Must Read Books or Die: On Dublin Street

A Joss and Braden Novella

Braden Carmichael never imagined he’d fall as hard and as fast as he did for Jocelyn Butler. He also could not have anticipated how difficult it would be to convince her to give in to love. But now that he has her, he’s never letting go. He’s got it all planned—the passionate proposal, the dream wedding, the sexy Hawaiian honeymoon—even the perfect family they’ll start.

After trying to flee from her painful past, Joss is finally allowing herself to embrace the future. But when things start moving faster than she anticipated, she finds herself panicking over something Braden can’t understand. After everything they’ve been through, Joss is sure that their love can survive even her worst fears. But, this time, she may push Braden too far—and risk losing everything all over again

Kindle Edition, 97 pages
Published December 3rd 2013 by NAL (Intermix)

Source: Netgalley

Purchase: Goodreads

OUR REVIEW:

This was a great addition to the On Dublin Street series. It gives you that sense of closure and HEA for Braden and Joss that you may have speculated about at the end of their book. Of course you have to do a little work to get to that HEA because Joss and Braden aren't easy peasy..but the end definitely makes the work worth it.

OMG. Ok. So, we've been wanting to read this for a while. And now that we finally have...omg. The emotion in this novella brought back for me all of the reasons why I loved On Dublin Street to begin with. The writing: like sipping your favorite drink...or listening to your favorite song on repeat. It was perfect for me, and let me just say I had to try really hard to hold back ugly cry tears as I was sitting in my favorite Chinese food joint having a nice lunch by myself, reading this novella. I was almost a bit embarrassed by my behavior, because I try to save that for when I am alone.

In addition to seeing what's happening with Braden and Joss, you get to see little snippets of all of our other favorite characters in the series..and that always makes it interesting. It does! It makes me excited for all of the other installments that are out, or to come. Have I said yet again how much I love this novella? No? Yes. Okay, I have. I loved it, a lot.

After reading this quick novella, I think Joss and Braden have solidified their place as my favorite couple in this series. Love their dynamic..even when I want to throttle them. No doubt, do they make us work for every single second of happiness. This one had some tough themes for them, again, and I loved it! Yay, Samantha Young.

Shelley: 4 Stars

Courtney: 5 Stars

About the Author:

Samantha Young is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author from Stirlingshire, Scotland. She's been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 for Best Author and Best Romance for her international bestseller ON DUBLIN STREET. ON DUBLIN STREET is Samantha's first adult contemporary romance and has sold in twenty-five countries.

For more info on Samantha's adult fiction visit http://www.ondublinstreet.com

For info on her young adult fiction visit www.samanthayoungbooks.com

Last week Courtney and I read some really great books. We'll be reviewing them soon (or already have reviewed them), but here's a sneak peak of what our week consisted of. (P.S. You can click the covers to go to the book's GoodReads page.)

Last week I finally convinced Courtney to try out Aleatha Romig's Consequences and Truth. She was a little hesitant which I completely understood, but I promised to hold her hand and help her through the rough patches. Because I knew she would love them and I wanted to reread them again, I decided to read them along with her.Great decision on my part. Trust us both when we tell you...READ THESE BOOKS. And then do not murder us because the third one isn't out yet. In addition to those two books, I read another superb novel: Down London Road by Samantha Young. I read her previous novel, On Dublin Street, months ago and was hopeful that her newest release would be as good. It was. It was so good and I was so effusive in my enjoyment of it that Courtney jumped into it, too. Let me just say that this was the perfect choice to get over the book hangover we were having with Truth...unfortunately Down London Road gave me another book hangover. Hopefully I will find another meaty novel to sink my teeth into soon.

So, I'm not sure what is next on my reading agenda. I know that Cautious is coming out soon and I've seen some interesting titles floating around on twitter so maybe I'll try one of those...or maybe I'll just go to my favorite standby, Kristen Ashley.

All in all, I'd say that my reading life last week was outstanding. I wish every week was filled with such great books. What did you think about our reads last week, Court, and what is up next for you?

I do have to agree that this was a week of epic proportions for reading! We read Consequences and Truth and I was seriously all over the place emotionally. If you didn't read our Texting & Talking Tuesday post yesterday reference that and you will see I was a little crazy! So then like Shel said we moved on to Down London Road. I dropped everything I should've been doing to read this. And I LOVED it. Then I read Vain by Fisher Amelie. LOVED that too! The greatness of this week was just fantastic. Love these books, and love these authors for being so great. Tweet them, they'll likely tweet you back, if they're not writing of course!

I started Book 6 in the Rock Chick series. I cannot put this off any longer to make the series last, or we'll never get to do an epically huge ROCK CHICK post! So I am reading about Mace, and so far he is awesome. I love how each member of the Hot Bunch has their own style and way of winning over their woman, and I can tell already Mace won't be letting me down.

Another one we're going to review coming up is The Unidentified Redhead. This is one I started a while back and for whatever reason put back down. I'm sure like most books this has happened with, I will regret not devouring it when I first got it, but at least I have Shelley this time to hold my hand when the going gets tough.

A couple others we are going to be putting on the Review calendar are Trophy Husband by Lauren Blakely that JUST came out! and Until I Break by M. Leighton. This one is no longer being sold due to honestly unsurprising drama. From what I gather some people never learned that old adage if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all, but I thought M. Leighton handled everything beautifully and just made her decision and is moving on. I can't wait to see what it's about and am glad we grabbed up copies while we had the chance!