Just Not Mine Escape to New Zealand Book 6 eBook Rosalind James
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Destiny can sneak up on you. Or it can smack you in the face.
Hugh Latimer’s coping with a few problems just now. A broken hand, missing the All Blacks' European rugby tour . . . and a half-brother and sister who are playing havoc with his love life. Instead of packing down in the scrum, he’s driving the carpool to ballet—or forgetting it’s his turn. When he hears his neighbor wailing out bad pop in the wee hours, it’s the last straw.
Josie Pae Ata is a fortunate woman. A new house, good friends, a gorgeous boyfriend—oh, and stardom, too. Getting involved with her new neighbors would bring risks she doesn’t need. But life has a way of changing the rules. And when you get more than you can handle, sometimes all you can do is hang on for the ride.
Note This STAND-ALONE romance, like New Zealand, contains a bit of steam. If that isn’t your cuppa, you may want to visit a different country . . . er, book.
Just Not Mine Escape to New Zealand Book 6 eBook Rosalind James
Just Not Mine is the 6th book in Rosalind James’s Escape to New Zealand series. Like books 1-5 this book is stand alone. If you are lucky, and find this book on sale, snap it up and do not be afraid to start here! If I had never read another book by James, I might go into this book expecting nothing more than a light quick read-a beautiful actress and rugged rugby player find out that they live next door. I am always a bit wary of books where the main character is especially beautiful, as I find it can be too common among romance novels, lead to more unbelievable situations, and the character can be harder to relate to by the average reader. As the saying goes, don’t judge a book by its cover, or in this case its basic premise!In terms of overall quality this may be my favorite of all the books in the series. Both Hugh and Josie are very relatable characters; the pace builds the romantic tension between the protagonists masterfully, there are three dimensional characters to loathe or be irritated by on Josie and Hugh’s behalf, some hilarity-including my favorite comedic scene of the series-, and a great deal of tenderness and personal growth. Rather than all of the previously mentioned pitfalls of romantic books with beautiful characters, James tackles it head on and it is clear that with the multidimensional Josie, that beauty is by far the dimension with least value. She is smart and big-hearted and a protagonist that a reader will both like and respect. The chemistry between Hugh and Josie is wonderful as is the growing bonds between the kids and Hugh.
Something else I love about Rosalind James’s writing that is evident here is that the conflicts between the main characters (what is a romance without a little conflict right?) arise and are resolved in a realistic and mature way. It is not melodramatic and does not lead the reader to wonder can these characters really handle being in a committed relationship if they are going to have a meltdown or tantrum every other day?
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated for my review, and I was not required to write a positive review. The opinion expressed here is my own.
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Just Not Mine Escape to New Zealand Book 6 eBook Rosalind James Reviews
I started this series unaware of the passion and loyalty and long entrenched chivalry that is the New Zealand way. Also, I had no idea of the life and times that is the commitment of the Rugby players of this sport. This is not a stand alone novel as far as this fan is concerned, as each and every one of the seven books is a build upon or an expansion of the previous novels. With the latest, Reka and Hemi's story (Just For You) being the last,but should be the first as they are featured from the very beginning in Just For Now (Drew and Hannah's story that started it all). By the time I wrote this review, Hannah and Drew got an additional, and a catch up on all the relationships from previous novels,in #7 with Just Once More. And the author is working on Will's story, who was briefly introduced in Just Not Mine and mentioned in Just My Luck, in a novel coming out later 2015, Just In Time. Can't wait!
This is Hugh's story of coming to be the parent to his half brother and sister and having to make his life blend in with a life that he never fully felt a part of but with the support of his teammates and Josie, the romantic equal to his stubborn way, he is able to step in more completely to a life that is to be just what they both needed.
Josie is a tad more glamorous than the down-to-earth but athletic girls of the other books. Josie's a seductive actress. Hugh has a novel complication in his younger siblings that he, just 27, has to raise on his own. I loved Josie's strength and vulnerability, and I loved how Hugh was this bedrock, even though he was confused. Amelia, his little sister, is incredibly sassy. Charlie is very sweet, and it's a sweet book. I'm looking forward to Just Once More.
