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bookswritingandmore's review against another edition
3.0
I wasn't impressed with this book as much as the other two in the series. I feel like the characters were betrayed much differently than before and the story didn't seem to make sense. I loved the ending however and will continue on with this nail biting, intense and emotionally written series.
anasatticbookblog's review against another edition
3.0
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2.5 stars.
***A few days later, I re-read this review. I sound angry and snarky, not usually my style. But that bodes well for a book. Obviously I was emotionally involved enough to be angry. So if you like the type of book where there is lots of back and forth and love/hate; way more apart than together, this may be the book for you. I know many who love that. This series was highly recommended, and this review is my opinion.
Closing Costs (Stewart Realty 3) is the third and kind-of final book in the Jack/Sara trilogy of the Stewart Realty series. The last one left off with Sara finding out she is pregnant, and we know she had unprotected sex with two different guys (What? Who does that? She is a grown, horny woman that should be on some birth control.) Then, we see a sneak peek at the next book where she is in a pool of blood convulsing in Craig’s arms. So, of course, I had to buy Closing Costs right away!
Sara had an awful pregnancy and almost died (Why? Because she didn’t listen to the Doctor and stay on bed rest). She has a baby girl, Katie, but refuses to get a paternity test. Is she Jack’s or Craig’s? Sara decides Katie is HERS, and will raise her alone. Yet she doesn’t!!!! It seems to me that her brother Blake, & Craig do more of the parenting than she does when Katie is little, then it’s Jack when she is older.
Sara continues to love and want Jack, wishing he would step up and be with her, but she continues to push him away. They develop a co-parenting friendship, with both wanting more from the other, but neither reaching out and grabbing it. They hook up passionately a few times because the pull between them is so strong, then they fight and split up again! And in this book, it jumps forward in 2 year increments for 8 more years!!!!! Holy crap, every time I saw “2 years later” I wanted to scream at these fucking idiots! Either get together or find somebody else already!
Jack has grown and matured a lot. He is also an amazing dad once he finally connects with Katie. I can’t say the same for Sara. She has taken a promotion at work, running the whole office (Jack runs the whole agency!) and doing a great job, but to me, it’s at the expense of her child. The whole book was about Sara saying one thing, but thinking another:
“You can go now” In her head, she begged him to stay.
God, she is such a selfish bitch! She strings them all along, even her brother, and denies her child a proper father (though she has a lot of uncles!). But mostly she denies herself happiness and is miserable. Jack has grown and matured and it came to a point where I thought they didn’t deserve an HEA, and Jack deserved better. When was this? When it looked like they were starting over (again) and she is supposed to meet Jack for a romantic reconciliation date:
She had been twenty minutes late on purpose. Let him wait.
There were so many other things she did that made me crazy! Sara also never seemed to be crazy in love with her daughter the way most parents are. Jack and Blake seemed to love the adorable little girl more. I understand the author was trying to show exhaustion and frustration, but Sara did that to herself. I would have liked to see a few rare moments of heart wrenching mother-daughter love, and never really felt that.
Ugh, so freakin’ frustrating. When I was about 88% through I had to put the book down for a while. I just stopped caring about the end. But I am pleased to say I picked it up and that there was a happy ending. I didn’t say an HEA, just a happy ending.
There were about a dozen small errors, usually missing letters or words, and one came right in the middle of one of the few hot scenes, totally distracting me.
I have to give the book 2.5 stars because it kept me involved, and 2.5 for heat.
I really liked the first book, Floor Time, but in my opinion having the couple go back and forth for 3 books over more than 8 years was too much, and the series went downhill to me.
Book four, Essence of Time is about Blake and Rob finding a surrogate. It begins with Rob and Jack sharing a woman as roommates in college. This one sounds really HOT and seems to provide a lot of back story, and is rated the best of all, but from what I understand, there is not a happy ending, and I can’t take any more of the drama with no happiness.
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2.5 stars.
***A few days later, I re-read this review. I sound angry and snarky, not usually my style. But that bodes well for a book. Obviously I was emotionally involved enough to be angry. So if you like the type of book where there is lots of back and forth and love/hate; way more apart than together, this may be the book for you. I know many who love that. This series was highly recommended, and this review is my opinion.
Closing Costs (Stewart Realty 3) is the third and kind-of final book in the Jack/Sara trilogy of the Stewart Realty series. The last one left off with Sara finding out she is pregnant, and we know she had unprotected sex with two different guys (What? Who does that? She is a grown, horny woman that should be on some birth control.) Then, we see a sneak peek at the next book where she is in a pool of blood convulsing in Craig’s arms. So, of course, I had to buy Closing Costs right away!
