The Found Duet by Laurelin Paige

Free Me (The Found Duet #1) by Laurelin Paige

SUMMARY

Her story started long before she started working at The Sky Launch...

Screw fairytales. The only reward Gwen Anders got from her rough childhood was a thick skin and hard heart. She’s content with her daily grind managing a top NYC nightclub—Eighty-Eighth Floor. So hers isn’t a happily ever after. She doesn’t believe in those anyway.

Then she meets J.C.

The rich, smooth talking playboy is the sexiest thing that Gwen has ever encountered, but she’s not interested in a night-in-shining latex. But when a family tragedy pushes her to the brink, it’s J.C. who’s there to teach her a new method of survival, one based on following primal urges and desires. His no-strings-attached lessons require her to abandon her constant need for control. Her carefully built walls are obliterated.

Gwen discovers there’s a beautiful world outside her prison. Freedom is exhilarating—and terrifying. When she starts to feel something for J.C., she fears for her heart. Especially as she realizes that he has secrets of his own. Secrets that don't want to set him free.

MY REVIEW

JC is another Alpha Male that is introduced by Laurelin Paige. He is charming, mysterious, smooth talker, sexy, relaxed and ready to break down all the walls that Gwen Anders has put around her body and heart. I liked him. I liked the way he approaches Gwen, I loved the way that he makes her feel special.

Gwen had a rough childhood. Still she and her siblings are not safe. Her past will be back and JC will also become her protector. I like Gwen is a fighter. She is sexy, clever and willing to open up if she finds the right catalyst.

The main problem is that JC has also his own past that haunts him. And he is not that stable or that available.

Overall I liked their story, but I have to admit that the ending of the book disappointed me. The book has one of the most awkward twists that I have ever read in a romance novel. 

(JC marries a stranger in Las Vegas while he was drunk. Really???)

So this made me give the book 2 stars less than I intended.

Find Me (The Found Duet #2) by Laurelin Paige 

SUMMARY

The Conclusion of Gwen and JC's Story

Gwen Anders came to The Sky Launch to begin fresh, away from the horrors of her past. She fit in quickly, becoming good friends with her co-manager, Alayna Withers and the owner of the club, Hudson Pierce. Though the circumstances that brought her here were not the best, she's never felt more at home.

But starting a new life means letting go. And there are some things she doesn't want to leave behind - like JC, the man who taught her how to let loose. The man she wasn't supposed to fall in love with. The man she doesn't want to lose.

Now, with the reason she ran still a threat, Gwen fears she'll never be able to move on completely. And if she does, can she still hold out hope that JC loves her enough to come and find her?

MY REVIEW

The first book “Free me" had an awkward ending, but the second book "Find me” has also an awkward beginning .

Gwen is alone. JC has disappeared after he told her a weird story about some people that they want to kill him and that he is the witness of a murder that happened years ago.
If you ask me, it sounded like a made up story of a crazy guy who had his fun and he just wanted to disappear without causing a scene. But anyway....

So Gwen is alone and heartbroken and what does she do? She starts a fling with Hudson's little brother, Chandler. Which is fine by me. I mean JC just disappeared telling promises that sounded completely fake.

But after a year JC is back and apparently he was telling the truth. What is the point of having Chandler around for the majority of the book? Dead weight. I could not even feel any angst.

Anyway, besides Chandler who bored me to tears, Gwen and JC’s second part of the story was pretty good. Finally we learn who is really JC and finally Gwen opens up completely and she seeks her happiness.

The Found Duet is not one of my favourite series by the author (which by the way I adore), but it is a decent story with good and not so good parts. Still it is so much better that most of the stories about obsessive billionaires that I have read.