Shooting for the Stars

by Sarina Bowen

• ISBN10: 1942444052
• ISBN13: 9781942444053
• Publish Date: 13 March 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Rennie Road Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 258
• Language: English

Reviews

[Sam@WLABB]

I am a Bowen fan and a fan of this series, and now, I finally get Bear and Stella's story.

Stella had loved Bear since she was a little girl, and man! When you heard her backstory and how Bear stood by her side, you could understand why she loved him. You also hear about when she tried to show him she loved him, and how he rebuffed her efforts. When they finally make that magic connection, their worlds are turned upside down with the news of Hank's accident.

This was a love story that was sooooo many years in the making. I loved Stella's perseverance, and I was rooting for these two to stop resisting and make it happen. And the ending!!! Bowen knows how to make her fans happy. It was a beautiful ending, so thank you Ms. Bowen.

[Rowena]

Shooting for the Stars is the third book in the Gravity series and let me tell you, I read this series all out of order. I read the second book first, the first book second and then ended with this book but I thought this series was another good one for Bowen’s back list. I like that she writes romances for the normal person. Her characters are everyday, average people that fall in love and their stories are just as interesting as the rich people.

In this book, we get Stella (Hank “Hazardous” Lazarus’ sister from Book 1) and Bear’s book. Bear is Hank’s best friend and Stella is Hank’s little sister.

Bear is having trouble keeping his hands off his best friend’s sister and throughout the book, he drives me nuts. I felt a lot of his issues could have been resolved without wasting as much time as he did by just talking to Hazardous about everything. I wanted him to come clean and stop stringing Stella along because Stella’s longstanding feelings kept getting hurt. By him.
Then there was Stella. My heart hurt for her but over the course of the book, I thought that she kept going back for more when she shouldn’t have. I know that she couldn’t help the way that she felt about Bear but she put herself through some serious pain because she wanted to what? Force Bear into coming clean about his feelings? He should have wanted to do that on his own and she should have let him come to those conclusions on his own.

But even with all of my frustrations between the two of these guys, I still liked the book overall. It wasn’t my favorite book by Bowen but it was still enjoyable. I liked seeing Hank and Callie and seeing Bear’s point of view about the whole Alexis thing. I also liked that we had a hero, down on his luck and trying to figure out his next move. The movie venture was interesting and I loved how excited and scared Bear was about everything. There’s plenty in this book that I liked and the romance between Bear and Stella was just a part of the book that drove me nuts but in the end, they get together so it’s all good in the hood. I’m still looking forward to more Sarina Bowen books in the future.