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Collide by Gail McHugh
5.0

I love love. I always have and I always will. I guess that’s why I read so much about it. A friend had suggested this book to me years and years ago. I took the plunge and finally purchased ‘Collide’.

When a book usually has a multi-millionaire in it, they’re usually cold-hearted, friendless, distant from their family. But not Gavin. He was the complete opposite of the usual millionaires that I’ve read about. Gavin is warm, caring, loving, funny, and literally wears his heart on his sleeve.

Most books also include a female MC, but sometimes she never has a boyfriend attached to her. Emily just lost her mother from cancer. She moved from Colorado to New York to start a new life and by closer to her boyfriend.

And in this story, a villain of course was present. Dillon. I didn’t like him the first time he controlled Emily over what she wore. And that opinion didn’t change when he told her that he didn’t like her choice in friends. But what threw in the towel for me was knowing that he continued to cheat on Emily behind her back.

Emily and Gavin. It was literally love at first sight. At least for Gavin. The chase was entertaining and passionate and hot as hell. And it left me wondering when they were finally going to come together as a couple.

Emily and Dillon. They just didn’t make sense. I get why she stayed with him. He was her safe haven and he helped out with a lot when her mom passed. But what he did was in a way, blackmail. He used her mom’s passing against her.

This story had everything for me. It had the sad parts, the love parts, the steamy parts, the comedic parts, the part where a couple slowly learns things about each other and then falls in love. It also had the nitty gritty. It had the hatred that every story needed.

My heart broke both for Emily and Gavin, but more so Gavin. He put his heart out on the line for a girl that he literally saw everything with. My heart soared when Emily realized that the man she was about to marry, wasn’t the man that she thought he was. My heart is still racing from the heartbreaking conclusion of ‘Collide’. I can’t wait to see how ‘Pulse’ goes.