Review & Giveaway: It's Only Love by Marie Force

It's Only Love (Green Mountain #5) by Marie Force

Publication Date: November 3rd 2015 by Berkley

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About the book:

The new Green Mountain Romance from the New York Times bestselling author of And I Love Her.

Ella Abbott has long been secretly in love with Gavin Guthrie. A few recent encounters have only added to her infatuation, especially the kiss they shared at her sister’s wedding. It doesn’t matter to Ella that Gavin is in a bad place. He says there’s no hope for a future with him, that he has nothing to offer her. But all Ella cares about is the love she feels.

It’s been seven long years since Gavin lost his brother. He’d kept himself under control and moving forward until his brother’s beloved dog died and his brother’s widow re-married. Since then, he’s been drinking, fighting, and even getting arrested. It seems the only time his demons leave him alone is when Ella is around.

Gavin knows it wouldn’t be fair to drag Ella into his darkness, but when she inserts herself into his life, what choice does he have but to allow her to soothe his aching heart?

My Thoughts:

I’ve been getting little bits of Ella and Gavin’s ups and downs from the previous Green Mountain books, so I’ve been eagerly awaiting their book. 

All the pain Gavin felt when he lost his brother comes back in full force when Caleb’s widow marries again.  That grief threatens to swallow Gavin, but one person makes it fade into the background: Ella Abbott.  Gavin feels alive whenever Ella is around, but he feels like he has nothing emotional to give to her. 

Unrequited love is usually a painful longing, but a love that stops and starts, letting you get your hopes up and then dashing them all away is another kind of torture all together!  Gavin and Ella have had a few encounters, and one included a passionate kiss that ruined Ella for any other man: 

But then he’d kissed her—and not the way she’d dreamed for all the years she’d been thinking about him. No, this kiss had been rough and untamed and powerful, the single most incendiary kiss she’d ever received from anyone.

Her heart can hardly take any more and Ella has finally decided to give up on any future with Gavin until she receives a late night phone call. 

Loving someone from afar, especially if they have emotional wounds, can be heartbreaking!  When Ella and Gavin decide to give their relationship a try, Ella is over the moon with happiness.  So much so that she’s afraid if things go south she’ll never be able to love again. 

Ella makes Gavin want a chance at happiness, and his feelings for her are about ten times more powerful than he ever dreamed possible.  Their romance was a long time coming so when they finally got together it was explosive!  Marie Force writes some wickedly hot scenes!

I was overjoyed for Ella and Gavin, but I also worried about the inevitable bumps in the road to come, and there were some, but nothing so serious it could keep these two apart.  I was emotional and teary while reading the last 25% of the story, and I’m not even sure why, because their conflicts never seemed insurmountable. I think I just felt Ella’s emotions so keenly; her overwhelming happiness at finally being with Gavin, and the crushing pain at the thought of not being able to work things out.  Marie Force made Ella and Gavin come alive for me, and I loved that their romance touched me so much! 

Of course, I was thrilled to get glimpses of the previous couples in the Green Mountain series.  The quaint town of Butler, Vermont makes small town living sound very appealing, and the large Abbott family makes me wish I had a bigger family growing up.  The siblings and parents rallied around Ella and Gavin, gave their support and advice, all eager for their happiness.  I adored Gavin and Ella’s romance! It’s one of my favorites of the Green Mountain series to date!

4.5 Suns

About Marie Force: With more than 3 million books sold, Marie Force is the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling, award-winning author of more than 30 contemporary romances. Her New York Times bestselling self-published McCarthys of Gansett Island Series has sold more than 1 million e-books since Maid for Love was released in 2011. She is also the author of the New York Times bestselling Fatal Series from Harlequin’s Carina Press, as well as the Treading Water Series and numerous stand-alone books. All You Need is Love, book 1 in her new Green Mountain Series from Berkley Sensation, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller in February. The second book, I Want to Hold Your Hand, will be out in June, and the third book, I Saw Her Standing There, is coming in November. In 2014, Marie will have eight mass-market print releases—the first five Fatal Series books from Harlequin and the first three Green Mountain Series books from Berkley. While her husband was in the Navy, Marie lived in Spain, Maryland and Florida, and she is now settled in her home state of Rhode Island. She is the mother of two teenagers and two feisty dogs, Brandy and Louie.

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