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readfineprint's review
4.0
I finished Amy Matayo’s book The Last Shot today! I have really enjoyed the third book in the Love in Chaos series and now I’m ready to read the final book, The Reunion.
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Teddy is a rockstar. Jane is his bodyguard. I mean really, what else do you need to know?! I love how the GIRL is the bodyguard! This is a suspenseful story and a fun couple to watch get together.
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If you haven’t ever read a Matayo book, she writes clean, fun romance! And this four book series revolves around three guy roommates and how they find “Love in Chaos.”
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Teddy is a rockstar. Jane is his bodyguard. I mean really, what else do you need to know?! I love how the GIRL is the bodyguard! This is a suspenseful story and a fun couple to watch get together.
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If you haven’t ever read a Matayo book, she writes clean, fun romance! And this four book series revolves around three guy roommates and how they find “Love in Chaos.”
alangmaack's review
5.0
Matayo has a knack for writing books that confront situations I will most likely never find myself in (I know, I know, never say “never!’). The Last Shot is no exception to that. But as I find myself immersed in the story, I find myself confronting things in myself I wasn’t aware I needed to address. Most often, they are a reminder to me that we cannot struggle through things alone.
At some point in life, we’ll all be thrown into a stressful situation that requires us to change the way we interact with the world. Through extreme situations, Matayo shows us that change can and does happen when we are willing to confront the things that have held us captive for so long.
I’ve never been thrown into an extreme situation like Teddy in this story, and yet, I found myself feeling like I could understand the emotions and fears emanating from the characters as their story unfolded. I was rooting for them to face their fears and persevere.
If you’ve missed any of the books in this series, definitely go back and get them all!
I received a copy of this book from the author. This review is my own, honest opinion.
At some point in life, we’ll all be thrown into a stressful situation that requires us to change the way we interact with the world. Through extreme situations, Matayo shows us that change can and does happen when we are willing to confront the things that have held us captive for so long.
I’ve never been thrown into an extreme situation like Teddy in this story, and yet, I found myself feeling like I could understand the emotions and fears emanating from the characters as their story unfolded. I was rooting for them to face their fears and persevere.
If you’ve missed any of the books in this series, definitely go back and get them all!
I received a copy of this book from the author. This review is my own, honest opinion.
fiction_aficionado's review
5.0
Wow! I knew I wouldn’t want to put this down once I started, and I was so right. This was an intense read. Riveting and oh-so-good kind of intense. Amy Matayo always creates fabulous characters who draw me in, but there’s something extra magnetic about Teddy Hayes and has been since the beginning of the series. Sure, he’s got the whole country music superstar vibe—a man who knows he’s adored and plays up to it—but there’s always been this sense that he knows the fame thing isn’t real, if I can quote Julia Roberts from a certain movie. He’s just “a guy who likes music and figured out a way to make money doing it” with all the same annoying habits as the rest of us—and the same vulnerabilities, as it turns out.
And that’s what really upped the wow factor to this book—the vulnerabilities Matayo explored and the way the characters worked through them. The first part was full of suspense, with Teddy and Jane hiding for their lives in the pitch darkness of a closet under the stage Teddy had been performing on only a minute earlier. I loved the delicious irony in the way the physical darkness stripped away all outward trappings—looks, fame, wealth—and allowed them to be “seen” by the other in a clearer, more elemental way than they would have been had they met in broad daylight.
The second half of the story delves into the emotional aftermath as Teddy and Jane try to step back into the lives they had been living prior to the shooting, and this is where Matayo’s trademark raw authenticity shines. Teddy’s struggle to take to the stage again is heart-wrenching, but Jane helps him take baby steps towards overcoming his paralysing fear and guilt in what becomes a deeply satisfying story of the kind of love that goes so much deeper than physical attraction and right to the very core of what we all ultimately crave—to be seen and to matter, just as we are, weaknesses, warts, and all. And while the tone of the novel is definitely aimed at the general market, there are several times throughout the story that Matayo points to a God who is waiting to offer exactly that kind of love, no matter where we’ve been or what we’ve done.
All that is to say: Wow! Fabulous read! When’s the next one out?
I received a copy of this novel from the author. This has not influenced the content of my review, which is my honest and unbiased opinion.
And that’s what really upped the wow factor to this book—the vulnerabilities Matayo explored and the way the characters worked through them. The first part was full of suspense, with Teddy and Jane hiding for their lives in the pitch darkness of a closet under the stage Teddy had been performing on only a minute earlier. I loved the delicious irony in the way the physical darkness stripped away all outward trappings—looks, fame, wealth—and allowed them to be “seen” by the other in a clearer, more elemental way than they would have been had they met in broad daylight.
The second half of the story delves into the emotional aftermath as Teddy and Jane try to step back into the lives they had been living prior to the shooting, and this is where Matayo’s trademark raw authenticity shines. Teddy’s struggle to take to the stage again is heart-wrenching, but Jane helps him take baby steps towards overcoming his paralysing fear and guilt in what becomes a deeply satisfying story of the kind of love that goes so much deeper than physical attraction and right to the very core of what we all ultimately crave—to be seen and to matter, just as we are, weaknesses, warts, and all. And while the tone of the novel is definitely aimed at the general market, there are several times throughout the story that Matayo points to a God who is waiting to offer exactly that kind of love, no matter where we’ve been or what we’ve done.
All that is to say: Wow! Fabulous read! When’s the next one out?
I received a copy of this novel from the author. This has not influenced the content of my review, which is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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