Laura’s Review of Adrift (Kill Devil Hills, #4) by Sarah Darlington

Synopsis

What happens when the world thought you were dead and now suddenly you aren’t?

Ben Turner is back! Not quite as dead as everyone thought, fresh out of a nine-month stay in prison, and back home in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Having been dishonorably discharged after charges of desertion from the military, this once well-loved local has fallen from the top. With no plans for college or the future, and hated by the town that once loved him, Ben feels like he’s drowning all over again.

Juniper is pregnant, alone, and running from her crazy fiancé. With only enough money for a one-way bus ticket, she heads to Kill Devil Hills, NC, a town she vacationed in as a little girl, a town she knows, come February, will have plenty of beach rentals to lie low in for the next couple months. Except she didn’t plan on getting caught on day one by the man living next door. Ben. He’s a man who has even more problems than she does, but maybe it’ll take a man like Ben to save her life.

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What I Loved

        I have been waiting for so long to finally get my hands on Ben’s story.  This man literally came back from the dead, a death which was so poignant in book one of the series and I wanted answers.  What made Ben walk away from his family and friends, leave all the popularity behind and fake his own death?  I’m not going to spoil anything and tell you why, but I will say you do find out and I hope, like me, you’ll like it.

 

I ate up this story for so many reasons one of which was because Ben was a compelling character in this series already and the story finally being from his point of view continued that feeling.  The story begins with him trying to pick up the pieces of his life that he so casually threw away, only to come back and everything be so different.  That’s when he meets this red headed hotty living next store that doesn’t judge him from his past actions, because she has no clue who he is. 

        Juniper’s back story grabs your heart from the moment the book switches to her point of view.  She’s desperate and with next to nothing to her name she ends up in Kill Devil Hills.  When she sneaks into an abandoned beach house for the winter, she never expected to fall for the hot neighbor boy but it was obvious from the start there was definite chemistry between them.  As you come to find out Juniper messes up a lot along the way but you still love her anyway, very much the same way you love Ben.  He messed up faking his death but you still want him to be happy at the end of it all.

Not So Much

        When everything comes to a head towards the end, I felt like it all kind of just ended and then was swept under the rug and not thought out.  It was like the plot just ended with no further explanation because it stopped serving its purpose.  To me, the lack of follow through made the entire story feel shallow and not giving the plot the emotional depth it was due.  The book just moves along from a scary scene to a happy one and it all felt a little unfinished.  I also wish there was more depth with the secondary characters towards the end.   They were important characters throughout the series and as a reader you become invested in all their stories, and they were all just left unfinished in some ways or with little explanation.  I felt like they deserved more than that.

To Sum It All Up!

      Overall this was a fun quick book to read and I’m happy I did.  Ben was someone I wasn’t sure I was going to really get behind.  From reading the rest of the books in this series, Ben doesn’t come out looking too good.  Which is fair, because he made a lot of selfish decisions that hurt the people that love him the most.  When he does come back to Kill Devil Hills, he expects it to be as he left it and is almost upset when it isn’t.  But as the story unfolds and I learned more about Ben Turner, my heart warmed up to him, especially when it came to his feelings for Juniper.  

        The Chemistry between the two of them was instantaneous even though circumstances were not ideal for either of them.  Juniper needed someone who would support her no matter what and Ben became her savior in so many ways.  I loved Juniper’s attitude and spirit and she made it easy for me to fall in love with their story.  There is some suspense sprinkled into this budding romance and it made the story more appealing.  It was wonderful watching these two fall in love with one another, and to see Ben get what he’s been missing for so many years was heartwarming.  I do wish there was more follow through with the story then was granted but other than that this was a great read.

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Kill Devil Hills #4

By Sarah Darlington

Release Date: May 30, 2017

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Ben Turner is back! After unsuccessfully faking his own death, he's back home in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. With no plans for college or the future, and hated by the town that once loved him, Ben feels like he’s drowning. Until he meets the girl next door, a runaway like him, and she changes everything.

