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Best I've Ever Had - Abbi Glines Review

Title - Best I've Ever Had
Author - Abbi Glines
Genre - Romance
My Copy - ARC/Purchased
Format - Kindle
Where You Can Find It? - Goodreads - Amazon UK - Amazon US - Barnes & Noble - Indigo 

Summer had returned to the coastal town of Sea Breeze, Alabama. The nightlife lit up with scantily clad sun-kissed bodies, live music, the smell of freshly cooked seafood.

Taking it all in he wondered if coming back had been the best thing. He wasn’t the same man who had driven out of town a year ago on the motorcycle he’d spontaneously bought after his best friend’s wedding. From the messy blond curls he’d let grow out to the tattoos now covering his arms, part of his chest and even the side of his neck, it all represented a part of his journey.

Eli Hardy was back, but he didn’t plan on staying for long. 

The Best I've Ever Had is the third book in the Seabreeze meets Rosemary Beach series and like the other two books in this series it doesn't disappoint. This one follows Eli Hardy who we see quite a lot in the previous books, and Ophelia Finlay, who we only see briefly in the previous books, but they come together for this book and it is a truly amazing experience. 

Like most of Glines' books you find yourself loving and rooting for the characters, you find yourself having a connection, or relating to them. Writing a relatable character is a very difficult thing to do but Glines pulls it off every time. 

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WARNING *** I am going to go into the book, and if you don't want any spoilers then stop reading now, there aren't going to be many just the general plot but this is a warning anyway. But I will also spoil a little bit from the previous books, so if you still haven't read them then again, I would take caution.

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Abbi Glines has done it again, honestly I don't think I have ever disliked one of her books, once I start reading them I can't seem to put them down, I haven't found another author who captures my attention with their characters as well as Glines does. 

This book is no different, it's the same sort of format for all of the books but it feels different, Eli's pain is evident from the start and normally the pain hits them towards the end of the book so watching him grow through the pain was a brilliant move.

I will say Eli's story did remind me a bit too much of Nate's story in the first book but I did overlook that in the end. I don't have much to say about Ophelia other than I liked her and she reminded me of Blaire, as I was reading, I just got a sense of Blaire and it defiantly put a smile on my face, but I will say the book was more about Eli's growth and there was a bit with Ophelia learning to love again but it was more about Eli. 

I love all the throwbacks, and the new information we get about the original series, like Bliss and Nate getting married on her families farm because that's where her parents got married, and in this one we get more of the original characters as well, and Cage is just as brash as ever and I do hope that in the future we get to see more of them as well. 

But I will say that I saw some mistakes, like when they were in Live bay there is a moment that says Marcus when I'm almost 100% sure it should say Micah, and I would've also liked some more interaction between more of the characters, Eli and Ophelia seemed to stick to the same few people and I don't think Cleo was even mentioned, it was always Crimson or 'my sisters', but other than that, I don't have any problems with it.

Unlike the last few times I actually don't have any idea who the next book could be about, maybe Phoenix Finlay, after that reveal at the end of the book but also maybe not, a lot of things are happening behind the scenes and it got a bit confusing till I sat and thought about it. This book takes place a good year and half since the last one and now Larissa and Micah are married, they were partially mentioned in the first book by Bliss, she only said that they were dating to get off the topic of something else, but they weren't mentioned in the second book, so it could have happened but I would have liked to see it, especially since they are two of the child characters that you saw in the original series, maybe we can have a novella down the line. 

Overall, it's a good addition to the series and I just hope that we don't have over a year for the next one, these books give me life. I recommend it to anyone who loves a good light-hearted, sweet book, it will not disappoint. 

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Until Next Time

Happy Reading 

Jade Louise

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February 2017 Haul

Hello, once more i am saving up this time for some extra money when i go to Harry Potter Studio Tours, so i once more didn't buy many books this month... 

Like A Memory - Abbi Glines

i had this book pre ordered on my Kindle but on the Sunday before it was released i saw that the Paperback had been released and i could get it the next day so i did so i now have it in Paperback. 

Riveted - Jay Crownover

I love this series and cannot believe it is almost over, I will be buying it in paperback once it is released. But the Kindle edition will have to do for now.

The Cosy Tea Shop in The Castle - Caroline Roberts

It was 99p in the Valentines Day romance sale, and i have yet to read it, but i will because it is the sort of book i read on a rainy day and i want a fluffy romance to perk up my mood.

