On Dublin Street Author: Samantha Young | Language: English | ISBN:
B009PC2MW8 | Format: EPUB
On Dublin Street Description
Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare… Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well—until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.
Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and he’s determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship, Braden proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached.
But after an intrigued Jocelyn accepts, she realizes that Braden won’t be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her… down to the very soul.
- File Size: 567 KB
- Print Length: 415 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1478329459
- Publisher: NAL; 1 edition (October 12, 2012)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009PC2MW8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,337 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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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