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Block Party (A Twin Estates Novel Book 3) Kindle Edition
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1. Awesome food
2. Great Music
3. Fun games
4. A secret spot to meet up with your even-more-secret girlfriend.
Liam Edenhoff is a simple creature. He likes women, tacos, and more women. As long as he has those in his life, everything is good. He's finally realizing maybe he's just not cut out for relationships - surely there's got to be a woman out there who'd be okay with roof top margaritas, casual encounters, and no attachments.
Enter a new neighbor - one who is allergic to commitment and prefers her relationships casual. She's seen him at his worst and is still willing to play his games, on three conditions - discretion is a must, casual is key, and absolutely no drama. Sounds like the perfect arrangement. What could go wrong?
Famous last words when dealing with neighbors.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date17 December 2017
- File size499 KB
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- ASIN : B078GBR5L3
- Publisher : BattleAxe Productions; 1st edition (17 December 2017)
- Language : English
- File size : 499 KB
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- Print length : 334 pages
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About the author
Crazy woman from an undisclosed location in Alaska (where the need for a creative mind is a necessity!), I have been writing since ... forever? Yeah, that sounds about right. I have been told that I remind people of Lucille Ball - I also see shades of Jennifer Saunders, and Denis Leary. So basically, I laugh a lot, I'm clumsy a lot, and I say the F-word A LOT.
I like dogs more than I like most people, and I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink. No, I do not live in an igloo, and no, the sun does not set for six months out of the year, there's your Alaska lesson for the day. I have mermaid hair - both a curse and a blessing - and most of the time I talk so fast, even I can't understand me.
Yeah. I think that about sums me up.
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If you have read my reviews, you know that I was not a big fan of book 2, The Neighborhood, however more of Liam made this a no brainer for me.
And I am pleased to say that I really enjoyed Block Party. I have adored Liam through through the whole series so far, and I wanted him to find his HEA. He needs a HEA.
I completely and utterly adored who he ends up with. Completely unexpected, but just so perfect for him.
Not going to lie, I still really, really, really dislike Wulf. Not sure if I am supposed to hate him, but every time he turns up on the page I just want to slam my fist through my kindle!
There is great set up for the next book in the series. Oh boy, that one is going to be a ride and a half!
Can't wait for the next installment. Bring. It. On.
He needed someone to give him life!
This was a good friends to lovers story. It had all the characters from the previous books including Wulf, who I must admit I wanted to slap in the other books haha. However he did redeem himself a bit in Liam & Ayumi's story
I enjoyed the banter between these 2 characters. And like the saying goes, opposites do attract. Liam was exactly like Ayumi described him, lovable and caring. I felt for Ayumi after her mother was introduced to the story. It was on wonder she was as driven and closed off as she was.
The writing style of this book was easy to follow and free flowing, with some hot sex thrown in. And while I did enjoy it I found a few things very predictable which took away from the book in my opinion.
If your looking for a fun, sexy book with a HEA then have a go at this.
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There are books by authors I look forward to reading and, as soon as they’re announced, I add them to my Want to Read list without reading the blurb, knowing ahead of time these master storytellers have yet to let me down. Each and every one of them a well-written tale, usually filled with intrigue, love, humor, and tears. Luckily for us, Block Party combines all these elements, and so much more. I had my laugh out loud moments, in between the ugly cry ones, and sometimes there was even that weird combination of both, at once. This story combines the perfect amount of sweet and sour, some angst and then humor, to lighten the story, so it’s not bogged down in too much heaviness.
It’s the third book in the Twin Estates Series and, while it’s technically a Standalone, I recommend everyone reading the first two books as there are crossover characters and some back story you won’t be privy to otherwise. This book features the amazing and wonderful Mr. Edenhoff, who I admit I’m in love with, and I’m happy he didn’t get his girl, Katya, in the previous books. Oops! See, that’s a spoiler from books one and two, which is why you should’ve read them by now, but we wouldn’t have this story if he had, so…
Liam Edenhoff’s a mess. Well, his personal life is, he’s thirty-two and hasn’t been very successful with relationships and he’s wondering what he can do to fix it. Everyone thinks he doesn’t take anything seriously and just likes to have fun. Liam’s a people pleaser and everyone, women especially, all gravitate towards him. But not everything is as it seems and he decides he needs to grow up. After Katya chose Wulf, his ex-business partner and former friend, he’s been trying to sort his life. He wants his twin brother, Landon, to get off his couch and either find someplace else to live or go back to practicing medicine out of the country. He’s been avoiding Wulf’s twenty-year old sister, Brighton “Brie” Stone, who’s been stalking him like a mad woman, after he decided to end their casual sex arrangement. If he had a bunny she would have boiled it by now. And now he’s afraid she’ll spill the beans and tell Katya and Wulf about their dirty little secret. His bookkeeping at the club is atrocious, but at least he convinced Wulf’s executive assistant, Ayumi Nakada, who’s a CPA, to stay on as his bookkeeper. A very no-nonsense, nose to the grindstone, bookkeeper that makes poor Liam do math. Something no one should be forced to do!
