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Last Chances
A woman facing life.Agreeing to be a surrogate was meant to bring happiness to both Jen and her older sister Annie. A horrific accident, however, leaves Jen not only grieving, but pregnant with twins.A man who has faced death.With the clock ticking until he loses his whole world, cancer survivor Garrick needs to unwind before he becomes just another statistic.Their worlds collide.What Garrick finds in his hotel apartment not only shocks him to the core, but dregs up a whole world of pain he would rather had stayed buried.Has fate finally decided to finish the job and kick Garrick while he is down? Or has she sent him an angel in disguise?
52 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2012
36 people want to read
About the author
Ellen Cross
20 books63 followersI am a mum of five boys, who lives at the beach in a little Northern NSW town in Australia.
I have been writing erotic and gay romance exclusively for EXtasy Books for the past ten months, and love it.
I have a passion for all genre's, particularly gay paranormal and sci-fi, and write within each. I especially love the underdog--the characters who think they are unworthy, or have been cast aside as being undeserving of love. They will not only find a home within my books, but find their happily ever after as well.
I have several books in the works, and hope to share the news of their impending releases in time as well.
I have been writing erotic and gay romance exclusively for EXtasy Books for the past ten months, and love it.
I have a passion for all genre's, particularly gay paranormal and sci-fi, and write within each. I especially love the underdog--the characters who think they are unworthy, or have been cast aside as being undeserving of love. They will not only find a home within my books, but find their happily ever after as well.
I have several books in the works, and hope to share the news of their impending releases in time as well.
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February 26, 2013
A Hearts On Fire Review
TWO & A HALF STARS--Ellen Cross' "Last Chances" is a short vacation love story about two damaged souls coming together with a Harlequin novel feel. It is contemporary but realistic...*shrug* eh, not really. There was a non-reality quality to the writing with easy guessable plot lines.
The writing quality is good. The romance of it all was okay. It's a diagnosis of insta-love, the romance novel infection strikes again. Achoo!
Jenni is pregnant with what at first she thought was her sister's babies as her sister had infertility issues. Unfortunately tragedy and a sperm-mix up happens to poor Jenni(who's babies are they...two guesses). She now has to raise the babies on her own. So a friend sponsors her on a vacation. And who does she meet, her future de-virginator, Garrick. He too has lead a long, sad road. Together these two in a matter of hours find salvation out of desperate times.
(It's only 70 pages long, so the HEA was already on the horizon from the jump)
The questioning areas for me were: Jenni has been a virgin for 26 years (and still is while being preggo-read the story to find out how this is possible), which is her prerogative, however she gives it up to man she meets with an hour or so. She must have saved it for so long for a reason so the believable factor when she stated she didn't want to just sleep with anyone in order to be impregnated in the past...it frustrated me a smidge.
Then there's the area of Jenni being worried about the press and her relationship with Garrick. She didn't know who he was in the first place, so why would she be worried about creating a scandal with him?
And the dialogue at times felt a little outdated "...poopsie hits the fan-" or "patches on our britches", sometimes it was spot on then phrases like the one I mentioned threw me off. And also some of the erroneous legalities like destroying someone's personal effects without their express consent- it would never fly in the real world.
So insta wedding later, the big 'surprise' was not really a surprise at all. Any loose ends were tied up swiftly.
Bad story?
Nope. Good for a mindless hour or so of no-brainer romance schmoop. It had a fantasy-like feel but it was not a fantasy story at all.
TWO & A HALF STARS--Ellen Cross' "Last Chances" is a short vacation love story about two damaged souls coming together with a Harlequin novel feel. It is contemporary but realistic...*shrug* eh, not really. There was a non-reality quality to the writing with easy guessable plot lines.
The writing quality is good. The romance of it all was okay. It's a diagnosis of insta-love, the romance novel infection strikes again. Achoo!
Jenni is pregnant with what at first she thought was her sister's babies as her sister had infertility issues. Unfortunately tragedy and a sperm-mix up happens to poor Jenni(who's babies are they...two guesses). She now has to raise the babies on her own. So a friend sponsors her on a vacation. And who does she meet, her future de-virginator, Garrick. He too has lead a long, sad road. Together these two in a matter of hours find salvation out of desperate times.
(It's only 70 pages long, so the HEA was already on the horizon from the jump)
The questioning areas for me were: Jenni has been a virgin for 26 years (and still is while being preggo-read the story to find out how this is possible), which is her prerogative, however she gives it up to man she meets with an hour or so. She must have saved it for so long for a reason so the believable factor when she stated she didn't want to just sleep with anyone in order to be impregnated in the past...it frustrated me a smidge.
Then there's the area of Jenni being worried about the press and her relationship with Garrick. She didn't know who he was in the first place, so why would she be worried about creating a scandal with him?
And the dialogue at times felt a little outdated "...poopsie hits the fan-" or "patches on our britches", sometimes it was spot on then phrases like the one I mentioned threw me off. And also some of the erroneous legalities like destroying someone's personal effects without their express consent- it would never fly in the real world.
So insta wedding later, the big 'surprise' was not really a surprise at all. Any loose ends were tied up swiftly.
Bad story?
Nope. Good for a mindless hour or so of no-brainer romance schmoop. It had a fantasy-like feel but it was not a fantasy story at all.
October 28, 2012
A contemporary Fairy Tale - Two people find themselves completely devastated by circumstances and deceit. Then find each other and dreams come true. Could this ever really happen? Probably not. But, wouldn't it be wonderful if it could?
October 20, 2012
Jen is carrying twins as a surrogate mother for her sister, Annie, who couldn't conceive, but after Annie is killed in a car crash, Jen is left to cope with the loss of her beloved sister. I found Jen to be a very likeable character. I really empathized with her loss and especially in the midst of that having to deal with her sister's angry, blaming husband who wants no involvement in the soon-to-be-born twins' lives.
Garrick is a cancer survivor about to be cheated out of his father's company by a jealous brother. Garrick is very sensitive man, which is a breath of fresh air after the overused "bad boys" that I see too often in romance. Occasionally, Garrick's behavior does not fit what I would expect for "man"behavior (too much talking, mostly).
The two are brought together by well meaning friends who hope the two will help each other mend. I don't want to be spoiler of what happens in the rest of the story :) I found the premise unique, the author's writing style fresh, the story entertaining, and look forward to reading more books by Ellen Cross.
Garrick is a cancer survivor about to be cheated out of his father's company by a jealous brother. Garrick is very sensitive man, which is a breath of fresh air after the overused "bad boys" that I see too often in romance. Occasionally, Garrick's behavior does not fit what I would expect for "man"behavior (too much talking, mostly).
The two are brought together by well meaning friends who hope the two will help each other mend. I don't want to be spoiler of what happens in the rest of the story :) I found the premise unique, the author's writing style fresh, the story entertaining, and look forward to reading more books by Ellen Cross.
December 2, 2012
Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. What a beautiful love story.
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