Easy to follow, emotions were easily felt and the imagery was good.
It's a beautiful story of friendship, love and family. It's a great story. ( )

3.75/5

Can I have a Moreno brother please?

I’m sure the book won’t appeal to everyone as it’s mainly centered about a teenage romance and not much serious or mysterious going on through the whole story.

Sarah just moved out to San Diego California with her aunt and her step daughter Valerie due to her mother being in jail. She promised herself and her best friend that she won’t stay long, just a semester and she’ll be heading back even if her mother forbid her to do it and insisted that she must stay until things got better for her.

So we have the new girl in school who by *chance* meets the hottest boy in school and probably in the whole town: Angel Moreno (well his brothers are too), they fall head-over-heels in love and find themselves enrolled in one intense relationship. There’s a lot of affection flooding, from kissing to touching to very cheesy, corny, romantic moments that sometimes made me go “awww”, then to the first sexual experience…

Their couple issues weren’t very grave: Angel is an über caveman male who couldn’t, at first, handle well the seriousness of their relationship, he couldn’t let her go or bear the thought of her away from him and his out-of-control jealousy and lust towards her were new to him. While he poured his heart to her, Sarah kept a secret or two from him about her best friend Sydney and she felt that the longest she hid the truth from him the harder it became to tell him, every time delaying it until it exploded right unto her face.

By now, you’ll think that I didn’t like it much but I did. I don’t know the exact reason behind it: maybe I needed something fluffy and light after the huge emotions that “If I Stay” inflected upon me, or maybe all the Latino hot-blooded cast of boys starring in the book…

Like Angel, all the Moreno Brothers are overprotective, intense, caring, hot and can’t keep their hands off of their women. My favorite though is Alex, a college football player who helps his family with their Mexican restaurant. He’s sassy, brazen, passionate and known to be a women-man. I loved his interaction with Valerie who seemed to affect him more than he wanted to admit it to himself; they were blazing the pages and the complexity of their liaison appealed to me more than the sweet first-love thing of Sarah and Angel. I’m sure the next book is about them and I, without a shadow of a doubt, will be checking it out!
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With this being a teen romance, I expected it to be cute and pretty predictable. I was surprised to find myself annoyed with the main characters, Sarah and Angel. Sarah made some really poor choices that had me wanting to yell at her. Angel was kind of a dick to people, like his ex girlfriend, friends, and even Sarah sometimes. They got physical in their relationship very quickly, which I did not expect. I would've liked there to be separate chapters from each characters point of view, instead of this weird back and forth that left me confused as to who the narrator was. It didn't help that a woman read the whole book, so I always thought I was getting Sarah's point of view.
The story wasn't too bad and I did like some of the side characters. It was pretty fast paced and I got through it quickly. ( )

I liked parts of this book, but other parts seemed cheesy. I would probably give this 2.5 stars ( )

4 Brilliantly Written Stars

This book has been on my Kindle for AGES and I finally got a chance to sit down and read it. It was a free Kindle read and I have to tell you I am ready to read the entire series now. This book was brilliantly written and had a true heartfelt story. I loved the characters and what I love the most was Sydney was a straight male and had a true friendship with Sarah even if Angel did not like it! So many authors would have made him gay but in this case it fit the storyline perfectly I love the drama, the desire, the heartbreak of this story and I will definitely be finishing the series.
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