Review: Thing is, this novella should have been directly after On Dublin Street
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2013
First of all, I just want to get out in the open that I’m a HUGE fan of Samantha Young and her series that began with Joss and Braden. The thing is, this novella should have been directly after On Dublin Street. Castle Hill should have come BEFORE Down London Road and BEFORE Until Fountain Bridge…. but it didn’t.“Now walk into the bedroom, lie on your back on the bed, stretch your arms above your head, spread your legs, and prepare to take me. Hard and deep.”Castle Hill is a short story on the Happily Every After that is Joss and Braden. I fell in love with them in the first book and I always felt like they were never complete. At the end of the first book, On Dublin Street, you get a sort of peek into their wedding day and then it just ends. I was okay with this because I felt like the book ended with them together and in love. Then when the next book in the series started, I kept reading about them from other main character perspectives and it annoyed me. Mostly I didn’t like it because the timelines were messed up. I read a ton of books a year and I can’t ever remember an exact time and place until someone refreshed my memory. When I was reading Castle Hill it felt like this was a normal timeline, but I had already sort of read what was going to happen out of chronological order in the three books before this one.While Castle Hill explains their engagement, wedding day, honeymoon, and everything after…. I just couldn’t help but wonder why this wasn’t done a long time ago. When I was reading this and thinking back, I kept thinking the author had no idea where their story was even going, so this was the reason for the delay. FYI, I should never wonder if the author is sure of the characters future.I will say that the writing (as always) was beautiful, and I felt emotionally connected to both Jocelyn and Braden. The two of them will always have a special place in my heart, and I was thankful to get their closure. The sex was outstanding and plentiful for a 97 page novella. I don’t want to come off as complaining, because I really did enjoy the book… just felt like it was about damn time.