Closing Costs (Stewart Realty, #3)

by Liz Crowe

[Cocktails and Books]

2.5 Stars

In the final installment in the Stewart Realty Company series, readers will finally a conclusion to Jack Gordan and Sara Thornton's love story. It's not an easy ending and it takes eight years to get there...but we finally do get an ending to their story.

Can I say I could not stand Sara? That's not too harsh is it? She grated on my nerves. She was whiny and bitchy and strung poor Jack around for one year too many. She wanted him, she didn't want him, she strung him along, then pushed him away...it was all too much. And let's not even talk about raising her daughter and her reliance over everyone around her to help with her daughter when she swore, on the day she was born, she was doing this on her own. Good job, Sara. Way to show everyone you could do it!

And then there is Jack. I get that he loved Sara. It was obvious for the first moment they were on the page together how he felt, but what I couldn't understand is why he kept letting her treat him the way she did. The man is a Dom. What Dom would suddenly turn so wishy washy and let this woman rule his world the way she did. Even when he claimed he was moving on, she was still there on the periphery making his life miserable.

The only reason I finished the book was to find out if Jack found his HEA. I was hoping it would be with his lovely submissive, Shannon, but I knew it wouldn't be. The only thing that I did love at the end was the fact that Kate knew exactly who Jack was (and that she suspected it all along...smart girl).

Others have loved this series, and this book in particular, but I couldn't get past Sara and her treatment of Jack.