So close to home for the slummers! Absolutely Beautiful! Squeeeee!!!!!! I seriously did not freaking blink when I got this ed in my kindle!!!!! It came out three in a half hours ago and I'm already done. I can't believe it ended like that. No cliff hanger but dang it! I wanted even more!!!!! Golly this book was SO GOOD and I laughed, sobbed, almost threw my kindle and then I cried and then I laughed happy laughs and cried happy tears. This book is a feel good book, especially for those of us that have had to live the slum life. I lived in a trailer park, my mom was a bartender, my mom and my older sister were teen moms.... So this story hit home so much for me. I want a happily ever after, and this book shows that we, the slum of America, do deserve better than what we think we do. Power to Abbi G! My favorite author of all time. Thank you for writing this because I honestly didn't know how much I needed it until I cried it out.... At that one scene where she makes that awful, puke worthy phone call. Amazing story line and amazing book. This book teaches us not to settle, because there are people out there who are willing to fight for us!!!! (And also just because you have money doesn't make you better than everyone else, it just makes you richer!) Best in the series!!! *begs Cage to forgive her* ?I've always wanted a man to love me for me.? Just when I thought that after five instalments in the Sea Breeze series I would be safe in knowing what to expect in this book, I realised that you never know what you're going to get in an Abbi Glines novel. So very different from its prequels, this story is a gut-wrenching joy-ride beginning to end, with so many moments that will take your breath away with the intensity of emotions running through you. Jess is a bad girl that I adored, her every action making me love her even more, and this is truly her book. ?He was a fairy tale. And I didn't live in a storybook.? As someone who always saw herself as a bad girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Jess was raised to believe that her only way out from the life her mother had no choice but to live was by finding a man who would take care of her and save her from her reality. The only child of a single mother who could only make ends meet by working as a stripper, she never had a positive male role model around to make her believe that a good man is anything more than a fairy tale. Every man in her life used her for one thing and one thing alone, and she quickly learned that no man would ever offer her anything without expecting something in return. She was used to men putting her down, cheating on her, mistreating and disrespecting her, finding it very difficult to accept attentiveness with no strings attached. ?Enjoy him, baby girl, but remember he's just a man. He'll marry a girl with a trust fund. Watch your heart.? When she meets Jason, she is immediately attracted to him physically, but the more time they spend together, the more she believes him to be completely out of her league. She doesn't even allow herself to daydream of a future with him, knowing guys like Jason never end up with girls like her. As their attraction grows and stems into a casual but very steamy affair between them, for the first time in her life, Jess learns what it feels like to be treated by a man with respect. ?Jess, if guys don't open doors for you, then they aren't worth your time.? She finds Jason's thoughtfulness and genuine interest in her as a person, not just her body, hard to accept at times. He makes her feel special, cared for, and soon her feelings towards him inevitably turn into a lot more than she knows she should feel. But she never stops believing that what they have is not permanent, expecting him to walk out of her life the moment he does not need her as a distraction any longer. ?Could you get closure on something like this? Loving a man who didn't love you back?? Jason never expected that a firecracker like Jess would finally be his undoing. As the younger brother of a rockstar, Jason has lived under that shadow all his life, never really knowing whether people liked him for him or because of his connection to a celebrity. He works hard to pave his own future, still unsure of what that future would be, but determined to become his own man and not always be known as someone's brother. Jess shakes his picture-perfect life the moment she steps in front of his car with a baseball bat in her hand. He is drawn to her carefree spirit, her innate sex-appeal and the vulnerability she so desperately tries to hide. She acts like other people's treatment of her does not affect her, her sassiness being her shield against hurt, but Jason sees that underneath that bravado is an insecure young woman whose only wish is to be someone's first choice, for someone other than her mother to finally put her first and make her feel safe. As much as he cannot stay away from her and finds himself feeling protective and possessive of her, he sees commitment being a complication he believes not to have time for at this stage in his life. He wants her, but he won't allow himself to claim her completely, as he cannot see her fitting in his world. ?I know this is just a little fling. I'm not expecting more.? This is in so many ways a heartbreaking love story between a young woman who is willing to settle for less from the man she loves if it means she would have him in her life at all, and a young man still trying to find himself and