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man-child. noun.
: a grown man who is very immature, therefor considered a man-child

manwhore. noun.
: a promiscuous man who has no regard for his sexual partners or the emotional value of his relationships

Rhett Morgan couldn't have been more wrong for me. The guy drank beer in the shower, for crying out loud. He had no prospects for the future, had slept with half the women in our beach town of Kill Devil Hills, and had no desire to change his manwhore ways.

And when Ben Turner, the guy I had loved from afar for the past four years, died and I couldn't get over his death, I desperately needed a distraction. A distraction like Rhett. So I used him for a one-night stand. Because, after all, that's the only thing a guy like Rhett is good for...right?

What I Loved

          I’m a big fan of the Kill Devil Hills series so there wasn’t much I didn’t love about this book.  I’ve been waiting to get to Rhett and Sydney’s story since the very first book and was not disappointed in the least when I finished it.  We meet Sydney in school hopelessly in love with popular guy, she’s a nobody amongst her peers and has always just blended into the background.  Fast forward a couple years Sydney has blossomed into a beautiful woman and wanting to spend one night the man that gave her, her first kiss.

          Rhett has always been the funny one amongst his group of friends, and although we get drips and drabs of his and Sydney’s store in books 1 and 2 we finally get it all in Pulled Under.  Even though Rhett is a playboy and definitely gets around there wasn’t much I didn’t love about him.  He knows his way around a bar as much as he does a woman and there is nothing wrong with that.  I loved how hard he fell for Sydney and fought hard to break down her barriers she put up after Ben’s death.  Their story is definitely a sexy one filled with plenty of ups and plenty of downs and I enjoyed every minute of it.

Not So Much

       

          This is going to be a short section because there wasn’t much I didn’t like about this book.  I definitely like that there were more details in this installment compared to the rest so I was pleasantly surprised in that category.  I do wish we got a little bit more Ben and Sydney interaction though.  Ben has kind of been a mystery in this series and I’m anxious to crack him open. It was apparent him and Sydney had this bond from the very beginning of this series, so it would have been nice to maybe delve just a little bit more into that, show more interactions and conversations between the two. 

To Sum It All Up!

          I really enjoyed Pulled Under, it’s a quick easy read about finding love when you least expect it.  Sydney was easy to love and her character immediately sucked me in and kept me there.  She totally had her heart broken by Ben and it was so great that Rhett was there to pick up the pieces.  The sexual chemistry between these two was off the charts hot and it was lots of fun reading their various and very steamy sex scenes.  Rhett is one hot bartender and I wouldn’t mind him making me a drink any day of the week!  This is such a fun series each one is hard to put down and sucks me in from the very first page.  I am praying that Ben’s story is next because I can’t wait to crack open that shell.

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Pulled Under

(Kill Devil Hills, #3)

By Sarah Darlington

Synopsis

man-child. noun.

: a grown man who is very immature, therefor considered a man-child

manwhore. noun.

: a promiscuous man who has no regard for his sexual partners or the emotional value of his relationships

Rhett Morgan couldn't have been more wrong for me. The guy drank beer in the shower, for crying out loud. He had no prospects for the future, had slept with half the women in our beach town of Kill Devil Hills, and had no desire to change his manwhore ways.

And when Ben Turner, the guy I had loved from afar for the past four years, died and I couldn't get over his death, I desperately needed a distraction. A distraction like Rhett. So I used him for a one-night stand. Because, after all, that's the only thing a guy like Rhett is good for...right?

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Sucking in a breath, I took him in. Rhett was good-looking in the completely opposite way of Ben. Ben had been handsome in a clean-cut, manicured way. Then there was Rhett…who looked like he could have been a construction worker or a firefighter…or maybe a male stripper dressed up as a construction worker or a firefighter. He was lean, muscular, tan, rugged, and the very sight of him, even from a distance, brought heat to my cheeks.

Not to mention, the man was like catnip. The bar area was packed with hungry felines on the prowl. He moved fast, making drinks, smiling at the women he served, and embodying every frat-boy (minus the frat) image I could conjure in my mind. The memory of him from when I was sixteen wasn’t something easily forgotten, and a tingle touched my lips as my mind replayed the kiss we’d once shared.

Still…he wasn’t Ben.

