Right (Cafe Series Book 2)

I had some discomfort over Everly's embarrassingly aggressive pursuit of Finn in the first half of the book. Then I began to enjoy and laugh my head off over her budding relationship and interaction with Sawyer and other more minor characters (this author can write great comedy when she puts her mind to it). However, THE MAKE-UP AFTER SAWYER PLAYS THE A** IS ALL WRONG! Everly is NOT a meek, accepting young woman, nor should she have been portrayed as someone so desperate, especially after the lesson she learned from her epic failure-of-a-chase after FINN!!! She needed to get romanced by someone more her age, hot and heavy, and on her intellectual, more youthful wavelength. I could see her dealing with her own "surprise" baby (without Sawyer - who says he's her one and only, or that he can't deal with being the other man since he dumped her?) and a baby-daddy HER AGE (hello?!), totally rocking the young mom-wife/partner who maybe tragically loses the baby-daddy. Okay, why don't I write my own book? Just saying what's more realistic to me, and what satisfies my sensibilities where men, responsibility, and maturity are concerned.Sawyer's cop-out and reasons for dumping her as a girlfriend, rejecting as well as insulting Everly's character and sense of maturity just because he couldn't trust her with his son should not have been rewarded by Everly FIGHTING TO KEEP HIM BY PROVING HERSELF!!! HE needed to prove himself to HER! He does this with the excuse he's unwilling to risk his son or trust Everly to not be mature enough to handle anything like an adult, which in and of itself is so hypocritical when he promised her he'd take care of her, and that she should take a risk on HIM (in the early stages when he was trying to capture her interest). He was careless with her feelings. He assumed she would be all right without him if he just dumped her, since that was better than allowing her to potentially hurt him and his son when she ran away from that responsibility. What a turd. Yep - that's why I only give this one two stars. Lack of realistic reasoning. Any other man with Sawyer's healthy family upbringing, knowing about Everly's own happy childhood and family values, would NOT take or have such a fatalistic approach to such an independent, totally lovable, free spirit.

*Spoilers*First of all – this is a good book: it’s funny, it’s sweet, it moves, and you’ll have a good time with it. There aren’t the same problems of pacing that are attached to the author’s first book, where there was a lot of drama, but not a lot of development. This was better … still fast, but it’s a pretty straight forward story, so that mostly worked.Until the end. Sigh. I liked about 80% of this book, which was about when you get hit with what is apparently this author’s schtick: babies. That was the end Break Up Arc in the previous book, and it’s the same here. I mean, it’s not entirely the same, but it’s pretty much the same: young h who only has some kind of vague idea what she wants to do, successful older H who is All! About! The! Babies! Then there’s some upset at the end that has to do with a surprise kid, there’s a quick resolution where the h is easily okay with the situation, and … that’s it. I have to admit that I didn’t like the h chasing after the H at the end when he broke up with her. Partly, that was true to her character (she’s very assertive and knows what she wants as long as it has to do with boys and not her career) but having her chase him … that didn’t really show any character development for her. She just switched her focus, she didn’t grow.*On the Sexy Times: Okay. The sex in the author’s first book is better and dirtier; the sex here fine, but more run of the mill, unless you count tapping “record” on the H’s phone for a sex tape as wild. I thought that the H went from rather exciting and dominant and assertive to kind of a Beta who was no longer willing to fight for his h.I did like most of the book. The h is charismatic in many ways, and she’s funny. This author can be hysterical. I laughed a lot, which was awesome. I will be interested to see what the author does with the h’s roommate/best friend, who she seemed to be setting up for her own book. That girl seems to know what she wants to do after college. I will read that book. But if the author sticks her third h with a pregnancy/surprise kid, then I guess she really only writes one story, and ultimately, they’re not for me.*(To be fair, what literally happens is that the h decides she’s going to go stalk the H, turns away from his building, but then sees him in a park. He literally does chase her when she sees him with his kid, but then she pretty much tells him that she’s going to get him back whether he likes it or not. So … that. Should have been the other way around.)

4.25 Fun and Sexy Stars!After the heart crushing book I read prior to this one, this was EXACTLY what I needed. Everly and Sawyer (love the names) were the craziest couple I’ve had the pleasure of reading, and I mean that in the cutest way possible. Seriously they’re adorable, simply perfect together. But I have to say as much as I enjoy a quick read I really wish this was longer, giving me more meat to the story. Between the 80% and 90% mark is where I needed that more most. I knew there would end up being some kind of twist or drama but because of the fact I was loving this book so much I just wish Sawyer had handled it differently. I needed more words spoken to one another, more action, more feeling. With that said the epilogue did make up a little bit of what I was missing, I appreciated the fact it was told in Sawyer’s POV. I needed that.So ending of my review is...I very much enjoyed this book. In fact, I bought the audio version at around 72% because I knew I was going to be in the mood for a reread, and soon. I finished this last night and am missing these two!