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empresso35's review
2.0
I just read this one to set up the other 2 books in the series. I like those characters and their story lines better.
lmrivas54's review against another edition
4.0
Great but long and winding
Great story, Paddy Hurley meets up with Natalie 11 years after they had a 2-week fling. He was just starting out with his band, before making it big. She was in a wild phase, just before starting college. Now Paddy is a rock star, and lives in this little town where his family has a ranch. When they're not recording or touring, they're ranching. Natalie is the town librarian and is now a very controlled woman, who hates disorder and being out of control. Yet Paddy is so magnetic and charismatic, he has her life out of control and her hormones all awry. She is "the one that got away", the woman he never forgot, as he went on to fame and fortune.
This was a great read, and there was only one thing. The book went on and on about their issues, Natalie's need for a controlled existence and Paddy's slight immaturity. He's never been in love before and was scared spitless and didn't know how to handle it. The sex scenes were too frequent and the plot was long-winded, but still it was entertaining and it had great characters. Loved the whole Hurley family!
Great story, Paddy Hurley meets up with Natalie 11 years after they had a 2-week fling. He was just starting out with his band, before making it big. She was in a wild phase, just before starting college. Now Paddy is a rock star, and lives in this little town where his family has a ranch. When they're not recording or touring, they're ranching. Natalie is the town librarian and is now a very controlled woman, who hates disorder and being out of control. Yet Paddy is so magnetic and charismatic, he has her life out of control and her hormones all awry. She is "the one that got away", the woman he never forgot, as he went on to fame and fortune.
This was a great read, and there was only one thing. The book went on and on about their issues, Natalie's need for a controlled existence and Paddy's slight immaturity. He's never been in love before and was scared spitless and didn't know how to handle it. The sex scenes were too frequent and the plot was long-winded, but still it was entertaining and it had great characters. Loved the whole Hurley family!
librarydancer's review
DNF.
Started out very promising, but I lost interest in the audiobook.
Started out very promising, but I lost interest in the audiobook.
mvbookreviewer's review against another edition
4.0
Natalie Clayton is the librarian of the small town Hood River. Natalie has a good life going for herself, a life in which she controls what happens to her and the situations that she puts herself in. She is not at all ready for someone from her past to come and shake it all up, be it that the person in question is Patrick Michael Hurley (Paddy) with whom she had had some of the best sex of her life fifteen years back.
Paddy is used to women fawning over him. Being a rockstar makes it easy for him to get any woman he wants. Almost too easy. When Natalie at first acts like she doesn’t remember him, Paddy is more than taken aback; he is intrigued. And an intrigued Paddy who becomes interested in pursuing a woman who seems determined to say no to him at every turn is something that Paddy can’t turn away from. Paddy remembers the good times that he and Natalie had shared and he wants that back with a vengeance that surprises even him.
The Best Kind of Trouble is my very first read by Lauren Dane. The humorous undertone to the story as it kicked off gave off the vibes that this would be a read well worth delving into. And turned out I wasn’t wrong in assuming as I did. Paring someone like Paddy who is laidback, who has got all the confidence in the world when it comes to women with someone like Natalie is enough to keep the pages turning.
Unlike I presumed, the character who comes with the most baggage is Natalie. Her past, the fact that she had never been in control of her life back then proves to be a deterrent as she tries to forge her way into the future with Paddy. Coursing through uncharted waters, Paddy and his lovable family certainly helps along and one cannot be help but be enchanted by the various secondary characters that comes to light. I can’t help but want to read Ezra and Tuesday’s story which I think is up for grabs next. With equally screwed up pasts, their story seems to be one that would give quite the angst filled ride!
I loved the realistic edge to The Best Kind of Trouble. The stages through which Natalie and Paddy’s relationship developed was well delved into in my opinion. How they were individually two different people who could exist on their own just fine but together they become infinitely better was one that echoed through me as I read through the last pages. Natalie’s hang ups were well deserved and I totally understood where she was coming from. And I totally loved the fact that Paddy had to work to win Natalie’s affections when his effortless charm had pretty much guaranteed the ladies in his life before.
With panty melting variety of sex scenes in the mix, Lauren Dane brings to readers and her long term fans a series steeped with familial ties, humor, rock and roll and of course sex of the kind that would knock your socks off. Well worth a read!
Rating = 4/5
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Paddy is used to women fawning over him. Being a rockstar makes it easy for him to get any woman he wants. Almost too easy. When Natalie at first acts like she doesn’t remember him, Paddy is more than taken aback; he is intrigued. And an intrigued Paddy who becomes interested in pursuing a woman who seems determined to say no to him at every turn is something that Paddy can’t turn away from. Paddy remembers the good times that he and Natalie had shared and he wants that back with a vengeance that surprises even him.
The Best Kind of Trouble is my very first read by Lauren Dane. The humorous undertone to the story as it kicked off gave off the vibes that this would be a read well worth delving into. And turned out I wasn’t wrong in assuming as I did. Paring someone like Paddy who is laidback, who has got all the confidence in the world when it comes to women with someone like Natalie is enough to keep the pages turning.
Unlike I presumed, the character who comes with the most baggage is Natalie. Her past, the fact that she had never been in control of her life back then proves to be a deterrent as she tries to forge her way into the future with Paddy. Coursing through uncharted waters, Paddy and his lovable family certainly helps along and one cannot be help but be enchanted by the various secondary characters that comes to light. I can’t help but want to read Ezra and Tuesday’s story which I think is up for grabs next. With equally screwed up pasts, their story seems to be one that would give quite the angst filled ride!
