☼ Freebie Tuesday(Edition #73) ☼

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Bet the House
by Erika Marks
Release Date: May 10th 2014 by Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Series: Magnolia Bay #1
Pages: 114
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Author's Links: Goodreads, Website, Twitter, Facebook



Willamena Dunn is having a lousy week. Not only is her baby sister about to marry into the family of Dunn-Right Preservation’s biggest professional rival, but the historic bungalow of her dreams has just been bought by the most infuriating (not to mention exceedingly handsome and notoriously wicked) man to ever hammer a nail in Magnolia Bay, Knox Loveless. 

But when Knox offers her a wager she can’t refuse, a bet with the coveted bungalow as its prize, Willa is sure her bad luck might finally be turning around—until Knox surprises her with a passionate kiss, and suddenly all bets are off.

Could this be just another one of Knox Loveless’ games, or will two rivals finally surrender to a long-simmering attraction and declare a truce once and for all?

(Synopsis taken from Goodreads) 

          

Never Forgotten

by Kelly Risser

Release Date: June 14th 2014 by Clean Teen Publishing

Series: Never Forgotten #1

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance

Author's Links: Goodreads, Website, Twitter, Facebook

One minute Meara Quinn is making plans for the summer before her senior year. The next she finds out that her mother's cancer has returned and they're moving away from the only home she's ever known. Every day becomes a struggle as Meara tries to cope with her mother's illness while being forced to move to another country to live with grandparents who are strangers.

Add weird visions of a father who was absent her entire life and top it all off with one whopping secret that everyone seems bent on keeping from her, and Meara has the perfect ingredients for a major melt down. The only things keeping her from coming unglued are some new friends and Evan—the son of her mother's childhood friend—who seems to know Meara almost better than she knows herself.

Together with Evan and her friends, Meara embarks on a new journey to unlock the secrets that will not only tell Meara who she is, but what she is.

(Synopsis taken from Goodreads) 

          

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REVIEW: Hitched by Dawn Rae Miller

Hitched 
by Dawn Rae Miller
Release Date: April 14th 2015
Series: Crushed #2
Pages: 229
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary
Author's Links: Goodreads, Website, Twitter, Facebook
View/Purchase: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N

Life hasn’t been easy for twenty-three year old Ellie Jacobs since her boyfriend, Fletch, walked out of her life two years earlier. She’s stuck in a consulting job she hates, buried under crushing student loans, and still longing for Fletch despite her best efforts to leave the past behind.

Letting go is hard when everywhere she turns, there’s a reminder of Fletch - from his face on gossip magazines to everyone being obsessed with his company, GroundFloor.

So when Ellie finds herself at a mutual friend’s wedding with Fletch, she decides to grin and bear it for the sake of the bride and groom. But years of anger have piled up, and Ellie doesn’t know if she can last the weekend without going crazy or lashing out.

However, as the wedding weekend progresses, Ellie realizes anger can only take you so far, but love can take you farther.

(Synopsis taken from Goodreads)

My Review:

I was really excited to read Hitched, after I finished reading Crushed there was just so many things that I still wanted to know. After we are left we a sort of open ending in the previous book, I thought I was going to read a continuation of what happened at the very end of Crushed, but it was different.

In Hitched, both Ellie Jacobs and Fletch Colson have grown apart and went there separate ways. Now twenty-three year old Ellie has been working in a consulting job which she hates, while facing the fact that she is never going to get over what she has with Fletch. After they went their separate ways, Fletch decided to go back to his old life after receiving bad news from his parents, and now he is the new CEO behind GroundFloor which makes him the magnet for women to throw themselves at him as well as the constant media that wants to get a peek at his private life.

When both Ellie and Fletch get invited to one of their friend's wedding, they know that they are going to see each other again after years of being apart. But the minute they are together, they are reminded of what they used to have, the love for each other that is never going away. Now they have to face new obstacles as they struggle to decide if they are truly meant to be with one another or if they're just better apart.

Although I really wanted to see more of Ellie and Fletch, I enjoyed the first book a lot better than this book. For some reason the characters felt a bit dry for me, they kept having the same issues and there wasn't a lot communication between the two, which resulted in solving their problems rather too quickly. The events in this story are moved too fast, but I till liked the fact that they were able to get back together and the very end was the best part. I would still recommend reading Crushed it was a great book, and if you still want to read more of their story then Hitched will still give you a satisfying ending.:)

***A copy of this book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.***

My Rating: 3.5/5

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Crushed by Dawn Rae Miller (#1)

MY REVIEW

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REVIEW: Crushed by Dawn Rae Miller

Crushed 
by Dawn Rae Miller
Release Date: December 11th 2012 by FinnStar Publishing 
Series: Crushed #1
Pages: 268
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary
Author's Links: Goodreads, Website, Twitter, Facebook
View/Purchase: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N

Having it all has never been so hard.

For eighteen-year-old serial womanizer Fletch Colson, life is a game and if he plays by the rules, he’ll win it all: his dream college, his parents’ money, and a hot (if a little vapid) girl on his arm. Really, it couldn’t be easier. All he has to do is get good grades, live a privileged life, and try not to mess up too much.


However, when he accepts the seemingly impossible bet to change his ways and be “just friends” with smart, beautiful, tempting Ellie Jacobs – a girl who turns his world inside out - Fletch discovers his perfect life isn’t so wonderful.

As family secrets begin tumbling out, what once seemed simple and clear, no longer feels right, and Fletch must decide if winning it all is worth losing a piece of himself.

CRUSHED is a New Adult book. It has profanity and sexual situations, and is intended for ages 16+.

(Synopsis taken from Goodreads)

My Review:

It's not everyday that I read books in the male protagonist point-of-view, yet Dawn Rae Miller did a great job at making the story as realistic as possible while giving us a good sense of who Fletcher Colson is as a character. 

From the very beginning it is evident that Fletch Colson is a serial womanizer, and someone who always gets what he wants. As an eighteen-year-old student, he is used to having lots of parties and girls all over him. Yet with having all of that, his suddenly finds himself accepting the bet of a life time because getting to be “just friends” with Ellie Jacobs was going to be difficult than he thought it would be. Now Fletch soon gets caught up in wanting to be friends with Ellie and getting to know her better. There time together has made Fletch realize just how he wants his life to be, and to follow a path of his own rather than the one made for him by his parents. As the two start to get closer, he discovers secrets that his family has concealed from him, and in the end he has to decide what he truly wants for himself without hurting those he loves.

Throughout the book we only get to see Fletch's POV, and although it was his story to tell, I would still have liked to see Ellie's POV as well. There were a lot of characters that get introduced in the book that made the story truly stand out, the choices that Fletch has to make were realistic and there is process in him throughout the story. I also enjoyed reading scenes between Fletch and Ellie, one could really tell that they had chemistry that turned into something more towards the end. The very end was very promising as the main characters made some hard decisions that could alter their path. Overall, I enjoyed story it was realistic and the characters were moving. I highly recommend it. :)

***A copy of the book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.***

My Rating: 4.5/5

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