Touch Me Not by Apryl Baker
Touch Me Not by Apryl Baker Book Summary
*** 5TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION ***
A past tragedy has left Lily Holmes burdened with a devastating secret…
Since the death of her twin sister, Lily can’t bear to be touched. Not accidentally, not casually…and certainly not intimately. This makes it impossible for her to confess to her best friend Adam Roberts that she’s in love with him. She can’t give him the sort of relationship he needs, so she watches in silence while he plans his wedding with someone else.
Enter Nikoli Kinkaid, the campus manwhore…
Nikoli is a self-proclaimed connoisseur of women, and he wants to add Lily to his list of conquests, but she wants nothing to do with him—until he makes her an offer she can’t refuse. He’ll teach her to enjoy human contact again, giving her a chance to win over Adam, while Nikoli uses all his considerable charm to seduce her.
But Lily raises the stakes…
Lily loves cars. Her late father was a racer, and she grew up under the hood of a car and on the racetrack. Nikoli has a limited edition 1970 Plymouth Barracuda she covets, so she informs him the terms of their deal also require he not sleep with anyone for six months. If he does, she’ll win the car. If she surrenders and ends up in his bed, his beloved ’Cuda is his to keep.
In an intricate dance of control and surrender, a reluctant friendship becomes something more. Lily begins to crave things she never believed she could, and Nikoli realizes there is more at stake than his reputation.
If Lily overcomes her phobia, will she crave Adam’s touch as she’s starting to crave Nikoli’s? Or will she only find pleasure from the touch of a semi-reformed manwhore?
Touch Me Not Book Details
Book Name | Touch Me Not |
Genre | New Adult Romance |
Author | Apryl Baker |
Published | 14 May 2020, Thursday |
Price | Free |
E-Book Size | 2.09 MB |
Touch Me Not by Apryl Baker Book Reviews
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Love it so much!!!!. I was reading for three days straight and I couldn’t get enough of it
Glad this was a Free book. The reviews lied to me. This book was average at best. Very predictable also. It actually would be an okay story to read if the author had a good editor to shave it down like 150 pages. It was just too wordy & had way to much internal dialogue that took away from scenes that could’ve been climatic and even exciting. I found myself rolling my eyes and skipping repetitive internal conversations. If I can skip two pages of internal dialogue and still not be lost in the plot by the end of the story, then those words weren’t necessary. The plot was cool but the timeline was all over the place and the love story moved too fast. Just wasn’t believable. And I really tried with this one. Pretty disappointed.
Touch me not. Beautiful love story! I laughed, I cried and in the end wanted more!
Touch me not. Such a great book!
Don’t skip this one!. I’ll be honest, I skipped over this one a few times because I wasn’t sure about the story line from the description. I decided to give it a chance and it took a few chapters for me to get into the story, but once I did, I absolutely adored it! The characters are very likable and the story line is really good - if anything, I would have gladly taken a few more chapters to really fill the story out. Definitely recommend reading!
Touch Me Not. Great book, loved the characters and their development throughout. A story of healing and growth, with just the right amount of heat! Only part I didn’t love was the stalker plot line - it seemed really out of the blue and rushed and it didn’t add much to the story. I liked the action of it, but wish the author had incorporated more of this plot earlier in the story so it would’ve been more cohesive. Felt like it was just thrown in for some drama. Otherwise, definitely worth the read!
Great. I love books that leave me wanting more. There is an ending here, no cliff hangers. But this is one that i will literally go back to the beginning and read anew because of how much these characters have made an impact on me. Love it
AMAZING!!!!. I loved this book very much, the passion, humor, love, anticipation and writing are all aspects that make this a great book. Definitely suggest reading it!
Not like any other. This book is not like any other romance novels. I thought this book was great! The story is very different(in a good way). I am very pleased that I read this book.
Touch Me Not. I laughed, I cried, I got angry, a whole gamut of emotions erupted during the reading of this book. That is when you truly know that an author has written a powerful story. Thank you for such an enjoyable book to read.
