How far would you chase love?LaurenSecond chances don’t come along every day. Especially not in Chasing Ridge. I had zero reason to ever go back to my hometown. When my whole life changes in a New York minute, I have no other choice. All I expected to do there was to count the seconds until I could get back to Manhattan. I never thought I’d run into my first true love. Or my best friend, who asks me out for the first time ever. I don’t want to choose between either one of them. Or the city that’s become my favorite place in the world.But I have to.Don't I?RyMy life has been chaos ever since I left my hometown. I need to change that, so I’m heading back.Finding my best friend and my ex there as well throws a big wrench into that plan.SmithI’m a tech guy. I didn’t expect to be running an antique shop in the middle of nowhere. When my high school crush that I never did anything about walks back into my life, I can’t believe it.But there’s someone else catching my eye again too.Life just got very, very complicated.
This book has pretty much nothing to recommend it. It is badly written, poorly edited, has no relationship development, no interesting characters, no clever dialogue or hot sex scenes. This book is allegedly a MMF romance but the three main characters spend only a tiny portion of the book interacting. There are three very short sex scenes, one MF and two MMF.
The book begins by following Lauren through a series of unfortunate events that lead to her heading back to her hometown. This portion of the book did not totally suck. She then conveniently stumbles into an old friend, Smith who hires her to work for him and the two promptly fall into bed and quickly get the one bland MF sex scene out of the way. Rye shows up next and next thing you know the three of them are getting it on in a very abbreviated way. Then Lauren leaves town for pretty much the rest of the book and they all go their separate ways until she comes back for the final chapter so they can get it on for the book's third and final dud of a sex scene.
The writing uses a very limited vocabulary. There are few descriptions, and in fact not a single mention is made regarding any aspect of any of the three main characters' appearance. There are numerous continuity issue and internal inconsistencies. It reads like an outline for a story in which all of the potentially interesting parts have yet to be written.
This author goes straight to my will never chance again list.
And wow, what a terrible cover. The female looks terrified.
I decided to give this a try because it had 4 stars and it was free with my unlimited but I couldn't even make it passed the first 2 chapters. I tried skimming but still couldn't. The premise of the story sounds good. The follow through not so much. Not to be rude but it felt like I was reading some teen girls diary without any true plot.
Lauren, Ry and Smith. Old best friends/boyfriends. Lauren has to return to Chasing Ridge to get back on her feet. And it seems like all three happen to be in the same place at the same time. It’s been years but feels haven’t changed and once buried feels emerge.
But life isn’t always simple and when it gets in the way they have to find out the hard way that love really does change everything. You will fall in love with this threesome and their HEA.
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Smith gets a second chance with the girl that he secretly loved in high school. Turns out, that isn't the only secret crush to get a second chance when Ry blows into town. The results are a steamy and cute easy read.
Discovering the resulting relationship may have taken them years but keeping it proves a challenge when reality creeps in.
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—>>> Lauren’s luck has run out in the Big Apple, and she is forced to return home to Chasing Ridge to recuperate from the sudden loss of everything important in her life. But while home, she reconnects with two important men in her life and a chance to explore something unexpected falls into her lap…until a call to the city draws her back again, leaving behind the possibility of something real to chase her dream.
Great heartfelt story ,well written and lots of chemistry all over the place, 3friends one a couple and the other their best friends from high school ,Rys ,Smith and Lauren met again and their feelings was electrifying .love it
A well written, entertaining read. The story will keep you reading to see what happens next. Will they get their second chance at love. The characters are likeable and have amazing chemistry. A great read.