BLOG TOUR STOP~BECOMING MORE by Bayli Lane

Title: Becoming More

Author: Bayli Lane

Genre: New Adult Romance

Hosted by: Love Between the Sheets

BOOK DESCRIPTION

At first it was all freedom, fun, and games for Lilly Fairfield. Being a freshman in college was supposed to create some of the best memories of her life, especially with her best friend, Lauren, and longtime boyfriend, Sander, by her side.

But the excitement begins to slip away when the people closest to her start to change. They begin moving in a direction Lilly doesn’t want to go, forcing Lilly to be faced with a decision. Should she fight for her relationships with both Sander and Lauren or move on to something different? Something unknown. Someone like…

Colton Davenport. Colton isn’t Lilly’s typical type. He's shockingly sexy with his colorful tattoos, shiny silver lip ring, and ear gauges. His smile alone leaves her breathless. Then again, she hasn’t had a specific type other than Sander. When she meets Colton she feels an automatic attraction that stuns her into utter stillness. She can’t look away, doesn’t want to look away.

Lilly must decide between a life with Sander, a life she always thought she wanted, and an unknown path with Colton.

Will Lilly make the right choices for her future, Becoming More?

**This book is a New Adult Romance - intended for a mature audience.**

EXCERPT

he feel of Colton’s skin on mine is more than I ever imagined it would be. God, it’s so much more. I should have known that the sexual attraction between us was so alluring for a reason, but this is unbelievable. It’s like he knows my body better than I do. I’ve never reacted this way before; it’s surreal. I’m afraid it’s going to end, and I’m not ready to feel the lack of Colton against me. Instead, I want more. I reach down and grab at the button on his jeans. He stills on top of me and pulls away from my face. He looks into my eyes and then shakes his head.

“Not today, babe,” he says fiercely and reaches for my hand and pins it above my head. Okay, not what I was going for, but this is pretty nice too.

“Why not?” I whisper against his neck and then press my lips to his pulse.

“I told you earlier. I’m going to take my time with you. I want to get to know your body, slowly.” He grabs my hand and pins it alongside my other. His lips meet mine again in a tantalizing but leisurely tempo. I nibble at his bottom lip and draw the metal ring into my mouth, flicking my tongue across the warm metal.

He moans into my mouth as I let go of the ring. He starts nibbling on my lower lip, pulling it and teasing it with his teeth. “Please,”  I beg and push my body against his.

He smiles and places a peck on my lips. “As hot as it is that you want it, not tonight,” he says with ardor and then pulls me up. I sit up, and he sits across from me. He runs his hand along my neck and down my chest, grips my hips, and pulls me onto his lap.

“You have no idea how long I’ve been wanting to kiss you,” he says sincerely and bites my shoulder.

I throw my head back while his lips skim the skin to my chin. “Me too,” I reply roughly. I didn’t even know my voice could sound like that; I’m so out of breath.

“It exceeded my expectations,” he says against my skin.

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REVIEW 

I didn't respond well to  the start of this book; I think her boyfriend Sander is a fucking wanker and the best friend Lauren a stupid slapper.
**Oh yeah just a warning this review will contain extremely strong and graphic  language so if that bothers you. go to the end and read the summary, it will get worse from here. (My swearing ban is pretty much up so I'm letting it fucking rip ..I can finally express myself again)**

Mother of fucking Gosh....the lip ring shit *small spasm* lips...tattoo arms...shit....tussled hair.... Oh god I just forgot I have a husband just like Lilly just forgot the has a long term boyfriend....shit is about to get bloody interesting. More than a little intestine I would say, and I certainly was not disappointed!!!

God I want to punch that fucking D-bag  Sander what kind if a name is that any way?!? 

I knew I hated that fucker for a reason, drugged up tosser. How dear you don't that shit on a girl. Prick. 

I wanted to be angry for Lilly not jumping and dumping that piece of shit but I have to admit I get it. 18 just got  her freedom same boyfriend for the last four years that most of her teenage years so she i clinging to the idea of what once was. 

