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Sweat Equity (2012)

by Liz Crowe(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Tri Destiny Publishing

series

Stewart Realty

review 1: Reviewed by MollyBook provided by the publisher for reviewReview originally posted at Romancing the BookOkay. I have to take just a minute and say holy crap! This book blew me away. Liz Crowe’s second Stewart Realty novel has filled me with gut wrenching emotion, inner turmoil and amazing need to read more of her Stewart Realty series. I’m totally in love with this rocking great series and I am having a hard time putting into words what I feel about this second book; it’s just that good. Crowe’s writing style is skilled to instantly capture her readers, able to hook me from start to finish. Her characters are incredibly complex beyond words.Sara Thornton. Once again, I have a love/hate relationship with her! I really wanted to smack her in the head so many times du... morering this installment! I mean come on. She had two really incredibly sexy, loving guys in front of her, but one she knew she couldn’t love, and the other she was so in love with she can’t see straight. But, as the reader, I could really see her inner turmoil and the conflict within her mind about what she truly wanted, especially after her childhood.And Jack. Oh.My.God. I still think he is an incredible dominating Alpha male! His possessiveness towards Sara was amazing and my heart truly went out to him. I could feel his heart working around the fact that Sara gave him a devastating blow, and then he lost himself in someone he didn’t want. I wanted to go to him and tell him that he doesn’t need her, I’d take his dominating self any day! ;-) But, seriously, I really loved the way he was in this story and coming to terms with his heart and true self.Along with Sara and Jack, Ms. Crowe brings back all the loving secondary characters we met in book 1. Blake, Sara’s overprotective bother, Rob-Blake’s lover, Suzanne, Craig, even the not-my-favorite-person Heather. They really added the perfect amount of depth to the Stewart Realty group and kept me focused on the entire setting!So, I definitely recommend this book with the highest possible ratings! I loved every gut wrenching moment, many of which truly brought me to tears for this conflicted couple! This series is by far my absolute favorite series, written with the perfect amount of sexiness, sizzling hot passion, dominating men and stubborn women! I can’t wait to read book 3, CLOSING COSTS, to see if Sara and Jack’s future plays out the way I hope it will….or if they are destined to be two stubborn hard heads! Another incredible job, Ms. Crowe!
review 2: Sweat Equity is the second installment in the Stewart Realty series by Liz Crowe. Book two picks up some months after Floor Time (book one) leaves off. Jack and Sara continue to confuse and frustrate each other to the point of aggravation. These two characters excel and making each other (and themselves) miserable, and now there’s a mix of family, friends, exes, and friends with benefits that just serve to further complicate and confound matters. I’m not generally a fan of “triangle” stories. I typically find them frustrating because there’s usually a clear choice to the reader as to who the heroine should choose. Well NOT in this series. I still don’t know whether I love Jack or just wish he’d find the rock he crawled out from under. Then there’s Craig, who by all accounts seems to be a sweet guy, but almost saccharine sweet. Maybe he’s just a little too good, at least for Sara. Or is he? There’s a niggling thought that makes me wonder exactly what Craig’s playing at too. What’s with the flirtatious thing going on with Suzanne? It kinda makes me wonder if he isn’t a bit of a cad too. Or at the very least, as confused as the rest of them. And Sara… gah! Come on, for cryin’ out loud! You’re an educated and successful woman. Wake up, figure it out, or cut both these poor men loose to scratch their itch somewhere else, and move the hell on girlfriend! Maybe Jack deserves his misery. Lord knows he’s dealt enough of it himself. The jury’s still out on Craig, though, and Sara using him for sex – at least I think that’s what she’s doing – made me want use my Kindle as a projectile more than once. Now that I think about it, maybe Jack and Sara actually deserve each other and all their craziness, but who could sustain that kind of insanity for any length of time before going off the deep end? I’ll have to consider that thought for a little while longer as I immediately make a grab for Closing Costs (book three). The author warned me that I would need to have it handy as I finished Sweat Equity. She was absolutely right. I cannot promise you resolution – no spoilers here – but I can promise you more of the Liz Crowe brand of smoking hot scenes, a little M/M, and some light BDSM thrown in for good measure. So, for now, I’m compelled to continue reading. At least I can be grateful I heeded her warning, but I’m not sure I’m looking forward to a continued state of confusion and frustration. Mercifully, the end is in sight.For the ability to keep me at a heightened state of annoyance with nearly every character, Sweet Equity earns four exasperating (but I’m smiling here) stars. less

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