Review: Started off ok, by the time I finished it I wanted to strangle someone
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
This bundle is 3 standalone stories (each a different couple) but all revolve around a group of friends. I read the whole bundle in one sitting and while it started off ok, by the time I finished it I wanted to strangle someone.The first book, 'In My Arms’ is about Ava and Trevor.  Ava just came out of a long term relationship where she caught her boyfriend cheating on her. To help cheer her up her friend Talia (who is the heroine in the next book) drags her out for a night of dancing and drinks. While at the bar she meets Trevor who comes to her rescue when her ex shows up. Then a misunderstanding happens and Ava runs from the bar thinking she will never see Trevor again. Little does she know the advertising company she works for just hired him and they will not only be sharing an office, but also working together on a project.This story was very predictable. We all know they are slowly going to start hooking up and falling for each other. The problem with the story was our hero. While he was extremely sweet, I often thought he might have a vagina. He was thanking his lucky stars and OH WAS HE THANKFUL!!! Also every conflict we had,  Ava was running from the room or kicking someone out over something she just didn’t have the full story on… this happens 3 times. Three!The next book, ‘A Part of Me’ had the best plot out of the bundle. While it wasn’t as sweet as the first it pulled at my heart strings. Tom and Talia were both in the previous book and I liked both of their characters. Talia is bubbly and a very straight forward person while Tom was more laid back and always seemed to have his eyes on her. I wanted to see them finally come together, but what pulled them close was a tragic accident. On Tom’s way home from work he gets into a car accident losing part of one of his legs. He was so torn up from it Talia, who is an ER nurse, didn’t even realize it was him at first when she was working on him.Talia takes some time off work to help Tom heal and be at his beck and call. We know they both love each other, but Tom is dealing with a great loss. He doesn’t feel good enough for Talia and is constantly pushing her away and saying horrible things to her. To be honest, while some of the things he said were bad and hurtful, I never got mad at him for this. I got it. He was grieving and trying to understand how his life would be now and not feeling like a complete man. He did what he thought was best for Talia and just pushed her out.Talia is heart broken by Tom’s behavior. I was sad to see some of that fire in her die as the story progressed because it was what I liked about her character. What killed me for this story was the end. I wanted Tom to fight for her… to get down on his knees and tell her he needed her and couldn’t live without her. But we never get that… in fact we never get any good passion in the bundle.The final story, ‘Out of My Element’ completely ruined it for me. Nick has been in the background of the previous books and while he was clearly a manwhore that slept with everything, I found him funny. After the first two books I thought I had an idea of how the author wrote, which was super sweet and cheesy, I had no idea she would put my hero and heroine together and he would still openly sleep with other women. It really angered me. I felt a little robbed by this. The first two books where so over the top sweet I didn’t see it coming at all. I know he was a manwhore, but I didn’t think the author would do it that way. I mean, if you’re going to make the books over the top cheesy just go balls deep in that Velvetta or get off the freaking melting pot!Nick tried to hook up with our virgin heroine, Chelsea, one night after giving her a mind-blowing kiss. He asks her to spend the night and she says yes. She goes to get her bag to leave with him and when she comes back he has his tongue down another woman’s throat. Worse when he runs back into Chelsea later he doesn’t even remember any of it at first. When he finally does he feels so guilty and wants to try and be her friend. So starts the events of her having to see and or hear him bang another woman while they clearly like each other. It drove me crazy! I was SO mad at Chelsea for not making him hit the road. One night he even brings a woman back to his place right in front of her, stumbling in the door making out with her. *GROWLS* All because he was jealous she went on a date. Yeah, just a date dude. Chill, she’s  a virgin and you sleep with everything. I hated Nick and in turn I ended up hating Chelsea for wanting to be with him.The bundle is $5 while each book separately is $2.99. For standalone books they are not worth that price to me. Then seeing it with the bundle and absolutely hating one of the books and the other two barely being 3 star material it isn’t worth the discounted price either. If you want to give me over the top sweetness then do it… don’t half a$$ it or it kind of makes it all pointless. When you do that type of writing you are reaching to a reader who wants that. Don’t go in, slap them part way through, and ruin with a$$holeness and give us passionless sex.