A love triangle with twins, this is great. Isobel (Izzy) fell in love with an arrogant boy child with a beautiful heart. But when works take her place she crash with the other twin and fell in love again, this time hard.
The Tennyson twins was close until their parents divorce and each one gone to a parent. For Bridge life was hard without money, for Julian without love.
I enjoy reading this book and recommend it.
I received a ARC from Netgalley for a honest review.

Swoon worthy content. I loved this book. I still can't decide who I love more, Bridge or Izzy.
I really felt for Izzy because you could feel all the hurt and pain she was suffering from. Like I could feel her heart breaking. And Bridge just treated her so right. The way he was so respectful and loving towards his mother just shows that he'll do anything for family.
My only issue was the epilogue. I understand it's supposed to set up Julian's story but it left so many questions about Bridge and Izzy.

This book moved way too fast for me it seemed like everything happened in 3 days! First of all I don't think this book should be classed as YA and secondly SPOILER how do you wake up form a coma and then just walk out of hospital?

I loved this book. I couldn't put it down.

A book with everything. Broken marriage, sibling separation, lies, deceit, love and revenge.

Bridge and Julian are twins separated at age 13 when Daddy cheats on mummy one time too many.

Julian stays with his father, Edward CEO of Tennyson Financial and leads the privileged life. But will he ever get the pat on the back and "good work son, I'm proud of you" that he so desperately craves?

Bridge on the other hand gets to live the not so privileged but fully loved lifestyle with his mother, who gets seriously ill in the coming years and he has to work 2 sometimes 3 jobs to live and pay the bills, not to mention the medical bills.

Isobel is Julian's college sweetheart. When her parents die, Julian takes her under his wing and makes her part of his family. All is well until they graduate and "have to grow up." Her lifestyle with her now fiancee has changed dramatically. Julian has his dream job at his father's company, but Izzy and her dreams of becoming a nurse are left by the wayside. She's only to be the model arm candy not work, told what not to eat, look pretty, told what to wear, and get left at home when her fiancee does his cheating and schmoozing. Does Izzy have the balls to leave him, with nothing to her name, as his mother did his father? Or will fate step in and help her out?

Loved the story flow and writing style. Told in duel aspect. Time frame after prologue, approx 6 weeks

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Let's start this review by saying what I am saying in every of my Rachel van Dyken reviews - I love this woman! You'd think her writing will lack any time soon considerung the huge amount of books she's publishing year after year. I know there are multiple authors out there, trying to aim for that goal and unfortunately, their quality suffers along with the pressure of getting as many books out as you can. But with Rachel, I feel like she's seeing this as her gift - never running out of story ideas, just writing them down and boom! There's a new book to publish, just as amazing as the ones before. I admire her for that, honestly.

So yes, there's a fair share of books out there, a CEO as the main characters and a girl, loving to wear heels and is hungry for sex out there already. I've read enough of them, grown tired and just seeing the word Manhattan written in a book gets me really angry and all red-eyed with rage. Same old story. All the time. And here comes Rachel, turning that original thought into something else entirely. It kind of reminded me of that Sandra Bullok movie where she pretends to be the girlfriend of a man in coma. I like that movie, but I loved this book even more. Because it's something else. And there's just that typical Rachel van Dyken humor in it that I'm always craving to read more about after finishing one of her books. Like, I want Rachel to constantly talk to me, see if she's just as funny as she writes. I'm sure she is, because I get to see glimpse of it whenever I check the posts in her Rachel's Rockin' Readers group on Facebook.

Back to the book... If you're expecting a big plot twist for this one, you're not getting it. The outcome it quite predictable at the beginning of the book, but I didn't mind that. I wanted to read about the development more so than a change of heart, something surprising jumping out of a cake or anything like that. I could feel Isobel and Bridge had so much to say, they both had such powerful voices during the story, I fell in love with both of them. And their strength, their chemistry and their minds. I mean, it wouldn't be a Rachel van Dyken book if she didn't made the heorine be a badass. And wow, Isobel was one of the best kind. Sure enough, she annoyed me sometimes and I'd get sick of her trying to sew up holes with Julian that just couldn't be repaired. And then, as the story went further, I felt sorry for Julian as well. So I was literally a mess. I felt sorry for each and everyone in the story, most of all Bridge's mom, to be honest. I'm sad we didn't get to read about her as much I as hoped we would.

The only person I didn't shed a tear for was Bridge and Julian's father. He's as evil as they come, only caring about money and impressions. Gosh, I hated him with all my heart. Not sure if Bridge hated him as much as me. And that's good, because this book brings up so many emotions, love and hate and rage and angst and so much more - I love when that happens. When one single author manages to squeeze it all into one story without it demanding to be too much, to strangle the reader. It felt so natural, the story felt so real to me, it wasn't just fiction at the time I read it.