Sadness washed over me like a bucket of ice water. I shook off the feeling. Rhett had made me feel better once before, and I had no reason to doubt the same thing couldn’t work for me a second time. The only difference now was, I wanted to take it to the next level. I wanted to give up my virginity to him…tonight. No point in saving myself for someone who wasn’t alive anymore.

“Holy shit,” I said aloud. Breaking my eyes away from Rhett, I brought my attention back to the table and to my drink. Feeling like I was buried ten feet deep in teenage hormones, grief, and God knows what else, I removed the straw, as it was only slowing me down, and I finished the remainder of my drink in a giant swallow. The alcohol burned going down, and I grimaced. “That man is not for the faint of heart,” I mumbled to myself as I set down a now empty glass. “And neither is my plan for him tonight.”

Kimberly sighed. “The teacher in me probably should warn you that this is a bad idea,” she said, shaking her head. “But the girlfriend in me is going to do the opposite.” She leaned closer and her face turned very sincere. “You deserve this—to be young and stupid and go for something you want. All we have is the present moment. The past is gone, and the future isn’t guaranteed. So have a little fun. Knock that boy off his feet.”

For the first time in a long time, I laughed. “He’s not going to remember me.”

She shrugged. “So what. Make a new memory.”

Convinced, though I’d made up my mind hours before coming here tonight, I stood up ready to go talk to Rhett, ready for whatever to happen.

Kimberly’s eyes went wide. “Yes,” she whispered. “You can do this.”

“I need to know something,” I said, lingering by the table. “Are you sure you’re okay with this? I kind of got the impression that you might have liked Rhett when you went to high school with him. I could find someone else—”

“No. Rhett is perfect for this. Sure, I had a crush on him like everyone else in high school, but that was ages ago. I’m with Cody now. I love Cody. I don’t need a man-child like Rhett, that’s for damn certain.” She smirked at me. “But you go get your man-child, honey. He should be fun for one night.”

“Fine.” Laughing, I left Kimberly. I’d lied to her a second ago. If she’d said no about Rhett than I wouldn’t be attempting this with someone random. Only Rhett would do.

Feeling surprisingly confident, I approached the bar. I wore a short beach dress that buttoned in the front and showed off my long legs. My platinum hair was curled in big waves, beauty pageant worthy, and it fell just past my shoulders. I’d even broken out the high heels for this. No matter who I was on the inside, outwardly I wasn’t the nerdy girl with glasses anymore.

There was exactly one open seat. Setting my purse on top of the bar, I sat down. I unbuttoned one more button on my cotton dress and waited to be noticed. Rhett’s back was to me so he wasn’t noticing anything.

Five minutes passed and nothing happened. I unbuttoned another button, but changed my mind and redid it when the older man sitting beside me started staring at my chest and winking at me between sips of his whiskey.

Oh God. My confidence began to falter.

The bar was chaos, with only two bartenders working, and they both struggled to keep up with their demand. Rhett moved more quickly than the girl working, but he worked the opposite end from where I sat and had yet to even glance in my direction. I realized I was crazy-pants for thinking I could just walk over here and he'd suddenly see me, remember me, and we'd have some magical repeat moment of the one we had shared years ago.

Yeah, not happening.

Another woman already had Rhett’s undivided attention. Brunette. Older than me. Ruby red lips with a leopard print bikini on under a sheer cover up. She was, without a doubt, a sure thing. Between every drink he poured, he'd return to her for a brief moment of flirting. I couldn't hear what they were saying, but the chemistry between them was enough to let me know that I had a better chance at winning the lottery tonight than ending up in his bed.

“What can I get ya, babe? Piña Coladas are on special tonight—three dollars.”

It took me a moment to realize someone was speaking to me. I had Rhett blinders on and had completely missed the woman bartender who waited impatiently for me to acknowledge her. My eyes focused on her name tag—Luce. When I finally realized how incredibly rude I was being, she had already started walking away from me, shaking her head and huffing under her breath.

"Rhett," she hollered, as she motioned towards me. “Your customer.”

Oh shit!

At her words, Rhett glanced over his shoulder in my direction. He looked right through me as he called out, “One moment,” before returning to his brunette.