Touch Me Not. I thought this was a really captivating story and I enjoyed reading it! I felt that I could kind of connect with the characters and they were very lovable as well!
Love, fear, drama, and mistakes. Love and lust pervade a story of broken people overcoming fears, making mistakes, laughing, loving, and making their piece of the world a better place while becoming less broken.
Love is theirs to keep. I couldn’t put this book down. Love finds you in different ways and sneaks up on you without knowing. Lily and Nik were made for each other for they grow up and believe in each other. Love is theirs to keep and grow.
Stalker.. The stalker that came out of nowhere. It would have been better if the killer had kidnapped lily instead.
Hooked!!. I enjoyed it so much! The dynamic between Nikoli and Lily was beautiful. It did turn, cringey rom commy towards the end, a lot of dialogue could have been cut, and it really dragged. I wish we explored more of their relationship before marriage, but hey! I have to say I do enjoy action and some thrill, but the stalker twist was just out of nowhere would have enjoyed a trail of hints if that was gonna be introduced, just seemed random. But that’s also the essence of the book, just great fiction, not everything has to be realistic! I loved it, just some parts could be cut!
Good read. The last 35 pages drug on and on, but the rest of the book was fantastic!
Interesting title. I loved the story and found this book to be well written despite the many grammatical errors.
Amazing read. Based on the summary I expected to read the first few chapters and know exactly how the story would go but that’s not what happened at all. There are some twists you don’t see coming and the character development is amazing. Nik is imperfect and seems to have a one track mind according to everyone who knows him and his reputation but he proves them wrong when it comes to Lily. His patience and understanding is what touched my heart. This is the first book I’ve read in a while that I would pick up and read again.
Obsessed. Great book, i was so hooked i couldn’t stop reading till the end.
Touch not. Edge of your seat suspense.
Mind Blowing. Please trust the reviews! I was in the middle of a reading rut and could find anything that caught my attention because they were basically all the same! HOWEVER, this book was not what I expected. It was unbelievably amazing and kept my attention so well that I finished it in a day because I couldn’t put it down. It was such a beautiful storyline and didn’t go in the direction I expected. I also love how there’s snippets of the story line that set up the second book in the series so flawlessly you don’t even realize it until towards the end! I look forward to reading the rest of the series and many more books by this wonderful author!
Wow. I didn’t have high hopes as this was a free book but it turned out to be really really good.
Fabulous writing up there with 50 shades.. Funny, romantic, suspenseful, touching, beautiful love story I couldn’t put down.
Touch me not. Great great story but way way way too much foul language! It ruined it !! Would have been much better without the F word !! It was totally not needed . I would not read anymore written like that . Shame cause I enjoyed the story line .
Great Book. Finished in no time. Couldn’t put it down.
I loved this with my whole heart. The entire journey was absolutely beautiful, and I was brought to tears so many times. The story captivated me so well I finished the book within an hour of starting it.
Excellent read. I liked that although it is a romance novel, it talked about a real illness, that many suffer from, maybe not the same reason as the character in the book, but the same debilitating illness known as PTSD.
Awesome book. Hands down one of the best reads I had in a while, slow building romance but not the one that makes you get bored. Really 5 stars book
Touch me Not. One of the best stories I have read this year. Grabbed my heart. Thank You
KaCee. Good story A trifle long
A wonderful page turner. Romantic, relatable and exciting love story. My hope is the big family continues and Lilly inherit the wooden spoon. She is going to need it.
Wow!!!. Amazing book felt all the emotions!
It was super good so far. I can’t wait to finish the rest of the book!. I liked that they showed the different P.O.V’s of the two I think it was really cool.
Indescribable. The book was more than I expected I was getting into (in the best way possible). The beginning had hooked me right away, knowing they had to end up happy or else I’d end up shattered. With luck the author knew what to give to their readers and that was a story of a lifetime. Touch Me Not is the very first book to give complete fulfillment and satisfaction when it ended. I am glad to have experienced such a wonderful work of art! This is your sign to take the leap and start the precious journey of Touch Me Not.