I loved the realistic edge to The Best Kind of Trouble. The stages through which Natalie and Paddy’s relationship developed was well delved into in my opinion. How they were individually two different people who could exist on their own just fine but together they become infinitely better was one that echoed through me as I read through the last pages. Natalie’s hang ups were well deserved and I totally understood where she was coming from. And I totally loved the fact that Paddy had to work to win Natalie’s affections when his effortless charm had pretty much guaranteed the ladies in his life before.
With panty melting variety of sex scenes in the mix, Lauren Dane brings to readers and her long term fans a series steeped with familial ties, humor, rock and roll and of course sex of the kind that would knock your socks off. Well worth a read!
Rating = 4/5
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thepaige_turner's review
1.0
Disclaimer: I did not finish this book!
Check out my review here: https://thepaigeturnerblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/the-best-kind-of-trouble-by-lauren-dane/
Check out my review here: https://thepaigeturnerblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/the-best-kind-of-trouble-by-lauren-dane/
jackiehorne's review
2.0
It feels strange to knock a book for being TOO realistic, but that's how I've been feeling after reading Dane's contemporary erotic romance. The novel is told largely through dialogue, with little narrative; it feels as if we're sitting in, listening to and occasionally watching real people's lives. There isn't much of a story or plot, though, to give those lives shape or form or meaning. In real life, we don't expect romances to unfold in a shapely way, but in a book, I prefer some sense of logical progression, some sense of change and/or movement as a novel unfolds. Hence, the too realistic problem.
Former wild girl now cautious librarian Natalie runs into mega-star rock-n-roller Paddy Hurley, a man with whom she had a scalding, if short-lived affair back in the day. Paddy wants to take up where they left off (not sure why, except that the sex was smoking), but Natalie is more than a little reluctant, fearing the wild ways of the typical rock star. But Paddy woos her with some charm, some wine, and some pleasure-boat cruising, and the two begin dating. One relationship blow-up happens when Paddy gets drunk during a wine-tasting (Natalie's perpetually reforming but always falling off the wagon alcoholic father has been and continues to be the emotional bane of her existence); another when Paddy thinks Natalie is turning to his brother instead of him when tabloid trouble hits. But they manage to eventually talk through their troubles, accept each other's "baggage," recognize each other's "triggers," and take responsibility for their own shit (a phrase that is repeated so often that it feels like we're in therapy, rather than in a romance novel).
No real character arcs here (Natalie was in therapy before the book started, and worked out all her issues, while Paddy doesn't really seem to have any issues), or plot arc. Just a romance arc, and a fairly weak one at that. But yes, the sex scenes are steamy...
Former wild girl now cautious librarian Natalie runs into mega-star rock-n-roller Paddy Hurley, a man with whom she had a scalding, if short-lived affair back in the day. Paddy wants to take up where they left off (not sure why, except that the sex was smoking), but Natalie is more than a little reluctant, fearing the wild ways of the typical rock star. But Paddy woos her with some charm, some wine, and some pleasure-boat cruising, and the two begin dating. One relationship blow-up happens when Paddy gets drunk during a wine-tasting (Natalie's perpetually reforming but always falling off the wagon alcoholic father has been and continues to be the emotional bane of her existence); another when Paddy thinks Natalie is turning to his brother instead of him when tabloid trouble hits. But they manage to eventually talk through their troubles, accept each other's "baggage," recognize each other's "triggers," and take responsibility for their own shit (a phrase that is repeated so often that it feels like we're in therapy, rather than in a romance novel).
No real character arcs here (Natalie was in therapy before the book started, and worked out all her issues, while Paddy doesn't really seem to have any issues), or plot arc. Just a romance arc, and a fairly weak one at that. But yes, the sex scenes are steamy...
lmmountford's review
4.0
I'd gove it a 3.5 stars but no option for that, however i't is worth 4 stars more than it is 3. My only reall issues were with the long drawn out conversations about the characters isses and also the frawl of the stage. There also could have been some character descriptions, most of the characters are just names on the page, not much image is given to help us imagine them. Apart from that it is a soldi story and i enjoyed listening to it (I have the audio book).
kpbq81's review
2.0
I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway.
I don't ever read this genre, but I was looking to try something different, easy & summery. It's just not the type of story that I like, and that's simply a personal preference.
This book was better written than I expected it to be, and I think a lot of readers who enjoy this author and this genre will love the story. I didn't find it interesting or realistic. I think the story would have been better if Paddy & Natalie's major fight was over Paddy being unfaithful. But again, that's just my personal preference. I don't think I'll read any of the other related books.
I don't ever read this genre, but I was looking to try something different, easy & summery. It's just not the type of story that I like, and that's simply a personal preference.
This book was better written than I expected it to be, and I think a lot of readers who enjoy this author and this genre will love the story. I didn't find it interesting or realistic. I think the story would have been better if Paddy & Natalie's major fight was over Paddy being unfaithful. But again, that's just my personal preference. I don't think I'll read any of the other related books.
romancejunkie1025's review
4.0
A great story of the true struggles of two people with plenty of baggage and hangups trying to find their way to be together in a hard world. Looking forward to the rest of the series.