Review: Avoiding Commitment by K.A. Linde

I don’t know how to start the review for this book so I just gonna jump into it, so if you haven’t read it STOP HERE because I’m sure as hell gonna share some SPOILERS.

So, long story short - Lexi met Jack at college - they started to hang around - she thinks he wants a relationship with her when in reality, he had a girlfriend back home and was messing with Lexi’s mind and heart. She gets pissed and ask him not to lie to her anymore - so from then on, she believes that he’s going to achieved that (Mistake #1!!!!) - Then they started and on and off, not healthy at all relationship (Mistake #2) where both of them cheated on their current partners and somehow thought it was OK because it was them (Mistake #3). After all of this, Lexi still thinks she and Jack belong together (after he never committed to her and never chose her as his number one option) and gave him a chance that he clearly screwed by sleeping with his roommate (Mistake #4). They part ways until the day he called her to ask for her help and you know what she does?? She goes!!!! (Mistake #5).

There are so many mistakes this girl makes for this guy that I can even begging to comprehend... I got really pissed by her denial attitude and her delusion about her “connection” with him.

Jack is an asswhole who treats women as he please and then is just full of shit at the end. He makes so many excuse that is impossible not to believe that he is actually lying ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!

Lexi is plain STUPID - she believes everything Jack says! HE DOESN’T WANT TO BE WITH YOU! Get that already!

Is so obvious that Lexi is just the easy lay for Jack that almost hurt to keep reading while she says he’s all that she wants and that she is sure he is in love with her!

Clearly he doesn’t have a minimal clue of what LOVE is - a don’t know if it is because his parents got divorce (like thousands of parents in the world) or because he just gets plenty because of his pretty face and always wants the easy way.

Girls! Listen to me! If a man does not leave his girlfriend for you and is always making excuses about why you’re not his number one option he DOESN’T LOVE YOU!!! Is as simple as that!

At the end, Lexi loose six years of her life chasing a fantasy and hurting everyone that is around her because she’s jus stubborn. Spencer, Clark and Ramsey - all of then perfectly good men who where doing right by her, but she was always thinking with her pussy and stuck in her mind that non of them where as good as Jack.

Seriously? a relationship is much more than a pretty face and sexual connection! And she had it with all the other guys - she just didn’t want to see it.

Then, please, the part where they fuck against the wall in his birthday - he just raped her! Really - what is it with this woman that she cannot realized that??? And then she goes and almost screw thing out with Ramsey???

Sometimes is good to listen to someone else! So, Lexi, why do you have a friend if you’re not going to pay attention to her??? Chyna is the only one with a right set of mind around the situation! So at least some of these characters weren’t crazy.

And Bekah was glowing in the fact that she gets to keep Jack to herself??? If it were I, she could’d have it with a bow and everything! Why do you want a man that doesn’t respect you and clearly sleeps around with every blonde with legs?? The answer to that question is beyond me.

But seriously talking about the book, is really good the way is written - you go back and forth in time and little by little uncovers the events of Jack’s and Lexi’s story. This fact keeps you loop in what can come next... the author reserved details since the beginning of the book and just drop them one by one in the develop of the story.

I guess the story really got me tangled, which is why I’m giving it three stars, beside the fact that most of the behavior of the characters of the book pissed me off! hahahaha - this proves that is not the perfect story but the emotions that the reader got from the story what makes a book readible!

At the end, the story leave us hanging and wanting to know more about Ramsey and Lexi - Did she believed him? Are they seeing each other again? When?

I guess this is where I start to read the second book of the series, Avoiding Responsibility, to figure it out! I’ll let you know later how that goes!

Thanks for reading!

See you between the pages...

Trish❥

Review: The Mason List by S.D. Hendrickson

 

(Goodreads rating: 4.25/5)

Before you start to read this book you have to know that more than a romantic story, this is a tragic story… is an important distinction since the mood that I’ve been since I finish this book is not lovely but sad and reflexive.

Also, is important to clarify that this fact doesn’t make it less of a great book, on the contrary – this book is a novelty in a sea of romance literature.

“The Mason List”, 2015 Goodreads Choice Award Semi-Finalist: Best Debut Author, not only tells us Alex Tanner and Jess Mason story but also gives us something to think about and this fact makes is an awesome book to read.

