited for the next books. i’m literally dying after the teaser at the end!!!

lastly, bryan hughes my love. highlight of the book.

Tragic Lies

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