Title: The Last Thing He Needs Main Characters: Tommy O’Shea & Bobby McAlister Author: J.H. Knight Genre: Contemporary Romance Length: 220 pages Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Date of Publication: July 28th 2014 Story: Tommy O’Shea is raising his seven younger brothers and sisters without any help from his drug abusing father and stepmother. Since he was fifteen years old, he's managed to keep the children fed and out of foster care. It takes up every ounce of his energy and the last thing he needs is romance complicating his life further. Rookie cop Bobby McAlister doesn't belong in Tommy’s harsh world, but Tommy can’t push him out. As their unlikely friendship turns into a tentative relationship, they weather the daily storm of Tommy’s life with a lot of laughs and more than a few arguments. Tommy isn't used to trusting outsiders, and he's never asked for help in his life. But when a tragedy strikes the O'Shea family and threatens everything he's fought for, he'll have to learn to do both to recover from the brutal hit. Me and this book: The gist of the story quickly caught my eye. It was without a doubt going to be filled with lots and lots of complicated stuff and heavy issues. I could already feel the large amount of angst radiating from this book and I knew it was somehow going to be awesome as hell. Just like what I said in my ‘Favorites’ page, sometimes a big load of angst is just what everyone needs. Review: As the book entailed, this story revolved around the somewhat miserable life of Tommy O’Shea. Tommy has been taking care of all his seven siblings every single day since he was fifteen making sure that everyone was well fed and okay. Life was never easy for Tommy, having parents that were most of the time high on drugs, literally. Most days they weren’t even home but to tell you the truth, those days were actually the good days for the O’Shea family. Despite the fact that they’re struggling with everyday problems, every member of the O’Shea family gives a helping hand whichever way possible. They keep together and understand that they’re not like most families, they know that they have to help each other to survive. Then here comes friendly officer Bobby. Officer Bobby was probably the most patient cop in the world. If it wasn’t him, like in reality, people would not even bother to associate themselves to Tommy like that. People will opt to give a blind eye to their situation but Officer Bobby was different. He was willing to offer his time and affection for the O’Shea family, keeping an eye on them every chance he gets. No one could blame Tommy for trying to shut Bobby out in the beginning, Tommy has been living his life proving to everyone that he can manage his family well and taking a help in hand from someone would just prove him wrong. Good thing Bobby wasn’t taking any of his shit excuses. As what everyone predicted, this book contained a lot of family related angst including family drama and sacrifices that needed to be done. Tommy and Bobby’s relationship started off rocky but at least it started. Waiting patiently for Tommy to accept Bobby into his life was a wait worth waiting for I tell you. But alas, life circumstances would always stand in the way of their relationship and miscommunication played a big role in it too. One of the things that I loved most about this was on how realistic it was. Tommy’s emotions were what exactly a person with his history would feel, he would feel protective of his siblings and the acceptance of help from others will mean to him that he’s not capable of providing for them. And also it would bust his ego. The ending was greatly done, the fact that Tommy didn’t take any shit from his father made this book more realistic than it can get. Throughout the book, I wanted to scream and shout at Tommy’s parents for being such idiots and the way Tommy did it for me was perfect. Some things just weren’t meant to be forgiven and the parents were one of them. The only complain I’d say was that it took me a while to get used to all the family member’s names and personalities. They were seven of them, don’t blame me for getting a little lost. But aside from that everything else was perfect. Maybe except for that epilogue, I still wouldn’t have forgiven Tommy’s dad even after a million years. Ps. Love that book cover. |
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