by Liz Reinhardt (Goodreads Author)
Evan Lennox is going
nowhere fast. She's living with her grandparents after her parents
bailed on her, she got kicked out of her posh private school, her
ex-boyfriend proved to be the biggest sleaze imaginable, her former best
friend is a back-stabber, and her current best friend is stuck in
backwoods NJ. To top it all off, one teeny, tiny fire she lit to burn
some memories of her ex goes a little out of control and winds up
igniting a good piece of a very powerful family's pecan orchard.Evan lands her pampered behind in court and gets sentenced to community service. Which she knows she deserves. But the hard labor and humiliation may be her undoing.
Until she meets Winchester Youngblood on the site.
Everything about him is tricky, confusing, not at all what it seems, and so sexy, Evan can't resist pulling closer. But every step she takes to get to know him gives her more of a reason to back up and put him as far out of life as she possibly can. Because Winch is one hundred percent complicated, and Evan isn't looking for that. At all. She needs to meet a nice, responsible guy, not share searing kisses with the charming hustler she met after they both got sentenced in court.
But Winch is so much more than what he seems, and Evan finds out that she's falling hard for the guy everyone underestimates and writes off. And Winch realizes that Evan is the one person who's ever challenged him to ask for more out of his life, and her courage inspires him to try to be the person she sees when she looks at him. With every single odd stacked against them, Evan and Winch need to find out whether they have what it takes to fall for each other.
Oh goodness!
Liz Reinhardt!
You did it!
You finally did it!
You made me fall in love with one of your books!
Woot Woot! And I actually loved the characters!
Fall Guy. Fall Guy. Fall Guy.
Damn. I was not expecting the ride this book took me for.
I was damn well shocked at the end because I was pretty distracted going into it. I wasn't really focused and then BAM! I was zapped into the story. I was battling my instant like of Winchester just like Evan was. I didn't know if he was that bad boy with a soft heart or just a plain old bad boy pretending to be a southern gentleman. I was afraid to give my heart over but like with Evan, it took five minutes and he had it tucked all snug in the palm of his hand.
The story is told in both Evan's and Winchester's POVs. I just love those alternating boy/girl POVs. I love to get into both individuals heads about each interaction.
I hand over some files to and her eyes meet mine, all cool and sweet like a snow-cone in July.
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"You're welcome, ma'am."
My head whips up at the ma'am.
Not that I haven't heard that word spilled like sticky sweet syrup from a thousand mouths of a thousand boys who've been born and bred to use it everyday.
There's something about this boy, the way that word just slides off his tongue, buoyed with cautious respect and elegant pleasure.
Like he loves saying the word.
Like his lips weigh the worth of it.
I just felt compelled to continue on with the story. What the heck is Winch hiding? What the hell is wrong with his family? Why doesn't he see the harm they cause him? I wanted all the answers in a matter of seconds and that just wasn't happening. Evan had to coax the truth out of him, make him trust and have faith in her. The struggle Winch had with letting go was so frustrating! I wanted to curse him! I did, I think a few times....but I was cheering for him regardless. Open up, Winch! I'm too damn curious! A little at a time we were let in. AND OMEGA! OMEGA! THE FREAKING THINGS THIS BOY CAN SAY AND DO WHEN HE JUST LETS LOOSE! Each time, I fell more and more for Winchester. Goodness! The loyalty that boy has! The things he went through, the things his family put on his shoulders to carry the weight. Every single family member was piled on top, sitting on his strong shoulders while he balanced on a unicycle, tottering along like some kind of circus act! I wanted to slap some sense into his parents! He was what? Twenty-two or something? And still he was being controlled in that way! And Remington. The guy was pretty funny but damn it if he wasn't just the saddest thing I've read about. The whole family enabled him, when he fucked up there was Winch to cover for him and he let it happen, his family let it happen! Ugh! I get so frustrated just thinking about that family! Whom attend mass and speak of manners and respect!?!? Are you kidding me?! It's unbelievable the things people trick themselves into thinking. What's right and what's wrong? I can guarantee most (if not all) of the things they practice in that home are WRONG! Unbelievably wrong. Un-be-lievable!
Evan! Oh holy shit on a muffin! How much I like this girl! I LOVE her! She is so much better a character than Brenna! I actually cant really stand Brenna. Just everything she does irritates me to no end. I found Evan a big relief. I'm really sad that there wasn't a whole series wrote on her instead. I'm literally bummed out. :( *sigh* She puts a sexy little hurtin' on Winchester like you wouldn't believe. I was so rooting for this girl. She knew what she was doin'! I kind of would have liked to see her go up against that pesky little Lala. That would have been something interesting!
Their relationship is a struggle. They have a hard time just figuring out if their relationship can last to the next second when they really just want to be together for as long as they can and hoping all the while that it's gonna be forever. Obstacles get in their way. They weigh the worth of their love, the fight, the sacrifice to be together.
Now my heart is desperate in my chest, like a bird crashing into a window over and over again, confused that it can't get to what it sees and wants, and willing to kill itself in the attempt to remedy that.
And the passion! The sex! HOLY MOTHER OF LUST! I was drenched in sweat. My heart, my body were exerting so much energy in the attempt to NOT get worked up. Winch got to me. He got me ALL over. Goodness! He spoke his language during sex. Whispered sweet promises (sexy things that we really aren't savvy to but know it's freaking hotter than a wildfire in July) in Hungarian. If you're not creaming your pants now, just wait. The BEACH HOUSE will knock your knickers off.
I could go on all day long but I'm just going to leave you with the knowledge of all that, the fact that this is IN FACT a FIVE STAR review, and a little bit of this:
I'll spend the rest of my life falling as far and deep and hard as my heart will let me go in love with this perfect, crazy girl who taught me to let go and hold on. I know in that minute I'll be Evan's fall guy until the day I die, and my future, for the first time in my life, is an always I can't wait to fall into.
Awwwww! How sweeeeeeeeet is that? <3
Worth the read? Definite yes.
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