Review: Great addition to this series!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2014
After meeting and getting to know Aerie in Connected and Torn, I was really looking forward to reading her story.  We were introduced to Jagger, River Wilde's cousin, in the Torn epilogue, and I just love River, so I was sure I'd fall for his cousin also, which of course I did.  While River is in the music industry, Jagger is an actor/model, and though he is "beautiful," he is all man.  After a chance meeting at a bakery, Aerie is more than shocked when she arrives at Dahlia and River's for dinner that night and Jagger AKA "The Cupcake Thief," is there and is also the cousin that Dahlia wants her to meet, and they immediately  hit it off with some serious chemistry sparking between them.Aerie hasn't had good luck with men in the past and has been hurt badly, so she has walls and coping mechanisms she has constructed to deal with them.  She is shocked when Jagger is able to get right past all of that and find his way inside so quickly.  He makes her experience and feel things she didn't think she was capable of, but when someone from his past appears on the radar, all that comes rushing back and threatens all that they have.  Aerie has to make some choices, but will she make the right ones?Dazed is a novella, and can be read as a stand alone, but the series is so good, I most certainly would recommend reading Connected and Torn as well.  Don't let the fact that this is a novella sway you, because it is a fantastic story wrapped in a small package that delivers everything you could hope for in a full length novel, just leaving you wishing for more of the story, though completely satisfied with what took place, and where things end.  Kim Karr also provides a wonderful epilogue, which is the icing on the cake and totally satisfies your sweet tooth.  I loved that we get to see River and Dahlia in this book also.  If you are a contemporary romance fan, Dazed and the entire Connections series is something I most definitely would recommend checking out.  I can't wait to read Mended, the next book in the series.