“Being an adult is nowhere near as awesome as everyone makes it seem.”
Ayumi Nakada, at twenty-seven, has no life outside of being Wulf Stone’s executive assistant for the last five years. Wulf’s her emergency contact, should anything ever happen to her, as she’s informed him. Ayumi is closer to him than anyone, unfortunately that’s sad, since she doesn’t really know anyone. She works up to fourteen hours a day, sometimes seven days a week and has no social life, no friends to call and meet somewhere for a drink. She adopted a cat recently, so she doesn’t live alone. She had an arrangement with someone she’d meet occasionally, when she had an itch to scratch, but he moved away and while she wasn’t actively looking to replace him, it would be nice to find someone who could keep things casual. She’s tried to please her mother her entire life and feels she’ll never live up to her impossibly high expectations, and as a result, their relationship is almost non-existent. Mrs. Nakada always said Ayumi was a “ruiner of things” and felt that was something she did excel at. Since her own mother never had a loving relationship with her father, Ayumi didn’t have an example she could follow, so she had no idea what to do or not do. It’s no wonder Liam calls her the Ice Queen.
“Ayumi had really gotten to Liam, it seemed. A girl carved out of ice had somehow managed to touch him in ways no one else had. He was scared. It was bad enough feeling like he wasn’t good enough for his family and friends—but to not be good enough for Ayumi, that was simply too much, it seemed.”
When these two broken people finally notice each other they embark on a strange journey of discovery. Both have secrets they slowly begin to share with each other. They both have so much complex, and heavy baggage they’ve been dragging around their entire lives, it’s both painful, and amazing to see how they slowly let some pieces go. Sometimes it seems that for every step forward one of them takes the other takes two backwards. I loved this couple so much and wept more than once to see how much they suffered, both physically, and emotionally. Oh and there’s an epilogue and it’s freaking amazing!
Block Party picks up the story after Katya’s epic fall from grace (in my eyes) in The Neighborhood. Now with Wulf, Katya has left Liam at a loose end. Solely in charge of his sex club, he and his right-hand woman, Tori, are all he has in his life, apart from Brie, Wulf’s rather persistent sister and Liam’s biggest hookup mistake to date. With Brie not understanding the word no, Liam finds his life in turmoil, well apart from his business dealings but that is only thanks to Tori and Ayumi, Wulf’s assistant and Liam’s part-time accountant. Ayumi is all business and really does live up to her Ice Queen name. With little to no sense of humour, much to Liam’s chagrin, Ayumi is sexy but cold and aloof but, as they say, opposites do attract and when Ayumi ends up in Liam’s apartment having escorted a paralytic Tori there after a night out which also included Katya, Liam finds an altogether different side to Ayumi on his hands.
What Liam and Ayumi have is explosive but with Ayumi’s fears of rejection and lifetime belief that she’s not good enough for anyone or likely to ruin anything she comes close to having for herself, thanks to her mother’s cruel taunts, anything more that one night stand with this beautiful but closed off woman is practically impossible. That is until Wulf gives Ayumi a task which sees her needing to escape her day job for a short while before commencing it. With Liam about to set off on a road trip, Ayumi finds herself asking to tag along and that’s when we get to see the real Liam and Ayumi.
Both characters are enigmas in their own right but it’s only with time do Ayumi’s many layers reveal themselves as we get to find out why she has become so broken. As you would expect, any sort of a romance between Liam and Ayumi is going to be one step forward and two steps back and whilst their deliberate relationship was endearing it was also equally frustrating but with all great stories, you are teased with hope and the possibility of a HEA and eventually Liam starts to win the battle for Ayumi’s affections or does he?
As this story progresses, readers are also teased with a possible romantic development which nicely leads into the next story and the end of the book even treats, or taunts, you with an insight into the start of Tori and Landon’s story. I can't wait!
I simply can’t recommend this series enough, or any books by this author come to that. They all captivating and leave you wanting more. I always savour every word on every page - there’s no speed reading with these books, so sit back, get comfortable and enjoy the ride.
Block Party focused on Liam Edenhoff whom we met in the previous 2 books in the Twin Estate series (Neighbors and The Neighborhood). I recommend you read those books before this one but it is not completely necessary. This book definitely stands on it's own, but if you want Liam's story, you kind of need the first two books to see what he has gone through. He made my laugh in the first 2 books and his love for life and tacos was perfection. But he always seem to be playing a game and for that, I wanted to slap him and tell him to wake up and see what is right in front of his face. BUT what was right in front of HIS face apparently wasn't right in front of MY face because I did NOT see his love interest coming. AT ALL. It totally blew me out of the water and threw me for a loop.
