Deeper We Fall (Fall and Rise #1)

Genre: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary, College

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Synopsis:

Two years after her best friend was involved in a car accident that caused a traumatic brain injury, Lottie Anders is ready to start her freshman year of college. Ready to move on. Ready to start forgetting the night that ripped her life apart.

Her plans come to a screeching halt when not one, but both brothers responsible for the accident end up back in her life again.

Zack is cruel, selfish and constantly rubbing what happened to her friend in Lottie's face.

Zan is different. He listens to her awkward ramblings. He loves To Kill a Mockingbird as much as she does, and his dark eyes are irresistible. His words are few and far between, but when he does speak, she can't help but listen.

The trouble is, Zan was the driver in the accident, and now Lottie's discovered he lied to her about what happened that night. Now she must decide if trusting him again will lead to real forgiveness, or deeper heartache.

Two years ago, Lottie Anders let her best friend go in the car with the Parker brothers. Two years ago, she did not felt right to let any boy who had been drinking alcohol in a party drive. Two years ago she had her best friend. Two years ago is when there was the car accident that changed the lives of Lottie, Lexie, Zan and Zack.

It is been two years since then and Lottie wants to start her freshman year of college as a new chapter in her life. She has started to forget about the Parker brothers and she is willing to not loose faith in the idea that her friend could recover from a brain injury that make her forget even how to talk or walk.

She had everything planned with her brother, Will, and her brother’s best friend, Simon, when everything falls apart. The brothers responsible for all the tragedy in her life and her best friend’s life are in the same campus, in the same building where she is living. And to make the situation worse, her roommate is dating the horrible and womanizer Zack Parker. The person she hates the most and the one she blames the most for the accident. If her friend had not been fooled with his charms, the same charms he is using with her roommate, Lexie would still be… Lexie. The worst part of all? Is that Zakc is cruel, selfish and does not care a bit of the damage he did to her friend, although his brother was the one driving the car.

Zan Parker is different from him. She hates him, too, but at least he feels remorse about that night. He listens her ramblings and he likes to read as much as she does. And he seems to be everywhere Lottie is. He barely speaks, but when Lottie lets him in, in order to protect her roommate from his older brother, things start to change.

Zan has been deeply, madly and desperately in love with Charlotte since they where little. Everybody called her Hottie Lottie, but to him, she was Charlotte. He looses all his functional abilities such as talk or walk properly when she is around. He had been trying to bring the courage to talk to her and ask her out, but that night changed everything, every slight opportunity he had with her. He saw it in her eyes that night at the hospital. If she only knew the truth…

Deeper We Fall is one of our love/hate stories we like to read so much. It’s a story about second chances, fighting for what you desire, forgiving others and yourself, love and acceptance. Chelsea M. Cameron shows us a hard situation, the consequences of a mistake, an accident.

It is a fear most of all feel. Having an accident and ruining someone’s life. We could barely keep our eyes from watering in every scene with Lexie. She was a normal teenager and all of a sudden she is lost, without remembering her birthday or how to walk or talk. If we did not know about the accident and that Lexie is nineteen, we could easily think that when Lottie goes visit her she is five years old or something because of the way Lottie talks to her.

The difficult part is the guilt Lottie feels. She feels part responsible of the accident because she should have not let her friend go into that car, knowing both brothers were drunk. Sometimes even wonders what would happen if she was in the car that night, too. This is part is a rough one, but Cameron makes us want to read it.

Lottie is a real girl. She says what she feels and thinks, that means that, she surely does not stop to think twice about it.

Besides all the guilt and sorrow she feels, she tries to let go the things she is most afraid of losing and tries to make a fresh start. You have to be very brave to be willing to do this and actually accomplish it. 

On the other hand, Zan is the quiet type. He likes to listen to Lottie ramble and he does not speak much, just the necessary. His troubled past is beginning to hunt him and he has to deal with situations that put him on the edge of breaking down again and instead of choosing the easy way out, he chooses the hard way: fix things. Although Lottie treats him really bad and people misjudge him because of the accident, he always puts the other cheek. He always thinks he deserves the way people treat him as a way to punish himself for what happened to Lexie.

