Time Served, by Julianna Keyes
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“One of my favorite things in this book is that it doesn’t pull punches… If you’re looking for a gritty story with a lot of heat (and I mean a lot) and real characters, I’d definitely recommend Time Served.” –Dear Author, recommended read
Dean Barclay had nothing to do with my decision to flee my old life, but he is 100 percent of the reason I vowed to never look back.I’ve never forgotten how it felt to follow Dean—dangerous, daring, determined—away from the crowd and climb into his beat-up old Trans Am. I was sixteen and gloriously alive for the first time. When I felt his hand cover my leg and move upward, it was over. I was his. Forever.
Until I left. Him, my mom, and the trailer park. Without so much as a goodbye.
Now Dean’s back, crashing uninvited into my carefully cultivated, neat little lawyerly life. Eight years behind bars have turned him rougher and bigger—and more sexually demanding than any man I’ve ever met. I can’t deny him anything…and that just might end up costing me everything.
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Time Served, by Julianna Keyes - Amazon Sales Rank: #17830 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-23
- Released on: 2015-03-23
- Format: Kindle eBook
Time Served, by Julianna Keyes Review "At the end of the book, I felt that neither Rachel nor Dean were the same character as they were in the beginning and that their reconnection sparked that change, as can happen. There's a gritty realness to the story that really struck home." - DearAuthor.com - Recommended Read"Emotionally plump with well developed characters and a strong well plotted storyline, Keyes builds a lush, erotic, and at times volatile second chance romance between two broken stubborn souls whose innate fears cause many a stumbling block." HeroesandHeartbreakers.com"Those looking for a fast-paced storyline featuring romance and drama will enjoy Keyes' novel. Its main character, Rachel, is knee-deep in one of the largest suits in her firm's history when her high school sweetheart, Dean, serendipitously re-enters her life. Keyes' suspenseful story reveals the truth that we cannot run from our pasts forever, making this book all the more difficult to put down." - RT Book Reviews
About the Author Julianna Keyes is a Canadian writer who has lived on both coasts and several places in between. She s been skydiving, bungee jumping and white water rafting, but nothing thrills or terrifies her as much as the blank page. She loves Chinese food, foreign languages, baseball, and television, not necessarily in that order, and will go to her grave swearing that ain t is not a word. She has volunteered in Zambia, taught English in China, and dreams of seeing pink dolphins in the Amazon. It ll happen.Shirl Rae is a seasoned narrator who can be heard on the Best Women's Erotica of 2006 compilation.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Well written, but the "romance" left me cold By Ivy D. Rachel left her trailer park past, ditching her first love Dean in the dead of night. It’s been 10 years and she runs into him unexpectedly - she’s now an attorney and he’s an ex-con. I’m not sure it’s a romance, but they kick off their relationship again.The Good, The Bad and Everything In Between-The writing was well done: This is done in first person POV, which is not my favorite, but I did feel it was done well and the characterizations felt genuine, if not exactly warm. In fact, the overall tone of the book cold, bleak and sad, wasted lives and opportunities. I’ve never read any books by Ms. Keyes, and while I didn’t connect with this book, I think it was the subject matter more than the writing that I struggled with.-The class action lawsuit was interesting: Seeing Rachel at work, and the tragedy of these lives wasted because of a big corporation being too cheap to not use toxic and harmful chemicals, was more interesting to me than any romance. It set the tone for the overall feeling of the book, which is more realistic and tinged with sadness...and that includes the relationship between Rachel and Dean.-The romance wasn’t particularly romantic: This mostly left me melancholy - sad past leads to a difficult future for Rachel and Dean. It was erotic, this physical connection they have, but emotionally I was just left cold. It’s certainly a more realistic take on these these two individuals and their lives are so different, but this story simply doesn’t lend itself to an ending where I’d believe a HEA, more like a HFN.-Rachel’s not likeable, but then again neither is Dean: The way Rachel handled herself, her general disdain for many people, including Dean was offputting. Dean certainly felt like the injured party in this scenario, considering how she dropped him like a hot potato, but he was also difficult to connect with, as he was cold and hard for the majority of this story.The Bottom LineIt’s not quite my cup of tea, but not due to the quality of the writing so much as the subject. I would try Ms. Keyes’ work again.