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Release: ALTERED by Kelly Cain



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About ALTERED

A New Adult romance drawing on the author’s own experience studying law, the novel follows Liv, a young woman in her a first semester of law school. When her fiancé abruptly breaks things off, Liv is heart-broken.

Enter Nicholas, a classmate who is so withdrawn that he is an enigma to everyone around him. Nicholas is unusually young and unusually quiet, and keeps his past a tightly guarded secret.

While Liv is still reeling from her break up, Nicholas begins appearing in her life and coming to her rescue. Intrigued and grateful to this quiet young man, Liv becomes determined to unravel the mystery of who Nicholas is.


SYNOPSIS

At first, I saw him as everyone else did.
But then, I saw him for who he really was.
Recognized the beauty beneath the pain.
Loved the quirks disguising the insecurity.
Embraced the man who hid behind the boy.
But there was so much more…
More I didn’t know.

And once I did, I couldn’t let go…
Of the boy.
The man.
The lover…

…even if his past is threatening
our future.
Nothing will alter what we’ve built.


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HERE you can see my review

About the author
Kelly Cain is a multicultural new adult and contemporary romance novelist. After many years of being entrenched in business and data analysis, she began writing a couple of years ago and discovered it to be her passion. She loves reading most genres, but historical fiction and new adult are her favorites. She has two adult daughters, and is from Stockton, California, but now lives in a suburb of Houston, Texas.

Reseña: Altered de Kelly Cain


Altered
Kelly Cain


Fecha de publicación: 2 de febrero, 2016



Al principio, lo vi al igual que todos los demás.
Pero entonces, lo vi por quién era realmente.
Reconocí la belleza debajo del dolor.
Amé las peculiaridades disfrazadas de inseguridad.
Abracé al hombre que se escondía detrás del chico.
Pero hubo mucho más...
Más que no sabía.

Y una vez que lo hice, no pude dejar ir...
Al chico.
Al hombre.
Al amante...

... incluso si su pasado está amenazando nuestro futuro.
Nada cambiará lo que hemos construido.

RESEÑA

**Recibí una copia a través de Netgalley a cambio de una reseña honesta**


Como siempre ocurre cuando lees algo en una lengua extranjera, al principio tuve un poco de dificultad siguiéndole el hilo a esta historia, y el hecho de que me pareció un poco larga y que el comienzo no es muy atractivo, al parecer no ayudó mucho, pero luego no pude parar de leer, por lo cual valió completamente la pena el no dormir bien.

Decidí querer leerlo porque me gustó tanto la portada como la sinopsis, pero confieso que ni idea de la autora, y aún sigo un poco perdida con respecto a ella, y es más que nada por el hecho de que Altered es la novela debut de Kelly Cain, una historia interracial/multicultural, que nos sumerge en la vida de Olivia, una estudiante de leyes de primer año quien a sus veintitrés, se encuentra con un corazón roto luego de que las cosas con su prometido terminaran de manera abrupta, es aquí cuando Liv debe decidir si su vida debe tomar un nuevo rumbo, y es cuando en esta entra el misterioso chico de su clase, Nicholas.

Ambos personajes son completamente diferentes, mientras que Nicholas es bastante tímido, Olivia tiene una personalidad muy extrovertida; a su vez ambos tienen historias y vivencias muy diferentes, y esto hace que el seguir la historia sea emocionante.

Nicholas es un chico muy inteligente y llega a la vida de Olivia como un “héroe”, es quien se encuentra allí mientras Liv atraviesa el post rompimiento de compromiso y todo lo que esto conlleva, es quien la escucha, abraza, hace reír, y confunde por completo. Aquí, uno de los temas con los que se desarrolla la historia es el de la edad, más especifico, la diferencia que existe entre los veintitrés de Olivia y los dieciocho de Nicholas; esto es algo que podemos ver que para Olivia tiene relevancia, ya que nos damos cuenta que es por ello que muchas veces los sentimientos de Liv se ven retraídos, pero por mi parte, me ocurrió que muchas veces se me olvidaba ya que parecía que las edades hubiesen sido cambiadas, y Nicholas fuera el mayor.


