{"id":7112,"date":"2019-04-24T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookmaven623.wordpress.com\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2019-04-24T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:35:28","slug":"review-cruel-fortune-by-k-a-linde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackiepaxsonauthor.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/review-cruel-fortune-by-k-a-linde\/","title":{"rendered":"Review:  Cruel Fortune by K.A Linde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I get to bring to you the second book in Cruel series by K.A Linde.\u00a0 The last book ended in a very cruel intentions kind of way.\u00a0 Just when you think the Upper East Side couldn&#8217;t get any worse they say hold my champagne.\u00a0 For my full review keep reading after the book blurb.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-7113 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bookmaven623.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/42069143.jpg\" alt=\"42069143\" width=\"317\" height=\"475\" \/>Book Blurb:<\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"freeText5880822901902627208\">I finally have everything I ever wanted&#8211;fame and fortune and literary success.<\/p>\n<p>Only one problem: I lost my muse.<\/p>\n<p>He was tall, dark, and handsome. Broody, enigmatic, alluring, and right for me in every way.<\/p>\n<p>Until he wasn&#8217;t. Until I lost everything.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t lose it all again. I&#8217;ll do anything to keep it.<\/p>\n<p>Even seeing him again&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Review:<\/h2>\n<p>Natalie is now successful.\u00a0 Thanks to her experience with Penn and his group of Upper East Side snobs.\u00a0 Her book is a hit written under a pen name.\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t expect to run into any of them when she had to go to New York to promote the book.\u00a0 But, when she comes face to face Lewis, Penn&#8217;s best friend, things change.\u00a0 Changing her life to follow her muse sends her down the exact road she wanted to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>This was a fantastic follow up to the first book.\u00a0 All of the angst and emotion felt during the first book is thrown right back at the reader times 10.\u00a0 This book has a lot of Natalie in it.\u00a0 Penn plays his role but Natalie&#8217;s journey down this road is what takes you on the roller coaster ride.\u00a0 Without giving too much away, Natalie&#8217;s success changes her life in the exact way she didn&#8217;t want Penn to change it.\u00a0 What she thought she couldn&#8217;t handle with Penn becomes her life.\u00a0 In some ways, she is very hypocritical now that her life echoes the one that destroyed her the previous year.\u00a0 One person doesn&#8217;t give up though.\u00a0 Penn.\u00a0 Once Penn knows Natalie is in his domain his one goal is to have her back.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the Crew is still around and causing all kinds of hell for people. 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