PATIENCE IS KEY. When I read this book, I was skeptical at first because I thought it was going to be like so many other I’ve read before. HOWEVER, Nik and Lily have a nice story about patience and love, as well as a small twist that added flavor to the novel. 10/10 would read again! 10/10 would recommend!
Not impressed. Nikoli…. Idk I can’t get into the book because I hate how he treats women. Yes, he made a valid point about some of them but what about all the others!!! Plus, he acts like his mother raised him to be so respectful but he is awful to these women. Too selfish but he judges Adam!! Smh! So he liked Lily and respects her..he gets no points for that. I can barely finish this book! Which sad because I really liked the other characters and the plot.
Fresh storyline and deep characters. I find many romance novels to be the same concepts over and over. But this book took me on such a different journey. The writing was thorough and well thought out, but still moved at a good pace. Such a great read!
So good!. Seriously - a favorite!
Wonderful book. It was a wonderful book that I could not put down.
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Overcoming Fears to find peace in Love. This book may trigger people who have suffered a trauma that now manifests in ways that stop you living a full life. I urge those people to be brave and push through as this read is incredible and may just provide you with the spark of hope you need to believe that you are worth finding a way out of the fears that hold you back. We might not all have a Nik fall into our lives but you can find strength in hope.
Touch me not. I also have suffered from PTSD since childhood. This book should be in ever therapy reading list when you finally decide it's time to heal. I wish to thank the author, Apryl Baker 🤗, for the care in which this subject was delicately handled and wish all the reader's out there ,you who struggle from one second to the next, with this life long condition, the courage to control and learn that each small step forward is worth celebrating 🙏🏼🎉🌟 Looking forward to reading the full series 🥰❤️
Apryl Baker you are an amazing author. There is a lot of emotions in this book, I loved every page of it. I felt the heart break, the anger, the suspense, the sadness and I laughed at babushka’s wooden spoon. Thank you for this great book.
Fantastic plot and characters. I really loved the story of Lily and Nikolai. It was very captivating.
An heartwarming read. It kept me interested all the way until the end. Loved the plot and felt the love between the main characters.
Enjoyable but prepare to put reason aside. A great story but there were a few moments of eye rolling particularly when things seemed far fetched for young adults their age. Rather than being early twenty somethings the main guy seemed to be an experienced thirty something. He seemed to know every restaurant or hotel staff member on the eastern seaboard, knows how to psychologically assess the mind without training and lo and behold, his brother is an FBI agent when there’s a serial killer on the loose, what are the chances! If you can put up with coincidences and someone who has had more experience in their twenty years than my forty year old physiologist trained neighbour, read it!
Not what I'd expected. When I downloaded this ebook, I was expecting just another girl-meets-guy, they-dive-into-bed-a-lot story that I'd delete after finishing and not think about again. It wasn't. It was thoughtful, the characters were believable and relatable, the story might have got a bit contrived once or twice, but I really enjoyed reading it.
Beautiful story!!. This story is written so beautifully. Firstly I loved that although Lily had her phobia, she was still a normal character and the author didn’t portray her as a totally broken soul who wasn’t living life. Instead Lily was a normal girl who tried to live her life ‘normally’ given her phobia and she wasn’t this shy, timid girl. I loved Nik’s character too and loved how he was the only one that could get through to her and help her. I also loved Adam and how he let Nik have Lily, after all this time. Honestly I loved this book and would highly recommend!! The only thing I would say is that I would have wanted an ending to the serial killer part of the story. Atleast find out who it was, even if it was a random character who hadn’t been introduced in the book before.
Pleasantly surprised. I am not usually a fan of Young adult romance but I gave this one a chance and I am glad that I did. The storyline was quite unique which gripped me. I did feel like the end was dragged out but overall an enjoyable read.
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