Worth the Risk (The McKinney Brothers, #2) in Turning Pages At Midnight

Jan 16, 2015 Jessica rated it really liked it

This book was amazing. I can only think of the pros. The writing was amazing, the author really got the hang for this set of people. The first book was amazing, but this blew me away. One thing I truly loved was the fact that we did t have to seat thru the repelling of the first book. We were able to just flow with this story and it was nice.
There were a few typos that I saw, bit for me they don't matter.
Now the story was just amazing! I loved what the heroine did with her life, and just kept ...more

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Dec 24, 2014 V rated it liked it

Shelves: erotic-romance, love-drama

3-3.5 stars

This was a sweet, yet frustrating read. It started off really well with Stephen in full-on alpha mode when he first meets Hannah in a supermarket. He manages to convince her to go to dinner with him and then his niece's birthday party (Abby's daughter from book 1). After this second 'date' though, Stephen changes, becoming distant from Hannah and essentially freaks out when he realises he still isnt over the death of his ex-girlfriend and his belief that he has some 'inner-beast' with ...more

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Jul 31, 2016 Cherise rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary, trauma

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Okayyy...First reaction after the final page: *flip flip flip* is that it???? then urge to fling my poor mobile at the wall...

I started getting pretty apprehensive when I get to know these two. Both were very broken, and I just couldn't see them being able to get past this to reach their HEA (this is when I realise I seldom read two broken souls as I usually am not into too much angst and found NA is not really to my liking). I get more angsty when the plot developed with some harlequin parallel Okayyy...First reaction after the final page: *flip flip flip* is that it???? then urge to fling my poor mobile at the wall...

I started getting pretty apprehensive when I get to know these two. Both were very broken, and I just couldn't see them being able to get past this to reach their HEA (this is when I realise I seldom read two broken souls as I usually am not into too much angst and found NA is not really to my liking). I get more angsty when the plot developed with some harlequin paralleled plot and I'm sad to say I never could get past those two points to fully enjoy the story.

After loving the first one, I think I was expecting something similar of our H, and hence was greatly disappointed. It is very hard to like the H (I'm sorry I know it isn't fair, but I cannot help comparing him to our first book's H, whom is amazeballs...). He has issues, I understand that part and feel his loss and grief. I just cannot understand what he is doing moving in on our h knowing what she's been through and how fragile she is. Like a lot of people had told him, she won't be doing casual relationship, and yet knowing this, he still went after her, with no idea what he really wants out of this besides the tupping. I'm not allergic to playboys, and I actually believe players can turn into great devoted protagonists. But in here, with so much of his past flung back at us every few pages plus his thoughts never far from having sex with our h, then moving in real quick for it and again without really knowing what he is ready for, it just makes it hard for me to believe in him as a H material. I also do not understand his fear of becoming a monster and why it is such a big deal, especially when this eventually was dealt with by 1/3 of a page. So all a big fuss over nothing and I just can say meh.

The plot is another killer for me and what makes me want to rage rant. I so do not like a plot that the villains get their way in the end!!!!! OH MY GOODNESS!!! The injustice of it all!!! Not only is it pissing me off mightily (I read books to feel good, if I want to know about injustices and a reality dose, I turn on the news). I do not understand why this is even necessary to be honest as a side plot. It also shows everyone in a bad light in my book. First of all, none of all the alpha males in either family can do anything about this situation (like seriously??!?!?! we know they are all pretty well off and some also should have good government contacts, this whole thing just makes me shake my head at their ineptitude). Then we are shown the H really doesn't seem to be working most times, except to piss his business associates off or to day dream about having sex with our h. I just cannot fathom how he can be running a multi billion dollar empire like this, and I have to say, his partner probably deserves to be all bitter about it based on what I've seen of his work (or non-work) in this instance.

Anyhows, in contrast to the above 2 major peeve, the h is decent, though a bit too fragile for my taste. While I like her wanting to make a difference and appreciate why she is always protected by her horde of brothers, making her like the little princess in their midst, I didn't really see her point in wanting to handle such a huge problem on her own. I think a major issue here is I wasn't really too connected to her after the mid way point, with so many other things going on and I started worrying more about the other things than her feelings, which doesn't seem to complicated as she is of a one mind track to be with our H anyways.

All in all, I was ok with this until probably the halfway mark. I even felt the angst of these two before then and how it became a rare emotional thing when they started to really get to know each other and let each other in. Then afterwards, other things start getting center stage, and with everything else going on, these two just doesn't seem to have enough time to really connect well with each other or with me. Added to the sudden speeded up pace at the end (there are a few instances things happened so quick and pretty abrupt that I have to turn the page back to be sure I didn't skip a page accidentally), and the grand finale that just pissed my sense of justice off, I just couldn't close this book as I did with the first one, with a happy and contented sigh (rather, I found out that's indeed the end and I have another few pages of epilogue to rush quickly through so I can start ranting about this book here). So, hopefully the next one will be better :/ ...more

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Jan 11, 2015 Fiona marked it as to-read

Shelves: alpha-male

Expected publication: February 3rd 2015

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Jan 12, 2015 Jecca rated it it was amazing

**ARC Review**

Sigh...
Another McKinney brother...
And my heart bites the dust again...

We ladies love some sexy, damaged, CEO types, and Stephen definitely fits the bill. I was confused when I first started the book because I couldn't remember which brother Stephen was. That's because he was pretty much absent in Book 1, off being a rich playboy, drowning in his darkness. But Ms. Connor definitely made up for his absence in Matt's book when she wrote this one. I couldn't get enough. Hell, I can't s ...more

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Feb 03, 2015 Christina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I liked it. Maybe not as much as the first book. I struggled through some parts. Some of it felt forced or didn't flow the way it should. I will continue with the series because I am curious about JT and I want to read more about the McKinney brothers. ...more

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Dec 23, 2016 Yo Adriane rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Bammm!

Another mazing story told so perfectly that the pages came alive. The emotions were real. I fell for yet another McKinney brother and believe there will be more in my future.

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