Now a NYT and USA Today BESTSELLER! ONE GIRLBattered, barefoot, and huddled under a bookstore awning in the pouring rain, Blue only knows one thing. After fifteen months of captivity, finally… she is free.TWO FRIENDSSelf-made millionaires JD and Ark are not out to save anyone when they stumble upon a wet and shivering girl one early Sunday morning. But when you sell sex for a living and … early Sunday morning. But when you sell sex for a living and salvation rings your bell… you answer the call.
THREE SOULMATES
After years of searching, love lifts the veil of darkness, and three people–with three very big secrets–find themselves bound together in a relationship that defies the odds.
Or does it?
Love. Lust. Sex.
This trinity might be perfection… but not everything should come in 3’s.
WARNING: This is a STANDALONE non-traditional M/F/M ROMANCE with a non-traditional ending.
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Wow. LOVED this book. On the one hand I wanted the book to end a certain way and I can’t say what I wanted to happen because then you’ll know it didn’t happen and this book is really good even if I would have written it differently. But that’s because I was invested in different things.
This is the first time in a long time where I’ve read a book where I didn’t get the ending I wanted but the ending I did get was so well-written and so brilliant that I could forgive it enough to give it 5 stars because props where props are due. I also thought it was extremely clever the way we kind of almost get the ending in a parallel universe sort of way. Again, it’s something you just have to read I’m not about to give anything away. I will point out that it is not the author’s fault I didn’t get the ending I wanted.
There are just certain things I want out of a certain type of romance book and again I can’t say what it was I wanted without fucking you guys over and your experience of this book because I think you should read it. I think you’ll love it if you let it be what it is and leave all expectations at the door. All I can say is… don’t get too attached to any particular ending and just take it for what it is.
I’ve written a LOT of books where readers felt very much like I felt about this book. Readers wanted something different from me and the book because even though I laid groundwork to make it clear that no, bitches, that’s not where we’re going with this… the heart wants what the heart wants so some of my readers have been like GRRRR Why didn’t she do X? Well because it’s my book and I was telling a different story from the one you thought you were getting. And that’s what Huss did in this book. She was telling a different story from the one I thought I was getting but the story she did tell was brilliant. I think this is a risk to take with readers but sometimes it pays off. I’ve done it and had it pay off and I’ve done it and had it not pay off. IMO this risk paid off and 321 was well worth the journey.
If you like my books, you will probably like 321. It’s dark. It’s sexy and a little kinky. It’s got unexpected twists and an ending you won’t see coming. I definitely didn’t. It’s also a standalone so if you need a break from series books, give this one a try.
What an intens read this was… how to rate this, review this? Such a interesting start, how dark and darker the story gets to the point where I can imagine people stop reading it. I was there too and put the book down for some time. It was almost too much too handle. The violence, the trust, the twisted feelings, the love and need to heal and help. This complicated relationship with so many secrets and history untold. Huss never gave too much away, in the end leaving me in a state that I couldn’t walk away. I needed to learn the full story. So it was as promised by other reviewers, it was worth my time to finish it. Dear reader, go with your own guts. If the story triggers you, stop reading immediately. But if you can stomach, keep going.
Blow me away! No, really. I’m through! I can’t read another inadequate author or their insufficient novels after reading this one JA Huss novel. This is writing at its best. Despite the subject matter; despite the sin and ultimately, its forgiveness; despite the twists and turns and the yanking back and forth, like a tilt-a-whirl on steroids; or simply because of it all. 321 will remain a book I love and think about for years to come.
This story will have you gasping, squirming, shedding tears, and will thoroughly break your heart. But Ja Huss will mend you.
Ark, Blue, and JD will all find their way into your heart. And even though this is not a pretty, fluffy story, it is one you will not want to put down until you have all of the answers.
Bravo once again to Julie Huss! She is a weaver of tales that grab you by the throat and won’t let go until you get a resolution, no matter how that may be delivered.
This is the second book I’ve read of J.A. Huss’, and I am definitely now a fan. This book, although dark, tells the story of how three soul mates found each other under the worst of circumstances, but some how fell in love. It explores the porn industry and what it can do to people involved in it, in front of and behind the camera. It gives you hope that when life is at it’s cruelest that there can be healing where there was once true love. It is a mystery that is also a deep emotional read, that appears to be one thing but surprises you at the end, but still leaves you feeling that there is still true romance in the world. I would highly recommend this book!!!
My first dip into the books, pages and mind of JA Huss. Most definitely a page turner. I could not put this book down. Hooked on the first sentence and page after page the story built and twisted into a realistic picture that you makes you feel like you could reach out and touch these absolute wonderful characters. Off to read more books by JA Huss. Hope you find that you couldn’t put the book down as well once you get started on 3,2,1….
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I finished this book last night and I had to wait 24 hours before I wrote the review because I really had to let it all sink in. I mean wow!
