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Manhattan
by Kandi Steiner
4.5 Stars!
I really did enjoy this book! Kylie and Mikey have been best friend's since they were 8 years old, bonding over both losing a parent when they were a young age. They were inseparable, but remained firmly in the friend zone, even though Kylie has loved Mikey since they first met. She watched as Mikey fell in love with Bailey, his high school sweetheart, and went through heartbreak, helping to pull him out of the black hole he fell into after Bailey left.
Mikey has always had Kylie and taken her for granted, and has never really seen her as anything other than his best friend. For the two years he was with Bailey, their friendship suffered and held Kylie at arm's length, and only when Bailey ended it to pursue her music career in Nashville in the autumn of their senior year, Kylie comes back properly into his life to help him recover from his heartbreak.
The night of their high school graduation, Mike announces he's moving to New York City at the end of the summer. Distraught, Kylie decides shes's going to convince him he still loves their home town of Stratford, Tennessee, and tell him how she really feels. She creates a list of all their favourite places around town and takes him back to each one, trying to prove that his memories of the town don't all contain Bailey and he doesn't have to run to New York to escape her.
During the adventures, Mikey's eyes are opened to the fact that Kylie is, in fact, a girl (haha) and while he's had blinkers on with Bailey, Kylie has grown into a beautiful young woman. He begins to see her as more than a friend and their relationship begins to blossom. Of course, there is drama and heartbreak a long the way when various parts of their pasts are thrown back into the mix, but Kylie and Mikey have such a strong foundation, in the end nothing can shake it.
I enjoyed Kylie and Mikey's story but the one thing that made me knock half a star off was that I got so fed up with Mikey in some parts, I just wanted to throw my Kindle across the room. I think my heart broke more for Kylie and the way Mikey treated her, especially during the time he was with Bailey, than it did for him and his heartbreak. I know your first love is the hardest to recover from, but he really did milk it for all he could and treated Kylie horribly, especially when he would be reminded of Bailey. I was so angry with him for half the book, he really needed to grow up. But having said that, when he was with Kylie, he was all in and he treated her like a princess which I loved. He did make some questionable decisions at the end, but ultimately he knew who he really loved and did what he could to win her back! I adored him by the end.
Kylie really did love Mikey and she was definitely my favourite character, she knew what she was worth and stood up for herself when she was let down. I think that she was so strong, and made me cry in a number of places with her feelings because I related to her in certain parts of the book hard. I love a good friends to more romance and Manhattan is one of the best I've read this year!
I haven't read any of the other Becker Brothers books and I didn't feel like I missed anything, but I will be going back and reading the older brother's stories now! There were clearly storylines which carried on between all three books but there's enough explanation to get you up to speed pretty quickly. I can't wait for book 4!
Thank you Kandi Steiner and Social Butterfly PR for an advanced reader copy of Manhattan in exchange for an honest review.
I really did enjoy this book! Kylie and Mikey have been best friend's since they were 8 years old, bonding over both losing a parent when they were a young age. They were inseparable, but remained firmly in the friend zone, even though Kylie has loved Mikey since they first met. She watched as Mikey fell in love with Bailey, his high school sweetheart, and went through heartbreak, helping to pull him out of the black hole he fell into after Bailey left.
Mikey has always had Kylie and taken her for granted, and has never really seen her as anything other than his best friend. For the two years he was with Bailey, their friendship suffered and held Kylie at arm's length, and only when Bailey ended it to pursue her music career in Nashville in the autumn of their senior year, Kylie comes back properly into his life to help him recover from his heartbreak.
The night of their high school graduation, Mike announces he's moving to New York City at the end of the summer. Distraught, Kylie decides shes's going to convince him he still loves their home town of Stratford, Tennessee, and tell him how she really feels. She creates a list of all their favourite places around town and takes him back to each one, trying to prove that his memories of the town don't all contain Bailey and he doesn't have to run to New York to escape her.
During the adventures, Mikey's eyes are opened to the fact that Kylie is, in fact, a girl (haha) and while he's had blinkers on with Bailey, Kylie has grown into a beautiful young woman. He begins to see her as more than a friend and their relationship begins to blossom. Of course, there is drama and heartbreak a long the way when various parts of their pasts are thrown back into the mix, but Kylie and Mikey have such a strong foundation, in the end nothing can shake it.
I enjoyed Kylie and Mikey's story but the one thing that made me knock half a star off was that I got so fed up with Mikey in some parts, I just wanted to throw my Kindle across the room. I think my heart broke more for Kylie and the way Mikey treated her, especially during the time he was with Bailey, than it did for him and his heartbreak. I know your first love is the hardest to recover from, but he really did milk it for all he could and treated Kylie horribly, especially when he would be reminded of Bailey. I was so angry with him for half the book, he really needed to grow up. But having said that, when he was with Kylie, he was all in and he treated her like a princess which I loved. He did make some questionable decisions at the end, but ultimately he knew who he really loved and did what he could to win her back! I adored him by the end.
Kylie really did love Mikey and she was definitely my favourite character, she knew what she was worth and stood up for herself when she was let down. I think that she was so strong, and made me cry in a number of places with her feelings because I related to her in certain parts of the book hard. I love a good friends to more romance and Manhattan is one of the best I've read this year!
I haven't read any of the other Becker Brothers books and I didn't feel like I missed anything, but I will be going back and reading the older brother's stories now! There were clearly storylines which carried on between all three books but there's enough explanation to get you up to speed pretty quickly. I can't wait for book 4!
Thank you Kandi Steiner and Social Butterfly PR for an advanced reader copy of Manhattan in exchange for an honest review.