⋙ PDF Private Politics The Easy Part Book 2 edition by Emma Barry Literature Fiction eBooks

Private Politics The Easy Part Book 2 edition by Emma Barry Literature Fiction eBooks

Download As PDF : Private Politics The Easy Part Book 2 edition by Emma Barry Literature Fiction eBooks

Private Politics The Easy Part Book 2 edition by Emma Barry Literature Fiction eBooks

This one was good, but not quite as good as the first book in the series. Don't get me wrong. I loved Liam. I find intelligence without arrogance to be deeply attractive in a guy, and that perfectly describes Liam. He is a rumpled political junkie, unpretentious, interested in everything, kind. Alyse grew on me but she never was quite as fleshed out enough for me to overcome the sense that she's a bit of a socialite. I could sort of see why Liam was into her but it seemed to have more to do with her attractiveness than the content of her character. I know Alyse was supposed to be devoted to her NGO and didn't want to become a banker's wife-- yay! great!-- but the fact that it took her so long to appreciate him meant that I never *quite* believed that she deserved Liam. All this said, Emma Barry's "not-quite-amazing" is still sooo much better than most romance. Her books are now an auto-buy for me!


Tags : Private Politics (The Easy Part Book 2) - Kindle edition by Emma Barry. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Private Politics (The Easy Part Book 2).,ebook,Emma Barry,Private Politics (The Easy Part Book 2),Carina Press

Private Politics The Easy Part Book 2 edition by Emma Barry Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

[Elisabeth here. I gushed so effusively about Liam, the hero of Emma Barry's latest DC-set romance, that my husband pestered me until I let him read it. I asked if he had any thoughts he wanted to include in my review. As it turned out, he had lots of thoughts. So I just let him write it. I'll pick back up with the recipe after his thoughts about the book.]

If you had told me two years ago that I would be an avid reader of romance novels, I would very likely not have believed you. And if you had told me, right after Elisabeth persuaded me to start reading my first romance novel (for the record, Hard Day’s Knight by Katie MacAlister) that I would be writing a romance novel review for her blog, I would have definitely been skeptical. But my wife knows me well, sometimes better than I know myself. She knows that I like a good story, even though I wasn’t much of a fiction reader when we first met. To borrow a phrase from the Most Interesting Man in the World, I don’t often read fiction, but when I do, I demand good stories and fully-rounded characters. The romances Elisabeth has steered me towards definitely meet that criteria, and today’s review, Private Politics by Emma Barry, is no exception.

Private Politics is the second of a series of romances by Barry set in contemporary Washington, DC, but it can be read as a stand-alone. The heroine, Alyse Philips, is the daughter of a wealthy New York City family who is forging her own path in DC as the star fundraiser for a non-profit. She wants to do something with her life that she finds meaningful instead of the plans she suspects her family has for her (move back to NYC, settle down with an ambitious up-and-comer alpha male, and follow the typical socialite life). But her plans start to go awry when she discovers some suspicious discrepancies in the charity’s books during an annual audit. Torn between protecting her perceived reputation (including her prospects for continued DC employment and therefore independence from her family) and the growing doubts about the legality of her current employer, she ends up working with Liam Nussbaum to get to the bottom of things.

Liam is a political blogger and budding investigative journalist. He’s an acquaintance of Alyse’s, and has been nursing a crush on her for six months. However, he considers her unattainable – she’s beautiful, successful, and desirable, all qualities he believes he lacks. From the beginning of his involvement with Alyse’s problem, Liam is torn between his natural desire to help her and help set things right, and his struggle to hide his growing desire for her. As the case gets deeper, and Liam and Alyse get more involved with the scandal and each other, she starts to key into Liam’s better qualities – his honesty, his enthusiasm, his political street-smarts – and begins to develop a crush on him as well. At which point… well, I won’t spoil the details, but it’s a romance novel. You can work out the end results.

So what made this book in particular so intriguing to me – enough so that I agreed without hesitation to write this review? First, I immediately related to Liam. He’s definitely not your typical Fabio-body-Greek-tycoon-expense-account-Casanova-charm mutant hero found in many romance novels. (Or so I’m told – Elisabeth has fed me on a steady diet of novels with quirky heroes). But he’s probably the character who has come closest thus far to being someone like me in real life – someone who doesn’t have six-pack abs, isn’t rich, and is actually somewhat in awe of the lady love of his life. I got his point of view immediately, even the bad parts (he wavers between holding himself aloof from Alyse to doing the emotional dump truck on her and back again). Which brings me to the second point – the sexual relationship between them looks (and reads) real to me. They don’t immediately go from zero to mutually-assured-simultaneous orgasms. Their first encounters are, well, messy, and it takes them some time (and conflicts) to work through that. Third, the tension ran right up to the end of the book. In fact, the conflicts in Private Politics were painful enough for me to have to take short breaks afterwards to reorient myself, but in this case it didn’t seem too forced. The final resolution fit quite well with who Liam and Alyse are shown to be in the story – and being able to craft a story that honors the personalities of the characters is a great thing.

In short, I liked Private Politics very much, and heartily recommend it. So I guess, counter to all of my prior expectations, I am a romance reviewer after all.
I liked the first book in the series so I read the second. They were both interesting and entertaining. I just finished the third in the series and it was miserable. I thought it was tremendously boring and had no real story.
I loved Liam, the hero of this book. He's not quite a nerd, not exactly. He's...rumbled. And cute. So very cute. But at the mid point of the book, something happens and he becomes super sexy in a very real way.
I'm a huge West Wing fan, and this series makes me so, so happy. It's like Emma Barry dipped Aaron Sorkin in a vat of sexual tension and super-real feelings. I read the first two books in this series this week, and can't wait for the third (that comes out in January).
Alyse Philips believes in the mission of her employer, the non-profit Young Women Read, Inc. She’s worked her way up to Special Events and Fundraising Director during seven years of employment. While assisting with the annual audit she comes across some suspicious information.
Liam Nussbaum, a second tier political blogger, is frustrated. For six months Alyse has ignored his attempts to establish a relationship. He’s not exactly the law expert their mutual friends claim, but he has resources and the willingness to assist Alyse. They follow the money, even when their actions result in a threat to Alyse’s safety.
This romance uses the setting of Washington DC to advantage as Alyse and Liam navigate on the edges of this powerful world. Can she do the right thing and still maintain her professional reputation?
I’d recommend this book as a satisfying quick read, perfect for a weekend.
This one was good, but not quite as good as the first book in the series. Don't get me wrong. I loved Liam. I find intelligence without arrogance to be deeply attractive in a guy, and that perfectly describes Liam. He is a rumpled political junkie, unpretentious, interested in everything, kind. Alyse grew on me but she never was quite as fleshed out enough for me to overcome the sense that she's a bit of a socialite. I could sort of see why Liam was into her but it seemed to have more to do with her attractiveness than the content of her character. I know Alyse was supposed to be devoted to her NGO and didn't want to become a banker's wife-- yay! great!-- but the fact that it took her so long to appreciate him meant that I never *quite* believed that she deserved Liam. All this said, Emma Barry's "not-quite-amazing" is still sooo much better than most romance. Her books are now an auto-buy for me!