slowly learning that the best things in life are always a little bit complicated. Jess is a heroine who made me want to beat up every man that had ever wronged her and whose kind heart and vulnerability were the highlights of the story for me. It took me some time to grow attached to Jason, his indecision when it came to claiming Jess as his own making me see red at times, but the vast difference in the way they were raised justified that in my eyes. This was a story whose heart-wrenching moments will stay with you, make you want to re-read them, re-live them. Nothing gets to me like scenarios of unrequited love, real or apparent, and this book got to me page after page, scene after scene. An absolute game changer in a series that keeps getting better and better. ?As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.? Another great addition to the Sea Breeze series As always Abbi Glines doesn't disappoint, loved reading this new story as Jason has always been a favorite and It was awesome seeing Jess' character develop. The bonus is we get to also catch up with old characters we love. Just wish we didn't have to wait so long for the next one!!! Sad I have been waiting a long time for this book's release. In the beginning, I liked it a lot, but I as I kept reading, my enthusiasm waned. I liked Jess a lot. She's strong and interesting. She is willing to do whatever it takes for her family; which I love. No one has ever stood up for her, not even her cousin Rock. I also found this disappointing. I wanted someone to be loyal to her other than her mother. Pretty much everyone in the book treated her poorly, especially Jason. He never did anything horrible, but he never supported Jess as a typical hero would have. I have read all of Glines' other novels, and none of the men in those books were as undeveloped and as bland as Jason. He was my whole problem with this book. He does not deserve Jess. Most of his portions of the book focused on his physical attraction to Jess. She loved him even when he could not really see her. Overall, I agree with Jess' mom's initial Gilmore Girls analogy. Jason was her Logan and Krit was her Jess. I felt like she only ended up with Jason because he could take care of her financially and give her the neat and clean ending. However, I felt myself cheering for Krit. At least he knew what he had when he had her. I'm still not sure that Jason does. sorry this is the least liked in my opinion in this series of sea breeze , maybe the story or the characters? I don't know, but I don't liked it.
Extrait Misbehaving Chapter One JESS I should've known better. But I was an idiot. All it had ever taken from Hank was one pitiful bat of his eyelashes and a pout, and I came running. Well, not anymore. I'd forgiven him for becoming someone's baby daddy. But there was only so much a girl could forgive. Hank Granger had just screwed me over for the last time. I wasn't one to be a doormat. My momma had taught me better than that. It was time I stopped letting our history play on my emotions. He was nothing close to being a real man. The boy I'd grown up loving had become a low-down good-for-nothing. He'd never settle down, and I was done letting him trample all over my heart. He thought parking his pimped-out truck behind the bar was smart. The boy should know better than to think I wouldn't know where to look. Jackass. I'd found him, all right. We were supposed to have gone out tonight. He had promised me dinner. A real date. But then he'd called two hours ago and canceled, saying he wasn't feeling good. Being the dutiful girlfriend, I'd decided to make him some soup and take it over to him. Big surprise that he wasn't there. Not really. I think deep down I'd known he was lying. I stepped out of the trees I'd walked through for over a mile, and into the darkness of the back of the local bar, Live Bay. I didn't want my truck to be seen here tonight, and it would be easier to run on foot into the darkness if I needed to make a fast getaway. I gripped the baseball bat I'd borrowed from my cousin Rock two weeks ago when I'd had to go pick Momma up from work because her car wouldn't start. Three in the morning outside a strip club wasn't exactly safe. Momma kept a gun, but I didn't have a clue how to use it. When I had asked her to teach me, she'd laughed and said that I'd end up shooting Hank's balls off one night in a fit of rage and refused. Not because she cared for Hank, but because she didn't want me in jail. Feeling the weight of the bat in my hands, I smiled. This bad boy would do some serious damage. Then there was the knife in my pocket. The paint job was also going to hell, and if I had time, all four tires were going down. As I walked around the truck that Hank had pampered and treated like a damn baby for the past four years, a sense of power ran through me. He'd hurt me over and over again. This time I was going to hurt him. Me. Not Rock. Me. I checked the dark area around me and made sure no one was out here. The busting of the glass was going to make some noise. I wasn't sure how much I could get away with before someone caught me. Hopefully, the local band, Jackdown, would keep everyone inside entertained enough that no one would leave anytime soon. Biting back the roar of victory I could feel pumping through my veins, I held the bat back as I shifted my feet and focused on his driver's side door window. It was going to be the first to go. With all the anger and pain that had consumed