#addicted for now lily calloway

[mzradyer]

sex addict x alcoholic

lily calloway and loren hale from addicted series by krista and becca ritchie

[lighthousepigeons]

Rose: Tomorrow's garbage day.

Lo: I can't believe they made a whole day dedicated to you.

[911buckleydiaz]

She's addicted to sex. He's addicted to booze...the only way out is rock bottom. No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway's biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own. Loren Hale's best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes at a close second. For three years, they've pretended to be in a real relationship, hiding their addictions from their families. They've mastered the art of concealing flasks and random guys that filter in and out of their apartment. But as they sink beneath the weight of their addictions, they cling harder to their destructive relationship and wonder if a life together, for real, is better than a lie. Strangers and family begin to infiltrate their guarded lives, and with new challenges, they realize they may not just be addicted to alcohol and sex. Their real vice may be each other.

[barbieondvd]

Loren Hale’s instagram before fame

[sippingmywater]

Whoever told me that Addicted To You is a cute love story, thank you for saying that, ‘cuz it’s not and it makes the series even more interesting.

I’ve done a deep dive into sex addiction, especially women, and we definitely need to talk more about it. So I’m so happy that I got introduced to Lily’s story.

[futuretherapoo]

Connor's cat, Rose, and Connor, respectively

[titsthedamnseason]

Joey in Redeeming 6 , was not a good brother imo . Other than the fact he was away more than he was there at the house , he left the note only for Aoife and refused to talk to anyone but her when he was in rehab . Darren was completely right about them having a codependent toxic relationship .

I felt so bad for Shan and the boys when he refused to speak to them .

this is super complicated and i honestly feel like i don’t remember enough of the details to really comment on it tbh. but im still going to because duhhhh i love to give my opinions and this time it isn’t even unsolicited

i do think you’re being WAY too harsh on joey. of course he was a bad brother….he was battling a drug addiction! typically addicts are not known for being stable forces in their families but it’s not something that’s not redeemable (no pun intended - especially considering this isn’t really a pun) or understandable or forgivable considering his HORRENDOUS life circumstances

the whole point is kind of that he was bad but he was doing his best and also that he never should’ve been put in the position to face that struggle. you aren’t supposed to think he’s perfect or never did anything wrong when it came to the way he raised the kids and his life choices but there’s nuance in there beyond “he is a bad brother”. it’s complicated on purpose and you’re ignoring so many levels of what was going on

also you can’t read a series like boys of tommen and then be mad that there’s a codependent toxic relationship 😭😭😭 this is what you signed up for and if you don’t like it that’s totally fine but you should go find another genre outside of this specific romance subset

also, darren doesn’t get to speak on ANYTHING imo. he shows up in the final hour to try and control joey’s life and criticize his relationship to the one person that actually supported him??? maybe if darren had been there for joey he wouldn’t have developed an addiction or an unhealthy attachment to one singular person but that was not the case….darren should never have been there criticizing joey for problems that darren directly caused. if it seemed like he was actually trying to help joey and present actual solutions that would be different. instead he just berated and blamed joey for everything that went wrong which is so beyond insensitive and problematic. medical professionals were recommending one thing for joey and darren was refusing to take their advice because of what HE thought was best….🙄 fuck off. as if he ever did what was best for his siblings his whole entire life….dont ever defend darren to me that man SUCKS

[youlightmeupriorson]

⭐️ TOP 10 READS ⭐️

I wasn't really dabbling with the book community when I picked up reading again in September 2023 but now in January 2024, I've read 32 books (not a lot but I'm picking up speed finally!) and here are my TOP 10 reads so far on my reading journey 💘📚

Starting at #10...

