Lost and Found Love in New York Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Elle Casey Melissa Moran Joe Hempel Books
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Sometimes engagement rings can get lost and then found. Sometimes people can too. All it takes is a heavy-duty dose of karma and the magic of Manhattan to make it all come together.
Leah is a financially destitute new age hippy. James is a wealthy surgeon with a trust fund. She's awkward, he's poised. She's completely crazy, he's way too sane. People might say they have nothing in common, but they'd be wrong. They both live in Manhattan, they both have no idea how to change a baby diaper, and they're both lost ...until they find one another.
Lost and Found Love in New York Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Elle Casey Melissa Moran Joe Hempel Books
I feel like this book was trying to be too many things at once: zany comedy, romance, family drama, crime story...and so the tone was all over the place. There were parts that I liked and parts that didn't work.The book is in three parts: Leah's POV, James POV, and then Leah and James alternating POV. The first and second parts cover the same ground, which I usually hate, but to be fair, there is very little repeated because James and Leah don't actually interact very much until the third section.
The first part (Leah's POV) was my least favorite. Leah is 28, dresses like a hippy/flower child, and works part time selling essential oils. How she can afford living in Manhattan (even in a crap hole apartment) working part time (at minimum wage) is never explained. Nor is why she doesn't have at least another part time job. She finds a huge engagement ring and spends much of the book trying to get it back to its owner so she won't be cursed with bad Karma. There are some funny parts here, I did laugh several times, but Leah is just so strange. And even though the author tries to pull it off, Leah doesn't come as quirky/cute strange, just weird. And maybe crazy. Like someone you'd see on the street and cross to the other side to avoid. Her brief interactions with James are funny, but I didn't sense much chemistry between them. She's just too weird! (If you've ever watched the HBO show Girls, Gabby Hoffman, who plays Adam's crazy sister is who I think of when I picture Leah.)
James comes across during his brief appearances in Leah's part as someone who's got a stick up his a**. He seems arrogant and snobby. But surprise! The second section with his POV is my favorite part of the book. He's a really good guy. A plastic surgeon who's dedicated to his job and a really loving brother who is worried about his family. After his brother's wife died (leaving a newborn baby behind) his brother fell to pieces (drinking, drugs) and James is trying to help him and help his sister who stepped up to help raise their niece. He does seem to have the good sense to question his attraction to Leah, but he can't stop thinking about her.
The third section goes from sweet (them taking care of the baby) to zany (more weird back and forth about the ring) to dark (someone is stalking Leah now) to simply WTF (the whole thing with Ralph and Mel was just bizarre, and I felt like it was explained too hastily). Leah and James don't even get romantic until the book is nearly finished, and when they do we get a few kisses and then...she's tied to the headboard? Again, the tone seemed off. And to be honest, Leah came across as one of those women who doesn't do much in the way of personal grooming and with James making his living off of people who want to look perfect, I was expecting some zany shenanigans instead of light bondage.
And I had to give the ending a serious side eye. Leah and James haven't been together for long enough to explain that ending.
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Lost and Found Love in New York Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Elle Casey Melissa Moran Joe Hempel Books Reviews
This is a difficult review. First of all, I found this story to be difficult to read. Too much going back and forth, from chapter to chapter, and finally coming to any conclusion. Our lead lady, although a free spirit, is portrayed as a total ditz and our male lead as a huge jerk. However, I must admit there are many hilarious moments throughout this story.
LOVED it! Wasn't even planning on one clicking it or reading it today but after I read the sample I was hooked. This story is super funny. I loved the characters specially Leah, she was definitely something else, a bit on the crazy side but I loved her. I also loved James (Dr. Oliver) even if he gives the impression of being an arrogant jerk, he is definitely not one.
Story told in dual point of view and I was very glad the author did that because I got to know the real James, the nice and loving James.
All the things that happen in the story are so funny, and all because of a ring (an engagement ring)
There is also a baby involved and lots of funny parts happen because of the baby.
I loved all the side characters except for Veronica and Hillary but you can't always like them all and they were the villains (kind of anyway).
