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Title: The Three-Week Arrangement
(Chase Brothers #3)
Release date: April 4th, 2016
Author: Sarah Ballance
Entangled
About the book:
Ethan Chase isn't interested in dating. After losing the woman he loved more than life itself, he'd much rather ride solo, but his family is dead set on fixing him up. To get them off his back, he hooks up with ultra-adventurous, ultra-temporary adventure photographer, Rue Campbell. All he has to do is survive three weeks in her orbit and he'll be single again, only without the pitying looks and pressure to move on.
Rue is literally counting the days until her plane leaves New York City. The last thing she wants is a relationship, but being Ethan's pretend girlfriend can't hurt, right? Wrong. With Ethan, there's no faking anything—in or out of the bedroom. With the sheets burning hot and the clock ticking on their arrangement, Rue realizes she's falling for a man guaranteed to derail her goals...and break her heart.
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My thoughts:
ARC via Netgalley
Thank you, Entangled!!
Well, let’s start by giving praise where praise is
due, which in this case means high stakes. Talk about major inner conflict.
Ethan Chase’s major inner conflict.
Let’s be honest here… This was the typical
third-person dual-POV romance, but Ethan was the main character. He had a richer
back story and he was the one with the biggest decision to make. Solidifying
his status as main character was the number of chapters dedicated to his perspective in
comparison to Rue’s.
Ethan Chase was a man still mourning the loss of his
wife three years after the fact. He wasn’t ready to let go yet. He wasn’t ready
to move on. That showed me (as well as it did Rue) that Ethan was a man who
loved with everything he had. It made loving him much easier and harder.
It was especially hard for Rue, a woman who was
definitely not looking for love. Rue is the definition of free spirit. She
wanted to conquer the world and she was ready to leave NYC as soon as she heard
back from the photography internship that would take her far away from
everything she knew, but toward everything she loved.
But Rue meets Ethan. Ethan meets Rue. And the life
they didn’t think they wanted turns into everything they need.
I can’t say I fell madly in love with Rue, but I did
like her a lot. How could I not? A free spirit like hers was bound to catch
people’s attention. Rue lived life the way I wish I could; the way most people
should. She truly lived it. And fewer things are more attractive than that.
Ethan, on the other hand, was barely alive, but I still
felt a stronger connection with him. Again, maybe it was due to the amount of
time we spent inside his head (as inside as third person allows). Maybe it was
because I could see where he was coming from and where he was probably going
to, something we didn’t have with Rue. She already knew what she wanted, and
that was everything. Ethan, included.
There was a bit of insta lust there, I have to say.
From the moment Rue set her eyes on Ethan, she wanted to jump his bones. Look,
I get it. Sometimes we just meet a person we’re instantly attracted to and we
want to get down and dirty. Being a normal person, you act accordingly and keep
your fantasies in check. Although Rue was as far from “normal” as I could
imagine (my friends and family don’t usually go around punching sharks and
jumping from airplanes), she didn’t attack Ethan. She made him her ally.
Together, Ethan and Rue had their family and friends
fooled. To keep her mom off her back and to keep his family happy, they
pretended to be a couple (one of my favorite romance tropes – and the reason I
requested this book). What I liked about it was that Rue and Ethan acted as a
couple even when they weren’t being watched. They visited animal shelters
together, he adopted a rescue dog she loved, they ordered take-out. They had
sex. That’s not a spoiler. If you’re reading this, you’re hoping for some sexy
times. I know it. You know it. No need to pretend.
You know who else wasn’t pretending? Ethan. Dude was
falling madly in love with Rue while realizing perhaps she was too much to hold
on to. How could he keep someone like her from living the life she wanted? How
could he let her go when he wanted to live his life with her?
Giveaway:
- Enter to win a *signed* paperback copy of THE THREE-WEEK ARRANGEMENT, coming April 4 from Entangled Lovestruck - Goodreads Giveaway
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