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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
*i’m going to re-read this, but good god my old reviews have so many spoilers! What the chizz was wrong with me!?!?!?*
I liked this book it was a pretty easy read, and I felt like it added the right amount of filler/build-up without it being over-kill. I felt like I knew what was going to happen before it even happened. Which is most books I suppose, but It felt a little predictable.
I liked this book it was a pretty easy read, and I felt like it added the right amount of filler/build-up without it being over-kill. I felt like I knew what was going to happen before it even happened. Which is most books I suppose, but It felt a little predictable.
Spoiler
I mean As soon as she said "medication" I was like I bet she has unprotected sex next. Haha! And of course 1-2 chapters later, "condoms?" "I'm on the pill." (Even though I'd be more worried about std's since Dillon is bot faithful, but ya know...the pill.) Yesssss unplanned pregnancy coming soon. I don't know if all of her barfing the day after was stress or an allusion to pregnancy but she must be having triplets if the hormones hit her that quickly or Gavin has super sperm. Anyway I'm not sure if I'll read the next book mainly because I'd rather just pretend what I made up in my mind has come to fruition and if she's not pregnant I will just feel grimey, and if she is but its Dillon's I will feel even worse since he raped her. Hmmm. Love this book minus the fact I felt like I knew what was coming at every turn.
This was soooo slow. I tried, I really did... I gave this audiobook 3 hours, but alas, just couldn't do anymore. Didn't even get to a steamy scene... I mean, I usually hang in for that...but not this time.
notes while reading:
mid chap 3 - It's a little slow. The plot isn't pulling me forward. Hmmmm.
Love at first sight, ok, I suppose I could buy that, but... It's kinda overdone. (Emily is called gorgeous by everyone).
Basically the story is: gorgeous guy falls for gorgeous girl (at first sight, he's pulled to her, he can't explain it... Maybe the author should! ha ha).
Girl is dating a stereotypical jealous two timing guy. Over 3 hours in and basically nothing's happened. Reading this is no more interesting than sitting down and watching some cheesy made for TV movie. Or a good housekeeping magazine story. Nothing special.
This makes 50 shades of grey look like a literary masterpiece.
notes while reading:
mid chap 3 - It's a little slow. The plot isn't pulling me forward. Hmmmm.
Love at first sight, ok, I suppose I could buy that, but... It's kinda overdone. (Emily is called gorgeous by everyone).
Basically the story is: gorgeous guy falls for gorgeous girl (at first sight, he's pulled to her, he can't explain it... Maybe the author should! ha ha).
Girl is dating a stereotypical jealous two timing guy. Over 3 hours in and basically nothing's happened. Reading this is no more interesting than sitting down and watching some cheesy made for TV movie. Or a good housekeeping magazine story. Nothing special.
This makes 50 shades of grey look like a literary masterpiece.
Some collisions are worth the permanent scars
**review contains spoilers**
I'm going to start off by telling you the thing I didn't like most about this book. It was told from the third-person omniscient POV. It was so hard to get used to it. Pretty much all romance novels I've consumed are first-person and give a clear distinction between characters' POV.
Now after taking that away, this duet with recommended to me by one of my favorite authors Adriana Locke. So that alone held a lot of weight to this duet set.
Let's dive into the book. The first character we're introduced to are Emily, Dillon, and Olivia. Now I knew this story would revolve around Emily and Gavin because I read the synopsis. Getting to know these three characters were entertaining to say the least. Olivia, the best friend with no filter. Dillion, the boyfriend wanting to hold his girls hand through life (we find out so much more later). Emily, a woman who has been trying to find her "home" her entire life.
The moment that Gavin and Emily's eyes connect across the building, their world as they know shifted. While I've never been a fan of cheating (I have personal experience with it) the slow emotional and then physical abuse Emily suffered at the hands of Dillion is heartbreaking. On the flip side is a man who wants to dance with her in the kitchen, flip bottle caps and make her into a Yankees fan. While reading this book, I "felt" the collision between Emily and Gavin. It warmed my heart at every turn. The small twist and turns shook me, had me screaming and crying . The most perfect thing you want from a book, to be enveloped in the story as if it's your personal journey.
I'm picking up the second book...
**review contains spoilers**
I'm going to start off by telling you the thing I didn't like most about this book. It was told from the third-person omniscient POV. It was so hard to get used to it. Pretty much all romance novels I've consumed are first-person and give a clear distinction between characters' POV.
Now after taking that away, this duet with recommended to me by one of my favorite authors Adriana Locke. So that alone held a lot of weight to this duet set.
