Things you need for a good Block Party:1. Awesome food2. Great Music3. Fun games4. A secret spot to hook up with your even-more-secret girlfriend.Liam Edenhoff is a simple creature. He likes women, tacos, and sex. As long as he has those in his life, everything is good. He’s finally realizing maybe he’s just not cut out for relationships – surely there’s got to be a woman out there who’d be okay … surely there’s got to be a woman out there who’d be okay with roof top margaritas, casual sex, and no attachments.
Enter a new neighbor – one who is allergic to commitment and prefers her sex casual but frequent. She’s seen him at his worst and is still willing to play his games, on three conditions – discretion is a must, casual is key, and absolutely no drama. Sounds like the perfect arrangement. What could go wrong?
Famous last words when dealing with neighbors.
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Ahhh Liam Edenhoff returns!!! Super stoked to read his story and what a story it is.
Full of sex appeal, always the life of the party, never met a stranger, gets along with everyone, can light up a room with just his looks. But, what is hiding behind the many masks Liam wears?
Ice Queen herself, Ayumi is used to being the one accused of causing things to fail. Her mother has always drilled it into her head that she wasn’t good enough…in nothing that she has done.
So when these two lost people who are total opposite of each other, attempt to find the middle of the road, that they can cruise together there are going to be sparks.
A great emotional journey for Liam and Ayumi. Learning to accept that neither needs to change for each other. Yet accepting the fact that they both have feelings for each other.
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“But with me, he means it.”
After reading the first two books in this “Twin Estates” series, the writing was so enjoyable I was compelled to continue onto this the third book, “Block Party” . For those that fell a little in love with Liam and not Wulfric (I, myself, was Team Wulfric.) in the first book, “Neighbors”; only to have him turn out to be a self-centered and immature idiot in “The Neighborhood” which naturally upset many readers who were Team Liam…here is your book!!!
This is one beautifully written story of Liam finding his one true desire in someone I never, ever would have expected…someone so completely opposite to him in most every way except one. Turns out they both put on a front for others in different ways for different reasons and they are fundamentally lonely people because of it. That and …lest I forget to add… a white-hot sexual chemistry that is “off-the-chain” free and wild.
Liam is the fun-loving, laid back, sometimes manipulator, quite possibly a sex addict manwhore. Ayumi is referred to as Ice-queen by Liam. She is bordering on OCD and everything in her life is planned and regimented. She is serious and brusque in her manner. She always presents herself with a cool and professional demeanor.
The plot detailing the ups and downs of Liam and Ayumi’s relationship is more exciting in this book than the storylines in the previous books. Both characters go through so many changes and have several realizations…some which bring them closer and others tear them apart. It seems to me that this author had a very good feel for these two characters. They were alive in my mind and won me over. I became Team Liam and grew in admiration for Ayumi…what she endured, and how she persevered and ultimately triumphed over her personal challenges. As a couple…they were spellbinding!!!
Their story was told in Third person alternating POVs with Katya and Wulfric making a brief return. Throughout the third person narration is skilled and naturally flowing dialogue. As I mentioned in earlier reviews, this author has a marvelous skill with creating interactive dialogue between and among her characters.
Ahh…then there is the lovely sexual tension between Liam and Ayumi before, during and after their first encounter. It is ever present throughout the read…even when they are not communicating or upset with one another. The author never lets you forget that they desire each other hopelessly and endlessly.
I believe I have already referred to the dizzying erotic love scenes between these two, but just in case you have any doubt…I will reiterate that these two together are hot AF and all get out!!! Holy Moly Fazzoly!!! This author is gifted with impeccable timing and pace in the erotic scene…not to mention the ability to have her characters talk dirty and sassy which makes the overall reading experience an absolute delight!!!
Hold on for the ending…this author makes you almost beg in your mind’s eye for what you want. Ahhhh! But then OOOOh, what’s next??? What’s happened to our girl Tori??? And I’m off to finish this series because well I know this next book will answer that question and close the series!!! Who really can resit at this point?
If you like your men and women characters hot, strong but vulnerable…and you like dirty hot sex…characters learning about themselves and trippy, angsty, reads, I encourage you to begin this series. This book is better than the first two but the first two are pretty damn good.
“This is the girl with the scar, and she’s so goddamn beautiful, she stops my heart,” he whispered. Ayumi smiled at him, then reached out and smoothed her hand through his hair. “Maybe,” she agreed. ‘But she’s still not half as beautiful as you.’”
