Stolen Moments

Title: Stolen Moments

Series: Steele Family #1

Author: Emily Bowie

Genre: New Adult Romance

Release Date: February 21, 2019

Blurb

One stolen moment. That’s all it took to change everything.

The sweet girl next door, Shay Steele, knows better than to set eyes on Three Rivers’ bad boy, Luke Rogers. With three alpha brothers determined to keep her from ever dating, it’s not like she would even have a chance with their best friend and local football hero. But when Luke starts paying attention to her, she thinks her dreams may finally come true.

Luke knows Shay is off limits but he just can’t seem to stay away from the feisty brunette. Besides, a little secret—and a lot of kissing—never hurt anyone. Right?

Lies and secrets, however, never seem to stay hidden for long. When their newfound romance is discovered, not everyone is happy to hear about it and worse yet, they’re not afraid to pull the trigger.

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Stolen Moments had everything about the brothers-best-friend trope that I love. The sneaking around forbidden love between Luke and Shay, the drama of not wanting anyone to find out, and the sizzling connection that just can't stay contained. But it also had some things that I didn't like which is why I've felt pretty conflicted about it since I finished. 

To start with the bad, I had a hard time getting into the writing style of this story. It seemed a little choppy and at times just wasn't cohesive enough for me to easily follow along. One of the biggest things was that sometimes a chapter would start with the present tense of "As I sit here listening to my parents yell at my brother..." and I would know exactly where the story is at timeline wise. But then the next paragraph, only a sentence or two after that one, would start with something like "The whole weekend I couldn't stop thinking about..." and then I would be confused on where we were and what was going on since clearly we skipped the whole weekend even though it was only a sentence before that we were at the beginning of the weekend. I just found it hard to follow at times because of that. 

Yet even with that kind of thing I could still really enjoy the story when it came to Luke and Shay. I loved that they had a friendship before anything more started and that we got to see how they were both impacted by their feeling for one another. Once I could start getting use to the style of writing I was deeply invested into their romance and that chemistry between them was giving me all the feels. 

And then the end happened and I was back to feeling very meh about the whole thing. The ending was a world all of it's own and it was somehow both too slow and too rushed at the same time. I don't even know how that's possible, but it is. There was so much going on and problem after problem kept popping up that the story never seemed to slow down and actually give detail to the things that needed to be focused on. So the end result was all of those things making the big issue feel rushed since it wasn't focused on really at all, yet also dragged the entire ending into this long and way too slow to get to the point type of thing. 

Shay's brother, Kellan, was an annoying character for me since he kept popping up with his secrets that I frankly just didn't care about since they were taking away from Shay and Luke but at the end he did something really huge for Shay and then it was almost like it was no big deal. I went from wishing he would just out of the story to begging for him to come back so we could understand what actually happened. It drove me a little nuts that this issue was also where the prologue started as a little, here's what's coming type of thing, and clearly one of the main issues of the book yet once we finally got to that part it in the timeline it was then just glazed over, not detailed or explained, and left me feeling like I missed the whole point.

I'm clearly still a little conflicted about this book but I can say that as an overall story I enjoyed it. Luke and Shay as a couple were really amazing and I'm happy I got to experience their romance. All of the separate things going on, I can't say I enjoyed as much but they still intrigued me at moments. 

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Author Bio

Emily Bowie is from a small town in Western Canada. She has been making characters come to life through her writing since she was old enough to put her thoughts on paper.  She loves her white wine cold, her heels red, and her books spicy.

She married her high school sweetheart and they have two amazing children.

She is the author to the Bennett Brothers Series.

Recklessly Mine, Recklessly Forbidden, & Recklessly Devoted.

When she is not writing she can be found reading a good book, making digital scrapbooks and being physically active—whether it is at the gym, going for a walk, or playing /keep up with her children.

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