And then we have Zack. We all should make a badge for him that said: Congratulations to the biggest douchebag in the world! What we mean is that you can be a player with women (ok, we can accept that although we do not like it), but you do not have to be a drunk-asshole all the time and treat your so supposed girlfriend as your sexual slave.

The twindar is the part that makes us laugh a lot. That and Simon's part in the book and when they quote Star Wars. We laugh so hard with Simon and his energy that we are already trying to find a friend like him!! In general, we are glad to see different characters, with different hobbies and styles and glad to see how, as times goes by, they became a little family. It is really nice to see that when someone of the group has any problem, everyone go to the rescue.

We were hoping to see a redeemed Zack, but we think we were expecting to much from him. We were hoping that he had some of his brother's personality in him, but we were totally wrong.

We really enjoyed this story and every single character and event in it. Chelsea M. Cameron made us life Lottie and Zack's story so much that at the end of the book we were even quoting Star Wars! Definitely this is one book in our Summer Reads shelf and we really think that you, Book Addicts, are you going to enjoyed as much as we did, if you give it a shot. So do not hesitate and let Lottie and her friends into your life!

Right of Way

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Road Trip

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Synopsis:

Can a road trip repair a romance gone wrong? Find out in this standalone companion to Lauren Barnholdt’s Two-way Street.

Here are Peyton and Jace, meeting on vacation. Click! It’s awesome, it’s easy, it’s romantic. This is the real deal.

Unless it isn’t. Because when you’re in love, you don’t just stop calling one day. And you don’t keep secrets. Or lie. And when your life starts falling apart, you’re supposed to have the other person to lean on.

Here are Peyton and Jace again, broken up but thrown together on a road trip. One of them is lying about the destination. One of them is pretending not to be leaving something behind. And neither of them is prepared for what’s coming on the road ahead…

On Christmas, Peyton and her mother went to Florida to visit her cousin Courtney and her uncle that now is about to marry another woman. In a party that Courtney invited her, she met gorgerous and irresistible Jace. She cannot believe that a guy like him could be interested in a girl like her, and Peyton cannot deny that she is undeniably in love with Jace. 

She does not believe in love at first sight, just lust at first sight. But maybe she’s totally wrong, because this thing with Jace it seems pretty real. Unless it isn’t. Because when you’re in love with someone, you just don’t stop calling all of a sudden, without any explanation.

Now Peyton has a lot of problems. Personal problems, besides the fact of like a boy who does not want to know a thing about her. And she has to deal with the fact that she is going to see Jace again in her uncle’s wedding.

So, if Jace does not want to know about her and has forget everything they felt for each other, why is he with her on a road trip to help her scape from her family?

Once again, Lauren Barnholdt did not disappoint us at all. In this new book, following the plot about the rebirth of love on a road trip, Barnholdt shows us a story about what pride and secrets can do and the need to talk about the problems in your life with the people you care.

About the writing, we cannot complain. This story is fluid and there’s not a moment where you feel lost or that you have missed something while you were reading the book. Despite the constant jumps in time in both sides of the story (Peyton’s story and Jace’s story), you can keep up with the events and new secrets that the story unravels.

Peyton is meant to look like the typical brat girl you could imagine when someone tells you that this girl comes from a wealthy family. However, Peyton proves that looks are deceiving. She may act like a brat sometimes to piss off Jace of everything he did to her, but she has been through a lot. She has not had an easy life, like everybody could think, and she’s life is falling apart and the only person that kept her sane was Jace, until he broke their relationship.

We understand this character and we totally support her. We think that after everything she’s being through, she’s strong and also a little bit stubborn and oblivious when Jace’s around. If we found out some of the things she did, we don’t know how we would react. Maybe trying to scape is a little bit exaggerated, but it is a difficult situation and we cannot understand how a mother could do what Peyton’s mother did.

On the other hand, Jace’s character seemed to us a little bit childish. It is true that running away from something is his personality, but we think that he overreacted. He stopped talking to the person he knew he was falling for because she did not tell a personal thing. That is not a reason to stop talking a person. Maybe it is because of our personality, but we surely would confront the person and made him or she talk about it. And then decide if we want to stop talking with them.

We think that when he finds out the real situation of the girl he loves, he should have had to be more understanding and trying to help her, instead of giving her the silence treatment and act like if he never knew or care about this person.