me since the first moment I'd found out the boy I'd loved since I was ten years old had been sleeping around on me, I swung the bat. The ski mask I was wearing protected my face. The laughter bubbling up in my chest burst free, and I continued to shatter every window on his pretty little truck. High on revenge, I reached into my pocket and pulled out my knife and flipped it open. I decided to write a few choice words in the paint job with my sharp blade, then bent down to jam it into the front tire. ?Hey!? a deep voice called out, and I froze. It wasn't Hank, but it was someone. I picked my bat back up and pulled the knife out of the tire before breaking into a sprint back into the woods. He'd never catch me, but I still needed to get this stupid mask off so I could see. Running into a tree and knocking myself out wasn't exactly a great getaway plan. The sound of feet hitting the pavement let me know I was being chased. Well, shit. Not what I needed. I was having so much fun. Hank deserved that. He did. He was a rat bastard. I did not want to go to jail over this. Plus my momma would be pissed. ?Hey!? the deep voice called out again. What did he expect me to do? Stop and let him catch me? Not likely. Other voices came from the distance. Great. He was drawing a crowd. I turned off the path I'd followed earlier and headed deeper into the woods. I wouldn't have this cover for long. I'd be coming out onto a back road in a few more feet. I couldn't get my truck because it was outside my momma's house. I needed everyone to think that was where I was. I'd have to stay on foot and beat anyone there. Dang it. I couldn't hear the sound of anyone else's feet hitting the ground, so either I'd lost them or they were talented in the art of stealth. Breaking out of the wooded area, I stopped on the side of the road. It was deserted. Glancing back, I saw no one. Hank would know who to come looking for, but he would have no proof. Smiling, I took a deep breath. That would be the end of us. Finally. After what I'd done, Hank would never forgive me, so I wouldn't be tempted to go running back to him. He'd hate me now as much as I hated him. ?JESS!? Hank's familiar voice roared. Spinning around, I couldn't see him, but I could hear him running through the woods behind me. Shit. Shit. Shit. He'd come after me. How'd he find out so fast? Panicking, I looked around to see where I could run to hide from him. There was nothing but miles and miles of road. No houses, nothing. Headlights came around the corner, and I did the only thing I could think of I ran out into the middle of the road and started waving my arms in the air, still holding on to Rock's bat. The car started slowing down and cut the bright lights. Thank God. Wait . . . was that a Porsche? What the hell? JASON All I could see was a girl dressed in tight black clothing with lots of long blond hair, and she was standing in the middle of the road . . . holding a baseball bat. Only in Alabama did stuff like this happen. Stopping before I hit her, I watched as she ran over to the passenger-side door and knocked. The wild, panicked look in her eyes might have been disturbing if they weren't a bright, clear blue with thick black lashes. I pressed the unlock button, and she jerked the door open and climbed inside. ?Go! Go! Go!? she demanded. She didn't even look my way. Her eyes were focused on something outside. I turned my attention to the side of the road, where she was watching with such intensity. There was nothing. . . . Then a guy came bursting out of the woods with an angry snarl on his face and I understood. No wonder she was terrified. The guy was huge and looked ready to murder someone. I shifted gears and took off before he got any closer. ?Oh my god, thank you. That was so close.? She let out a sigh of relief and leaned her head on the headrest. ?Should I take you to the police station?? I asked, glancing over at her. Had he attacked her before she'd gotten free? ?Definitely not. They'll probably be looking for me in about ten minutes. I need you to take me home. Momma will cover for me, but I gotta get there quick.? They'd be looking for her? Her mom would cover for her? What? ?It ain't like he's got any proof. The only thing I dropped was the ski mask, and it was a cheapo I bought at the Goodwill a couple of Halloweens ago. Not something he can trace back to me.? I slowed the Porsche down as her words started sinking in. I hadn't just saved a girl from being attacked. If I understood this babbling correctly, I had just become the getaway car driver. ?Why're you slowing down? I need to get to my momma, like, now. She's just two miles from here. You go up to County Road Thirty-Four and turn right, and then you take it about three-fourths of a mile to Orange Street and take a left. It's the third house on the right.? Shaking my head, I pulled over to the side of the road. ?I'm not going any farther until you tell me exactly what it is I'm helping you escape from.? I glanced down at her baseball bat tucked between her legs, then up at her face. Even in the darkness I could tell she was one of those ridiculously gorgeous southern blondes. It was like the South had some special ingredient to raise them like that down here. She let out a frustrated sigh and blinked rapidly, causing tears to fill her eyes. She was good. Real good. Those pretty tears were almost believable. ?It's a really long story. By the time I explain everything, we'll have been caught and