Let's dive into the book. The first character we're introduced to are Emily, Dillon, and Olivia. Now I knew this story would revolve around Emily and Gavin because I read the synopsis. Getting to know these three characters were entertaining to say the least. Olivia, the best friend with no filter. Dillion, the boyfriend wanting to hold his girls hand through life (we find out so much more later). Emily, a woman who has been trying to find her "home" her entire life.
The moment that Gavin and Emily's eyes connect across the building, their world as they know shifted. While I've never been a fan of cheating (I have personal experience with it) the slow emotional and then physical abuse Emily suffered at the hands of Dillion is heartbreaking. On the flip side is a man who wants to dance with her in the kitchen, flip bottle caps and make her into a Yankees fan. While reading this book, I "felt" the collision between Emily and Gavin. It warmed my heart at every turn. The small twist and turns shook me, had me screaming and crying . The most perfect thing you want from a book, to be enveloped in the story as if it's your personal journey.
I'm picking up the second book...
No.
That could honestly be my entire review of this book. Just a big, fat, no.
I have absolutely no idea how this book go so many positive reviews. No. Idea.
The writing itself wasn't bad, if you don't count how the author sometimes went from Emily's point of view to Gavin's in the space of two chapters. It didn't take me a long time to finish this, and I didn't feel like I was slowly dragging my feet while reading it, but aside from that, there were just so many things wrong with it, oh my god.
The main character, Emily, was so incredibly oblivious to everything around her that I just wanted to slap her in the face. She was also pretty inconsistent and had no backbone at all, with one minute being mad at her boyfriend, Dillon, and on the other just throwing caution to the wind and forgiving him for whatever it was he did that time. It made me angry to read about Emily going to change just because Dillon told her to, or saying she was sorry when he was the one in the wrong. She needed to stand up for herself, and she didn't do that once throughout the entire book.
Dillon was a complete and utter douchebag. There was no more to him than that. The author gave us no reason as to why he was the way he was with Emily, why the sudden change of being the sweet boyfriend Emily thought he was when they were in a long distance relationship, or why he was so determinate to date her and marry her. It was like she just wrote him for the sake of him being a possessive and controlling bastard and stand between the two people she wanted to be together, Emily and Gavin.
As for Gavin, his behavior was stalker-ish. I found it unbelievable that he falls in love with Emily the second after he sees her. That doesn't happen. And the fact that he used that excuse, of him not being able to stop thinking about her, to chase her around everywhere was not okay.
And for the most NOT OKAY part of it all... goes under the cut because of spoilers and upsetting subjects.
[Trigger Warning: Rape]
Right at the end of the story Dillon raped Emily.
He justified it as being some sort of proof for him to know that Emily and Gavin didn't have sex. That if she had sex with him, he would know Emily didn't cheat on him.
Emily didn't consent to it.
We didn't need her not saying the word 'no' for it to be evident that she did not want that to happen.
It's never ever okay for someone to demand sex of another person. You don't own anyone anything, and certainly not that.
And it was so upsetting to read it because it blind-sided me. There where no warnings whatsoever when I read the blurb, or an Author's Note at the beginning to let everyone know that the story contained a scene of sexual abuse and it might upset some readers...
I just.. ugh.
I'm so disappointed. And mad that I'm never getting my money back.
This was an awful book, and you'll probably never see me picking up something this author wrote ever again.
More reviews @ Crossroad Books.
That could honestly be my entire review of this book. Just a big, fat, no.
I have absolutely no idea how this book go so many positive reviews. No. Idea.
The writing itself wasn't bad, if you don't count how the author sometimes went from Emily's point of view to Gavin's in the space of two chapters. It didn't take me a long time to finish this, and I didn't feel like I was slowly dragging my feet while reading it, but aside from that, there were just so many things wrong with it, oh my god.
The main character, Emily, was so incredibly oblivious to everything around her that I just wanted to slap her in the face. She was also pretty inconsistent and had no backbone at all, with one minute being mad at her boyfriend, Dillon, and on the other just throwing caution to the wind and forgiving him for whatever it was he did that time. It made me angry to read about Emily going to change just because Dillon told her to, or saying she was sorry when he was the one in the wrong. She needed to stand up for herself, and she didn't do that once throughout the entire book.
Dillon was a complete and utter douchebag. There was no more to him than that. The author gave us no reason as to why he was the way he was with Emily, why the sudden change of being the sweet boyfriend Emily thought he was when they were in a long distance relationship, or why he was so determinate to date her and marry her. It was like she just wrote him for the sake of him being a possessive and controlling bastard and stand between the two people she wanted to be together, Emily and Gavin.
