If you like Collide by Gail McHugh, Fifty Shades of Grey by EL james, and Her Forbidden Hero by Laura Kaye, then you will love this series!!!
Basic Summary:
Avery has probably had the worst day of her life, when she comes across
a kind stranger who helps her chase down her car when it is stolen right in
front of her. Everyday seems like a
struggle for her, every day is a battle to survive. She has a crappy roommate, a crappy job, a
crappy car, and a scholarship to keep and if she gets just one bad grade she
not only loses her scholarship but a roof over her head. Her parents are both dead, and she has no one
to turn until her friend Mel opens another door of possibility for her, a high
priced call girl. All her financial
issues would melt away if she just takes the job, and Avery isn't willing to do
that until she sees the picture of Sean the handsome stranger who helped her
and who seems to be stalking her. For
once Avery considers that it takes to survive and what choices she has to make
to stop drowning in her crappy life.
When she finally says yes and meets Sean, Avery gets more than she
bargained for, the first time ending with her madam pulling her out of the
hotel room, and the second time Sean leaving after he freaks out. Each short story leaves you needing more of
Avery and Sean, and it’s impossible to predict what will happen next.
“I
wonder how I fell so far so fast. If someone
told me that I’d be doing this a year ago, I would have laughed in their
faces. Now nothing is funny. Truth is like that, sharp as a knife and
twice as painful.”
What I Love About This Series:
Each ending leaves you wanting more, no matter if it’s the middle of the
night or in the middle of the day the minute you finish one short story you
have to start the next one immediately!!!!
Avery is in complete despair, so much
you can almost taste just how desperate she really is. Everything for her hangs on her scholarship to
just keep a roof over her head. She has
no real home since her parents were killed, and has no money and nowhere to go
if she loses her scholarship. Avery has
the worst roommate known to man, her car is basically a box of metal and her
job doesn't pay her nearly enough for the way she gets treated there. No one grows up thinking they want to become
a prostitute, but circumstances can sometimes push you into decisions you wouldn't normally make. I think anyone
can relate to circumstances sucking so much you make decisions to just survive
or get by and that makes Avery very relatable.
Sean Ferro, he is a dark twisted man
who I already had a somewhat negative view on because I read Damaged and
Damaged 2, which deals with his brother.
I already knew what haunted him from reading the other series, but it
skims over it slightly not really going into detail. From the very beginning though I kind of
forgot my first impressions of him and saw him in a different light reading
this book. I don’t really have to hear
his point of view to know what happened in his past, because in the very
beginning he is dangerous or mean; he just seems very broken. This makes him very lovable, something we all
look for in these wonderful leading men when read these types of books. He’s rich, he’s hot, he’s dark, he’s broken,
and he needs someone like Avery to fix him.
“I want to feel
everything. I want to feel lust,
passion, and fear. I want whatever is on
the other side of this.”
Cons:
As much as I like these story lines I’m not a huge fan of the author’s
writing style. When she describes the
settings around the characters the sentences to me seem very fragmented and
give not real details. For example when
describing a bathroom in the Arrangement 2; “The room is blush colored marbles,
with white accents. It’s beautiful.” That’s all you get as far as descriptions go,
I want to know where the tub is placed when Avery walks in the door, where the
shower is, what shape is the tub are there any decorations, etc. A lot of the descriptions are like this when
it comes to settings, but the author is able to go into more detail when it
comes to Avery’s many luxurious dresses.
It always kind of annoys me when authors can go into great detail about
clothing, but skip over it in other areas.
It’s inconsistent and it makes the lack of details more obvious in my
opinion. I know that doesn't bother a
lot people because they like things left up to their own imagination but for
me, those details pull me into the story even more and into the character’s
lives as well.
I
started writing this review before I was done with the 10 stories that are out
right now. I have to say that the last
one that’s out right now, the arrangement 10, I almost want to give this series
just two stars because of it. I feel
like the last one was just a filler, it didn't need to be written at all, you could’ve just added the ending to story 9
and move on. It reminded me of when a TV
show jumps the shark and veers off course because story 10 was just so
wasteful, the conversation between mel and avery are pointless and avery’s
reaction when she meets up with sean in NJ is completely a waste of time.
I get the
draw of the back and forth in books like these.
But even in Fifty Shades of Grey in the entire last book they were
married!!! It’s too much already, stop drawing out their love story, it’s too
much and I can see from many other reviews I’m not the only person that feels
that way. Sometimes you have rein in it
and get back to the original path you were going down because I feel like somewhere
between book 9 and 10 the author has lost her way and the appeal the original
story held.
Overall: Awesome
story, there are points in this whole saga that I honestly don’t know how Avery
and Sean will work it out and you get so entwined in their broken lives that it’s
like crack; you finish one story you and just need to start the next one so it will
hold you over before you go to sleep.
Yet
like I said I feel the last couple of stories that they are fillers because
there isn't much story to tell. It just
got a little too much, with naked guy, and Mel, and Amber, and Marty, and OMG
we get it!!!!! The last two books jumped the shark so much I really could care
less what Sean has to ask Avery and what their ending might be.
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