My Life in Shambles by Karina Halle | REVIEW!!!

 

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Synopsis:

They say bad things happen in threes. 

After my boyfriend broke off our engagement, I lost my apartment, and was laid off from my job, I can definitely attest to that.

They also say life is what happens when you say yes to new adventures. 

So when my two sisters invited me to ring in the new year in Ireland, I decided to throw all caution to the wind and go for it. I was going to let "saying yes" be my new resolution. 

Little did i know I'd spend New Year's Eve having a hot and dirty one-night stand with Padraig McCarthy, one hell of a sexy Irishman. I also didn't know that the brooding and intense sex god was one of Ireland's top rugby players.

A rugby player with a proposition for me:

Come with him to his tiny hometown of Shambles and pretend to be his fiance for a few days, just so that his ailing father can have some peace of mind. 

It sounded simple enough. 

It was anything but.

Not when a town gets up in your business, not when the media hunts you down, not when your past comes back in the picture, not when there are real hearts and feelings at stake.

Not when there are secrets that could break you.

They say life is what happens when you say yes to new adventures.

This is my life in Shambles.

About the Author:

Karina Halle is a former travel writer and music journalist and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of The Swedish Prince, Bad at Love, The Pact, Sins & Needles and over 45 other wild and romantic reads. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband, and her adopted pitbull Bruce, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.

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My Review:

This is the second Karina Halle book I have reviewed and loved! Even though they were two totally different stories, but I loved them both and it really shows the range Karina can write in. She can do the romcom, haters to lovers romance and she can write the more seriously, heavy hearted, deep love story that many people crave from time to time.


I loved this story from the first page. The image Karina paints with her words is truly a gift. Just the first page, I could vividly picture what she was describing. She forms this world that seems so small but yet it is so large and does the world change pretty quickly. Going from one country to another, a country I don't travel often in books. It was nice to live in that country for a while. That's how her words make you feel, like you are living it characters lives. While reading this book, I wanted to visit Ireland so bad. I still do and some day I will. But that sang, a reader lives a thousand lives, it is true. 

I didn't want this book to end and when it did I was happy and sad at the same time. I loved how it all came together at the end but man, was there a couple times where my heart hit the floor, making tears swell in my eyes... just a little! This book is in my top of the year, even though we still have half a year to go but damn, this book was amazing and needs to be on everyone's list of must-reads! You won't be disappointed. 

5+ Owls!