#10: ICEBREAKER | Hannah Grace

This was one of the first books I read. It was also my first sports romance. I didn't think hockey would be it for me but WOWZA did Nate Hawkins change me. His and Stassie's relationship was a quick one that took my breath away. The spice? You wouldn't have convinced me of the fllth in this book when I picked it up. Honestly, the pages moaned when I opened them. Such a good read! Highly recommend. I'm currently reading WILDFIRE (Russ and Aurora's story) and cannot WAIT for Henry's book! He was my favorite side character 💘

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | SPICE: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

#9: SECRETLY YOURS | Tessa Bailey

Secretly Yours was my introduction to Tessa Bailey who has honestly become one of my top 5 authors. I love her writing style. A third person typically isn't my cup of tea, but Tessa can change you. This was a great take on a little grumpy x mega sunshine action. Julian Vos is a sucker for his girl and secretly a little freak too. Absolutely loved this! Also, I loved the secret admirer letters back and forth. So good.

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | SPICE: 🌶️🌶️

#8: Unfortunately Yours | Tessa Bailey

This is the second book after Secretly Yours. This follows Julian's sister, Natalie, and August Cates. We meet both of these people in Secretly Yours. There's nothing I love more than a marriage of convenience trope with a little splash of enemies to lovers, but knowing that the MMC has fallen in love first. August Cates? He is a WHOLE MAN. An ex-Marine who is set to keep his late best friend's vineyard dreams alive, his and Natalie's explosive relationship is a succulent read... And in the bedroom? Well, let's just say. He makes it fit. 🔥

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | SPICE: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

#7: ADDICTED TO YOU | Krista & Becca Ritchie

The first book in the Calloway Sisters series follows two very complicated people, Loren Hale and Lily Calloway. Best friends since childhood who both face terrible addictions (Loren is an alcoholic and Lily is a sex addict), they've been playing their families for years that they've been together. They do this so they can help others hide their addictions. But when everything blows up and each realizes the other does have a problem, everything goes south. This book had me in tears. It is emotionally tragic and I adore LiLo SO much. I've read Ricochet and am going to start the 3rd book either this month or in February... Also, you may just fall in love with Connor Cobalt. I said what I said 💗

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | SPICE: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

#6: FLAWLESS | Elsie Silver

When in doubt, remember what Big & Rich said. Save a horse, ride a cowboy. If you wear the hat, you ride the cowboy. My first cowboy romance ever and I was hooked from the very first page. We meet Rhett Eaton, a playboy bull rider with a hatred for milk unlike no other. He needs his reputation fixed and handled. Enter Summer. The most sunshiney person you'd ever meet gives this bull rider a run for his money. And the sex? Oh wowza. It's so good.

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | SPICE: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

#5: A COURT OF THORNS & ROSES | SJM

My introduction to ACOTAR started off strong. I adored Tamlin (if you know, you know) we follow Feyre Archeron and her journey. I can't say much except you need to read this. It is one of the best series I've ever read, which is why my next 4 are ACOTAR too.

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | SPICE: 🌶️

#4: A COURT OF MIST & FURY | SJM

ahhhhhhHHHHHH. I CRIED LIKE A BABY. RHYS?? Rhys is my husband. I can't help it.

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | SPICE: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

#3: A COURT OF WINGS & RUIN | SJM

I cried even harder reading this one. Again, I can't spoil it.

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | SPICE: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

#2: A COURT OF SILVER FLAMES | SJM

This is by far my FAVORITE. I am a Nesta girly. Deep down, out of all the Archeron sisters, I relate to Nesta the most. And Cassian is my favorite bat boy... Gah lay. I cannot wait for Azriel's book.

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | SPICE: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

#1: HAUNTING ADELINE | H.D. CARLTON

My number one book... Is Haunting Adeline. I don't want to hear any negativity. This book changed me. I've got so many book boyfriends, but Zade Meadows beats them all. He is unstoppable. This book had me screaming at the top of my lungs and had me fighting for air. Zade had me questioning everything about myself. He is the dark boyfriend for me. I have Hunting Adeline and desperately want to read, but was trying to get through some of my TBR. I started it and cried by the third chapter so I had to put it down because I just KNOW Hunting will wreck me.

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | SPICE: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

[ebooklibrary]

Addicted Series by Krista Richie

Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction

Addicted To You

She’s addicted to sex. He’s addicted to booze…the only way out is rock bottom.

