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All I Want for Halloween

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Gear is one smart man when his woman is upset you don't sit on your behind, you take action, “you know what? I’m going to drink, wolf down some pizza, and try to forget the verbal smackdown my brother already gave me. I can do without your **** too.” She hung up. He swore and got dressed, then took his quieter bike, the one without the monster pipes, over to Sadie’s..." I really liked this book, Sadie was so sassy.

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This story is part of the Donnigan series. It features Sadie, who is not a Donnigan but is friends with them. It starts very strangely with Saide a reality tv junkie for this motorcycle show with two friends and this guy Gears, girl friend. The show is showing that Gear has discovered that his best friend is sleeping with the girl friend. Meanwhile the friend and ex say he is the one that really cheated. Meanwhile Saidie's brother Eiott wants her to go to a Halloween party.

Then we meet Gear who was cheated and betrayed some two months before and now the show is finally on tv, he is told he must go to a halloween party with them as part of the contract. Well guess who he meets at the party. Yep Sadie and wel she beyond impresses him and it was really fun because she impresses me too.

This was a fun story with a kickass heroine and a little reality tv thrown into the storyline. At some points I found the story was over the top and not 100% believable like Gear's family, sorta a steam punk troupe that travels. It also has lots and lots of HOT sex scenes. But beyond that I really enjoyed the story and Saidie I loved.

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certainly a good story with an interesting storyline. good overall writing.

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‘All I want for Halloween’ starts out fun and gossipy in a way about celebrities that had me laughing at the parody, then made it work by introducing a female lead who seemed to know just what she was doing, and yet was funny and gutsy to boot. And I’d thought there and then, that we had a winner.

After all, who can say that they’ve looked with disdain from afar, then came face to face with the very person you’ve been seeing on screen and been judgemental about? As someone watching from the outside, Sadie Liberato’s own reaction to the whole mess of a cheating ex and Motorcycle Madnezz’s end of an era on tv closely mirrored mine…minus the incidental meeting and the sexy times.

But past Gear’s and Sadie’s first (rather acrobatic) public, masked-sex at the party, it was hard to sustain interest in a pairing because I couldn’t tell just what direction their relationship was going to take. Throw in the sudden influx of characters in the midway point and the copious number of sex scenes—I really did get the point early on that sex between them was hot and stratospheric and got bored when that just went on and on—, it started to fall flat at the quarter-mark of the story, when Gear and Sadie find themselves in a semblance of dating but are convinced that they’re nothing more than that while their actions prove otherwise. Adamant that their ‘relationship’ is casual, much of it felt like lust masquerading as love still, even as both eventually do come to the conclusion that they are already there with their emotions.

Overall, I feel as though I should have liked this better than I did, but throughout it all, I simply found myself impatiently wanting to see the story get somewhere and was disappointed when it didn’t quite. Instead it dragged on and I finally started to skim, almost relieved when Gear/Sadie got it into their heads that they were on the same emotional page because that was where the story also ended.

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Love all of Marie Harte's books. Great stories with plenty of heat and heart.

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