The end was really fast. When we arrived to the last page we kept tapping on our iPads, trying to figure out why the thing was not working until we realized that it was the end of the book. Well, we may be exaggerating a little bit, but we felt like we were left in the best part! All of a sudden everything was right and they have found a solution or something until they figured things up. And we wanted to know more! We love Lauren Barnholdt’s love stories, however we always feel like she lefts us at the best part. What we are trying to say is that we need to know more about the couples we are falling in love with once they figure things up!!

Nevertheless, we strongly recommend this book and we think you are going to love Peyton and Jace’s love story as much as we did. And if you read Two-Way Street before reading this book, you are going to love to know more about Jordan and Courtney and their respective best friends, because they are in this story too! And you would now if their love story lasted or not.

We really enjoyed this book and we firmly believe that you are going to like it as much as we did. So, Book Addicts, start leaving enough space in your shelves for this romantic story about finding redemption on the road.

Thomas McDonell as Jace

Marie Avgeropoulos as Peyton

Snapshot (The Jamieson Collection #2)

Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Music

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Marti Hunter hates rockers and anything remotely related to the rock-and-roll lifestyle. She thought she’d left that all behind, along with her drug-addicted mother and absent-minded rock legend father. Now she lives with her grandmother, and Marti’s life is finally normal. Just the way she likes it.

For Adam Jamieson, normal is not possible. He is the genius guitar player of the band Jamieson. He’s ecstatic to finally get a two-week break from his micromanaged life and a chance to hang with regular teens. Adam’s shaving off his trademark curls and going undercover.

But when Marti, the reluctant rock princess, and Adam, the undercover guitar wizard, meet, sparks fly in more ways than one. They spend their time alternating between making out and driving each other crazy. But their summer adventures of skinny dipping, storm watching, and stolen kisses are brought to a halt when tragedy strikes.

Suddenly, they’re on opposite sides of the country, just when they need each other the most. Can Marti survive life with her dad and his vicious girlfriend? Will Adam get so fed up with his over-managed life and controlling parents that he quits the band?

Snapshot. A moment in time that changes two people forever.

Who didn't dream of having a father to be a rock star celebrity? Well, Marti Hunter never needed to dream about it because her father is Steven Hunter, a former rock star that acts and lives like one. Parties, booze, drugs and rock n' roll is everything Steven Hunter knows about life, such is the rock live that he named all his kids after famous alcoholic drinks. 

After failing in the parenthood department, Steven Hunter lets her daughter, Martini Hunter leave his house to live with her grandmother in Wisconsin. Because, if Steven Hunter is a mess at parenting, her mom's even worse. So, Marti only has her sweet grandmother to rely on.

However, this summer is different, because with a scholarship to help Marti's grandmother pay the Gallagher Institute Arts Camp, Marti's finally got the chance to go to a summer camp where she'd be able to study the hobby she likes the most: photography.

Adam Jamieson is seeking for a way to life a normal life. He thinks if he shaves is adorable curls, the ones that drive his fans crazy, and goes as AJ to a photography camp nobody would notice that he is really the teen rock star and lead guitarist of the Jamieson band Adam Jamieson.

And when Adam's and Marti's world collide, sparks fly. They are instantly drown to each other and between bonfires and secret night welcoming parties to the camp, they kiss.

There's just one problem. Marti hates rock stars, because of her father, and Adam's one of them. And when Marti finds out who he really is, their world is turned upside down. She is determined to not like this gorgerous and funny boy who clearly is into her. But as much as Marti tries to push Adam away, Adam returns stronger. 

All their perfect little magical world of love-hate shatters, when some tragic event leaves one of them devastated. That's when they need each other the most, but it seems that destiny forces them to be apart. How are they gonna survive this? And would they be able to say to the other "i love you" before is too late?

Who would have thought that, after all, falling in love with a rock star would not be as crazy or as impossible as Marti thought it would be.

After we have finished the first book of this heartbreaking series, Rock and A Hard Place, just a few days ago, we needed to read the second book. Already aware of Stanton's writing style and ability to make us feel with the book characters, we did not hesitate a second. We were glad to confirm that once again, this story flows effortlessly and with some beautiful moments and places she has the power to draw you so deep in the story that you cannot seem to leave the book until you have finished it. 