I wanted to run from the bar. My stomach felt queasy, and that vodka tonic threatened to come back up. “This was a stupid idea," I murmured to myself.

Rhett took his sweet-ass time finishing his conversation with the brunette before making his way toward me. It took him so damn long that by the time he came for my drink order, I no longer felt quite so nervous.

“Hello there, princess. What can I get for you?" he asked, smiling and cocking an eyebrow at me, charm oozing out of him. “Piña Coladas are on special tonight,” he told me, rubbing a hand over his closely shaved head and speaking fast. It was clear, even if he did it with a smile on his face, he was trying to hurry me into making a decision. “You look like a Piña Colada kind of girl. How ‘bout I get you one of those?”

He had a very nice smile, which he clearly used to his advantage. He did, after all, work for tips. But whether his charm and that smile were real or fake, they pissed me off. I was too much of a cynic, something I knew I’d picked up by being raised by my very straight-forward, realist of a brother, to put up with his bullshit.

“What the hell?” I snapped, my frustrations pouring out of me. “Do you all have a giant premade batch of Piña Colada that you need to sell before the end of the night? Because I happen to hate coconut.” I didn’t actually hate coconut. “Fifty percent of people hate coconut.”I made up that statistic. “If you’re going to offer something that half the population hates, you should at least have a second drink option on special as an alternative, otherwise you’re discriminating. Besides, do I look twenty-one? I’m eighteen—learn how to card.”

“Shit. You’re a cop.”

“No, I’m not a cop. I don’t even want a drink.” I started rummaging around in my purse for nothing in particular because I needed something to do with my hands. I was beyond annoyed and, frankly, a little hurt. “Can we pretend this conversation never happened? I would much rather keep my glorified memories intact. And—”

I stopped talking and digging when his fingers gently touched the underside of my chin. Swallowing, I looked up from my bag. Why the hell was he touching me?

“I know you," he whispered, the color draining from his face.

"No you don't," I said pulling away from his touch and standing from my seat.

"Yes, I do. You've changed, but those green eyes I haven’t forgotten.”

Everything slowed down. I stood there with my bag slung over my shoulder and my feet frozen to the floor. The noise of the chaotic bar faded into the background. He stared at me, and I stared at him. He recognized me, and with that recognition his whole demeanor changed. Sincerity, I suppose, was the difference I suddenly saw in him.

“You came back," he said after a moment, smiling.

This smile, I could tell, was genuine.

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"Nate West. Hollywood bad-boy. Television megastar. Womanizer. Basically everything I hate about the male species rolled into one handsome package. And yet…I want him."

Ellie Turner is a lesbian. She has tattoos, short hair, and a ‘don’t-mess-with-me-attitude.’ She knows who she is, loves who she is, and couldn’t care less what the rest of the world thinks of her. And since she has the most kick-ass best friend on the planet, Noah Clark, even when family drama gets in the way, nothing can offset her happy-go-lucky demeanor.

Until television star Nate West comes along. All thick muscle and alpha-male testosterone. When Ellie meets him on an airplane the only thing Nate West should be good for is a brand new profile picture on Facebook. Right? Wrong. Turns out he’s good for so much more.

This man is going to flip everything Ellie thought she knew about herself upside down.

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She was exactly what I needed. For far too long I’d felt numb inside—like I’d been stuck in quicksand up the knees. Since my breakup with Kelly, I’d been looking for something that could make me feel better again. Maybe this girl could be the temporary fix I needed. It was worth a shot. Besides, I had nothing better going on at the moment.

Quick as ever, I discarded my hat and sunglasses onto the floor. “Hey,” I said before she could walk past me. So she hadn’t been about to ask for my autograph or to take a selfie with me? What? “Um, hey,” I said again, a little louder, clearing my throat.

She stopped walking. “Um, hey,” she repeated. “I can’t believe Nate West is on my airplane. No freaking way, right? It’s surreal. Thanks for helping me out back there, man. I thought most celebrities were assholes. Not the case at all with you. Seriously, that was awesome. Well…Sherrie the flight attendant might not agree, but I appreciated you sticking up for me.”

