Review: ** JOSIE'S 4 STAR REVIEW **
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2014
Spoiler alert: If you didn’t read the first book In Pursuit then please stop now and go read that or you will end up seeing spoilers throughout this review.Of Happiness picks up right where In Pursuit left off. Eddie walks away from Harris in Chicago square. Claire lies to Harris and says that Eddie has been cheating on him; having an affair with her friends husband. Instead of defending Eddie, Harris stays quiet and Eddie has had enough. She’s done with it all and ends up leaving.“No, No more.”“Baby Wait.”“Dad, can we please go?”“I’m not giving up, Edith!”Eddie slowly recuperates from her broken heart and from the damage of Claires’ has caused to her career. Eddie’s heart still mourns and wants Harris but she becomes stronger and tougher during the entire ordeal. As the story progresses we learn some things about Claire (WHO I CALL BEOTCH) and Cooper. Although he is dead; we finally learn what happened to him or should I say who happened to him. Hold on to your seats because what we learn in this book is shocking, I was left speechless.If you recall from the first book Harris was relentless in his pursuit of Eddie. His character stayed true to form in this one. His focus was all about getting his girl back and nothing was going to stop him. The only thing is Eddi is playing hard to get this time. She isn’t giving it up so easily which forces Harris to have to fight harder for her than he ever thought.“I need to speak to you.”“Harris”“So you remember when I said you were the only woman who could bring me to my knees? Do you remember?”“Yes”“I won’t go another day without you, Edith. Not one.”Claire and Jared (Eddie’s crazy ex politician boyfriend), do not make things easy for Harris and Eddie to find their way back to each other. Claire is crazy, mentally unstable, malicious, and manipulative and will go to any lengths to keep Eddie out of Harris life. Claire’s past is revealed and I want to say knowing her past should have made me feel sorry for her but it didn’t. For me there were no redeeming qualities at all so I just couldn’t bring myself there. Claire was going in hard, she was going to destroy whatever love Harris and Eddie shared, by any means necessary. Jared has a hard time letting go of Eddie and Harris is huge threat for him. Harris isn’t afraid of him and he makes that be known. Jared is a violent person, as we learned from the first book. He was physically and mentally abusive to Eddie, so it was not shock to see his actions play out in this book.“What it is Jared?”“Tell me, Eddie, how long did it take for you to find someone else to f*** after we broke up? I don’t know what kind of piece of s*** you had call and threaten me, but you better tell him I’m not afraid of some pathetic nobody from Chicago.”“Let me go, Jared.”Harris and Eddie are really good together. They both are committed to making things work. Harris is still a master in the bedroom, he is sexy, steamy dominate and knows what he is doing.“What are you feeling?”“Like if I don’t get my hands on you in the next ten seconds, I might die. My baby wants me?”“Yes”“When did you become an exhibitionist?”“Good. Your moans are meant for my ears alone. Remember, baby, quiet. Give me what I want, baby.”This book was a fast read and had just the right amount of steamy sex with a twist of excitement. While Harris and Eddie have to work to get back together, it was nice to read the process. Harris has to make choices in this book that are hard. Will it be the woman he loves or his family? Eddie has to decide if loving Harris is enough or will his family always be there to try and tear them apart. I really enjoyed this series and I think the author did a great job with how she ended their story. I really loved that it still held the same excitement as the first book did.*received a complimentary copy from the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review*