Author: Avery Hale
Title: Lovefools, (Fools in Love Series, Book 1)
Genre: A New Adult Contemporary Romance
We are all fools in love. Twenty-two year old Phinegan Swift is no exception to that rule. In fact, she’s been accused of being a certifiable lovefool. But she’s proud to wear her heart on her sleeve and risk it all for love.
That is, until her high-powered lawyer boyfriend betrays her, breaks her heart, and causes her to question everything she ever believed in. Devastated by his betrayal, Phin escapes to Costa Rica for a week with her best gal pal, hoping to give her heart a chance to heal.
Dez—a foul-mouthed, man-eating sex-pot—makes it her mission to distract Phin from her breakup woes with a healthy dose of sun, fun,…and Costa Rican man-candy.
But the only man who catches Phin’s eye is a handsome and mysterious stranger she meets at the airport.
Byron is a guy whose angle Phin just can't figure out. All she knows is that he’s a thief... First, he tries to steal her luggage. Then, he tries to steals her massage. Finally, he tries to steal her heart.
But Byron has his own secrets—the real reason he’s in Costa Rica being one of them. When Phin uncovers his duplicity, she is faced with yet another heartbreak.
Things take a dramatic turn when a ghost from Phin’s past resurfaces to win her back...or so he claims.
Will Phin learn to believe in love again…or will love play her like a fool?
I dipped
my ears under the water and could hear the thunder and the muted echoes of the
rain plopping on the pool’s surface, but nothing else.
The sky
grew even darker. There was darkness above me and all around. Even the water
looked black. I was floating in a void, wishing for a whirlpool to swallow me
up as I started feeling the ache again. The sharp blade that stabbed me in the
heart and twisted with cruelty, every single time I tried to forget it. The
pain that should’ve killed me days ago, except my stubborn, stupid body kept
insisting on breathing, my heart kept beating, though I no longer knew what
for.
I closed
my eyes, replacing the darkness with more darkness. Except this blackness felt
empty, just like me.
Had he
thought of me since the day he shattered my world into a million pieces? Did he
feel as terrible as I did? Did he care that I was hurting? That heartless,
soulless bastard…whom I loved.
Lovefools
is a sweet, sexy, perfect little summertime read.
This
story follows Phinegan Swift, (just love her name, nice and different, not
run-of-the-mill) who has just, and I mean like, really recent, broken up with
her high powered lawyer boyfriend, who is, in my opinion, a complete douche
bag, and her best friend Dez, who I just loved - everyone needs a friend like
Dez, as they go on their week-long vacation to Costa-Rica which they have
scrimped and saved for, for over a year.
" …. I simply couldn’t get myself to give a shit about
going a week without clean underwear."
Phin
meets the hot but mysterious Bryon at the airport, who throughout her time in
Costa Rica, can't seem to grasp what it is about him that consumes her thoughts
when she's grieving over the end of her long term relationship.
"My peripheral vision caught Dez's jaw
drop open and her tongue rolling out of her mouth and onto the floor. Who could
blame her? The guy was a ten on the Richter scale, a ten million on the
Scoville scale, and the top of whatever other kind of scale there was."
Now
normally, the internal monologue that occurs in these types of situations
annoys the crap out of me, but thankfully, here it did not. It was well written, and not boring, like
many other books have done with the internal voices of the characters. I think
it helped that the storyline contained a situation that I think most could
relate to - well, for those who have experienced getting their hearts broken.
Questions like: What did I do wrong? Why didn’t I see it? What's wrong with me?
Why wasn't I good enough? Those types of questions would be normal in that type
of situation and having hot, mysterious Bryon popping up at every turn on a
week away from the crap that your life had turned into could be unsettling.
Well, I would think so.
And
Byron. Well, what can I say? The guy was HAWT, and I, like Dez would be telling
my friend to jump on board and take a ride. Not necessarily, on Bryon, cause
HELLO we are in Costa Rica and Avery paints a lovely picture of eye-candy
galore!! Stuff, pining over douchebag Dougie. Take life by the horns and get a
little holiday loving to refresh the batteries. Haha. :)
It moves
a little fast for me, feelings wise, towards the end, but other than that a
great little summer story for sitting by the pool or by the beach drinking
cocktails.
This
was a great book from Avery, and I'm looking forward to more awesomeness from
this new upcoming author :)
**I
received a copy of the book for an honest review**
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“Take it from me—love is a bitch. The biggest bitch you’ll ever meet. So it’s best to stay out of her way.” - Dez, Lovefools by Avery Hale
Avery Hale is a small town girl who lives in the big city of Chicago. She holds down a day job and spends the rest of her time cooking, laughing, yoga-ing…and, of course, indulging in her ridiculous obsession with love stories! She writes Romance and YA Paranormal (under the pen name Jane Lively.)
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What happens when the one you thought you would spend forever with decides that ‘he still loves you but is not ready to settle down' he tells you 'maybe we will meet again later in life'. Ouch now that hurts. 
