ARC Review: Hardcore Volume 3 by Staci Hart

Title: Harcore Volume 3

Author: Staci Hart

Source: Author Request

Genre: New Adult Romance, Serial

Length: Novella

Release Date: march 19, 2015

Reviewed by: Jasmyn

Rating - 5

Sexual - 3

It’s time. Time to tell the truth. Time to face her past and step into her future.


Starting with Van.

Cory will wait to the beat of the ticking clock for him to come back. To see what she’s done and make the final judgment. As much as she holds onto the small hope that he’ll still want her, she’s ready for rejection, ready for the pain. As ready as she can be, at least.

It’s time to make things right, not only with Van, but with Jill. With Jade. With everything.

No more running.

An amazing conclusion to this serial romance.  Cory is faced with the consequences of her actions and how best to move on with her life.  We get to see a lot more of Jillian and it was great to see just why Cory wanted to protect her so much.  Van's reaction is somewhat expected, but we all know there's going to be more to it eventually.

Watching Cory finally start getting her life back on track was probably the best part of this.  Until you get to the end at least.  The ending totally rocked!  It was beyond perfect and I loved it.

*This book was received in exchange for an honest review*

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Release Blitz and Review: Hardcore Vol 2 by Staci Hart

Title: Hardcore Vol 2
Author: Staci Hart
Source: Author Request
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Serial Romance
Length: Novella
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Reviewed by: Jasmyn

Rating - 4
Sexual - 3

** Part two of a three part serial ** The choice is steep: Stay on the ledge and steal
Van's painting or take the leap and sacrifice her sister. It's another decision in a long line that she's had to make in her life, and though it's easy to make, it's impossible to execute. Jade won't let Cory go until she gets what she wants, but the price for Cory is high. It's never been hard to steal, to lie, but Van changed all the rules. It was the last thing she wanted to do to him. But as much as that choice is agony, there's really only one to make. Betrayal and pain. Love and loss. Decisions and consequences. The edge Cory walks is razor sharp and sky high, but she can't look down. Not until she makes it to the other side.

This story is really starting to get interesting.  As Cory prepares to completely betray Van, she finds herself breaking down, being forced to give up the one person she finally let see a part of her.  But before you start wondering why she would do something like this - well, she isn't really given much of a choice.

Her battle against Jade really comes to a head and everything really hits the fan.  But Cory isn't one to just roll over and take it - instead she comes up with a very dangerous plan to try and make things right.  Now she just needs to pull it off.  I have a feeling Volume three is going to be one hell of an adventure.

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Staci has been a lot of things up to this point in her life -- a graphic designer, an entrepreneur, a seamstress, a clothing and handbag designer, a waitress. Can't forget that. She's also been a mom; she has three little girls who are sure to grow up to break a number of hearts. She's been a wife; even though she's certainly not the cleanest, or the best cook. She's also super, duper fun at a party, especially if she's been drinking whiskey. Her favorite word starts with f and ends with k. From roots in Houston, to a seven year stint in Southern California, Staci and her family ended up settling somewhere in between and equally north, in Denver. They are new enough that snow is still magical. When she's not writing, she's sleeping, gaming, or designing graphics.

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ARC Review: Hardcore Vol 1 by Staci Hart

Title: Hardcore Volume 1
Author: Staci Hart
Source: Author Request
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Erotic, Serial
Length: Novella
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Reviewed by: Jasmyn

Rating - 5
Sexual - 4

*** Part 1 of a 3 part serial ***

Cory James has never known a life where she wasn’t running. Running from the cops, her home, her past. Running from love. The only time she’s free is when she throws on her hood and takes to the roofs to become a part of New York, to climb to a place in the city where she doesn’t feel alone.

Stealing is nothing, lying inevitable, byproducts of survival. A way for Cory to provide for herself and for her younger sister, Jill, give her the life Cory couldn’t have. For five years, Cory set up a long line of teetering dominos, one by one, choice by choice.

Meeting Van is the first domino to fall, and once they crash into each other, it’s only a matter of time before her whole world is in danger of falling apart. She can tell herself over and again that she doesn’t care, but it’s a lie. She knows it from the first time she says his name, but she can’t let him in, not when she has a job to do, a job that could rip her life apart at the seams. One that she’ll have to betray Van to finish.

He’ll follow however high she can climb, but she can only run for so long before she has to choose.

This book was a lot of firsts for me.  I had to go look up the term "parkour" and I'm still not quite sure how to pronounce it.  For others of you that may be in the dark (from dictionary.com) "the sport of moving along a route, typically in a city, trying to getaround or through various obstacles in the quickest and most efficientmanner possible, as by jumping, climbing, or running".  Sounds pretty cool and something that would probably kill my uncoordinated self.  The descriptions of this activity were amazing - you can definitely get a feel for the thrills of parkour by reading this.

Cory is a criminal.  She's a thief, and she's pretty good at it.  Of course she has her good reasons to be doing this, and it gives a bit of a super hero feel at times.  She has her own moral code and when she's asked to break it, she's not quite sure what to do.  Her first meeting with Van is quite the memorable encounter, and I have to admit that he was pretty resourceful in tracking down this elusive girl.

Volume one is just the beginning of the romance, and as a serial we do not see a happily ever after just yet.  The romance is definitely beginning and I am rooting for them to be together - they would just be so cute running along the rooftops holding hands.  We are left with a cliffhanger as Cory is put in a horrible position of having to make a difficult choice.  I can't wait to see what happens next!

*This book was received in exchange for an honest review*

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