I'm still piss about her making excuses for the little scumbag 

You naive little bitch
"I am going to help Sander get through this. He would do it for me"~Lilly 
My Lilly 

I cannot wait for her to learn the hard way (the best way I say). No one will change for someone else; a person have to want to change for them-self he nearly chocked you to fucking death you dumb ass bitch.....I just want to shake some sense into her.
Thisis about to get series and fun. Well I'm sure not fun for Lilly. But I sure as hell will enjoy a good lesson learnt. **Evil Laugh**
"I've never felt so drawn to one person in my life."~Lilly

The saying love is blind is so fitting in this case Lilly has intense connection and attraction for Colton, that she does not have for her previous little cock sucker boyfriend. She is completely consumed with him she even smell his pillows and daydream and locking his sweat for crying out loud.... I I know he is  finnnnnnnnne as helllllll so she might confuse her feelings for lust.
 But when he is the only person you feel comfortable enough with to open up and feel safe I would say that's more more than  just plain old lust/friendship.
"He smells like a mixture of sweat and soap. I've never understood why some girls love the smell of a man's sweat-but this moment I get it. Damn, do I get it. I want to lick his sweat."~Lilly

And that SoCal best friend dirty little tramp,  I know for a fact my suspicions about the nasty girl will be proven correct. (In the end it was)

OMG bloody frustrating girl.....people change.... Life goal plans changes nothing is set in stone you just have to open your self up to new possibilities....fucking hell Lilly is beyond infuriating.   

Hope hope hope....keep hoping Lilly I can't wait for the bricks to come tumbling down like a house of cards. 

Clarissa is my home girl I like her she is a really good friend. Straight up she gives it to you like it is. 

Ignorance Is bliss. Keep living in denial Lilly ... Thank god Clarissa was not standing fir her bullshit 

U understood wanting to help sander as a friend but no way in hell should she still want to be in a relationship. 

Colton....lead man...singer...all tube hottie....man whore with the wall of Jericho keeping even the closers people are puns him at a distance.....Bang en and leave them kind of guy. Then in walks  this girl who makes him feel something different for the first time in his life......problem......big fucking problem the lovely Lilly is already in a relationship

Ohh shit I did not see that coming...what a connection to have not a very good one let me tell you. 

I love that Colton called her out an being Naive backing up earlier statement. 

Eyes rolling back in my head kiss teeth very deep sign....really you believe that shit. This girls needs sometime alone to figure out the hell she is and make new goals she is really pissing  me off. 

How does she knows what Colton wants when did she became a mind reader....how about you have THAT talk with him before you go making wild assumptions. Dumbest decision EVER based on some half coked fucking ideas you have forced herself to believe. I really want her to hurt and pay for this. 

You have your priorities "in order" the question is these people you have made a priority have they made you a priority 

Babahahahahahahahahahahahaha yes yes yes yes fuck yes I was waiting for the shutters to fall from her rose colored glasses. Hahahahahahahahahahaha I'm enjoying her pain right now. I'm starting to think she is not good enough for my Colton he deserves to be first someone first choice not a shoulder to cry one after you have made your mistakes. 

How fucking stupid can one person get I swear to God this character Lilly is going to give me a flipping headache. I want her to get seriously burn. You bitch is fucking with Colton and its not flying with me. 

Cringing frustration....I'm having a fucking melt down for Christ sake I can't cape with this book it's doing way too much damage to my nervous system. 

Agghhhhhhhhhh *scrams loudly* twat. I hate this Lilly chick I have tied to like the stupid bitch but its not working....I cannot like someone so weak and pathetic 

By the end is this book I think  might   Actually get a Braun aneurism 

What Lily is doing is wrong on so many levels playing with people's feeling and messing with Colton's head. he has let you in and what do you do with that opportunity.....yes the stupid child goes and plays games dating both him and Sander

**screaming hyperventilating** what the fuckkkkkk. That fucking  bitch how did she think her plying and just having fun was going to end well, mother of Jesus I just want to reach though the book and strangle the little tart. My emotions are out of control this book is something else.