Like I said, I’ve been a little depressed since I finished, but at the same time happy for the outcome of the characters and for ending a great story – is the same feeling I got when I finished books like Jane Eyre, so congrats S.D. Hendrickson for the accomplishment. I really felt the story, was kind of like if I was living it – I felt in love with Jess (kind of hard not to) and truly was moved by everything that happened at Sprayberry.

The story goes like this:

Alex Tanner and his family lost everything – even her mother. They were homeless, moneyless and familyless until a knock in their car, where they’ve been living for a couple of weeks, changes everything. In that moment, the Masons enter their lives – Alex hated them instantly, she hated their money and their charity. All except one.

With blue eyes and charming personality, Jess Mason was a hard boy to say no to. Every adventure and crazy plan returned Alex to the land of the living. So time passed and thing got different – Alex and Jess were no longer kids, but struggling adults with decisions to make and scars from the past. Alex couldn’t forget her debt, even if that made her lost the boy with the blue eyes.

(SPOILERS from this on…)

Ok, after telling you the plot from my point of view, I have to say that I really really enjoy every word of this book… But the most interesting part was the way it was written. Leaving me hanging in every chapter, the book goes back and forth from the present, where you can tell something has happened but you can’t understand what, to the past – starting when Alex was 6 years old and a happy child with both of her parents alive.

This really picks out my curiosity and the wanting to know what happens next all the time. Also, it helps to grow with the characters, understanding where they come from and why they do what they do in the following chapters.

This is why, although I really wanted to hate Alex for putting Jess in so much pain, I couldn’t. I totally got where she was coming from and why she though she couldn’t be with him. For a happy child who once upon a time had everything, it was really difficult to accept charity, specially if her father didn’t bother to pay one penny of what they got (and I have to say that at the end this bothered me too!! Why didn’t he at least work at Sprayberry????)

She was totally in love with Jess but couldn’t accept the fact that being with him, she kind of took more of the Mason belongings to herself. And she did some stupid things to get rid of her feelings, like in the camping with the trashcan of Dutch. But taking that part away, she was faithful to her feelings for him most of the time, even when she though she couldn’t be with him.

Jess, on the other hand, was amazing! I cannot even describe how in love of this character I am at the moment. He was sweet since he was eight. And even when he was crazy doing shenanigans all the time, he always took care of Alex.

When he grew up, he was plain irresistible (and it doesn’t help that he was totally dark-hair-blue-eyes kind of guy, which means totally my style).

Only one things I don’t believe from this part of the story – being a teen and then a twenty something guy, how could he be “single” (meaning not having sex with anyone) for so long? I understand the romantic side of “I will wait for you forever” but really, this is like a lie in the real world. I’d have liked to see him with other girls, living his life while he wait for Alex to change her mind – that would have made him less unreal in this aspect of his life. But apart from this, he is absolutely perfect!

I kinda like the fact that is not a happy ending perfect story… At some point I even though the author was going to kill Jess, but leaving him injured makes this book a really human one. And I think it also teaches us that we cannot take things for granted. If we have something as amazing as what Jess and Alex had, we have to embrace because we don’t know what would happen in the future!

Leaving this philosophic side aside, I truly enjoy this book. Did you?? Tell me what you think in the comments below…

Hope you liked my review and, as always, see you between the pages!

Trish

Review: The Risky Business Series by Tiffany Snow

Usually I don’t like series that are focus on the same characters - I mean, I love series where everyone is involved and each book is focus in a different couple. That’s not the case with this one - The Risky Business Series is about the exact same three characters all two (and third) books.

But somehow that didn’t stop me to enjoy them both - A LOT - and to left me hang over because I have to wait until February 2016 to know what happens next between Sage, Parker and Ryker (Yikes!!!! ).

So to this series, since I read both books really fast, I’m gonna combined their reviews into one, because is the same story.

A little overview of the books and my impressions below:

Power Play (Risky Business #1)

So, the story goes like this - Sage Reece is the Executive Assistant of Parker Anderson, Financial Advisor for the almost everybody in Chicago - Parker is rude and commanding and Sage is always running errands and working which doesn’t allow her to have a life. One of her many working days is interrupted by sexy and dangerous Dean Ryker, a cop who’s looking for Parker in his office and who’s investigating the firm for trying to clean capitals for the Russian Mob.

