Review: Sometimes It Lasts (Sea Breeze #5) By Abbi Glines

Sometimes It Lasts (Sea Breeze #5)

By Abbi Glines

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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“Jeremy brought you halfway, but the rest is mine. I’ve had you the rest of the way.”

Finally, Eva and Cage's story continues to this amazing novella!

I have been waiting sooooooooo long for this one, I hope every character of the series gets one!

Eva and Cage are planning their future but an unexpected illness tears them apart. Eva's father is sick, but that doesn't stop her from wanting the best for Cage. So, when Cage goes to college (after Eva insists) as planned, Eva begins losing herself little by little every day...

A message is all it takes for Eva to lose her faith in Cage. So, when she mourns her father it's not Cage the one who helps her deal with her pain but Jeremy. During her father's illness, it was Jeremy that stood beside her, Jeremy who helped her deal with everyday life, Jeremy who took care of her home, her father and Eva herself, and that's why it's Jeremy's ring that sits on Eva's finger.

Cage can't belive how fool he was to trust wrong people, but he learnt his lesson. His mistake costed him his "life". But his insecurities costed him more than that! Seeing Jeremy's ring on her finger is all it takes for Cage to finally wake up and fight for his girl. He lost her once and his not willing to let that happen again...
 
I love their forever! Before reading it I didn't know what I was putting myself throught but this book is very hard to read. Believe when I say that crying your eyes out and reading at the same time is the hardest thing I've ever done (I think I deserve an award or something)!

Sometimes It Lasts is not a book about Eva and Cage only. In this book we get to see almost all the characters from the previous books in the series and not only see them but we get to learn how their relationships have developed since their books. I think that Low was one of the characters that we saw a little more and that was very fun! I don't want to spoil anything but this book has two "tiny" surprises (but we only get to meet one!). Anyhow, Low is an incredible friend to have around...
“No Jarritos in your fridge when I got here? Really? What am I supposed to think? That I’m not welcome in your new digs? Because I have the key you sent me,”
Loved it. Highly recommended...

NOTE: This cannot be read as a standalone! To understand this book you have to read While It Lasts first!

Synopsis

Cage York has to choose between a love of the game and a love of the girl in this sultry Sea Breeze novel from New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines.

After waiting for his big break, bad boy Cage York is finally called up to prove his worth in the college baseball arena. But when Cage’s girlfriend, Eva, mourns the sudden loss of her father, it’s not Cage’s comforting arms she runs to, but those of her former fiancé’s twin brother, Jeremy.

Torn between his baseball dream and the girl of his dreams, Cage must prove he’s worthy of Eva’s love, or risk losing her to Jeremy forever.

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While It Lasts By Abbi Glines

While It Lasts  (Sea Breeze #3)

By Abbi Glines

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

“You see somethin' ya want, baby?"

"Maybe. I'm checking things out. Seeing if I'm interested,"

"I see something I want,"

"You do?"

"Hell yeah, I do,I love chocolate."

What?His arm reached out beside me and took the piece of chocolate cake I'd brought him.-Eva and Cage

While It Lastsis the third book in the Sea Breeze series.This book tells Cage York's story.Cage is sent off to a farm for physical-shirtless labor due to a DUI charge.In order to keep his baseball scholarship,Cage must not only behave but work on the farm as well.But come on guys...It's Cage we're talking about,can he really behave???

Eva,the farmer's daughter,has lost her to-be love of her life and even after a year and a half she still mourns him.Cage is immediately drawn to her.Although he keeps making mistakes he tries hard to form a relationship with her deeper than any other he ever had.

I found this book to be a little different than any other book I have read by Abbi Glines.It may be the fact that she didn't beat around the bush or that there weren't many boring monologues.I thoroughly enjoyed this fact.I H-A-T-E boring never-ending monologues.Of course,like always and in every book Abbi Glines has written,I couldn't not mention the easy connection created between the characters and the readers.It's not something easily found.Though,I have to say that emotion is also dominantly present.You had me in tears just from the prologue.

The characters had both had bad experiences,even in such a young age,but they both managed to find a balance despite the circumstances.Cage was confident,patient,compassionate and understanding while Eva was emotionally shattered but still maintained kind and considerate.

I definitely recommend this book.It's an enjoyable summer read for those who love a good romance.Also,those who have read Because of Lowshould absolutely read it.I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series(currently untitled Sea Breeze #4)

Blurb:

Maybe driving home after a few (or more) shots of tequila had been a bad idea, but hell, he did it all the time. The cops had to have been freaking bored to have pulled him over. He wasn’t even swerving! That’s Cage York’s story and he’s sticking to it.

Unfortunately, his baseball coach isn’t buying it. Cage has a free ride to the local junior college for baseball -- or he did, until he’d gotten a DUI. Now, Cage has to decide: does he drop out and give up his dream of getting noticed by a college in the SEC, and possibly making it into the Major Leagues -- or does he give in to his coach’s demands and spend his summer baling hay?

Eva Brooks planned out her life step by step when she was eight years old. Not once over the years had she lost sight of her goals. Josh Beasley, her next door neighbor, had been the center of those goals. He’d been her first boyfriend at seven, her first kiss at ten, her first date at fifteen, and her first tragedy at eighteen. The moment she’d received the phone call from Josh’s mother saying he’d been killed along with four other soldiers just north of Baghdad, Eva’s carefully planned life imploded in the worst way possible.

Cage isn’t real happy with his closet-sized bedroom in the back of a foul smelling barn, or his daily interactions with cows, but he knows that if he doesn’t make his coach happy then he can kiss his scholarship goodbye. Only a sick and twisted man would decide his punishment was to be working on a farm all summer. No hot babes in bikinis waiting to meet a Southern boy to make her vacation complete. Just him and the damned cows.

Oh -- and an uptight, snarky brunette with the biggest blue eyes he’s every seen. But she doesn’t count, because as hard as he’s tried to charm her out of her panties - he’s pretty sure she’d rather see him hung from the rafters than let him get a taste of her pretty little lips.

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