In a life driven by passion, famed artist Maxfield Caswell lives in a world of brilliant color and drama, pushing his art and affairs to his emotional edge. He’s stunning, charismatic and celebrated in the art world, but are the trappings of fame also destroying him?
For years intelligent and bright-eyed Ava Jacobs has worked diligently toward a career in the art world. Ava is swept off her feet … off her feet when she meets the passionate artist. She soon realizes, however, that he’s on a destructive path—one she doesn’t intend to join him on.
In the decadent world of patrons, art groupies, and predators, feisty and beautiful Ava knocks Max off his pedestal. A stunned Max sees something special in Ava and offers her an opportunity she can’t refuse. As their lives and passions collide, will he realize that she alone has the power to heal him? Can their hearts come together to create their own work of art?
~Each book in this trilogy will be released 8 weeks apart~ Contains mature content
more
The Inspiration plunges the reader into the art world through the eyes of Ava Jacobs, an art handler with aspirations for a career as an art writer. Ava is drawn in by Jonathan, the publisher of Art+trA who offers her the opportunity of a lifetime, but also has other designs on her. In contrast, Maxfield Caswell sweeps into her life as a flash of brilliance touched with raw-edged chaos, convinced that she will somehow save him from a ruin of his own making. Attracted to both, Ava has to figure out what’s best for her heart and for her career, but both men harbor secrets that could destroy her as well as themselves.
I love how this book takes you right into the LA art scene–the people, the places–it’s so obvious that the author is writing what she knows. The politics and social situations are interesting and realistic, and the reader ponders what to do right along with Ava. My favorite thing about this book is the character of Max–brilliant yet flawed, with a raw, unstable aspect to his personality that is part and parcel of the immense talent he possesses. I would love to have a Max in my life, but reading one is the next best thing. I can’t wait to see what comes next for Ava in her struggle to sort out her relationships and her career!
Wort of Art – The Collection was a great romance to read.
I would honestly rate this collection as a 3 but because of the depth the writer took to give us a true an true story where we got to live the day to day life with all of the characters and for the addition of the epilogue, and the male POV’s at the end of the book I rated it 3.5 stars.
I quite enjoyed how she let the story grow and did not make it so steadfast, but having said all of this I found the story to be annoyingly long, and found myself skipping through parts.
I love a good romance story but Max was a little too depressingly clingy for me, and Ava…. was just a little too naive for me.
I have sat on this review for a few days because it’s been difficult to figure out if I liked the book or not as a whole.
I have come to the conclusion that I did half way enjoy it, but I love strong men and I love strong women…. These two characters were neither. Their relationship and relationships with others were very melodramatic, obsessive and at times just annoying.
Ava is a dick tease but at the same time she doesn’t want to be fucked, she wants flowers and a bed.
There are so many parts of this collection that I loved and hated…..
Even though I skipped through some chapters, that felt repetitive or could’ve honestly been left out, I don’t feel as though I missed anything by doing so.
The twists and turns that we get throughout this collection i quite thoroughly enjoyed and never saw coming, but the turn out was always the same.
I feel like this book could’ve been so much more had Max not been such a crazy, dramatic, almost teenager of a man….. and had Ava just straight up left his ass. I felt like I was reading a high-school romance and not a romance about two adults in the business world.
I almost felt like Max was in for committing suicide with all of his breakdowns that he had and just because of how his character was portrayed from the get go.
However, the ending was just what I needed. These two characters finally come together, unite and learn how to live with the quirkiness of each other.
The epilogue was splendid, and the extra scenes that we got at the end were a delight. I loved being able to get into Max’s head, along with his Fathers, and I felt quite complete after receiving those little tid bits.
I loved that this collection was about an artist and how we got to delve into the various techniques, showings and etc. It is not very often that we get to read a romance of a couple that isn’t some alpha business man, and because of this I stuck with this book until the end…..
I plan on revisiting this collection in the future to see if maybe my feelings change…
But right now I just want to go join Max in his art room, me paint, roll around with him and forget about it.
* ARC PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR FOR AN HONEST