WRONG TURN (RoadTripping #2) by Samantha Chase-Review tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 5, 2020
Chelsea Cooper thinks her best friend’s fiancé is the world’s biggest jerk.
She’s never really been one to make waves, but when it comes to that guy, Chelsea’s willing to make an exception. There’s just no way she can let her best friend make the biggest mistake of her life by marrying him. She’ll do anything to stop the wedding, even if it means teaming up with the one person who’s an even bigger jerk—the groom-to-be’s best friend.
Drew Russo thinks his best friend’s fiancée’s best friend is the prickliest woman alive.
Everything about Chelsea aggravates him. She’s too structured, too uptight, and too opinionated—especially when it comes to her thoughts on his best friend. When he’s tasked with keeping her away from their best friends’ secret wedding, Drew knows he’s in for one hell of a challenge. Never mind the days he’ll have to spend trapped in a car with the world’s most annoying woman.
The plan is simple enough—keep Chelsea from interfering with the wedding. But between distractions, delays and detours, they discover they aren’t the enemies they thought they were. And sometimes a wrong turn can lead you in the right direction.
Warning—This sweet, sexy, and laugh out loud funny romance is filled with all the most ridiculous road trip stories you can imagine and will make you realize sometimes being wrong can be a lot more fun than being right.
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REVIEW: WRONG TURN is the second instalment in Samantha Chase’s contemporary, adult ROADTRIPPING romance series. This is thirty year old, software specialist Drew Russo, and twenty-nine year old, physio therapist / voice narrator Chelsea Coopers story line. WRONG TURN can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Drew and Chelsea) WRONG TURN follows the enemies to lovers relationship between thirty year old, software specialist Drew Russo, and twenty-nine year old, physio therapist / voice narrator Chelsea Cooper. For close to a year Chelsea Cooper has struggled to accept her best friend Bianca’s relationship with Jimmy, a relationship that was about to become more serious. Friday night get togethers meant spending time with Jimmy’s best friend Drew Russo, a man who pushed all of our heroine’s buttons but when Bianca and Jimmy left town for a secret destination wedding, Chelsea made it her mission to stop the wedding at all cost. Enter Drew Russo, Jimmy’s best friend, and the man with whom Chelsea will fall in love. What ensues is a cross country journey between Drew and Chelsea, and the potential fall-out as Chelsea comes to the realization that she is better off alone than with friends who continually push her down.
Chelsea Cooper battles between head and heart as it pertains to her best friend Bianca, a self-centred, self-righteous “Malibu Barbie” type who never considers the feelings of anyone else but it has taken Bianca most of her life to realize she has enabled her friend in all the wrong ways, adding to the toxicity of their struggling relationship. Hoping to stop Bianca from crashing the wedding, Drew makes all the wrong turns in their cross country trek, but finds himself falling in love, along the way.
The relationship between Chelsea and Drew is an enemies to lovers wherein our couple will discover their hatred for one another was fueled by the very friends tearing them down. Chelsea and Drew will have several heart to heart talks that will reveal the truth about what has happened, and probably why. The back and forth banter is witty and fun. The $ex scenes are all implied and fade to black.
We are introduced to Chelsea’s best friend Bianca, and Drew’s best friend Jimmy, as well as Bianca and Chelsea’s friends Kendall and Shauna.
WRONG TURN focuses on the toxic relationship of life long friends, and the fall-out when one friend has finally had enough. The maturity level of many of the characters is questionable-their behavior and emotional out-bursts are adolescent and frustrating-I wanted to give everyone a time out. The premise is, at times, heart breaking; the character’s attitudes are discouraging but saying that, Samantha Chase wrote a story that will resonate with many readers who have quite possibly experienced something similar in their own lives.
The author has also added a bit of an “Easter Egg” from Drive Me Crazy.
Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one DRIVE ME CRAZY.
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Reviewed by Sandy
Forget the ice cream or cupcake being orgasmic, kissing Drew was quickly approaching that status. His lips were both soft and firm at the same time–if that was even possible–and his tongue was…well, it certainly knew what it was doing, too.
Moving in closer, Chelsea’s hands slowly moved up his muscular arms before gently scraping around his nape and up into his thick, dark hair. He smelled good, he felt good, and he kissed like…like nothing she’d ever experienced before.
