Take Its Not Over (Fair Lakes, #1) Drafted By Kaylee Ryan Physical Book

returned this book. It was not worth. Let me just lay that out there, I saw a post on a book IG account, read the blurb and it was intriguing enough to make me get the sample, Fine, I liked the first couple of chapters, had me in tears, so I figured ok, let's just get the damn book because I need to know how this plays out.


I have certain things that are known as my major book pet peeves, They're pretty cut and dry, and I find that when an author doesn't commit more than one of these, I tend to like the books.
So this one pinged two : , Repetitiveness . By that I mean, the constant repetition of certain facts or sentences over and over again, For example, the two main characters met at the library when they were in college, We are reminded of that at the very least, every other chapter, That's just one of the many things that seems to be on a loop throughout the book, . Useless details / overly descriptive , Holy cow. This was full of that, and I mean FULL, So clearly from the book cover, Winnie is pregnant right, She goes in for a doctor's appointment and I swear, every single possible detail is there, The nurse telling her to give a sample and what to do with the cup and where to put it, From the doctor telling her to put her legs up, and then down, which she does and the authors say that too, just like that.
The minutia is unnecessary. It's filler. It's done for word count, because I promise, the ingredients of a salad

which we get in detail have absolutely no baring at all in this story or how it plays out.
It does nothing. It's useless information.

And then of course there is the so called "alpha" male who can't stop spouting love sonnets every time he talks to her, while she basically just goes "ditto" or tells him she has to pee in response.
Then there's ridiculous way he behaves, the way he talks to women who he deems are hitting on him, Totally interesting because his wife takes it all in stride, doesn't get all dramatic, but he basically tells a couple of women off in public.
I don't know, his character was just poorly developed,

This book was just a giant disappointment, I mean, I gave it two because well, one, it didn't have a zillion typos and grammatical errors that's part of my pet peeve list.
And two, because at least the conflict didn't involve someone getting kidnapped or some other stupid thing like that, I've only listed a few of the issues with the book, trust me, there's more, I just don't feel it was worth the money, or the high ratings it's getting, FREE on Amazon today! DOMESTIC PARTS CHEF'S KISS ARC Provided by the Author

,Stars

Gwen and Harrison are married and going through a divorce at the beginning of this title, In fact, the start of the story is the end of their marriage, Except, it's a marriage that both of them want and a divorce that they are only agreeing to because they think it's what the other wants.


And, when you follow your exwife home after the divorce meeting to get a couple of shirts Well, sometimes things happen, and then other things happen.


There were a lot of secondary characters in this story, and some of them felt a little more necessary and important that the others in the story.
It's hard for me to go into specifics without spoilers, but there was a certain character who seemed not only unnecessary, but also a little farfetched.


I also found this to be a little overwrought in places, and at the end there was a lot going on while a major plot event of the story was also happening.
And, all of the other things going on at the same time had me rolling my eyes a little bit, as there was just too much.
. . including the subplot that I thought was a bit unnecessary and not needed for the rest of the story to move forward,

Overall, I did enjoy this story and I do recommend it, even though there were a few places where I was not engaged in the story and didn't believe the reactions of the characters.
Gwen

Lately, life definitely isn't how I envisioned it, I had it all. The house, the job, the husband, Until one day, I didn't, I don't know when exactly things started to change between us, only that it did, and in a big way, So much so, I found myself standing before a judge and signing off on the end of my marriage, To the only man I've ever loved,

Now, he's back, fighting, and ready to prove to me that we made a mistake, that our love is worth giving this another chance.
I'm not sure if he's right, but I know what my heart wants, and it wants him, My exhusband.


Harrison

Why is it that you don't know the depths of your mistakes until you've already made them I knew signing those papers was a bad idea, but I thought that's what she wanted.
The minute we stepped foot out of that courtroom, it hit me, She's no longer mine.