Favorite parts
1. Josie Probably on the dole, judging by that shaggy head of hair and the beard. Probably spent his time fishing off the jetty, when he wasn't lifting weights in some mate's homemade gym to build that physique, spending his evenings drinking beer in somebody's basement. Probably broke that hand punching his fist through the wall while he was drunk. She'd gone to school with boys like that, who'd grown into men like that. Responsibility wasn't high on their list, and nor was career focus. And they were definitely, most definitely, not her type.
2. "What does he do for work?" [Josie] asked, and all right, it was true, she was shamelessly pumping a child. She might as well get her money's worth.
Charlie looked a bit scared. "I'm not meant to talk about his work. If people ask me about him."
"Oh. OK." What? She finished emptying her bags, took over on the sweeping from Charlie.
So, all right. Something secret. Either he was an undercover cop, or a drug dealer. Or an assassin, her overactive imagination suggested, and she had to laugh a little inside at the thought. He didn't seem much like a drug dealer, or an assassin either. Though drug dealers probably had families. Assassins, she wasn't so sure about.
3. Josie "Grieving isn't hanging on. It's letting yourself do what you need to do in order to move into the future. Letting yourself feel the pain and the loss so you can go on and live again. Because the loss and the pain are still there whether you acknowledge them or not, aren't they? If you bottle them so tightly that even you can never see them, that doesn't make them go away. It just means it'll never stop hurting, like a wound that's got infected."
4. Hugh Amelia at three, four, five years old, an imperious little figure with a sturdy body that was all their dad, nothing of her petite, graceful French mother. Her dark hair mussed, still in her pajamas, she'd climb up to sit cross-legged on his bed, poke him until he woke up, and tell him her dreams. Long, elaborate tales of ponies and kittens and princesses and magic that he'd barely been able to follow, but had listened to all the same, more or less, because her adoration had been flattering. She'd clamored for rides on his shoulders, for him to read her bedtime stories, had come to him at night and demanded cuddles when he'd be watching sport on the telly with his dad, having a rare father/son moment.
5. "Big, tall, tough," Brenda said. "Hard man. Girls love that. All broody and intense, too, like you've got a secret vulnerable side that only they can see. Makes them want to cuddle you."
"They want to cuddle me?" Hugh asked in outrage as the other two men burst out laughing.
6. Will "Who's Chloe? You got more than one supermodel you've been hiding from me? It's always the quiet ones, isn't it."
7. Reka "And I don't make [babies] all by myself, boy. If you're worried about it, you know the answer." She made a scissors-gesture with two fingers. "Snip snip."
"Aw, nice," Koti groaned as everyone laughed. "Ouch."
"You just made every man here cross his legs," Hemi complained.
Just Not Mine is the 6th book in Rosalind James’s Escape to New Zealand series. Like books 1-5 this book is stand alone. If you are lucky, and find this book on sale, snap it up and do not be afraid to start here! If I had never read another book by James, I might go into this book expecting nothing more than a light quick read-a beautiful actress and rugged rugby player find out that they live next door. I am always a bit wary of books where the main character is especially beautiful, as I find it can be too common among romance novels, lead to more unbelievable situations, and the character can be harder to relate to by the average reader. As the saying goes, don’t judge a book by its cover, or in this case its basic premise!
In terms of overall quality this may be my favorite of all the books in the series. Both Hugh and Josie are very relatable characters; the pace builds the romantic tension between the protagonists masterfully, there are three dimensional characters to loathe or be irritated by on Josie and Hugh’s behalf, some hilarity-including my favorite comedic scene of the series-, and a great deal of tenderness and personal growth. Rather than all of the previously mentioned pitfalls of romantic books with beautiful characters, James tackles it head on and it is clear that with the multidimensional Josie, that beauty is by far the dimension with least value. She is smart and big-hearted and a protagonist that a reader will both like and respect. The chemistry between Hugh and Josie is wonderful as is the growing bonds between the kids and Hugh.
Something else I love about Rosalind James’s writing that is evident here is that the conflicts between the main characters (what is a romance without a little conflict right?) arise and are resolved in a realistic and mature way. It is not melodramatic and does not lead the reader to wonder can these characters really handle being in a committed relationship if they are going to have a meltdown or tantrum every other day?
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated for my review, and I was not required to write a positive review. The opinion expressed here is my own.
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