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Today I’m excited to participate in the Blog Tour of ‘Almost Just Friends’ by Jill Shalvis. ‘Almost Just Friends’, an all-new standalone contemporary romance, is now LIVE!
Although I haven’t read many books by Jill Shalvis so far, her books have been on my TBR list for a while. Every time I read a book description about one of her books, I want to start reading immediately. But somehow I rarely do. So when I first saw the sign up for ‘Almost Just Friends’, I got super excited and signed up as fast as I could. When I got the email telling me I got approved to read an ARC, I couldn’t be more excited and started reading as fast as I could.
In ‘Almost Just Friends’ we meet Piper. Piper lost her parents when she was barely a teenager. As the oldest of three kids, Piper was the one who needed to step up and take care of her brother and sister. And that’s what she has always done. But, in exchange for taking care of her siblings Piper has always put her own needs aside. Now, at thirty years old, with her siblings out of the house, it is time to do things for herself. But when she finally decides to take the next step, her siblings come back home both with secrets that will ruin Piper’s plans. And when a handsome guy walks into town, Piper soon learns it can be good to be taken care off for ones.
‘Almost Just Friends’ is definitely one of those books that makes you feel all kinds of emotions and I enjoyed every minute of it. Piper is one of those characters that you simple can’t not like. From a very young age she had to take care of her siblings, and she did that the best way she knew how. But losing your parents, having to be the grown up from your early teens.. well it scars you. And Piper is definitely a scarred or how she calls it a ‘broken’ person. When Piper meets Camden, she simple wants to ‘enjoy’ him for the short time he is in town. She simple wants to forget. But from the very beginning Piper and Camden have this connection that you simple cannot ignore.
The romance between Piper and Camden was just so good. I loved how it was slow, and well.. sweet. Camden really took his time in making Piper trust him and I loved that. There romance really gave me all the butterflies.And although Piper’s siblings made me want to pull out my own hair at times, I loved the way we got to know them too. Although their stories might have been side stories, it made this story complete and I really enjoyed it.
Yes, ‘Almost Just Friends’ was a beautiful, touching, intense, romantic read that I simple couldn’t put down. Jill Shalvis did a great job in making these characters come to life. And I really feel like I got to know all these characters, and like I’m part of their family. A must read!
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She grinned. “That was possibly the most thrilling ride of my life.”
He pulled off her helmet, the look in his eyes saying that he knew he could give her an even more thrilling ride.
She had no doubt. But she hadn’t managed to raise her siblings and get them all a relatively decent life by following a whim, sexy as that whim might be. She’d been afraid of commitment with Ry because … well, she still wasn’t one hundred percent sure. But she thought it had something to do with the knowledge that committing to him would mean becoming something she wasn’t – a person capable of further dividing her heart, handing another chunk of it off to someone, and in turn giving them power to hurt her.
But looking into Cam’s gaze, she couldn’t see him ever trying to make her into something she wasn’t. Life with him would only get better.
But they weren’t going to go there. And if that caused a little teeny tiny spark of sadness, she shoved it aside. This wasn’t the time to dwell. She needed to live in the moment.
And that needed to go into her journal. She had it in her purse in the truck. “Do you have the keys?”
“Sure. What do you need, I’ll get it for you.”
Okay, so she could admit her crazy here, or she could keep it to herself. But maybe to prove that this wouldn’t – couldn’t — last, she gave him the truth. “I need to write something in my journal.”
“Okay,” he said without blinking an eye and turned toward the stairs to get to the parking lot.
Just the fact that he’d do it made it okay to stop him. “I can wait.’ Then she stepped into him and pressed her face in the crook of his neck to just breathe him in for a moment, willing herself to remember. Live in the moment. There was no sense in thinking about the future, because as she knew all too well, not everyone got one. So there was no use in spoiling the here and now by running ahead of herself. Besides, she thought as his arms came around her, the here and now was pretty damn amazing. “Thank you,” she whispered against his skin, and then, unable to resist, kissed his throat.
This Blog Tour was organized by Social Butterfly PR.
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Maureen is a mom, wife, nurse, and Ravenclaw living in the Netherlands. She spends her days juggling mom-life, reading, blogging, planning date nights with her husband and working as a nurse. Maureen also is a big Anglophile, loves cooking, Gilmore Girls, Bridgerton and Harry Potter.. Always! Facebook | Instagram
I love Jill Shalvis, and I adored Almost Just Friends. I’m glad you’ve started reading Shalvis as well, Maureen. I hope you’ll find the time to continue, because her books are always really good.
I’m so glad too. I can’t wait to read more books by Jill Shalvis.
Thanks for stopping by!