WAR by Brittanée Nicole is AVAILABLE NOW!
Blurb:
I’ve never been a good bet.
I wear my emotions on my tattoo-covered sleeve, I say all the wrong things and I revel in pissing off a certain redhead far more than I should. In other words, I’m the last person the court would choose to parent any child, let alone three of them.
Yet being their father is all I want.
So when the woman I love to hate offers to help make all my dreams come true, I jump at the chance. Marrying Ava is a convenient solution: she’s my kids favorite person and the court will absolutely approve of the woman who runs the biggest charity in Boston.
But there is nothing convenient about the way I feel when she fights with me, or when we kiss. And I’m not sure which I enjoy more.
This marriage may have a time limit but I’m beginning to think I’d like to keep my wife. She’ll probably fight me on it, but as they say, all’s fair in love and war.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars
Tyler Warren is a tattooed hockey god with a heart of gold. I absolutely loved the plot of this book being a single guy (a pro athlete, no less!) wanting to adopt three kids on his own. Enter the marriage pact between Tyler and Ava.
Both Tyler and Ava have a lot of emotional baggage — he always felt like he wasn’t really a fit in his father’s life, and she was literally conceived to be a donor for her sister, a la My Sister’s Keeper. Ava never wanted to have kids of her own as a result, so it was sweet seeing her become the maternal figure for Brayden, Josie and Scarlett, and how the three kids changed her mindset about being a parent.
One complaint about this book/series: So I’ve read two books in this series now (#1 and #3) and while I always love and appreciate a found family group, there were a lot of characters and I had trouble keeping tabs on who was with whom. It also took me about 1/4 of the way before I really got into this story because I felt like I was missing part of it. Yeah, he stood her up (not meaning to, but because Brayden needed help) two years earlier. But did she ever give him a chance to explain? That’s why she hated him for two years? They had a common circle of friends, so they were around each other often, but I didn’t really get why Ava hated Tyler so much. It was a case of being told, not shown, which is a pet peeve of mine.
Overall, I thought this book was very well done. As much as this was a spicy romance novel, it was also a well-thought-out family story; Brittanee Nicole did a great job handling the adoption part of the story. Tyler is totally a reformed playboy who becomes a big cinnamon roll around his wife (aka Vicious) and the kids. Ava is a feisty firecracker, and I loved the banter between the two.
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet Brittanée Nicole:
Brittanee is an author who lives in Rhode Island with her husband and two children. Her town is a character in itself in all of her books.
When she is not writing she enjoys spending time outdoors by the water with her children, reading at the beach or by the pool (or really anywhere), dancing with her friends, singing Karaoke, spinning, bike riding and boating.
Some of her favorite authors are Sophia Kinsella, Elin Hilderbrand, Liane Moriarty, Mary Higgins Clark, Meghan Quinn, Daphne Elliott, Amy Alves, Claire Kingsley, Melanie Harlow, Christina Lauren, Sally Thorne and Sarah Adams. (Clearly, she has a problem and can’t pick favorites.)
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