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Saturday, May 7, 2016

06 Season of Love – Marie Force – 2*

I had a really hard time with this one. I liked the characters. I liked them as a couple. What I didn't like was how they got together. There was no down time between Laura breaking up with her husband and her getting together with Owen. Like no time. She shows up on the island and he changes his entire life to take care of her. She's pregnant with her ex's baby, going through a nasty divorce, and they both think it is great idea to jump into a new relationship.

Another issue is there are too many storylines. Each book has stuff from the other couples. Some books it blends well and the story is continuous without any problems but with this one it wasn't.

05 Hoping for Love – Marie Force – 5*

I loved this one. It is the fifth book in the series. Grace is stranded on the island by a jerk and Evan comes to her rescue. He puts her up for the night in his parents home and the next day gives her money to get home. A week goes by before they see each other again. She rocks his world and he hides from his feelings. When his friend kicks his behind about it he sets out to prove he is good for her. They were such a sweet couple and I wanted more from them.

04 Falling for Love – Marie Force – 3*

liked this one. I didn't love Grant. Grant was a big idiot which he was supposed to be but he irritated me. He is back on the island trying to get his ex back but she is engaged to someone else. It felt like he didn't really care to get her back but he needed to get her back so something was going right in his life. Stephanie was another story. I liked her a lot. She had spunk and when you find out her life story you like her even more. She deserved better from Grant. It takes him a bit to realize how great she is and pursue her.

Side note...You get Stephanie and Grant's love story mixed with all of the previous love stories. This is great but it would be nice if more time was spent with the "main" characters and not the secondary characters.

03 Ready for Love – Marie Force – 5*

This is the third book in the McCarthys of Gansett Island series. You will need tissue for this one. This is the love story of Sydney and Luke. They were sweethearts during the summers in high school. Sydney went off to college and never came back. She never told Luke she wasn't coming back. I really wanted to hate her for that but she actually was a really nice character to read about. She apologizes to Luke for never talking to him and explained it was to much pressure from her parents that caused her to act the way she did. Not a great excuse but she was 18 so fine she gets a pass. She is now on the island because her husband and both children were killed by a drunk driver. She is there to heal from her injuries as well as her loss. All Luke wants is to be there for her in whatever way she needs him to be. Their romance is a slow romance but totally worth the wait. Marie Force also introduces a bunch of secondary characters in this book she will use later on.

01 Maid for Love – Marie Force – 4*

I liked this story, didn't love it but I liked it.
Maddie is a maid in Mac's family hotel. They meet when he steps out in front of her and she crashes her bike. She is injured and because he feels he is to blame he decides to take care of her. She tries to get him to leave all the time but he feels he needs to take care of her and her son. It is pretty much insta love for him and her. He admits it a lot sooner than she does but she falls for him. One of the best parts of the book is how much Mac loves Thomas (Maddie's son). He steps up and wants to do for both Maddie and Thomas just because.

Issues:

Mac loves to make decisions for Maddie that have nothing to do with him.
*Spoiler*
The bio daddy for Maddie's baby finds out she has a child and he goes to Mac. Mac should have directed him to talk to Maddie instead he gets him to agree to sign away his rights to Maddie's son. Now they have just started dating even if they had been dating for a long time this still had nothing to do with him. This was Maddie's son. Yes he loved them both but this was between her and the ex. This was not the first time he had made decisions for her but it was the biggest.

02 Fool For Love – Marie Force – 4*

This is the second book in the series. Joe has been in love with Janey forever but she is engaged to someone else. He is willing to sit and watch her be happy as long as she is happy. The book starts with Janey calling Joe in a panic. He rushes off to rescue her. When he gets her he finds out she had caught her fiancé (David) of 13 years in bed with another woman. David never saw her she just took off and ended up stranded. It was interesting to watch Janey realize she was in love with Joe.

I feel like there were two big issues with this book. The first being she wasn't officially broken up with David when she sleeps with Joe. It was the night of the rescue when they hook up for the first time. She says she is over the ex but come on she was with the guy for 13 years and Joe is not a rebound in some way. At one point in the book she says the instant she saw David with another woman her feels were turned off and that maybe so it just seems very fast. The second issue was she makes a huge life decision that affects both of them without even discussing it with him. She makes both of them miserable in the process and it seemed to me that instead of her apologizing and trying to make up for it he does the apologizing. The screw up was all on her side and it just seemed off to have him doing the grand gesture. Neither of these made the book bad just rubbed me the wrong way.

I LOVED the fact that we get to see what is going on in Mac and Maddie's life in this book as well as the love story of Joe and Janey.

Maid for Love 4*

Mad, Bad, and Dangerous in Plaid – Suzanne Enoch – 3*

This book just irritated me. Normally I love Suzanne Enoch's books but this one just missed for me.

Rowena MacLawry had been in love with Lachlan MacTier her whole life. Lachlan felt she was like a little sister until she is no longer obsessed with him and then he must have her.

This irritated me. He fell for her almost instantly after she told him she was no longer interested in him. I could see if there was time from when the pressure was off of him to marry her to when he realized he loved her and needed her but it was probably less than 12 hours.

I think the best part of the book was how her brothers made him prove his worth. Their attitude was you had her, didn't want her, and hurt her now prove you deserve her.