DNF at 20%-unrealistic and irritating. KC runs away from her upper-class family to avoid an arranged marriage and sets up her own bakery in a small town. This comes across as justified as her groom-to-be was painted as a misogynistic snob. Brody is stuck in a marriage to a vicious woman who drains their bank accounts for fun. They accidentally run into each other (literally) and the spell was cast. They both can't stop thinking about each other, dreaming about each other, and neither have ever felt this alive. Oh, the tragedy! To me, it all felt like a modernized regency romance where she is running away from her betrothed and miraculously into the arms of the rake/rogue/duke/earl (Brody who is miserably married in this case) that cannot marry/shouldn't marry her for whatever reason.

Also, the dialogue was so cheesy to me that it was unrealistic. Someone you have only had a five minute conversation with comes into your work and asks you to define the relationship that you don't have yet because you've only had a five minute conversation? And this is shortly after "accidentally" crashing the date you were on with someone else? How is this realistic? I have not read any books by Molly McAdams before but, based off of the writing in this book, I can't say that I would be eager to read another one anytime soon.

Please note: A physical copy of this book was generously provided through the LibraryThing Early Reviewer's program in exchange for an honest review. ( )

There is scheming and devious behavior on both sides of the families of these two young people who meet by accident and fall terminally in love immediately. Problem #1 he is married. His wife seems bipolar at the least, crazy at best, but turns out to be a manipulating actress covering up her own affairs. Problem #2 she has run away from a super controlling family and established a new life for herself when her past intrudes. Will they achieve happily ever after? The author has us rooting for their success. My thanks to Ms. McAdams and The Reading Room for a complimentary copy. ( )

Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales

Quick & Dirty: I really wanted to like this book, but when you can’t respect the characters it is really hard to build any kind of connections with them. While I love Molly McAdams other books this one just wasn’t for me.

Opening Sentence: The sound of three familiar, masculine laughs stopped my retreat to my room, and I quietly tiptoed back toward the study.

The Review:

Kamyrn Cunningham grew up in a very privileged family. Her parents come from old money and the Cunningham’s are known as royalty in the horseracing world. For most of her life Kamyrn played the part of the perfect daughter, but she never felt like she fit into her world. When she finds out that her longtime, parent approved boyfriend is going to purpose she decides that it is time to leave. The only way to truly leave behind her world is to completely disappear and start over. She moves to a small town in Oregon and opens her own little bakery. She goes by the name of KC and she can never remember a time in her life when she has been happier. So far she has avoided dating, but that all changes when she meets Brody, a sexy cop that she is instantly drawn too, but there is the slight problem that he is married.

Brody Saco has been stuck in a loveless marriage for years now. Six years ago he got his girlfriend pregnant and because he is a good person he did the right thing and married her. After a horrible tragedy struck, the couple was left devastated and Brody has felt at fault ever since. He knows that his wife needs help and he feels that it is his responsibility to give it to her even though she is a manipulative, terrible person. Brody has always been faithful to his wife, but when he meets Kamyrn he can’t seem to stay away.

At first I really loved Kamyrn. She fled her old life to start over new which is not an easy thing to do. She is a very strong woman that was easy to like, but as her story went on I started to like her less and less. After meeting Brody she becomes a completely different person. Instead of being independent and strong she turns into someone pathetic and weak. She lets a man control everything she does which is exactly what she ran away from. I get that she thinks she loves this man, but the way he treated her was far less than she or anyone deserves. The foundation of their relationship was based on secrets and lies, which is just a recipe for disaster. Also, it wasn’t just Brody’s secrets that were weighing them down, Kamyrn also has a whole closet full of things she didn’t tell him. I wanted so much to like KC but in the end I really didn’t.

Brody was in an impossible situation and I get that he feels responsible for his wife. I can’t even begin to imagine the pain and guilt he must have felt. In that aspect of his story I could really sympathize with him. I have seen first hand what manipulative people can do to your confidence and how you can become a totally different person because of it. So I understand why he cheated, I just didn’t find the circumstances believable at all. I get having an instant connection, but talking about forever after saying 5 words to each other is not realistic. Brody spent years being faithful to Olivia and after knowing KC for a matter of days they are already having sex. It just felt extremely rushed and that kind of connection is lust not love. I’m not saying it can’t turn into love, but what they did and how they acted is not what I would call love. Because of this it was really hard for me to respect Brody, which in turn made it really hard for me to like him. I ended up not enjoying their romance at all and every time they were together I would just cringe. I really wanted to love these characters but I just couldn’t, which made my connection with them nonexistent.

Sharing You was just not a book for me. Going into the story I was very nervous because of the things that were being covered and it ended up really not working for me. I respect that McAdams decided to cover such a tender subject and from reading the author notes it was obvious that this story was very dear to her heart, so I understand why she wrote it. But for reasons I have explained throughout this review it’s obvious that I really wasn’t a fan. I do want to say that I absolutely love and adore Molly McAdams. Everything else I have read by her has been amazing and rest assured I will still be reading everything else she writes because I love her that much. I feel like I can’t personally recommend this book to anyone, but that doesn’t mean that you won’t enjoy it if you give it a try. Either way, do not let this review deter you from reading other books by McAdams because honestly she is a fantastic author!

Notable Scene:

I’d just rounded the corner leading out of the living room when I ran into a brick wall. The wall’s hands shot out and grabbed my upper arms to steady me at the same time I reached out and grabbed broad shoulders in an attempt to keep myself upright and looked up. I inhaled audibly, and his grey eyes widened as his lips separated. My chest was rising and falling quicker than normal, and it had absolutely nothing to do with running away from Jace or running into the most incredible-looking man I’d ever seen, but damn if it didn’t have everything to do with the man himself.

FTC Advisory: William Morrow/Harper Collins provided me with a copy of Sharing You. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review. ( )

Well, I started this book with not so high hopes. I hated the thought of reading a book where the cheating was going to be ok. Molly did an excellent job at making you HATE the wife though. Not my favorite of hers, but still an ok read. I didn't regret reading it, lets leave it at that. ( )

I received this book as early review. The summary intrigued me but, after the first few chapters I grew bored. I found myself skimming the pages and having to push myself through the chapters with just KC and Broody. I founded it unusual that you never really see any conversations of them getting to know each other. I thought the beginning of their relationship started off extremely fast. You never really see anything in common between them except bad pasts. When Broody finally told KC about his son and what happen to olivia I felt a disconnect with his feelings. There wasn't a lot of emotion. Although, I loved Kinlee and Jaces I would love to read their story. I felt although, Olivia was an insane character that she could be a real person. My favorite part of Molly Mcadam's books are her epilogues sadly in this one I felt that it was missing some characters. Such as Barb, Grace and Andrew maybe even a paper showing Olivia and Charles engagement. Even though Olivia was an awful wife to Broody I would like to know that she gets a happy ending too. So, much hate is pointed at her but she went through the same pain as Broody. It was clear they where never met for each other in the first place, but Broody went on and got a new happy ending. Where is hers? ( )