Blind Tiger - Rachel Vincent 

This is the second book in the Wildcats series, i loved the first so i cannot wait to dive on into this one. 

That is all the books i brought this month, 

Until Next Time

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Riveted - Jay Crownover

Title - Riveted
Author - Jay Crownover
Series - Saints of Denver #3
ISBN - 9780062386014
Genre - Adult > Romance
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Kindle
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Indigo - Book Depository - Amazon UK - Amazon US

Everyone else in Dixie Carmichael’s life has made falling in love look easy, and now she’s ready for her own chance at happy ever after. Which means no more pining for Dash Churchill, the moody, silent former soldier who she works with. She’s going hunting for Mr Right and a pesky little crush isn’t going to stop her…

Denver has always been just a pit stop for Church on his way home. It was supposed to be simple, uneventful, but nothing could have prepared him for the bubbly, bouncy Dixie, determined to break down his walls. Now he knows it’s time to get out of Denver, fast.

But while falling in love is easy, loving takes a whole lot more work… especially when Mr Right thinks he’s all wrong for you.

Riveted was an extremely quick read for me, i read it in a few hours and i could not put it down, Jay Crownover writes books and series that make you constantly want more.

I am going to start off by saying this was very different than most of the other books in the series because it wasn't set in Denver. We mainly see Mississippi but that isn't that bad. The consequence of leaving Denver means we don't see too much of the other characters we know and love but that is fine. Mainly because we get introduced to some new characters, Church's family and the people in his town. 

Like 80% of Crownover's books this has a suspenseful and a mystery element that was well written because it makes you think this is happening for a certain reason then it is something different. 

The Characters in Riveted are as usual phenomenally well written and they are deep the characters deal with grief on many levels and abandonment. Then they also deal with unrequited love, and the horrors of war. I don't want to say too much because i don't want to spoil this book, but if you have read any other of Crownover's books you know what to expect from her characters by now.

The story was beautiful and action packed something i am coming to associate with Crownover, and i loved every minute of it. 

Until Next Time

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Like A Memory - Abbi Glines Spoiler Free Review

Title - Like A Memory
Author - Abbi Glines
Series - Untitled #1
ISBN - 9780988301351
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Paperback
Genre - New Adult > Romance
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Amazon UK - Amazon US - Barnes & Noble - IBooks 

One memory. 

One special summer. 

The one thing Bliss had lost herself in when the fear and sickness were too much, moments never to be damaged by the harsh reality that followed… until now. 

Bliss York didn’t live a normal teenage life. She didn’t go to Friday night football games, walk the halls with her friends every day, go to her prom or even walk to receive her diploma. It had all been taken from her the fall that she was fifteen years old and she was given the diagnosis no one ever wants to hear. 

She had leukemia. 

Seven years after spending a summer with a girl who he knew would always be his first love and the one who got away, Nate Finlay returns to Sea Breeze to help his fiancé open her new boutique clothing store. When the new employee walks in Nate is taken back seven years to the girl he thought he’d love forever. The one who never answered his calls or returned his text. The one who shut him out completely with not even a goodbye and broke his heart. 

They’ve each become someone different. No longer the young teens with stars in their eyes. But does that matter when your heart still says that’s the one.

This was probably one of my most anticipated books of this year, i have been waiting for this book since i read the last two words of Until The End in November 2014, it was finally here and it didn't disappoint.

If you haven't read it yet i will not be spoiling you here i will wait a few weeks until i do a spoiler's review, but it would be difficult to talk about their parents and the people around them without spoiling some from the Rosemary Beach/Sea Breeze Series so fair warning if you haven't read those and intend to.

First off i want to go back to my theories post, from a few weeks ago, and for the most part i was right just for the wrong reasoning, i will get more into it in the spoiler review. 

Reading this book, as someone who has read and loved the Rosemary Beach and Sea Breeze series' it was like coming home. I feel even though it can be read without reading those series, but you aren't invested as much, you don't know the struggle Eva went through when her father was diagnosed. You don't know why Nate's grandpop would say 'when you meet a girl you still love when shes a woman then you don't give that up.' I feel like you don't get the entire story but at the same time the way it is written if you are a new reader to this world then you wont be confused because there are no secret jokes or anything like that. 