Sara had an awful pregnancy and almost died (Why? Because she didn’t listen to the Doctor and stay on bed rest). She has a baby girl, Katie, but refuses to get a paternity test. Is she Jack’s or Craig’s? Sara decides Katie is HERS, and will raise her alone. Yet she doesn’t!!!! It seems to me that her brother Blake, & Craig do more of the parenting than she does when Katie is little, then it’s Jack when she is older.
Sara continues to love and want Jack, wishing he would step up and be with her, but she continues to push him away. They develop a co-parenting friendship, with both wanting more from the other, but neither reaching out and grabbing it. They hook up passionately a few times because the pull between them is so strong, then they fight and split up again! And in this book, it jumps forward in 2 year increments for 8 more years!!!!! Holy crap, every time I saw “2 years later” I wanted to scream at these fucking idiots! Either get together or find somebody else already!
Jack has grown and matured a lot. He is also an amazing dad once he finally connects with Katie. I can’t say the same for Sara. She has taken a promotion at work, running the whole office (Jack runs the whole agency!) and doing a great job, but to me, it’s at the expense of her child. The whole book was about Sara saying one thing, but thinking another:
“You can go now” In her head, she begged him to stay.
God, she is such a selfish bitch! She strings them all along, even her brother, and denies her child a proper father (though she has a lot of uncles!). But mostly she denies herself happiness and is miserable. Jack has grown and matured and it came to a point where I thought they didn’t deserve an HEA, and Jack deserved better. When was this? When it looked like they were starting over (again) and she is supposed to meet Jack for a romantic reconciliation date:
She had been twenty minutes late on purpose. Let him wait.
There were so many other things she did that made me crazy! Sara also never seemed to be crazy in love with her daughter the way most parents are. Jack and Blake seemed to love the adorable little girl more. I understand the author was trying to show exhaustion and frustration, but Sara did that to herself. I would have liked to see a few rare moments of heart wrenching mother-daughter love, and never really felt that.
Ugh, so freakin’ frustrating. When I was about 88% through I had to put the book down for a while. I just stopped caring about the end. But I am pleased to say I picked it up and that there was a happy ending. I didn’t say an HEA, just a happy ending.
There were about a dozen small errors, usually missing letters or words, and one came right in the middle of one of the few hot scenes, totally distracting me.
I have to give the book 2.5 stars because it kept me involved, and 2.5 for heat.
I really liked the first book, Floor Time, but in my opinion having the couple go back and forth for 3 books over more than 8 years was too much, and the series went downhill to me.
Book four, Essence of Time is about Blake and Rob finding a surrogate. It begins with Rob and Jack sharing a woman as roommates in college. This one sounds really HOT and seems to provide a lot of back story, and is rated the best of all, but from what I understand, there is not a happy ending, and I can’t take any more of the drama with no happiness.
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mawmom's review against another edition
5.0
In Closing Costs the years have flown by and both Jack and Sara have moved on with their careers but can seem to move on from or to each other. Sara's family continues to cause friction even when they are just trying to help. The friction caused by Sara's family rubs everyone not just Sara effecting everyone's relationships. Over the course of the years covered in these books Jack has done a lot of growing up and so has Sara but both of them remain stubborn through and through. With the hope of their happily ever after on the line can Sara and Jack compromise enough to come together into the relationship they both want and need?
Liz Crowe writes "romance for real life" in her books people are messed up and nothing just magically fixes that, you get to see the struggle and the hard work that her characters go through to fix themselves and to fix their relationships. Ms Crowe also has very realistic depictions of the steamy hot moments between the lovers in her books and all of that combined makes for fantastic reading that reaches in and grabs your heart (and your hormones) and takes them captive on a wild roller coaster ride of lust, love, deception, redemption and I need a cold shower moments.
These are books that you finish in one sitting because you can't put it down. It is a series that as soon as you finish one you want the other sitting right there so you know what happens next.
I am giving the Stewart Reality Series books 1-3 my highest rating, these are staying on my keeper shelf.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review
Liz Crowe writes "romance for real life" in her books people are messed up and nothing just magically fixes that, you get to see the struggle and the hard work that her characters go through to fix themselves and to fix their relationships. Ms Crowe also has very realistic depictions of the steamy hot moments between the lovers in her books and all of that combined makes for fantastic reading that reaches in and grabs your heart (and your hormones) and takes them captive on a wild roller coaster ride of lust, love, deception, redemption and I need a cold shower moments.
