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Defy: A Sinners of Saint Novella Kindle Edition

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 11,697 ratings

Defy is a short novella. It is a prequel to Vicious (Sinners of Saint #1) and can be read as a complete standalone. Now an international bestseller. My name is Melody Greene, and I have a confession to make. I slept with my student, a senior in high school. Multiple times. I had multiple orgasms. In multiple positions. I slept with my student and I enjoyed it. I slept with my student and I’d do it all over again if I could turn back time. My name is Melody Greene, and I got kicked out of my position as a teacher and did my walk of shame a la Cersei Lannister from the principal’s office, minutes after said principal threatened to call the cops on me. My name is Melody Greene, and I did something bad because it made me feel good. Here is why it was totally worth it.
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  • "It was sexy and steamy and everything I've come to expect from this author." - Ariana, Steamy Reads Blog.
  • "Holy Heck this was Hot!! If I wasn't hooked on this series before I sure am now!! These boys just get dirtier, hotter, off the rails panty wetting hot!!" - Kitty Katz Crazy About Books.
  • "Forbidden romance has never been so well done! And this is a novella!" - Stephanie, Tied Up In Romance.
  • "It was the perfect short read, and a great addition to the series - lots of chemistry, plenty of steam, and a nice little plot all packed into a delicious little book." - Arabella, AB.
  • "LJ Shen knows her readers. She knows what they want. She continues to dominate & destroy, making waves through the book community with her Hotholes, that have never been seen before." - Tongan Book Lover.
  • "L.J. Shen sure knows how to write a guy with a dirty talking mouth with alpha tendencies. She excels with so many genres and this was no different. Deliciously sexy and exciting." - Bad and Dirty Books.
  • "Defy was a fun, sexy, and steamy novella that pushes the boundaries of love and defiance." - Michelle, Four Chicks Flipping Pages.
  • "When is a novella more than a novella? When it's this one." - HeatherP, Goodreads.
  • "Full of insanely dirty hawtness that you will be left saying GAWD DAYUMMMMMM." - BookSmacked.
  • "OMG what a smoking hot little read!!! I fell in love with Melody right away. Her inter dialogue was hilarious. She was full of sass that had me thinking she was a bit crazy." - Kristina, For The Love of Books Blog.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01NAZ16YW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ L.J. Shen (January 31, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 31, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 791 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 165 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 11,697 ratings

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L.J Shen
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L.J. Shen is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of contemporary and NA romance. Her books have been translated in over twenty different countries. She hopes to visit all of them.

She lives in a picturesque beach town with her family, pets and inner demons, and enjoys reading, traveling, cooking and spending time with her grumpy cat.

Connect with her on Instagram (@authorljshen).

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4.4 out of 5 stars
4.4 out of 5
11,697 global ratings
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Forbidden Deliciousness!
⚓️Teacher/Student⚓️Forbidden⚓️Reverse Age-Gap.“Is it true that you’ll always be mine?”.Review: This is book .5 (1) in the Sinners of Saint series. I say it's book 1!😂 This was the first book I read by LJ Shen back in 2020, and I loved it. I immediately had to jump into the next book because I wanted to know more about these characters. This was my 2nd time reading this book, and I loved it even more this time.Jaime is a senior in high school and part of the elite HotHoles. There is so must mystery surrounding this group. Melody is a struggling Language Arts teacher in upscale Todos Santos. These two were FIRE. You couldn't deny their chemistry. Jaime is an alpha in every way, and I love how he took hold and went for what he wanted. The truth bombs got me 🥹. I loved it. The HEA and Epilogues made me so happy. I actually shed some tears. This book is a quick Novella, and I would love more, but I feel like their story was full and not too rushed. I really enjoyed it! Don't skip this one!I listened to the audiobook by Tracy Marks. She was a new to me narrator, but I really enjoyed it. She did a good job bringing these two to life. I can't wait to dive into Vicious next on my re-read!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2021
I feel like this should be the first story and should be read before Vicious....
Again feeling like this is my favorite book of Shen’s..... she does have a lot of those you read them and really feel like everyone of them is your favorite!
I feel like you can’t compare Shen to other writers - she is just on a whole different level from everyone ... she will ruin you to the point where you can’t read any other books but hers💖💖💖💖💖💖
I almost didn’t want to read this book, because by accident I read the story of their daughter first and didn’t love the story that much, definitely didn’t love Melody after that story - so maybe it’s good that i have pretty low expectations of this couple... especially given it’s a teacher student couple.... and I couldn’t imagine that being any good ... until I read this book.
BUt the story literally captures you from the first page. Shen just writes so well, her dialogues are so witty, so funny, so captivating - you just simmer in her talent... and enjoy every word. She just has that fun bouncy aura around her....
She cracks me up and her writing voice is fun and just so vivacious.....the tempo is always bubbly and bouncy like a happy song as if she is skipping and smiling while writing the story...
That wow factor is definitely there...... also also fun fact she is the master of play on words - opening this book I thought that it was a story about a weekend fighter full of anger and need for
Bruises (don’t even know how I decided to read this book) but you know all her words always hold a deeper meaning....... 💖💖💖💖 she thrives on setting up a cliche and then destroying it and shattering all expectations. This book was so good reader doesn’t even have time to get set up for a cliche that’s how fast she moves the story along.
The story was AMAZING💖💖💖💖💖characters are loyal fierce confident and faithful with a great sense of humor.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024
This was a good prequel. I rate it at a 3.5. I read the kids' story first, so this put a perspective on Jamie and Melody. Although I was thinking it would be more fallback from their relationship, they didn't really face any hardships in this story.
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2017
Pardon my language but L.J. Shen has written one of the hottest student teacher forbidden romance that I have read this year. In this sexy and steamy novella, she introduces readers to Melody Greene, a newly acquired teacher at an elite private high school and her hot sizzling forbidden romance with a student that is eight years younger than her.

