Lottie Loves, My Review

Lottie Loves

by Samie Sands

Hello, everyone!

Samie Sands visiting us again. Can you believe Lottie Loves is her first contemporary romance? I sure can’t. I read her book, and I have a few words to share with you about it. Don’t forget to scroll all the way down to participate in her giveaway and to go back and visit her guest post: How to date a Rockstar.

GENRE

Contemporary Romance

BLURB

“Will you marry me?”

Four words I’ve waited my whole life to hear. Four words I was sure would change my life forever…and they did. Just not in the way I expected.

Finding out my extremely gorgeous rock star boyfriend was about to propose had the complete opposite effect I thought it would. Rather than catapult me into a future I’ve always wanted, it plunged me back to a past I tried to forget.

Now I can’t get him out of my head. I can’t help but wonder what could have been, how our lives would have ended up if he didn’t leave me behind, a shattered mess.

All these memories are dangerous. They’re bringing my past back to ruin my future. And worst of all, they’re taking me right back to him, my childhood sweetheart, my first love…my biggest regret.

EXCERPT

“What am I going to do, Lotts?” he asked me, giving me a look of sheer helplessness. “How am I going to come back from this?” 

“Well, I’ll help you,” I gasped at him seriously, growing increasingly excited about the prospect of spending even more time with Joe. Things were much better anyway, and I wanted to take that one step further. I figured if I could start tutoring Joe, I could drag him away from the idiotic ‘popular crowd,’ and we could go back to being the us we were when we were younger, the us I loved so much. “I’ll go over everything with you, I have extensive notes from all the classes, maybe I could get you back up to where you should be…” 

I trailed off because he was giving me a strange look, one that had my heart thundering loudly in my chest. As his eyes shone with an emotion I didn’t quite recognise, I gulped down the massive ball of emotion that had lodged itself firmly in my throat. My ears buzzed, and my eyes swam. I had the intense sense that something monumental was about to happen…I just wasn’t quite sure what it was.  

“You’re always there for me,” he murmured thoughtfully, his gaze falling to my lips. My blood boiled inside of me as I shifted uncomfortably where I sat. I felt scrutinised, weird, and I didn’t know what the hell to do. “No matter what, you’re always there.” 

Then before I could even think, before I could grasp what the hell was happening, his lips had smashed against mine, and his hands were tangling themselves up in my hair. My instinctive reaction was to pull back, to find out what the hell was going on with Joe, but then the realisation screamed in my brain that Joe was kissing me, and that it might be the only shot I ever got.  

My heart raced so quickly I feared it might burst from my chest, a fiery spark lit within me, and although it wasn’t quite what I’d been picturing in my mind—it was far too desperate and needy for that—I felt alive, tingly, and I knew this was proof that we were meant to be. I knew we’d finally overstepped that mark, we’d crossed the line and there would be no coming back from that, but I was excited. I felt this was how things had meant to be all along. 

As we finally pulled apart, and we gazed into one another’s eyes, I thought I could see some shock there, almost as if he hadn’t quite expected to do that. I didn’t mind that though, I was certain I looked the same. In that way, it was really the perfect moment—in my mind, at least. It was spontaneous, unexpected, and incredibly excited. 

“I…” I started to speak, to ask him the millions of questions floating through my mind, but before I could get anything out, we heard Joe’s mum calling him home. Usually this wouldn’t mean too much, we would hang out for a little while longer, but this time he jumped up rapidly with a regretful look in his eyes, and he raced away. 

It’s just because he needs to think things through, I tried to reassure myself, as I trudged slowly and sadly to my own home. He just needs to sort out his own feelings.  

Out of an intense desire to recall this situation fully, now that I’d started thinking about it, and wanting to be armed with as much knowledge as possible, I raced back to my diary, and I flicked through the pages until I found the relevant one. 

26th May 2007 

I just kissed Joe. 

I don’t even know how to describe it, it was utterly the best moment of my life. All of my dreams couldn’t even begin to imagine how good it was going to be. I can’t even believe that I’m writing this…after all the heartache, all the wondering, it’s finally happened and now we can actually be together.  

This is the best thing ever!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Samie Sands is the author of the AM13 Outbreak series, published by Limitless Publishing. She’s also had short stories included in Amazon best selling anthologies and work featured on Wattpad. Lottie Loves is her first book in the contemporary romance genre.

To find out more, please check out samiesands.com.

Links:

Website  |  Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Blog  |  Wattpad 

Lottie Loves US  |  Lottie Loves UK  |  Amazon 

GIVEAWAY

Samie Sands will be awarding a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

Enter to win a $10 Amazon/BN GC or a book

My Review

Charlotte, or Lottie as the title suggests, is a young woman who finds herself in some sort of crossroads. While she lives happily with her rockstar boyfriend, Danny, the moment he plans on proposing sets a series of events that guides her through memory lane.

There would be no way for  me to get married without taking this step anyway. Right now, things were comfortable, but if I was ever going to have a future with Danny, I needed to confront my past first.

Lottie Loves is not a typical romance story with a HEA. While there is a happy ending, there is also an internal monologue that depicts Lottie’s journey of personal discovery. The writing is expressed mostly in internal dialogue, as an introspective narrative of her life. It’s full of young love dreams, teenage crushes and adulthood challenges and practicality. Her journey is depicted by present and past events, in a way of giving us access to the doubts that are invading her heart. I am a true believer that we must learn from our past in order to advance in our future, and Lottie reconnects with the most important man on her past to be able to decide if he is the one she’s meant to be with, or the one who got away.

About a week after we started secondary school, I noticed a change. Not just in everything surrounding us, but in me and Joe too.

Our main character uses her diaries to remember what it was like to be with her first love, Joe. It is possible for us to see how she felt for him as a teenager, and all the situations that they went through during their relationship. Relating to her is easy, since many of us wave gone through a similar phase, walking down memory lane and processing the “what ifs”. As an adult, we see a more centered Lottie, in a very different relationship with her current boyfriend. We don’t get to know the boys a lot, since we meet them only through her eyes and lens.

The colour from my life simply disappeared, and all I was left with was a monochrome existence.

You have to read this story to find out what her conclusion was, and how she got there. It is an intense book, full of love and conflicted emotions. There are also some surprising twists in the story that I wasn’t able to foresee. It is a book that show us a woman’s empowering journey of love.

Don’t forget to visit Samie’s guest post, How To Date a Rockstar.

 

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