Evan
Lennox is going nowhere fast.
She's living with her grandparents after her parents bailed on her, she got kicked out of her posh private school, her ex-boyfriend proved to be the biggest sleaze imaginable, her former best friend is a back-stabber, and her current best friend is stuck in backwoods NJ. To top it all off, one teeny, tiny fire she lit to burn some memories of her ex goes a little out of control and winds up igniting a good piece of a very powerful family's pecan orchard.
Evan lands her pampered behind in court and gets sentenced to community service. Which she knows she deserves. But the hard labor and humiliation may be her undoing.
Until she meets Winchester Youngblood on the site.
Everything about him is tricky, confusing, not at all what it seems, and so sexy, Evan can't resist pulling closer. But every step she takes to get to know him gives her more of a reason to back up and put him as far out of life as she possibly can. Because Winch is one hundred percent complicated, and Evan isn't looking for that. At all. She needs to meet a nice, responsible guy, not share searing kisses with the charming hustler she met after they both got sentenced in court.
But Winch is so much more than what he seems, and Evan finds out that she's falling hard for the guy everyone underestimates and writes off. And Winch realizes that Evan is the one person who's ever challenged him to ask for more out of his life, and her courage inspires him to try to be the person she sees when she looks at him. With every single odd stacked against them, Evan and Winch need to find out whether they have what it takes to fall for each other.
***(If you haven't read the Double Clutch, Junk Miles and Slow Twitch (The Brenna Blixen Novels), and you like to read things in order - you should read those first. I stopped 6% into this book because I realized it was a spin off and I didn't want to ruin it for myself like I have with other books. This book could be a stand alone on it's own, but I can't stand not knowing what else is out there!)***
She's living with her grandparents after her parents bailed on her, she got kicked out of her posh private school, her ex-boyfriend proved to be the biggest sleaze imaginable, her former best friend is a back-stabber, and her current best friend is stuck in backwoods NJ. To top it all off, one teeny, tiny fire she lit to burn some memories of her ex goes a little out of control and winds up igniting a good piece of a very powerful family's pecan orchard.
Evan lands her pampered behind in court and gets sentenced to community service. Which she knows she deserves. But the hard labor and humiliation may be her undoing.
Until she meets Winchester Youngblood on the site.
Everything about him is tricky, confusing, not at all what it seems, and so sexy, Evan can't resist pulling closer. But every step she takes to get to know him gives her more of a reason to back up and put him as far out of life as she possibly can. Because Winch is one hundred percent complicated, and Evan isn't looking for that. At all. She needs to meet a nice, responsible guy, not share searing kisses with the charming hustler she met after they both got sentenced in court.
But Winch is so much more than what he seems, and Evan finds out that she's falling hard for the guy everyone underestimates and writes off. And Winch realizes that Evan is the one person who's ever challenged him to ask for more out of his life, and her courage inspires him to try to be the person she sees when she looks at him. With every single odd stacked against them, Evan and Winch need to find out whether they have what it takes to fall for each other.
***(If you haven't read the Double Clutch, Junk Miles and Slow Twitch (The Brenna Blixen Novels), and you like to read things in order - you should read those first. I stopped 6% into this book because I realized it was a spin off and I didn't want to ruin it for myself like I have with other books. This book could be a stand alone on it's own, but I can't stand not knowing what else is out there!)***
I have read Lengths (probably a couple months ago now) and I have
read the Brenna Blixen Novels (just this past weekend) and now I have read Fall
Guy and THIS IS MY FAVORITE LIZ REINHARDT BOOK YET!!!! Shhh!! Please don’t tell
Jake Kelly… he’s still my favorite boy from her books and I don’t want him to
think I’m choosing Winch over him…but I couldn’t put this book down! ;)
Okay,
so even though she’s a bit crazy and dramatic, I love Evan Lennox…love her
name, love her craziness, even love the fact that she’s not perfect. Evan is a good person even though she
sometimes does bad things, she’s caring, loyal and of course beautiful. Her downfall is that she probably has some
self-esteem issues. The boys in her past
along with her parents have given her a low self-worth that her best friend
Brenna (who lives too far away) and her grandparents are trying to help her
fix.
Winchester
is what she thinks is another typical bad boy (well at least her typical bad
boy), and she figures that must be why she’s attracted to him. I mean, what else can a guy named after a guy
be if not a bad boy? Winch takes loyal to a whole new level when it comes to
his family, there isn’t anything or anyone that would stand in the way of him
being there for his brothers, sisters or parents – and usually they ask a lot
of him. He is kind of the glue that
keeps everything together most days.
They
come from different backgrounds and when they fight it’s like lighter fluid and
a match, but the attraction is undeniable and runs deep. Unfortunately, their families already have
other ideas of what type of person they should be with…and it isn’t each
other. Combined with the fact that the
way both of them deal with things is to shut it out and not let anyone deep
into who they actually are, it’s hard to make anything between them work. Even though I wanted them to be together and
have a HEA, even I was like maybe this just isn’t meant to be. Maybe it’s too much.
I
like that this book wasn’t a love triangle.
The issues in this book weren’t just another guy or another girl, these
issues were about family, and insecurities and whether love really is all you
need…is it even more important than your family? It makes you question your own
life, is love an Always? Sometimes? or a Never? And then where does family
fall? Could you really walk away from the people you have always loved and know
that love you for a different kind of love? And if you can’t, where does that
leave you?
I
really hope there is more coming from this series…Evan is one of my new
favorites!
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