As for Gavin, his behavior was stalker-ish. I found it unbelievable that he falls in love with Emily the second after he sees her. That doesn't happen. And the fact that he used that excuse, of him not being able to stop thinking about her, to chase her around everywhere was not okay.
And for the most NOT OKAY part of it all... goes under the cut because of spoilers and upsetting subjects.
[Trigger Warning: Rape]
Spoiler
Yeah, that happened.Right at the end of the story Dillon raped Emily.
He justified it as being some sort of proof for him to know that Emily and Gavin didn't have sex. That if she had sex with him, he would know Emily didn't cheat on him.
Emily didn't consent to it.
We didn't need her not saying the word 'no' for it to be evident that she did not want that to happen.
It's never ever okay for someone to demand sex of another person. You don't own anyone anything, and certainly not that.
And it was so upsetting to read it because it blind-sided me. There where no warnings whatsoever when I read the blurb, or an Author's Note at the beginning to let everyone know that the story contained a scene of sexual abuse and it might upset some readers...
I just.. ugh.
I'm so disappointed. And mad that I'm never getting my money back.
This was an awful book, and you'll probably never see me picking up something this author wrote ever again.
More reviews @ Crossroad Books.
This is really between 3 and 4 stars for me. Usually what people complain about this book is Emily's character. That isn't the case for me. I actually see why she was so conflicted about sticking it out with Dillon or not. She felt obligated. And the angst? I always love that shit! What I don't like is the constant reference to Gavin and Emily and their unspoken "connection". They could just "feel" it?? What the fuck ever. But I will hand it to you...Gavin is one hot piece!
Loved this book! Every once in awhile I love to get lost in a good romance and Gail McHugh delivered. While I did find Emily to be grating and annoying at times, I still loved the writing, pace and storyline. Mini review coming soon
Dillon is a huge jerk! So frustrating and irritating the way Emily was acting. When an author can stir up your feelings and cause you to yell at the characters, you know it's a good book! Yes read it!
I first met Gail through another author on a writer's page I'm on. We'd been talking quite a bit via facebook and she'd read a few snippets of my story that I wrote. Well I approached her about reading and reviewing her book that comes out in a few weeks. She immediately agreed and sent me an e-copy. I devoured it in record time.
The influx of incredible self-pubbed books is so grand that trying to get to all of them is difficult. But I am so glad that this one crossed my path.
Emily Cooper has just lost her mother to the dreaded C-word. She's traveling across country (Colorado to NYC) where her boyfriend lives and works. She's just finished up college and is hoping to find a teaching position. Because it's summer, she gets a temporary job waitressing. She is asked by her manager if she could drop off a delivery at a building close by, she agrees. From there everything that could go wrong, does.
She is greeted at the door by a gorgeous guy in a suit who says he'll take her up to the floor she needs to go to. He even offers to hold the bag for her. He tries to engage her in conversation, but she's flustered by his good looks. It's not until she gets to the floor, he informs her that the food was for him. (Cheeky!) Of course, she can't stop thinking about this extremely fuckable good-looking guy and tells her roommate about him. Her roommate cannot stand her boyfriend so there are some funny vignettes with the two of them when he's in the picture. Olivia cracked me up most of the time.
Gorgeous guy stops by the restaurant to see Emily and engage her in conversation. He's interested and wants to take her out but she lets him down by telling him that she has a boyfriend. She also learns his name. Gavin Blake.
When Emily's BF invites her to come out to meet the 'guys', she's shocked to see Gavin in the company. Dillon (Em's BF), informs Gavin that SHE is off limits. Because she's his.
From there on the tension builds and builds. Emily loves Dillon and he was there during the worst of her mother's illness, but she's also drawn to Gavin who is funny, personable and pays attention to her. He does everything he can to draw her away from Dillon.
Gavin is a great character. He's likable, and according to Olivia and Emily, totally fuckable. I had problems with Dillon. You know that there is something up with him, but you can't be 100%. Emily could be wishy-washy at times. Her feelings for Gavin are growing leaps and bounds and when she catches Dillon in a lie, she thinks she's done with him.
Gail has written a fantastic new adult book that really pulls you in. It's a love triangle, but there's more to it than that as well. Emily doesn't know what she wants and feels as if she owes Dillon for helping her during her time of crisis. But living in NYC can change a person.
A fantastic debut and a stellar story. You'll be craving for the sequel as much as I am!
