Addicted (The Callahans 3) to Him by Monica Murphy-Review Tour

ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 8, 2020

Eli Bennett.

Quarterback at our biggest rival high school.

My brother’s worst enemy.

So why can’t I stop thinking about him?

For one, he’s totally gorgeous and boy, does he know it. He’s an arrogant trash talker who brings drama wherever he goes.

And for some reason, he’s set his sights on me.

The more I get to know him, the more I realize he’s actually kind of…sweet. Deep down, he’s broken. Hurting. He’s dealing with a lot, but he also puts on a major front so no one can tell. I want to be there for him. I want to be with him. But because everyone in my life hates Eli, we have to keep our relationship a secret.

The problem with secrets is they never stay secret for long..

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REVIEW:ADDICTED TO HIM is the third instalment in Monica Murphy’s contemporary, young adult THE CALLAHANS romance series focusing on the Callahan siblings –a spin off from the author’s ONE WEEK GIRLFRIEND series. This is high school quarterback Eli Bennett, and high school cheerleader Ava Callahan’s story line. ADDICTED TO HIM can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous instalment is revealed where necessary.

NOTE: ADDICTED TO HIM runs parallel to, and crosses over with most of the events of book two FALLING FOR HER.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Eli and Ava) ADDICTED TO HIM follows the forbidden romance between high school quarterback Eli Bennett, and high school cheerleader Ava Callahan. Eli Bennett is Jake Callahan’s nemesis both on and off the football field. As the quarterback for a rival high school Eli Bennett has mocked Jake Callahan throughout their high school careers but falling for Jake’s younger sister Ava, finds our hero struggling between head and heart. Ava Callahan knows that her relationship with Eli Bennett is forbidden by both her parents, and her brother Jake. Keeping their friendship and romance on the DL, Ave battles to keep their secret while Eli must contend with the fall-out at home. As the homecoming game draws nearer, Eli and Ava’s relationship steps up to the next level, a level that is now threatened when secrets are revealed. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Eli and Ava, and the fall-out as their relationship, and Eli’s troubles at home become public knowledge.

The relationship between Eli and Ava began two years earlier while family were guests at a high school football camp. Ava had known that Eli was her brother’s enemy; his arch-nemesis and an unlikely boyfriend but that didn’t stop Ava from fantasizing about a boy she couldn’t have. Eli Bennett’s home life imploded two years earlier, and in this Eli struggles to find his place at school, on the field, and in the arms of the young woman he loves. The $ex scenes are passionate and intense without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters including Jake and Hannah (Falling for Her), Fable and Drew (One Week Girlfriend), Ava’s best friend Ellie; Jake’s ex-girlfriend Cami, and rival football players Diego, Wyatt and Caleb. The requisite mean-girls are all up in Ava’s face.

ADDICTED TO HIM is a story of family, friendships, relationships and rejection; of bullies and dysfunction; of hopelessness and loss. The premise is engaging; the romance is captivating and seductive; the characters are dynamic and edgy. ADDICTED TO HIM ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Close To Me
Falling for Her

Copy supplied for review

Reviewed by Sandy

Monica Murphy is the New York Times, USA Today and #1 international bestselling author of the One Week Girlfriend series, the Billionaire Bachelors and The Rules series. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and has sold over one million copies worldwide. She is both self-published and published by Random House/Bantam and Harper Collins/Avon. She writes new adult, young adult and contemporary romance.

She is a wife and a mother of three who lives in central California on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere along with their one dog and too many cats. A self-confessed workaholic, when she’s not writing, she’s reading or hanging out with her husband and kids. She’s a firm believer in happy endings, though she will admit to putting her characters through angst-filled moments before they finally get that hard won HEA.

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