Showing posts with label McKinney Brothers Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McKinney Brothers Series. Show all posts
Oh My God. I don’t know why I didn’t
go into this book not expecting huge ugly tears. You would think by now I would
know that Claudia Connor is a master at making me cry like a baby and that
blurb didn’t exactly hide the fact I was going to be an emotional mess. But
then throw a huge heap of my own personal family drama and I didn’t even think
about how this was going to leave me curled up in the fetal position
surrounded by a heap of soggy tissues.
I probably would have hated Jack if
not for the fact the story was told in both past and present tense. And he was
just so perfect in the past and then add in the fact we know what made the
relationship break down in the first place. That even when he broke her heart
and acted like a douche I couldn’t find it in me to hate him, I might have
wanted to slap him a few times but I got over it pretty quickly and I loved how
they overcame their past hurts and forgave each other everything they had gone
through.
Mia was so strong, how she kept
standing after everything she had gone through was beyond me. And honestly in
her position I don’t think there would be any way I would be able to get over
everything that had happened and look to the future.
Even though I cried a small river I
loved every word of this book and I am so glad I went into it without knowing
what I was going to go through or I probably wouldn’t have picked it up to
begin with. Catching up with the McKinney brothers and their families was great
and I loved getting a bit more information on everything that happened since
the last book.
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Blurb
“Read Claudia Connor for a consistently raw and emotional love story,” recommends Carly Phillips. Now the swoon-worthy McKinney Brothers series from this bestselling author continues as JT, the youngest of the trio, discovers that only love can make him whole.
She’s fighting for control. . . . Paige Roberts learned to fend for herself growing up. Now she’s doing everything possible to give her daughter, Casey, the stability she never had. But when the vivacious five-year-old decides she’s done wearing her prosthesis, Paige faces her toughest challenge yet: trusting a handsome, brooding stranger who simply wants to help.
He’s struggling to connect. . . . JT McKinney lost more than his leg in a car accident that stole his dreams of pro football. Eight years later, he’s made a new life for himself far away from his old one. His business is developing cutting-edge prosthetics and he’s more than happy to turn his attention to machines instead of people. Still, he can’t shake the feeling that something’s missing.
Will they take a chance on love? . . . When JT gets the chance to help Paige’s daughter, he takes it. He never planned on the two of them tearing down his walls or teaching him to believe in himself again. Paige might not believe in happily ever afters, but JT wants more than anything to be her prince. They’ll both have to let go of the past if they want a future.
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New York Times bestselling author Claudia Connor attended Auburn University, where she received her undergraduate and masters degrees in early childhood education, and completed her studies in Sawbridgeworth, England. Always a lover of happy endings, she enjoys movies, reading, and spending her days putting on paper the stories in her head. She lives near Memphis, Tennessee, with her husband and three daughters.
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Worth It All was everything I love about Claudia
Connor’s McKinney Brothers Series. It had
all the feels and the most perfect characters. Plus we got to see a little of
the McKinney family and get introduced to a whole new side of JT.
Worth the Fall will forever be my favourite in
this series as honestly, it is still one of my all-time favourite books, so it is
hard to compare this to it and not find it a little bit lacking. Which I know
is unfair but meh I am still besotted with Matt so sue me.
With that said, this was a kick ass standalone
novel and based solely on this book I loved it. I wasn’t really a fan of the
few glimpses we got of JT in his brother’s books but this takes place a few
years after that and he has grown into an amazing man, it was hard not to love.
He was everything I could have wanted for Paige, but more than that he was perfect
for the beautiful Casey.
But of course the real star of any of these books
is always our heroine and Paige was perfect. She was a struggling single mother
that not once did I feel anything but respect and love for. Not once did Paige
complain about the load on her shoulders or pull any stupid overly dramatic
wishy washy bullshit that is so common in a lot of single mother romance
novels.
Claudia has this ability to make me feel like all
is right in the world from the second the couples meet. It’s not insta love, it’s
just a genuine connection between two very real characters that don’t act like
immature arseholes and I love it.
There’s still issues but they aren’t manufactured
through misunderstanding or miscommunication and I genuinely feel the full
range of emotion as it plays out in the book, so much so that I am entirely
invested in the outcome of the couple. Then throw in an amazing 5 year old girl
and I literally couldn’t put it down.
I could not recommend this series enough but if
you don’t want to commit to the whole series they can easily be read as
standalones, out of order, but you would be doing yourself a massive disservice
if you don’t read Worth the Fall.
4 Locked Hearts
Worth The Risk wasn't at all what I was expecting after the light and happy previous book I read the blurb to this one and thought "oh yeah another poor cheated on girl and cranky, closed off millionaire" Ummmm nope.
It was a little more confronting than that and although I cried one page in and wondered what I was getting myself into when I was expecting a fun, happy, lighthearted read I am so glad I went into it unassuming and definitely unawares.
Our newest McKinney brother is as sweet and as perfect as Matt and although there were many points in the book I wanted to slap him I couldn't help but also want to hug him and kiss him and lick him and fu.............. ok I think you get the point.
Hannah was amazing, from the moment she was introduced I just wanted to give her all that she deserved and more. Her story was a lot harder to take than I had expected and the way the author delivered it had me constantly waiting to see if and when a bit more of her ordeal would be released. And then as it was my heart broke a little more for her and I wanted to scream at Stephen to just hurry up and give her the perfect Happy Ever After she deserved and of course he dragged his feet and made me pull my hair out and scream like a lunatic at my kobo.
She had every reason to be a pathetic broken mess and despite the fact that's how she and her brothers sometimes saw her she had a strength that made her perfect.
As with the first book Claudia has a way of bringing in the secondary characters as though they are the main event and making you love them and wonder about them and hope that you will get a bit more of them as you read. And I would love to see some of the antagonists in this book get their comeuppance but alas Claudia doesn't seem to be as vengeful as I discovered I can be towards fictional arseholes.
I loved that we saw so much of Matt and Abby and their kids and see their happy ending continue on as it began.
And now back to holding our breath for the next one. I mean it's only a year we can wait that long.
But for now grab Worth The Risk today at Amazon
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