These are books that you finish in one sitting because you can't put it down. It is a series that as soon as you finish one you want the other sitting right there so you know what happens next.
I am giving the Stewart Reality Series books 1-3 my highest rating, these are staying on my keeper shelf.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review
shannon_cocktailsandbooks's review against another edition
3.0
2.5 Stars
In the final installment in the Stewart Realty Company series, readers will finally a conclusion to Jack Gordan and Sara Thornton's love story. It's not an easy ending and it takes eight years to get there...but we finally do get an ending to their story.
Can I say I could not stand Sara? That's not too harsh is it? She grated on my nerves. She was whiny and bitchy and strung poor Jack around for one year too many. She wanted him, she didn't want him, she strung him along, then pushed him away...it was all too much. And let's not even talk about raising her daughter and her reliance over everyone around her to help with her daughter when she swore, on the day she was born, she was doing this on her own. Good job, Sara. Way to show everyone you could do it!
And then there is Jack. I get that he loved Sara. It was obvious for the first moment they were on the page together how he felt, but what I couldn't understand is why he kept letting her treat him the way she did. The man is a Dom. What Dom would suddenly turn so wishy washy and let this woman rule his world the way she did. Even when he claimed he was moving on, she was still there on the periphery making his life miserable.
The only reason I finished the book was to find out if Jack found his HEA. I was hoping it would be with his lovely submissive, Shannon, but I knew it wouldn't be. The only thing that I did love at the end was the fact that Kate knew exactly who Jack was (and that she suspected it all along...smart girl).
Others have loved this series, and this book in particular, but I couldn't get past Sara and her treatment of Jack.
In the final installment in the Stewart Realty Company series, readers will finally a conclusion to Jack Gordan and Sara Thornton's love story. It's not an easy ending and it takes eight years to get there...but we finally do get an ending to their story.
Can I say I could not stand Sara? That's not too harsh is it? She grated on my nerves. She was whiny and bitchy and strung poor Jack around for one year too many. She wanted him, she didn't want him, she strung him along, then pushed him away...it was all too much. And let's not even talk about raising her daughter and her reliance over everyone around her to help with her daughter when she swore, on the day she was born, she was doing this on her own. Good job, Sara. Way to show everyone you could do it!
And then there is Jack. I get that he loved Sara. It was obvious for the first moment they were on the page together how he felt, but what I couldn't understand is why he kept letting her treat him the way she did. The man is a Dom. What Dom would suddenly turn so wishy washy and let this woman rule his world the way she did. Even when he claimed he was moving on, she was still there on the periphery making his life miserable.
The only reason I finished the book was to find out if Jack found his HEA. I was hoping it would be with his lovely submissive, Shannon, but I knew it wouldn't be. The only thing that I did love at the end was the fact that Kate knew exactly who Jack was (and that she suspected it all along...smart girl).
Others have loved this series, and this book in particular, but I couldn't get past Sara and her treatment of Jack.
chelseammg's review
2.0
Painful!
The book takes place over what, a decade? It's a decade of mind games, pathetic misunderstandings and immaturity.
I liked books 1 & 2, but this one? Holy hell. It's just too much. How much pain and suffering can two people bring to each other? Over how long a period of time? All the while there is a child that has to deal with two parents that are screwed in the head.
Speaking of which, it seemed so much of the time that to Sara, the child was a pain to be dealt with...until she almost loses her. It made me really dislike her as a person. I struggled to find any redeeming qualities in her. She was selfish, manipulative and all around screwed in the head. She messed with not one, but two men's lives (as well as her brother's) and had no compunction about it. She was seriously pathetic.
The book takes place over what, a decade? It's a decade of mind games, pathetic misunderstandings and immaturity.
I liked books 1 & 2, but this one? Holy hell. It's just too much. How much pain and suffering can two people bring to each other? Over how long a period of time? All the while there is a child that has to deal with two parents that are screwed in the head.
Speaking of which, it seemed so much of the time that to Sara, the child was a pain to be dealt with...until she almost loses her. It made me really dislike her as a person. I struggled to find any redeeming qualities in her. She was selfish, manipulative and all around screwed in the head. She messed with not one, but two men's lives (as well as her brother's) and had no compunction about it. She was seriously pathetic.
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