Review: Terrific!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
“I’ll take a day of crazy with you over a lifetime of sanity without you.”After reading The Do After and It’s Not Over back to back I’m feeling like I’ve just developed a personality disorder. Yesterday while reading The Do Over, I was absolutely hating Rick with every fiber of my being. I couldn’t believe how much pain and suffering he put Dani and Liam in the first book. He said he loved Dani yet he practically destroyed their perfect relationship for his own personal gain.A day later and a third into It’s Not Over I’m feeling the total opposite and started to love him for pulling himself together and proving to me that not all of Madison’s lessons weren’t put to waste after all.Early on I thought that these two belonged together for the very wrong reasons. Rick was an egotistical, womanizing manipulator while Maddy was what Chris would say a human version of a praying mantis. Both were promiscuous in their own right and both were misunderstood – more so on Maddy’s part. She had so much going on in her life and the only way she knew how to get a momentary reprieve was through sex.That was up until she took Rick under her wing and made him into her pet project. She had no idea that she was going to fall madly and deeply in love with this arrogant man who pushed her buttons. Rick was going into the relationship blind too. He thought it was always going to be Dani but after spending months under Maddy’s tutelage he realized Dani wasn’t the one who he was meant to be with.Maddy wasn’t an easy sell. At every turn it she made it difficult for Rick. She was burnt in the past and this was the only way she knew how to cope with these feelings that she had for Rick. Rick wasn’t giving up on her, no matter how many times she shut him out, ran away or just being the major biatchy woman that she always was..he was willing to take everything that she dished out. This was made me fall in love with this guy. He turned over a new leaf.I thought both books were terrific. I did however enjoy the second more than the first. I think it was because of the unique back and forth, love-hate relationship between Rick and Maddy. It did give me whiplash but it also created all this amazing tension that I adore in romance.I also loved the complexity of the characters and how they both got under my skin. After reading both books, Let It Go has without a doubt landed on my Most Anticipated List.