Book Review: Declan by Tiffany Lee

I received a free book in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

I loved this book.  Tiffany Lee is an amazing author and I can’t wait for more from her. 

I adored Lizbeth.  I like that she is a paralegal, since I am too.  I also liked that she is a survivor.  She is an amazing mom and woman.  I loved that regardless of what had happened to her, she wasn’t afraid to let Declan in.  I admired her for not ever giving up.

As for Declan, holy smokes, he is amazing.  He is sweet, fierce, loving, tender, incredibly sexy…the perfect package and just what Lizbeth needs so she can see that not all men are horrible. 

The plot was well thought out with believable characters. The writing was really good with very good editing.

I do wish that she had elaborated a little bit more on the bad guy and their connection to others in the book.  She told us some detail but never really clarified how that relationship had come to be and how it had evolved over the years.

I can’t wait for the next book and I love that the epilogue takes place seven years after but it doesn’t give away any details of the next book and how it turns out.  I am really excited to see what happens to Sophia but I really hope it doesn’t take seven years to get it all straightened out. 

This was a fabulous book and I will recommend it to all my romance reading friends as well as telling them to keep an eye on this amazing new author.

Book Review: Love Garage by Liz Crowe

I received a free copy of this book for my unbiased opinion. 

I did not like this book and I would not recommend it. I felt that the characters were very immature. No one talked to each other. The brothers resolved things by beating each other up and the couples just had sex. Even at the end of the book when they were supposed to have a conversation with the matriarch of the family, they still didn’t say anything. Considering none of the couples had a conversation, the “happily-ever-after” end seemed very far-fetched to me.

I also didn’t like that there were random sex scenes just thrown into the book, including a three-some that had nothing to do with the plot. This scene to me just highlighted how immature Aiden was.

I loved the little boy, Jeffrey. He brought character and humor to the book. Unfortunately, those were missing from the other characters.

I did like the way the author made sure that you knew what month it was and showed the passage of time. I also liked how she wrote about the complex relationships between the brothers and highlighted how different they were from each other.

I would have liked this book if it was just about one brother and his story and not about the whole family. It felt like the author was forcing the story to go one way when it really wanted to go another because there were too many players involved. If she had focused on Antony and his healing so he wasn’t so grumpy and could accept love, instead of bringing in Aiden and the love triangle plots, it would have been better. Honestly, because of Antony and Rosalee’s actions, I seriously disliked both of them and didn’t want them to have happy endings. I felt they were both selfish and didn’t care who they hurt in the process.

The author's writing style and prose is nice. She uses descriptions well so you can see the scene. Unfortunately, the character development was lacking in this book.