by Marie Harte
Blurb:
What
do you do when a "fake" relationship is so much better than the real
thing?
Hope
Donnigan is finlly getting her life together. She's working a job she likes,
has some amazing friends, and is steering clear of Mr. Wrong. Now if only she
could get her mother to understand that. Maybe a hot tattoo artist from the
other side town is just the ticket to teach her mom a lesson.
J.T. Webster fell for Hope months ago at his sister's wedding. So when she propositions him to be her fake boyfriend to get her mother off her back, he's all in. The only problem is J.T. had no idea their pretend relationship would be better than anything real he's ever had...
Themes: Contemporary
Rating: 4.75 stars
Heat Rating: 
Review:
The
final book in the Donnigan Trilogy has finally landed and seriously I need to
go back and read this greatness again just to appreciate the full level of
awesomeness. For long time fans of Marie Harte most of the characters in this
book will be extremely familiar and much loved, but most of us have been
waiting a long time to see J.T. find his own HEA with the woman of his dreams,
who it just so happens turns out to be the sister of the Donnigan boys. This story begins with a typical trope of “fake
boyfriend turned real” but soon we see the magic of Marie lead us into the true
and abiding love that never fails to make her novels truly memorable. I loved every second of this story and though
I was sad to see the end of the series, I am wondering what comes next and if
we will be seeing more of these characters in future series coming our way, because I want to see how J.T. and Hope fare in the future. J.T. has been a
tiny bit obsessed with Hope since the first moment he saw her, but he knows she
is beyond off limits to him because of all the twisted family connections
between them. Hope has her own little crush on the sexy bad boy, but she’s
never really gotten a chance to know him, because if she had she would have known how
truly in trouble she would be when she goes to him for help with a scheme to
convince her mother to back off of her matchmaking. J.T. is the kind of deep character that on
the surface you could write off as just another bad boy, but once we get to
know him we can see the sweet, charming, wounded soul underneath, and of course
the sexy factor only increases because of it.
His intensity and the way he shows Hope just what she means to him, even
as he knows he could never keep her, gives every woman hope (sorry no pun
intended) that we might find our own bad boy with a heart of gold out there somewhere
someday. Hope has her own issues, not
the least of which are her problems with her mother (boy, do I relate to the
mother issues), but when she pulls J.T. into her life she never imagined she’d
found the best thing to ever happen to her.
He boosts her confidence in herself and shows her that she is the
perfect woman just the way she is and she doesn’t need to change for anyone,
and what woman doesn’t want that from her lover. I enjoyed seeing her finding her footing and
accepting that sometimes wanting something different from everyone else doesn’t
make you “less” just different and realizing that ambition doesn’t look the
same for everyone. The chemistry between Hope and J.T. was off the scale and
there is no way you will be able to keep cool reading their story, even if you’re
in a bikini in the snow! I only wish the story could have gone on even longer
so I could have continued to enjoy it, but that’s the beauty of books isn’t it—always
we can reread and enjoy again and again. I am looking forward to whatever Marie
sends us next and cannot wait to find out more about the interesting people of
this town. If you have missed the other
series that link to this story, you might miss some of the subtle backstory,
but Marie never leaves us hanging so don’t fear… but I DO highly recommend
picking up those other series and having a field day with them ASAP. Another sensual and satisfying ending to a
series of sexy and badass men.
*ebook provided by publisher (via
netgalley) for the purpose of an honest and unbiased review. No compensation was provided.
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