To Hate Adam Connor By Ella Maise

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So you may ask, who is Adam Connor? He is the recently divorced, Academy Award-winning actor who just moved in next door with his kid. He also happens to be an exquisite male specimen and the most infuriating sly bastard I’ve ever come across. 
Let’s be honest here, wouldn’t you wanna take a peek over the wall to catch a glimpse of him, hopefully when he is naked? Wouldn’t you melt away after watching him work out as his five-year-old kid cheered him on? Do I even have to mention those abs, the big bulge in his pants, or that arm porn? Oh, wait, you would never spy on him? Sure… 

While I was being thoughtful by not breaking and entering and was actually considering going over to offer him a shoulder—or maybe a boob or two—to cry on (y’know, because of his divorce), instead he had me thrown in jail after a small incident. Jail, people! He was supposed to grant me countless orgasms as a thank you, not a jail cell. 
After that day, I was mentally plotting ways to strangle him instead of jumping his bones to make sweet love. So what if my body did more than just shiver when he whispered dirty little things in my ear? I can’t be held responsible for that. And when was the last time he’d kissed anyone anyway? Who’d enjoy a kiss with a side of heart attack? 

Even if he and his son were the best things since sliced bread—and I’m not saying he was—I couldn’t fall for him. No matter what promises he whispered on my skin, my curse wouldn’t let us be. I wasn’t a damsel in distress—I could save myself, thank you very much—but deep inside, I still hoped Adam Connor would be the hero of my story. 

Lucy, oh our dear Lucy. 
After getting her heartbroken for the first and last time she's adamant that her family curse is real that the women in her family aren't meant to love or be loved. 

When her boyfriend leaves her high and dry, leaving to another city miles away for a job, she moves in with her best friend Olive and her new husband Jason. 
When Lucy finds out who is going to be living next door, she and Olive take it upon themselves to catch a glimpse at the newly divorced heart throb, movie star. 
What was meant to be one peep, turned into an issue for our Lucy. She found herself climbing the ladder that she perched against the wall separating their gardens every day when Olive and Jason have to head to London for a premier on their new movie. 

Only, it doesn't turn out as well as Lucy planned. She got a glimpse of the heart throb and managed to take pictures of his tight muscles up close and send them to her best friend. 
Only, on the day Olive is returning home, Lucy is forced to jump the wall to save Adam Coopers son from drowning. Instead of being thanked, she's arrested. It didn't help that she had photos of both dad and son on her phone. Stalker alert much? 
Well, that's how Adam saw her, even when it's explained to him what really happened. 

Anyway, that is what fuels their hatred towards each other. Don't get me wrong, the hatred had more to do with the fact the two of them were off the charts hot for each other. 

Their relationship wasn't easy and they had a long bumpy road ahead of them, but they did manage to get where they wanted. Only, Lucy doesn't make it easy for him, even explaining to him that she didn't do love, not anymore. She already got burnt once after all. 

I also only had one problem with this book too. 
It wasn't so much that the characters were written the same because they weren't. They all had different personalities. It was certain things... Like they both said sweetheart... the same endearments were said. 
Then there was the sex scenes, although different places, different style, it felt like I was reading the same scenes from the previous book. They said the same things. It was weird. 

4* 

To Love Jason Thorn By Ella Maise

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Jason Thorn... My brother's childhood friend.

Oh, how stupidly in love with that boy I was. He was the first boy that made me blush, my first official crush. Sounds beautiful so far, right? That excitement that bubbles up inside you, those famous butterflies you feel for the very first time--he was the reason for them all. But, you only get to live in that fairytale world until they crush your hopes and dreams and then stomp on your heart for good measure. And boy did he crush my little heart into pieces.

After the stomping part he became the boy I did my best to stay away from--and let me tell you, it was pretty hard to do when he slept in the room right across from mine.
When tragedy struck his family and they moved away, I was ready to forget he ever existed.

Now he is a movie star, the one who makes women of all ages go into a screaming frenzy, the one who makes everyone swoon with that dimpled smile of his. Do you think that's dreamy? I certainly don't think so. How about me coming face to face with him? Nope still not dreamy. Not when I can't even manage to look him in the eye.

Me? I'm Olive, a new writer. Actually, I'm THE writer of the book that inspired the movie he is about to star in on the big screen. As of late, I am also referred to as the oh-so-very-lucky girl who is about to become the wife of Jason Thorn.
Maybe you're thinking yet again that this is all so dreamy? Nope, nothing dreamy going on here. Not even close.

I want to start with that Ella is a new author to me. Until I found To Hate Adam Connor on my recommendation list, I hadn't heard of her before and that pained me. 
I actually read the book backwards but it didn't ruin  the other book for me. It didn't give anything away. 
Still, I thought I'd write this review first.... 

Olive is a new writer, already hitting best sellers and now has a esecs after her book to produce a movie. She doesn't even end up saying herself, the choice is made for her the minute Jason Thorn came into the room. 

I'd met the couple in the second book first, so I had an insight to their relationship, or so I thought. 
How they started wasn't very conventional but without that push, I don't think Jason would have taken that time to see her as anything other than his best friends little sister. 

I would have liked to have known what made Jason, Jason. When we get a glimpse of their early years, he leaves at a really bad time and with a father he didn't really know because he was never there for him. You'd think with that he'd turn out to be a bad boy, one that rebelled against everything but spite everything, Jason made himself a life, a good one, even with all the bad publicity. 

Then we have sweet Olive. I freaking loved her character. Especially when she's drunk. 
I also love the secondary characters, my favourite Lucy and that's not because I read her book first... okay, maybe it had a major factor in it but she is such a good friend to Olive, never once making her feel any less of herself and always there. It made me adore Lucy more. 

I'm not going to go into the story as it is really good. The only part I found disappointing was the ending. I wanted a little more drama there. The writing is written beautifully, a little too detailed in places, but spectacular nonetheless. But at the end, I found it was a quick wham bam thank you mam moment. Something happens with the main characters, something big and instead of seeing the aftermath, we get nothing. I wanted to see them take down a certain someone, get answers, or what have you. 

All in all, I loved it... 4*