A series with a film option in Hollywood!“A must read nerdy romance series.” BUZZFEED In an age of casual hook-ups, can love survive the test of time?Juniper and Kyle meet when she is dangling forty feet from a museum scaffolding, hanging on for dear life. Juniper is a sassy, nerdy curator at the History Museum of Ann Arbor. Her life has been one big sacrifice for others. Work. Home. Repeat. … others. Work. Home. Repeat. Raised by her mother to hate men, she worries she’ll die a frigid scholar in a musty house with an army of cats and a lake of books.
Kyle Paxton is a handsome, intense and intimidating inventor of micro-cameras from San Francisco. To curb the dark memories of his ex-girlfriend (who still haunts him), he schedules dating and work with robotic precision. Not looking for love, he only hooks up with Amazonian models.
When he joins the museum board, Juniper falls for him. She wants him, but knows it’s going to be as hard as catching the ocean in a teacup. Juniper becomes Kyle’s obsession, but the tragic secrets of his past cloud his feelings. Juniper soon knocks Kyle’s world off its axis and their galaxies collide in this very unfairy tale. But can they overcome their differences and stop a hateful and vindictive person from tearing them apart?
Juniper Smoke is a smoking hot read with fun twists, dark secrets and edge-of-your-seat drama. Nothing is as it seems and no one behaves as you would expect. Read the books that book bloggers call MUST READ are now optioned to be a major film in Hollywood.
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I kept thinking this is like Fifty Shades of Grey without the Red Room lol. I loved Fifty Shades so it was fine with me. I did want to knock both of them up side the head with something quite often. Two stubborn people, so different but so alike. We have a virgin museum worker, a rich broken CEO, his gay bff/non blood brother, a bitchy VP, a conniving politician brother and his evil bitch of a fiancée, his wacky family, her wacky family, drama and love.
Great read!!!
Juniper Mills is a strong, intelligent, independent woman. She is a natural beauty and doesn’t let no man affect her because that would interfere with her life and she doesn’t want that because has been programmed to hate all men. She is a curator of a museum and her life is very basic and dull until she meets Kyle.
Kyle Paxton is a very cold calculating man. He is also so hot that his smolder can make you melt through the screen. He can have any women at the snap of his fingers, but he only wants one for the moment that is designed to them. But when he meets Juniper and saves her, he can’t get her out of his head. She has gotten under his skin so deep that he wants her right then and there. But only on his terms, and when the time is right. He will do anything to make sure that she will be his, no matter the cost.
This book is about falling in love for the first time, but not knowing what to do with it or if it’s worth it. You will be taken on a wild ride of a romance. I couldn’t put it down and it’s worth the read. I can’t wait to read the next book in the series.
5 stars
It’s a good thing I don’t judge a book by it’s cover, or I would have missed this one. The new cover is pretty though!
This book was slow moving in the beginning, but it’s totally worth getting the background. I’m glad that I keep on reading because it is so worth it. I loved this book and even though it was over 600 pages, I found it difficult to put it down. Juniper Smoke has totally consumed me.
Juniper Smoke is a long complicated story about the growing relationship between the controlling, overly structured personality that is Kyle and the sweet, sassy, innocent Juniper. They are so very opposite in so many ways yet they are both drawn to each other. In many ways they are good for each other. Kyle has brought Juniper out of her sheltered world and Juniper has broken through Kyle’s need to control ever aspect of his life. Can they still make this relationship work with all the obstacles that they face. You will have to read it to find out.
Overall, I thought the storyline was good and the characters were well developed, but the book was simply too long and seemed to drag along in many places.