Melody Grace’s UNCONDITIONAL, the heart-wrenching and powerful next novel in her bestselling Beachwood Bay Series, is about to release on March 18th! We’re celebrating with a blog tour! Check out all of the information about UNCONDITIONAL and Melody Grace and see my interview and review with the lovely author. There’s also a great giveaway taking place!
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UNCONDITIONAL Synopsis:
Fall in love with Beachwood Bay in Melody Grace’s USA Today and internationally bestselling series!
“I’ve spent my whole life chasing perfection: perfect looks, perfect man, perfect home. But in one brutal moment, I realized it was all just a beautiful lie…”
Carina MacKenzie is fleeing from her past. Picking up the wreckage of her shattered dreams, she seeks comfort in the only place she’s ever felt safe: Beachwood Bay.
Garrett Sawyer isn’t looking to be anyone’s savior. Scarred by old betrayals, he’s sworn never to put his heart on the line again — especially not for a damaged, high-maintenance girl like Carina. But passion knows no logic, and soon, their reckless chemistry is making him forget his bitter vows.
Two damaged hearts. The hope of true love. As their passion blazes out of control, Carina and Garrett struggle to escape their legacies of hurt. But can you ever outrun the past? And when everything is on the line, can they trust enough to build a love that’s unconditional?
*This book contains adult situations and explicit content. 17+*
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REVIEW
Will you devote your life to someone unconditionally if you have been hurt in the past?
Unconditional by the lovely Melody Grace is the third standard novel in a series of enchanting tales located in Beachwood Bay. The third novel introduces passion, hurt, love and regret within the lives of Carina and Garrett. The exquisite narrative flows pure emotion in character fueled romance and pain from the past.
The character’s established accepting and courageous love as they developed a comforting and warm relationship allowing their hearts to open. The pull that I felt towards Carina and Garrett was similar to the first two novels in the series as both characters want to be loved but are also heartbroken by pained choices and events that have happened in the past. I love Melody and her style of writing it digs deep into emotional situations, relenting how relationships can grow and how they are important. There are twists and turns with ex’s and relationships, but overall the gentle unspoken words that created the bond between Carina and Garrett speak louder to the reader.
Overall, Melody has shone another star into the galaxy of a million with the lavishing and emotionally moving characters of Garrett and Carina. Garrett has a heart of a lion and the emotions he displayed were like wildfire to my heart. Carina was a character that developed and was explained as to her grief and pain with Juliet her sister. The incandescent writing of Melody Grace has yet again prevailed in an emotional and powerful reading. I rated Unconditional a 5- Lit Love because I could re-read it and the characters of Carina and Garret gave me so much drive to continue reading till the very end.
INTERVIEW
1. Congratulations on the 3rd standard novel in the series and 6th in the series. What was it like coming into the sixth project and writing about Garrett and Carina?
It was exciting, and nerve-wracking too! I’ve been so fortunate that people fell in love with Beachwood Bay the way I have, but there’s an added pressure too now to write love stories that live up to the first books. But I’ve been waiting to tell this story for a while now, so it was great to revisit the characters and show the side to them readers had never seen before.
2. It is such a beautiful story that you told between Garrett and Carina. Did you feel the passion between the characters as you wrote? Was there drive to create two characters that both had issues like in the previous novels?
Passion… yes, definitely! I love writing scenes where the sparks fly, and Garrett and Carina surprised me with their chemistry. They have such a great banter and dynamic, and part of that comes from both being a little older than the other characters. They’ve experienced things before, and know what they like ;)
As for issues… I think everyone has issues in their own way. We all have a past, and things that have hurt us before, so it’s natural that Carina and Garrett both have things they need to overcome in order to find happiness together.
3. Juliet and Carina didn’t have the best relationship developing from the first books. Did you feel like you had to explore Carina’s side of the story or was it fun writing a more vulnerable side to Carina than what readers expected?
Writing Unbroken, Carina was pretty much just a shallow bitch (to quote her sister!), but her character stayed with me. Nobody is simply what they appear to be on the surface, especially people who try so hard to appear perfect and polished, and I wondered who the real Carina was, hiding underneath the pretty clothes and expensive makeup. She and Juliet both grew out of the same dysfunctional family, and I wanted to explore that – how Carina had internalized her childhood and become obsessed with creating the picture-perfect family, even as it took her further away from her true self. Watching that crumble, and trying to start again, Carina finds herself for the first time.
4. What are your next plans for 2014? Do you plan on writing any more in the Beachwood Bay series?
Yes! I love this series, and I’ve got at least a couple more planned this year. I’m bringing some fresh blood to town with a new family… the first of whom, Dex Callahan, we’ll meet in UNINHIBITED, coming in July. It might be my sexiest yet!
5. A lot of writers become authors by readings and falling in love with the notion of creating a world that can impact on a reader’s life. Did you always set out to be a writer and create the stories that you tell for the readers?
Absolutely. I loved to read as a kid, escaping to a hundred different lives, and it’s wonderful to be doing it myself now, and passing on that love to other readers.
6. Lastly, if there is one piece of advice you could give an inspiring author what would it be?
Believe in yourself. It’s easy to become discouraged, there’s so much rejection around, but if you believe in your work and try to improve your craft, you’ll get there in the end!
ABOUT MELODY GRACE:
Melody Grace is the USA Today bestselling author of UNBROKEN and UNTOUCHED. A small-town girl turned SoCal beach-lover, she spent years with her nose in a book before deciding it was time to write them for herself. She loves bad boys, good books, and pistachio-flavored ice-cream.
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UNCONDITIONAL Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18773628-unconditional
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