It turns out Parker and Ryker have a long history together and they despised each other. Obviously both of them are gorgeous and at the end Sage have to decide between her loyalty to her boss or her attraction to the cop.

ALERT!!!! SPOILERS COMING!!!!

I actually loved this book! Because although the story is quite complete is not that complicated and allows the reader to focus in the important matters of it.

Love triangle from the beginning till the end, non of them can actually stay away from one another.

Sage is obsessed with Parker (I’m going to details later), Parker is oblivious to this fact but he’s kind of attracted to Sage too and the Ryker comes and explode everything with his easy smile and confidence. 

Ok, let’s star with Sage - in the beginning of this books she’s dumped because she cannot separate her work from her life - and don’t get me wrong - I get that this is quite a job with great salary and amazing benefits (which she can’t enjoy because she’s always working) but c’mon, is obvious she does it because she’s attracted to Parker.

Let’s see the facts:

1- She’s already rich, so the excuse of paying the bills is lame. She leaves in a really nice place that her father pays for her and dressed herself in designer clothes.

2- She’s not even in economics or business - she’s an art mayor so this is not the job of her life. She’s not even looking for a job in her area of expertise!

3- Based in the fact that her only friend works in the same company, she doesn’t even tries to have a life outside the office.

So, that being clarify, is pretty obvious to me why she works for him and why she defended him so much. Even when the facts incriminated him.

Then, there’s Parker - rude with everybody, even Sage. I wonder how can you love someone who makes you pick up his s$&t all the time and doesn’t even say Thank You. But I know that happens a lot so moving on. On the inside he’s a pretty decent guy - Ex Marine, with money and manners - but who doesn’t care about anybody else emotions but his. He plays with Sage all the time and he’s undecided if he wants her or not. He even used her feelings for him to manipulated her into do whatever that he want (not cool). But I get it, he gets away because his extremely hot.

And besides, what kind of best friends sleeps with his friend’s girlfriend, not matter what she says??? &%$&·/ - Yeah, that’s what I though too.

Finally there’s Ryker, which I think is the best character of this book - even If I think the author could do a little bit more with. He’s carefree, funny, spontaneous, attractive and strigh-forward. A what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of guy. He has his complex regarding money and is kind of judgmental about it but other than that he’s the best heart of all of the three. He gets to Sage part because he wants to find whats going on on the inside of the company, part because he wants to get back of Parker because of the Natalie thing and part because he’s attracted to her. He always treats her right and tells her the truth.

What I liked the most is the fact that they have real relationships between them. Non of this men is advocated to give Sage EVERYTHING! Both have their lives and she is one part of it, not all of it!! Also, you get hang in the mafia situation wanting to know what happens next all the time.

This is why I gave this book 5 stars!

Playing Dirty (Risky Business #2)

Sage, Parker and Ryker are back. After Sage chose a relationship with Ryker over who-knows-what with Parker, they’re struggling to keep it together. His complex about her money and her inability to leave Parker in the past get in the way. And plus, now Parker seems to have a change of heart about her and wants her for him.

In the middle of the love mess, there’s this gang which Ryker used to go undercover and that now is looking for revenge - and which better way that killing the girlfriend of the cop.

Parker and Ryker have to put their animosity aside to protect Sage.

ALERT!!!! SPOILERS COMING!!!!

I gave this but half star less than the last one. Why? Because even if I loved how the author continued the story I have to say that this could’ve go totally different in my perspective. And I’ll tell you how.

This book starts with Parker’s confession of his feeling for Sage and - to my disbelieve - he had wanted her from the begging!!!! (What a way to show it!!!). I would’ve liked that he admitted his interest had increased because she was dating Ryker which was entirely true! He acts like a boy who didn’t want his toy but doesn’t want anyone playing with it either.

So Sage picks up Ryker over Parker at the end of the last book. But she doesn’t truly give him a chance - she’s constantly playing with fire with Parker (touching, eating, drinking with him) and daydreaming about what could have been with him - fact that is not fear for Ryker. 

Then Ryker is either blind or not wanting to see the true about Parker and Sage because he gets them in pretty compromising situations and always forgives her - she puts Parker so many times first that makes me sick and even at the end, when she chooses Parker over Ryker in a life or death situation, her choose to look aside and forgive her again.

