❥ ARC REVIEW ❥ PLAYING WITH FIRE BY L.J. SHEN

TITLE: Playing with Fire
AUTHOR: L.J. Shen
GENRE: Romance
PUBLICATION: September 15th, 2020


— BLURB —
A broken boy on the path to destruction.
A scarred girl without direction.
A love story carved in secrets, inked with pain and sealed with a lie.

Grace Shaw and West St. Claire are arctic opposites.
She is the strange girl from the food truck.
He is the mysterious underground fighter who stormed into her sleepy Texan college town on his motorcycle one day, and has been wreaking havoc since.
She is invisible to the world.
He is the town’s beloved bad boy.
She is a reject.
He is trouble.
When West thrusts himself into Grace’s quiet life, she scrambles to figure out if he is her happily-ever-after or tragic ending.
But the harder she pushes him away, the more he pulls her out of her shell.
Grace doesn’t know much about anything beyond her town’s limits, but she does know this:
She is falling in love with the hottest guy in Sheridan U.
And when you play with fire—you ought to get burned.

🌀 MY REVIEW 🌀

'PLAYING WITH FIRE:' 

Is a full length stand-alone/slow-burn romance book by L.J. Shen. Spoken in 'Dual Perspectives.'

Where to even begin with this review..

Lately this author has been a bit hit and miss for me when compared to her earlier works which I loved wholeheartedly to recents which have been just ok for me. But I've still read what she's released.

With 'Playing with fire,' it's like she stripped this book down and given us what we'd all fallen in love with in the past because I swear this book right here was pure magic unfolding, these characters stomped all over my heart and left me crying in their wake, their story, their insecurities, their struggles brought such a realistic rawness to this story, making it such a profound rollercoaster of emotionally charged feelings which washed over me throughout this book, I didn't want their journey to end, it was such a bittersweet moment when I closed that last page.



L.J. Shen weaved her magic wand on me within that very first chapter making me fall wholeheartedly in love with their story, these characters will forever have a space in my heart. My heart is full..

All I can say is she's back!! ....

These two characters are going to pull on your heart strings like no others before them. Grace Shaw was one of the most strongest heroines I've encountered in a long time, she used to be one of the popular girls at her highschool, beautiful beyond belief, the cheerleader type, outgoing, outspoken, overly popular then tragedy struck and she became the towns social pariah. Laughed about, talked about, other than her best friend and her Gran she had no one in the world.



Grace works at the only Taco Truck in town alongside her best friend, but when her friend decides to scale back on her work hours and a job position comes up working along side Grace, it's West that fills that position.

Now onto West St. Claire, our golden bad boy of Sheridan University who rides around on a motorcycle, all the girls wanted to be claimed by him and all the boys wanted to be him. He was popular without even trying. He was in a league of his own. He was best known for his underground fighting and his bullying ways.



Working alongside each other an unlikely friendship of sorts was established. Sparks flew, attraction ignited, and over time they depended on each other and realised in the big scheme of things how alike they actually were.

This book destroyed me in the best possible way!! To say I loved it is an understatement!!
Playing with fire by L.J. Shen was raw, riveting, realistic, every emotion known to man kind I felt, everything this author threw into this book I felt. The characters, they were brought to life so vividly in my mind it was like they were right in front of me.

* Teaser used is off the authors FB page, gif made by me *