Lovely mad stuff:) (shelves contain spoilers)

FAV LINES:

“Oh my God, it’s Hoarders, The Furniture Edition,” Lottie said.......


Styker: “You drive me insane because you never know what you want and you expect me to just accommodate you. And I do it. Every time. You say jump and I get out a goddamn trampoline....."

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Will review soon.. But I liked this book better than Deeper We Fall! ( )

Faster We Burn is Katie and Stryker's story. Katie is coming out of a disastrous breakup with Zack and wants absolutely nothing to do with Stryker Grant. Stryker rescued Katie at a party when things got out of hand with Zack. Then, he shows up at her door with his pierced lip and eyebrow, bleached hair, and tattoos, looking hot as hell, but of course that is not the kind of guy Katie is attracted to, or at least that is what she tells herself, and then he has the audacity to call her an idiot.

He put his foot in the doorway, and leaned into the room. "What I was going to say is that you're an idiot." He folded the cape over his arm. "Excuse me?" "You heard what I said. You're. An. Idiot."

Yeah, he totally called her on her crap and told her like it was, and Katie was seething. One thing leads to another and....

"See you around," he said with a wave over one shoulder "Never would be too soon," I yelled back. I could still hear the sound of his laughter, even after I'd slammed the door and pressed my forehead against it so I could just breathe for a second. The last thing I needed in my life was another guy. Especially one that told me I was an idiot.

The next thing you know, Katie has thrown open the door and flown down the stairs.

He was messing with his lip ring again, but other that that, he was all swagger. He raised his pierced eyebrow. "Is this never?" he said. I shook my head. "You're wrong. About me......."Sure," he said, a smile playing on his lips. I took a step toward him and he moved away from the wall toward me. "I don't owe you anything." "No you don't." "Good. Now we've got that straight - " I grabbed his shirt and yanked him toward my mouth.

And that my friends, is how their relationship begins, with quite a bang, hot, heavy, and intense. Of course, they would never call it a relationship. In fact, Katie is really pretty bitchy to Stryker in the beginning, and out and out tells him she wants him for sex, is demanding, and constantly changing the rules. Granted, she has been through a lot, but I did want to pop her because she was really mean sometimes. Stryker on the other hand was totally patient with her. Of course, he was all up for the sex part, and I don't think she quite knew what to do with him when he would tell it like it is, not get angry with her, and pretty much just go with the flow.

Over time, these two go through some really scary stuff together, but the scariest of all is facing their true feeling for each other. Seriously, these guys face some tough things, and I loved watching their relationship grow as they did. Once Katie got past her bitchiness, I really liked her. I absolutely loved Stryker, everything about him. He has had a really hard life himself. They also have their gang of friends in the story, and I especially loved Trish, Stryer's sister. I hope she gets her own story. I thoroughly enjoyed Faster We Burn from beginning to end. It was one of those books that you sit there and find yourself smiling while you read it. The drama is intense, the romance is hot - really hot - and the story itself was wonderful. Did I mention Stryker sings and plays in a band? That in itself kind of does it for me to. Overall, I really enjoyed Faster We Burn and I would definitely recommend it. ( )