Si bien no es hasta casi el final del libro donde los verdaderos sentimientos por parte de ambos personajes son mostrados abiertamente; y cuatro o cinco años no son mucho, siempre vi un casi, cuando creí que por fin lo admitiría, al final no lo hace, no es algo que haga la historia aburrida ni menos interesante, simplemente te dan ganas de querer golpear a alguien.

En general, de verdad disfruté este libro, el personaje de Nicholas es uno que me encantó completamente, además, la química natural y el romance que se ve que ocurre y hay entre ambos fue algo muy atractivo, y aunque hubo un par de momentos donde pareció bastante aburrido, y una que otra escena donde más de una vez quise golpear algo; la historia de estos dos es una que definitivamente debe ser leída si te gusta el New-Adult.

Libro +4
Nicholas +1



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Acerca de la autora
Kelly Cain


Kelly es una novelista de romance contemporáneo y new adult. Después de muchos años de estar arraigada en el análisis empresarial y de datos, comenzó a escribir el año pasado y descubrió que era su pasión. Le encanta leer la mayoría de los géneros, pero la ficción histórica y el new adult son sus favoritos. Tiene dos hijas adultas y vive en un suburbio de Houston, Texas.

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Book Review: Altered by Kelly Cain


Altered
Kelly Cain


Expected publication: February 2nd, 2016



At first, I saw him as everyone else did.
But then, I saw him for who he really was.
Recognized the beauty beneath the pain.
Loved the quirks disguising the insecurity.
Embraced the man who hid behind the boy.
But there was so much more…
More I didn’t know.

And once I did, I couldn’t let go…
Of the boy.
The man.
The lover…

…even if his past is threatening
our future.
Nothing will alter what we’ve built.

REVIEW
**I received a copy through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review**

As always happens when you read something in a foreign language, at first I had a bit of trouble following the track of this story, and the fact that it seemed a little long and the beginning wasn’t very attractive, apparently didn’t help it, but then I couldn’t stop to read, so it completely worth don’t sleep.

I'd decided to read it because I liked both the cover and the synopsis, but I must confess I didn’t know the author, and I’m still a little loss about her, and it’s mostly because of the fact that Altered is Kelly Cain’s debut novel, a multicultural/interracial story, which plunges us into Olivia’s life, a first-year law student who at her twenty-three years old, finds herself with a broken heart after all things with her fiancé end abruptly, and here Liv has to decide if her life needs to take a new approach, and is when the mysterious guy from her class, Nicholas, comes into.

Both characters are totally different, where Nicholas is pretty shy, Olivia has a very outgoing personality; at the same time both have stories and experiences quite different, and this makes going along the story to be exciting.

Nicholas is a very intelligent guy, and comes to Olivia’s life as a “hero”, he's who's there while Liv go through the post-engagement-breakup, and everything that this entails, he’s who listens, hugs, makes her laugh, and confuses completely. Here, one of the main topics of the story is the age, for be exactly, the difference between Olivia's twenty-three and Nicholas' eighteen; this is something we can see that for Olivia has relevance, because we note that most of the time Liv's feelings are withdrawn, but for me, it happened many times I forgot it, because it seemed that the ages had been changed, and Nicholas was older.

Even though isn’t until almost the end of the book where the real feelings by both characters are showed openly; and four or five years aren’t a lot, I always saw an almost, when I thought that finally she would admitted it, at the end she didn't; isn't something that makes the story boring or less interesting, it just makes you want to punch someone.

All in all, I really enjoyed this book, Nicholas’ character is one that thoroughly delighted me, plus, the natural chemistry and the romance we can see that happens and is between they both, was something very attractive, and even when there was a few moments where it seemed pretty boring, and one or other scene where more than once I wanted to hit something; the story of these two is one that definitely must be read if you like the New Adult.

P.S. Sorry if there are misspellings

Book +4
Nicholas +1


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About the Author
Kelly Cain

Kelly is a new adult and contemporary romance novelist. After many years of being entrenched in business and data analysis, she began writing last year and discovered it to be her passion. She loves reading most genres, but historical fiction and new adult are her favorites. She has two adult daughters and lives in a suburb of Houston, Texas.


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