Publication Date:
July 30th, 2015
Publisher:
Victory Editing
They’re enemies who will do anything to win…including each other.
When pre-med student Julie Hong wins a spot on a fashion design reality TV show, she celebrates by picking up a hot English guy in a hotel bar. But too many drinks leads to a night of embarrassment and a major hangover, and wow is she glad she’ll never see him again.
Until the show starts, and he’s on it too.
Julie quickly realizes she’s out of her league among the other designers, and Gavin Bennett, with his cocky grin and sexy accent, is her biggest competition. Julie can’t decide if she wants to kiss him or kill him. Or both.
After she’s almost kicked off, Julie convinces Gavin to pretend they’re sleeping together for the camera. The ploy works, but as they get closer to the show’s finale their fake relationship starts to become too real. But only one of them can win the show—and they might both end up heartbroken.
Review:
*I was provided a copy by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
Before I start this review let me tell you that if you don’t feel comfortable reading some mature content or if you’re too young this book is not for you.
This book is book 4 from the Chasing the Dreams series. Having read More than Exes, More than Comics (review here) and More than Once (review here) I was really excited to read this book and I loved it.
I absolutely loved this book like I was expecting because I loved all the books I’ve read so far from this series. I really liked the characters. I already kind of knew Julie because this wasn’t the first time she appeared in the series so I knew I would love her character. I really liked that I was able to know more about her and her life. I also loved Gavin. He’s not Andy (from More Than Once) but he’s still amazing. What I loved about this book is the character development. I really liked to see them changing and how they helped each other overcoming a few things and how they talked about things. If there’s one thing I don’t like in books is miscommunication so I was really happy that it didn’t happened here and that they were able to talk about everything. Another thing I really, really liked was that the book was set in a fashion reality show similar to Project Runway. I was obsessed with Project Runway a few years ago so I really liked to see the behind the scenes bits and all the challenges they had in the show. Also, some of the characters from the other books came back for this one and I loved that chapter. The only thing I didn’t like as much was that it didn’t have a dual POV. I really like the way Elizabeth Briggs writes when she has the dual POV and I really missed that in this book.
Overall this is a really good book and as I said before I plan on reading more Elizabeth Briggs books and I can’t wait to read More Than Distance. If you like new adult and have no problems with mature content you should definitely try to read this series.
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Have you read this book? If so, what did you think about it? If you haven’t read it would you read it?
YES! 😀 Oh wow, we thought the same things… what a surprise! 😛
I missed the dual POV too, it’s one of my favorite things in NA books. actually, I think I like the male POVs in general, because I had no problem in more than exes only having Kyle’s POV.
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We didn’t even talked about all of these before XD
I really like when it has male POVs too. It shows a different perspective of the whole story
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yes, I like it mostly because it defies some stereotypes that we all have. I love reading about the guys being the softie ones. That’s one of the things I loved the most about Gavin, how much he was willing to let his feelings out and Julie wasn’t.
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Exactly. Do you have the chapters from his pov already?? I’m sending the e-mail now 🙂
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not yet! I NEED THEM!!!!!! I’m so curious to what was going on in his mind when he left her that night
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Me too. We already know he has never done that so why did he do it?? What has he seen in Julie??
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definitly something! I do think he tucked her in after she passed out, and I think he stayed with her for a good while 😀
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Me too!! He is someone who would actually do that 😀
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oh yeah, he might have just left when he actually needed to get ready for the show… I could see him snuggling with her on bed 😉
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That would be so cute. I just sent my e-mail 🙂
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nice, I hope she doesn’t take long. I didn’t get the scene from more than once, I think she still hadn’t decided what to write about.
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I forgot to send the e-mail about that one 😛
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send it, to see if she has the scene written now 😀
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i really need my Becca/Andy fix
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I’ll try to send it. First I have to put my review on Amazon because when I read it I couldn’t put my reviews there
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you can now? 😀
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yep. I ordered a few things from amazon in the end of the year 😀
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oh, that’s right :P, that’s great 😀
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