No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway’s biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own.

Loren Hale’s best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes at a close second. For three years, they’ve pretended to be in a real relationship, hiding their addictions from their families. They’ve mastered the art of concealing flasks and random guys that filter in and out of their apartment.

But as they sink beneath the weight of their addictions, they cling harder to their destructive relationship and wonder if a life together, for real, is better than a lie. Strangers and family begin to infiltrate their guarded lives, and with new challenges, they realize they may not just be addicted to alcohol and sex.

Their real vice may be each other.

Ricochet

As a sex addict, Lily Calloway must do the impossible. Stay celibate for 90 days.

Cravings and fantasies become her new routine, but while Loren Hale recovers from his alcohol addiction, Lily wonders if he’ll realize what a monster she really is. After all, her sexual compulsions begin to rule her life the longer she stays faithful to him.

Progress. That’s what Lily’s striving for. But by trying to become closer to her family—people who aren’t aware of her addiction—she creates larger obstacles. When she spends time with her youngest sister, she learns more about her than she ever imagined and senses an unsettling connection between Daisy and Ryke Meadows.

With Lily and Lo’s dysfunctional relationship teetering and unbalanced, they will need to find a way to reconnect from miles apart. But the inability to “touch” proves to be one of the hardest tests on their road to recovery. Some love brushes the surface. Some love is deeper than skin.

Lily and Lo have three months to discover just how deep their love really goes.

Addicted For Now

He's addicted to booze. She's addicted to sex...staying sober is only half the battle.

No. More. Sex.

Those are the three words Lily Calloway fears the most. But Loren Hale is determined to be with Lily without enabling her dangerous compulsions. With their new living situation—sleeping in the same bed, for real, together—Lily has new battles. Like not jumping Lo’s bones every night. Not being consumed by sex and his body.

Loren plans to stay sober, to right all of his wrongs. So when someone threatens to expose Lily’s secret to her family and the public, he promises that he’ll do anything to protect her. But with old enemies surfacing, Lo has more at stake than his sobriety.

They will torment Lily until Lo breaks.

And his worst fear isn’t relapsing. He hears the end. He sees it. The one thing that could change everything. Just three words.

No. More. Us.

Thrive

Two years will change them forever.

When rumors spread like wildfire—like having three-ways with her boyfriend’s rock climbing brother—Lily Calloway spirals into a dark place. Her bedroom. Loren Hale is more confident and determined to keep their sex life private, even from their friends, and he helps Lily in the only way he knows how. But how much love is too much?

Their lives are filmed, watched, and criticized. And through it all, Lily and Loren have to face enemies they never thought they’d see, demons they don’t know if they should bury, and setbacks they didn’t think they’d meet. Not this soon.

And one rumor could be too much for them to handle. It will test their greatest limitations, and if they don’t hold onto each other, someone is going to drown.

Addicted After All

Two addicts. One epic love story.

Prepare for the worst.

That’s what Lily and Lo try to do when Jonathan Hale schedules an “important” meeting. The problem: after being swept into the public eye and battling their addictions, they’re not sure what the worst is anymore.

In a sea of many changes—including Ryke & Daisy living with them—Lily realizes that the best part of her fluctuating hormones might just be the worst.

Her sex drive is out of control.

Loren knows that she’s insatiable, but he’s not giving up on her. She’s too much a part of him. And as he carries more and more responsibility, some of the people that he loves doubt his resolve.

In the conclusion to their love story, Lily & Lo stand side-by-side to fight, one last time, for their happily ever after.

EPUB link

[ithillyienseowyn]

ithillyienseowyn reading list: re-read-a-thon edition

Again, this is just for me to pre-plan this isn't the official layout for my reading in the new year just a list of what I plan on reading/re-reading just so I have a visual to keep track of, it will be under my new re-read tag, anything under a series or trilogy will be titled in bold with the singular books listed beside the aforementioned title.

