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Series: Bad Boys #3Genre: Contemporary Romance/Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Publication Date: 9/3/13
Format: eARC
Pages: 336
Source: Received from publisher for review
Rating: 3.5 stars
When it comes to passion this hot, it’s all or nothing.
Olivia Townsend’s wealthy cousin Marissa had everything a girl could ask for—a great job, a privileged life, and all the friends she wanted. Or, at least, all the friends money could buy. But one case of mistaken identity has turned her privileged world upside down.
An abduction gone wrong lands her right in the lap of the sexiest, most dangerous man she’s ever met. To Marissa, he’s an enigma, but one to whom she’s irresistibly, inexplicably drawn.
With him comes a new world of freedom and passion, of dark shadows and dangerous secrets, a world where nothing is what it seems—except for the blind passion that Marissa can’t escape—or maybe even survive.
Everything for Us is a tough story to review without spoilers. Unless you've read the blurb; that thing is spoiler city if you haven't read book two. So I guess I will just assume that those reading the review have read the blurb and go from there.
Everything for Us is a departure from this rest of the series, since it centers on Marissa and Nash. That excited me. It seems that everyone hates Marissa, but I never have. I know she was a witch in Down to You, but I never thought that was a good excuse for Nash/Cash and Olivia to do the business behind her back. But that's just me. I liked Marissa because she was complicated, she wasn't perfect and didn't pretend to be.
And of course, I was ready for real-Nash. After that whopper of a bombshell in Up to Me, it was ON. I liked that Nash was about zero BS, and was severely pissed. He was grouchy and you just knew he was barely keeping himself leashed. I knew that Nash and Marissa would make an interesting pair. And they did. And let me just say that having Nash and Cash together, with situations in which Cash is pretending to be Nash and Nash is pretending to be Cash, definitely worked my brain. I almost resorted to making a chart to keeping the details straight. Now I know why some parents of twins give their kids names like Harry and Tom.
Okay, so I do have an issue with Everything for Us and it is the same I had in Down to You. I've never been cool with the lying from Cash and Nash, in regards to using their twin status to trick Marissa and Olivia in intimate situations. It honestly didn't sit well with me at all, and I didn't like how they just got away with it. If there had been more accountability, I may have felt better about this, and it may be something that only bothers me, I don't know.
Everything for Us was definitely fast-paced, and I liked that. There's a lot going on with the situation with Nash and Cash's dad and the people who framed him. I loved that this story line did not get pushed aside to solely focus on the romance, because this is a huge deal and really the trigger for everything Nash and Cash have gone through. Everything for Us is also a romantic story, which Leighton excels at. She infuses a lot of passion into her writing and her characters and this is my favorite aspect to her writing. In this book, though what I enjoyed the most was Nash's and Marissa's personal struggles. Nash's story was one of coming to grips with the life that had been stolen from him, and the future he faces. Marissa faced her fight to break away from her old life and create a new, better one. They both experienced a highly satisfying amount of personal growth.
Everything for Us ends the Bad Boys series on a very romantic and satisfying note; a good conclusion to the series.
Favorite Quote:
My headache and every bad thing I've been thinking of melt away the instant his eyes meet mine. Like waves crashing against the shore, a thousand feelings collide, sending a spray of emotion through me. At once, I experience a dozen states and stages of my life in the blink of an eye. I'm the scared kid I was when I left seven years ago. I'm the confident, determined teenager I was before my mother was killed. I'm the angry boy growing up and butting heads with his father. I'm the child basking in the comfort of his parent. And I'm the man who's been in exile, away from what's left of his family, returned. ~eARC, 16%
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About the author
M. Leighton is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Wild Ones and The Bad Boys romance trilogies. She is a native of Ohio, relocated to the warmer climates of the South, where she lets her mind wander to romantic settings with sexy Southern guys much like the one she married and the ones you'll find in her latest books. When her thoughts aren't roaming in that direction, she'll be riding horses, swimming in ponds and experiencing life on a ranch, all without leaving the cozy comfort of her office.
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M. Leighton is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Wild Ones and The Bad Boys romance trilogies. She is a native of Ohio, relocated to the warmer climates of the South, where she lets her mind wander to romantic settings with sexy Southern guys much like the one she married and the ones you'll find in her latest books. When her thoughts aren't roaming in that direction, she'll be riding horses, swimming in ponds and experiencing life on a ranch, all without leaving the cozy comfort of her office.
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