Review: Okay!!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
Spoilers below....I agree with most of everything that's already been said. This was not the best book in this series. In "Unleashed," I loved Kelsey and Evan's story because it was a story of unrequited love and lust between friends that spanned over 10 years. Even though their lives had gone in different directions it was still awesome to read the story of how they came together. The same could be said about Brian and Candace in "Rock Me" because they also had known each other for a while and never acted on their feelings, but once they finally came together, it was magic. In " Leave Me Breathless", Ghost was the baddest dude of the bunch, and my favorite of the series, so I knew he would be a tough act to follow. Ghost and Macy starting sleeping together pretty early, but they had already come in contact before. Meaning, they had already met through Candace, so we got to see how their relationship blossomed into a romance.In other words, Evan is the clean-cut lawyer who wears the suit, but is still naughty when it counts. Brian is the sexy, tatted, bad boy of the family, and Brian's little brother, who is still naughty when it counts. Ghost is Brian's bald-headed, sexy, bad boy friend, who can get the nastiest when it counts.My point? I don't really understand where Ian quite fits into all this. I get that he was a newcomer, and he had all the makings for him to be a good alpha male, it just didn't quit come together. There was no build-up, no romance, and no dating. They just meet each other after she gets jilted at the altar, she goes to Brian's shop to have him give her a tattoo, she ends up getting one of Ian's instead. After that, they hook up, have sex, and before any hope for any type of courtship or relationship can begin, she is (and we are) blindsided with an unplanned pregnancy. An unplanned pregnancy between two strangers who had a one night stand. Now, I get that this sort of thing does happen in real life when people are not careful, but still.Gabby is a 36 year old med student who has been a nurse for years, but still lives at home with her parents, and she is in school to become a Pediatrician. However, her parents are way too invested in her life and personal business for someone her age. Don't get me wrong, so were the Andrews (Candace's parents). It just that I never expected Gianna to be a snob too because that's not how she came across in the other books, and boy did she have us fooled. All any of these people care about is wealth and social status to the point where they refuse to let their grown children live their own lives, and these adults are also at fault because they actually allow their parents to interfere. Why should the parents of an almost 40-year-old woman feel like it's their right to have any say in what she does? It's annoying!Needless to say, my favorite book of this series was "Leave Me Breathless". However, the first two were not bad either. This one can be skipped because it didn't add anything important to the series, if you ask me. Gabby, was just briefly mentioned in the aforementioned books as the oldest female Ross sibling, so her having her own book was really not necessary. I really don't think anyone cared enough. If she really wanted to add another book, I would have loved to read about Kara and Marco because they were talked about quite a lot during the series, but we never really got their back-story, just that they are madly in love, and they are the ones who taught Brian and Ghost everything that they knew. My point? It would have made more sense for them to have their own book, in my opinion.