I Do(n't) is LIVE!!!!
Book Description:
I fell in love with Holden York when I was six years old.
Most of my youth came with spiral notebooks filled with doodles, wedding plans, and “Janelle York” looped in bubbly handwriting.
However, one night in Vegas changed everything.
I woke up to more than just a fantasy of my brother’s best friend.
Five years later, I'm standing on his doorstep confronting him about the secret he kept from me.
If you think this is the story of how we rode off into the sunset together…
You’re so wrong.
But if you think this is the story of how Holden blackmailed me into living with him...
You couldn't be more right.
Buy Links:
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Amazon US: http://amzn.to/2vq6sFH
Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B074P73MFS
Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars
***ARC received for an honest review***
“She vowed to always be his
sidekick. And he swore to always be her hero.”
I absolutely adored this book, from the first page Leddy
Harper held me hostage as I cried tears of laughter and tears of sadness. The
character connection was on point, the dialogue was hilarious at times and
emotional when needed and the chemistry was fervent. This had so many tropes I
adore, brothers best friend and second chance romance all wrapped up in a
perfect romantic comedy with just enough angst to keep you on the edge of your
seat begging our hero and heroine to wake up and smell the damn coffee. Yes, at
times it was incredibly infuriating, I wanted to jump into this book and smack
their bloody heads together, but the build up to the main event was so
entertaining I soon forgot my frustrations. The lighter side of Leddy Harper
was certainly damn entertaining.
The main characters are what car crash TV were made for,
what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas but what happens when the one night stand
you don’t remember is the man you had been crushing on for years? What happens
when said one-night stand is your brothers best friend? What happens when the
whole truth and nothing but the truth doesn’t get discussed until five years
later? I Do(n’t) is what happens and I lapped up every single word.
“…had I known when I knocked on
your hotel door after the wedding that what we did that night would end our
friendship, I would’ve gone to my own room.”
Holden was adorable with a capital A. This man had the hugest
of hearts and appreciated a good thing, a good person and especially a great
family. Holden had been considered part of Janelle’s family for years, he
treasured the connection he had with them and was there for everyone with the
hugest shoulders and the deepest pockets. Holden’s friendship with Janelle’s
brother was as strong as blood, they knew one and other inside out and even as
adults, they were now closest confidantes and business partners.
Janelle has just graduated from university and after a few
months of freedom finally has a reason to come home after being away for more
or the less the entire four years. Janelle has stayed away due to “Vegas” but
four years is a long time, a lot has happened in the family of which she has
not been a part of. Coming back to town and seeing Holden is not on Janelle’s
bucket list, but needs must and Holden sees her return as the ideal opportunity
to get her reunited with the family she has basically emotionally estranged
herself from.
“He was my cape – he could send
me flying while cloaking me in refuge all at once.”
I am being deliberately vague, the story is hilarious and
you need to laugh those laughs for yourself, but if like me you are an
emotional reader, you also need to experience the lows. This was an emotional
journey for both Holden and Janelle, these two just sizzled together, whether
they be baiting one and other, pulling pranks, or screwing each other’s eyes
out. These two were seriously hot, but also their friendship is what made them
as a couple. Even before “Vegas” these two were friends, they just got one and
other, same senses of humour, they bounced off one and other and together they
clicked. Janelle needed to grow up and her immaturity at times was a little frustrating,
but I could understand her, it just made her real. Having no real relationship
to speak of she had a lot to learn and if anyone could teach her it would be
Holden.
“Every action has an opposite
reaction. So if I’m in love with you, that means there’s an option to be out of
love with you. And that’s not possible. If anything, I’d say I indefinitely
love you.”
The interactions between Holden and Janelle will have you
belly laughing one moment and ripping your hair out the next. As I said above,
it was so frustrating, and I constantly found myself on the edge of my seat
screaming at my kindle “OH FFS COME ON YOU TWO!!” But it was that constant push
and pull that made this book as these two figured out their real feelings. It
was a journey for both of them, forgiving the past and working to a future, a
future that certainly looked a lot rosier with each other…if they didn’t kill
each other first. I Do(n’t) was the gift that kept on giving. I adored every
hilarious, infuriating, emotional second of it.
About the Author:
Leddy Harper had to use her imagination often as a child. She grew up the only girl in a house full of boys. At the age of fourteen, she decided to use that imagination and wrote her first book, and never stopped.
She often calls writing her therapy, using it as a way to deal with issues through the eyes of her characters.
She is now a mother of three girls, leaving her husband as the only man in a house full of females.
The decision to publish her first book was made as a way of showing her children to go after whatever it is they want to. Love what you do and do it well. Most importantly Leddy wanted to teach them what it means to overcome their fears.
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