I'll be spending the night in jail. Please, please, please just take me to my house. We're so close,? she pleaded. Yeah, she was a major looker. Too bad she was also bad news. ?Tell me one thing Why do you have a baseball bat?? I needed something. If she'd knocked someone unconscious back there, then I couldn't help her get away. They could be injured or dead. She ran her hand through her hair and grumbled. ?Okay, okay, fine. But understand that he deserved it.? Shit. She had knocked someone out. ?I smashed all the windows in my ex-boyfriend's truck.? ?You did what?? I couldn't have heard her correctly. That did not happen in real life. Country songs, yes. Real life, no way. ?He's a cheating bastard. He deserved it. He hurt me, so I hurt him. Now please believe me and get me out of here.? I laughed. I couldn't help it. This was the funniest damn thing I'd ever heard. ?Why're you laughing?? she asked. I shook my head and pulled back onto the road. ?Because that's not what I was expecting to hear.? ?What did you expect me to say? I'm carrying a bat.? Glancing over at her. I grinned. ?I thought you'd taken someone out with the bat.? Her eyes went wide, and then she laughed. ?I wouldn't have knocked someone out with a bat! That's crazy.? I wanted to point out that smashing your ex-boyfriend's truck windows and then running through the woods in escape at night was crazy. But I didn't. I was pretty sure she wouldn't agree. ?Right here, turn right.? She pointed up ahead of us. I didn't bother putting on my blinker since no one was around us. ?So, what's your name? You look familiar for some reason, but no one I know around here drives a Porsche.? Did I tell her who I was? I liked the privacy that Sea Breeze, Alabama, afforded me. I had a lot to think about over the next month, and making friends with the locals wasn't on my agenda. Even if she was smoking hot. ?I'm not from around here. Just visiting,? I explained. That was the truth. I was here staying at my brother's beach house while deciding on my next move. ?But I've seen you before. I know I have,? she said, tilting her head and studying me. She'd figure it out soon enough. My brother was Jax Stone. He had become a teen rock star, but now that he was twenty-two he was a rock god. We looked similar. And the media loved to follow me around when they couldn't get to Jax. While I loved my brother, I hated getting the attention. Everyone saw me as an extension of Jax. No one, not even my parents, cared about who I was as a person. They all wanted me to be who they expected. ?This is a Porsche, isn't it? I've never seen one in real life.? It was also one of my brother's toys. I didn't have a car here, so I just used the five he had in his garage. The house in Sea Breeze was where our parents used to make us spend our summers while Jax was juggling fame at a young age. But Jax was no longer a teenager and the house was his now. He'd turned twenty-two last month. And I'd turned twenty the month before that. ?Yes, it is a Porsche,? I replied. ?Turn here.? She pointed again toward the road ahead of us. I took the left and then came to the third house on the left. ?This is it. Thank God no one is here yet. I gotta go. You need to get out of here so no one comes questioning you. But thank you so much.? She opened the door and then glanced back at me one last time. ?I'm Jess, by the way, and tonight you saved my ass.? She winked and closed the door before running off toward her front door. Her ass in those tight black jeans was worth saving. It was the nicest ass I'd ever seen. I shifted the car into reverse and pulled back out onto the road. It was time I headed back to the private island where my brother's house was. This night hadn't turned out quite like I'd planned, but it'd been pretty damn entertaining. The sound of something sliding across the seat and hitting the door startled me, and I glanced over to see the baseball bat. She'd forgotten it. I looked back at her house and smiled to myself. I'd be sure she got it back. Not tonight, but soon. "Abbi Glines writes hot guys who leap off the page - or at least you wish they would." Tammara Webber, bestselling author of Easy "Each as sizzling as the one before. We love." Cosmo "Abbi is one of the stars of the... New Adult market" The Sun "Sexual tension is woven through every page" Sunday Express "Packed with impossibly hot men, heart-racing chemistry and sizzling sex, it's bound to satisfy." Reveal.co.uk "More oiled up abs and beautiful boys than you can count" Sugarscape
Titre: Misbehaving (Sea Breeze)
Auteur: Abbi Glines
Editeur: Simon Pulse
Reliure : Relie
Langue : Anglais
Publier en : Anglais
Languages d'origine : Anglais
Date de parution : 05/08/2014
Date de réédition : 05/08/2014
Collection : Sea Breeze
Dimensions : 21,01 x 13,79 x 3,00
Nombre de pages : 352 pages
A partir de : 17 ans
Autre : An unexpected affair leads to mind-blowing harmony in this Sea Breeze novel from New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines. Jason is sick of living in his rock star brother's shadow. So when he ships off to Sea Breeze, Alabama, he's looking for a much deserved escape and a chance to blow off some envious steam. Falling for the local bad girl was definitely not the plan. But as the new duo enjoys some naughty fun in the Alabama sun, Jason learns that even though Jax is the musician in the family, he's not the only brother who can rock someone's world.
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