About The Book:
Title: Acting Brave
Series: Fenbrook Academy #3
Author: Helena Newbury
Genre: New Adult, Romance
Release Date: January 2015
She’s spent her whole life acting. But is she good enough to make him believe she doesn’t love him?
Three years ago, a terrified girl named Emma fled a world of crime and abuse in Chicago and bought a one-way ticket to New York. She reinvented herself as an actress, enrolled at the prestigious Fenbrook Academy and buried her pain beneath a vivacious new persona. Her new name was Jasmine.
Now she has to pull off the performance of her career.
Landing her dream part in a police show, she finds herself falling for her co-star, Ryan, a real-life cop. If she lets him get too close, he’ll awaken memories she doesn’t want to face and uncover secrets that could endanger them both. But how can she keep a guy at arm’s length when she has to kiss him on camera?
The last place Ryan imagined himself was on a TV show. Blaming himself for the death of his partner, he’s on a downward spiral of rage and guilt. The show is his last chance…but how can he keep it professional when his co-star is a woman he’s crazy about?
As their on-screen and off-screen relationships merge, things go from hot to blistering. But when Jasmine’s old life catches up with her, will a cop be the one person she can’t be around…or the only person who can save her?
My Review:
Acting Brave by Helena NewburyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Acting Brave by Helena Newbury is the third book in her Fenbrook Academy series. It is part of the series but can be read as a standalone. I recommend reading the series in order though as this book deals not only with Ryan and Jasmine but characters from previous books.
A steady paced story packed and ripe with detail and purpose. Not a quick read but definitely an enjoyable one. We follow Jasmine and Ryan as they start working together on a TV show crime drama.
As much as she loves acting, the whole crime/cop aspect is causing past memories to be triggered and that's something she wants to keep buried and left way back in Chicago.
Ryan feels this show is his last chance. he lost his partner and has been barely coping ever since. He knows he's surly and is making an effort to fix it. But when the attraction between him and his co-star does nothing but build exponentially there's not a whole lot he can do to prevent screwing something up, be it his acting career or possible relationship with Jasmine.
This book will evoke emotion. You will laugh and you may even cry but you definitely will feel. I can't wait to read more from this author.
About The Author:
I’m a New Adult Romance author who loves writing about what happens when love and dreams collide with the real world. I wrote my first novel, Dance for Me, in daily chunks in a very busy, very noisy coffee shop, which meant I had to order a black Americano every hour, on the hour, to keep my seat and wound up wired on caffeine most days. I hit the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists in summer 2013. Unlike my characters, I can’t dance.
Great review, Lisa! This sounds like a great emotional read! Glad you liked it! :)
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