My So Called Life
by J.D. Hollyfield
Love Not Included #3
Publication Date: May 19, 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Humor, Romance
Life couldn’t be any brighter for art dealer Christina Daniels. At the top of her career, she has no problem flaunting just how perfect her little world has become.
When tragedy strikes back home, Christina is forced to put everything on hold to return back to a past she’s tried so hard to escape. Including a love she regrets letting go.
Ian Whitman has only one regret and it was letting his first love walk out of his life. Now that she’s returned, his heart won’t give her up twice without a fight.
As secrets are revealed, can Ian soothe her heart while convincing her that a place she tried so hard to run away from is the place she’s destined to stay?
Will love get a second chance in the face of tragedy?
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
“I almost run
over a whole family of skunks. With the
lingering stench in my car, I’m convinced one, to defend his family’s honor,
jumped into my exhaust and has been spraying into my pipes ever since our
head-on road battle.”
“Sometimes
people use physical weapons to take a person to their knees. And sometimes it takes a verbal beat down to
call it quits.”
“I want to
love you until I don’t have a single breath left. And when that time comes, I will tell you how
much you’ve made me whole.”
“I try and
speak but my throat is broken. I think
he broke me.”
“And if there
was a word to describe how I feel for you I would use it. So for right now I will just say love. But I
want you to know that word is mediocre compared to what I truly feel inside.
My Review:
I am in total fan-girl
mode after reading J.D. Hollyfield’s latest masterpiece. She had mad skills and I plan to stalk her
hard and soak up every word she even plans to write down in the future. I had read Life Next Door, and Life in a Rut, Love Not Included, and loved every word. Her humor and wit are unfailingly
entertaining, and her insightful writing is cunningly clever. The main character of this delightful piece
is Chrissy, who has reinvented herself shortly after she graduated high school,
by fleeing a bad home-life with an alcoholic mother, and never looking back. Six
years later she has become a rich, successful, snobbish, selfish, party-girl, diva
who has had no contact with anyone in her family in over four years. Her feelings for others are as shallow as her
life has become, and her response when distraught or when people become
problematic - is to be a snarky bitch, cause a bit of destruction, and then to
flee. An emergency forces her to return
to her former home town, where she discovers her first love (the one she left
behind, and of course the most perfect and beautiful man in the world) still
residing there, which prompts a series of startling epiphanies and
self-examination. Chrissy lives heavily in
her head and I was enthralled with her memories and thought processes, and
delighted by her entertaining and humorous summations of her
self-discoveries. Yet despite her spunk
and increasing discomfort with her past and what she has become, she continues
to dither and cannot seem to act on her self-revelations. Which, although it doesn’t follow the formula
for romantic fiction, is actually true to life, as people don’t turn around
over-night. I adore Ms. Hollyfield’s
characters, they are complicated, smart, and witty, and more than a little
broken. I adored this book and was sad
for it to end as I wanted more, but I am greedy like that.
Empress DJ
Buy Links
Buy Links
My So Called Life (#3)
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Life Next Door (#2)
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Life in a Rut, Love Not Included (#1)
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