Bliss, was strong and that is one of the main reason i love Glines' books is that even though most of her characters go through the ringer but they always come out the other side stronger and i like that this book reflected that when Nate looked at her. 
Nate on the other hand was a lot like all the other men in Glines' series' he is afraid of love, even though he admits he loved Bliss when he was younger but tries to convince himself it was lust. We see Nate go through unimaginable pain and still he fights on. 

There were so many characters in this series i cannot talk about them all, but the ones to look out for in the future that i think are going to be so much fun are Micah, Jude, Saffron, Holland, Lila Kate, Larissa, Cruz York, Cruz Kerrington, Cord, And Clay. There were so many more and i want books for every one but i think the next book will wither be Lila Kate's or Cruz York's since they were both sort of set up in this one. 

The story, albeit short was packed full of goodness, there are some scenes that have been missed out that i would of liked to see but maybe we will get to see them from other characters POV's in the coming books.

Abbi Glines has done it again this is a truly wonderful book and it was heartbreaking and beautiful and funny all rolled into one beautiful package. I am truly grateful that this series exists.

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

February 2017 TBR

Hello, so for my target this year i need to read 13 books a month and so i have chosen 13 books for this month and i have separated them into three categories... ARC's, New Releases, and Others... so lets get straight to it. Enjoy !!

ARC's 

He Said/She Said - Erin Kelly 

Forever Geek - Holly Smale (Geek Girl #6)

New Releases 

Like a Memory - Abbi Glines (14th)

Riveted - Jay Crownover (9th)

Others

Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling & Jim Kay (illustrated)

Victoria - Daisy Goodwin

Empire of Storms - Sarah J Maas

One Hundred Names - Cecelia Ahern

The Angry Tide - Winston Graham

The Winter King - Thomas Penn

My Love Lies Bleeding - Alyxandra Harvey

You & Me Always - Jill Mansell

Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby

Until Next Time

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Like a Memory - Abbi Glines Theories

Synopsis

One memory. 
One special summer. 
The one thing Bliss had lost herself in when the fear and sickness were too much, moments never to be damaged by the harsh reality that followed… until now. 

Bliss York didn’t live a normal teenage life. She didn’t go to Friday night football games, walk the halls with her friends every day, go to her prom or even walk to receive her diploma. It had all been taken from her the fall that she was fifteen years old and she was given the diagnosis no one ever wants to hear. 

She had leukaemia. 

Seven years after spending a summer with a girl who he knew would always be his first love and the one who got away, Nate Finlay returns to Sea Breeze to help his fiancé open her new boutique clothing store. When the new employee walks in Nate is taken back seven years to the girl he thought he’d love forever. The one who never answered his calls or returned his text. The one who shut him out completely with not even a goodbye and broke his heart. 

They’ve each become someone different. No longer the young teens with stars in their eyes. But does that matter when your heart still says that’s the one. 

Excerpts

From Abbi Glines Facebook 

Just as I was about to finish chapter two a shadow fell over me. I figured it was Larissa. Looking up I grinned, about to ask if she had herself a hot date. My eyes locked on a familiar face. One that was older, a face I remembered, from two long summers ago. A face a girl would never ever forget. His silver eyes were stunningly breathtaking.
He was sixteen now but his muscular bare chest looked at least eighteen. I really hoped Larissa didn’t see him. Her tiny bikini and D cup boobs would draw his attention real fast.
“Bliss,” he said, remembering my name.
“Nate,” I replied as I sat up. I’d day dreamed about him often since that meeting on the beach when I was thirteen years old.
He smirked like he was impressed. Like he expected me to remember him but wasn’t positive I would.
“I was beginning to wonder if you still lived around here.” He spoke then moved to take a seat beside me. He made it look sexy and cool, just like I remembered from that summer. He wasn’t awkward, didn’t weirdly squat, like most people do in the sand.
“You’ve looked for me?” I asked. My heart doing a happy flutter in my chest. He had actually wanted to find me.
“Of course I did. You’re my favorite memory about this place. Sure as hell ain’t my grandpop’s bar.”
He cursed. Eli never cursed. My brother’s did when my parents weren’t listening, but they didn’t do it in public. When they were out having to work on the farm they would curse for the sake of cursing. The way Nate did it seemed much older. Like he was sure of himself. 

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The door to Octavia’s swung open and out stepped a tower of boxes. I stopped, because the tower was tipping towards me, and just before it crashed I spoke.

            “Careful,” I said, before reaching to steady the body behind the cardboard. “Can you see where you’re going?” 

