It all started when I fell in love with my best friend.Grant is the one person who ever really understood me. He supports me. Comforts me. Encourages me. He cares for me. I don’t know what I’d do without his friendship. I can’t imagine a world without him.The way I see it, I have three options:Option #1: Tell Grant how I feel and find out he feels the same. The best-case, most wondrous scenario.… same. The best-case, most wondrous scenario.
Option #2: Don’t tell Grant and continue desperately pining after him in silence. Not as great a scenario.
Option #3: Tell Grant I love him and risk ruining everything when he says he doesn’t love me back. The worst-case scenario. My nightmare scenario.
But keeping my feelings a secret is slowly killing me. Every minute I spend with him is both torture and bliss.
Do I risk it? Stay silent? Take a chance? Play it safe?
Can I possibly risk watching my entire world crash and burn around me?
Crash and Burn is the 3rd book in the Sin and Tonic series, but can be read as a standalone. It is a slow burn, friends-to-lovers New Adult Romance.
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This wonderful friends to lovers romance is a must-read for all who enjoy well-written slow burn romance with all the emotions, ups and downs. I loved the electric chemistry and heartwarming romance between Liz and Grant who both work at Sin & Tonic, an upscale bar with a chill vibe. Ms. Wright never disappoints whatsoever and I always look forward to her books. I received an advance reader copy of “Crash and Burn” and am voluntarily leaving my review.
This is book 3 of Sin and Tonic series and Athena does a great job with this friend to lovers’ story. Grant and Liz have worked together at the bar for several years and have become best friends but along the way. They both have strong feeling for each other but aren’t sure whether they want to risk their friendship. This is a great story with lots of chemistry, and surprises that could throw a wrench in Grant and Liz’s future. Will Grant’s past cost him his future with Liz? This is a slow burn friends to lovers’ story that you won’t want to put down once you start. I received an ARC copy and am voluntarily leaving my honest review.
This is book 3 in the Sin and Tonic Series and it might the best yet. Lizzy and Grant are best friends. They have been since they started working together at the bar before it was sin and Tonic. They would do anything for each other.
Lizzy is crazy in love with Grant. And not in the “he’s my best friend love” kind of way. It’s getting to the point where she can’t spend any time with him without going into crazy vivid daydreams (and night dreams). She has to tell him. What is the worst that can happen?
Everyone sees how they look at each other. Everyone else feels the tension between them. How did they miss that they both just might want the same thing?
Liz has been in love with Grant for years but best friends is where they’ve been for many years. Finally at the point where they take the next step to be a couple, outside interference between an old flame and work becomes a stickler. All turns out when a HEA is in their near future.
Crash and Burn is the third book in the Sin and Tonic series. I really enjoyed the friends to lovers story its different from her rocker stories. It’s a slow burn that will keep you engaged. Liz and Grants story is a Must Read!
This is the 3rd book in the Sin and Tonic series from Athena and is a really enjoyable read. Liz and Grant have been best friends and co-workers at the bar. Liz has had a serious crush on Grant forever but is too afraid to let him know in case it ruins their friendship. He is the only person who really understands her and who encourages her dreams of becoming a designer against her parent’s wishes for her to become a paralegal. Suddenly Liz’s perfect life is blown apart by two devastating events that almost make her follow her parents advice and learn to be a paralegal instead of following her dreams.
They say when life gives you lemons make lemonade, and you have to admire Liz’s ability to pick herself up and her determination to go on with her life. Grant seemed such a sweet guy in the beginning but his actions leave you wondering if he deserves his happy ending until he proves his love to Liz.
Enjoy this fun read best friends becoming more and believing in yourself against all the odds.
Grant and Liz have been best friends for years. They both have yearned for one another but didn’t have the courage to tell the other in fear of ruining their friendship. Until one day jealousy gets the better of them and they finally come together. Life changing events happen and pasts come back to make their presence known, will their new relationship survive?
