Full Tilt
Ratings14
Average rating4.1
I buddy read this book with Destiny from Howling Libraries. If for some reason you aren't already following Destiny you definitely should. Thanks for buddy reading with me Destiny. Glad this one worked out better than our last buddy read did.
This is my first Emma Scott book and it probably won't be my last.
The first half of this book was slow for me and I honestly found it to be kind of boring but I also wanted to continue on to see how things played out. It was also predictable. I could see very early on what was going to happen in this book and what the second book was going to be about.
Once I got to the halfway point I was really drawn in. There were moments where I got teary eyed and then all of a sudden I couldn't stop crying. I cried non stop for last 20% or so which made reading it even harder. This is a book that will definitely pull on your heartstrings so have some tissues ready.
This part is spoilery so skip this is you haven't read it yet. So yeah I mentioned how I could see where this was going early on which isn't a bad thing except for the fact that I am pretty sure the second book is going to be about Kacey and Theo (who is Jonah's brother). I'm not sure how I feel about her switching from one brother to another but I'm hoping the author does it in a way that doesn't seem weird. I will be reading the second book hopefully sooner rather than later.
This was a cheese fest. I wanted to love it but I couldn't connect to the characters and it was too predictable. I saw the plot of the second book coming a mile away and I'm not sure if I care to read it.
Spoilers beware–including the ending!! Don't read if you don't want to know!!
This is an ugly cry book that I consider to end without an HEA. There is a book two where Kacey gets her HEA, but it's not with Jonah--because he's dead. There, I said it. I knew there was a book two and decided not to read the blurb. On one hand, I'm disappointed that I didn't, because I generally want a wham-bam story with an HEA (yes, my tastes are pretty singular), and the high ratings convinced me Jonah was going to get a new heart at the end of book 1, and book 2, All-In, would be a continuation of his and Kacey's story--it's not. On the other hand, if I'd known Jonah died, I probably wouldn't have read the book, which would have been a shame because it's well written and sometimes you need a good, hard, ugly cry. While I don't mind a good cry before the HEA, I like to save those books that end with no HEA and an ugly cry to read when I'm in a certain mood. I'm depressed enough without investing time in and falling in love with a character that dies. Maybe that's shallow, but a story that's as good as this stays with you, and I don't need that weighing on my heart until I'm in the right state of mind.I'm still thinking about the rating. It's unfair to downgrade because of the lack of HEA, but I'm kind of hurting and not pleased with that. Still, that I have such feels speaks volumes about the writing and story. So, no rating for now.
If you're a masochist like me who reads to torture herself, then by all means, read this book.