He wanted her to help him win his ex-girlfriend back. She wanted to teach him a few lessons on how to treat a woman. Neither one planned for the unexpected.
She’s gone. I’m desperate and going insane. I’ll do whatever it takes to find her. I don’t know when I fell for her, but I won’t let her go. What has she done to me? I’m Rick Marin, for crying out loud. I don’t chase women…but she’s not just any woman. She’s Maddy—my Maddy—and I need her.
I couldn’t stand by and watch. I have to run fast and far to get away and forget him. He weaseled his way into my life, making me question rules I live by, and he turned my orderly life upside down. I’m falling apart and coming undone. I don’t do that. I will not allow a man to derail me. I’m Madison Stuart. I live life by my rules.
Follow The Do Over’s most notorious couple, Rick and Madison, as they learn that It’s Not Over.
A.L. Zaun graduated from Florida International University with a degree in English Literature when the dinosaurs roamed the earth and cellphones were the size of a brick. Her impressive degree did absolutely nothing for her professional endeavors in health care management but did stir her imagination and opened up the world of books in a new way.
Armed with a large bottle of Diet Pepsi and a multi-pack of Extra Sugar-Free gum, A.L. Zaun spends her evenings bringing to life the characters that dominate her thoughts and interrupt her sleep.
5 MaRi stars
We first meet Rick and Maddy in The Do Over. I have to say I
wasn't very fond of Rick at first.
His attempts to win Maddy over changed my view of him. He
went to great lengths to get her to listen to him. He tracked her down, found
her at the airport. He purchased a ticket to get on the same plane as her. Not
too many people will do that.
Even though Rick and Maddy call each other names and try to
put one another down, it doesn't tear them apart. It actually brings them back
together. They both have a messed up past with having different partners. Rick,
he only looks out for himself. He will say anything to get down a woman’s
pants. Once that woman wants more Rick high tales it out of there. Maddy,
though she is a different story. He can’t get her out of his head. She
irritates him but he loves it. It is a turn on when she calls him an asshole.
By the way he is that. But he gets to you. All the moves he makes to make Maddy
his. The gifts he buys her. He sweet talks her and her guard goes down.
Maddy is an ice queen. Letting someone into her heart is a
no go. She did that once and it didn't end well. Since then she uses men. She
gets what she wants from them and that is that. She is a hard worker and
doesn't play around. So when Alex shows up and wants to play games, she nips
that in the bud. Or at least she tries to.
I have to hand it to Alex though. I mean he knows how to push Rick’s
buttons.
As we get to know more of Rick and his family, we see a
softer side of him. His sisters are bitches and his mom spoils the shit out of
him. But he does things from the heart, even though he does them wrong
sometimes. Maddy opens up and we learn of her past when she was younger. I
think every young girl had a crush on an older man. Whether they took it to the
next level is a different story. Maddy though, she was primed at a young
age. She knew what she wanted when she
was older and nothing was going to get in her way. But it did, kind of. She
built such and ice brick wall around her heart it seemed impossible to break
it. It did break though and Rick was the one who did it.
Their constant bickering with one another, turned into them
having hot, wild, passionate sex. Their love for one another was blind to each
other. I want to tell you to get ready to scream and shout towards the end. It
will leave you having so many questions. You could read this before you read
The Do Over, but you wouldn't get the beginning stages of their relationship. I
would read The Do Over before I read It’s Not Over.
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Thank you so much! There are so many layers to Rick and Maddy. In The Do Over, they're so hard to like when we first meet them. But as you get to know them, see them interact with one another...there's more to them. =) Thank you for taking their journey and I can't wait to share Let It Go!! <3
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