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Athica Lane: The Carpino Series Kindle Edition
A single dad, grumpy-sunshine, age-gap romance that will leave you wanting more...
Cam Montgomery is a single dad who knows his priorities: his kids, his job, his business. Dealing with his disaster of an ex-wife is bad enough, not to mention delinquent football players, and a meddlesome mother.
Cam doesn’t have the luxury of time for anything more, especially a relationship. Even if it is Paige Carpino—smart and sweet, but at every turn, knocks him on his ass with the unexpected.
Figuratively speaking of course.
Paige might come in a small package, but she makes up for it in spirit. An energetic spit-fire who has some heat to her sauce, she’s dedicated to her new business, her family, and a select group of friends. She’s never put herself out there, but then again, there’s never been anyone worthy.
Until one day in a burger joint, an asshole practically enters her into a wet t-shirt contest. Who knew a disaster like that could be the beginning of your life? Or, more importantly, that asshole would be your reason for being. But anything can happen when you finally put yourself out there for a single dad, ex-football player, and the hottest man you’ve ever run into. Throw in the Carpino’s, the Montgomery’s, and an eighty-five-year-old bossy friend into the mix, and it’s a recipe for something ... big.
Warning: This book contains a hot dad, a sassy heroine, steamy parts, and naughty words. If you’re under the age of 18, this author is frowning at you with her mama eyes telling you to walk away.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 29, 2015
- File size1299 KB
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Editorial Reviews
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- Carol, Goodreads Reviewer
You know when you've been on one of the best adventures of your life and then it's the end and you don't know whether to smile because you are so happy or cry because it's all over. Well I'm doing a little bit of both.
- Jodi, Goodreads Reviewer
This series gets better and better with each book.
- McGee, Goodreads Reviewer
I'm going to just come out and say it . . . Athica Lane, Book #3 is my favorite in the Carpino Series. I loved it!
- SamanthaReads, Goodreads Reviewer
AWESOME! AMAZING!
I loved everything about this book.
- Ella Lee, Goodreads Reviewer
Product details
- ASIN : B012V2H5QG
- Publisher : Brynne Asher (September 29, 2015)
- Publication date : September 29, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 1299 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 482 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #789 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #22 in Contemporary Women's Fiction
- #37 in Contemporary Women Fiction
- #61 in Romantic Suspense (Books)
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Cam Montgomery was a grumpy, alpha, single dad who hid his soft heart. He’d been burned by his ex and was still dealing with the fallout of her behavior. He lived his life for his kids and had his world rocked when the sweet but sassy Paige Carpino entered the picture. The first few times he ran into Paige, Cam did not make the best impression. But as he let his walls down, Paige fell hard for the single dad who lived next door to her sister.
Both Cam and Paige had people in their lives who caused problems. And they had a lot of hurdles to get over. They both loved Cam’s kids and the relationship between Jordy and Cara and Paige strengthened Cam’s love for Paige. As perfectly as they fit together, this was the first book in this series that included a third act breakup, and it was heartbreaking. Even through their breakup they never stopped loving each other and I really liked the way they took time apart to figure out if they could find a compromise.
The suspense in the book was woven throughout the plot. I loved the addition of the third perspective and the anticipation of when everything would finally come out.
This was a book I couldn’t put down. I loved all the new characters introduced as well as some characters from the other books getting some more background. Paige and Cam’s journey to a HEA was not easy, but it was worth the wait.
This is the first book I have read by Brynne and I will definitely be reading more. If you like an alpha male and you’re ok with a man taking charge then you’ll love this book read it. If you get upset because a female lets the man tell her to stay without giving a reason Then don’t. This was very family oriented with a little spice. I’m invested in this family now and want to read more about them.
Anyways, it was well written, engaging and moved at a good pace. The author did a good job fleshing out the main characters and had a good balance of drama, sweet, romance, steamy and suspense.
I did see some reviews that claimed Paige was a firecracker. I disagree. Though she could be a little sassy, she was more or less a doormat that caved under very little pressure by every male in this book.
