Review: Loved TDO but Absolutely FLOVED INO
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2014
“I’m not the same man that you first met. I’ve made some really shitty choices, but my intentions were in the right place. I’m going to prove it to you and Daniela that I’m that man, the better one. You’ll see” ~ RickIt’s Not Over is the story of Rick Marin and Madison Stuart which picks up right where they left off in The Do Over ~ Daniela and Liam’s story. Let me start off by saying I absolutely hated Rick, actually that is an understatement, I down right despised him in The Do Over. Although after the turn of events at the end of TDO, I found myself very interested to reading Rick and Maddy’s story.Right from the very start of this book Rick definitely was not the same man that I met in TDO, he had become a better man. Rick deep down will always be Rick but there is just something about Maddy that makes him be a better man, a man I thought I actually found myself warming up to.”Maddy, I am not used to this personality of yours. I thought I’d met all of them, but I was wrong,” ~ RickIn TDO we met Maddison, who was strong, cold and a bit of heartless bitch. But like Rick in this book, we start to see the real Maddy. She’s still the “Don’t Mess with me Bitch” but we also get to see her slowly let her walls down and let Rick in. We get to learn more about her and her past, which for me really help to explain why Maddison is the way she is and made me see that she is a really great person and not a bitch at all, she’s cold and keeps people out to protect herself from any further hurt.”You drive me insane. But I’ll take a day of crazy with you over a lifetime of sanity without you” ~ RickThese two are very focused and controlling people, and at times they struggle to give up any control to the other person. They are messed up, but they are real. I loved watching the relationship between them evolve but also loved seeing they themselves evolve together. They started out with Maddy helping Rick be a better man to win back Daniela but from that they formed a really great friendship grew which eventually grew into so much more but can these two stubborn people put there personalities aside to be happy together. Can Maddy truly let her walls down and let Rick into her heart?”I have what she wants. At the end of the day, I always win.” ~ AlexOn top of their own struggles of figuring out how to make their relationship work, Rick and Maddy must also learn to make it work with the forces that are working against them, their families and Alex. I loved getting to see Rick with his Mom and his sisters and Maddy with her Grandfather, it shows a different side of the characters and really added to the story. And like any good moles in a story, they will test them and at times force them to make choices they don’t want to have to make."Maddy, you have no idea how turned on I get when you pull out your bad-ass attitude” ~RickI loved the chemistry in this story between Rick and Maddy, it was hot and sexy. I also loved that they were friends first, lovers second. When things got hard and ugly, the stuck it out,t they fought it out, there was no running away or the normal back and forth happening between them, which was so nice as that stuff gets really tiring and is way overdone. Rick and Maddy along with their relationship is such a fresh story, it’s real and at times it’s raw and I seriously loved that.”I won’t let you fall, and if you do, I’ll catch you or die trying” ~ RickI absolutely loved this book, definitely a 5 star read for me! My feelings in this book towards Rick and Maddy both, have completely taken a 180 degree turn. Maddy and Rick are so messed up, they are stubborn and controlling but they are completely perfect for each other and are such amazing and Real characters you can’t help but love them. I cannot wait to see what happens with these two and where the author will take their story, especially after that ending, I so did not see that coming, and OMG the wait to find out it is going to kill me!