Review: Favorite book of 2014 so far!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
Liz Carmichael comes from a fairly screwed up family dynamic. Her father is pure evil, so when her mother died, she bought a tour bus and hopped on it with her brother Connor and her two best friends to tour the country as the band See You Next Tuesday. Connor, Rhett, Jarret and Uncle Bruce are her family and the bus is her only home. But now they are in desperate need of a new bassist. Could the stunning male specimen trotting across the rest stop caring a guitar be the answer to their prayers?Cannon Blackwell's fiance, now ex-fiance, dumped him at a rest stop with is bag and guitar and no way to call for a ride. Plain and simple, he is stuck in the middle of nowhere. Until a petite little thing approaches him and demands that he pee in a cup and join her band. And as crazy as it sounds, he finds that he just can't say no to her. What follows is a beautiful journey to finding true love amidst all the other crap life throws at you.I seriously don't even know where to start. I don't think that S.E. Hall is capable of writing anything other than stellar 5-star books. I've read her entire Evolve series and loved them all, but Pretty Instinct top s them all. It is witty and funny, sweet and romantic and painfully heartbreaking. These characters and their emotions became a part of me and became my emotions. I was so heavily invested in this story and the outcome that I stayed up until 3:00 AM to finish it. Is it hard to function on 3 hours of sleep with 4 kids? Hell yeah! But it was more than worth it.First there is Elizabeth. Or Liz...Lizzie...Bethie...pick a nickname. I'll go with Lizzie since that is what Cannon calls her. She loves fiercely with all of her heart and everything she has, but spends all of her energy making sure others are happy while neglecting herself. Her childhood and teen years were pretty much a disaster and she carries those scars with her as armor. She uses bitchiness as a defense mechanism to keep people out and at arms length. But Cannon is having none of that. From the moment he sets his eyes on her, he'd been completely under her spell. I swear to you, Cannon Blackwell has firmly pushed all previous book boyfriends out of the way and now firmly stands on top of the podium in victory. He is hands down, the best all around guy. Ever. In both fiction and reality. Handsome? Check. Sexy? Check. Funny? Check. Sweet and loving? Check and check. I'm telling you...perfection. So perfect in fact, that I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop and him be a total ass.Lizzie is not an easy girl to be with, comes with a ton of baggage and still has issues to overcome; but that doesn't push Cannon away. He is going to help her with all of it. But you know what I love best about him? When the two of the finally, FINALLY, end up in bed together, you see another side of him. Yes apparently Cannon has a dirty center hidden beneath his sweet candy shell and dammit it is like the most delicious and sinful piece of chocolate ever. I don't think I could ever get enough of him and Cannon Blackwell will now be the standard to which I measure all other book boyfriends.Pretty Instinct has some twists and unexpected turns and you will cry. But you will also laugh and smile and it truly is a beautiful journey. And while this book might be considered on the longish side, I felt it was perfect. It wasn't too long for me and I was left 100% content at the end. This was hands down one of my favorite reads of 2014!Read more reviews at [...] I received an eBook in exchange for my honest review.