This book is so tragically beautiful.
It had me hooked from the beginning and I had absolutely no idea that it was going to go down the path that it did.
It was just an amazing story about how you don’t need labels. How the uniqueness of the people that you let into your heart can make you feel in a way that you never thought you would or could.
No pigeon holes just love.
I’m kinda lost for words, to be honest.
BLUE- How can you not love Blue? She is a wee lost soul found by two men who seem to be a little lost on their own too.
She’s been through some s**t and needs time to heal.
After being a victim to some awful sadist(s) for so long, she is utterly confused about who she is, where she fits in and what she even likes. Psychological manipulation will do that to ya.
After meeting Ark and JD she goes back with them to what she really hopes is a safe place. But is it?
ARK – Ooft! This man. He is the dark broody type. The type to take everything seriously and analyze it. The kind to make sure he never lets his control slip. The one who never lets anyone in.
Until he meets Blue and then everything changes. And I mean everything.
Who is Blue and how the hell is she doing this to him?
His control starts to slip and it could mean danger.
JD – OMG, this guy. He’s the guy that no one takes seriously. The guy that always has the jokes and is easy going. Light-hearted.
A few years ago he lost that part of himself but managed to climb back out of the depths of despair, with Ark’s help.
Then comes Blue. And again, his whole world changes.
There’s so much more to JD and Blue can see it.
SEX SCENES – The sex was freakin’ hot. No joke. And there is plenty of it, in all of its forms, lol. I found it extremely arousing and to be quite honest, I wish I could have been a fly on the wall more than I wish I could have joined in.
It was just that good!
FINAL THOUGHTS – I loved this book and there’s a little piece of my heart that is a tiny bit too heavy now that the story has ended.
I’m actually going to miss them, as crazy as that sounds.
And I LOVE what she says at the end of her book. How she added a little something extra. It made me feel that she was more…I dunno. Real, maybe?
Something the author wrote about her book that I loved was this;
I hope people see past the sex and find the characters. Because no one cares about the sex acts. Erotic romance is not really about the sex. It’s about what the characters are feeling as the sex takes place.
*Fist bump* I feel you gurl!
5 Stars
This book WRECKED me. I’m sobbing on my couch, and I know this one is going to stay with me for a long time.
The sex scenes are extremely hot, but the story is really fucking dark.
This story pulls you in as we learn how Blue becomes intwined with JD and Ark. Everyone has secrets and things that as much truth you reveal there is always a part of the story that will stay hidden. JD is the compassionate one and Ark is a bit more rough round the edges. As we get deeper into the story and into these characters backgrounds your heart will break when they share more personal information. The last few chapters practically left me in tears with the events that took place. I twist that I had never imagined threw me for a loop and jaw dropped. This was a great story of three souls coming together as one.
WOW!! This is my first book by this author. How far would you go to get the truth? This book was very deep and dark and not what I normally ready. But this book had me from the beginning it was so very well written and will keep you in suspense throughout.
I really wasn’t sure about 321 when I started reading, but I’m so glad I persevered because by the time I was twenty-five percent in, I couldn’t flip the pages fast enough.
This is definitely not your traditional romance, but it was the difference when compared to all those others that drew me in.
But be warned…. its definitely on the erotic side of romance so if you’re of a sensitive disposition, you might want to bypass 321.
I’m not… and I’m glad I didn’t bypass this book. Terrific
Three, Two, One is a sexy, dirty, twisted read with an ending I NEVER saw coming! You know how usually you have an inkling, a hint, some thoughts on what is coming up? This just blew me away. It shocked me. And I loved every single second of it.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
LOVED THIS!
Hands down, brilliant!
The trio in this book leap off the page.
My toes curled.
LIKE.
THEY.
CURRRRRLED!
Wow! I can’t find the word’s to describe how I feel about this book ! All I can say is , the author did an amazing job with this book, you can feel the emotions of each person in this story. I didn’t want it to end! Please take a chance on this book, you want regret it!
5 HOT TRIFECTA PORN STARS
I have heard about this book in many groups that I’m in over the last year. So I had a good friend lend it to me and I got to readin! WHAT A READ IT WAS!
“Blue” was found by two porn makers, Ark and JD. She was a mess when they found her and you just knew she had a story. What a twisted story it turned out to be.
The first 50% of the book was a ton of threesome sex, hot filthy goodness!! I was waiting anxiously for her story and the author made you wait for it! When you find out what’s happened to her it’s jaw dropping.
In the back of my mind I knew that Ark and JD had stories of their own, I had no idea what they were but I knew that it was bad. I found myself wondering who this girl should trust and who she shouldn’t, to say that I was having a panic attack by 84% is an understatement
This authors took her sweet time getting you invested in this sick twisted tale. You couldn’t put it down. I wouldn’t say I was bored in the beginning because how can you be bored when you have a hot threesome but i wanted to know wth was happening.
