These Battered Hands by Laurel Ulen Curtis
Date of Publication: September 29, 2015
Blurb
Callie
Blood, sweat, hard work, and a disconcerting lack of tears—my entire life—was meant to culminate in a flourish of glory and significance.
I'd thought I'd always known exactly what that meant.
But I'd had the timing wrong by about three minutes.
I knew now.
This moment wasn't everything. The one person I found myself wanting more than anything during it was.
Nik
One preconceived notion can haunt you for the entirety of your life.
I thought I owed it to myself and to everyone who'd ever backed me to do what was expected. What was right. What I was supposed to do.
But nothing is forbidden in love. Not circumstances or propriety or the denial of the object of said affection.
I knew now.
This was it.
If I wanted it, I had to take it.
This gymnastics love story is more than grips, rips, and battered hands.
For Calia Nickleson and Nikolai Bagrov, it was everything.
Blood, sweat, hard work, and a disconcerting lack of tears—my entire life—was meant to culminate in a flourish of glory and significance.
I'd thought I'd always known exactly what that meant.
But I'd had the timing wrong by about three minutes.
I knew now.
This moment wasn't everything. The one person I found myself wanting more than anything during it was.
Nik
One preconceived notion can haunt you for the entirety of your life.
I thought I owed it to myself and to everyone who'd ever backed me to do what was expected. What was right. What I was supposed to do.
But nothing is forbidden in love. Not circumstances or propriety or the denial of the object of said affection.
I knew now.
This was it.
If I wanted it, I had to take it.
This gymnastics love story is more than grips, rips, and battered hands.
For Calia Nickleson and Nikolai Bagrov, it was everything.
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My Review:
These Battered Hands was a unique romance book. It is the first (that I recall) that centered around gymnastics and that made it all the more interesting.
Calia has been a gymnast forever, she's been to two Olympics and is working on her third. She's focused and stubborn and set in her ways. She's almost miserable in her day to day routine, feeling like she's missing something, but unsure what it is. So of course enter Nikolai to shake it all up and make her see what she's overlooking.
Nikolai has suffered his own problems in the past. He's found is way to the gym to work as Calia's coach because he's wanting a change. But as soon as he meets her he realizes he's getting more than he bargained for.
Nikolai and Calia's first interactions are full of banter, and bit of arguement. Their fiery attraction culminates into a passion, neither can fight or deny. But there is so much more going on in the story. There are struggles, and pain, and a realization that sometimes perception can be wrong. These Battered hands is unequivocally one of the most engaging books I've read in a while. Not only do the characters hold your attention and twist your heart but as the story unfolds you feel brought into it.
Though their earlier connection is full of tension and banter and a seeming struggle to tolerate one another, by the end of the book, you can see just how perfect they work together and what they do to complete the other person.
About Laurel Ulen Curtis
Laurel Ulen Curtis is a 28 year old mother of one. She lives with her husband and son (and cat!) in New Jersey, but grew up all over the United States. She graduated from Rutgers University in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology, and puts that to almost no use other than forecasting for her friends and writing a storm chasing heroine! She has a passion for her family, laughing, and reading and writing Romance novels. She's also addicted to Coke. The drink, not the drug.
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