I laughed. She was blunt and I liked it. “You’re the first person to recognize me all day.” I pointed at my disguise on the floor. “I guess I need to reevaluate that.”

“Nah, your disguise was perfect. It was your voice I recognized.”

“Oh.” No one had ever used that line on me before. Maybe it wasn’t a line. I couldn’t tell. “Want to sit with me for a little while?” I blurted out. “I’m bored. I’ve been out of the country and I could use some American company.”

For a moment, she studied me hard, obviously debating my motives. I had them, yes. And they weren’t all innocent. But no matter what happened here, I desperately wanted this girl’s company. Nothing else seemed to matter in this moment.

She merely shrugged and plopped into the seat to my right. “Sure. I’d love to piss off that prissy flight attendant a little more.”

Again she had me laughing.

“You’ve got to know though—” She stopped talking for a moment, shaking her head. I noticed, barely creeping up the side of her neck from under her sweatshirt, the end of a tattoo. Instantly blood rushed harder through my veins. I wondered if she only had one or many. “I have a serious hard-on for you…as Lucian,” she started to say. “Dammit. I swear…he…you…are sexy as hell as that character. And that’s saying a lot since Kelly Patterson is your co-star and all. But whenever new episodes air, I tune in every Sunday…like it’s my job to watch…not for Kelly, but for you. That’s totally embarrassing but true.”

I swallowed, hard.

The girl stood, avoiding any eye contact. “Sorry. Jeez, I’m rambling like a fool. I’m normally not so pathetically tongue tied. I’ll go back to my seat now.” But she didn’t leave for her seat, she remained close.

I squinted up at her, the air between us growing thick with awkward tension or…possibly something…else. Something hotter. Girls came on to me all the time. But this was different. I felt more in this small moment than I had in way too long.

“Are you saying you normally like girls?” I asked, matching her bluntness and needing to know for sure what she meant.

Her eyes met mine. “Hell yes, I like girls. I only like girls.”

“But you watch the show for me?”

“Yes.”

“What’s your name?”

“Ellie.”

She was a lesbian. It hadn’t even occurred to me earlier because, frankly, even if she dressed a little like a boy, there was nothing boyish about this girl. Underneath her sweatshirt and jeans, I was willing to bet big money that she had one smoldering body. And the way she watched me right now with quick, rapid breaths, like she wanted me to ravish her the way Lucian ravished that girl in season two’s opening episode of Dragon Wars, I never would have known girls were her thing. Lesbian or not, I suddenly had a serious hard-on for her as well.

One I was ready to take advantage of. Right now.

Praying to whoever would listen, hoping Sherrie the flight attendant had puke or something equally horrible in the back to clean up and wouldn’t be returning soon, I unbuckled my seatbelt and stood to my feet. Much taller than the girl in front of me, I had to duck my head on this tiny airplane and lean into her space. “Have you ever been with a man before, Ellie?” I whispered, my gaze locked heavy on hers.

“No,” she said, her voice soft but her eyes a force of nature. “Why? Are you offering?”

I gulped. Sweet hell. I had no idea how to respond, so I simply told her the truth. “Yes.”

She stared up at me for several long moments, the hum of the airplane taking over all my senses. Then she suddenly burst out laughing. 

Embarrassment fluttered through me. Oh God, for as confident as I liked to think I was, I was completely out of my element.

“It’s not really funny,” I said.

She stopped laughing immediately. “So,” she snapped, her hands landing on her hips, her eyes glaring up at me and something beyond fierce taking over her body. “You’re saying you want to fuckme? Is that it Mr. Nate West? Right now. Right here.” She nodded toward the bathroom she’d been in minutes ago.

“Yes.”

She gasped.

“And I hate the name Nate by the way,” I told her. “Please, don’t call me it again.”

“Then what the hell should I call you?” she demanded.

“Nathanial.”

“Does the lesbian thing turn you on, Nathanial?”

“Nope. Only you do.”

“Does the virgin thing turn you on? Because maybe I’ve never been with a man, but I’m nothing close to a virgin.”

I smiled, confused as hell right about now. She was acting mad…but if she was truly pissed off about this conversation then why was she still standing in front of me, discussing it?