With things all crazy lately, I was looking for a book that will let you escape into another world. This one just so happens to be Grant and Liz.
In Crash and Burn we have Grant and Liz, they both work at the bar Sin and Tonic. This is a book where we have friends to lovers. They have such great chemistry but just never really took it to the next level. That is what Crash and Burn is about. If you have a good best friends relationship and get along with that person, do you risk all of that for a romance that may not work?
I really enjoyed this read. But then I usually do enjoy an Athena read. She helps you to just relax and escape your busy day/bad. If you have not read any of this series yet, I would I highly recommend this three part series. I enjoyed each and every one separately but with the same satisfaction of a good book.
Such amazing characters, you can feel the emotion, longing and tension between Grant and Liz. The story explodes off the page and the turmoil with tension keeps you turning the page hoping for the one moment when it all comes together. This is another fantastic book in Athena style that ramps up the imagination and emotion for a spectacular conclusion. I happily volunteered to read an ARC of this book and could not put it down.
Aww I loved Grant and Liz. They were seriously great! Their story was engaging and entertaining. I read it far too fast! Athena did an amazing job keeping my attention from beginning to end.. I was getting annoyed with everyone interrupting me haha. Loved it and all her books. Would recommend
I absolutely loved this story. The storyline was so interesting that it completely captivated me and was so intriguing that I couldn’t stop reading it until I finished with the very last word. I definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for an amazing book. Enjoy happy reading
“I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.”
Always a great series
4.5
Excellent romance, very well written, whose title reflects well the content, due to the strong emotions of the two main characters Grant and Liz.
The characters are very good, even if for a few chapters they annoyed me with their hesitations, but then it’s becomes very hot, full of twists and turns.
Liz and Grant both work in a bar, secretly attracted to each other for years. They are also both at a turning point in their careers. When their relationship finally begins, the difficulties also begin leading to a succession of twists and turns.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book
Grant and Liz are co-workers at a run down bar and best friends. Grant and Liz learn the bar they work at is being sold but not losing their jobs with the new owner planning renovations that will turn their rundown bar into an upscale bar, Sin and Tonic. Grant and Liz dance around their feelings for each other not wanting to ruin their friendship. Grant is growing his photography business while helping his mother and sister out financially. Grant dreams of having his photos displayed in a gallery. Liz is constantly getting criticism from her mother about working at a bar and not having a stable job like her, a paralegal, or her father, an accountant. Liz does know one thing; she loves to make clothes and repurpose clothes she discovers when bargain shopping. What happens when Liz is given the opportunity to design for a famous fashion label? Will Grant and Liz finally give into their feelings for each other and explore a relationship beyond friendship? What happens when Grant ex shows up again? Will Liz forgive Grant for breaking her heart? Will Grant and Liz find their happily ever after? I LOVE Athena Wright! Athena is a MUST read author for this reader. Crash and Burn is a fantastic story with great characters who will make you laugh out loud, bang your head in frustration, and even cry. Grant and Liz’s chemistry is explosive. I would highly recommend getting Crash and Burn and the other books in the Sin and Tonic series by Athena Wright. I received an ARC of this book, and I am leaving my honest review.
Hidden talents & not so hidden attraction…
Best friends to lovers with lots of curved balls in the mix, this was such a great read. Took them a while to get their final act together but they deserved their hea. I received an arc & this is my honest & voluntary review.
Poignant, Heart-Wrenching Moments – 4.5 Stars
This was a nice story that was easy to read. There were parts in the story near the beginning where I felt some points were belabored involving the main male and main female characters. The balance of the story held my attention as long as I was able to keep my box of tissues beside me. Very poignant and heart-wrenching moments caused me to cry, as I empathized with those involved in difficult life circumstances. I calmed down with the happily-ever-after the two main male and male female characters were able to finally achieve.
I voluntarily received an advance review copy of this novel from the author and I am leaving an honest and unbiased review. I have no affiliation to this author.
