Review: Forever Too Far (Too Far, #3) by Abbi Glines

 

And it’s here! The final installment of the exciting Too Far series by Abbi Glines. I will admit, I waited a bit before I started reading Forever Too Far because I had a lot on my plate, but I’m happy I did. The story was so great and I loved seeing a happy ending for one of my favorite NA couples.

Rush and Blaire are embarking on the next level of their relationship. With a baby on the way and a marriage impending, these two should be the happiest people on Earth. But just when their blissful lives are about to start together, Nan gets in the way. Rush’s major brat of a sister is having to come to terms with the fact that the absentee father she always thought was hers is actually a rock star. Hoping to keep peace in the family, Rush sets out to try and help this little sis, but it may be at the expense of his unborn son and his future wife.

I really liked this ending to the series. It was a nice way to wrap it up with a neat little bow and also give way to a spin off series that I’m particularly excited for.

Blair and Rush have grown up and grown even closer as the trials of Blair’s pregnancy come to an end. Rush is a sweet, caring, and generous fiancé to Blair and it’s only his love for his sister that seems to get in the way.

Of course we see a lot more of Nan in Forever Too Far. I hate that snobby b*tch. Whew. She makes me angry, but of course, that’s what Glines was going for. In the upcoming spin off series, the main characters are going to be Grant, Rush’s half-brother, Nan and her half-sister Harlow. These are complicated family relationships. It seems the good folks of Rosemary Beach are taking a leaf out of the Star Wars movies. But I’m excited to see where things go with Grant because I’ve been a fan of him since book one and I fell for Harlow. She’s a quiet and well-mannered young girl living amid the dark and tortured lives of rock stars. Can’t wait to see where this goes!

Overall, I really enjoyed Forever Too Far and I can’t wait to see what Glines comes out with next!

8 out of 10

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Reveiw: Never Too Far (Too Far, #2) by Abbi Glines

 

I’m a huge fan of Abbi Glines and I think I say that anytime I review one of her books. I began with her Sea Breeze series and quickly made my way through her other stories. The Too Far series is definitely not one to miss if you’re a fan of bad boys, strong female leads, drama and a whole lot of steamy romance.

He had held a secret that destroyed her world.

Everything she had known was no longer true.

Blaire couldn’t stop loving him but she knew she could never forgive him.

Now, she was back home and learning to live again. Moving on with life… until something happened to send her world spinning once again.

What do you do when the one person you can never trust again is the one that you need to trust so desperately?

You lie, hide, avoid, and pray that your sins never find you out.

In this installment of the Too Far series, Blaire is trying to figure out how she’s going to live without Rush. How can she move on with her life knowing what she knows now about Rush and her family? After the big blow out at the end of book one, we as readers think that things couldn’t possibly get more complicated than they are for Blair and her family situation...but then they do.

Obviously I’m trying to leave out any spoilers, but I loved reading about Rush and Blaire’s reconciliation. I hope there were no gasps of surprise at that revelation... I mean it’s a love story and there is a book three... come on people, you had to have seen that coming.

Rush’s pursuit of Blaire in Never Too Far brought me back to my days of reading Sandra Brown and Robyn Carr. The romances that Glines comes up with are original and heartwarming and you can help but pull for the bad boy going after his angel.

It’s hard to judge how much I liked this book in comparison to the first book because I’ve actually already finished the series. It’s a good middle book and it sets us up for an explosion of an ending. Get ready guys, Forever Too Far is all kinds of awesome!

8 out of 10

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Top Ten Tuesday: Best Summer Reads

Here on the east coast, it's a very rainy Tuesday. So what better TopTen to feature than our favorite summer reads. Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme/feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Maybe our list of sunshine reads will bring back the sun for our last few weeks of summer!


1. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

2. Breath (Sea Breeze, #1) by  Abbi Glines

3. Crave (The Clan, #1) by Melissa Darnell

4. Unbroken (Cedar Cove, #1) by Melody Grace

5. Spellbound (Spellbound, #1) by Cara Lynn Schultz

6. Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella

7. The Goddess Test (Goddess Test, #1) by Aimee Carter

8. Switched (Trylle, #1) by Amanda Hocking

9. Beautiful Creatures (Castor Chronicles, #1) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

10. Tempting the Best Man by J. Lynn

This is more of a compelation that a ranked list, but Jess and I both agreed without argument that Harry Potter is always a go to read for the summer. Whether you are re-reading or remember past summers of midnight book releases and rushing to finish the lastest installment, those books will always be what I reach for on a hot summer day.

 

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Review: Just for Now (Sea Breeze, #4) by Abbi Glines

 

It’s time for another Sea Breeze book review! This deliciously steamy series is hard to put down and I’m always sad when I finish one! Now I have to wait a while for book 5 and I’m itching to hear more about Jax Stone’s younger brother Jason in the 5th installment of the series!

 Preston Drake has had to grow up fast. With a drug addicted mother who cares more about her next fix than taking care of her little ones, Preston has had to step up and take care of his young siblings. When times get tough, Preston has to turn to some pretty unconventional (and illegal) means of making ends meet for his family. With a different trashy girl in his bed every night, he’s content with the life he thinks he deserves. Then there’s Amanda Hardy. The younger sister of his best friend and the good girl he needs to stay away from. He know’s he’s not good for a girl like Amanda but when she turns on the charm, he can’t seems to stay away.

 Of course, I really enjoyed this book. It’s the age old story of boy with the troubled past falls for the good little rich girl in town who happens to be a friend’s younger sister. It’s a classic story replayed over and over, but Abbi Glines did it right with this one.

Her story telling is once again showcased in Just For Now. Her characters are engaging and likeable and I fell for Preston right along with Amanda! It was interesting reading Amanda’s perspective because she’s the younger girl, forever known as the “off limits” younger sister. Her heart has always beat a little faster when Preston’s around but the looming shadow of her brother and his past have always kept things from going that one step further.

We also get to see a lot more from our other favorite Sea Breeze couples including more from the focus of book five, Jason Stone. I can’t wait to get my hand on Glines’s next installment!

7 out of 10

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Review: While It Lasts (Sea Breeze, #3) by Abbi Glines

 

After reading Because of Low and being introduced to bad boy, Cage York, I couldn't wait to get my hands on While It Lasts!

Cage’s partying ways have finally caught up to him. After one night of having a little too much to drink and getting behind the wheel, he finds himself with a DUI and in danger of messing up his future set to get himself out of Sea Breeze. His coach sends him to work on a farm for a few weeks to teach him some responsibility. The smelly, hot, and girl-less farm life is not how Cage wants to spend his summer. When he finds out that the farmer’s daughter is drop dead gorgeous, he thinks his time on the farm could actually be fun. That is until he tries talking to her.

Eva the ice queen wants nothing to do with the delinquent working on her Daddy’s farm. After tragedy strikes and her carefully laid plans for her life are shot to hell, she’s content with a solitary life. But it’s hard to resist Cage’s charm and she finds herself strangely attracted to boy living in her Daddy’s barn.

I will tell you that I’m a little biased when it comes to farmer’s daughters stories. I grew up reading my mom’s old cowboy romance novels and I’m a sucker for boots wearing, hay bailing, honk tonk inhabiting guys. While Cage isn’t necessarily a cowboy, Eva is your typical farmer’s daughter who falls for the hired hand and let me tell you, Glines gets steamy with this one! Her books seem to get sexier and sexier and you won't find me complaining!

I loved Eva and Cage’s story. Cage has a chip on his shoulder and an axe to grind while Eva has to overcome her tragic past. Together they find love, passion and a friendship that neither one of them expected.

This is my favorite book in the Sea Breeze series and it’s definitely not one to miss!

9 out of 10

Happy Reading :)

 

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Waiting on Wednesday (20): Forever Too Far (Too Far, #3) by Abbi Glines

I've been reading the romance genre pretty exclusively over the last few months. I've taken dips into contemporary adult romance, new adult and contemporary YA. One of the best outcomes of me reading this genre is that I discovered Abbi Glines. I have read her books faster than I've read any one other (besides Richelle Mead) and I love her books. That being said, her final book in the Too Far series comes out in June and I cannot wait!