When everything comes to fruition at the end I felt lost and was sobbing my eyes out, i also felt exhausted. The stories that unfolded…I was speechless!!! Could not believe what they were hiding!
This book is about 3 soulmates all with secrets and lies but falling in love through it all. The dynamic between the three of them and then the two men and the woman as a “two” was so powerful. The contrast of Ark and JD was such an attraction and the love that they have for each other (no they weren’t gay they just loved each other HARD, one was a savior the other a hot mess) was so beautiful and brings to light that there can be love on a level that’s a little sexual but not built on sex, it was built on having each other’s back and standing beside each other no matter the circumstances and being someone’s saving grace.
The epilogue and bonus epilogue gave me life and I found myself wanting more!
This was exactly what everyone said…OFF THE CHART fantastic!!!
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Cheating none
Sexy Time smokin hot
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Word on the street is that this is Ja Huss’ best book ever. I totally back that! I only read one review from my fellow book bestie so I was going in coldish. What a story. I could go on and on about the sex and how hot it is, but really, these 3 people are everything in this book. Lies, secrets, and betrayal. Once I got into the middle of the book, BAM…..everything changes. You know that saying “You think you know but you have no idea?” You don’t! Stuff comes outta left field and you have to keep reading, nay, you MUST keep reading. You need to know what the heck is going on! I loved it. I loved the concept of it, the characters and I loved the love. Perfect. End of.
*I listened to this book via Audible.* This book is AMAZING! It’s my first book from J.A. Huss and I was so happy I decided to listen! As I listened for days in my car during my work commute, I ran the gamut of emotions that one would watching an epically performed movie. I was completely immersed and invested in these characters. I thought about the thought process that it must’ve taken to develop this story from point A to point Z, and everything in between. I felt the emotions emanating through my speakers causing me to talk back and be taken aback, taken by surprise, and completed enraptured in these relationships. This book is STUNNING, deliciously somber and provocatively captivating. READ OR LISTEN TO THIS BOOK!!! I’m only sorry it took me this long to be introduced to it and J.A. Huss. A new literary path has materialized for me; and I am all too excited to walk it!
“Love. Lust. Sex.”
From “jump street” as a reader we are thrust into dark world of a frightened runaway who appears to be on drugs, terrified and abused. She is discovered by two young men who are building a porn empire by filming women who are desperate for the money they offer. They offer money for services she performs on camera. Something happens to both of these seemingly smarmy characters who would take an obviously abused women who actually is too drugged too give consent but desperately needs money and they use her for their porn productions. These two men take her home and give her shelter. They offer her safety and give her a new name,”Blue” because her eyes are the color of a tropical ocean. She cannot or will not tell them her secrets. Even the most pressing secret…why is she so terrified of those from which she is running?
The two men take her in and even though they continue the sexual escapades, they care for her and a new and interesting dynamic develops between the three. Ms. Huss spins a complicated tale of these three and how their backgrounds merged in one place in time. The reader is put in the position of being attracted to these men and yet, feeling uncomfortable because of the business in which they involve themselves. We love the spontaneity and lusty sexiness of JD and his beautiful genetic gift :)!!! Ark is dark, brooding and serious. He communicates that he truly wants to love Blue. Blue has discovered that due to her experiences where she was held captive that she has developed some kinkier inclinations.
“I saw her first…” – Ark
The story is told through the alternating POV’s of Blue and Ark. Ark has a great love for JD for many reasons but he claims he could never love him just for himself as a man loves another man romantically. Yet his Blue, whom Ark also loves, wants the security of the two of them on each side of her. He holds on to the hope that someday she will be happy with him alone.
Often we feel Blue gravitating toward the love Ark wants to give her, yet she is keeping a dark dirty and dangerous secret with JD. Eventually Ark succumbs to their loving trinity with a touch of a BDSM dynamic and limits on the male to male sex.
I hesitate to expound any further on the plot and the character development of these three. You see, in doing so…the surprise of this exciting, jaw dropping story would be ruined for the reader. It is so well crafted, so interesting…I will say it is a story that illuminates the difference among “Love. Lust. and Sex.” Porn being just sex. Lust the sole driving force behind some men and women’s desire for another. Lastly, love is devotion, “investment” and commitment. Love transforms lust into devotion and the act of sex into an intimate investment in a lifetime commitment to your beloved.
Allow yourself the entertainment and the joy of this story with its twists and turns. The very same medium (film) that captured generally degrading pornographic acts, in the hand of an artist cast a beautiful light in the shadows of a moment in time when three people fell in love with one another.You will understand the previous statement when you finish this compelling tale that begins in the dark depraved depths and ends…???
This is one of my favorite books. It will grab your attention and hold ur attention all the way to the end.
*it does need a trigger warning though because of the use of refreshes to abuse. But still a great book.