The Hookup

Reviews

1. 

   Jillian – November 8, 2024

   The main male character is perfect
   The Hookup is the first book of a new series called Moonlight and Motor Oil. The book is set in Matlock, Kentucky, USA. The main characters are 34 year old Johnny Gamble and 31 year old Eliza “Izzy” Forrester. The book opens with the ‘morning after’ their hookup.The Hookup was written in non-alternating, dual POV. Izzy’s POV is told in first person. Johnny’s POV is told in third person. Izzy has most of the chapters in the first half of the book and Johnny has the chapters at the end of the book.The chapter breakdown is as follows:Izzy: Ch. 1-4, 6-9, most of 10, 11, 13, half of 14, half of epilogueJohhny: Ch. 5, some of 10, 12, half of 14, 15-19, half of epilogueBefore the book was first released I read the blurb and liked it enough to add to my TBR but by the time I one-clicked it, I didn’t remember anything about what this book would be about, so I went in blind. I am glad I did that. It was fun to be surprised.I loved the characters in this book. Johnny was perfect. Too perfect to be real, but just right for my fictional needs. He is my current book boyfriend. *swoon* I need a moment to daydream. ……………………………………………*sigh*……………………………………………….Okay I’m back. Seriously though, I love Johnny. He was kind, considerate, honest, loyal, protective; everything good. Immediately, I was drawn to Izzy because I could relate to her. I saw a lot of myself in Izzy and I loved that. Her propensity to overthink, analyze, and obsess over what something means or a conversation or an action that someone took was like looking at myself when my brain won’t turn off. Her thought process was written in such a genuine and believable way. I also loved that she had a bunch of rescue animals. I do too. I loved that she is the one to worry about and take care of others. Surprise, surprise- I do that too. Obviously, these characters really worked for me.I really enjoyed the story-line, beginning to end. I pretty much read and listened to this book straight through. I think I enjoyed this book more from a voyeuristic standpoint than anything, because there wasn’t a whole lot of action. The main sources of drama were resolved about as quickly as they happened so it was more just watching them live their day to day lives and develop a relationship. And you know what? I was fine with that. Sometimes, I just enjoy being able to vicariously live someone else’s life.Oh, I would be remiss to not mention the sex. I loved the sex scenes. They were hot hot hot. I was listening to the book in my car when one sex scene came on having to do with some butt stuff. I was sitting at a stop light and looked over to see the person in the car next to me giving me a weird look. My windows were up but theirs weren’t. Not sure how much they could hear but AWKWARD.This wasn’t quite a 5 star book for me.Some of those reasons are:-the writing didn’t always flow well or make complete sense at parts. There were several parts that I had to re-read to ensure I understood what was said, many of those parts were excessively wordy.-the back and forth about vegans and vegetarians – we get it, your mom was vegan (though KA missed the mark on that because a militant(as she put it) vegan would never use honey and bee pollen to make face masks-so that was a bit of a fail) and you were vegetarian for a while but can’t do it now. There is no need to consistently bring up throughout the book that you enjoy meat and this wouldn’t work for a vegetarian or vegan. Just eat your meat and continue on.-I wish we were able to see more of his business and how he’s making so much money.-The epilogue wasn’t enough for me. I want to see more of the future not just what is happening in the now. Maybe this was done intentionally because the next book will show us more of them and give us some updates?Just as a heads up, looking at the blurb now, it is a bit misleading. This book is nowhere near as dramatic as the blurb makes it sound.Overall, I really enjoyed reading The Hookup. I loved the characters and really liked watching them fall in love. I look forward to finding out what book two will be about. I want to read about Johnny’s brother, Toby, and Izzy’s sister, Addie, so badly, so I really hope book two will be about them.Also, I really love the cover for this book. It totally fits Johnny and his family.Audible: I added the whispersync audible narration to this kindle book. I think both narrators did a really good job and were easy to listen to and understand. I recommend this as an audio book.

2. 

   R Cars – November 8, 2024

   I was in a bit of a reading slump and KA got me right out of it. This is an absolutely great read with amazing characters and a wonderful story. Izzy and Johnny hooked me from their first encounter. Totally excellent.

3. 

   Ira W. – November 8, 2024

   The Hookup – well, this book certainly got me hooked and not only on this book but I had to go straight back online and get another book by the author!I can’t even say what exactly made this book so special, I think I fell for the hero and the heroine right from the start even though the hero’s problems sometimes made me a bit annoyed. He was hung up on a memory and I was furious that he didn’t see, well…Izzy was just someone that I’d love to get to know and hang out with. I love her attitude, the way she cares for others and her inner strength that made her overcome everything that she experienced in her childhood and hold on to the good things that happened.I loved to see Johnny getting drawn in by her and never really understanding what hit him. He tried to resist, he really tried. And failed.Those characters, as well as the minor characters, are multi-layered, interesting and authentic, they are not perfect, they are flawed and they certainly don’t hold back on the f-bomb front and there’s also explicit sex, so if you mind any of those things, well, this might not be the book for you. Otherwise, I can just say that this book drew me in from the first page on and I simply couldn’t put it down. Needless to say that that was a really really short night that day…I can’t wait for the second book in this series which will be out at the end of April!

4. 

   IsaLaCroqueuseDeLivres – November 8, 2024

   This book has everything I love in Romance: love, passion and wonderful writing.Another 2019 Top Read!