There's one thing I'm going to complain about, still. And that's the rush toward the end of the story. I can see that many things were figured out, worked out, too. But it seemed to sudden to me. Like: "Okay, hey. Forgive and forget" and though I longed for a happy-end, I liked the epiloge for what it was - raw, not just that shiny, everything is great kind of thing. And I think in that moment, the other brother, Julian, stole my heart a little more than Bridge did. But I can only tell after reading the second book in the Covet series and I am so super excited when it's going to be published!

Oh, and something else - I'm a bit sad for Isobel wearing a white dress on the cover of Stealing Her. Red would have been more fitting and I think Bridge would agree with me on that one. You'll understand this once you start reading the amazing book, so just do it!

4.5*

I really enjoyed this, I couldn't put it down and read until I couldn't read anymore.

Bridge and Julian are twins - they are split up in their teenage years when their parents divorce. Once living the rich life under the control of his father and the other one living not a money rich life but a life rich in other things with his mother. An accident occurs and for the sake of the company the father wants the other twin to step in to the other's shoes.. Then begins the deception and the brother falls in love with his brother's fiancee. I was on tender hooks waiting till Izzy found out and then when the whole cover up would be exposed. How would the brother in a coma react? I loved Bridge and Izzy together and Bridge has a whole - he a a conscience and cared. As a reader we do not get too much detail about Julian - just the bad bits! Docked half a star as wanted to see on the page the conversation Julian and Izzy had. I am looking forward to Julian's book.

Thanks to NetGalley for the copy for an honest review.

Wow - this book had me on the edge of my seat. Family drama at its best with a storyline filled with lies, deception, loyalties, hurt, hostile takeovers, guilt and if that was not enough you also get a love story you just want to survive and family dynamics that are dysfunctional at best. The characters of Bridge and Isobel are beautifully written and the ending will leave you with the feel of loss and heart break. Rachel Van Dyken has created a complex family and I loved every minute of this story.

OMG this book has more twists than a maze!! Loved it!! Such a good story that sucks you in hard. Definitely a must read.

This is Julian and Isobel book, Julianna a twin that when his parents split up the father got one twin and the mom got the other. Now Julian mom is sick and his twin gets in a terrible accident! His jerk of a father makes him an offer he can’t refuse! Play the role of his twin as soon to be ceo until his brother gets out of the hospital? And their father will pay all his mothers medical bills! It’s an offer he can’t refuse! Unfortunately he has to marry his twins fiancé!! Isobel knows something is fishy with her fiancé ever since his accident?! He’s back to being the boy she met in school ! She was ready to leave him and that life behind but now she’s just not sure what to do?! This book was definitely good it was a little different for me but not a bad different lol it’s definitely worth reading! Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for sharing this book with me!!

* spoiler alert ** My estranged twin brother, Julian, was always the wonder boy—and soon-to-be CEO of our ruthless father’s corporation. My mother and me? Left behind. Now, years after tearing our family apart, my father dares to ask me for a favor? Pretend to be Julian while he fights to survive a tragic accident. It can save the company. Nobody will be the wiser. It’ll be our secret.

I can play Dad’s favorite. I’ll do it for Julian. And for my mother, who’ll want for nothing.

But this double life comes with a beauty of a hitch: my very real feelings for Julian’s fiancée, Isobel. Not only am I betraying Julian, I’m deceiving a woman I love. She doesn’t suspect a thing. As lies compound, lines are crossed and loyalties tested, all I can ask myself is…what have I done?

Because sooner or later something’s got to give. There’s no way I’m giving up Isobel. But once the truth is exposed, it might not be my choice at all.


I thought this was a good story.

First of all I am not a fan of the Hero or heroine being in a relationship with one sibling then the other.

This book had a darker feel to it than some of the author's previous 'nutty' work, where there is lots of craziness, it has the feel of some of her mafia work.
There are parts that are humorous but the heroine's story is quite heartbreaking.
She is being emotionally abused in the relationship with Justin and with the pressure from his father.
Bridge is amazing, he goes into the situation with the best of intentions but finds himself out of his depth, esp dealing with Izzy.
The being with one twin then the other, sort of works, I'm not a fan but I will say that Justin and Izzy's relationship is over, she breaks things off before the accident and they have not been together in some time, he's been absorbed in work and there is cheating but that is revealed through the story so I'm not going to detail it.

Things are not as they seem with Justin, he has destroyed his relationship with Izzy but as a reader I did feel for him in the end and I am hoping his story is next.
There is a particularly heartbreaking moment for him at the end.
Dual POV plus an end bit from Justin.
No intimate scenes with anyone other than the Hero and heroine.
The heroine does relate a few intimate experiences in retelling their history but of course she is talking to Bridge and the history is with Justin not him so that was a bit ew, as it's his twin brother, but it's brief.
In some ways it's slow burn, the intimacy takes time. For Bridge it's the situation and for Izzy she felt she had fallen out of love with him.

HEA.