I hope you enjoyed our last posts and I am happy to share today's selection with you. It is another favorite of mine, and I can't wait to share it with you!
Description:
When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.
Never ask about the past.
Don’t expect a future.
They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.
Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.
Why I LOVE it:
It's Colleen Hoover... isn't that enough of a reason?!?!
I am such a huge fan of Colleen Hoover that I look forward to any book that she writes because I know that I am going to be in for a ride each time I open one of her books. There are always twists and turns that you don't see coming and of course heartbreaking situations that keep you reading because you just want to see these people get their, um... stuff (to keep it clean) together and get to their HEA that they deserve.
Just like in every book she writes, there is no villain in this story (which I have to say is a breath of fresh air, not that I don't like a good villain, I just think that some stories don't need it).
This book is told from two different points of view and in two different points of time. The present day story line is told by Tate, a girl who is moving in with her brother who is a pilot. As she is entering the hallway of her new apartment complex, she finds a very drunk man leaning against the front door. She freaks out a little (I mean who wouldn't right?) and is able to get into her place without disturbing the drunk guy and calls her brother. As it turns out, the drunk man is her brother's friend and neighbor, Miles. Upon the advise of her brother, she lets him in to the place sleep it off. He clearly was drinking to forget something and even calls Tate by another girl's name (though in his defense, he didn't know Tate so that was okay, that time anyway). She leaves Miles on the couch and then goes to bed.
The next morning, Tate is woken up by a very rude Miles walking into her room demanding to know what happened to his hand and where his phone is. Tate, who is not a morning person (amen, sister!) and doesn't take any crap off of anyone, tells him off and asks him to leave. This is what I love about Tate, she doesn't take any of his crap, even though she is attracted to him.
"When you come back in an hour and I've had a chance to wake up, we can try this again."
"Try what again?"
"Getting off on the right foot."
So after that altercation, you are left to think that Miles is just a jerk who has a few things to learn in the ways of treating a woman. Yet there is the other point of view, which is Miles, but is from six years earlier. Back then, Miles was in high school and nice guy (who would have guessed?). He was falling in love with a girl to the point of which, he starts telling his story through poetry (another Colleen Hoover trademark).
"She's like poetry.
Throughout the book, you know that present day Miles is struggling with his attraction to Tate, and you really don't know why. You are only given a few glimpses into his past, but not enough to know exactly what his deal is until later.
"If I were capable of loving someone...it would be you."
Miles finally does give into it, well... to a point. He tells her not to ask about the past, and don't expect a future. Basically an acquaintance- with- benefits type deal. Of course we all know how well those situations work out. :) He runs hot and cold with her and, Tate, is surprisingly patient with the man even after some of the stunts he pulled. Let me tell you, after what he did the first time they had sex, I would have kicked him to the curb. Tate didn't though, and I don't mean that she is a push over in any way, because she wasn't. She just knew that Miles was suffering from a broken heart and she doesn't know how to help him heal.
"You deserve so much more than what you're allowing yourself to have."
When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.
Never ask about the past.
Don’t expect a future.
They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.
Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.
Why I LOVE it:
It's Colleen Hoover... isn't that enough of a reason?!?!
I am such a huge fan of Colleen Hoover that I look forward to any book that she writes because I know that I am going to be in for a ride each time I open one of her books. There are always twists and turns that you don't see coming and of course heartbreaking situations that keep you reading because you just want to see these people get their, um... stuff (to keep it clean) together and get to their HEA that they deserve.
Just like in every book she writes, there is no villain in this story (which I have to say is a breath of fresh air, not that I don't like a good villain, I just think that some stories don't need it).
This book is told from two different points of view and in two different points of time. The present day story line is told by Tate, a girl who is moving in with her brother who is a pilot. As she is entering the hallway of her new apartment complex, she finds a very drunk man leaning against the front door. She freaks out a little (I mean who wouldn't right?) and is able to get into her place without disturbing the drunk guy and calls her brother. As it turns out, the drunk man is her brother's friend and neighbor, Miles. Upon the advise of her brother, she lets him in to the place sleep it off. He clearly was drinking to forget something and even calls Tate by another girl's name (though in his defense, he didn't know Tate so that was okay, that time anyway). She leaves Miles on the couch and then goes to bed.
The next morning, Tate is woken up by a very rude Miles walking into her room demanding to know what happened to his hand and where his phone is. Tate, who is not a morning person (amen, sister!) and doesn't take any crap off of anyone, tells him off and asks him to leave. This is what I love about Tate, she doesn't take any of his crap, even though she is attracted to him.
"When you come back in an hour and I've had a chance to wake up, we can try this again."
"Try what again?"
"Getting off on the right foot."
So after that altercation, you are left to think that Miles is just a jerk who has a few things to learn in the ways of treating a woman. Yet there is the other point of view, which is Miles, but is from six years earlier. Back then, Miles was in high school and nice guy (who would have guessed?). He was falling in love with a girl to the point of which, he starts telling his story through poetry (another Colleen Hoover trademark).
"She's like poetry.
Like prose and love letters and
lyrics, cascading down
the
center
of
a
page."
Yeah... the boy is a goner, sigh.
So you are left to wonder "what happened to that Miles, are you sure this is the same guy?" Yes, readers, it is the same guy, and yes, there is a reason he has changed six years later into the most closed off, cold man Tate has ever met.
So you are left to wonder "what happened to that Miles, are you sure this is the same guy?" Yes, readers, it is the same guy, and yes, there is a reason he has changed six years later into the most closed off, cold man Tate has ever met.
Throughout the book, you know that present day Miles is struggling with his attraction to Tate, and you really don't know why. You are only given a few glimpses into his past, but not enough to know exactly what his deal is until later.
"If I were capable of loving someone...it would be you."
Miles finally does give into it, well... to a point. He tells her not to ask about the past, and don't expect a future. Basically an acquaintance- with- benefits type deal. Of course we all know how well those situations work out. :) He runs hot and cold with her and, Tate, is surprisingly patient with the man even after some of the stunts he pulled. Let me tell you, after what he did the first time they had sex, I would have kicked him to the curb. Tate didn't though, and I don't mean that she is a push over in any way, because she wasn't. She just knew that Miles was suffering from a broken heart and she doesn't know how to help him heal.
"You deserve so much more than what you're allowing yourself to have."
Now doesn't that line just pull at the heart strings?
I could go more into this book, but I would be giving away to many plot twists, which believe me there are a few I didn't see coming! Those twists are part of the journey that makes this book so powerful, that you have to experience it by reading it for yourself. But hey, don't take my word for it. ;)
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