Oh, God…what if it isn’t that Drew is so good as…I’m just bad at this?
As if reading her mind, his lips left hers. She felt his warm breath against her cheek. “I can hear you thinking from here. If you want to stop…”
She never let him finish. Just as Drew’s hand dropped from her cheeks, she reached up to cup his. “Don’t stop,” she whispered before pulling him back in for another kiss. It was hotter and wetter, and more sensual than the first.
Within minutes, he had pulled her into his lap. Her hands raked through his hair while his were rubbing a hypnotic pattern up and down her back with the occasional butt squeeze. His hands were magnificent and she wanted to feel them on her skin and not just over her robe.
Without breaking the kiss, she untied the belt at her waist and pushed the garment from her shoulders. Drew’s hands immediately went to her bare legs and then around to grab her ass. She moaned into his mouth before he pulled back to look at her.
And that’s when she remembered what she had on underneath.
Oh, no…
“Is that…”
Chelsea tried to close the distance between them and kiss him again, but he wasn’t to be deterred. Wanting to die of embarrassment, she sighed. Leaning back, she let him get a good look at the hot pink nightshirt she was wearing.
With a giant cartoon chicken wearing a bikini and sunglasses that said, “Hot Chick.”
Kill me now.
He looked up at her and then down at her shirt before he laughed softly. “Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever…”
“You know what,” she quickly interrupted, doing her best to climb off his lap with as much dignity as she could muster. “No one was supposed to see this. I was supposed to be alone in my own room and…”
She never got to finish. Drew hauled her back into his lap, his large hands on her hips, securing her to him.
“I think it’s freaking adorable,” he said, his voice low and seductive–like he wasn’t referring to a chicken wearing a bikini. His gaze was hot and sexy. “I think you’re pretty freaking adorable too.”
“Really? Just adorable?”
Oh, God…why would I ask that?
“Actually, I think you’re pretty damn hot, Chelsea, and I’d be lying if said I didn’t want to see what you’ve got on under this shirt.”
Maybe it was the wine, maybe it was the ice cream. All she knew was that her mind had drifted in a very dirty direction and she was powerless to try to change it. Feeling bolder than she ever had in her life, she crossed her arms in front of her and tugged the nightshirt up and over her head.
She saw Drew swallow hard as his eyes seemed to devour her. Her skin was both chilled and heated at the same time. Her nipples tightened and she felt more exposed than she ever had with a man.
“I love how the panties match the shirt,” he said, one hand toying with the waistband. Right now, she wished she was wearing something sexier than hot pink cotton, but he didn’t seem to mind.
“Drew…”
Looking up, his eyes met hers even as his fingers continued to tease her.
“Is this weird?” she said quietly. “I mean, earlier today we were fighting and making each other crazy.”
The hand that wasn’t tormenting her reached up and caressed her cheek. “I think we’re still making each other crazy, just in a much more pleasurable way.”
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New York Times and USA Today Bestseller/contemporary romance writer Samantha Chase released her debut novel, Jordan’s Return, in November 2011. Although she waited until she was in her 40’s to publish for the first time, writing has been a lifelong passion. Her motivation to take that step was her students: teaching creative writing to elementary age students all the way up through high school and encouraging those students to follow their writing dreams gave Samantha the confidence to take that step as well.
When she’s not working on a new story, she spends her time reading contemporary romances, playing way too many games of Scrabble or Solitaire on Facebook and spending time with her husband of 25 years and their two sons in North Carolina.
Great review, Sandy. Looks like a different kind of romantic read.
Thanks for the wonderful yet honest review. I recently read a contemporary, adult story where all the female characters did nothing but bad mouth and fight all the time. I thought it was a YA story but all the the characters were in their 20s and 30s. I struggled, like you, to like the story because of the immature attitudes-and this attitude lasted the entire story 😉
Another great review, thanks Sandy.
Looks great, thanks for the wonderful review and excerpt.
Thanks for another great review and excerpt !
Terrific review, Sandy. Appreciate your honesty.
Great review and excerpt. Congratulations to Samantha on the new release. As always, thanks for the honesty.
Great review, Sandy. Looks very good. Thanks.
great review, sandy. sounds like an awesome story.
Wonderful review, Sandy. Sounds very good. Thanks.
Wonderful review and excerpt, thanks for the honesty.