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SOME GIRLS HAVE ALL THE LUCK<\/strong><\/p>\n Unfortunately, I am not one of those girls. Not when I lost my apartment because my roommate let the lease lapse while I was traveling for work. Not when my brothers keep finding love and my mother keeps reminding me I\u2019m still single. Not after a one-night stand during my older brother\u2019s wedding has me waking up pregnant.<\/p>\n I have to keep it a secret\u2014from him, and my family. I sure can\u2019t tell my brother his teammate, Mateo Jose Espinoza, is the man I slept with. Confident, funny, Mateo\u2026<\/p>\n A GUY CAN\u2019T CATCH A BREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n Just when I thought I\u2019d found the girl of my dreams, she ghosts me. Worse? Her brother refuses to give me her number, and my calls to her office go straight to voicemail. I thought I was a catch; professional athlete, charming, raised with six sisters\u2014I\u2019m a guy who knows his way to a woman\u2019s heart! What reason could she When I finally catch up to True Wallace, I\u2019m going to get the answer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Add to Goodreads\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3 stars<\/b><\/p>\n I love this series, and was so excited to be back with the Wallace clan \u2013 this time with Buzz and Tripp\u2019s younger sister, True. It\u2019s a surprise pregnancy romance, though not the story I was expecting, and while it\u2019s a fun read it felt like half a book to me, lacking romance and all of the things that I really wanted to see.<\/p>\n The story begins with True coming to terms with the fact that she\u2019s pregnant. She hooked up with one of Buzz\u2019s teammates at his wedding, and though she shared an immediate connection with Mateo, she snuck out during the night and has been ignoring him ever since. And now she\u2019s got a baby on the way.<\/p>\n Mateo fell hard and fast during his night with True. He wanted more, but she took off on him, and despite his efforts to get in touch with her, she has continued to ghost him (even blocking him on social media). He\u2019s disappointed, but determined to get his chance with the girl he can\u2019t forget about, and I completely fell for him before we even get a chance to see him with True.<\/p>\n Which leads me to my first problem with this book – it takes SUCH a long time for these two to get on the same page together. We get to see True dealing with her secret and deliberating when and how (and even whether!) to tell Mateo, while he\u2019s desperately looking for a way to get in touch with her. Honestly, she ticked me off. Her behaviour was not ok, and I was really disappointed in how she handled the situation. When they do meet up, it seems awkward and uneasy, and then they\u2019re dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. Mateo is sensational, all in from the very beginning, but the romance and the chemistry just isn\u2019t there. They talk of course, and there is some fun text banter and some steamy time, but the emotion was lacking. Mateo would have been a wonderful romantic hero, and though we get glimpses of his potential, he never gets the chance to shine.<\/p>\n \u201cI will do right by you in all the ways that matter. We get to see their original meeting in flashbacks throughout the book, and that\u2019s where we get to see the chemistry. I would have loved to have started their story with their meeting rather than getting it piecemeal throughout the story, because it\u2019s pretty much the only romance that happens and would have set the stage nicely for the story to come, but instead it comes in bits, which breaks up the flow of both their night together, and their reconnection, and I never really got a sense of how good they could be together.<\/p>\n And just when we start to get a glimpse of that, the story ends. The book finishes so abruptly, I wondered if it was part 1, because there\u2019s so much we don\u2019t see. And all the stuff we don\u2019t see is all the stuff I wanted to see there\u2019s no baby, no declarations of love, only a hint that yes, they\u2019re going to give a relationship a try. That\u2019s it.. I was disappointed. They had a great set-up, and I so wanted to see them come together and find their happy, but instead it\u2019s only hinted at and we don\u2019t get to see it.<\/p>\n She\u2019s glowing \u2013 or maybe it\u2019s just the lighting. Either way, she\u2019s beautiful and pregnant and mine. The bright side of this book is True\u2019s brothers. Tripp, and particularly Buzz, are freaking hilarious and absolutely ridiculous as they go into ultra-protective big brother mode. And when you add in Mateo\u2019s six hilariously overbearing, oversharing and over-involved sisters get, there are so many funny moments.<\/p>\n This book is good and has some really bright moments, and it had so much potential to be a fantastic read, but the heroine ticked me off, the romance wasn\u2019t there for me, and it ultimately felt unfinished. I\u2019m keen to see if True and Mateo\u2019s story will continue in the background as (if) this series continues.<\/p>\n 3 stars.<\/p>\n An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hard Pass (#1) <\/strong>(Noah & Miranda) Hard Fall (#2) <\/strong>(Trace & Hollis) Hard Love (#3) <\/strong>(Tripp & Chandler) Hard Luck (#4)<\/strong> (Mateo & True) <\/p>\n For a list of cities\/venues Sara will be signing at, or to purchase signed books, please visit her website at\u00a0www.authorsaraney.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Newsletter\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Facebook\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Instagram\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Twitter\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Book+Main<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0Goodreads<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0Bookbub<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hard Luck by Sara Ney is live! 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Sara Ney is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the How to Date a Douchebag series, and is best known for her sexy, laugh-out-loud New Adult romances. Among her favorite vices, she includes: iced latte\u2019s, historical architecture and well-placed sarcasm. She lives colorfully, collects vintage books, art, loves flea markets, and fancies herself British.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Wildfire.png?resize=352%2C134\")
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