"While he'd been chasing Katya, claiming to only want her, he'd been sleeping with Brie. Katya would be pissed if she ever found out, and then even more pissed that he'd been keeping the whole thing on the down low. No, Wulf and Kayta could not find out his dirty little secret."
So this is Liam's journey to find love, escape troubles and perhaps change another woman and her view of herself and what she deserves.
"You just need to slow down once in a while. Take some time to thaw out. I think if you ever did, you might actually learn to like yourself."
While I really enjoyed the first 2 books in this series, this book wasn't my favorite. Liam is definitely a favorite character and his love interest made sense in the end, but their journey had so many downs in between the ups that I became a little frustrated. Don't get me wrong, I still really liked and enjoyed this book, especially his family-oh I how I adored them, I just got a little peeved with the heroine at times. I want to say her name and give it away, but I think that ruins some of his book if I do. And if you've read the previous 2 books, I think you are really going to enjoy this one.
I honestly can't wait for more from this series. It may not have been my favorite of the 3 thus far, but I still really adored the characters and their journey to find love. This was a total road trip with many bumps, but the love was always there. Liam, while you broke my heart a little bit in the first 2 books, I'm glad you had friends and tacos to put that heart right back together. Your journey to grow up and find love was done just as it should've been. There will still be many bumps along the way, but I have a feeling you guys will find your way.
"Don't you get it yet....The moments when I'm with you, there are no other girls. No one else exists. You're it. You are the moment."
I know I should have been prepared for anything and everything after reading the first two books in the series, but h$ly h@ll can we say Hello, angsty emotional rollercoaster?!? I swear my emotions are still trying to settle after this one. But even with ALL the angst going on, they were balanced out some seriously swoon worthy and heart melting moments that made experiencing Liam and Ayumi’s journey absolutely worthwhile!
I was Team Taco aka Team Liam from the beginning. Yes, he did some stupid things in the first two books and I wanted to give him a good Gibbs smack a time or two, but his laid back and yet astute nature and innate charisma combined with his unhealthy love affair with tacos made him irresistible. But here we get to see what really makes him tick and find that he really is so much more. His heart is truly golden, but a little more bruised than anyone truly realizes and those bruises are what has him doing things that get him into the emotional entanglements that constantly plague him.
Ayumi…*big deep breath* Straight up, I loved the woman from the start and I ended up adoring the woman she evolved into in the end, but D@@MN! She could give graduate level classes in how to repress your emotions and build up titanium walls around yourself. She is something well beyond ice, in the beginning. But as her past unfolds, I got why she was the way she was and why she believed it to be the only way for her to live and my heart hurt for her. So watching as she allowed bits and pieces of her heart to be exposed, I found the icy woman had a warm soul that only needed the right push to break free of it’s confines.
Now for Liam and Ayumi’s extremely bumpy journey to their HEA...all I can say is that it was total opposites attract goodness! Yes, I got whiplash and wanted to smack some sense into both of them from beginning to almost the very end, but they were absolutely addicting when they were together. They were so opposite in so many ways that it made them so perfect for each other because through their differences they ended up helping the other confront their issues and hopefully bring about a lightbulb moment that would be the catalyst for a positive change in their outlooks on life. But of course nothing is ever easy, and dear lord did these two have a lot to work through. Some of their actions and reactions fell firmly into the juvenile zone, but they did bring about some pretty deep epiphanies even if they weren’t always welcome. In the end, I love them together and where they ended up, it wasn’t pretty, but Liam and Ayumi definitely deserved the HEA they got.
Block Party was all kinds of angsty, swoon worthy goodness that hooked me from the first page and had me wanting more in the end. If you haven’t read Neighbors & The Neighborhood, the first two books in the series, you won’t be totally lost as Ms. Fantôme has done a great job at giving the reader just enough background on what happened with Wulf, Katya and Liam, but I’m always a proponent of reading things in order and if you do decided to start at the beginning you’ll have a better understanding of why things between certain characters are the way they are, especially because Katya, Wulf, Tori and Landon do make some appearances throughout the book. If you love an opposites attract romance that has a tendency to dip it’s toes into the almost OTT angsty realm, but is tempered by a good dose of sweet and smexy moments then you will definitely LOVE Block Party!
~ Copy provided by Give Me Books Promotions & voluntarily reviewed ~
This is the third book in the Twin Estates series, and is by far, my favourite of the three.
Liam Edenhoff, man-whore extraordinaire and sex-club owner, meets his match in the form of the tiny "Ice Queen", Ayumi Nakada.
The verbal sparring sessions between Liam and Ayumi are particularly entertaining and form the start of a great story.