On Dublin Street Library Binding Author: Visit Amazon's Samantha Young Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0606316213 | Format: PDF
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“This is a really sexy book and I loved the heroine’s journey to find herself and grow strong. Highly recommend this one.”—USA Today’s Happily Ever After Blog
“Young’s voice is riveting and once I opened the book, I wanted to hang a 'do not disturb' sign around my neck until I was finished. This book definitely landed on my 2012 top picks!”—Fiction Vixen
“This book had some funny dialogue, some amazingly hot sex scenes, and emotional drama. Did I mention the amazing sex scenes?”—Dear Author
“This book is fun. Sexy. A little dark. While the hero is extremely dominant, he also shows his softer side just when she needs it.”—Smexy Books
“Every page sizzles when these two get together, but this book is so much more than a hot romp. This book has heart – and lots of it…IF you want a book that will lure you in, grab you by the scruff of the neck and never let you go until you finish reading the last page, then On Dublin Street is the book for you.”—totallybookedblog.com
“Brilliantly written with just the right amount of hotness, sexiness and romance and everything else in between.”—onceuponatwilight.com
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About the Author
Samantha Young is a Scottish book addict who graduated from the University of Edinburgh.
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- Library Binding: 325 pages
- Publisher: Turtleback Books (December 31, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0606316213
- ISBN-13: 978-0606316217
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
However, at the end of the day, I found myself a bit ambivalent about the whole novel at best. It started off well enough but about the half-way point when all Joss and Braden seem to do was have sex while he obviously wanted something more and she tried to act skittish, I found myself becoming bored and uninterested.
If I could sum up this novel best, nothing really happens and maybe that is the biggest issue I had with it. Don't get me wrong, I can understand all the accolades this book is getting and fair play to the author because she has written an amazing love story. I will eventually finish it but I just became a bit put off by the redundancy of it all. This novel could have easily had about a fourth of its content shaved off and been just as good.
Like another reviewer, I couldn't bond with Joss and I didn't really get that much out of Braden either. I don't know if he was supposed to have a bad boy quality because it was all a bit predictable. Multi-millionaire guy who loves to date blondes finds a woman with dirty blonde hair he is so attracted to, he can let go of all the other money grubbers in his life. Well, Joss is independently wealthy (due to an accident that is best found out when one reads the book) and she has the world on her shoulders. She's outwardly cold but extremely vulnerable and THAT is why Braden was attracted to her from the beginning and never let go. There is something about a vulnerable woman that will get a guy every time and her sincerity didn't hurt her either. She was real so I can understand why he would go through all the effort he did to get with her.
This novel's biggest short coming had nothing to do with the book and everything to do with ME.
This book got recommended to me by multiple readers. Along with so many good reviews on Amazon & Goodreads, I just had to give it a chance. Needless to say, my review falls under the unpopular opinion section and here it goes.
I could not resonate with Joss for one second. She was selfish, self-absorbed and kind of boring. Braden is INSTANTLY lusting after her and we are given NO reason to why. She is definitely a Mary Sue with "hot girl" who doesn't think she's hot syndrome, and sooooooo speshul, with troublesome past to justify her current thoughts but the problem arises when her inner thoughts DO NOT match her actions. Conveniently, her life is FILLED with good people, good friends in an environment anyone could dream about, yet does whatever she possibly can to sabotage all of it without any real, legitimate reason.
Braden. Oh boy. Where to start with him? He is the classic alpha male - confident, sexy, bad boy player type who LOVES to control Joss in every way he can. Like I said earlier, her inner thoughts do not match her actions. She thinks he's dangerous and will definitely stay away from him, calling him arrogant and egotistical so many times in the book, yet the first time he wants to have sex with her, she is more than willing. Their "romance" is instant. No build up, no tension, no nothing. The chemistry is there, I agree, but the road to it all fell flat. First two sex scenes were kind of hot and steamy, and then it got so repetitive. Can someone get an adult diaper to this woman? "Drenched panties" was mentioned MORE than once. It was very annoying.
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