Forever Too Far (Too Far, #3) by Abbi Glines

 

Rush promised her forever... but promises can be broken.

Torn between his love for his family and his love for Blaire, Rush has to find a way to save one without losing the other. In the end one has to be more important. Letting go isn’t easy.

Blaire believed in her fairytale... but no one can live in a fantasy.

Her love for Rush and desire to have a family keep her believing that they can find a way for this to work. Until she has to make the right decision for her and the baby. Even if it breaks her heart.

Can they find the forever that they both want or has it all just gone... too far?

Have you read anything by Abbi Glines? What are you waiting on?


 

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Review: Because of Low (Sea Breeze , #2) by Abbi Glines

 

And it’s time for another Abbi Glines review. Her quick, fun and flirty reads can’t be put out fast enough for me. I think I need to have a new weekly meme called Fridays with Glines for the amount of books that I have of hers to read and review.

Marcus Hardy got his heart broken last summer when Sadie chose Jax over him. To make matters worse, he’s had to leave college and come live in Sea Breeze because of a family crisis. Living with his friend Cage seems like it will be the perfect distraction for him as he has to be there for his mom and sister. That all changes with Marcus meets Low, Cage’s best friend and the girl he introduces as his future wife. Low’s troubled past and rocky family situation make it easy for her to lean on Cage for everything. When she meets Marcus, her world is turned upside down. The couple has to battle their own inner demons, their turbulent families and of course... Cage.

I really didn’t know what to expect from the second book in the Sea Breeze series. While I liked Breathe, I found some flaws with the characters and the writing style that made the book a “like”... not a “love”.

In Because of Low, we experience a new host of characters and Glines does a much better job in building her characters, their relationships and their backstories. There was a lot more character development and her characters made better and more realistic decisions, making it easier to fall into the story.

Marcus is an easy character to love. He’s the good little rich boy on the block who you can’t help but fall for. He’s cute, charming and a total gentleman.... quite the opposite of Cage. We don’t see too much of this bad boy but what we do see is a rough around the edges playboy who thinks he’s on top of the world. After peaking, I know that book 3 follows Cage and I can’t wait to see what Glines has in store for him!

Low is a sweetheart whose background gives her a whole lot of sass. All the boys want her and all the girls hate her (except for me, I think we’d be friends... she’s my kind of BFF) and she’s not afraid to show off her rough and tumble side. I liked reading her character because there was a lot of vulnerability in her that you don’t see in many female characters in the genre.

The strongest aspect of this story is the plot. It’s well paced and Marcus and Low’s lives start out worlds apart, but end up intertwining into a web of lies and deceit. I love romance series that don’t follow the same people, but travel from couple to couple. You still get to hear about your old favorites, but you get a delicious new romantic entanglement to read about. The Sea Breeze series is setting itself up to be one of my new favorites.

This is a book for those in the mood for a quick read with a lot of heart. I read it in one sitting and had a smile on my face the whole rest of the night.

8 out of 10

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Fallen Too Far (Too Far, #1) by Abbi Glines

 

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again... I love Abbi Glines. In terms of reading New Adult fiction, Glines is at the top of the heap writing books that are much more well written and cohesive than most of the genre as a whole. I’ve read what she’s put out in her Sea Breeze series and the stories in the Vincent Boys books as well and I’m impressed. Fallen Too Far seemed to get even more recognition than those other two series so I thought I’d give it a try.

Blaire has lost everything. Her high school boyfriend left when life got tough, her father left her family after tragedy struck and most recently, her mother succumbed to cancer. Having nowhere left to go, she drives across state lines to live with her father and his new family. Leaving what’s left of her shamble of a life behind to go live with her deadbeat of a father is the last thing she wants to do, but it’s her last hope. In arriving to the giant mansion with her beat up truck and a single suitcase, she expected to at least find her father home. Instead, her devastatingly attractive step brother is throwing a huge party as their parents are on vacation in Europe. In a story filled with anguish, love, passion and secrets, Blaire finds love and uncovers a truth about her life that she never imagined possible.