The book starts with a view from both main characters. Adam Jamieson cutting his hair to go unnoticed to the camp and Marti arriving to the camp with her grandmother who spots a guy that she thinks is cute. Guess who? 

Marti is one of our favourites strong girls, yet also sensible and is determined to forget about her past with her neglected parents. Such is her determination that she has this rule where she does not want to date, not even mention marry, a rock star. Leaving the profession of her father aside, Marti is like any other average teen and it's easy to identify with while reading this book. 

We had met Adam Jamieson a little bit in Rock and A Hard Place, however, this time seemed more mature. He's determined to have a regular teenage boy experience at this camp he has begged his parents to let him go and being surrounded by boys their age and girls makes him feel like he's living a dream come true. 

We were a little bit worried that the romance between Marti and Adam happened so fast in the story that we would be disappointed with the course of the book. Nevertheless, not a long time passes when Marti realises that AJ is really Adam Jamieson and she starts to convince herself that she's no longer interested in the hot Jamieson boy. 

We were relieved to see how, step by step, Adam wins over Marti again and how she finally lets herself feel what her heart was screaming for Adam since the first night at the bonfire when they first kiss.

When we read about the tragic event on the description of the book we had the feeling of who would affect and what was this event. We were right and we did not like, for once, being right. This tragic event made us really sad and could not believe what Marti's mother did after it. It was really awful and she was totally a witch.

That's when Marti lands again on Steven Hunter's house. We were glad to see that finally this character redeems himself doing the right thing for once without losing the image of rock star. We really liked this character, because not matter what the trouble he is in, he does not loose the humour. 

We were glad to keep track on our other beloved couple, Peter and Libby, also on this book and to know what they were up to know. We were really happy that Stanton did not forget about them and to show Peter as a person who Adam could rely on and tell even the scariest secrets he was afraid of saying.

We loved the camp and the landscape that Stanton describes in the story. Also, the group of friends both main characters make are pretty cool and funny, so we have had a great time with this book also thanks to them. 

To sum up our review and not write hundreds and hundreds of things that made this story unique to us, we wanted to add that we love the adamant determination of both Jamieson brothers in saving the girls that make them different and alive for a long time now.

In brief, we really enjoyed with this book. It's totally different from the first one, although, as we have said before, Angie Stanton does not loose the power to captivate you and to make you go all emotional about the story. This refreshing, unique and romantic story about another of the Jamieson brothers would make you don't want to leave the book until you have finished it and would make you hungry for more! That's one of the main reasons this book is in a high ranking in our system rating, like the first one. Therefore, we need to strongly recommend this book to you, Book Addicts, because we know for sure that you are gonna loved it like we did and you are gonna feel the Jamieson's lure as much as we did.

Rock and a Hard Place (The Jamieson Collection #1)

Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Music, Chick Lit

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One day while watching the Interstate exit for her dad’s long awaited return, Libby’s life is rocked when Peter Jamieson steps off his tour bus and into her life. After a couple chance meetings with Peter, Libby breaks away from her rule abiding behavior and her life changes course.

Peter longs for normalcy away from the screaming fans who know nothing about the real him. He is amazed to discover Libby has never heard of him or his band. Soon their friendship turns to love. While Peter battles his family's growing interference so he can spend time with Libby, she struggles with her eccentric aunt who turns more bizarre each day.

Their lives are torn apart when Peter's family intrudes and Libby disappears. Peter’s desperate search for her comes up empty. Can they find their way back to each other while the world plots against them?

Libby's leaving a nightmare. She had a perfect life, a perfect family and the perfect relationships with friends, until a tragic accident left her with no family, no friends and absolutely no perfect life. Just a whack job aunt whose only ambition in life is drinking in front of a TV, smoke pot and treat Libby like Cinderella. 

Unless she is planning on driving herself mad, she tries to spend the most of the time away from this new and horrible life, alone, in the woods, watching the Interstate exit with the hope of seeing her father come to her rescue. 

One day, Peter enters Libby's hidden spot while she's painting. He's a young rock star along with his two other brothers, Adam and Graham, and he's part of the now popular band The Jamiesons. The best part of their relationship is that Libby has never heard the name of Peter Jamieson or The Jamiesons band and they can be themselves for the first time. 

