4.5 Imperfectly Perfect Hearts
Good Girl Gone is yet another amazing installment of my beloved
Reed brothers and gladly it was nearly as awesome as the others.
I picked up the first book by chance and never looked back. From
the start I was in insta lust but it grew to a solid love of all things Reed
related.
This series started with Paul and Kit and it was obvious the
brothers were unique and amazing and as we got to know each of them in their
individual books as well as their surrounding friends and neighbours my love
for them has grown. They don’t see anything but the endless potential of every
person they meet and each book delves into the things most people see as
disabilities.
We watched them go from 6 brothers sharing a tiny 3 bedroom flat
and watch them valiantly try to not only drag themselves up from nothing but
also make the lives of those around them better and brighter in any way they
can.
I love that not only do we get every brother and their wives and
families and friends right down to the doorman’s grandson in law (Although I
did miss Henry, we did get Daniel in this book) in every novel and novella but
we also get a little of each secondary character as they join the family along
the way.
This book was the first novel not based on one of the Reed
brothers directly, however like I mentioned the brothers have never met a
stranger, so along the way we have met and came to love the girls from Fallen
From Zero as well as Josh.
I wasn’t sure how it would go with the brothers not being front and
centre but I have to admit I barely noticed it. Tammy writes amazing books that
make me smile even as the tears run down my face at the everyday life and
drama’s that happen to all these characters as they fall in love and navigate
their way to Happily Ever After.
This is a must read NA series that has plenty of heat along with
people you can’t help but love and feel to the depths of your souls. So
seriously if you haven’t yet read Tall, Tatted and Tempting one click it right
now and fall in love with this perfectly imperfect family.
5 Holy Shit Stars
I started this book off in a book funk and as I read it I was scared my funk would make me not appreciate it as much as I expected to after all the amazing reviews on it I had read. Then I realised I had half the book hilighted and I was only at 65% so I forgot my book funk but I read on with knots in my stomach and a whole heap of fear.
I knew it was going to break my heart. I knew I was going to cry ugly tears and have my kids roll their eyes and pass me tissues.
Then I drove away from my sons football training and left my much loved kobo that never left my hand at the oval with all my highlights and notes. I finished dinner went to my handbag to get said kobo and my heart stopped. I screamed "holy fuck I left it at the oval" and I am heartened to say my whole family mobilised. lol. So there I was driving the streets in the middle of the night with my wonderful husband chanting its ok babe dont panic you can buy a new one its not even 12 hours until the shops open. I swear half that neighbourhood probably thought banshees where attacking when I screamed that it was my notes I needed.
So needless to say I was at the shop before it opened abusing random strangers until I went home with a new one and redownloaded Fighting Silence and found out what happened to the amazing Till and Eliza and Quarry and Flint. But it's ok I can breathe now.
And now I can tell you that yes this book will break your heart and it will have you crying ugly tears and have your teenage children judge you for crying over fictional characters but OMG it was worth every tear. And I will be anxiously awaiting Flints book which is next. This book is one I will remember and one I will recommend to everyone.
So go read it right now. Seriously.
4 K.A. Kisses
So right before I read this book I read a somewhat negative
review from a GR reviewer I really love on a recent KA book I really loved
where she basically pointed out her ire over the KA things that she feels are
always prevalent in her work. And I as a very hard core KA fan sat back and
found myself nodding my head and agreeing with every one of her points. So as I
read this book every time one of these aforementioned flaws came up I kinda
ended up doing little mental nods and maybe lost a teeny tiny bit of the story.
So then I guess that leads us to ask why a 4 and why mention
it if I still obviously love the books but am bitching about the similarities
and Idk maybe KAish formula would be the best way to describe it and I have to
admit that when I was trying to explain it to my poor, long suffering, non book
reading husband I realised that was part and parcel of why I so strongly love
KA books.
The heroes are all almost transferable and they all do speak
the same and they all have the “Babe” down pat but you know what I fucking love
those men. And the only time it’s really ever been an issue for me that they
are all so similar was when I was reading this book consciously thinking about
it as I went into it and when I went on a KA bender and read the entire Unfinished
Heroes series in a row.
I love that her novels are real. They argue about money and
exes and small insignificant miscommunications as small insignificant
miscommunications. They apologise when they fuck up. They fit life in around
work and kids and friends and sometimes the phone rings or the doorbell goes
right as your about to finish and you grit your teeth and answer the fucking
thing.
There’s no big dramas over small shit or small dramas over
big shit. There’s no perfect virgins and heroes who don’t have work and a need
to look after their families.