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. I thought this was great. You should buy it right now! By World of wool Okay, for calibration: I have a hard time finding contemporary romances I can finish. I love complex, real-feeling characters with intense chemistry and believable roadblocks to their happy ending. I dislike shallow/glossy characterization, misunderstandings/refusal to communicate as the driver of why people can't be together, characters who are too perfect and therefore boring, unnecessary billionaires, and those scenes in series romances where everything grinds to a halt so couples from other books can show you how perfect their relationship is.My TL;DR: I devoured this book the same afternoon I bought it, and now I am having that "I must tell everyone on the internet about this book because it is just that good!" feeling.Premise: Set in and around Chicago, TIME SERVED is the story of Rachel, a 27-year-old associate with a fancy law firm, who lives for her work and otherwise lives a small life. Rachel is currently a successful workaholic lawyer with a fancy apartment, a carefully-curated work wardrobe, and a career that's going places, but she hails from a white-trash trailer park in an exurb of Chicago, a place she abandoned in the middle of the night when a way for her to escape and go to college out of state suddenly became available. When she left, Rachel walked away from a lousy mother, a lousy community, and her then-boyfriend, Dean.Ten years later, while trying to drum up clients for a class-action lawsuit, Rachel runs into Dean out of the blue. In the intervening decade, Dean has been to prison for robbery, gotten out, and gotten very big and very angry. Now he's out, and working in a warehouse/nursing his grudge against Rachel.The book splits its time between Dean and Rachel's developing relationship, and Rachel's work on the class-action suit. I often find myself vaguely bored by books that involve a work subplot, but I found the work plot here to be really well-done: it's more about Rachel's relationships with the people she works with, and how she has been using academic and career success to distract herself from things she doesn't want to focus on (her empty life, her unclean break with her past). So it's both entertaining on its own, and it illustrates and complements her dynamic with Dean. (This is very smooth and well-done - I just mean to say that her work story is not filler, it's interesting and relevant.)Rachel is a GREAT character. So often I (try to) read contemporary romance and the characters just drive me bananas, with their shallow, non-real behavior, their refusal to communicate, their refusals to either have good boundaries or understand their own motivations or extend compassion to the other main character. Rachel felt like a very real version of a certain kind of lady to me: she's driven and intense and ambitious, and she doesn't know how to give or accept trust - but all of those things felt very real and very likely to me given that she was a person who was essentially raised by wolves and who had the drive and the intensity to actually make it out. I just really liked Rachel, and really wanted her to find happiness both professionally and personally.Dean is also great. Big, surly, emotionally broken, proud and stoic, doesn't like anyone, desperate to get Rachel out of his head, but also unable to shake loose from her. Dean felt like a very real version of a certain type of blue-collar guy to me. He isn't a man who thinks like a woman (you know these dudes in romance novels), he doesn't intuit magically what Rachel wants, he isn't great at communicating in general, he's really terrible at communicating about his feelings or asking clearly for what he wants, or talking honestly about what he fears. He has anger issues. He's a little scary. But he's strong and he's loyal. The book doesn't make light of his criminal past, and neither does Dean. And Dean seems torn about moving between social classes: the very loyalty that kept him hung up on Rachel for so long makes it hard for him to see a way where he can be a real partner to Rachel. That felt realistic and poignant to me.The book really understands where Rachel and Dean come from, and how even if you escape that kind of background, maybe you feel like you never really fit in like the people who were born to something else.The whole book to be a really good portrait of these characters and their worlds. It made their struggles to be in relationship with each other without being mean feel real, and their eventual happy ending to feel like it comes on the heels of real and lasting change and growth for both of them.I just thought this was great. Great characters, dialog, emotional dynamics, everything felt plausible and internally real. Pretty big emotional swings (I got a little misty several times) but the swings felt earned and real and grown-up, not based on misunderstandings or other easily-fixed nonsense. These were real people trying to find a way to be together even though they had a complex past and on paper did not look like a good bet for the present, let alone the future. Just really good, good enough that I immediately glommed the author's other books.I'd highly recommend this book for fans of Cara McKenna, or anyone who likes excellent, real-feeling books about people who have intense chemistry and smexy bedroom times and an enjoyable number of roadblocks before they get to their happy ending.So good! (Buy it already!)
