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Operation One Night Stand by Christine Hughes { jump to review }
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The Last True Vampire by Kate Baxter { jump to review }
One More Shot by Veronica Denault
Publisher: Forever Yours (6/2/2015)
Series: Hometown Players, book 1
Series: Hometown Players, book 1
Genre: Sport, New Adult Romance
Source: NetGalley
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Rating: ★★★★★
They say you only get one shot at making your dreams come true.
Jordan is determined to take two.
Drafted by the NHL at eighteen, Jordan Garrison was headed for fame, and there was only one person he wanted to share it with-Jessie Caplan. He was crazy in love with her, and had finally told her so. They shared an amazing night . . . and then everything fell apart.
Jessie tries not to think about the night she gave herself to Jordan-or how he broke her heart. She tries not to think about it, but she does. Especially now, when she's staring into his sky-blue eyes for the first time in six years. After so much time and torment, she can't tell if she loves him or hates him. But Jordan has learned enough to know a connection like theirs is rare. He was lucky to find Jessie once. No way will he lose her again.
Jordan is determined to take two.
Drafted by the NHL at eighteen, Jordan Garrison was headed for fame, and there was only one person he wanted to share it with-Jessie Caplan. He was crazy in love with her, and had finally told her so. They shared an amazing night . . . and then everything fell apart.
Jessie tries not to think about the night she gave herself to Jordan-or how he broke her heart. She tries not to think about it, but she does. Especially now, when she's staring into his sky-blue eyes for the first time in six years. After so much time and torment, she can't tell if she loves him or hates him. But Jordan has learned enough to know a connection like theirs is rare. He was lucky to find Jessie once. No way will he lose her again.
This past year, I've grown to really love new adult romances; pair it with my favorite sport, and you're bound to have a good book. This story? Definitely a favorite.
Jordan and Jessie were the best of friends growing up; when things turned from friends to more when they were teenagers, they thought they would be together forever. Fears among other things had Jessie running and not looking back.
Now, Jessie's grandmother passed away and Jordan, out with an injury, is the only Garrison boy available to be a shoulder for the Caplan girls, and as the Garrisons and Caplans were close growing up, it is expected that he shows up.
The last thing Jordan wanted was to see Jessie again. When she left, she broke him. He tried burying her in as many puck-bunnies and celebrities as he could, but he could never outrun her memory.
Jessie has been watching her ex-best friend's career. Seeing all of his exploits on blogs and in magazines hurts her heart, but her opinion on men has never been stellar. She had only wished Jordy wouldn't be like that.
These two coming back together was explosive. Between harboring hard feelings from the past, but realizing the love they had wasn't something that could just go away... I loved it.
One fun aspect to this book is that while it is told in first person-present tense, there are many times that the story goes back six years and is told in a memory-type first person-present way. I think you get a better feeling for the love that these two had, and can compare it to their newer adult feelings.
I'm excited to continue this series!
Jordan and Jessie were the best of friends growing up; when things turned from friends to more when they were teenagers, they thought they would be together forever. Fears among other things had Jessie running and not looking back.
Now, Jessie's grandmother passed away and Jordan, out with an injury, is the only Garrison boy available to be a shoulder for the Caplan girls, and as the Garrisons and Caplans were close growing up, it is expected that he shows up.
The last thing Jordan wanted was to see Jessie again. When she left, she broke him. He tried burying her in as many puck-bunnies and celebrities as he could, but he could never outrun her memory.
Jessie has been watching her ex-best friend's career. Seeing all of his exploits on blogs and in magazines hurts her heart, but her opinion on men has never been stellar. She had only wished Jordy wouldn't be like that.
These two coming back together was explosive. Between harboring hard feelings from the past, but realizing the love they had wasn't something that could just go away... I loved it.
One fun aspect to this book is that while it is told in first person-present tense, there are many times that the story goes back six years and is told in a memory-type first person-present way. I think you get a better feeling for the love that these two had, and can compare it to their newer adult feelings.
I'm excited to continue this series!
Operation One Night Stand by Christine Hughes
Publisher: Forever Yours (6/2/2015)
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Source: NetGalley
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Rating: ★★★★★
IT'S TIME TO CHANGE HER SEXUAL KARMA
Caroline Frost had it all-until her boyfriend banged the superskank intern, and poof! Caroline's happy little bubble disappeared. Now it's been six weeks of weeping, a mountain of ice cream, and a permanent buttprint on the couch. Enough is enough. She and her ladybits need an intervention-now.
Enter Operation: One Night Stand: Find a man who is hotness personified and have some much-needed sexy time. The only problem is that Caroline is torn between a flirtatious, well-built guy and the ridiculously hot bartender serving her shots. This was supposed to be all fun and no games, but like the perfect scotch on the rocks, no good fling finishes without a twist . . .
Caroline Frost had it all-until her boyfriend banged the superskank intern, and poof! Caroline's happy little bubble disappeared. Now it's been six weeks of weeping, a mountain of ice cream, and a permanent buttprint on the couch. Enough is enough. She and her ladybits need an intervention-now.
Enter Operation: One Night Stand: Find a man who is hotness personified and have some much-needed sexy time. The only problem is that Caroline is torn between a flirtatious, well-built guy and the ridiculously hot bartender serving her shots. This was supposed to be all fun and no games, but like the perfect scotch on the rocks, no good fling finishes without a twist . . .
Let my just start this by saying one thing first:
This bad boy ended up much cuter than I had anticipated.
My goodness gracious, you (well, at least 'I') was drawn into the story. At first, you have a mourning Caroline. She caught her fiance, who she'd been with for five years and works with, in bed with the intern. Six weeks later, and she's still drowning her sorrows in Cold Stone-like ice creams (or maybe you're a Marble Slab or Maggiemoos kind of person). Her roommates/friends have had enough and decide she's going to have a one night stand.
The three of them are going to go out to the bar and she's going to find one person -- this target of hers will be the one she'll attempt to sleep with for the night. If he declines, he declines, but she has got to get back out there. She's not to look for a relationship, just a one night bed partner.
At the bar, she finds someone she wants to call 'it' and with the help of the (super attractive, very flirty) bartender, starts a game of suggestive shots with the man.
What I most loved about the beginning has got to be, hands down, Bartender Brian. I liked him from the beginning. I take that back, I loved him. Yes, he was a flirt -- but surely Caroline could have put 'flirting for tips' and 'flirting because he likes you' in two separate categories, but eh... She didn't. Even after the hot body shots...
Anywho. In a twist, Caroline learns that Brian is actually friends with Ryan (her target turned one night stand), which really makes the fact that she called out Brian's name in the throes of passion a little trickier...
So yes. I loved the frienships Caroline had with her girls, I loved the friendship Ryan and Brian had, I loved the way Brian was with Caroline -- from beginning to end. This was a cute, fun read; a cute, fun read that made it into my 're-read' category on the Kindle, and will certainly make the Favorites of 2015 list.
The Last True Vampire by Kate Baxter
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