The women are all women I can relate to who I would love to
have a wine with and the men are all men I could see my husband having a beer
with at the footy.
All that said this book was the same but different. There
were things I didn’t like and things I saw that I felt didn’t work with the
characters but overall I loved it cause it was written by KA and her books make
me happy and horny and I love her characters and stories and when I re-read
this again in a few months I will endeavour to try tell you why more
specifically to this story. Maybe.
But then again if your looking to start reading this book you
probably don’t need me to tell you shit cause you already know kinda what your
going to get when you pick up a KA book and the rest you got from the blurb so
I guess the question is why are you reading this review and not already nose
deep in Soaring?
3.5 Musical Stars
I Love, Love, Love this series but I have to
confess that by the time I read this one I did have trouble remembering who all
the characters where which, as I am a complete pain in the arse meant I spent
more time trying to remember why the names were familiar and who they were in
relation to everyone else that it took away a bit from this story. With that
said it isn’t the fault of Isla in the slightest it is solely due to the fact I
have goldfish brain from reading so many books. The plus side to this was it
felt like a standalone and tbh I much prefer those due to said goldfish brain.
Now that you all know I am special I guess I
can get on with an actual review.
Isla had me hook line and sinker from her first
book. She writes crazy, possessive alpha men who are complete arseholes and
give the female leads whiplash with how hot and cold they run and give me wet
panties cause for some bizarre reason I can’t get enough of them. And of course
Sebastian lived up to his predecessors.
The blurb for this book really lets poor V down
I have to say. I was expecting her to be annoying as fuck but instead she was
the character that had me gripped. She was the twisted character and I felt for
her from the moment I met her.
Violet has lead a charmed life surrounded by
fairy dust until it explodes, literally, on her 18th birthday. Whereas Sebastian has struggled to pave a
path to his current success and will do anything to build on his fame and get
where he wants to go V just wants to find the willpower to not jump off a
ledge.
They “meet” when Blonde guy moves in next door
and hears Violin girl playing on her balcony and thus begins a nightly routine
of him watching her every night and falling more and more under her spell.
And of course Monster didn't hurt. Gotta love a man who loves his dog.
But of course the path to a New Adult romance
can never run smoothly so we had the normal push and pull with a few twists and
turns thrown in, mixed with a perfect amount of humour, sexual tension and
perfect alpha growling.
I was seriously looking forward to the
Briarcrest Reunion so I was very disappointed that wasn’t a major part of the
story but I can only pray that we get spiders story next and get it there. And
since I am such a massive fan of Spider’s I will be waiting with twitchy
fingers to one click that book.
If you haven’t yet started this series you need
to grab it today as it is the ultimate in Alphas for New Adult Romance.
5 Happy Rainbows
There isn’t a book in this series I haven’t loved so, as soon as this was
released I one clicked and dove right in. Knowing how badly I lusted after Quinn
I figured it couldn’t go wrong.
I have to admit there were a few times I wondered if I was
setting myself up for that sick feeling I get when I know there is cheating and
I am expecting heartbreak but then I would remember the few introductions we
had previously gotten to whora and I knew that there was nothing Quinn could do
that would ever make me love him less than I hated her.
And BAM right out of the gate I loved every inch of
Zoey. She was just so sweet and innocent and selfless that I think the only
thing sweeter would be a unicorn riding a rainbow.
I knew Linda couldn’t make Quinn a bad guy, it just isn’t in his
makeup. But I was expecting lines to be crossed and people to be hurt. What I
wasn’t expecting was the fact that Linda knows her audience so well and she
knew exactly why we loved Quinn and exactly why we would know Zoey was perfect
for him and would give us the angst and heartbreak and devastation in a way
that only reinforced how perfect Quinn was and how absolutely amazing Zoey is.
And honestly that’s shame on me because I know when Linda writes unicorn eggs
hatch (and yes unicorn eggs are real I saw them on ebay for only a million
dollars)
As with the entire Forbidden series all our beloved characters
were there and we got a bit more of their HEA and their day to day lives and
fell more in love with all of them as we went. And now we even have a little
more of the Ten background and a little more to love about Caroline and we only
have to wait 3 weeks (I know it will feel like forever but after waiting
literally a million years for this one I think I can make it ) for Ten and
Caroline to begin.
If your already a fan of this series there is no reason on earth
not to already have this book read. And if you haven’t yet been introduced to
the men of Forbidden then I honestly can’t endorse any other New Adult series
more than this one.
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