Awwww do you want people to feel sorry for you the people you choose cover Colton has not chosen you want a fucking  shame...just what you deserves how does it feel.... Hahahahaha hahahahaha. Your paradise Sander has left you once more to go and get high with   your friend Lauren. 

I said that little slut Lauren was no good and she finally saw it for herself in doll her naked glory. 

The last chapter if this book is fire pure and simply fucking hot and sexy. I needed a change of underwear....I'm been deadly serious.

Ok time to get down to business, Becoming more is an enticing, roller-coaster of  confusing emotion on a rocky journey into adulthood and self discovery, letting go of the past and embracing becoming more than what you once was.
Yes Lilly frustrated the hell out of me as you can tell from above, but the mistakes she made was all apart the process of making your own decisions and living with the consequences or rectifying a previous mistakes. In order for someone to truly learn they have to live apart of living is making mistakes and I think that is exactly what this books represents. Colton was not someone that Lilly was looking for she already had her entire life planned out, but sometimes a wrecking ball is thrown into the midst of your carefully planned path....Lilly was left valuable, afraid clinging to her past not knowing where her future was headed.  She trusted the wrong people with her heart and tried to force a two relationship that was obviously  not working for very clear reasons.
One of the things I took away from this book is that letting go is not easy, and you have  to be free of your pass before you can 100% move on to finding that something or someone...More.
Bayli did a terrific job for her debut novel.....I really loved the story line and the way she told the story. I was very engrossed, ti say the least. You Rocked it Bayli and I am looking forward to reading more of your work.  

  

BUY LINKS

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Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/becoming-more-bayli-lane/1116394895

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bayli Lane didn’t realize how much she loved creating a world from nothing until college. She went to Marian University where she majored in Communications but in her spare time wrote and read. Her love for reading is what really brought out her desire to create her own novel. After starting loads of stories and not finishing them, she finally decided it was time to put her passion to work. Becoming More is her first novel but certainly not her last. Bayli lives with her husband, Tim, in Indiana where she is probably sitting with a large cup of coffee and her computer working on her next book.

AUTHOR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

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Goodreads Author Page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7061310.Bayli_Lane

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Colton's POV

 

Yesterday I left my father’s house. I stayed at his house for a total of thirteen hours before I realized I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t handle watching him stick his tongue down the throat of those massive, botox lips. I could not tolerate being in the same house as him, let alone watching him put the moves on a woman that wore her makeup to bed and heels around the house. I mean, who the fuck does that?

I didn’t even say goodbye to my dad before I grabbed my duffel bag and tossed it into the love of my life, my 1965 Mustang. I call her Black Beauty. She’s also the only wife I’ll ever need. Call me cynical, but after watching the train wreck of a marriage my parents had, I’m not interested in ever going through it.

I intend to stay single for the rest of my life. No girl could get in the way of that. I don’t give a fuck how hot she is. I don’t care if she’s Kate Beckinsale in Underworld wearing that tight, sexy, black leather outfit. Okay maybe then.

So yeah, I just got to campus yesterday, but already my roommates and I are throwing our first party of the school year. Thirsty Thursday… The day every person that is anyone goes out, forgets about school, and gets completely wasted.

That is my plan for tonight – to get wasted.

The guys already left to go meet up with Clarissa and Becca. We never let those girls walk over here or home by themselves. I guess you could say we’re a bit protective.

They house is already full of people. Shots are being taken, drinking games are being played, I can already see spills on our wooden floors, the music has been turned up, and dancing is taking place in the middle of our living room. I head to the kitchen to pour myself a beer. I’ve seen the majority of the people in here before. A couple of the girls catch my eye and do their little hand waves or winking. I’m not interested. I’ve been with a couple of them, and though I’m not against sleeping with the same woman more than once, I’d rather not. They get attached, and as I said before, I don’t do attachments. I’m never going to be their boyfriend. I will never be their prince charming; I don’t want to be.

