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louise_lion's review against another edition
The dialogue is horrible and the main characters are insufferable
jen286's review against another edition
3.0
I did enjoy this bookj, though the end was a bit quick and tidy with her stalker guy. A bit too easy to wrap everything up. Other than that I really enjoyed it. I liked the main characters and they were cute together.
miaev's review against another edition
5.0
Another wonderful rugby romance by Rosalind James. Issues back in the US mean that Kate needs to leave the country for an extended period of time. She reachs out to an old friend who has moved to En Zed and is living her HAE. Kate is able to find work shortly after moving in the front office of a rugby team. Where she meets Koti who is used to women falling all over him because he is cute and charming. Kate however just wants to be friends. Can Koti actually be just a friend to Kate and not fall in love? Among the beautiful splendor of New Zealand, watch Kate and Koti learn that friendship leads to an everlasting love.
booklovinmamas's review
5.0
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I think I am in love with every male character that Rosalind writes about in her Escape to New Zealand series. I fell in love with Koti from Just this Once and now I am even in more love with him. (even though he was considered the player of the bunch)
He stole my heart though in this book and I am a little jealous over Kate. =)
Kate Lamonica is hiding out from her ex-boyfriend and decides to catch a flight to New Zealand to be with her friend, Hannah who is pregnant with her first child. Kate knew Hannah from where she used to work and needed to get away fast. Hannah helps her find a place to live which Drew her husband helps her get a job with one of his rugby teams doing bookkeeping.
Kate has been warned about the rugby players and of course she is new girl to look at. She is not there to hook up with since she cannot trust anyone at the moment. She does not want the truth of what happened to her and truth of her hiding coming out.
Koti James's is about to meet his match. He is one of the most elgibile bachelors in the team and every girl wants to be his, but Kate does not want anything to do with him. He does not want anything to do with Kate, until he accepts the challenge she has to offer. Can he really be friends with a woman, or will it lead to something more?
This book includes jealous models who think they are Koti's girlfriend, dangers of Kate's stalker, and some very heated moments between two characters who supposedly hate each other, as well as some trips throughout New Zealand, and you will have a hard time putting down this book.
This is by far my favorite of the books. I loved Koti from Just this Once and I wanted to find out who would tame the player. He definitely found his match with Kate. Kate was definitely strong-willed and put Koti in his place, but she had many reasons why she did that. She definitely had her own problems to deal with and why she did not trust any man to date. I would have a hard time as well, especially what she went through.
I loved the moments between the characters the most. Koti definitely got Kate through a lot and even challenged her to do things she normally would not have done.
The tension between the both and the intimate scenes...were no joke people. Be prepared to have a glass of water on hand.
Rosalind James did an amazing job with this book and I had a hard time putting it down. Every time I thought Koti would man up with Kate, she would knock him down again. Koti definitely met his match with Kate and she made sure to jump him when she had the chance.
How could she resist him for so long, especially the way Rosalind described his body? Oh my goodness....I think I was drooling on my Kindle every time, he took off his shirt or wetsuit and I was just imagining what he looked like.
I highly recommend this book as well as the first to readers who enjoy contemporary romance.
Be prepared to want to read the next book though...because you will want to read more of New Zealand and what it has to offer. (sexy rugby players, exotic getaways...etc). =)
I think I am in love with every male character that Rosalind writes about in her Escape to New Zealand series. I fell in love with Koti from Just this Once and now I am even in more love with him. (even though he was considered the player of the bunch)
He stole my heart though in this book and I am a little jealous over Kate. =)
Kate Lamonica is hiding out from her ex-boyfriend and decides to catch a flight to New Zealand to be with her friend, Hannah who is pregnant with her first child. Kate knew Hannah from where she used to work and needed to get away fast. Hannah helps her find a place to live which Drew her husband helps her get a job with one of his rugby teams doing bookkeeping.
Kate has been warned about the rugby players and of course she is new girl to look at. She is not there to hook up with since she cannot trust anyone at the moment. She does not want the truth of what happened to her and truth of her hiding coming out.
Koti James's is about to meet his match. He is one of the most elgibile bachelors in the team and every girl wants to be his, but Kate does not want anything to do with him. He does not want anything to do with Kate, until he accepts the challenge she has to offer. Can he really be friends with a woman, or will it lead to something more?
This book includes jealous models who think they are Koti's girlfriend, dangers of Kate's stalker, and some very heated moments between two characters who supposedly hate each other, as well as some trips throughout New Zealand, and you will have a hard time putting down this book.
This is by far my favorite of the books. I loved Koti from Just this Once and I wanted to find out who would tame the player. He definitely found his match with Kate. Kate was definitely strong-willed and put Koti in his place, but she had many reasons why she did that. She definitely had her own problems to deal with and why she did not trust any man to date. I would have a hard time as well, especially what she went through.
I loved the moments between the characters the most. Koti definitely got Kate through a lot and even challenged her to do things she normally would not have done.
The tension between the both and the intimate scenes...were no joke people. Be prepared to have a glass of water on hand.
Rosalind James did an amazing job with this book and I had a hard time putting it down. Every time I thought Koti would man up with Kate, she would knock him down again. Koti definitely met his match with Kate and she made sure to jump him when she had the chance.
