The Break Up is the second book in the Jordan brothers series. This is the story of spoiled princess Bella and the local bartender she meets while in Maine preparing for her upcoming wedding. I was so excited to read this book after falling in love with The Hook-up, but this book did not develop Bella and Christian's story like I had hoped. The book cannot be read as a standalone novel because there are no scenes with their initial meeting, the reason for Bella bailing Christian out of jail, nor their initial thoughts of each other. So you have to read The Hookup to get enough backstory that you are not lost for the first part. As the story continued, I felt like Christian's character flaws were never redeemed and his actions throughout the story such as refusing to let Bella have any interactions with his son and his reaction to their fallouts made him extremely unlikable. Lastly, the end was rushed and predictable. I hope if there is a third book with Camden's story the characters are deeper and more developed.

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I give this one about 3 stars. The writing style was engaging, but the characters were not my usual cup of tea. Also, I started on a book not the first. Overall, I'd say it was pretty hot, but not necessarily what I was looking for.

I really enjoyed this book, although I think I liked the first one more, this one was still pretty great. Christian and Bella were so cute together, and I really liked the pull between them. How they just gravitated towards one another, despite all the reasons why it was wrong to feel the way they felt.

In the beginning, I was on the fence about Bella and her "people pleasing" ways, I thought she needed more of a backbone, but later in the book, her character developed and I quickly fell in love with her. No longer was the girl who just nods and smiles to whatever was thrown at her, you got to see the fire spark within her to put a stop to her push-over ways.
Then banter between her and Christian was funny and I loved her quirkiness. We also got to see more of a sisterly bond between her and Sophie in this book, as well as how Christian truly feels for his twin brother. Christian's issues regarding the types of women he couldn't help but be attracted to was a little unnerving, but I love how he sorted himself out and became the man who deserved Bella.

The story was great for a nice quick summer read. I highly suggest people read book 1 before this one to get the max reading enjoyment of the Jordan Brothers. We got introduced a little more to the other Jordan siblings in this book, so I have high hopes for more books from Erin McCarthy and I can't wait to read them!

Great book with great characters definitely a page turner, lots of excitement and a few twists and turns

**4.5 Stars**

I seriously enjoyed The Hookup and wasn't quite sure how The Breakup would compare to it, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Bella and Christian's relationship started off unpredictably to say the least, but I really loved them together. I felt like they were just opposite enough to really compliment each other and I thought they had great chemistry.

I read this book in one sitting because it was so engaging. I did feel like the ending was a bit rushed, but overall found it to be a very enjoyable level read.

The Breakup is actually the 2nd book in the Jordan Brothers series, which somehow I missed when I requested to read and review it.

I felt like you definitely need to read the first book in the series, because it clearly takes place in the same time period and with the same characters and honestly I felt lost.

Overall I liked the book and the characters, but I feel as though I would have enjoyed it more if I had more of a connection to them from reading the first book. I will definitely recommend this SERIES to our followers and make sure they read the books in order.

I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book (given by Netgalley)...

I loved Cain and Sophie and I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen between Bella, (Sophie's sister) and Christian (Cain's brother). If you read The Hookup, then you already know about the bad blood between the two brothers Cain and Christian, but now we get to see into the mind of Christian. Now I won't lie already disliked Christian, but I wanted to give him a chance to redeem himself and hopefully rebuild a relationship with Cain. Now as for Bella, I was on the fence with her because at times she could be totally snobby and then kind which to be honest was a little annoying. Now I want to say I loved this book until we the 70% mark and then the book took a weird turn for me.

I don't want to giveaway spoilers so I'm going to try to be vague, so just in case I warning POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD.

After Bella and Christian get to really know each other, there was an issue and they kind of "break-up" but at this time Christian finally realizes he truly wants Bella. However, instead of putting his big boy pants on and telling her how he feels, he starts having casual sex with another girl while pining after Bella. This bothered me because for one at this point he knows he loves her, and two they never discuss it and it's like it never happened and Bella just smiles and moves on. Now mind you Bella lives in town now and works at his bar and yet instead of talking to her, he screws someone else until he decides he wants Bella and she just goes along with it.

Unfortunately, Christian started to grow on me but lost me after he decided to be a coward and not tell Bella his feelings for her and then acted like a man-child when things got difficult. I know most people think Bella was weak in the beginning, I didn't think she was, I thought she was trying to do the best she could in a terrible situation; however, by the end of the book, she sounded like pushover and somewhat resembled a doormat with the way she let Christian treat her. The ending felt awkward as well as rushed and didn't make me feel like they were actually in love with each other.


