The move to World Cup Academy of Gymnastics is the greatest challenge Adrianna has encountered. Punished for Coach Kova’s overwhelming desires, she’s reeling with resentment while she sits out the first meet of the season. As Adrianna fights to regain her focus, he pushes her body to the extreme, leaving her mentally and physically exhausted. Kova underestimates Adrianna’s endurance, and … and gravitates more toward her, despite his internal battle raging within to stay away. They try to disentangle themselves, but the tension between coach and gymnast mounts, engulfing them both in a forbidden world of deception and passion.
The one place where they should never feel alive, is where they find complete absolution. But one slip, one wrong landing, a missed grip, and everything they built can come tumbling down, damaging both their professional and personal lives.
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Rollercoaster doesn’t begin to describe my emotions reading this one. We pick up where we left our forbidden couple Kova and Adrianna. The author perfectly taps into how my favourite gymnast is feeling. The pain and feelings of betrayal with each new revelation jumps from the page. I know I should hate Kova but I can’t, like Adrianna something keeps pulling me back to him. Secrets never stay hidden for long, I’m scared about what’s going to happen when they are all revealed. Although I love Kova I can’t help but feel for Adrianna, she’s vulnerable hurting and in love. Can she really stay away from him when he’s everywhere? I’ve no idea what’s going to happen next but I’m hooked.
Reviewed by United Indie Book Blog
I first want to start out by saying that Execution is book 2 in the Off Balance series. You will definitely need to read Balance (Off Balance, book 1) before reading this book so you will know what has been happening thus far.
Lucia Franco had me all tied up in forbidden knots when I read Balance, and they just kept getting tighter and tighter as the story went on. She left us in such a way with the cliffhanger ending she delivered that I wasn’t sure if the next book, Execution, would be able to keep the momentum going.
There was so much give and take between Kova and Adrianna that I had such a love-hate push-pull relationship with them both at different times. Kova would be such a d!ck at times and then end up showing a softer redeeming side of himself and then do a complete 180° making me hate him all over with extra heat. Adrianna was a bit of a sucker and a bit of a b!t@h at times. She kept thinking she knew it all, but life has a way of showing us what we are made of and how strong we are and really can be when push comes to shove.
These characters really showed a different depth to the both. Kova was multifaceted and showed more of his true self in this book than he did in the first one. And Adrianna showed us how compassionate she could be, but it also showed us how vulnerable be compassionate could leave you. This girl lives with all of her heat, maybe to a fault. She definitely was tested and put through the wringer in this book.
I cannot wait for Release (Off Balance, book 3) to hurry up and become available. I’m dying to know what happens next. Lucia sure does have me hooked, and the story just keeps getting better and better with more plot twists. Keep ‘em coming!!
Do you know that movie that you’ve loved for years? You can watch it anytime, anywhere. You’ve seen it a thousand times and you could watch it a thousand more? The characters feel like family or your best friends and you get completely wrapped up in their lives? Silently you sit there watching in rapt attention. Your breath catches, your heart races, excitement and fear rage inside of you, and maybe you even shed a few tears before it’s over? THAT is what this book is like! The storyline is woven so beautifully that you feel as though you are a part of it. You feel everything. Deeply and unapologetically. A silent friend routing for your favorite characters. Watching them make mistakes, learn and grow. Watching as they celebrate the victories and cry at the heartbreaks. Most of all when it ends you crave more.
This second book in the Off Balance series left me sitting in stunned silence, my heart in pieces and my mind screaming “what the heck just happened?”. I can’t imagine where this story will go from here or how these characters will overcome so much, but that’s the beauty in the journey right? Not knowing, but desperate to follow along to the very end. I will wait patiently while highly anticipating the next book!
Kova and Ria’s story continues. And boy does it have twists and turns you NEVER expect!!! This book made me happy, sad, frustrated, and everything in between. I devoured Lucia Franco’s writing once again. She is a master at this forbidden love writing. Her words rope you in and never let you go until you realize you have reached the end of the book. Her characters come to life and become part of your world. The way this story is left makes me beg for the next book, Release. This has been a top read for me in 2019!!
strong>Ugh that ending!
Okay so this is another difficult review for me to leave with this book series. I am still not a Kova fan. He better have some really good reasons for doing what he did, but still not a winner in my book. I’m still team Hayden all the way.
The health stuff going on with Ria I think I have a pretty good idea about what it is, I’m hoping we find out very soon in the beginning of the next book. I have so many theories of what’s going on. I cant wait for Release. I’m ready to get answers, this series is like a bad accident u just cant look away.