Only one day and they both feel the need to see each other again. It is really strange how comfortable they feel around each other and how they cannot seem to stop thinking in the other one when they are apart. 

Whilst their relationship grows stronger, it also does the interference from Peter's family and the awkward, crazy and bizarre behavior of Libby's aunt. However the intrusion is not big enough, until some events happen at the same time leaving Libby in hands of the system and with a broken heart.

Through an incessant desperation, Peter tries to fix what their family had done, but there is no way back. Libby's disappeared and Peter is starting to loose his mind. How much they need to struggle alone until they find one another again?

We have had this book for a long time now. We have recently received the ARC of this book and we remembered of it and give the shot that before we did not give.

We have to confess that we love all books of this genre or with quite a lot of similarities in the premise of this book, but when we started reading this book, we could not stop! We were not expecting this. At all.

Firstly, we have to make a second confession that is that while we were reading the book we could not stop crying. We could not believe nor deal with Libby's life situation. It was everything so unfair that we could not stop crying.

From the start, we meet Libby's sad story and deplorable background and all you want to do is protect that little and miserable girl. She's so alone and her aunt is such a jealous dirty witch (to not say a swearword), that makes us wonder how Libby could end up this way. So we have to say that we hate this woman, too much to be healthy. This character was so cruel, so evil that we could not even understand how she would not feel sorry for her own nephew or even her sister! Jealousy is not an excuse to treat people the way this woman did. She hated her sister because her parents made it easier for her, all the things: college, material things she wanted, etc. Maybe their parents knew she could work hard to get all the things her sister had easily. We are not saying that is fair, but she should not hate her sister for that nor the lonely and motherless child of her sister.

With this background we kind of understand why Peter becomes a drug for Libby and why she's so anxious to know more about him that she gets to the point of stealing money from school to buy a Jamieson's CD. 

At this point we were happy to see Libby trying to pick up all the broken pieces of her life with Peter's help, and then is when the crying part starts. She had a miserable situation and everything gets more messed up for Libby. For some reason, (we are not doing spoiler here) she ends up trying to survive on her own, just when Peter knows what her hateful brother did to his relationship with her. 

Not only she's heartbroken, he even thanks Peter for bring her from the darkest depths her life has become this past year! Oh my God, such a sweet girl and she's devastated because of the idiotic of Garrett. We really hate him, but we would give you our piss of mind about this particular guy lately. 

To make this situation even worse, Peter cannot find Libby. She's a minor and no one can say to Peter where she is now. Even to complicate things more, she's on the run of the system and she is living in another town with a different name, with a kind woman that has a bunch of kids and that runs the motel where Libby's living now.

With this panorama, Book Addicts, you could understand we would refuse to go to bed before finishing this book, right? We got hook with Libby's story and if Peter would ever find her. Although we were hoping that in his desperation, he would do something more like storming of a concert or something like that or making Garret pay for what he did. However, Peter is a total gentleman, so we understand his reaction.

About Garret, we cannot understand how the three brothers could be so different. This one in particular is really possessive about his business with the band and is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her interest moving the way he wants. Their father and this brother, makes us want to hit them on the head, hard. Peter is the opposite of this two, we suppose he is like her mother, and Adam, the little brother of the Jamieson's family, is like every little brother should be: a busybody and a babbler. We really like what he does for Peter at the nearly end of the book. 

The end of the book was everything we were hoping for and make our hearts keep beating, because, for a moment, we thought we would never get the ending we were all wishing. 

So, all those Book Addicts that love romantic books there won't be disappointed with this one. Is a quick sweet read, because you get hook with Libby's story and you cannot seem to leave the book anywhere else than in your hands until you have finished reading it. We think Angie Stanton put all her heart on this reading, because we not only felt what Libby felt or worried when something awful was happening, but it makes us cry. A lot. We think if a book can make you feel something so strong like that is because is a magnificent book and because it felt so real to us that we felt the need to express our feelings. It happens to us very often, always when summer hits or is approaching, that we feel the need to read romantic YA books. Hence, if you are like us we suggest you read this book. You would love it.