That's when I also realized that I would do anything to change the past, I have so many regrets, Not her. I could never regret her, but how we ended, We never should have ended, I'm in for the battle of my life to convince her to give us another shot, I have a plan, one that will prove to her that it's not over, I think these two authors mixed their talent of writing together perfectly,
This is a love story like no other but most of all it's about second chances, Winnie and Harrison had lost their way in their marriage but signing a piece a paper didnt stop their love, Harrison was determined to show the love of his life he was ready to reclaim his wife no matter what, Nothing worth having is easy to come by but these two are ready so show Love can win above all else, Such a beautiful and touching story, I really, really wanted to love this book, It was exactly what I was looking to dive into even though it is a longer book than I normally have time for lately, There are a few things that impacted my enjoyment I don't think these authors understand HIPAA, Winnie was coherent and alert, no doctor in their right mind would EVER have privately informed Harrison of her status without her prior consent to do so.
I know this is a work of fiction but the authors had the time to spend to tell the story, the lazy storytelling when Harrison found out Winnie is pregnant almost made me DNF, to be honest.
Also, how they let him into the exam area DURING her exam Just, no, Stop being lazy. Either commit to telling that scenario properly or come up with a quicker/easier way for him find out, Along with that, I quite frankly still don't know why they divorced to begin with, They didn't even hate each other, . . and if you've ever been in a LTR you know that love and hate can and at times do walk a fine line, Our H and h straight up still love each other, and they're both individually aware of their own feelings at the time of the divorce.
Confessions of love throughout the book, I guess we never really get to explore how Winnie got to the decision to ask Harrison to leave and then divorce him, We spend most of our time in Harrison's pov and the book starts the day they get divorced, I think readers needed more insight into how Winnie was feeling and how dejected she must have felt to reach the point of choosing to leave someone she's still in love with.
This book was like almost there. So close. Unfortunately there's a lot of needless drama and fluff with some ott "ow", Fidelity was NEVER an issue in their relationship so that part of the Gina plotline was just dumb, Sorry but it was. Why even introduce that I can see introducing that if Winnie had divorced him because she suspected he cheated, but she didn't, FTR, our H and h only have eyes for each other and everyone's nice and celibate through the separation, No cheating whatsoever.

With that said, I think the situation Harrison and Winnie find themselves in is something many couples can relate to, The neglect, unintentional hurts, communication breakdowns, . . These are all things that can happen with time, I wish we got to see more of how Harrison and Winnie overcame those obstacles aside from Harrison basically running himself into the ground trying to be everything to everyone.
It really seemed like he had to do all the sacrificing and accommodating, Winnie kept insisting the fault was both of theirs but she was the one who kept not giving him the benefit of the doubt and jumping to conclusions.


I'm somewhat interested in reading the next book on the series even though Chase seems like a real manslut, I'm hoping that he's not as bad as he's presented in this book and it's some stupid misunderstanding of the situation, Which is pretty much what this book was based on also, and that is why i love the accidental pregnancy trope
i love the soft moments awee
their tattoos were soft yall :
dont get me wrong winnie and harrison are great,, but
OMG imma just talk about chase x gabby my ship they babies okay
i love them like they enemies to lovers yall,, they petty,, but they cute yall so excited for their book aAaaAaaaAaaAah,, i stay winning bishes and they gonna be working together mHmHmHMhM
im sorry i was more invested w the side characters relationship lololol its a disease yall lol
and the gabby x chase moments were not even that breadcrummy you know there were handful yall im happy awee yipee love that for me
so mr chase callahan i love youUuUuuU lol this random lol but yeah i just gotta say that
and even winnies mom shipping them yall i stan her mom lol
im all for soft!Chase, whipped!Chase and godfather!Chase woo
and like chase remembered what gabby wore on herst birthday like im still yeeting
they.
are. killing. me. Aaaaaaah

so yeah prepare your popcorn for the gabby x chase moments bc it just gets more interesting,, and interesting bwahahaahahahahahahahahahah ok goodbye.