Book Review: Collide and Pulse

I recently read a two-book series called Collide and Pulse by Gail McHugh.

On the heels of graduating college and trying to cope with her mother’s death, Emily Cooper moves to New York City for a fresh start.
While harboring secrets of his own, Dillon Parker takes care of Emily through her grief. Knowing he can’t live without her by his side, he’s sweet, thoughtful, and everything Emily has ever wanted in a man.
Until she meets Gavin Blake—a rich and notorious playboy who is dangerously sexy and charming as hell. Emily tries to deny the instant connection she feels, but Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome is not inclined to let go so easily. Recovering from his own painful past, Gavin will stop at nothing to win Emily over.
This unexpected encounter compels Emily to question her decisions, forcing her to make a choice that will destroy friendships, shatter hearts, and forever change her life.

 

 Now that Emily Cooper has walked away from her first love, she finds herself running toward her only love. Unraveling fast, but clinging to hope, Emily risks all she has left on the man that has consumed her every thought and dream since the day they met. Will Gavin take her back? And if so, will their reunion be a collision of two hearts destined to complete one another and rekindle a love that knew no boundaries? Or will scars from their past rip open, tearing slowly at what each of them was meant to be? Can fate, the ultimate game changer, mend the shattered road it laid out from the start?
Only time will tell…

My thoughts:
Collide was alright. The story kept me somewhat captivated, but there was nothing special about it that made it stand out. It definitely had a lot more action than the second book though. I gave it 3 out of 5 stars.

Pulse was super boring. I mostly read it and finished it, because I can't just read one book in a series without finishing the others. There's only so many times and so many ways you can say that they are destined to be together, part of each other's souls, etc. It seemed like there was a LOT of that in this book, and that's what the book ended up being. There was one good storyline in it, but towards the end I just kept skimming over the whole "destined to be together" crap and trying to finish the good storyline. I gave it 2 out of 5 stars. 

Neither were anything special, so I don't know if I'd recommend them or not. The author could have put both books into one and made it more dynamic, which would have been better for the story altogether.

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