| GOODREADS | AMAZON | MY RATING: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥|
Goodreads synopsis:
Cyrus
Family. Brotherhood. Music. Women. That was pretty much my life. And it was one I was happy with too. Until I came across her- the one woman I knew I had no right to put my hands on, the woman who I still felt such a connection with that, even though I knew I had to keep my hands – and other body parts – to myself, I wanted to be in her life. So I became her friend. Except, this sweet, shy, bookworm was making being honorable a hell of a lot harder than I expected.
Reese
Family. Books. To be perfectly honest, that was pretty much all my life was about. And I was happy with that. I lived a thousand lives. I saw and felt things in stories I never could have otherwise. Besides, real life was never as good as books. Until I came across him. He was leading man material if I ever saw it. You know, just not for me. He made that perfectly clear. We were going to be friends. Friends. That was it. Except, maybe that simply wasn’t enough…
My thoughts: I have been looking forward to this book since I read about Reese in Kenzi’s book 14 Weeks. Mostly because she was a little mysterious, social awkward and a total book nerd. Who can not relate to that if not me? However, I must say I’m a little disappointed. I still gave this book a four-star rating but that is mostly because I love the series and the Navesink Bank universe and the characters Cyrus and Reese is to die for. Their story however is not as good. Pretty boring actually.
It is sweet and a little funny yeah, but not quite my cup of tea. I need more excitement and suspense. Or more humor or more feelings or more depth. Just more! This was kind of bland and it all went a little too easy and there where to big jumps in time. Suddenly it had gone 5 weeks. When they were not talking, I would have loved to read about them see each other or an awkward meeting or a fight. Just something with emotions. There where talk about some real “on his knees, begging for forgiveness” work and kissing her feet to make up for stuff that happened, but there was just some lame show of affection that made me a little sad. It was promising some heavy standoff between some characters but also that never happened. And the story about Kenzis reaction to Cyrus was completely ignored and I would have loved to read Reeses reaction when finding out that Cyrus “destroyed” a book.
Just many small things building up to a big thing. A little more time and more depth would have made this book one of my favorites I think. But even the high score, it is one of my least favorites of all the (30?) books I read by Gadziala. Story wise. The characters are on top of my favorite list though.
Blood Harvest – Sharon J. Bolton
Spotless – Camilla Monk
Blue Smoke – Nora Roberts
Intensity – Dean Koontz
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
To keep a secret – M. M. Wedin
Fear University – Meg Collett
Assasin’s code – Jonathan Maberry
The Darkest Corner – Liliana Hart
The Nightmare – Lars Kepler
The Knowing – Ninie Hammon
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K Rowling
Rekindled – Kaylea Cross
Postmortem – Patricia Cornwell
Ashes, Ashes, they all fall dead – Lena Diaz
Wait for it – Mariana Zapata
I’m not gonna write a “normal” review on this one. Mostly because it would not be fair. I do love Harry Potter, no questions about it. I grew up in the Harry Potter prime time and read all the books and had all the stuffs and when the movies came I watch them over and over again and what not. There where no books and movies that I loved as much as I loved Harry Potter. And it is the one series I wish I could forget so that I would be able to read them as “New” again. And it will be the one series I will be reading for my future children and grandchildren.
Murder List – Julie Garwood
Wolf Trouble – Page Tyler
Run to ground – Katie Ruggle
Sacred Sins – Nora Roberts
Tyrant – T. M Frazier
Abandon – Blake Crouch
The Chemist – Stephenie Meyer
The dollmaker – Mary Burton
Thomas – Liliana Hart
Mackenzie’s Mountain – Linda Howard
Dead Woman Walking – Sharon Bolton