How could she resist him for so long, especially the way Rosalind described his body? Oh my goodness....I think I was drooling on my Kindle every time, he took off his shirt or wetsuit and I was just imagining what he looked like.
I highly recommend this book as well as the first to readers who enjoy contemporary romance.
Be prepared to want to read the next book though...because you will want to read more of New Zealand and what it has to offer. (sexy rugby players, exotic getaways...etc). =)
thereadingbel's review against another edition
4.0
The main characters in Just Good Friends are Kate, an accountant, and Koti, a rugby player. Kate is strong and wary. A bit of a contradiction there I know. She's so wary because she has honestly lived through a nightmare. She doesn't let that stop her from living her life, which makes her so strong. Koti is charming and a bit cocky. He's cocky because he believes he's this great rugby player. And don't get me wrong. He is. But his cockiness is a little bit overwhelming. Especially with women. The chemistry between Kate and Koti is strong. I find it a bit weird because they are both so different. But I guess that old line was right. Opposites do attract. Although they have chemistry, Kate doesn't want to get involved with Koti. And the main reason for that has to do with her past. Considering what she went through in her past. She did not want to jump into any relationship fast. Kate finally decides to throw caution to the wind, the sex scenes are great. Tender and hot. The other scenes with Kate and Koti are hilarious. Kate and Koti can't seem to stop insulting each other and it makes me laugh. The secondary characters of Hannah, Drew, Reka, and Hemi add a lot to the characters. Hannah and Drew are so sweet and protective of Kate. Drew has no problem setting Koti straight about Kate, which makes me laugh. Such a protective man there. (Loved catching up with Hannah and Drew by the way.) And Hemi. Hemi was great with Koti. So sweet how he would give advice to him. Especially that one scene when they were arguing over Kate.
mspilesofpaper's review against another edition
3.0
It's okay to read although I couldn't connect at all with Kate or Koti. Plus: too angst ridden most of the time. And all the En Zed slang ... pfft, I can deal with rugby vocab but otherwise it was difficult and I didn't notice at first that there's a dictionary at the end of the book.
ssejig's review against another edition
3.0
Kate Lamonica moved from the United States to New Zealand in order to escape a stalker. She has zero interest in dating. But she does think that she can take Koti James down a peg. The man goes through women like most people drink water. So she makes a bet with him that he can't just be friends with a woman.
Koti isn't sure why he'd want to be friends with a woman but he figures it can't be that hard. Especially a woman like Kate who he has no interest in. She's not his type at all.
But forced proximity makes for some interesting romantic options and Kate and Koti soon fall in love. It's an interesting story and flows pretty well and we do get to see the two fall in love.
Koti isn't sure why he'd want to be friends with a woman but he figures it can't be that hard. Especially a woman like Kate who he has no interest in. She's not his type at all.
But forced proximity makes for some interesting romantic options and Kate and Koti soon fall in love. It's an interesting story and flows pretty well and we do get to see the two fall in love.
harleyann's review against another edition
3.0
Things I loved about this book...
I loved the immersion into the culture. It was super great and fascinating to learn about and from everything I’ve read it’s pretty accurate so that was pretty cool. I loved that the past main characters were a prominent feature in this book. And the hero wasn’t that bad although I started to not like him towards the end.
Things I didn’t love about this book...
The heroine is super fucking annoying and I honestly do not like her she was very judge mental especially in the beginning. The heroines past traumas and current traumas lacked authenticity. It was almost as if the author wrote the traumas and coping with them the way she thought women should cope with them not the way that women actually do. I’m myself as a survivor of domestic abuse and someone who has gone to multiple group meetings with other women know that this is not how women deal with it. This severely affected what I thought of the book, it’s almost made me stop reading this book actually. It’s frustrating to me for an author to write about something that they either didn’t research enough or decided their way was better. There were multiple times where I just almost DNF the book. I was getting really fed up with the heroines judgy ways and the unrealistic nature of her attitude and reactions to her abuse.
I’m not sure if I’ll read more of this series but I know for a fact that I need to take a break for a little bit since this one wasn’t the best and neither was the first. I’m super disappointed since I had so many people recommend this series and read a lot of good reviews.
I loved the immersion into the culture. It was super great and fascinating to learn about and from everything I’ve read it’s pretty accurate so that was pretty cool. I loved that the past main characters were a prominent feature in this book. And the hero wasn’t that bad although I started to not like him towards the end.
Things I didn’t love about this book...
The heroine is super fucking annoying and I honestly do not like her she was very judge mental especially in the beginning. The heroines past traumas and current traumas lacked authenticity. It was almost as if the author wrote the traumas and coping with them the way she thought women should cope with them not the way that women actually do. I’m myself as a survivor of domestic abuse and someone who has gone to multiple group meetings with other women know that this is not how women deal with it. This severely affected what I thought of the book, it’s almost made me stop reading this book actually. It’s frustrating to me for an author to write about something that they either didn’t research enough or decided their way was better. There were multiple times where I just almost DNF the book. I was getting really fed up with the heroines judgy ways and the unrealistic nature of her attitude and reactions to her abuse.
I’m not sure if I’ll read more of this series but I know for a fact that I need to take a break for a little bit since this one wasn’t the best and neither was the first. I’m super disappointed since I had so many people recommend this series and read a lot of good reviews.