Melody loved to dance but when an unforeseen accident derailed her dream, she is left with the only option of being a teacher. With bills piling up, Melody’s financial are very tight so she needs this teaching job. When Jaime, a high school senior sort of blackmails Melody, she is in a rude awakening when this student informs her that he wants to do filthy and sexual things to her. Melody should be alarmed by Jaime, since he is the son of the Principal but she agrees to his after school lesson of foreplay and orgasms.

Jaime and Melody both laid out the rules of their secret liaison, that this thing between them stays between them and it ends the minute he graduates. Well, it didn’t take long for either Melody and Jaime to develop feelings for one another. Melody is well aware that she slept with her student but she loved it. She loved this sexual awakening that Jaime ignited in her. But what happens when Jaime’s mom discovers this secret affair? Will Melody defy others whom may consider their relationship wrong and follow her heart?

“I wanted him to kiss me. Kiss me hard and soft all at once, a kiss that’d assure me that I wasn’t crazy for discovering what I’d just discovered on this tattered sofa in this tiny apartment. That I was in love with my student.”

Defy was a fun, sexy, and steamy novella that pushes the boundaries of love and defiance. This forbidden morsel was layered with seduction and grittiness that I didn’t want their story to end. As much as I loved reading about Jaime and Melody’s secret affair, I loved that L.J. Shen was able to introduce Viscous, a secondary character that will be getting his own book next. I seriously can’t wait for his book. But in the meantime, if you are looking for a hot, seductive, and titillating forbidden romance that was both naughty and nice then this novella is definitively for you.
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2022
I find student/teacher relationship books to be interesting since I'm a teacher, so when I stumbled upon this book I figured I had to check it out. I haven't read the other books in the Sinners of Saint series, but they're pretty popular on TikTok so I'll have to read them eventually. I thought this book was good, but my biggest gripe with it is that it was too short. There wasn't enough information on the romance. I get that this was a novella, but I wanted it to be a whole novel. It also would've been cool to get chapters from both points of view. I think it's worth a read if you have read the other books in this series, like younger man/older woman relationships, or student/teacher relationships.
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Mary-Louise
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Reviewed in Brazil on November 16, 2022
A good story, less heavier than the other books from L J Shen, which is good for me since they put me in a weird stage of mind after finishing them. But I actually thought that their love didn’t develop like the others. Still amazing though.
L beaver
5.0 out of 5 stars Really good read. Strong characters and Jamie is just lovely
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2022
For a short book it packs in everything you would want in a love story. Mel is out of her depth teaching English Lit to a bunch of rich kids who dont want to listen. She hates the job but beggars cant be choosers when your whole life was to be a ballerina until she broke her leg. One pupil totally ignores her in class, hes always playing on his phone but she gets the impression he is the leader of sorts and even though the kids dont listen they dont play up. When she crashes into his car Jamie takes the opportunity to blackmail her telling her he will tell his headmistress mother if she doesnt meet with him. She has no idea that she is his fantasy and this man/boy shows her how much he wants her. He is eighteen and she is twenty six, she should know better but he does things to her that take her to a different place. Its nearly the end of the year when the s*** hits the fan. She is fired and there is an agreement he will go to Texas Uni and that will be it. It isnt the end though and when Jamie confesses his feelings its just lovely.
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5.0 out of 5 stars .
Reviewed in Mexico on May 12, 2019
I read 'Pretty Reckless' first, which is about Daria, Mel's and Jamie's daughter, and I'm in shock because in that book Melody is a totally different person, and a 'fail' as a mother. So when I read this story I wonder what happened to the sweet, brave and 'don't give a sh*t' about money woman that is picture in this book.

I enjoyed it anyway, but I think that town is full of crazy people!
yoneidis
5.0 out of 5 stars Corta y preciosa
Reviewed in Spain on April 1, 2020
Melody es una bailarina que vio truncada su carrera muy joven, y se hizo profesora como sus padres y hermano, sólo que a ella en realidad no le gusta mucho. Además enseña en una escuela lleno de niños pijos y presuntuosos, uno de ellos Jaime.
Lo que empieza con un accidente en el aparcamiento de la escuela, sigue con un chantaje y acaba en una relación prohibida entre alumno y profesora.
Jaime is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥.
MJ Symmonds
5.0 out of 5 stars YES, YES, YES!!!!
Reviewed in Canada on September 13, 2017
Wow just freaking WOW!!!

"Jaime looked like the lovechild of Ryan Gosling and Channing Tatum, and I was not making this sh*t up."

Even though this is a novella it sure packs a steamy, sexy AF punch!! C'mon seriously who doesn't love a great taboo read. This one has taboo written all over it. Teacher/student how could you go wrong.

"And just like that, ladies and gentlemen, my quivering thighs and glassy eyes suffered a bad case of ice-cold bucket of rage."

OMG this one is off the charts AMAZING!!! BTW prepare to be shocked but this was my first LJ Shen book. I know crazy right. Not my last, definitely not my last. Already started in on Vicious & well I'll get to that one in my next review but you do meet him in this one.

"If Vicious was the evil one, and Dean was the stoner one, and Trent was the lost, beautiful soul searching for its mate, Jaime was the cement that glued them together. He was the guy you could always count on. And I was starting to count on him too."

Ms. Shen has gained a new fan that's for sure because the story line was so on point, the heat factor was spot on & for a novella the pacing was perfect. Loved that she added the epilogue that not only let us see 2 years in the future but also 6 years.

Did I love it? YES, YES, YES!!!!!
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