Review: Untamable Greeks 1, What the Greek's Money Can't Buy by Maya Blake

Name: What the Greek's Money Can't Buy (Untamable Greeks 1)
Author: Maya Blake
Published: March 18, 2014



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The forbidden tastes all the sweeter…

Oil magnate Sakis Pantelides always gets what he wants -- after all, he's drop-dead gorgeous, powerful and wealthy beyond words. But the one thing he can't have is his stunning assistant, Brianna Moneypenny -- because she's the only woman this cynical Greek can trust.

But when an international crisis throws them together 24/7, intriguingly buttoned-up Brianna reveals a sensual hunger that rivals his own, and he realizes just what he's been denying himself for so long. But when his perfect PA's secret is discovered, will he pay the price for taking what he wants?



Oh—agapita? It means “beloved”


This book is very short, which is complicated to make a review about it, but here it is.
What the Greek's Money Can't Buy is faat to read and it can be done in less than 3 hours. I recommend it, if you don't know what to read o not have time to read a lot. It only has 12 chapters.





NOW, I'm gonna write lots of SPOILERS, so if you don't want to read and spoiled yourself I highly recommend you to leave.






Brianna works for Sakis, they find out about an accident outside London, so decided to go by themselves and see the problem with their own eyes. They spent a night in the same suite. Brinna hadn't have sex with Sakis because he told her so in the interview.
Sakis' brothers, Arion and Theo, notice that Sakis is different with Brianna, but she doesn't want have any personal relationship with him.


‘What’s another?’
‘Not to get involved with the boss.’
‘Hmm, that’s one I agree with.’
‘Then... what are you doing?’ she asked plaintively.
‘Proving that this isn’t more than temporary insanity.’ His voice reflected the dazed confusion she felt.
‘Won’t walking away prove the same thing? As you said, this might not be exactly wise.’
‘Or this is nothing but a no-big-deal kiss. It’ll only become a big deal if we aren’t able to handle what happens afterwards.’


Sakis doesn't trust someone easily, but with Brianna, he finds very simple to do it. Sakis tells her the problems he had with his father, as Brianna tells her problems with her drug addict mother. Sakis starts having doubts about her because she was texted by someone at 3 am, and doesn't tell him about it.

Brianna decides to tell him the truth about her past and why she'd change her name. Sakis feels betrayed by the woman he loves, so he leaves her without letting her explain.
Sakis discovers the truth and goes to find Brianna and confess his love.

‘When did the rest of you catch up?’
‘In Greece, after I withstood Ari and Theo’s ribbing and I admitted that I didn’t want to live without you. I intended to tell you after the party.’

As I said before, this review was a little make to make. The book's a few words in Greek, and that was the thing the motivated me to read this book. Idk when I'll start the next book, which are about Sakis' bothers, Arion and Theo. Hopefully soon.

Review: A Beautiful Funeral by Jamie McGuire

Name: A Beautiful Funeral (the Maddox Brothers 5, Beautiful 3)
Author: Jamie McGuire
Published: August 15, 2016



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Losing has never been easy for a Maddox, but death always wins. 

Eleven years to the day after eloping in Vegas with Abby, Special Agent Travis Maddox delivers his own brand of vigilante justice to mob boss Benny Carlisi. Vegas's oldest and most violent crime family is now preparing for vengeance, and the entire Maddox family is a target. 

The secret Thomas and Travis have kept for a decade will be revealed to the rest of the family, and for the first time the Maddoxes will be at odds. While none of them are strangers to loss, the family has grown, and the risk is higher than ever. With brothers against brothers and wives taking sides, each member will make a choice—let the fear tear them apart, or make them stronger.


“Stay together. Love one another. I mean it, damn it.”


OMFG!! You guys should go a pick the damn book up!

The book starts after 11 years from the other books. It has multiple POVs, which great. It is really fast to read. It's only, ONLY, 25 chapters.
This is the end of all the Maddox brothers, I think. It gets since the first line. I almost forgot, we have tons of characters in this books!

NOW, I'm gonna write lots of SPOILERS, so if you don't want to read and spoiled yourself I highly recommend you to leave.


You're warned SPOILER ALERT



So, it all start with Thomas having to fake his own death to keep the Maddox fam alive. Only Travis, Liis and Abby know about the plan.

Meanwhile this happen, we have the others Maddoxes with their own problems such as: Falyn and Taylor are NOT together because of Taylor jealousy; and Camille and Trent don't have a child, no matter how hard they try. The good thing is that the rest of them (Tyler/Ellie, Shep/Mare, Travis/Abby) are okay with their spouses.


Abby's pregnant with Travis' third child, Carter, besides Jessica and James. Shep and Mare have three kids: Eli, Emerson and Ezra. Taylor and Falyn have two: Hadley and Hollis. Tyler and Ellie have one: Gavin. And Liis and Thomas have one: Stella.

Travis tells his family that he works for the FBI, and also was Thomas, and that's how he got shot. Trent and Taylor got angry for not telling them, and later Shep join them. When Liis arrives at Jim's, she also tells that she works for the FBI and announces that Thomas has died.

After a few weeks, Thomas appeared in his dad's house saying that what he did was to protected of the family from Benny's daughter. Val, an agent and Liis bbf, tells Tommy that Carlisi’s bodyguard, Chiara, is in the town looking for them.

“Everyone all right?” I yelled. I looked at Dad, and he nodded. I patted him on the shoulder. “Once a cop…”
“Always a cop,” Dad grunted, pushing himself up off the ground.

In that moment, someone started shooting towards them, and Olive was shot and die, protecting Stella. Chiara kills Jim.