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Now for the last part that confused me, it had to do with Christian basically abandoning Bella after she reveals she's pregnant to him and then coming out of nowhere with a business-like resolution to the problem. Now the confusion I had was that he basically offers to marry her to benefit him (he can keep his son from Ali) and presents in such a clinical way that Bella screams "NO" at him because she wants love. I kid you not, he basically says sorry then ACTUALLY asks her and then tells he loves her and she says "YES" all with a couple paragraphs. This bothered me because nothing about it sounded sincere, just a quick resolution to get to the HEA.

I loved it!!! I wish there was a little more to their story but I really enjoyed it. I didn't realize the first book about her sister but you I loved that you got to see the HEA for the sister also.

Bella is pretty sure that her fiancé is cheating on her. She’s one week out from her wedding and she’s an emotional wreck. When she finds texts on her fiancé’s phone confirming the cheating Bella confronts Brad about it. He, of course, being the ass he is, turns it around to make it look like Bella is the cause of his cheating. She knows she’s being manipulated but still can’t bring herself to end it. She talks to her parents who push her to marry Brad. She’s SO confused!

Bella recently became friends with Christian, a bartender in the coastal Maine town that she’s getting married in. She gets drunk and asks him to teach how to be good in bed but he refuses. Though Christian doesn’t normally have problems sleeping with women in relationships, because they’re emotionally unavailable, there’s something about Bella that makes him want to treat her well.

When Bella decides right before the wedding ceremony that she absolutely can’t marry Brad she calls Christian and he whisks her off to a family cabin to hide her from her family, Brad and his family and anyone else trying to talk to her. With Bella now single and free, Christian has no problem showing her exactly how good in bed she is. The two spend a couple of days together but soon they have to face reality. Bella has to decide what she’s going to do now that she quit her job, sold her furniture and has nowhere to go, and Christian has to decide if wanting Bella in his life will be a good thing or just make his crazy life even crazier.

After book one in this series I can’t say that I liked Christian all that much. Book one was about Bella’s sister and Christian’s twin brother getting together. It seems that Christian slept with his twin’s girlfriend and was caught. Of course it comes out in this book that the girlfriend, Ali, had told Christian that they had broken up and since Christian had had a thing for Ali all through school he took her up on her off of some bed-play. Little did he know it would change his life forever. Turns out he wasn’t a bad person after all – he just didn’t make the best judgment calls about people. He knew this about himself so that’s why he hesitated when Bella approached him about going to bed with her. I was happy that he finally saw that it would be a bad idea. I actually ended up liking Christian a lot in this book, thank heavens. :)
Bella was a strong character but sometimes she made me a bit crazy. She knew deep down she was never going to marry Brad but then ended up waiting until the last possible moment to run. That bothered me a lot. I guess I have not idea what I would have done in that situation so I can’t be too judgy. I liked how she handled things with Christian, her family and Brad after the wedding fiasco and was happy that she didn’t settle.

I was annoyed at the alternating first person POV. Not that I mind that POV so much, but there was no clear delineation of when one POV stopped and another started, like a new chapter. There was just a break in the story and then we'd get another POV - sometimes it was hard to figure out if I was reading Bella's POV or Christians. :( Not to my liking.

The book was good and I really liked it. It was a fun, easy read and was perfect for just sitting in the back yard with no worries.

Rating: 3.75 out of 5

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I got a big kick out of this book which is not your average runaway bride story. Bella is a "good girl" who has been raised to take her place in society but when she finds out her groom is cheating on her she's gone. Christian is a "bad boy" and seems to take pleasure in that. When Bella wants to learn more about how to please a man she asks Christian for help. Thus begins a sexy, funny, sweet, hot story that I couldn't put down.

This book was very entertaining. It kept me reading from the first page and I couldn't put it down. Great character development. Good story line. Looking forward to reading more from this author. Will definately tell my friends about this one.

I read this book very quickly! This was my first book by this author and I was pleased. Bella discovers her fiancé is cheating on her just days before the wedding. She wants revenge and finds local bartender Christian Jordan is the right choice to get what she wants. Christian has his own problems and secrets, but is intrigued by Bella and her situation. When I first started the book, I almost decided I was going to hate it. I felt like it was a story about a girl who was too naïve and heartbroken to make the right choices. I thought Bella’s character was going to be too whiny for my taste. But as the story developed I found myself wanting more from both characters. I began to really feel like I knew Bella and Christian. The author did a great job portraying the characters and what they wanted in life. I would have loved more detail throughout the middle of the story and leading up to the end. I felt like the end of their story came way too fast and could have used a little more leading up to it. But overall, it was a great read!