 

Whew, it’s a long synopsis but it’s needed. I really, really enjoyed this book. At first, I was nervous about the step brother/step sister vibe happening... taking me back to the days of reading City of Bonesand dying inside. But that aspect of their relationship is never really touched upon. They’re left to their own devices for the majority of the book as their parents are constantly out of town. In fact, you don’t even meet them until the very end of the book.

The characters are your typical romance novel characters. Meet Ryder, dark, dangerous and outlandishly rich. Then there's Blaire. She’s the sassy, down on her luck, younger woman that the aforementioned dangerously rich guy can’t seem to get out of his head. Their relationship, while predictable, was interesting to read because of the plot and mystery behind their story.

From page one, you get a sense that there is more going on in the story than what lies on the surface. Ryder has a hostile reaction to meeting Blaire who has never even laid eyes on the boy and his bitchy younger sister has a loathing for Blaire that can only be described as utter hatred. While Ryder quite obviously warms up to Blaire, as a reader, you can’t help but wonder why everyone else seems to either hate, pity or walk on eggshells around her. At the end, secrets surface that turn Blaire’s world upside down. It was a great twist and an interesting ending to the first book in the series.

If you like bad boys falling for angels, cliff hangers, mystery and family secrets, Fallen Too Far is for you. It’s a quick read with some pretty steamy scenes and those who enjoy a good romance will definitely want to pick this one up!

8 out of 10

Happy Reading :)

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Breathe (Sea Breeze, #1) by Abbi Glines - Reivew

I was just thinking about how hard it is for me to write New Adult book sometimes reviews. I’m very rarely blown out of the water, but for the most part enjoy even the books that weren’t very well written. I’m a sucker for a good romance and so of course, I ended up really loving Breathe’s story. It was different, the concept was unique and the characters were easy to fall for.

Breathe tells the story of Sadie White whose mother is nothing like a mother should be. She’s beautiful, but she’s promiscuous and has found herself pregnant. While Sadie’s mother leaves everything up to Sadie when she’s not pregnant, it’s no surprise that with a child, she’s useless. Sadie is forced to end her summer vacation before it’s even begun and has had to start working as a servant in a mansion on an island in Sea Breeze, Alabama. Without realizing who she’s a servant for, Sadie starts her job only to find that she’s working in the most popular and sought after rock star of his age, Jax Stone. He takes an interest in Sadie and she soon finds her world is turned upside down as she gets to know the guy behind the guitar.

First and foremost, I want to get my biggest issue with this book out in the open. Insta-love. That’s right. Instant love happened in Breathe and it really threw me for a loop. I was disappointed! I love reading about the chase, but Sadie and Jax seem to jump into the “I love you’s” and “I can’t be without you’s” without really spending much time together. It was frustrating... I liked their characters, but this aspect of the plot almost made me stop reading.

Putting my insta-love issue aside, I really enjoyed this book. The characters were fun, I loved the idea that a young girl working for a living, meets and falls for the guy that every girl in America wants. It’s very Maid in Manhattan.

I also loved that the setting was in the South. I’m a Southern girl transplant living in the Northeast (what was I thinking...) and so I love reading those stories that have sweet guys that say “yes ma’am” and “ya’ll.” That’s what I grew up hearing and it’s comforting. Did I fall for a well mannered, southern gentleman in real life? Of course not, my guy is a Yank in every sense of the word. Loud, New York accent, Yankie’s fan... but the heart wants what the heart wants.

I’m cheating as I write this review because I’ve already flown through the 3 other books in the series and so I have to tell you now, it gets better. Oh man, do these books get better. The insta-love problem is no longer an issue in the books to come and they get steamy... oh boy, do they get steamy! It’s a good sign if I read 3 books in one weekend... and that’s what happened. I couldn’t read them fast enough.

Breathe was a quick, sweet read and got me excited for the Sea Breeze series as a whole. Abbi Glines has me in her sights and I don't think I'm going to be able to stop until I've read all her books.

7 out of 10

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