Dad smiled. “I’m pretty tired. And I’d really like to see your mom.”

In the last pages we see how Jim reunited with Diane, and he sees their kids saying their goodbyes to him.

I sat in the back row of the auditorium, watching my sons prepare to say their goodbyes to me. Olive’s funeral was the day before, and they all looked weary and heartbroken. I wanted nothing more than to hold them and help them through their heartbreak, but it was the one time I couldn’t be there for them.

We also read how Jim and Diane were when she was pregnant with each of the boys.



I really liked this book, I thought, before reading ABF, that only Jim would die, I didn't expect Olive dying, I didn't remember her as well. Btw, the last chapter was my fave, most of all because we see how the Maddoxes were like when they were kids, and how Tommy was. I love see that the couples had changed, and how supportive they are to each other.

MY FAVOURITE SO FAR!

Review: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

 

Name: It Ends With Us
Author: Colleen Hoover
Published: August 2, 2016






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Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.


Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming


I finished this book just a few hours ago and the only I can say is that IT WAS GREAT!
I was a little nervous before I read this book because I knew it was totally different from what I've read from Colleen.
If you're a CoHo fan, you know how Colleen writes, but in this book is totally unexpected! It is an eternal rollercoaster, and you'll laugh and you'll cry.
If you haven't read yet, you must go and pick this amazing book

SPOILERS START NOW! 


“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”

Where do I have to sign to get someone who can turn this in a movie? That was my first thought after six hours of reading this masterpiece.

I thought I was going to fell for Ryle, I really did ship them, and liked him, past tense, until he slammed Lily and she did nothing but blame herself.

It Ends With Us starts with Ryle, a neurosurgeon, a Lily met in Ryle's sister's roof. They started talking, and Ryle tells Lily that doesn't want a girlfriend or children. When the night ends, they go and never see each other.
Six months later, Lily opens a floral shop and hires Alyssa, whose Ryle's sister but Lily didn't know. Ryle and Lily start dating and eventually, get married.

While the story develops, Lily allows us to get a glimpse from her past by reading some journals she wrote addressed to Ellen Degeneres. Those she wrote every night sinve her father started hitting her mother. And also, she wrote about Atlas, the homeless boy she felt in love with when she was a teenager.
She discoveres that Atlas is a successful chef with his own business, and he lives in Boston. He tells her to leave Ryle.

Lily starts living the same way her mom lived with her father. A husband who hits his wife, and the wife does nothing about it. Lily had always thought that it was easy leave an abusive relationship, until she found herself involved into one.
Each time that Ryle hit her, she tried to excused him, maybe it was the wine, because she ran after him or because he loves her so much.
Until one day, Ryle try to rape her and she decides that too much and calls Atlas to help her. Atlas helps her and takes her to a hospital, where they discover that she's pregnant.

Ryle decides to go to England to study for three months. So, Lily goes to their apartment, and leave Atlas behind. Ryle returns before the day, and Lily tells him she's pregnant, he gives her space and Lily stays in the apartment by herself.

In the last weeks of her pregnancy, Lily talks to Ryle, telling him she's not sure about their relationship and they talk about the baby. They get alone, Ryle helps her with everything and anything.

Once the baby is born, Lily asked Ryle the divorce and he accepted.

“Ryle,” I say gently. “What would you do? If one of these days, this little girl looked up at you and she said, ‘Daddy? My boyfriend hit me.’ What would you say to her, Ryle? [...] What if she came to you and said, ‘Daddy? My husband pushed me down the stairs. He said it was an accident. What should I do?’  [...] What if... What if she came to you and said, ‘My husband tried to rape me, Daddy. He held me down while I begged him to stop. But he swears he’ll never do it again. What should I do, Daddy?’  [...] What would you say to her, Ryle? Tell me. I need to know what you would say to our daughter if the man she loves with all her heart ever hurts her.”
A sob breaks from his chest. He leans toward me and wraps an arm around me. “I would beg her to leave him, [...] I would tell her that she is worth so   much more. And I would beg her not to go back, no matter how much he loves her. She’s worth so much more.”

The last pages, we see that Emmy, Ryle and Lily's daughter, is 11 months old, and she is about to spend the day with her daddy. Lily is getting there when she crushed a man and he is Atlas.

I’m out of breath, panting and nervous. “I forgot to tell you Emerson’s middle name.”[...] It’s Dory.”
His mouth twitches like he’s forcing back a smile. “What a perfect name for her.”


I'm in love with this book!! Once i got it, I couldn't let it go. So, after this review, I have to say my favourite scene, and a part of any scene where Atlas was, it was when Lily talks to her mom her doubts about getting back Ryle or not, that scene really got me. I liked that Lily decided to named her baby girl after Ryle's bother, Emerson

“Don’t be like me, Lily. I know that you believe he loves you, and I’m sure he does. But he’s not loving you the right way. He doesn’t love you the way you deserve to be loved. If Ryle truly loves you, he wouldn’t allow you to take him back. He would make the decision to leave you himself so that he knows for a fact he can never hurt you again. That’s the kind of love a woman deserves, Lily.”

Introduction

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I'm Kate, nice to meet you all!
So, I'm gonna tell how this blog is going to work.
I love reading, usually shared my thoughts about any book to my friends, so I've decided I should do the same with the people who reads this!

It is so weird be here because I was that 'better wait for the movie' kind of person.
It all began with me reading the Fifty Shades trilogy, I read it in less than four days! I was amazed because I haven't read any book before, or even the school's books.

The blog will work as a place where I tell you info about the book, a few quotes and my thoughts and how I felt while I was reading the book! And also, you can do the same. Always respecting each other.

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