This friends to lovers story captivated me right from the very beginning! The great character and storyline development kept me totally engaged as Grant and Liz pulled me right into their story until the turn of the very last page!
A new chapter awaits in Crash and Burn, Athena Wright’s next book in her fun and sexy Sin and Tonic series. The bar is open and fun times are on the menu whenever you stop by. Don’t miss out on this awesome series which has 3 books to binge so far along with familiar characters dropping by from time to time from her others series. What’s not to love about that? It’s a win to me!
Coworkers Grant and Lizzy’s luck changes in an instant when the bar they’ve been working in for years goes from the verge of closing- boring, dirty and hardly enough customers for decent tips, to new owners and a beautifully remodeled, upscale hotspot called Sin and Tonic.
Live music, game nights and better clientele means the popular bartender and the server with a smile, are busier than ever and can continue eyeballing each other, not so discreetly, from across the room for the foreseeable future. Thank goodness because Lizzy has fallen for her handsome, sweet and totally hot best friend and coworker but when is the right time to tell him, if at all? She dying to do it one minute and then second guessing the next. No matter how much she tries to talk herself into doing just that, fear and risk are always the devil on her shoulder saying noooo, don’t ruin what you have.
Lizzy isn’t sure at all where life should be taking her but when an opportunity arises to dig deeper into the quirky vintage clothing redesign she adores, she jumps right in. Wanting more out of life than tending bar, Grant hopes to find it creating the kind of art he loves of with his photography. They support each others hopes and dreams but neither will give in to the obvious, slow burning attraction that everyone around them sees, until a perfectly timed moment changes everything! Sooooo very hot! Looks like sexy times and tender moments for these two clueless friends who swear to always make their friendship a priority but will what happens to all those pretty words when $h!t gets real and hits the big old fan???
Emotions run high, low and everything in between as Lizzy learns what major regret feels like as the rug is pulled right out from under her feet after a few life changing decisions almost break her. Grant discovers too late that not listening to his heart is one of his biggest mistakes of all. It might cost him everything that’s dear to him and there’s nothing he can do about it.
Bring those tissues for the inevitable angst and heartache that being fly on the wall in Sin and Tonic will bring to you in Crash and Burn. You might want to lock a few people in a closet together to work it out amongst themselves for a few days! Just kidding! This book was another wonderful offering in Athena’s exciting Sin and Tonic world and I’m looking so foward to seeing who will meet up in this bar next. It doesn’t matter though, because reading whatever comes my way in this series will be a pleasure, as it always is with a book from this talented author for me!
An advanced, complimentary version of this book was provided and these are my honest, unbiased thoughts after reading it.
This is a great series and if you love a friends to lovers story then look no further. Liz and Grant are best friends and bartenders at the Sin and Tonic .
They have a great and easy friendship. They love their job at the bar and it allows them to persue their artistic of her clothing designing and his photography.
Liz has lives Grant in more than a platonic fashion for awhile but does not want to jeopardize their friendship and herself if feelings aren’t reciprocated. During a photo shoot both give into their feelings. Yet when Liz faces challenges will they have what it takes or will her fears become a reality?
Love this series and characters. I enjoy how this author makes you truly feel so many emotions for the characters as you become invested. I recommend this book and series.
This is the third book in the Sin and Tonic series but it can be read as a standalone. This is the only book I’ve read from the series and I didn’t feel like I was lost or missing out on anything at all.
This story is about Liz and Grant. They work together and have become very close friends. But Liz wants more. She’s in love with Grant but scared to tell him how she feels. Even though everyone else can see it, she doesn’t know if he feels the same. So they continue to dance around each other. I enjoyed this book. There were some angsty moments in there where I wasn’t sure how things were going to play out to make it a happy ending, but I knew it had to be coming. Definitely going to check out the other books in the series.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of Athena’s books that I’ve read (which is most, if not all of them). This one really got to me. I really sympathized with Lizzy and her love for her best friend. Can it be more and if it can’t, will anything still be the same?
I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for a honest review.