Love or loot? The god of money and Chris, Erin’s husband, once contested for her hand. Should they go another round, which champion would she choose? Erin left Chris, took their children, and moved to the Big Apple, seeking her fortune. Eight hard years later, she is poised to take her place among the elite of Wall Street. Her new assignment, though, will require her attention twenty-four/ seven … twenty-four/ seven for the next several months, and someone needs to care for her children.
She considers every possible plan. She has not talked with Chris, written, texted, or tweeted him a single time since leaving, but her only live option is to ask, beg, or shame Chris into helping her out. If he will not keep their children for the summer, she will lose her assignment, and her dream of wealth will vanish.
Opposites had attracted when she and Chris had fallen in love. Erin remembers a Chris who was laid-back, satisfied, and, worst of all, unambitious. He seems not to have changed. And Erin still has feelings for him. If Chris cares for the children, Erin might be drawn back into his world, losing her drive to succeed and everything for which she has worked. How can she avoid becoming entangled with him, again, choosing him over money, choosing “love over loot”?
If you have ever “wanted it all,” buy this book! You will enjoy discovering how Erin makes the choice between “love or loot.”
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David Burnett is an author that I get excited about. When a book is being released by him I am excited for the emotional ride, the wonderful characters, and the beautiful story that I know I will find.
With Money or Men I didn’t find all of that. The main character, Erin, is someone who I thought was almost evil. Her decisions were made only based on what she wanted which was to make money with little or no regard to how it would affect anyone else. Her children and her estranged ex-husband are after thoughts in her life. I believe that the fact that I am a mom made me less tolerant of her than I should have been. I reacted to everything she did, said, and thought as her just being selfish. While some of the things that happen to her are not okay no matter who you are, a lot of what happen to her is of her own doing. At no time did I think she should get the happy ever after since she never really changed her ways.
A few times I wanted to put the book down and consider it a DNF (did not finish) but I was still invested in the lovely side of the story on her daughters and the fun they were having building a relationship with their father after 8 years of not being able to see him and how they all grew so much closer in the time that they had. I liked that they were breaking their mom’s rules, living a happy life, and finding out what being a 12 year old was all about, which had me smiling as I was reading it. I would rate this read a 3.5-4 stars and am looking forward to David’s next work.
Money or Men is an incredible read. It’s very on-point with struggles that couples face in divorce, as well as for ambitious women, fighting to make a successful path for themselves in this world. When Erin feels that her husband, Chris, is not as driven as she is, they find themselves divorced and as she desired, she is pushed up higher on the corporate ladder. But it requires her solely focusing on her career — not her twin daughters. I struggled reading how Chris could go so long without keeping in touch with his daughters; but had high hopes when he was given the opportunity to reconnect during the summer while Erin climbed that ladder a bit more. My understanding shifted for both characters and I grew to sympathize with Chris. Sometimes life throws us some dirty choices — but I feel he made the best with what he had and of the couple, had his head on a little straighter. Erin and Chris were both exquisitely written to where I felt like I could compare them to real-life couples that I know facing some of the same difficulties. The end left me believing that everything does happen for specific reasons and at exactly the right moment. I received this book through Beck Valley Books Book Tours, I have volunteered to share my review and all the opinions are 100% my own.
Within the first couple of chapters of this book, I knew I was going to really enjoy it. It is definitely one of those books that will pull at your heartstrings. I think no matter how bad I wanted something, I would ALWAYS put my kids first and not leave them just so I could succeed and become successful. You just have to learn how to balance but for me, being a mother to my kids will always and forever come first. Overall, I really enjoyed this book and I really enjoy all of Mr. Burnett’s books that I have read!
This is quite an interesting book about the pressures of being an ambitious woman in our society.
Eris is ambitious and has pressured herself in taking it to the next level. She gave up her marriage because she thought her husband was not ambitious as she. Now, she is facing a promotion that will put a lot of more pressure in her life and her boss is asking her to give up her twin girls until the project is over.
Chris, her former husband, does not understand Erin and in an unexpected way not even Erin knows what she wants anymore. Erin and Chris’s relationship can be regarded as a good debate of what we are becoming as a modern society, how much should you give up for ambition? Why ambition should be bad and when associated with women is so much worst? Ambition is not a bad word but balance in life is important. Balance of love, money and enjoyment of live and your loved ones this is the goal difficult to achieve and this is what this book is all about.
This book will pull at your heart strings–both in good and bad ways. How could Erin leave her husband the way she did just so she could advance her career and make millions. Why did she treat her two 12 year old twins the way her father had treated her–even though she had totally rebelled. It was a do as I say not as I do scenario.
Then came the break she had been waiting for—but she had to find somewhere to send her twins for three months—she ended up calling her ex (their Dad) who had not heard from her or seen the twins for eight years. He was an author and according to Erin didn’t have enough ambition–little did she know!
The twins went to live with their Dad for the summer who conveniently left all Erin’s rules in her car!
Lots went on both good and bad in Erin’s life as she lived alone–but she was suspicious of what the twins were up to–even though Chris emailed her frequently to let her know.
Chris ends up saving Erin’s life–then makes some rules of his own that she has to abide by! All in all it is a happy ending to an almost tragic tale.
Erin and Chris had a good marriage. They loved each other, as well as their twin daughters Abby and Ashley. While Erin was ambitious career wise, Chris was content with his mediocre writing career, writing books at a leisure pace. This caused a rift between them. When Erin accepted a promotion in New York, Chris refused to follow her. So Erin took the twins, divorced Chris, and didn’t look back. Now, a decade later, Erin has finally gotten the promotion and recognition she has worked so hard for. But, this leaves her with no choice but to ask Chris to keep the twins for the summer. With no contact in all these years, she doesn’t know how Chris will respond. Or if he is even willing to.
I love the stories that Burnett creates and this one was no different. He is a master at delving into the core of relationships. It makes you almost feel a part of the tribulation of the couple. I could relate to the drive and determination of Erin, but later, her personality took a nose-dive and I found myself not liking her at all. Chris, on the other hand, had my sympathy all the way. A great story well worth reading.
All it seems Erin cares about is money and everything else can get pushed to the wayside. She was not my favourite character, I instantly disliked her, she was very power driven (not that that is a bad thing) but when she felt her husband Chris didn’t seem to care about money the way she did – he was an author and seemed to just like coasting along, she staged a cheating scene rather than talk it through in order to leave and divorce him.
Eight years later Erin gets the chance of a promotion of a lifetime that she has been waiting for, but she needs to be available 24/7 – the only thing standing in her way from the promotion is her twin daughters. After eight years with no contact with her ex husband Chris and no one else to turn to for help, she calls him out of the blue and asks him to take the girls for the summer.
Despite Chris’s lack of contact over the years – how he could let that go by I don’t know – he actually turned this situation in a learning curve for him and Erin. I felt for Chris, no contact then boom two kids are “dumped” on him with a set of strict rules set by Erin. He made this a summer of no rules and re connection with his daughters and I loved how their relationship grew despite the years apart. As the story progressed Erin began to thaw my bitter heart towards her, she goes through some tough things in the girls absence, and I loved how she began to change as a person. I felt she was very unfair to Chris in how she treated him in the past and once she finds out how successful of an author he became (under a pen name) she changed her view of him from being worthless to suddenly being worth it.
Despite all of Erin’s negative qualities, I really really loved this book. This was a different read to David’s other stories, but I loved it just the same. I loved how the situations were real and raw and how he made me feel towards the characters, it’s not very often I dislike a character but because of that this was one book that I couldn’t put down,.