The Twin Estate Series
Book 1 – Neighbors
Book 2 – The Neighborhood
Book 3 – Block Party
Book 4 – Neighborhood Watch
I loved everything about this book! I love all the characters and I’m so excited that we’re getting more. I’ve been Team Liam from the beginning, he made me all giddy on the inside. He and Ayumi are complete opposites but they’re absolutely perfect for each other. Great banter between those two. This one made me all happy-clappy at the end.
When I first started reading this book I wasn’t really sure what to expect because the first two really didn’t catch my interest. However, this book was really good and I flew through it.
Liam was still the fun, loving, surfer boy but he was still recovering from what happened with Katya. He however, comes to an agreement with the “Ice Queen” and soon realizes what he thought he wanted wasn’t really it at all.
“Ice Queen” doesn’t show her emotions because of the sh**ty life that she had growing up. She however, soon realizes that she could have so much more if she just learned how to let go and live in the moment.
Will Liam be the one to help her learn how to do this or will she push him away.
I loved the triangle that was Katya, Wulf and Liam and when Katya chose Wulf I was happy because they were meant to be.
What I didn’t like, Liam being alone so I was ecstatic to find out Liam was getting his own book the anticipation of who will be the lucky girl.
This story was perfect, angsty, humorous, opposites attract, the fighting, the making up.
Gah I just loved everything about this. I can’t wait for the next story.
This is a great series and I’m so glad there’s more to come
Dayum !!! This series just keeps getting better and better. When Katya Tocci walks away with Wulfric Stone into the sunset, I was ecstatic! Omg what a perfect pair that was, stoic Wulfy whisked Angel Cake away from right under Liam “Edelwiesernanner!” nose, I rah-rahed jubilantly.
Liam , who’s left behind, gets his own book and I couldn’t be any happier. Generally when authors stretch the series , giving off shoot characters/relatives/siblings/friends their own books, I tend to get bored. BUT ….and its a BIG BUT – Stylo has written book 3 EVEN BETTER than first two books . And they were PHENOMENAL !!!!!
Take note ->> I read this book THE ENTIRE NIGHT up til 4am . I’ve NEVER DONE THAT . I couldn’t/wouldn’t put the book down. Liam the hot surfer, the lovable rascal, just ensconced himself in my heart and refused to budge. He’s a quintessential flirt/charmer, with a smile that could knock your socks off and twinkle in his eyes that could pull down your panties . **sigh**
And it’s so hard for stick-in-the-ass Ayumi Nakada to keep her heart locked tight and her legs closed against Liam’s probing tongue and a dick big enough to be filed as dependant on his taxes!!!
And he has magic ! In his eyes, his mouth, his hands and his pants !
The untoward duo is TOTALLY OPPOSITE in personality, height, physicality, demeanour and attitudes.
They were also night and day. Complete opposites . She was eight hundred dollar Chanel shirts and aged wine. He was Costco vodka and room temperature cheese dip. He was the class clown, she was the ice queen.
He was like the antithesis of Ayumi Nakada. She was punctual and smart and proper and had gone to an ivy league school. Liam didn’t ever use an alarm clock, could barely spell proper, and instead of going to college, he’d opted to go surfing. He was a corny, over the top goof ball, who also slept with just about anything that moved. Ayumi was stern and serious.
They are so different. A beautiful compromise. Or a disastrous combination.
But Opposites attract like magnets and when opportunity presents itself Liam wastes no time in NAILING HER TO THE WALL. They literally break sheet rock and indentions of Ayumi’s ass are on the wall as a testament to Liam’s Pelvic Prowess !!!
They get stuck together after just one, no strings attached, non-date!
All it takes is one taste of Liam’s sinful tongue
one feel of his magical hands
one earful with his dirty talk and Ayumi-Yum is a goner……as am I
“All it took was a clown to thaw the ice queen’s heart.”
I am in Crazy in Love with Liam Eden and have no plans to fall out of the swoonworthy fog of Love anytime soon. The story is so slick and funny and witty and smart and pulsating with passion that I was invested from first sentence , uptil the last one .
The book starts and ends with an identical statement by Liam
How do I always get myself into these situations?
It’s so funny cause Liam’s life is a revolving door of ladies who are clingy and stalkery. The fact that he has to ask,
“Oh, sweet jesus, which one?”