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Review for Time Served by Julianna Keyes By Alyssa ***Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***Time Served by Julianna KeyesPublisher: Carina PressPublication Date: March 23, 2015Rating: 5 starsSource: eARC from NetGalley***Warning: this is an adult book, and for the eyes of mature readers***Summary (from Goodreads):Dean Barclay had nothing to do with my decision to flee my old life, but he is 100 percent of the reason I vowed to never look back.I've never forgotten how it felt to follow Dean—dangerous, daring, determined—away from the crowd and climb into his beat-up old Trans Am. I was sixteen and gloriously alive for the first time. When I felt his hand cover my leg and move upward, it was over. I was his. Forever.Until I left. Him, my mom, and the trailer park. Without so much as a goodbye.Now Dean's back, crashing uninvited into my carefully cultivated, neat little lawyerly life. Eight years behind bars have turned him rougher and bigger—and more sexually demanding than any man I've ever met. I can't deny him anything…and that just might end up costing me everything.What I Liked:Woah. Woah woah woah. I honestly did not expect to enjoy this novel THAT MUCH. In fact, I would never have even have heard of this book, had it not been for the lovely Dear Author's tweet about it popping up on NetGalley. I took her recommendation and got the book... and boy do I NOT regret that whim. It threw a wrench in my packed March review copies reading schedule, but I could be happier that it did.Rachel Moser left her trailer park life behind and went to college - and made something of herself. Now a successful and driven lawyer in Chicago, she doesn't expect to ever revisit that life again, or to interact with anyone from the town. But Dean Barclay, the boy she left all those years ago, is now in Rachel's new town. Recently out of prison (on parole), he works in a warehouse and boxes in a gym nearby. Rachel's organized, structured life turns upside down. Dean is a wildfire, and a new case at Rachel's job isn't helping her. She could lose everything all at once if she's not careful.Rachel is a very hard-working, diligent, driven young woman. She puts her heart and soul into her job, and really cares about her clients. She works seven days a week, and has a schedule of events for every day. She's constantly checking her phone for messages, emails, texts about work. Everything, to her, is about work. She came from such meager and poor ends, and now that she is successful and well-off, she is determined not to lose her comfortable life. She doesn't want anyone to know about her past, before she put herself through college and worked her way up to where she is.I really liked Rachel. I feel like I could identify with her somewhat (though I'm not a twenty-eight-year-old lawyer). She's worked hard every day of her life, coming from a very poor family and destitute background. She is very intelligent, very caring, very selfless. She is ordered and precise, which I totally understand. I'm pretty OCD myself, and so if a hurricane like Dean Barclay came back into my life and with ten times the force... well, I'd be wary too.At first, Rachel is adamant against seeing Dean. They meet randomly, but then he singles her out and gives her his address and number. She pleads to him to leave her alone, but in her heart, she knows she doesn't want to leave him alone. She left him all those years ago, and she asks him to forgive her, but it seems like he is out for blood. Or sex. He missed her, all those years in jail. See, he and some of his friends robbed a bank just shortly after Rachel left Dean. He did something incredibly dumb and impulsive. I like how the author doesn't try to make it seem like it was an accident, or it was circumstantial, or that Dean is a good person who got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. There was not sugar-coating this event, on Rachel's part and on Dean's part.Eventually, Rachel gives in, and goes to Dean's place. He says he wants to get her out of his head. So they get intimate. She leaves, but she can't stop thinking about him. Apparently it's the same thing for him. So they meet again. And then fight. And meet again. And disagree. The story goes on, showing the progression of their new, tentative