And what does she does? She goes and sleeps with Parker, AGAIN!!!!! Minutes after telling Ryker that she loves him. Ok, so let’s say that the first time is justified - Ryker pretend to try to kill her and was making out with some other chick at a bar (Although she could have let him know that it was over then and there), but the second time it was deliberate cheating with a doubt. So, she’s not better than the Natalie girl.

It’s clear from the way everything turns out in the end that Parker in the main character (although I know that, like mine, most of our hearts belong to Ryker) She loves him more, she even chooses him in front of Ryker so there’s not much to say. 

In my opinion, the only available options is that Sage stays away from both of them because the mess is too big and she could never be happy with neither after everything that had happened. But I don’t see that happening anytime soon (specially with a new book coming up) since at the end Sage chooses Ryker again and ask her father to drop her in his house. (Because if she really thinks that Parker is death, she could have gone to mourn him in her house or something like that).

Oh, and one last thing about this book - Why, oh why if Sage father is suppose to be a Italian Mob’s leader she gets in so many trouble??? How he couldn’t know about Viktor in all this time and only saves her from Leo in the end?? If he’s so powerful how can he be blind about this situation???

Once again, I truly enjoyed the fact that the book kept me hanging from the begging and than now I’m dying to read “Play to Win” that’s gonna be publish in February 2016.

Until then, I’ll be hung over once again! hahahaha

Hope you like my review and if you have something to say to hesitated in the comments below.

As always, see you between the pages!

Trish❥

Review: Confess by Colleen Hoover

2015 Best Romance Book according to Goodreads!

This is not a mistake – this book is actually pretty amazing. It has a little bit of everything: mistery, drama and romance but in the correct amount. And at the same time it doesn’t stops in unnecesary details – is really easy to read and I really enjoyed that.

So, if you haven’t read it, the story goes like this:

Auburn Reed is back in Dallas with all her plans in place – she just needs money to make them come true. So she lands a job in an art gallery as an assistant – but as soon as she gets into that art gallery she not only connects with the paintings, she also connects with the author.

Owen Gentry had spent all his life making something of other people confessions until Auburn arrives at his door and soon he’s the one who has to star to confess.

So, Colleen Hoover give us a peace where we can see that everybody in this world has something to confess and we can all related to that in a simple reading.

ALERT!!! SPOILERS from here on…

I barely could contained the tears at the beggining of this book… not only someone really young was dying but he was being separated from the love of his life just before that happened. That seems so sad that my heart ached for Adam for the entire book.

Standing ovation to the fact that the reader is dying to know both what Auburn and Owen are hiding from each other. The author keeps zigzaging around the motivations of their lives up until the point when it has to be reveal.

So, I never imaging that AJ could exist until he appears with his Grandma in Auburn’s door – and in that moment, just as Owen, I understood why Auburn was so mad in her birthday, why she needed the money so desesperatly and why she stant her “in-laws”.

In the same way I never figured that was Owen’s father the one with the addiction until Owen explained the situation and the reason of his arrest. I though he was really the addict.

Maybe I could have made the characters a little bit older based in everything they had to pass to be together at the end. But they kind of pulled it out at the end. Auburn, as a 20/21 year old women made her desicions in order to her age and her circunstances. And Owen in his 21 years and having been his father’s father for a while, grew faster I guess, which made him seems older.

Another plus is that is a simple story, with not so many characters and a very specific roll for all of them – Trey as the bad guy, Lydia as the bitch (no sorprises on that), Adam as glue to all the story, AJ as the reason to be in Dallas and endured all of that, Emory as the weird roommate/colleague who saves the day, Cal as the disfuntional father and Harrison as the so needed friend. And that’s it! So, zero complications!

There are really a lot of this that I liked about this book, but the best one is the, at the end, Owen kept his confession to himself – he never tells Auburn about the painting or how he was the one who sent it – so this leaves clear the fact that at the end, everyone has secrets that they don’t share with no one, ever. This fact made the book a little more realistic. I kinda loved that! <3

There’s only one question in my head, how Auburn could completely ignore Owen in the hospital without even a glance when everybody else seemed to knew him. I guess you can say she was really focus on Adam.

So, this are my thoughs – give yours below!

Thanks for reading and see you between the pages!

Trish❥