Um, so I got to read an early copy of this and I feel so honored that Gail allowed me to! It's FREAKING amazeballs! Gavin is probably the best character I've ever read in long time (he's up there with Kellan Kyle and Professor Emerson!).
I had a slight problem with Emily and her wishy-washy ways, but that's how she is. All the secondary characters are well developed as well. Which is NOT an easy fete! Gail has a true talent and I have a feeling that people will be talking about this book long after they've read it. Wondering what the hell happens next. (It's a series.)
All I know is that I hope she's writing book 2 right now because I cannot WAIT to get my greedy hands on it!
The influx of incredible self-pubbed books is so grand that trying to get to all of them is difficult. But I am so glad that this one crossed my path.
Emily Cooper has just lost her mother to the dreaded C-word. She's traveling across country (Colorado to NYC) where her boyfriend lives and works. She's just finished up college and is hoping to find a teaching position. Because it's summer, she gets a temporary job waitressing. She is asked by her manager if she could drop off a delivery at a building close by, she agrees. From there everything that could go wrong, does.
She is greeted at the door by a gorgeous guy in a suit who says he'll take her up to the floor she needs to go to. He even offers to hold the bag for her. He tries to engage her in conversation, but she's flustered by his good looks. It's not until she gets to the floor, he informs her that the food was for him. (Cheeky!) Of course, she can't stop thinking about this extremely fuckable good-looking guy and tells her roommate about him. Her roommate cannot stand her boyfriend so there are some funny vignettes with the two of them when he's in the picture. Olivia cracked me up most of the time.
Gorgeous guy stops by the restaurant to see Emily and engage her in conversation. He's interested and wants to take her out but she lets him down by telling him that she has a boyfriend. She also learns his name. Gavin Blake.
When Emily's BF invites her to come out to meet the 'guys', she's shocked to see Gavin in the company. Dillon (Em's BF), informs Gavin that SHE is off limits. Because she's his.
From there on the tension builds and builds. Emily loves Dillon and he was there during the worst of her mother's illness, but she's also drawn to Gavin who is funny, personable and pays attention to her. He does everything he can to draw her away from Dillon.
Gavin is a great character. He's likable, and according to Olivia and Emily, totally fuckable. I had problems with Dillon. You know that there is something up with him, but you can't be 100%. Emily could be wishy-washy at times. Her feelings for Gavin are growing leaps and bounds and when she catches Dillon in a lie, she thinks she's done with him.
Gail has written a fantastic new adult book that really pulls you in. It's a love triangle, but there's more to it than that as well. Emily doesn't know what she wants and feels as if she owes Dillon for helping her during her time of crisis. But living in NYC can change a person.
A fantastic debut and a stellar story. You'll be craving for the sequel as much as I am!
Um, so I got to read an early copy of this and I feel so honored that Gail allowed me to! It's FREAKING amazeballs! Gavin is probably the best character I've ever read in long time (he's up there with Kellan Kyle and Professor Emerson!).
I had a slight problem with Emily and her wishy-washy ways, but that's how she is. All the secondary characters are well developed as well. Which is NOT an easy fete! Gail has a true talent and I have a feeling that people will be talking about this book long after they've read it. Wondering what the hell happens next. (It's a series.)
All I know is that I hope she's writing book 2 right now because I cannot WAIT to get my greedy hands on it!
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I was given a chance to read this incredible novel for one of my goodreads friends. Going in, I really did not know anything about this book. I knew it sounded like my "cup of tea" but I really had no clue what it was about. To say that Collide, lived up to my expectations would be false. This novel was amazing and had me hooked from the very beginning.
I adored the characters in this book. They felt very real and honest, and I easily connected with them. I was instantly attracted to Gavin. I wanted Emily to dump Dillion (who I wasn't a fan of) and run off with Gavin. I really like Emily's character because she was someone who makes you feel like you already know, and are best friends with.
Overall, I loved this novel and would recommend Collide to all of my friends; but without giving away the ending, I will say there is a huge cliffhanger that will have you begging for the next installment! Fantastic job, Gail! You have won me over with your writing and I look forward to read all of your work in the future.
I adored the characters in this book. They felt very real and honest, and I easily connected with them. I was instantly attracted to Gavin. I wanted Emily to dump Dillion (who I wasn't a fan of) and run off with Gavin. I really like Emily's character because she was someone who makes you feel like you already know, and are best friends with.
Overall, I loved this novel and would recommend Collide to all of my friends; but without giving away the ending, I will say there is a huge cliffhanger that will have you begging for the next installment! Fantastic job, Gail! You have won me over with your writing and I look forward to read all of your work in the future.