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Guest Review: Wishing for Us by Sydney Landon

Posted November 18, 2016 by Tracy in Reviews | 0 Comments

Guest Review: Wishing for Us by Sydney LandonReviewer: Tracy
Wishing For Us by Sydney Landon
Series: Danvers Series #9
Also in this series: Not Planning On You, Fall For Me
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: November 1st 2016
Genres: Contemporary Romance
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three-stars
Series Rating: three-stars

Since the loss of her fiancé, Lydia Cross has refused to allow herself to feel anything close to love. That is until corporate hotshot Jacob Hay comes to her aid outside of the Danvers International corporate headquarters and captures her attention. Too bad he doesn’t show any signs of reciprocating her feelings.

Things change when, after a rowdy Vegas bachelorette party, she wakes up next to Jacob...as his newly wedded wife! Lydia is stunned, but Jacob seems remarkably calm and isn’t inclined to end their hasty merger. In fact, day by day he gives her everything she’s been missing—especially in bed. But when the magic of Sin City fades, Lydia grows concerned she’ll find herself alone once again...

Lydia wakes up with a righteous hangover and is confused when she finds a man in her bed.  Of course she soon discovers that it’s not her bed and not only is he a man, he’s her husband.  Surprise!  Lydia immediately starts talking to Jake about a divorce but he’s not so sure he wants one.

After a few days of being back in the real world, Jake and Lydia talk.  Jake tells her that his baby mamma is giving him grief and holding custody of his six-year-old daughter over his head if he doesn’t marry her.  He has no desire to marry her but he can’t seem to get that out of her head.  He asks Lydia if they can stay married longer so that he can get Chris off his back.  She agrees but then they begin a sexual relationship that soon turns into more.  Each of them have their issues, however, and neither are sure that it will all work out permanently in the end.

This was a cute book.  I always love the waking up in Vegas married trope.  It just always adds a nice twist to things and forces the people to deal with each other. Well most of the time, that is. In this case it seemed like Jake was happy about the marriage from minute one and Lydia was confused about that.  He seemed all in at times but then when they got series he ran like a man being chased by a zombie. Lol  Luckily it all worked out in the end.

Now, the characters, quite frankly, weren’t my cup of tea.  Sure they were nice enough something about them rubbed me the wrong way.  Jake was a really nice guy but at times was completely oblivious.  He also, from the start of the book, seemed really cheesy to me.  IDK what it was but whenever he talked to Lydia and called her sweetheart or honey I always pictured him with his shirt hanging open and the gold chains hanging. Lol  I couldn’t think of him as hot even though EVERY woman in the book was lusting after him – even when they had their own men.  Lydia was a nice enough person as well but kind of boring.  She needed to be forthright with Jake and ended up more milquetoast. Then there was Chris – the baby mamma.  She was supposed to be this horrible person that plagued Jake right and left but we only saw it a couple of times and then she decided to play nice with Jake and Lydia.  Sure Jake was worried about losing custody of his daughter but it didn’t seem as bad as he had said in the beginning.

Overall it was a decent book but was pretty…sedate.  I wanted more heat and more conflict but it just wasn’t there for me, unfortunately. While this didn’t work well for me it might work for you if you like the Danvers series and have read every book.  I’ve only read a couple in the series and wasn’t invested in ALL of the characters/couples that they were talking about and didn’t have that emotional connection I think the author was hoping for.

Rating: 3 out of 5

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Review: Fighting for You by Sydney Landon

Posted May 11, 2014 by Rowena in Reviews | 0 Comments

Fighting for You
Rowena’s review of Fighting for You (Danvers #4) by Sydney Landon.

Ella Webber has spent years uncomfortable around the opposite sex…
But as soon as she meets handsome Declan Stone, she is smitten. Quickly they become friends, finding frequent reasons to see each other around the office, and Ella longs for even more. So-with a little help from her friends-Ella resorts to performing a little seduction. One that Declan will never be able to resist.

Burdened by emotional baggage from his time in the army, Declan refuses to believe he’s the right man for sweet Ella. Even if she makes him long for normal things, like marriage and family….But in his attempts to close off his heart from her love, could he have underestimated Ella’s powers of persuasion?

This is the fourth book in the Danvers series by Sydney Landon. I haven’t read any of the other books in this series but when this book came across my radar, it sounded like something I’d enjoy so I picked it up.

This book is about Ella Webber and Declan Stone coming together in love.  They both work together at Danvers and they struck up a friendship that has become more meaningful to the both of them.  Ella has a crush on Declan and he knows it but he’s going through some issues from his time in the military, things that he hasn’t completely dealt with and he feels like he can’t give Ella what she deserves so he keeps her at a distance.  Only thing is, Ella doesn’t want distance.  She wants Declan and if he wants a girl with more experience then she’s going to get that experience.  She’ll do whatever she needs to if in the end, she’ll get Declan.

This book had a lot going for it but over the course of the book, I couldn’t help but want more from the story.  I wanted more from the story, more from the characters and it was while I was reading this book that I missed romances of old that had me all twisted in knots over what was happening.  When I first started reading books, I was reading books by Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood and Linda Howard.  Those authors really packed in the angst and even though there were times when I wanted something a little lighter to read, at the end of the day my favorite stories were the stories that broke my heart and mended it right back up in the midst of one story.  I feel like these days, I get more of the light and fluffy books that I enjoyed but won’t ever remember after years have passed.

And that’s how this book is.  It’s light and fluffy and the story is good but for me, it doesn’t have that long standing power that I want when I read a story.  Declan was fine as a hero, as was Emma.  But I closed this book wanting more from the book.  I’m not even sure that I could tell you what more I wanted.  I just closed this book feeling unfulfilled and I was ready to move on fairly quickly.

So this is my review.  This book is good.  It’s got a solid cast of characters and a main couple that made me smile but that’s it.  It’s just good.

Grade: 2.5 out of 5

This book is available from Penguin Group. You can purchase it here or here in e-format. This book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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