I’ve just filled my cup from the keg when Oliver’s loud voice echoes through out our house.

“Colton!” I hear him hollering from the doorway. I don’t bother looking up. He’ll make his way over here after he talks with some of the girls that stop him on his way. Sure enough a girl stops him every foot. They sashay their way up to him, touch his shoulders, his biceps, and though Oliver eats this shit up, he’s not into any of these girls. There’s only one girl he’s into, and she has no clue.

“Colton, dude, you have to meet this chick we just ran into on our way over here,” Oliver declares as he reaches into the fridge, grabbing one of his beers that he hides behind the milk and moldy leftovers.

“Oh yeah? I’m sure there will be a few girls here I wouldn’t mind getting to know tonight,” I joke.

“Man, I’m not kidding, and I don’t even mean it like that. She’s cool. Clarissa seems to get along with her,” he raises an eyebrow.

Yeah, that actually does surprise me. “Clarissa doesn’t get along with very many chicks,” I say, my eyebrows knitting together.

“That’s my point! Lilly seems like a cool person. She’s damn good looking too,” he chuckles and then takes a sip of his beer.

“Better looking than Clarissa?” I press.

“Okay man, stop busting my balls about that shit,” Oliver exclaims.

“I’ll stop when you stop being a pussy and just tell her,” I reply.

“You’re a dick.” He takes a hefty drink. “It’s not the right time. She’s still getting over that ex of hers.”

“Pussy,” I say under my breath.

Oliver ignores my last jab and instead pushes my cup towards me. “Why don’t you man up and chug that beer?” he states.

Challenged accepted. I press the cup to my lips and lean my head back, chugging the entirety of my bitter, slightly warm beer.

Jake is laughing quietly behind Oliver, so I grab a beer and thrust it into his hand. “Your turn, asshole.”

Oliver laughs and looks to his side. Someone catches his eye because he smiles and winks. I turn to see who he’s winking at, maybe Clarissa?

Clarissa is stepping up next to us, but it isn’t her that catches my attention. It’s a girl I’ve never seen before, and she’s beautiful. I take in her entire body in a matter of seconds. I rake my eyes from her feet to her toned, tanned legs, up her thighs to the curve of her ass, her slender waist, perky as all hell tits – what are those? A handful? At least a handful; shit maybe even more. Finally I meet her gaze. And she’s watching me, taking me in, and damn if I’m not devouring every inch of her just as she’s doing to me.

Her dark brown hair is falling down her body in waves, and those emerald green eyes refuse to leave my face. We’re both frozen in this moment. Her cheeks begin to turn pink the longer I watch her. It just makes her even more beautiful than before. But it’s when her teeth start pulling at that full lower lip that I’m about to rush over to her, throw her over my shoulder and head straight for my bedroom.

Clarissa introduces the girl to me as Lilly. So this is the chick Oliver had been speaking about. The man wasn’t lying. Lilly is something else. She doesn’t seem to realize the introduction that Clarissa is trying to present and instead continues to stand there, frozen, watching me.

I can’t help myself - I have to tease her, mostly because if I don’t I’m afraid I’ll go all caveman. Me Colton. You Lilly. Come to Bedroom. Something tells me Lilly wouldn’t appreciate me carting her off to my room without us even getting to know one another first. There’s innocence in the softness of her cheeks, the small shy smile, and the wideness of her eyes.

“Nice to meet you,” she finally says after Clarissa, not so subtly pinches her.

I smile. Yup, I was right. Innocent. “I assume you’re a freshman?”

She laughs. A throaty, happy sound. “What gives me away?”

Oh, she’s quick. “Oh ya know, the nervous twitching,” I continue teasing.

She covers her mouth as she giggles somewhat nervously.

“Stop teasing her!” Clarissa pushes my shoulder.

Not a chance.