Saturday, April 20, 2019

Review: Should've Been Us

Should've Been Us Should've Been Us by Jess Bryant
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I've been waiting for Lulu's love story since she sobbed in Trent and Lance's arms at the end of Stay a Little Longer. I've been waiting, and waiting, and waiting until finally it. IS. HERE!!!!!!





Lulu Nichols held this undying belief that she and her best friend Derek were going to wind up together; they were meant to be regardless of how many times Derek brushed her aside or broke her heart by being oblivious to her feelings. Until he announces that he's getting married and she finds herself sobbing in Trent and Lance's arms because there goes what she was so certain was going to happen. So how was she going to survive not only a destination wedding but being a part of said wedding where the person she'd thought was hers promised himself to someone else?



Enter Connor Shaw. Connor was the third wheel in Lulu's friendship with Derek. He was the best guy friend to Lulu's best girl friend. The three of them went through everything together and while Lulu was strung up on Derek, Connor had always been strung up on Lulu. She was the one woman he wanted that he thought he could never have and over time, the jealousy towards her feeling for Derek took a toll on not only their relationship as friends but his relationship with Derek as friends. He makes it his mission to make sure that Lulu survives the destination wedding that could break her while hoping to make her see that she should have been with him. That it always should have been them, not her and Derek.



I'm a huge fan of Jess Bryant and her Fate, Texas stories. She weaves together stories filled with heart, laughs, memorable characters, and smoking hot chemistry and Should've Been Us does not disappoint at all! This was a friends to enemies to lovers story with epic banter and explosive chemistry. There is nothing - NOTHING - that will convince me that Connor and Lulu aren't my new favourite Fate couple - and that's saying A LOT! Have you read Lemon & Shane???? No??? Then you have no idea and you can't speak to this insanity until you've read Call Me, Irresistible so I say you should go grab it now so you have something epic to compare them to.



I'm not gonna wait for you - reading Lemon & Shane's story has no bearing on Lulu and Connor, but I'm telling you, you NEED to read it because it's just that good!

Now, where was I???



Oh, right… Destination wedding, epic banter and a hilarious (and welcome) "extra shit jerk" cameo by Maren Lee's Sierra as a pseudo-fairy godmother of epic proportions! She didn't leave her crazy self in Bounty County - oh no! She brought it with her and forced Lulu to sip some truth tea where it came to Connor and just how she really felt about him. Sierra saw it and she was her matchmaking badass self by putting it out there.



All that banter between Connor and Lulu, like flint striking whenever they came together making it inevitable that those sparks would catch fire in an explosion of epic proportions!



And oh, how they burn!



They steam up the pages in moments that are sweet, tender and passionate. And HOTTTTTT!!!!



Favourite Lines -

“I’m not the best man.” She admitted in a small voice. “I’m not the best anything.”

Connor’s sigh was heavy in the quiet room, “That’s not true.”




“Sierra.” Dark eyes narrowed even as a smirk played on his lips. “Behave.”

“And that killjoy would be my husband, Brenden.”




“In my experience it’s only the rides you don’t take that you end up regretting and that, my dear, is some first class wisdom I’m sprinkling on you like your very own fairy godmother.”




“Connor. He watches you and when you space out, when you disappear and you get that sad look in your eyes, that’s when he starts a fight. He pulls you back. He wipes away the sadness by replacing it with whatever he has at his disposal. The teasing? The fighting? He’s fighting for you.”




“Lucy Lee Nichols, we’re officially late.”

“Connor Asshole Shaw, you call me by my full name one more time and the only thing you’ll be on time for is your funeral.”




“A big, purple headed friend that hits spots you couldn’t find with a map and compass.”




“I think if I’m not really careful, I could become addicted to the sweet words that come out of that filthy mouth of yours, Connor Shaw.”




He’d wanted to be inside Lulu since he’d figured out what the thing between his legs was used for.


I'm quite serious when I say - BEST LINE EVER!!!!!



Hitting a tiny white ball and then chasing it down was not a sport in his humble opinion.




“I’m gonna need a cold shower if you two keep that up.” Sierra was fanning herself dramatically from her chair a few feet away when Lulu glanced at her and blushed. “Don’t y’all have a room because I’m pretty sure they frown on live porn at the public pool in these kind of places.”




“Every single time with you is and then you go and make it better and my only worry is that I’m going to die from so many orgasms. Ok?”




“I’m falling in love with him.”

“That’s probably just sunstroke.”

“Jesus, you’re such an ass sometimes.”




"I love you, Con. You make me crazy. You make me mad. You make me smile and laugh. You make me happy and I love you for it. I love you for always choosing me. Even when I was too blind to see it, even when I was too stupid to choose myself, you always put me first. I’m only sorry that it took me so long to take the blinders off. I’ll spend the rest of my life making it up to you. I promise.”




Lance snorted, “If you say he has a nice ass again, I might actually kill you both.”




Go grab this book today! You NEED Connor and Lulu in your life - you don't know it yet, but you do! And once you've fallen in love with them, head back and fall in love with everyone from Fate.



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