            A heard a squeal and then they came down. I moved to help when my eyes locked with a pair I knew all too well. I’d only seen eyes like that once before and they were blue and deep and cool. The long thick dark hair tumbling down past her shoulders was also familiar to me. She was older and her body now curved in all the right places. She had definitely developed since the teenage years. No longer fifteen she’d become a woman.

            Bliss York had been my first love. Or so I’d thought back then. Come to find out she’d been my first lust, because I had no idea how to love. Her face could stop traffic and that was without any makeup. She was as natural as I remembered. Nothing fake about her. Her smile had once made everything perfect in my world.

            “Oh, I’m sorry. . .” she said, trailing off as her eyes scanned my face. I saw the realization there. She remembered me. Knew who I was. The boy who had given her that first kiss. Told her he would love her forever. Then I left after a summer of what I thought was the beginning of forever. I’d been a bit of a dreamer back then. It was before I realized that women weren’t as soft and pretty on the inside as they were on the outside. My mother was perfect, inside and out, but my little sister Ophelia had a definite evil streak.

            “You work here?” I asked before she could say my name. I didn’t want to remember that summer. I had remembered it for far too long. Once I finally got it through my head that Bliss York wasn’t the perfect girl, I’d let myself forget her entirely.

            She opened her mouth to speak, then slowly nodded her head. 

            I knew that Octavia had hired someone to help her get things ready. I just hadn’t been told her name. Not that it mattered. That was seven summer’s back and a part of my past that would stay there.

            I picked up a fallen box. “I’m Octavia’s fiancé Nate.”  That should answer her questions and also lead her to believe I didn’t remember. “I’ll get these boxes to the recycle bin.” 

            I didn’t wait for her to give me her name. I went to work picking up the rest of the fallen boxes. She didn’t move for what felt like several minutes, but was actually just a few fleeting seconds. I was tense. Not sure why. If she told me who she was and asked if I remembered, I could still act as if I’d forgotten. Seven fucking years had passed. We’d been kids then. We weren’t now. I was a different person and I was sure she was too. 

            “Okay, um. . .thank you,” she said. I wanted to look up and watch her go. To take in the woman she’d become. To see just how much her body had changed. The glimpse I’d allowed myself at first had been impressive and I wanted another. She had been a beauty back then. Now she was gorgeous and I had to fucking work with this beauty for the next two weeks. 

     Shit. 

            This would only happen to me.

Theories....

My biggest theory is that Nate either isn't really engaged and its just a publicity thing for the opening of Octavia's shop or he is being forced into it, but i cannot think of anyone doing that so i am going with the first one and my biggest reasoning is a quote from one of the excerpts above and that is...

" It was before I realised that women weren’t as soft and pretty on the inside as they were on the outside. My mother was perfect, inside and out, but my little sister Ophelia had a definite evil streak."

If he was so in love, wouldn't Octavia be on that list..... 

Secondly i think that we are going to either love or hate Octavia, like she will either be the nicest person on  the planet or she will be the Nan of this series. 

Bliss is going to end up telling Nate about the illness in an argument or he will find out from a third party. 

After Bliss' illness i have a feeling that Cage and the men are going to be even more protective than before and this will lead to a heated confrontation between Nate and Cage

There needs to be a father/son moment in this book between Nate and Rush and we can also add some Dean into that, i am almost a 100% convinced that Dean owns Live Bay, we only really know of one bar in Sea Breeze and what Rocker wouldn't want to own Live Bay where they have live rock acts. 

There is going to be more interconnecting with the other children and i cannot wait.

This needs to be a Bliss/Nate HEA because it has promised so much and for people like myself who have been waiting since 2014 for this book and these characters i am more than a little terrified that they wont get a HEA.

This is probably going to be the most emotionally charged book in the entire series because of the topic and the fact that we have literally read them as they were born and then they grew up and it is going to be one hell of an emotional roller coaster and one i am really hoping lives up to the high expectations i have for it.

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Up In Flames - Abbi Glines - Spoiler Free Review

Title - Up In Flames

Author - Abbi Glines

Series - Rosemary Beach #14

ISBN - 9781471144714

Genre - New Adult > Romance

My Copy - Purchased 

Format - Paperback

Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Book Depository - Amazon UK - Amazon US

The villain of Rosemary Beach finally gets her own happy ending in the long-awaited final novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling new adult romance series by Abbi Glines.
The Rosemary Beach series ends with a bang when the troubled character readers love to hate gets her very own happily ever after in this eagerly anticipated and overwhelmingly requested story. Known for causing problems for everyone in Rosemary Beach, Nan has been growing up lately, and she’s finally taking centre stage—and finding love with the man she least expected.

