Review: This trilogy is just the beginning of an amazing saga. Read it as ONE STORY.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 3, 2013
Read my entire Series Spotlight of STEWART REALTY at MIDWEST GALLEY GIRL.[...]I jumped into Floor Time and within a very short amount of time I was all caught up in the exploits of Jack Gordon and Sara Thornton and the rest of the crew from Ann Arbor, MI (a.k.a. "A2″).Let's put it this way...they're not going to live Happily Ever After anytime soon, but their journey is SO worth taking. So far there are 7 novels and and a novella. The last novel is set to release in November. The series' order is1. Floor Time2. Sweat Equity3. Closing Costs4. Essence of Time5. Conditional Offer6. Escalation Clause7. Mutual Release (stand alone or read in series order)8. Good Faith (November, 2013 release)9. House Rules (Novella of Jack's back story, which is best read after Closing Costs, in my opinion)The first three books are essentially a stand-alone "trilogy" and you could stop there if you wanted to. You must at the VERY least read the first three as if they were ONE BOOK. This would also be a good time to fit in Jack's back story, House Rules. You could do that...you could totally do that.DON'T DO THAT!!! ESSENCE OF TIME is worth its weight in gold. The end of the book is one of the best endings of a book I've ever been privileged to read. Yep...it's right up there. (I sadly finished it lying in bed at a pre-dawn hour and had nobody to cry with, although I think I may have woken up my husband on accident.) A fair warning that it's intense and will render you a hopeless reading junkie until you can get to the next book. ESSENCE OF TIME sets up the rest of the series and suddenly everything is 10 times richer and more layered and more infuriating and wonderful. Liz Crowe doesn't really do "Happily Ever After". She does "What Happens Next"...and she does it better than most.