Fifteen
years ago, three girls were thrown together because their brothers
were best friends. Now they're all grown up, and their brothers are
grown up too. The Tea for Two series tells their stories. Fans of New
York Times Bestselling Author, Noelle Adams, will love this newest
playful friends become lovers story featuring Carol and Patrick,
releasing January 10, 2017.
About
Seducing
Her Brother’s Best Friend:
Title:
Seducing
Her Brother’s Best Friend
Author:
Noelle Adams
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Release
Date: January
10, 2018
Publisher:
Noelle
Adams
Series:
Tea for Two
Format:
Digital eBook
Digital
ISBN:
9781386624455
Synopsis:
After
too many years being overlooked by men, Carol is ready to take
action. She wants a man, and she knows which man she wants. Her
brother’s best friend, Patrick Stevenson.
Patrick
is funny and brainy and the sexiest man she’s ever known, but he
has never looked at her as anything except his friend’s little
sister. That’s going to change.
Carol
isn’t good at flirting. Or seduction. Or anything that requires
putting herself out there. But she’s going to make sure Patrick
sees her as a desirable woman—and one he wants for more than one
night—even if it turns her whole world upside down. He already
likes her a lot. He just needs to open his eyes to how good they’d
be together.
After
all, how stubborn can he be?
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Review:
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
I have separated the book into two parts in my mind. The first one is the good one where Carol and Patrick overcome their hesitations and go from the friend zone to doing the horizontal dance. Everything was good and I was into the story despite having a hero who wasn't the usual type. Patrick has low self-esteem and confidence and he doesn't believe he is worthy of Carol which would have been cute if he wasn't bringing it up every 2 pages. This is the reason I disliked the second part. I was tired of having him and Carol been on and off because she was too good for him. Instead of worshiping her he kept on making things worse and worse. It was frustrating and it made me hate the book a little bit. I was expecting more from Noelle Adams and she disappointed me a little, but it wasn't completely a bad book, hence the reason I am giving it 3 stars instead of 2 or 1.
Excerpt:
She
narrowed her eyes even more and gave him a cool glare. “You might
as well just admit it. I know exactly what happened.”
He
groaned softly. “All right. Fine. I couldn’t believe you’d be
acting like… like that.”
“Like
what?”
She
was making this as hard as possible for him, and he couldn’t even
blame her. “Like you… liked me.” It sounded ridiculous,
immature, but he couldn’t think of any other way to put it.
“And
you really can’t believe that I do?”
He
wanted to be anywhere but here, put on the spot like this. He wanted
to get up and leave, somehow escape everything he was feeling.
But,
if he did, that would be it. He’d never have Carol in his life
again. He might have messed this up completely, but he wasn’t
prepared to lose her for good. So he told her the truth. “No. I
really can’t.”
“Why
the hell not?”
Carol
almost never used to rough language—even something as mild as
“hell.” It seemed to emphasize how upset she really was.
“I…
I don’t even know.”
She
stared at him for a full minute. He could see her chest rise and fall
with her heaving breathing. Then she finally got up, muttering,
“You’re a real idiot sometimes. You know that, right?” She went
to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator.
He
hauled himself to his feet and followed her. “I know I’m an
idiot. I know that. But I’m still here, trying to fix things.”
She
was staring into her open refrigerator, like she’d forgotten what
she’d come here for.
“Carol,”
he said, touching her shoulder gently. She looked so hurt and
wounded. He couldn’t believe he was important enough to her to make
her feel this way.
She
whirled around to face him. “Why shouldn’t I like you?” she
demanded.
He
blinked. “Because… because it seems pretty obvious that it’s
just because the others have gotten together.”
“What
does that even mean?”
“I
mean Emma and Noah got together, and then Ginny and Ryan got
together. So now we’re the only two left. I get it. I do. It would
make sense for us to get paired up in the same way. But that doesn’t
mean it’s… it’s real.”
She
made a loud, throaty sound of naked frustration.
Patrick
contorted his face as he was washed with self-consciousness and
confusion. “I’m trying to be honest here.”
“I
know you are. I know
you are!”
She
closed the refrigerator, having taken nothing out. “Why wouldn’t
we be good together?”
“We’re
totally different. If I wasn’t the last guy left in our little
group, you’d choose someone totally different.” He knew this much
for sure. He’d been rehearsing it over and over again—for months
now—reminding himself that any soft looks she’d given him had
been based on something other than real attraction.
“How
do you know that?”
“Carol,
please. I know I act stupid sometimes, but I do have a functioning
mind. And neither one of us deserves to be stuck with… whoever
happens to be left.”
She
gaped at him. Literally gaped. Then her cheeks paled even more. “You
think I’m… just whoever happens to be left.”
“Not
you,” he gasped, shocked that she’d ever even imagine he felt
that way. “Not you. Me.
I’m
whoever is left.”
“You…
you… you…” She was panting, couldn’t even get the words out.
“Me
what?”
“You
idiot!”
He
was processing her uncontrolled outburst and so he wasn’t prepared
for what she did next.
What
she did was launch herself at him, grabbing his head and pulling it
down into a kiss.
Since
he wasn’t prepared, he couldn’t control his response. And he’d
been wanting her too much, for too long, and not letting himself act
on that desire.
So
he didn’t stop it, even though he knew he should.
He
didn’t push her away gently and explain that it couldn’t happen.
He
kissed her back.
Copyright
© 2018 Seducing Her Brother’s Best Friend by Noelle Adams
Other
Books in the Tea For Two series:
Falling
For HerBrother’s Best Friend
After
too many bad decisions in romance, Emma is going on a man-fast. For
the next six months, she's fasting from men. No sex. No dating. No
soulful gazes. No fond memories of her first crush. She's going to
spend the time focusing on her career, getting in touch with herself,
and helping her two best friends with the launch of their new tea
room. No men.
And
that includes her brother's best friend, Noah Hart, who has just
returned to their hometown.
She
doesn't want Noah anyway. He might be even hotter than he was before,
but he's not a nice guy anymore. He's made a fortune by acting
ruthless in business, and the last thing he's looking for is
small-town domestic life. He doesn't even want to be in town again,
but a sick grandmother guilted him into it. Then he has nerve to not
even recognize Emma when he sees her again. Maybe it's been seven
years, but a decent guy would remember his best friend's little
sister.
Noah
is not a decent guy. Anyway, Emma is on a man-fast. And she doesn't
want Noah.
At
all.
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Winning
Her Brother’s Best Friend
Ginny
Hart loves men. And she loves dating. She just doesn't want a serious
relationship. She's tried it before--with her brother's best friend,
Ryan--and it's clear she's not cut out for it. So she'll keep having
fun and focusing on the new tea shop she recently opened with her
best friend.
That's
all she needs in her life.
She
definitely doesn't need Ryan, who is always hanging around and has
turned into a real player. When he challenges her to prove which of
them is more popular with the opposite sex, she takes him up on the
bet. One month. Four Saturday nights. She'll show him she's not still
holding on to old feelings. It doesn't matter if she can't seem to
keep her hands off him.
She's
not about to let him win.
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About
Noelle Adams:
Noelle
handwrote her first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she
was twelve, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in
eight different states and currently resides in Virginia, where she
reads any book she can get her hands on and offers tribute to a very
spoiled cocker spaniel.
She
loves travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too
many years of her life in graduate school, she has decided to
reorient her priorities and focus on writing contemporary romances.
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