There were a few twists that I did not see coming and I have to say that even though I normally dislike the kind of ending from this story (I cannot say what happened without a big spoiler so I won't) I was happy the author went with that ending. It's a HEA and what I call a HEA with a bonus. Normally I don't care for this type of bonus but I loved it, I guess it does depend on the story to be able to like it or not.
I think Leah and James made a great couple and even if there wasn't a whole lot of romance in the story there was enough to make me love their story.
Will definitely recommend to my friend and to anyone interested in a good story that will make you laugh a few times.
I was slogging through trying to understand the point of this book, then I began skimming when it became apparent that the author was determined to take us on a rambling journey to nowhere. Suddenly several chapters in, the F-bomb became the adjective/adverb of choice for this author. Why? Deleted from my !
If I could give this book 1/2 star I would. I'm a voracious reader but I felt like I was getting nowhere with this book. I read and read and read thinking I should be making some progress so I checked, I was only 38% through. This was the "wordiest" book I've picked up in a long time. It seemed to ramble and ramble forever. I finally skipped ahead maybe 30 chapters. Even at that I still had 20 or 30 chapters remaining. Stay away from this book if you have things to do that day.It will compromise your time for what could have been told in a Harelquin romance in considerably less time, probably better.
This is written in the first person and I really wish that they would include that into the book description. I don't like first person narrative, for some reason it makes me uncomfortable. That being said this was a train wreck. There is something adorable about a ditzy kind of person but there was nothing adorable about this character. There are so many reviews I am not going to go into it bc if I do I am liable to have some spoilers and frankly this book was just not for me.
I would also add that when I wrote this review I hadn't finished the book... but I have now and my original review stands. Not only is this a train wreck but seriously all over the place. The 2 of them don't even get together as a couple until the very end of the book. I love quirky characters but this character was just a pathological liar. Too weird and won't be going on to the next one. It's obvious that the writer has talent in being able to put together some of the aspects of this book but it was just too discombobulated for me.
I feel like this book was trying to be too many things at once zany comedy, romance, family drama, crime story...and so the tone was all over the place. There were parts that I liked and parts that didn't work.
The book is in three parts Leah's POV, James POV, and then Leah and James alternating POV. The first and second parts cover the same ground, which I usually hate, but to be fair, there is very little repeated because James and Leah don't actually interact very much until the third section.
The first part (Leah's POV) was my least favorite. Leah is 28, dresses like a hippy/flower child, and works part time selling essential oils. How she can afford living in Manhattan (even in a crap hole apartment) working part time (at minimum wage) is never explained. Nor is why she doesn't have at least another part time job. She finds a huge engagement ring and spends much of the book trying to get it back to its owner so she won't be cursed with bad Karma. There are some funny parts here, I did laugh several times, but Leah is just so strange. And even though the author tries to pull it off, Leah doesn't come as quirky/cute strange, just weird. And maybe crazy. Like someone you'd see on the street and cross to the other side to avoid. Her brief interactions with James are funny, but I didn't sense much chemistry between them. She's just too weird! (If you've ever watched the HBO show Girls, Gabby Hoffman, who plays Adam's crazy sister is who I think of when I picture Leah.)
James comes across during his brief appearances in Leah's part as someone who's got a stick up his a**. He seems arrogant and snobby. But surprise! The second section with his POV is my favorite part of the book. He's a really good guy. A plastic surgeon who's dedicated to his job and a really loving brother who is worried about his family. After his brother's wife died (leaving a newborn baby behind) his brother fell to pieces (drinking, drugs) and James is trying to help him and help his sister who stepped up to help raise their niece. He does seem to have the good sense to question his attraction to Leah, but he can't stop thinking about her.
The third section goes from sweet (them taking care of the baby) to zany (more weird back and forth about the ring) to dark (someone is stalking Leah now) to simply WTF (the whole thing with Ralph and Mel was just bizarre, and I felt like it was explained too hastily). Leah and James don't even get romantic until the book is nearly finished, and when they do we get a few kisses and then...she's tied to the headboard? Again, the tone seemed off. And to be honest, Leah came across as one of those women who doesn't do much in the way of personal grooming and with James making his living off of people who want to look perfect, I was expecting some zany shenanigans instead of light bondage.
And I had to give the ending a serious side eye. Leah and James haven't been together for long enough to explain that ending.
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