“That sentence right there captures all your problems,”
Story has some god awful twists and hilarious , yet poignant turns and your heart will be left craving for more. I was not satisfied. I NEED MORE STYLO!!!!! the secondary characters are some psychos and some unrequited. Some returns , some newbies. They ALL help push the story further
I thoroughly, utterly, absolutely enjoyed the book and I’m gonna hound YOU ALL !! Read. The. Book !
Seriously !! READ.THE.BOOK! ( You can thank me later )
5 T-H Balance stars
(Tacos to Human ratio)
Where are all my taco eating commitment-phobe lovers? Who loves a hot sex club owner that more than knows how to work it? The good time guy that made you more aware and your heart hurt for him in The Neighborhood…
Liam may not act in an ideal way but he is loveable. He just doesn’t seem to understand love and in love. He certainly never anticipated a certain woman making him think of the difference.
It’s not about growing up or being serious. For Liam it’s about being able to be himself, something isn’t comfortable doing around many people at all. For her it’s about experiencing tons of emotions, something she hasn’t allowed to happen in a long time.
Sometimes opposites really do work and others it ends in a wildly out of control inferno. Guess you’ll just have to see which…
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***4.5 ‘You Are The Moment’ Stars***
I know I should have been prepared for anything and everything after reading the first two books in the series, but holy hell can we say Hello, angsty emotional rollercoaster?!? I swear my emotions are still trying to settle after this one. But even with ALL the angst going on, they were balanced out some seriously swoon worthy and heart melting moments that made experiencing Liam and Ayumi’s journey absolutely worthwhile!
I was Team Taco aka Team Liam from the beginning. Yes, he did some stupid things in the first two books and I wanted to give him a good Gibbs smack a time or two, but his laid back and yet astute nature and innate charisma combined with his unhealthy love affair with tacos made him irresistible. But here we get to see what really makes him tick and find that he really is so much more. His heart is truly golden, but a little more bruised than anyone truly realizes and those bruises are what has him doing things that get him into the emotional entanglements that constantly plague him.
Ayumi…*big deep breath* Straight up, I loved the woman from the start and I ended up adoring the woman she evolved into in the end, but DAMN! She could give graduate level classes in how to repress your emotions and build up titanium walls around you. She is something beyond well beyond ice, in the beginning. But as her past unfolds, I got why she was the way she was and why she believed it to be the only way for her to live and my heart hurt for her. So watching as she allowed bits and pieces of her heart to be exposed, I found the icy woman had a warm soul that only needed the right push to break free of it’s confines.
Now for Liam and Ayumi’s extremely bumpy journey to their HEA…all I can say is that it was total opposites attract goodness! Yes, I got whiplash and wanted to smack some sense into both of them from beginning to almost the very end, but they were absolutely addicting when they were together. They were so opposite in so many ways that it made them so perfect for each other because through their differences they ended up helping the other confront their issues and hopefully bring about a lightbulb moment that would be the catalyst for a positive change in their outlooks on life. But of course nothing is ever easy, and dear lord did these two have a lot to work through. Some of their actions and reactions fell firmly into the juvenile zone, but they did bring about some pretty deep epiphanies even if they weren’t always welcome. In the end, I love them together and where they ended up, it wasn’t pretty, but Liam and Ayumi definitely deserved the HEA they got.
Block Party was all kinds of angsty, swoon worthy goodness that hooked me from the first page and had me wanting more in the end. If you haven’t read Neighbors & The Neighborhood, the first two books in the series, you won’t be totally lost as Ms. Fantôme has done a great job at giving the reader just enough background on what happened with Wulf, Katya and Liam, but I’m always a proponent of reading things in order and if you do decided to start at the beginning you’ll have a better understanding of why things between certain characters are the way they are, especially because Katya, Wulf, Tori and Landon do make some appearances throughout the book. If you love an opposites attract romance that has a tendency to dip it’s toes into the almost OTT angsty realm, but is tempered by a good dose of sweet and smexy moments then you will definitely LOVE Block Party!
~ Copy provided by Give Me Books Promotions & voluntarily reviewed ~
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I liked this alot more than book 2. I loved Ayumi and Liam and was go glad they got their HEA. I would have liked more of them together, at this point I would like some of Katya and Wulf as well. I am looking forward to book 4.