I have been eagerly anticipating this book i have had it pre ordered since January but then i realised on the 26th that i probably wont get it till like 11 am because that is when our post is delivered so i brought the kindle edition as well and was going to read it at midnight but fell asleep so i woke up really early and devoured this book in a couple of hours. I like most people who have read this series has some serious qualms about this book, well Nan mostly i honestly couldn't see how Glines could write a book that would make me change my opinion on her but she did she isn't my favourite of the women but i don't hate her like i used too. 

Nan as a character wasn't much changed from the other times we have seen her, but this time we have her side of the story and how she feels when she knows shes acting like a bitch but cant help it. I am actually really happy about the way she was portrayed because it felt true to her character and it wasn't a huge change to how she has been portrayed before. There were some things she did in this book that were honestly disgusting and she knew it, but on the same hand some thing she did were downright adorable like every single scene with Nate and he wanted her to sleep in his room and she would have to eat the 'spinch' it was just so cute. 

The two men i am not going to talk about either of then because you should go in blind, we have met Major before but we honestly don't know much about him and the other guy well you will just have to read about him. I actually didn't like either of them to start with they were both in my opinion Tossers. 

Story wise it was a good story one we had a couple of hints to in The Best Goodbye, and there were things i didn't see coming and some really sad things that happen as well i cried so damn hard at that and i will never forgive Glines for that because it was just mean. :( . 

It was nice to see more of Rush and Nate because they have sort of been in the background since their books and it was nice with all the cute moments as well as the bridge building moments between Blair and Nan. I will say i was expecting a Dean mention since his book is next and also i was expecting her to talk to Kiro but neither happened, i did feel some scenes were missing but i hope they get cleared up in Deans Novella.

I honestly cannot believe this series is over i started reading it in November 2014 and to me it feels like leaving home, i mean i have re read these books more times than i can count but they make me happy and i will always love them and each time i read them i love them a little bit more.

Until Next Time

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London Belongs To Us - Sarra Manning

Title - London Belongs To Us
Author - Sarrra Manning
ISBN - 9781471404610
Genre - YA > Contemporary
Release Date - 2nd June 2016
My Copy - E- ARC
Format - Kindle
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Amazon UK - Amazon US

Twelve Hours, Two French Boys, and a trip around London. Sunny's boyfriend has cheated on her and she will have to go on a trip around London to confront him. Along the way she meets some interesting people and spends some time with two mysterious french guys. Along the way Sunny just might find who she truly is as well. 

When i finished this book i had the biggest smile on my face, it was one of those books that just make you feel happy and at peace with the world because it was just a really good book. From the characters to the storyline it was brilliant, and i love that it is a UKYA book since there really needs to be more. 

Every single character was amazing from Sunny and the Godard's (The French Boys) to the Australian guy on a rickshaw, and the drag queens in a chicken shop. Every one of them added to the experience Sunny's and ours. Sunny as a character grew so much in a book under 300 pgs there sure is a lot of character development, Sunny especially grew from when we first meet her till we leave her on the last page she has some amazing character Development. I don't want to spoil anything so I'm not going to talk much about the other characters because i loved the surprise i got when reading the characters for the first time.

The Story was one of those i wont forget in a while, nothing to do with the cheating aspect but more to do with the growth and all of the scenarios and situations she got herself in, as a Londoner i loved this book seeing London through a natives eyes it is one of those things that is so good because, of what it is and you see all of the different cultures in London from the posh people of Chelsea to the crazy people of East London and the colourful people of the Notting Hill carnival. It was truly amazing and i loved every page of this book, and i highly recommend this book to anyone who loves adventure, and different people and a strong female character who learns to be strong in front of your very eyes. 

Favourite Quotes

"It doesn't matter what side I see the skyline from; it always feels like home. It's London."

"Maybe its because I'm a Londoner that i love London Town"

" Back home we call you Le rosbif!" (The Roast Beef)

"The Fairest of all Fair cities"

"But somethings will always stay the same, London, I love you"

"One broken Heart. One heart mended."

Until Next Time

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