“Yes or no, little firecracker.” I dipped down closer to her until my forehead was nearly resting on hers. “Haven’t you ever wondered what it feels like to have a man inside you? Not just any man, but someone like me. To feel his powerful thrust—not some plastic toy or whatever it is lesbians like to get each other off with—as you scream out in ecstasy? I can give you that. I can even give you Lucian if that’s who you’d rather be with. It’s your choice. Now please move aside, I’ll be in that bathroom waiting. Come or don’t come—whatever you want. But I guarantee if you follow me into that bathroom you’re going to come.”

Her mouth fell open. I’d shocked her into silence with my cheesy line. She stepped aside and I moved past her, heading for the bathroom. I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure she wasn’t going to follow me, not after that tragically desperate speech, but as I entered the bathroom and went to shut the door, I found her following me inside.

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What I Loved

          I was so happy to get this ARC because I really enjoyed Kill Devil Hills, the first one in this series, and I love Ellie so much that I couldn’t wait to dive into her story.  This book started out with a HUGE bomb shell that had my jaw on the ground and me going “WHAT?!?!” I couldn’t put this book down, I instantly need more and that feeling still hasn’t gone away. 

          I really loved Ellie before I began this story and I think after reading this I’m truly head over heels in love with her. I love that Ellie doesn’t quite fit into a box as far as her sexuality goes and to watch her explore that was great.  All of her life she’s seen herself as a tom boy and a lesbian, but then this beautiful TV star comes along and knocks her off her feet.  I liked that she started to question what the meant for her because all of sudden she’s attracted this man, so does that still make her a lesbian?  I love that she questioned those labels that society puts on people and finally realized that who cares, she’s happy and in love! Also, I really liked how caring Ellie is of her friends and family and has this very mature insight and understanding of the people around her.  She loves her family fiercely and would do anything for them not to be hurt and that plays a huge role in this story. 

          When it comes to Nate West, the better question is; what’s not to love?  He’s beautiful, packing a hot body and on top of all that he’s a star!  What more could you really ask for?  I love that he puts his heart out there and loves just spending time with Ellie.  He knows what he wants and puts that ahead of his fame and fortune.  Also, I love that Nate just like Ellie is very much a family man and has immense love for the important people in his life.

Not So Much

          There wasn’t much I didn’t love about Changing Tides.  I guess my only hang ups were that Nate at times was just too good to be true.  I love that he wanted Ellie so badly, but it was just too unrealistic for me for him to go from not knowing Ellie to wanting her to be his girlfriend the very next day.  Not only does he want Ellie in his life, he has no problem with serious relationships after he’s had his heartbroken pretty badly.  He just fell in love with Ellie maybe a little too quickly and it was too perfect and sweet.  But that’s just me, I love drama and heart break and craziness so I don’t want to hold that against this story.

          Also when the first book in this series ended there was closure to the plot, which was great.  I liked that a lot because it makes this series very much a standalone series, so if you just read Changing Tides you don’t feel like you’re being dropped into the middle of a plot and not know what’s going on. This story didn’t really end that way; which is fine but I feel like if you want to read the next book as a standalone it’s going to be harder because there is still a lot of unanswered questions and issues in this one.  I don’t mind that because I really love this series but for others I feel like that might be a hang up if they do want to read these books as just standalones. 

To Sum It All Up!

          This was such a great easy read.  I love the way Sarah Darlington writes, and with each book I fall more in love with her.  On top of that I really love the Turner family and can’t wait to see how they are all going to adapt to all the changes going on around them.  If you have read the first story in this series, there is a huge bombshell in this one and the overall plot has definitely taken a turn and the pieces of that are still being picked up. Also, I love that the story switches point of views because there was a scene where I couldn’t wait to hear Georgie’s reaction to something and I got that because the story switched to Noah’s point of view. I loved the chemistry between Nate and Ellie because that lead to lots of anticipation of ripping Nate and Ellie’s clothes off and I wasn’t let down in the slightest when that finally happened.  I love Nathaniel and Ellie together so much and I was happy to see them have a happy ending and I can’t wait to see what is next for them and their relationship together.