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From Grace To Hell

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i really enjoyed reading this book, the characters were great and I really enjoyed going on this mystery. I look forward to more from the author.

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***Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review***

I DNF this book because I couldn't connect with the main character.

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I really had a hard time getting into the story, I stayed with it and it was a good story. I usually am hooked by one the characters, didn’t this time.

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Such an unexpected ending! Loved it. When I started reading I thought oh this is not the book for me! Man was I wrong! Grace is betrayed by her grandfather who she loved very much. She has to fight for what’s hers. Mason is the guy who loves her but she just doesn’t love him, or does she?

I read and reviewed this advanced complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley

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My thanks to the Author publishers and Netgalley for providing a Kindle copy of this book to read and honestly review.
Lawsuits, rivalry, revenge... Welcome to the family.Grace has always been a fighter. As single woman running one of the most successful cattle ranches in the country, she’s had to deal with surly ranch hands, crooked lawyers, jealous siblings...
It’s a full time job, but that hasn’t stopped Grace from enjoying some no-strings-attached fun with a smoking hot country boy who’s madly in love with her...Then tragedy strikes.
Grace’s grandfather passes away, and her entire life is turned upside down. Adam, her power-hungry brother, inherits the ranch, and kicks Grace off the property. The young woman soon finds herself in the fight of her life, as she struggles preserve what she’s built, and maintain her grandfather’s legacy.
As the ranch suffers from Adam’s corrupt mismanagement, their legal battle takes a dark turn into threats and violence.
Grace refuses to back down, and she’s willing to use every dirty trick in the book to protect what’s hers...
But when she pushes her conniving brother too far, will another tragedy rock her family?
Get ready for a romantic thriller packed with shocking twists, edge- of-your-seat suspense, steamy sex, and a surprise ending you’ll never see coming.
Read From Grace to Hell today!
So states the 'blurb' about this book and the reason i requested it, however a three star rating suggests it did not match up. Well Grace is quite the character ballsy clever smart sneaky and sexy, the book is for the most part well written, descriptive with good characterization there is quite a lot of graphic steamy sex scenes, tragedy and some suspense with a couple of surprise twists towards the end. I at no point thought of giving up on the story and had no trouble reading to the end. My main complaint was it being unnecessarily over descriptive, do we need a couple of pages on how to prepare a babies bottle and feed said baby, and seemingly endless descriptions of Grace choosing and describing what she will wear today.
Overall i enjoyed it and would give the Author another go.

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This was a DNF for me. I couldn’t get into the story as I did not like the main character at all. I found Grace to be contrary and self-serving. Even though she admits to only using Mason for sex, she doesn’t tell him the score then gets mad at him for developing emotions for her. In the meantime, she has her eye on the local vet. I didn’t even get to the familial drama part. This book was not for me.

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Thank you NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for the ebook provided.

Have to say I don’t really enjoyed this book until the end. I found that the premise is interesting but it lost my attention when Grace entered as a main character in this book. The image of her are not making me impressed, so many bad words, emotional, maybe that comes from her horrible history of her life. But still not makes me wants to care about her, fortunately it really worked with the title “Grace to hell” since she had to deal with her grandfather decision and makes her really angry and blame the whole world. This book probably works for some other readers but not me.

One thing that I’m amazed is where the author said : she began to writing this book in a hotel room and first five thousand words.

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This book is horrible. I rarely write bad reviews, especially for newly published books or debuting authors. But all the other reviews on Amazon - all five of them - are five star reviews. I can only assume the reviewers are either friends of the author, or pseudo reviewers who trade glowing reviews for free books. So I feel honor bound to warn others.

Since I got my copy via NetGalley it may be an ARC, and you have to make allowances for some editing errors in those. But even an uncorrected proof should not be this bad. On one page, in the space of three short paragraphs, the word “walked” appeared five times. She walked to the table...she walked outside...he walked out, then walked back in, then walked out again. Too much! And that’s just one example.

The premise is interesting, if a little far fetched. It’s what made me want to read the book. Grace has worked in her grandfather’s feedlot since she was a teenager, and supervises his ranch hands. (Though I find it hard to believe her claim that her name was on more contracts than her grandfather’s when she was fifteen. In what state can a fifteen year old sign contracts?) Grandpa dies and leaves her money, but leaves the ranch and all his business to her brothers, because she needs to get off the ranch, go to college and get married. So she contests his will on the grounds that she was excluded because she's a woman. Except throughout the book it’s referred to as “protesting” the will. Well, maybe in the state she lives that is the legal term but when I googled “protest will” everything came up as “contest”. But what do I know.

I pretty much hated Grace. I get that she was terribly upset at the way her grandfather screwed her out of his will, but good god, that's no reason to act like a spoiled child. I hated the way she used Mason. She admits to herself over and over that she is using him and expresses guilt, but then she just continues to use him. And I'm not a prude, I have no problem with characters cussing, but the nasty things Grace and her brother yelled at each other really turned me off. Again, there's no reason to act like a spoiled child.

There are sooooo many other things I could point out but suffice it to say the book obviously has not met an editor, and desperately needs to. It’s only 99 cents for Kindle, but the paperback is $10, and if I had paid $10 for this drivel I would be demanding my money back. Plus punitive damages.

And that interesting premise? At the end of the book is a twist in grandpa’s will, that just ruined the whole premise and made everything pointless. And then there's another twist, that was also pointless.

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