Risk Me
by Lexi Scott
Silver Strands #2
Publication Date: July 28, 2015
Also in this series: Own Me
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
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Synopsis: For Cohen Rodriguez, getting dumped by his girlfriend was bad enough. Being told he's “not impulsive enough” was just the cheap parting gift. Still, he takes a break from his über responsible ways and dates his way through Silver Strand. Except it's not exactly turning out the way he thought... On top of that, there's Maren Walshe, whose combination of sexy and down-to-earth is everything Cohen wants in a girl. But while they've recently been talking on the phone and texting every day, they've never actually met. Now Maren wants to meet. In person. Faced with turning his oh-so-safe fantasy girl into an uncertain reality, Cohen and Maren are both about to dive head first, ready or not.Review- 4 Stars
This story was hard for me to
get into at first and I struggled with where Lexi was going with it. Once I
kept reading though I totally understood that this was a book about learning to
accept who are for yourself and not to please anyone else. I loved the whole
moral to the story that Lexi had with this one. It makes you take a look at
yourself and see who you are trying to please or are you just trying to make
yourself feel happy and achieve your own goals in life.
When we meet Cohen, his girlfriend is breaking up with him because she says
that he doesn't take any risks and is repetitive in the places he wants to eat
and the things he likes to do. She is looking for someone who will be
adventurous with her so she leaves Cohen and never looks back. Poor Cohen is
left reassessing his life. Cohen has just graduated from college and is working
at his family's furniture store with his sister's. Cohen has daily
conversations with Maren, a young woman that works at the warehouse for the
store. Cohen and Maren have never meet and their conversations start to take a
different toll once she gives Cohen her cell number "for emergencies"
with work issues.
Cohen is set up on several blind dates that end up being terrible. When Cohen
resorts to asking Maren what he should do in certain situations with his blind
dates through texting her, these become comical conversations that will have
you laughing out loud for sure. I love the humor that Lexi threw in these
conversations. Maren has fantasies about Cohen and uses his sexy voice that she
looks forward to hearing every day to get her through certain
"fantasies". LOL. Poor Cohen always has horrible blind dates, but it
does give him a chance to text with Maren!!
When Cohen and Maren finally decide to meet, it is instant attraction and they cannot
hide their feeling for each other. Even though Maren's home life does not give
her much of an opportunity to have a relationship with anyone, I am so glad
that she took the chance and meet Cohen. I love that this ends in a HEA for
Cohen especially!! He had such a run of bad luck. I can't wait to see what Lexi
has in store for us as readers in the future. Her writing flows and is easy to
read!!
*Review by Melanie Hutchinson
When we meet Cohen, his girlfriend is breaking up with him because she says that he doesn't take any risks and is repetitive in the places he wants to eat and the things he likes to do. She is looking for someone who will be adventurous with her so she leaves Cohen and never looks back. Poor Cohen is left reassessing his life. Cohen has just graduated from college and is working at his family's furniture store with his sister's. Cohen has daily conversations with Maren, a young woman that works at the warehouse for the store. Cohen and Maren have never meet and their conversations start to take a different toll once she gives Cohen her cell number "for emergencies" with work issues.
Cohen is set up on several blind dates that end up being terrible. When Cohen resorts to asking Maren what he should do in certain situations with his blind dates through texting her, these become comical conversations that will have you laughing out loud for sure. I love the humor that Lexi threw in these conversations. Maren has fantasies about Cohen and uses his sexy voice that she looks forward to hearing every day to get her through certain "fantasies". LOL. Poor Cohen always has horrible blind dates, but it does give him a chance to text with Maren!!
When Cohen and Maren finally decide to meet, it is instant attraction and they cannot hide their feeling for each other. Even though Maren's home life does not give her much of an opportunity to have a relationship with anyone, I am so glad that she took the chance and meet Cohen. I love that this ends in a HEA for Cohen especially!! He had such a run of bad luck. I can't wait to see what Lexi has in store for us as readers in the future. Her writing flows and is easy to read!!
SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT ONE!
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