I literally just finished Execution and I am dying inside. There are so many emotions running through me right now, I don’t even know where to start or what to say. I am stunned. Angry. Sad. I am a ball of emotions and I don’t know what to do with myself. Someone hold me! I can already feel the book hangover taking full force.
I have been waiting for Execution for what feels like forever and it was totally worth the wait!
Lucia took my breath away time and time again, but on the inside, she killed me little by little. I had this ever present sense of dread as I read Execution and as usual my gut was not wrong. *sighs*
While I read Execution, I felt so many things. It made me laugh and smile like a dork when Adrianna and Kova would bicker. It also made my heart rate spike like crazy and how could it now when Adrianna and Kova have some of THE hottest chemistry around! Seriously! They have some of the sexiest scenes I’ve read and I’ve read some pretty explicit scenes but I think Kova and Ria take the cake in that sense. 😉
Their story also pissed me off majorly! It honestly made me so mad, I couldn’t even shed the tear sitting in the corner of my eye. That’s how mad I was when I finished their story! While other readers cried over what happened, I got angry. No, angry doesn’t even begin to cover it. I was pissed and am still very much pissed and with good reason, but I refuse to let my anger overshadow how amazing this story is as a whole, because Execution truly is one of the best books I have ever read and it is without a doubt the best book I have read in 2018. I absolutely love it no matter how much it made me want to throat punch Kova. #SorryNotSorry
I honestly cannot recommend this story enough and give it 6 Kova sized stars!
No words. I have no words right now. All that matters is Kova. Execution was so well worth the wait and there’s still more to come! My brain is still trying to process all of what happened and that ending. Holy moly! Lucia knows how to *bleeping* write and these books are the best forbidden romance in this genre. Hands down. Kova and Ria are life! And I have no idea what to do right now while I wait for the next book to come.
Part 2 of the Off Balance series.. In my top 5 of favorite books of all time. Love this book and the author. Can’t wait for book 3 in the series!
This is my favorite read of 2018!!!
Lucia Franco is a phenomenal writer. This is the second book in the Off Balance series. This angsty forbidden student/coach read is a must.
The characters will pull you in , You will never want to let go!!!! i’m anxiously waiting for book 3 .
Perfect ten!
OMG i hate this author right now! She just kill me with this book! First she swoon me over. Then she make me lusting over too hot Kova and his hot and cold act. And then she drag me in the library and google translate all the Russian she could throw. I never know Russian can be so sweet and sexy. And then she hold you by the throath, won’t let go until the end she finish with one big slayed!
Lucia Franco you did it again. I thought i love you in Balance, but lady…i don’t know what to say right now. I’m too raw. My heart hurt. How could you do this to me??!!
“The unexpected presence of him caused a stirring inside my belly and a drumming in my heart. For a split second, I forgot all the turmoil he’s caused, the havoc he’s wrecked.”
To say I patiently waited for this conclusion would be a big fat lie. I’ve wanted to see how this one ended up since I devoured Balance like it was my last meal. The push, the pull, the utter and complete forbidden that pushed limits and entertained me to no end was well worth the wait. To say it was hot would be an understatement, the Author completely makes you forget the age difference and the power shifting between the two was intoxicating. A super long story, so it made you work for this one. I threw my kindle, I sighed, and I felt what they felt… I thank the Author for providing a copy to review!!
“An energy between two people so powerful it couldn’t be contained, no matter how much they tried. No matter how wrong, how illicit, how morally sinful.”
~~~Erika, Book Haven Book Blog
I’ve had to wait an entire week to be able to write this review, yet I still have no words.
This book is EVERYTHING!!!
Lucia Franco, is one extremely talented author. From the story line to her writing, I couldn’t get enough. It’s hard to write a review without giving anything but I can tell you without a doubt that Execution had me on my toes just waiting to see what was going to happen. I wanted it all, and I especially didn’t want it to end.
Wow! I feel like I have a hangover after reading this book. Love, hate, jealousy, and scorching passion sum up the emotions that encompass this story.
So, we’re back where we ended in the first book in the series ‘Balance’, with Adrianna and Coach Kova still at war over his high handed gymnastics training methods while at the same time struggling to fight their lust for each other.
There are a couple of sweet moments between Kova (shocking right!) and Adrianna that was nice to read. Don’t worry though, this story is just as hot and steamy as the first book. Adrianna is a difficult character to feel sorry for sometimes, but this time she finds out some hard truths that left me reeling in shock and pain for her. I loved this story, even with all of the emotions it envoked in me. I can’t wait to read the next book in the series ‘Release’.