CAN’T BUY ME LOVE | BY MOLLY O’KEEFE

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MY REVIEW:

This one was a little hard to get into but I was happy once I did. There were parts that made me question both the Hero and the heroine.

Tara Jean decides to pretend to be Lyle Baker’s fiancé to rile up his kids. Apparently Lyle has been an jerk to his kids but cares about Tara Jean and helped her out when no one else did.

Tara Jean has had it tough and has done some bad things in her time but she is trying to be better and live a better life. She is a fashion designer and really enjoys what she does.

Luc is a hockey star that is dealing with and injury and some serious questions when it comes to his career. While healing this is when he gets the request to see his father.

Luc doesn’t really care about his father and only went back because his sister Victoria begged him to. And Victoria is in the book a lot more than I thought she would be, but I understand now because her book is next.

Luc and Victoria come back along with some other characters, Lyle Baker passes away and the will is read, there are some ridiculous stipulations for those who are in the will to get what they are suppose to.

While Luc and Tara Jean deal with the situation that they are in things start to heat up and they are drawn to each other. And even though Luc wants Tara Jean he doesn’t like her.

“He knew this woman. Never met her, but knew exactly who she was, down to her bare feet. She might lie about her name, change it a thousand times, but she couldn’t change who she was. A glorified puck bunny.”

His behavior towards her at some points were a bit annoying and her need to push people away and self-sabotage was hard to read.

Tara Jean and Luc start to actually talk and get to know each other and start to realize that maybe they don’t despise each other as much as they originally thought. But Tara Jean is extremely hesitant to get into anything with Luc, because of her past and who she is.

“Don’t count on me past this, don’t expect more. Because there is nothing in me to give you. Nothing lasting. Nothing real.”

This is when I start to really get into the book. And the characters started becoming more and more likeable.

“No.” That line was drawn in concrete. “It’s about me. It’s about wanting something and taking it. It’s about being tired of being alone and cold and untouched. It’s about feeling something good after a long, long time of feeling nothing.”

Tara Jean is strong, independent and proud. Even though she is all of these things she can’t help but feel guilty for all the things she’s done in her past and that makes her not treat herself the best. This was a little hard to read.

“She deserved the pleasure as much as she deserved the power. It was a matter of balance, of living in the space between reckless and alone. And there was plenty of space there. She could build a house.”

But I think she finally starts to like herself and starts to treat herself like she’s worth more. And takes a little more pride in who she is.

“We’re more than our mistakes,” Victoria said, and Tara Jean jerked at the words, as if they were bullets entering her chest. “More than our past. We can be more than the things we let define us.”

Luc is so tied up in hockey that he doesn’t care about anything else as much. Being sidelined with a injury is not at all fun for him and when he starts to go a bit crazy he takes it out on Tara Jean.

He also realizes what an ass he’s been and starts to be a better person all around, which was really good to see.

As Tara Jean’s past comes back to haunt her she has to figure out what she wants.

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WOULD I RECOMMEND:

I would recommend. At first it was a little hard to understand how these characters would ever like each other or have anything in common so I didn’t love them.

But after sometime they start to open up and you start to see the people beneath the tough shell and understand why they guard themselves the way they do.

I really started to enjoy the book at this point, understanding the characters really helped with that. I also enjoyed that it was somewhat of a slow burn.

All in all this a good start to this series and I really liked reading it.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Molly O’Keefe has always known she wanted to be a writer (except when she wanted to be a florist or a chef and the brief period of time when she considered being a cowgirl). And once she got her hands on some romances, she knew exactly what she wanted to write.

She published her first Harlequin romance at age 25 and hasn’t looked back. She loves exploring every character’s road towards happily ever after.

Originally from a small town outside of Chicago, she went to university in St. Louis where she met and fell in love with the editor of her school newspaper. They followed each other around the world for several years and finally got married and settled down in Toronto, Ontario. They welcomed their son into their family in 2006, and their daughter in 2008. When she’s not at the park or cleaning up the toy room, Molly is working hard on her next novel, trying to exercise, stalking Tina Fey on the internet and dreaming of the day she can finish a cup of coffee without interruption.

Dishing It Out, her last Harlequin Flipside won the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award for best Flipside in 2005.

Her Superromance Baby Makes Three won the RT Reviewer’s Choice for best Superromance in 2006.  L-length Her novella, “The Christmas Eve Promise” in The Night Before Christmas won the RITA in 2009. And her full length contemporary romance CRAZY THING CALLED LOVE won the RITA in 2013.

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