Only for Him (Only, #1)

by Cristin Harber

• ISBN10: 1942236581
• ISBN13: 9781942236580
• Publish Date: 24 February 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Mill Creek Press
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 126
• Language: English

Reviews

[Cocktails and Books]

ONLY FOR HIM is the start of a novella serial that takes up through the start of Grayson and Emma's relationship. How their friendship turned into more and how one fairly ugly run-in with Grayson's father turned the course of their relationship.

This book absolutely, positively below me away. Yes, I'm a sucker for the heroine falling in love with her brother's best friend. But this one had a slightly different element, where that best friend has always been in love with his best friend's sister but didn't want to taint her with the messiness of his life. Grayson hasn't had an easy life and often sought solace at the Emma's family home. He was best friends with her brother, but it was the relationship Grayson had with Emma that always helped him get through the crap that waited for him at home.

There wasn't much I didn't love about Grayson, other than him making a snap decision after an embarrassing and ugly run-in with his father. That decision not only changed the course of his life, but altered Emma's as well. And as we get to the last page of ONLY FOR HIM, we see just how much that decision took from her.

ONLY FOR HER, the next installment in the series comes our March 17th, so we don't have long to wait to find out how Grayson is going to make up for his decision.

[leelu92]

 

So, I'm a huge fan of Cristin Harber.  Everything she has written, I have loved and I've often said that she is a talented enough writer to branch out into other genres.  Only Him is not Ms. Harber's first foray into the New Adult genre. Sweet Girl was her first book written in the genre (part of the Titan series) and it blew me away.  The characters were older and more mature in Sweet Girl than they are in this initial installment.

When I originally read Only For Him, I wasn't quite sure how I felt about it and honestly, there were some aspects of it that I wasn't crazy about.  To be clear though, the things that I wasn't crazy about are purely things that as a reader of the NA genre, I'm just not crazy about in general.  Internal monologues are a hot button for me, they seem to bother me more, the younger the character is. Emma and Grayson are young and immature and understandably insecure.  So yeah, I wasn't exactly digging that part.  But that's ok!

I went back through the book and my highlights and I have to say that I enjoyed it more on the second run through. I have a great amount of hope for Emma and Grayson as they mature and I hope that I get to read more of the Cristin Harber voice that I totally go crazy for.



 

Grayson and Emma have a really sweet love. It's a genuine and very deep they love that they feel for each other and I appreciated that aspect of the story.  Grayson is a guy that you just want to hug and take care of and all he wants to do is escape from the hell of his life and his father.  Emma is his escape.

This is a serial, please keep that in mind as you are reading.  Yes, this book ends on a bit of a cliffhanger and it fast forwards in time a bit.  Despite my personal preferences, I'm definitely looking forward to the next installment of the series!  :)

 

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This review was originally posted on Straight Shootin' Book Reviews