Here’s where I gotta complain and take away two stars: this is a contemporary novel, but it doesn’t read like it when it comes to any male that is mentioned in this book. I will briefly mention the dad and brother, both named Anthony. Both treated Paige like a child and basically ignored anything she said, talked over her and treated her like she wasn’t a full grown adult, living on her own and capable of making her own decisions. The amount of times they barreled over her objections, even regarding her own home, was so frustrating.
Onto the other male: the friend aka the stalker aka Brian. At the beginning, this “friend” treated her like her family. Blatantly Ignored anything she said, her needs, wants, her mental state, etc and just did what he wanted. Case in point: when she has her first fight with Cam and Brian just barges into her apartment, even though she said she was tired, not in the mood for company, etc. not only does he walk on in, he makes himself food and settles in on her couch. She asks him more than once to leave, and he just brushes her. Paige just takes it. At this point, with the males in her life, I would have gone crazy!
Lastly, Cam: not a big fan. He was the worst of them. Treated her like she was one of his kids. Was short with her via text. Forced her into things, like boot camp, even though she repeatedly said it wasn’t for her, and blatantly said she didn’t want to do it. Instead of respecting her wishes, he just said “you’ll learn to like it.” He never wanted to talk to her about anything difficult for him, but any time they had a fight, he tracked her down like a stalker, bothered her family and friends to find her, when he was ready to talk his terms. He was the epitome of selfish and chauvinistic. I like an alpha man with the rest of them, but this was not it. He was a jerk 95% of the time. Never hardly said I am sorry even when he was wrong, and if he told her to “calm down” one more time, I would have smacked him. Lastly, the amount of times she told him no, or to let her go physically, when she was angry, and he blatantly ignored her? Not ok. Not even for fiction.
I think this is one of the first books I have blatantly disliked the male lead and he never really redeemed himself. Even his non-proposal of marriage…he slides the ring on her finger in a car? Doesn’t ask? Doesn’t make it special after what he’s put her through? Same with when he banned her from her apartment and called the police. I get he was protecting her and his kids, but to talk down to her and then not communicate or let her know what was going on in her own home? He claimed he didn’t have time, but had time to call every male in her family.
That being said, for someone always telling Paige to calm down and always act like she can’t handle her own life, he sure needed to calm down at the climax of the book. Who bursts into the front door when your pregnant GF is being held at gunpoint? Real smooth. Way to get her and yourself shot by spooking someone who is not mentally stable. He couldn’t wait for the FBI agent, who was right behind him, who had a gun and come in the back? Or come in calmly? He could hear on the phone that Paige was calming Brian down, and idiot Cam (and Jude) come bursting in like two bulls in a China shop. So incompetent.
The worst part of all this, though, was HOW MANY TIMES WE HAD TO READ ABOUT CAM’s GOAtee! Omg. Goatees are from the 90s, not attractive, but if you insist on your male character having one, don’t beat us to death with that description over and over.
This could have easily been a 5 star with a better male lead, less facial hair descriptions, and some minimal basic respect to the female character and her feelings and listening to her. Like I said above, the story overall was engaging, entertaining and read well. I will try another book by this author, and see if it’s better.
We love a spicy, sexy, well rounded love🥹
I love Cam and Paige, and literally am obsessed with this book now! The story covered so much in depth, but never felt like it was dragging. It was incredibly sewn together.
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🌶️: Defintely gets spicy
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A few not so great race comments to indigenous/native American peoples
Yea I get it's the states but maybe something to think about in future writings
The “third act break up” was completely simple and understandable, which is good because I hate the miscommunication/drama trope, and then the road to the HEA was, predictable but no less enjoyable… and that’s kinda the reason why I picked up a book to read today; so that I could just slip away into a nice simple universe of romance with the promise of a happy ending. I’m happy.
I did have my doubts before reading because of some of the low reviews that complain about things that, after reading for myself, I don’t see, personally.