Red White and Royal Blue

I'll Give You the Sun

The Duff

Beach Read

Book Lovers

The Hating Game

Grishaverse: The Lives of Saints, The Language of Thorns, Six of Crows, King of Scars

The Wrath and the Dawn: Wrath and the Dawn, Rose and the Dagger

Cruel Beauty: Cruel Beauty, Crimson Bound

The Secret Circle: The Initiation, The Captive Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, The Power

Simon vs: Simon vs the Homo sapiens Agenda, Leah on the Offbeat

THUGverse: The Hate U Give, Concrete Rose

Alex Stern: Ninth House, Hell Bent

Off Campus/Briar U: The Deal, The Mistake, The Score, The Goal, The Chase, The Risk, The Play, The Dare

All For the Game: The Foxhole Court, The Raven King, The King's Men

Anna, Lola and Isla: Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, Isla and the Happily Ever After

The Kiss Quotient: The Kiss Quotient, The Bride Test, The Heart Principle

The Witcher: The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny, Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, Tower of the Swallow, Lady of the Lake, Season of Storms

ACOTAR: A Court of Thorns and Roses, A Court of Mist and Fury, A Court of Wings and Ruin, A Court of Silver Flames

To All the Boys: To All the Boys I've Loved Before, PS, I Still Love You, Always and Forever Lara Jean

Poldark #7-12: The Angry Tide, The Stranger From the Sea, The Miller's Dance, The Loving Cup, The Twisted Sword, Bella Poldark

Lord of the Rings: The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings

Bridgerton/Smythe Smith Quartet: The Viscount Who Loved Me, An Offer From A Gentleman, To Sir Phillip, With Love, When He Was Wicked, It's In His Kiss, On the Way to the Wedding, The Sum of All Kisses, The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy

One of Us: One of Us Is Lying, One of Us Is Next, One of Us Is Back

Sweet Magnolias: Stealing Home, A Slice of Heaven, Feels Like Family

The Hunger Games: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay

The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, Winter, Fairest, {Heartless}

Bloodlines: Bloodlines, The Golden Lily, The Indigo Spell, The Fiery Heart, Silver Shadows, The Ruby Circle

Throne of Glass: Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms, Tower of Dawn, Kingdom of Ash

The Raven Cycle: The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, The Raven King

Shades of Magic: A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light

Heartstopper: Heartstopper Volume 1, Heartstopper Volume 2, Heartstopper Volume 3, Heartstopper Volume 4, Heartstopper Volume 5

Shadowhunter Chronicles: Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, Clockwork Princess, Chain of Gold, Chain of Iron, Chain of Thorns, City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, City of Heavenly Fire, Lady Midnight, Lord of Shadows, Queen of Air and Darkness

Addicted/Calloway Sisters/Like Us: Addicted To You, Ricochet, Addicted For Now, Kiss the Sky, Hothouse Flower, Thrive, Addicted After All, Fuel the Fire, Long Way Down, Some Kind of Perfect, Tangled Like Us, Sinful Like Us, Charming Like Us, Wild Like Us, Fearless Like Us, Infamous Like Us, Misfits Like Us, Unlucky Like Us

[anaisapunkrocker]

“I’m tragically in love with you.”- Rose Calloway

“You’re not a pit stop. You’re my finish line. There’s no one after you.” - Connor Cobalt

“I love the way he’s starring at me. It makes me feel more than just beautiful. I feel like I’m his. Like no one else could possibly compare to me. He doesn’t even have to say the words. I see it in his eyes. I can practically read it in his mind.” - Rose Calloway

“I’ve wanted so many things in life, but you’re the one that has meant the most to me.” - Connor Cobalt

Kiss the Sky (2014)

[lilvcalloway]

Addicted After All (2014)

[lighthousepigeons]

Lily: The star's are beautiful tonight.

Lo: Yeah, they are.

Lily: You know what else is beautiful?

Lo, blushing: What?

Lily: Ryke and Daisy, I freaking love Raisy.

[coballorway]

[barbieondvd]

lily calloway’s instagram before fame

[lorenhalesworld]

Lilo💞