non-relationship relationship. Rachel realizes that she really cares about Dean towards the end of the book, but she also realizes how much he's been hurting her, and she him. I like how their relationship isn't a typical progression of "like" to "love", or "lust" to "like" to "love". It goes from irritation to lust to more lust to distrust to trust to like to love. Kind of. It takes forever for them to build trust, because they keep hurting each other (not with other people, but in different ways).So there is a ton of depth to Rachel and Dean's relationship. There is a ton of depth to both characters, too. I already talked about Rachel, but Dean is also a very well-rounded character. He spent years in prison, and is now on parole. He wanted to make Rachel hurt (emotionally) as much as he did, when she left him. And when he sees her, in the beginning of this book, that is exactly what he plans on doing. Except that nothing goes according to his plan. He's rough, demanding, an alpha, totally macho, but he falls for Rachel all over again.The progression of feelings and emotions was pretty well-written, in my opinion, and I really REALLY liked the chemistry and sizzling scenes in this novel. There were plenty of them, and guys, this author knows how to write some seriously steamy scenes. There were at least three hoooot scenes that had me staring at the pages. That being said, this novel is NOT for the prude or those that don't like seriously explicit sex or sexual activities. Because, you're in for a lot of it, in this book. Lots of very well-written scenes, lots of good steamy times. Lots of explicit stuff. So. Just so you know.I loved the chemistry. I loved the romance. I also loved the story. I really liked watching Rachel and Dean pull and push each other. Dean is a bit controlling and demanding, which bothered me initially, but eventually, I liked when Rachel also got control of the non-relationship relationship. I liked the non-romance-related stories too - Rachel's case, which a co-worker is currently giving her a run for her money. Rachel also finally goes back to Riverside, which is a disaster and a blessing in disguise. The romance is huge in this book, but the other stories are really important too.I loved how Rachel grew as a character. Dean too. I can't say too much without being too specific and giving away the ending in several areas, but Rachel makes some serious decisions in the end of this book, and I was taken by surprise. Except I also wasn't - I knew something had to give, in many different aspects of Rachel's life. I'm really happy with her choices, though I would definitely have been scared out of my mind if I did what she did.Overall... I loved this book. I've read a ton of my favorite scenes over and over, and now that I've read the whole book, I want to read it again in its entirety! It's good enough to read, and reread, and reread, and read again... Love love love!What I Did Not Like:Believe it or not, there were things that I didn't like about this book, but they weren't huge. Actually, it was more like one thing. I didn't like this ONE scenes, when Rachel is panicking, and Dean tries to calm her down... I didn't like what he did to make her panic, and what he tried to do to make her calm down. The whole situation was his fault, and then he handled her panic badly, in my opinion.Of course, this is ONE scene. And in real life, men do stupid things like this all the time (so do women, but in this particular case, it was Dean who messed up). So. Take this "dislike" as you will.Would I Recommend It:To romance readers - YES! It's not erotica, so you don't have to be an erotica reader to enjoy this one. I really like romance novels, but mostly historical romance novels. This contemporary romance novel is really, really great. Probably a favorite of the year - so far, it's winning (but we're in early February, so, it's a bit early). But if you love romance novels, definitely give this one a chance. It's really cheap, so you're getting a great deal!Rating:5 stars. I think this is my first 5-star read of 2015! I've read 22 books so far, so that's pretty great. I don't give many books 5 stars (more 3- and 4-star ratings), so I feel like when I DO give 5-star ratings, the book really deserves it! Like this one.
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