A review by letkatread
Crazy for Loving You by Pippa Grant

5.0

When you’re reading a series, and it’s books that are separate but also intertwined, you find a little bit of yourself in each of the different characters. I found a little bit of myself in both Daisy and West. Daisy and I could have bonded over the face that we both graduated from college with degrees in psychology. West and I could have bonded over the fact that we enjoy the banter with our family. But that’s just about where the findings end. Daisy is a billionaire real estate heiress. She comes off as the aloof worker and party girl best friend. But what’s not shown is that she’s a lover and giver of epic proportions. After 20 years in the Marines, West is finally retired. Of course that leaves him with his whereabouts up in the air until his brother Tyler (can we get a book on him and his time with the Thrusters?) sets him up with a job in Miami. It’s kind of fate for West as he reconnects with an old high school girlfriend. West is seemingly a hopeless romantic and gets all the wrong signs, thus embarrassing himself when he asks if they could make their relationship official. The embarrassing part is that the girl that he’s been causally seeing has been seeing someone else. How do West and Daisy come to be? Daisy’s cousin, who just died, specified that in the event of her passing that Daisy and West would become co-parents of Remington. It’s all very 'Life As We Know It', but with a billionaire and retired Marine as the two main characters. Sparks fly when they bond over Remy, even though they shouldn’t. But when they finally give into the attraction to each other, it’s epic. Life isn’t so easy for Daisy, West, and Remy as whoever killed Daisy’s cousin and husband are out for custody of Remy. I do understand why Daisy let West and Remy go. She was trying to protect them in her own way. She had to learn to love herself, after giving all of her love to others freely, before she could fully love another being. On paper, these two should not work. But when you finally have two beings learning the deepest parts of you that no one knows, it makes them come to love you without strings. This series was everything that I wanted it to be. Lucy, Claire, Kathryn, and Pippa write amazing characters with more depth than I’ve ever read before. Here’s to hoping that these four amazing authors collaborate on another series together.