It’s Always Complicated by Julia Kent

5 Stars

Laura, Dylan, Mike, Josie, and Alex are exchanging vows.  Take Laura and her guys wrangling their 3 kids and trying to find time for themselves.  Josie is trying to wrangle her mother out of an indecent exposer charge while planning their joint wedding.  Will they all make it down the aisle?

I loved this book.  It made me laugh and cry.  It brings together characters from three different series, Random, Her Billionaires, and Obedient.  It was nice to see where some of the characters had gone since the last book.  Where the last book seemed like different snapshots this was a cohesive book throughout.  My only frustration was with Laura and her emotions.  They felt a bit over the top at times.

Book 4 Her Billionaires

Completely Complicated by Julia Kent

3 Stars

Laura, Mike, Dylan, Josie, and Alex continue their adventure in this box set.  Each couple will need to learn to communicate to keep their relationship strong.

The book felt more like mini clips into the lives of these characters.  Not bad but I would have preferred for it to be a continuous story.  Some of the section were better than other ones.  There is one with Laura and her guys that frustrated me so much but the end of it as the best scene in the whole book where the guys are proposing to Laura and Josie thinks it is Alex.  She gets upset it wasn’t hers and he thinks she’s pregnant.  It was so funny and it made me laugh my ass off.  You do need read each of these as a continuous series otherwise they don’t make sense.  There is one more in the series and I am invested enough to finish it out and see where all of the couples end up.

 

Book 3 Her Billionaires

It's Complicated by Julia Kent

3.5 Stars

Josie Mendham is meant to be helping Laura through labor and delivery instead she’s stealing away with the OB on Laura’s case.  Dr Alex Derjian is enthralled by this foursome in the labor delivery ward.  Two fathers defy science but really interests him is the nurse he’s been watching for months.  Getting into her pants isn’t hard but getting into her heart is another matter. 

I liked this book.  The pacing was a little slow.  The book starts off a bit slow and about the halfway mark is when it picks up.  I really enjoyed it from that point.  I liked how Josie stood up for herself when Alex was a dick to her.  He actually apologized after being a jerk.  It did take him running into a sign to get him to apologize but he did.  Overall a good book with humor and some series parts.

Book 2 Her Billionaires

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Her Billionaires by Julia Kent

3.5 Stars

Laura Michaels has decided to put herself out there after being cheated on.  She matches with a lot of guys looking to hook up until Dylan messages her.  He seems to be a hot firefighter looking for love.  They meet and hook up.  When she wakes up and sees his room covered in pictures of another woman, she jumps to the conclusion he’s taken and blocks him on everything.  She gets a message from another man, Mike, wanting to meet up.  After a couple of dates, they’re getting hot and heavy when Dylan shows up.  Mike and Dylan want a ménage like they had before.  She’s game but then questions everything.  She can forgive as long as that is all the secrets they have.  Yep totally the only secret until one more comes out that they are Billionaires.  She boots them until life happens.  Can they get past all the lies and make a lasting relationship?

I read this book years ago when it first came out and this was how I was introduced to Julia Kent.  They were originally serials that have been combined into one cohesive story.  I liked them then and I like them now.  There is a lot of communication issues throughout the story that becomes frustrating by that last section of the book.  I really liked Laura’s best friend, Josie.  Josie was all about telling it like it is even when her advice isn’t exactly what Laura wanted to hear.  I look forward to reading the next story with Josie.

Book 1 Her Billionaires

Behind the Beginning by T.S. Joyce

2.5 Stars

Greyson saves a woman in the forest and ends up being turned in to a werewolf.  He struggles with the change until he meets a wolf pack who helps him find ways to live with the wolf.  It helps when Morgan the woman he saved comes back into his life.  He tries not to scare her away but by introducing her to the pack a jealous female wolf changes her against her will.  How will they live with all of these changes?

This hurts me to give such a low review.  I am going to say this was her first book ever published she received the rights back and updated it to release.  You could tell it was the first go round.  There were errors with pacing.  I struggled to read this book and that is saying a lot since I’ve read all of them.  There are 4 more books in the series and I will read them eventually but need a break from them.  This book also doesn’t end with this one.  This storyline continues in book 2-4 which frustrates me so much.  If you want to check out this author try one of her other series because they are so much better.

Book 1 Becoming the Wolf

Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson

2.5 Stars

When Mama Joy died and left her adoptive sons to figure out her craft store.  The youngest son Jesse is a screwup but is the only one who doesn’t want to close the store.  He wants to continue his mother’s legacy.  He thinks the brothers can with the help of the part timer Kerry.  Kerry has loved Jesse forever but doesn’t think they can ever be together. 

This wasn’t a romance.  It was more like a fiction novel that throws in a romance.  There is also an information dump in the beginning that made me almost not finish.  It was a lot of information that wasn’t necessarily needed for the story to progress.  I also was not overly invested in their relationship it didn’t really work for me.  The playboy who has always loved her but can’t have her.  It didn’t work.  If he really loved her and wanted her he wouldn’t have continued to sleep around.  I will say that the writing was spot on.  It was well written the story just didn’t work for me.