Going into this book I was a little skeptical, I didn’t know if it was going to be one of those books that was predictable from the beginning, or one that kept you guessing at every turn. Unfortunately, I found it to be the latter, from the start to finish of this book, you knew exactly what was going to happen, you knew, Bella was going to fall in love with Christian. This book was a little hard for me to even possibly believe. I get the having a wild weekend after you find out the douche you were suppose to marry had been cheating on you, and he thought it was perfectly ok, but to move on so fast and get engaged just months later, that was a little hard to believe. If you are looking for a quick read that has some kink to it, and one that has a happily ever after, but that doesn’t have much drama, this is the book for you. I think this book would have been great, if it was a little longer, and you got to know the characters a little bit better. It seems a little rush to me, and that is my honest review:-)



I give this book 3 stars

The Breakup was my first Erin McCarthy story. While I enjoyed the story line and the characters, I believe that it would have been easier if I would have read the first book in this series. I will definitely be picking u that first book

I was so excited to read The Breakup. The blurb pulled me in and I just knew that this would be a fantastic read. Unfortunately it wasn't and I'll tell you why. Let me start by saying that I did not read the first book so I went into this story with no back ground on these characters. I have to be honest, I absolutely disliked Christian and his actions. Just when I started to like him, he did something that ruined it. Bella was an okay character but I just could not connect with her. It's hard to enjoy a story when you can't connect with the characters and you dislike one of the main characters. All I can say, is that this story just did not work for me.

**I voluntarily read an early copy of this title compliments of NetGalley and the publisher**

The Breakup is the second book in The Jordan Brothers series and I was so excited to get my hands on this book following the first book in the series. I will recommend that you read the first book, The Hookup, before diving into this one because this book takes place during the same time period as the first book and you could be lost or confused without having knowledge from the first book. This book is about the sister and brother of the main characters from The Hookup.

Christian Jordan is one of those guys who is completely afraid to commit to a relationship, so instead he sleeps around. He also is the father to a son whose mother is the ex-girlfriend of his twin brother's (you can imagine the relationship between brothers now!) and he shares custody with his mother with whom his son resides. Christian is very self-centered (even though he claims to be a good father) and there were definitely times in this book where I found it hard to connect with him. For someone that is a great father, there are some of his actions that wouldn't scream that to me, while others definitely did. He was a hard character to fully like.

Bella Bigelow is about to have the wedding of her dreams when she discovers that her soon-to-be husband has been cheating on her. Bella has always been a rule follower and one who is a people pleaser. She is naive and sheltered in some respects and she has basically given up everything for the man she is supposed to be marrying. After taking stock of what she wants and trying to decide what is best for her, she finally decides to call off the wedding just before the ceremony. Her first call is to Christian to ask him to help her flee.

Christian rides to the rescue and he and Bella escape to his family's cabin for a couple days to decompress. Not only do they begin to get to know one another, the connection is obvious and immediate. Sparks fly and emotions do too when both find themselves getting more attached to the other than they feel they should or want to. Will they be able to make a go of a relationship or will Christian's relationship phobia end it before it begins?

Overall I really enjoyed this book, but I wish I would have been able to say I loved Christian more than I did. Bella was sweet and sincere and I loved how she grew throughout the book and was able to find who she really was in the midst of all the turmoil she went through. I'm not sure if there will be more books in this series, but if there are, I definitely will check them out!

After meeting Bella and Christian in Sophie and Cain's book, I couldn't wait to dive into their book! These two needed each other and it was a great book!

This just felt really rushed at the end and I felt like some of the beginning of the book could've been shortened.

I have read several previous books by Erin McCarthy and have enjoyed them. This one did absolutely nothing for me.
Christian and Bella were both annoying to me. Christian especially. I can't see even in the book world how these two characters work.
With that being said, I still enjoyed the ending. Glad to see Cain is doing well. I don't really recommend this one though. Maybe others enjoy it. I don't know.

The cover is beautiful!

Most romances follow a certain pattern; boy and girl meet, yadda yadda, happy ending. Generally, important themes are extraneous and not part of the story. “The Breakup” is different. While never heavy-handed, indeed, as part of what moves the story along, the reader is invited to ponder a number of serious questions. What does a person lose in pursuit of perfection, and what happens when perfection is not enough? What is the cost of relying on external validation for one’s self-worth, and what happens when it is not forthcoming?

Both of the main characters in this book are good people. Both are imperfect because human beings are imperfect, but neither one is dark nor twisted by her or his past. There is no silly and unnecessary angst in “The Breakup,” but rather the action flows from the situation and the characters of the protagonists. I don’t like spoilers so I am not going to give any but I will say that this is not a thrill ride, rather it is a good look at what happens when people grow up and accept responsibility for their own actions.

I really liked “The Breakup.” It was well-written, which is of great importance to me, well-edited (and that cannot be said about every book these days) and flowed right along. I liked both of the main characters and enjoyed the minor ones. If you want to read a romance which does not put you through an emotional ringer but gives you something to think about while you watch two nice people make their way to each other while growing as individuals, this is the book for you. I can’t remember when I enjoyed a romance so much. Five stars.