Wow!! I wanted and waited for Liam story, I was not disappointed!! Never considering Ayumi a main character let alone Liam’s love interest which surprised me, I totally love this book, love the whole opposite attract story line, so perfect for Liam and Ayumi. I want more Twin Estates books, so not ready to see this series end!!
5.5 Stars!
There are books by authors I look forward to reading and, as soon as they’re announced, I add them to my Want to Read list without reading the blurb, knowing ahead of time these master storytellers have yet to let me down. This is especially true with all of Ms.Fantome’s books; each and every one of them a well-written tale, usually filled with intrigue, love, humor, and tears. Luckily for us, Block Party combines all these elements, and so much more. I had my laugh out loud moments, in between the ugly cry ones, and sometimes there was even that weird combination of both, at once. This story combines the perfect amount of sweet and sour, some angst and then humor, to lighten the story, so it’s not bogged down in too much heaviness.
It’s the third book in the Twin Estates Series and, while it’s technically a Standalone, I recommend everyone reading the first two books as there are crossover characters and some back story you won’t be privy to otherwise. This book features the amazing and wonderful Mr. Edenhoff, who I admit I’m in love with, and I’m happy he didn’t get his girl, Katya, in the previous books. Oops! See, that’s a spoiler from books one and two, which is why you should’ve read them by now, but we wouldn’t have this story if he had, so…
Liam Edenhoff’s a mess. Well, his personal life is, he’s thirty-two and hasn’t been very successful with relationships and he’s wondering what he can do to fix it. Everyone thinks he doesn’t take anything seriously and just likes to have fun. Liam’s a people pleaser and everyone, women especially, all gravitate towards him. But not everything is as it seems and he decides he needs to grow up. After Katya chose Wulf, his ex-business partner and former friend, he’s been trying to sort his life. He wants his twin brother, Landon, to get off his couch and either find someplace else to live or go back to practicing medicine out of the country. He’s been avoiding Wulf’s twenty-year old sister, Brighton “Brie” Stone, who’s been stalking him like a mad woman, after he decided to end their casual sex arrangement. If he had a bunny she would have boiled it by now. And now he’s afraid she’ll spill the beans and tell Katya and Wulf about their dirty little secret. His bookkeeping at the club is atrocious, but at least he convinced Wulf’s executive assistant, Ayumi Nakada, who’s a CPA, to stay on as his bookkeeper. A very no-nonsense, nose to the grindstone, bookkeeper that makes poor Liam do math. Something no one should be forced to do!
“Being an adult is nowhere near as awesome as everyone makes it seem.”
Ayumi Nakada, at twenty-seven, has no life outside of being Wulf Stone’s executive assistant for the last five years. Wulf’s her emergency contact, should anything ever happen to her, as she’s informed him. Ayumi is closer to him than anyone, unfortunately that’s sad, since she doesn’t really know anyone. She works up to fourteen hours a day, sometimes seven days a week and has no social life, no friends to call and meet somewhere for a drink. She adopted a cat recently, so she doesn’t live alone. She had an arrangement with someone she’d meet occasionally, when she had an itch to scratch, but he moved away and while she wasn’t actively looking to replace him, it would be nice to find someone who could keep things casual. She’s tried to please her mother her entire life and feels she’ll never live up to her impossibly high expectations, and as a result, their relationship is almost non-existent. Mrs. Nakada always said Ayumi was a “ruiner of things” and felt that was something she did excel at. Since her own mother never had a loving relationship with her father, Ayumi didn’t have an example she could follow, so she had no idea what to do or not do. It’s no wonder Liam calls her the Ice Queen.
“Ayumi had really gotten to Liam, it seemed. A girl carved out of ice had somehow managed to touch him in ways no one else had. He was scared. It was bad enough feeling like he wasn’t good enough for his family and friends—but to not be good enough for Ayumi, that was simply too much, it seemed.”
When these two broken people finally notice each other they embark on a strange journey of discovery. Both have secrets they slowly begin to share with each other. They both have so much complex, and heavy baggage they’ve been dragging around their entire lives, it’s both painful, and amazing to see how they slowly let some pieces go. Sometimes it seems that for every step forward one of them takes the other takes two backwards. I loved this couple so much and wept more than once to see how much they suffered, both physically, and emotionally. Oh and there’s an epilogue and it’s freaking amazing!