Her heart and body are soon in two very different relationships…or are they?
Check out more about Tamara Mataya’s Missed Connections, a fantastic romance that is the first of a new series! I adored this book and I am excited to see what comes next in the series! Read more about this book, check out Tina’s Thoughts, read an excerpt from the book, and enter an awesome giveaway to celebrate the virtual tour of Missed Connections.
MISSED CONNECTIONS
Missed Connection: I saw you standing there, and I was struck by your eyes. Gorgeous, but not as gorgeous as your smile.
Thanks to her job at a crazy New Age spa, what should have been a sizzling NYC summer is being hijacked by demanding hippie bosses. To unwind, Sarah spends her nights cruising Missed Connections, dreaming of finding an uber-romantic entry all about her. Of course, the moment she finds that Missed Connection, real life comes crashing down around her in a night of unbridled passion with someone completely different: totally off-limits Jack.
Best. Hookup. Ever.
Gorgeous and wealthy, hot as sin, Jack can give Sarah everything she needs-except an emotional connection. That she gets from her Missed Connection, the romantic stranger who never fails to make her swoon. But there’s only so much of Sarah to go around. Torn between the bad boy she can’t keep and the sensitive stranger who bares his soul online, her heart and body are soon in two very different relationships…or are they?
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This book was a refreshing surprise. I anticipated it being something predictable, a quick fluff read, but Missed Connections was anything but that. Sure some of the themes might seem predictable, but what makes this book so brilliant is the details. Everything you read flows beautifully and I loved getting to know Pete, Jack, Sarah, and all her co-workers at the spa. Sarah was such a real and vibrant young woman. There is something that makes her light up as you read. She is a real woman, struggling to make her way in a world that has been unkind. You can identify with her in so many ways, again the little details make her a bit of a twist on the normal New Adult heroine. Her job is both hilarious and horrifying, something the reader bonds with her over. You root for her to find true love and meaning in a world that is determined to confuse the life out of her. She longs to find love and when it hits her over the head, she is struggling to make sense of it all.
Jack is a brilliant male lead. His banter and friendship with Sarah is real and authentic. Their connection with Pete, his twin brother, makes any action on their obvious connection seem a bad idea. You can feel the tension and chemistry between these two. They are at a constant push and pull until they fall… hard. I enjoyed the way this story shares their romance and the way that the Missed Connections feature online played a big role in the story overall. I loved the struggle Sarah has with her feelings with a man she knows in person and the undeniable connection she has with another man she chats with online. Her frustration and confusion is very tangible, once again allowing the reader to sympathize with her in her confusion.
This story is in the details. Sarah is a normal young woman attempting to make her way in the world. Armed with her best friend Pete, she sees the world in a new way that changes her perspective of everything around her. Her hopeful romantic side is endearing and her longing to find a place in the world is something that anyone can relate to. I adored this story so much and I am excited for more in the Summer Love series. I cannot wait to see glimpses into Sarah’s happily ever after.
I shake off the heaviness between us, determined to just let it be, and dance my way to the floor. I don’t know what to make of our conversation, but I feel cute, and have a nice buzz, and am out with my bestie and his sexy twin. A goofy smile twists my lips, and I look back at Jack as I shimmy my hips.
The expression on his face nearly stills my feet.
There’s hunger in his gaze.
I turn away and keep dancing, though less happily than before, more aware of every movement I make, knowing his eyes are on me. Breathless. Despite not wanting to take our relationship to the next level, I have to admit, I want his eyes on me. Seeing other women talk to him, look at him, annoys me more than it should. He’s not mine, but they don’t deserve him. So I make my movements a little sexier, and imagine what it would be like if I was going home with him tonight, hating the reasons that can never happen.
I’m so wrapped up in a fantasy of tumbling into Jack’s arms that it seems inevitable when his arms wrap around me from behind. He tugs me close to the curve of his body, and the heat of him is incredible—too incredible for the rational part of me to win. I smile and dance with him for a minute, allowing myself a moment of perfect snatched happiness.
“Girl, you’re making everyone on the dance floor jealous with those moves.” Pete’s voice in my ear shatters the fantasy, and my eyes open, gaze flying straight to Jack—who is still standing where I left him by the wall, unreadable expression on his face as he watches me dance with his twin.
I wish it had been you, Jack.
But it’s better for both of us that it wasn’t.
Tamara Mataya is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, a librarian, and a musician with synesthesia. Armed with a name tag and a thin veneer of credibility, she takes great delight in recommending books and shushing people. She puts the ‘she’ in TWSS and the B in LGBTQIA+. She’s the co-creator of Pitchmas, a bi-annual pitch contest for writers, and as a freelance editor, has worked with NYT Bestselling authors.
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