TONIGHT, SHE PLANS TO LET GO.Dressed up and anonymous, Sadie Liberato feels powerful, sexy and free. Where better to lose herself than a masked party?Gear Blackstone’s cheating ex and scheming best friend have managed to spin his life into a serious downward spiral. At least with a mask on he can cut loose for one night. And cut loose he does—with the sexiest, snarkiest chick he’s ever met.After … snarkiest chick he’s ever met.
After a scorching-hot encounter, Sadie and Gear are desperate to find each other in real life. But can the heat last when the masks come off?
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Loved this book. Its one of those books, I have to read everything year. So good.!! Recommend to all
Well-written and thoroughly enjoyable. Loved the female main character!
Great characters with fun personalities to make everything interesting. The storyline is seductive and entertaining. The reality show concept is especially intriguing because it confirms the suspicions that it is contrived all for ratings.
Love Sadie and Gear! They have been hurt in the past and that makes them cautious with plans to go slow but, their relationship goes from zero to sixty from the start. That’s scary particularly for Sadie but, the are absolutely made for each other.
Marie Harte knows how to draw you in and get you invested in her characters. I recommend this Halloween treat as well as her other books. They are always a good time.
ALL I WANT FOR HALLOWEEN by Marie Harte is a stand alone, contemporary adult, erotic romance story line set in the world of the author’s McCauley Brothers, The Donnigans, and the Body Shop Bad Boys series. This is reality star and mechanic Harrison ‘Gear’ Blackstone, and bakery shop chef Sadie Liberato’s story line. ALL I WANT FOR HALLOWEEN can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Sadie and Gear) ALL I WANT FOR HALLOWEEN follows the building relationship between reality star and mechanic Gear Blackstone, and pastry chef Sadie Liberato. A month before Halloween Sadie found herself up against the wall, in the throws of passion, with a man she knew only as the tall, dark and brooding Satan. Enter Harrison ‘Gear’ Blackstone, a man whose entire life had been exposed on reality TV, as his best friend and fiancé, took their secret relationship into the public eye. Tired of the bullsh*t, fame and constant paparazzi, Gear walked away without a backwards glance. Meeting Sadie Liberato, the feisty pastry chef, and ardent protector of everything Gear Blackstone, started our couple towards a happily ever after that could have ended before it all began.
Sadie Liberato has been burned in the past; her former lover cheated on her with a friend, and now trusting any other man brings back too many bad memories for our heroine to let loose and fall in love. Sadie is a strong willed, hold nothing back kind of woman who is willing to protect the people in her life including the man with whom she is falling in love. Gear Blackstone had enough of the fake ‘reality’ of Motorcycle Madnezz, but finding Sadie brought everything into perspective including the desire to step away from the fame and fortune of his own television show, and back into the quiet solitude of owning his own garage. Battered and bruised by the cheating scandal between his co-stars Gear walked away without looking back if only the paparazzi and his former co-stars would leave him alone.
There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including Gear’s parents Otis and Orchid Blackstone, his sister Iris, and his brother Thorvold aka Thor; as well as Gear’s ex-fiance Sahara, and best friend Brian ‘B-Man’ Gandanna, and fellow bike mechanics Smoke and Chains. We are introduced to Sadie’s father Tony Liberato, her brother and owner of Sofa’s Bakery Elliott, and their sister Rose and her husband Joe. There is plenty of back and forth, quick witted banter between siblings, parents and friends.
The world building focuses on the behind the scenes turmoil of a reality television series, the fall out of infidelity, secrets and lies, and the potential life altering changes when two people find one another in a darkened corner, as they hide away from the real world.
ALL I WANT FOR HALLOWEEN is a fun and sexy read. The premise is engaging; the characters are colorful and animated; the romance is seductive and energetic, without the over the top, sexually graphic language and text. I am looking forward to future story lines focusing on the Liberato and Blackstone siblings.
4.5 stars
This is a fun, sexy Halloween-themed story centering on Sadie and Gear. What starts as a quickie hook-up at a pre-Halloween costume party turns into something more, with a lot of bumps along the way!
The characters are refreshing in that Sadie is not afraid to speak her mind. She has an inner confidence that allows her to speak her mind, not saying what she thinks others want her to say but what she feels. Although she sees herself as being introverted and thinks everyone finds her life boring, in fact she’s anything but! She takes life as it comes and speaks her mind when she wants to (which sometimes gets her in trouble!). She’s not into smalltalk or chatting up customers in the bakery she and her siblings own, but that’s just who she is – what you see is what you get. It’s refreshing!
Sadie has a strong supportive family, especially her brother Elliot. The banter between them is both hilarious and poignant at times.
And Gear? He’s got some crazy baggage with his fallen TV reality star status and all of the ugliness that comes with the media attention that goes among with reality TV as well as a crazy ex-fiancé. But he is honest and up front about who he is, too. And, Gear speaks his mind just as Sadie does. This makes for some seriously funny banter between them!
Gear has quirky parents and supportive siblings which adds to the story.
Can Sadie and Gear have a real relationship together that might lead to something more or is this just a little Halloween fling?
Whether you like Halloween or not, this is a great story with wonderful main characters and strong supporting characters that really add to the story!
I voluntarily read an advanced reader copy of this book, however, this is my honest opinion.
I received an Advanced Reader’s Copy in exchange for my honest review.
I was so sad to see this story end. It was amazing and absolutely hilarious. I could not help but smile and laugh all the way through. If you love strong, independent, snarky personalities and wacky families then this book is definitely for you. All the characters in this book were great in their own right and it would be awesome to see a series of additional books where the siblings get their happy endings, especially Iris and Smoke. That would definitely be another intriguing read. And I loved how real the storyline and dialogue seemed, it was so easy to picture it playing out in my mind. It incorporated the daily struggles of two people seriously burned by past relationships and emotionally scarred, vowing to steer clear of the opposite sex. Neither saw the other coming and they were definitely not prepared for the intense feeling evoked or the deep down longing to feel whole and accepted for exacting who they were; no pretense or having to hide their true selves. It was wonderful to see that everything was real and honest from the beginning; both upfront about their intentions, voicing their opinions and stating the facts with complete understanding from each other. The only time it was a little dicey was when deeper feelings started emerging and both got a little scarred and had a setback, but was smoothed out nicely. Sadie and Gear were charming, in their own way, and believable with an original storyline and fantastic backing of guidance and support from family and friends to round it all out. Overall, this was a fun read full of drama and steamy romance and I truly hope there will be more to come. You will not be disappointed if you give it a try.