AUTHOR: Abbi Glines GENRE: NA Romance PAGES: 304 RELEASED: 25 April 2012 SERIES: Sea Breeze #3 Maybe driving home after a few (or more) shots of tequila had been a bad idea, but hell, he did it all the time. The cops had to have been freaking bored to have pulled him over. He wasn’t even swerving! That’s Cage York’s story and he’s sticking to it. Unfortunately, his baseball coach isn’t buying it. Cage has a free ride to the local junior college for baseball -- or he did, until he’d gotten a DUI. Now, Cage has to decide: does he drop out and give up his dream of getting noticed by a college in the SEC, and possibly making it into the Major Leagues -- or does he give in to his coach’s demands and spend his summer baling hay? Eva Brooks planned out her life step by step when she was eight years old. Not once over the years had she lost sight of her goals. Josh Beasley, her next door neighbor, had been the centre of those goals. He’d been her first boyfriend at seven, her first kiss at ten, her first date at fifteen, and her first tragedy at eighteen. The moment she’d received the phone call from Josh’s mother saying he’d been killed along with four other soldiers just north of Baghdad, Eva’s carefully planned life imploded in the worst way possible. Cage isn’t real happy with his closet-sized bedroom in the back of a foul smelling barn, or his daily interactions with cows, but he knows that if he doesn’t make his coach happy then he can kiss his scholarship goodbye. Only a sick and twisted man would decide his punishment was to be working on a farm all summer. No hot babes in bikinis waiting to meet a Southern boy to make her vacation complete. Just him and the damned cows. Oh -- and an uptight, snarky brunette with the biggest blue eyes he’s ever seen. But she doesn’t count, because as hard as he’s tried to charm her out of her panties - he’s pretty sure she’d rather see him hung from the rafters than let him get a taste of her pretty little lips. Could the playboy of Sea Breeze be tamed by the belle of Alabama...
After a DUI, Cage’s future on the baseball team is on the line, and so too is his college scholarship. His coach doesn’t want to see one mistake cost him his future, so organises him to spend the summer on his brother’s farm doing manual labor – if he works hard and keeps out of trouble, then the incident with be forgotten. It’s not where this playboy planned on spending his summer, but he’s not about throw away everything he’s worked hard for. Keeping out of trouble seems easier said than done when he lays eyes on his coach’s niece Eva. He’s attracted to her, yes, but despite her frosty welcome, there’s a story there that Cage wants to uncover. For Eva, it’s been eighteen months since her one true love and fiancé Josh was killed in Baghdad, and she still hasn’t started properly moving on – she still wears her engagement ring, she hasn’t driven her Jeep, she hasn’t played her guitar, and she’s held back Josh’s twin Jeremy from moving on with his life too. Then along comes Cage, and although she knows he’s a bad boy and not someone she should get involved with, she can’t deny her attraction to him. Cage was an interesting character in Because of Low, and although I found him a little hard to like at times, I was definitely keen to get inside his head and learn more about the real him. There’s definitely more to him than the playboy hooking up with a new girl every night that we see in book two, and I definitely grew to like him throughout this book. And although this is the first time meeting Eva, it didn’t take long to feel like we’d known her for much longer than just a few chapters. I absolutely loved following Cage and Eva’s relationship, especially because it was whole new territory for both characters – Cage has never been the settling down type, as we’ve seen in the previous book, and Eva has struggled to move on from Josh. You could really see and feel how new and exciting this experience was for both of them and how conflicted they were with coming to terms with their feelings. One thing I really appreciate in this series is how Abbi has continually added more and more spice as the series progresses - we’ve gone from keeping things fun and flirty to lots of intense fooling around to actually seeing these characters hook up. Although I’m all about the spicy reads it’s actually nice to have this variety in the one series, so there’s a little something for every romance fan. Although Cage and Eva’s story was wrapped up fairly well at the end of the book, I can see why Abbi return’s to their story in book five of this series (Sometimes It Lasts). The ending did feel a little rushed compared to the previous two books, so I can’t wait to get back to them later in the series and see where Abbi takes their story. This is a super swoony romance read, so if you’re looking to add a little spice to your TBR or want to dive into a whole new world of characters, then this book and series is definitely one to add to your must-read list. |
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