Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Attainment – J. H. Cardwell

There are many ways to capture a person’s love, but unwilling, full attainment is never the best option.
Life hasn’t been easy for 18 year old Reese Stanford. After a traumatic incident a year ago, she has a hard time trusting any guy. She finally allows herself to fall for the heart throb, Tate Justice, only to realize he too comes with his own set of issues.
Swearing off men, she meets a beach ‘god’ who will settle for no less than all of Reese. That is at least, until she learns a truth about Tate that changes the game entirely.

Series:  Attainment #1
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Publisher: Createspace
Source: Author’s Pal
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

I will start this review by saying, this was….it was probably me.

Reese had been through a lot.  She was date raped, had problems dealing with certain social situation and was stung my the lost of contact with her boyfriend who moved away.  She kept to her close knit group of friends as a way to protect herself from the unknown and relied on her family and her strong sense of faith to guide her.  At first, I really liked her.  But then I started to question what she was doing.  She vacillated between Tate, Carter and then the mysterious John.  She seemed to allow herself to be pushed into situations where the worst possible outcome lay in front of her.  Some of her so-called “best friends” seemed to feel free to giveaway Reese’s personal information without any real consequence.  Reese claimed she couldn’t trust men, because the ones she did let her down, but I think the person she really shouldn’t trust is herself.

I understand she is young and well all make stupid decisions and mistakes, but Reese’s just seemed to keep piling on top of each other.  It was almost as if she purposefully ignored some of the signs that were right in front of her (for example, creepy John.  There is something not right there and I have a feeling that will spell disaster later on, but does Reese see that?  NO!).

As I said about…it’s probably me.  Others have really enjoyed this book and normally these type of suspenseful storylines are right up my alley.  But I didn’t connect with the characters or the storyline.

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2 Attainment T-Shirts

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  “You look extremely fine in those heels, but may I suggest you wear flats around here next time?”

Well, if I wasn’t blushing red before, I’m sure now I was scolding red and add speechless to the list. “I…um…what?”…fine, as in hot fine, or fine okay…then I said, “I mean, I’ll wear whatever I damn well please.”

Gorgeous god was stepping back a little holding his palms out in front of him. “Yes ma’am, I can see you sure would do that.”

Crap, I had the bad habit of getting angry when I got embarrassed, and I had just exercised that little bad habit on him.

“Well, I guess you’d do good to remember that then.” I said as I turned my head to the front away from him.

“Ooh, I like ‘em feisty. Where have you been hiding Miss?”

Oh no you don’t, we weren’t even supposed to be talking this long. I just looked at him with a ‘I’m not interested look’.

“Okay, I’ll go first. My name is John….John Rider. Nice to meet you,” he said holding his hand out.

 

 Julie has spent years in the medical field. The first few as a Cardiac Specialty Nurse, and over the last decade as a Pharmaceutical and Medical Sales Representative. She has gathered mounds of experience both personally and professionally to pour into her new passion…writing. After years of power points in the corporate world, she is trying her hand at romance fiction with her first novel, Attainment, and the soon to be released sequel Atonement. Julie resides in a small town in NC with her husband and four children. She continues working full time in sales, exploring her writing late at night and in the wee hours of the morning when her children are tucked safely in bed.

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