Luxe: A Novel (Luxe, 1)

Book Review for LUXE by Ashley Antoinette!Whewwwwww! Where do I start! From the very beginning this author successfully pulled at my heart strings for the character young Bleu! How could life be so cruel for an innocent child when both parents are caught up in the life of addiction! Before Bleu is out of grade school, she had suffered more tragedies than a person three times her age, but she had a shining light! Her best friend Noah and his mother who was a mother to young Bleu when her mother failed to show up for duty! Bleu and Noah remained the best of friends through high school when Bleu winds up at the wrong place at the wrong time with devastating circumstances! Noah, realizing Bleu was in a dangerous life and death situation steps into action with a plan to get Bleu to UCLA where she earned a full ride scholarship! Noah made a decision that he felt needed to be made or else Bleu would not have followed her dreams and stayed behind because of him! Heading out alone to a new place with no friends leaves Bleu some what troubled but then her focus is to make her dream a reality since she made it that far! Bleu is a sweet focused girl who was not ready for the environment she walked into! Her roommate and her friends appeared to be very wealthy and did not think kindly of her arrival! My heart bled for Bleu because she arrived at school with nothing but a bag of clothing to deal with arrogance and being shunned from others. Bleu did not even have sheets for her bed so she slept on the mattress! That is until her roommate and her friends decided to take her under their wings. They introduced Bleu to a lifestyle of glitz and glamour, but everything that glitters is not gold and while living the high life may seem appealing, it does not come without a price! The price is costly as Bleu gets in way over her head and spirals out of control! It turns out that Bleu was not built for the lifestyle she chose! Betrayals of trust cause her to make decisions that she could not control which made her vulnerable to the people around her! When you think Bleu has been through all that she could possibly go through and could go no further, she slips even further into dismal circumstances! But then comes a ray of hope in a man who has loved Bleu from the moment he laid eyes on her who is committed to do whatever it takes to help her. Bleu has to decide whether she wants the help but before she could make that decision another who rejected her love comes front and center and wants her to make a choice! What decision will Bleu make and will she reveal the plan that she unwittingly has become a part of? The book is called LUXE by Ashley Antoinette a definite 5 star read!

Great combination of the gritty street action with characters from the hood and the love story conflict. Some of her books are all action and some of her stories are more of the True Confessions type of back and forth, in love or not, conflict. Princess with a thug, and throwaway children who charm the king , thugs and geek, square boys lusting for fly chicks and shy girls with gangsters. This Luxe series is all that. And consequently, I love the way she weaves both types together. And as great as she’s been, Ashley is still growing as an author. I can’t wait for the next bestseller series, in the style of the Cartel and Prada Plan - both are simply amazing sets and each one of the multiple books, of these series, is a page turner. I can’t wait for a new series to be written by the more experienced Ash! I’m hanging on the edge of my seat! Take your time and create another Great!! I Can’t wait!

Should have read this before butterfly to understand the connection between the characters

My emotions are high after reading. The author did a great job putting this story together. Very well written. I was first introduced to Bleu in the Butterfly series and I always wanted to know more about her backstory. Well this book here definitely gives you Bleu from early childhood, the trauma she experienced and finally her years as a college student in a new state. What seemed like her finally getting her dream wish turned into one nightmare after the other for Bleu and it makes you wonder will this girl ever survive the struggles and demons she is continuously facing. Will Noah or Iman be the one to help Bleu through all she's battling. Can't wait to read how things end in part 2.

I wanna feel bad for her and all , but it’s like life is what you make it. You had dreams of going to this particular school and this city. When your dreams are there handed to you, you blow it up. I get you came from Nothing and you wanted something. Just a little girl chasing diamonds and pearls. When life got hard you didn’t know how to deal. But if you saw your own parents life messed up from this drug , father gunned down in the streets from this drug. Why you couldn’t just fight and ask for help. Pride is one hell of a mental illness. Everyday people lives are destroyed because of their pride. They so prideful and afraid to ask for help they rather suffer in silence until it’s too late

Dang I loved it 😍😍 and hated it at the same time!! The book was great true Ashley Antoinette, but dang Bleu seemed so weak to me, It seemed like she should've known better! Don't get me wrong she's a strong individual to withstand all that she's endured but some of the lessons she went through SHE SHOULD HAVE LEARNED BY WATCHING HER PARENTS! I guess it could go either way with having additcts for parents I thought she would've been smart enough to stay away from it all. I mean she was raised in the streets she wasn't sheltered by any means and she let that simple little China chick turn her out!!! PLEASE I was so emotional I went from feeling sorry for her to wanting to just shake her!! And then this cliff hanger 😡 why why why😩??? I don't think I'm gonna survive the wait!! I'm already on edge waiting for the next Cartel installment!! But back to Luxe this Noah & Iman confrontation is going to go down in history I can just feel it!! I'm #teamNoah all the way, I do love the connection between her and Iman but I still love Noah...Again Great job!!

To pass time. It did exactly what I needed it to do for a couple days I couldn’t stop reading it

This book shows people how much an addictive behavior can over power a person if your not strong enough to know it's not the thing for you. This young lady was/is smart, but the power of the drugs is more powerful.

Exciting read I enjoyed the story line was hoping for a more positive ending but that would be too predictable?.. Part 2 here i come 😊

Great as always