I know we're dealing with the effed up and insecure branch of the McKay family and there is bound to be serious issues in these books but I feel like all the characters are terrible people with terrible problems and nothing gets resolved.
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Good premise for a story, who wants to be judges on what they were like in high school. Second chance romance. ( )

Not my favorite in this series, honestly had a hard time believing they kept bouncing back after all the mistrust and accusations that let fly. Of course the sex was hot
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2.5 stars ( )

This book is about Tell McKay and Georgia Hotchkiss. Tell had such a crush on Georgia in high school even though he knew (in his mind) she was just using him to copy homework from or to set up prom decorations so she didnt have to. She was a cheerleader who was the girlfriend of the most popular boy on campus she certainly wouldnt be interested in a guy like him..

But as we know things are not always as they appear. Both Tell and Georgia had rough childhoods. Tell's Daddy was a drunk and a mean man when he was growing up. And being the middle child he didnt always get the better end of the stick. When his brother Luke died things really changed. Georgia's childhood was ok up until her twin brother died and then her family fell apart. Both sets of parents are divorced now and even through Tell and Georgia were not children when the divorces happened they both suffer from anger, fear, loneliness, and guilt.

Ms James did a great job of showing how conflicts between divorced parents effects even grown children. That is can still effect the mental growth of those adult children just like it would a small child. Both Tell and Georgia sense of well being and self-worth still played a big part in there lives today due to there parents divorces.

For the relationship between Tell and Georgia to work - they both had to let go of somethings from the past, stand up to siblings they felt were taking advantage of them and also to see that maybe they misunderstood somethings about why a parent did something.

I know I've totally skipped over the good parts :) Yes there were hot smoking sex scenes. Yes there was a baby born to another loved McKay. Yes Keely is still struggling with whether or not she wants to be a mother someday. And yes Casper McKay is still a mean old man.

Another great book in the McKay saga.


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