Review of Two Sides of Me Series by Amy Lynn Garcia

This is the first in a series about Evan Lawson and Mia Galloway. Two brave survivors, one dominant and one innocent. Thrown together by circumstances beyond their control, neither of them looking or believing themselves capable of love. A white hot fire ignites and they begin to learn to fight against all odds for this unique, unexpected love. Can their love survive their past demons or will it separate them permanently?

Renee’s Review:

I received a copy of this book as a gift for an honest review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.

5 stars review of Dark Kiss (Two Sides Of Me Series) by Amy Lynn Garcia

Mia Galloway, nurse in the ICU, working the night shift and living her life to the best of her ability. She has survived a brutal attack as a teenager and is coping the only ways she knows how but mainly deals with bad dreams. She too though has never gotten close to a man. They freak her out . They would freak anybody out whose been through what she goes through. Mia works in a hospital for the rich and famous and encounters a patient that from the minute she sees him laying unconscious in the ICU bed she’s drawn to him. He is Evan Lawson, owner of a chain of restaurants/night clubs, millionaire with ties to the mob in Italy. The draw from him to Mia causes Mia to take care of Evan in ways she’s never cared for another make patients in a coma. She  talks to Evan, plays music from her iPod to him and begs him to wake up. She knows it’s wrong to be so involved in a patient but there’s just something about Evan that she can’t help herself to want to be around him all the time while he is in his coma.

Evan is a tortured soul with a very rough upbringing who wakes up screaming for Mia. He heard her while she talked and nursed him back to health.  She’s his angel and he will have her near him no matter what it takes. Evan hires Mia for a month to be his private nurse at his home. She is hesitant to agree because her job is her everything but no one ever tells Evan no.

Can a bossy, tortured soul of a man and his caring, tortured soul of a nurse ever have a chance together at a relationship? Can they get past the demons that haunt them and let their hearts love each other? Can they give themselves over to each other when they have really never trusted another with their hearts? Can Evan protect Mia at all costs from people in his mob past?

I devoured this book. I was do drawn in by Evan and Mia’s story that there was no way I could put this book down. I started telling Carla, also with Stephanie’s Book Reports, a little about the book I’d get so excited and got even more excited when she wanted to read it too. It’s so good I think everyone I know should read it. This is a giddy inducing book. It’s got so many feels to it and there’s the mystery of what going on too  I absolutely recommend you one click this book and the other two also as your not going to be able to not know what happens next. Amy Garcia has written a magical love story with the thriller elements and outdone herself. This is her first novel ever published!! If her first books that good, imagine how much better they get as you go along on the journey with her characters.

Love born from tragedy never lasts, that’s what they say. Right? There will never be a more unlikely pair than Evan Lawson and Mia Galloway. Two people who come from completely different worlds, but sharing one thing in common…dark terrifying pasts. After a fatal car accident Evan is offered up by a co-worker to Mia as the ultimate patient. They fall for each other…hard. But this isn’t an easy love; no this is a love of manipulation, passion and possessiveness. The terror of Mia’s past, combined with Evans alpha male personality and mysterious unknown history, cause Mia to fall into a spiral of depression that nearly drives her over the edge. Evan has had enough of Mia’s fears and failing health and decides to take matters into his own hands. But will he be too late? Has someone from his past or hers beaten him to the task? Mia disappears from her hospital bed after being drugged. She floats in and out of consciousness trying to understand where she’s going, who has taken her and what the hell is going on.

Renee’s Review:

I was gifted a copy of this book by the author for a honest review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.

5 Star Review for Dark Thief (The Two Sides Of Me Series Book 2) By Amy Lynn Garcia

What if the man you are in love with woke from his coma with a personality totally out of character to his friends? What if one day you stood looking in the face of the man you love but with eyes you don’t?

This is book two in a The Two Sides Of Me Series. It’s the continuation of Mia and Evan’s story. Mia is so in love with Evan. So in love that it’s unconditional love in its purest form. She would do anything for Evan. Evan is just as in love with Mia until his personality changes and he’s a man she doesn’t know and he terrifies her. so mean in fact that Evan has people watching them in case his personality changes so he doesn’t hurt Mia. In all honesty Mia has got to be one of the strongest female characters I’ve ever read about. She’s tough till she’s not and then you just might as well break right with her because you will. The emotional pull of this book is so strong that I don’t even think I was aware of what was going on around me while I was reading. I was totally immersed in Evan and Mia’s story.

This is a must read!! It’s an emotional roller coaster and I’m thankful I had book three waiting for me on my kindle. I’m so I love with this series and have to know what going to happen next. I’m rooting for Evan and Mia so hard and you will be too.

One step forward two steps back, that’s how it’s always been for Mia and Evan. The love they share is rare and unique, crossing boundaries and overcoming obstacles. Together they just might have a chance at a happy life, but if one falls the other is destined to crumble, living without one another is not an option.
You go, I go.
It’s dangerous to love so hard that life doesn’t seem worth living without your other half. Evan walked a tightrope between life and death choosing life when he heard Mia coaxing him to wake from a coma. Now they must balance together, taking turns catching the other before they fall. Determined to make a new life for Mia and himself Evan tirelessly focuses on erasing the man he used to be. Stamping out all traces of the homicidal DOM mafia leader he was before his accident. But around every bend there seems to be yet another reminder of the man everyone calls the Beast. Mia struggles with the stories and confessions of Evan’s past, but imagining a life without him is unfathomable. Evan and Mia must learn to trust and forgive, forget and move forward…but even when they are both on the same page, someone or something seems to be standing in their way, waiting to steal their happily ever after…

Renee’s Review:

I was given a copy of this book by the author for an honest review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.

5 Star Review of Dark Love (The Two Sides Of Me Series) by Amy Garcia

“You Go, I Go” that’s how things have always been for Evan and Mia. They love each other so much they refuse to live one without the other. Can they survive everything that’s being thrown at them. Besides Evans health there is a threat by someone who won’t rest till the see Evan destroyed. Together there love is strong enough to get through anything. This is love in its purest form and the sacrifices that come along with living each other so much.

I loved this third book but was so sad to know that when I got to that last page it would be over. This book has everyone you look for in an amazing love story. It’s got the angst,  the turmoil, the danger, the moments that take your breath, heartbreak, tears shed, edge of seat sitting and pure utter bliss. This series is a must read. Please don’t miss the story of Evan and Mia. Amy Lynn Garcia has written one of the most beautiful love story’s with a edge to it I’ve read in a long time. I know it’s  a series I’ll read many times over and love it just as much the tenth time as I did the first Evan and Mia are unforgettable.

Amy Lynn Garcia was born and raised in West Des Moines Iowa where she continues to live with her family. Amy is a registered nurse specializing in high risk pregnancy as well as being a contemporary romance author. Amy is also the proud mother of five daughters and grandmother of two granddaughters. In early 2014 after reading upwards of 300 romance novels in a years time a coworker planted the seed of writing her own novel. Never having written anything but always up for a challenge she decided to give it a whirl and wrote a synopsis for what eventually became Dark Kiss. With a big boost of confidence from her fellow nurses she began writing. In the fall of 2014 she published her first romance novel Dark Kiss which is the first in The Two Sides of Me trilogy. Dark Thief, book two, was completed and published in January of 2015 and the final installment Dark Love was released in May of 2015. “I never imagined writing a novel let alone a romance novel! I’m addicted to sharing the feeling that I get when reading my favorite stories and I can’t imagine my life without writing now.” Amy says she will always work as a nurse in some aspect but after releasing the story of Evan and Mia there is no way she can deny the compulsion to develop new characters and write romance novels.