Review: Castle Hill (On Dublin Street #2.5) by Samantha Young

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I am a mad fan of On Dublin Street, obsessed with anything and everything to do with one of my top book boyfriends ever – the Fuckhot Scot, Braden Carmichael. Damn, I love this man! He is confident, sexy, has a Scottish brogue and, yes, he is fuck-hot.

“Am I hot now?” he asked, his voice low and rumbling with arousal as his fingers slipped beneath my panties.
I arched into his touch, bracing my hands on his chest. “Baby, you don’t know how to be anything else.”

See – even Joss thinks so *dreamy sigh*.

But I digress. This is not all about Braden, it’s also about Joss, and gives us a peak into the events of their life after On Dublin Street. With a proposal, a wedding (with my man in a kilt no less!), a tropical honeymoon and their return to real life, there is lots of blissful swooning and ample opportunity for the epic banter, teasing, laughter, swoon and steamy hotness that I have come to expect from this couple.

“Now walk into the bedroom , lie on your back on the bed, stretch your arms above your head, spread your legs, and prepare to take me. Hard and deep.”

Ummmm… YES PLEASE!

And then there’s this whole shower scene…. Sorry, getting sidetracked again.

I loved seeing the change in Joss. She has dealt with a lot of her issues and become a lot more confident in herself, and being with Braden, and surrounded by their friends and family, she is a very different person from the girl we met at the beginning of this series, and that was beautifully reflected in this story.

While I was hoping this was going to be a gloriously happy, swoony gush-fest of a novella, sadly there is some drama thrown in – yes, the dreaded ‘drama for the sake of drama’ (*sigh*), and while the cause of it all was certainly not a surprise, the fall out definitely was, and I was saddened by it. It appears my perfect man may not be so perfect after all! And most of it, I thought, felt completely out of character for him. Not that I created him, but I do feel that my love and absolute devotion to him affords me a sense of ownership, and I just didn’t think that my Braden would behave the way he did. I was irritated and wanted to give him a smack. Actually they both deserved a smack at one point. Ugh.

But the beautiful romance between these two, and their absolute devotion to each other pulled me through the hard times, and it’s all wrapped up in a swoonily happy ending.

“There is not a moment that passes where you don’t make me feel more alive than I ever thought I could, and today you gave me something I thought was lost a long time ago for the both of us. You’ve given me peace, babe. You’ve given me everything.”

4 Braden-obsessed stars.

 

The On Dublin Street series

On Dublin Street  Until Fountain Bridge  Down London Road  Castle Hill  Before Jamaica Lane  Fall from India Place

Echoes of Scotland Street    Moonlight on Nightingale Way  One King's Way   

On Dublin Street (#1) (Braden & Joss)
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Until Fountain Bridge (#1.5) (Adam & Ellie)
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Down London Road (#2) (Cam & Jo)
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Castle Hill (#2.5) (Braden & Joss)
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Before Jamaica Lane (#3) (Nate & Olivia)
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Fall from India Place (#4) (Hanna & Marco)
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Echoes of Scotland Street (#5) (Cole & Shannon)
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Valentine (#5.5) (Excerpts with each couple)
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Moonlight on Nightingale Way (#6) (Logan & Grace)
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One King’s Way (#6.5) (Craig & Rain)
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Stars Over Castle Hill (#6.6) (Braden & Joss)
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On Hart’s Boardwalk (#6.7, Hart’s Boardwalk, #2.5) (Nate & Olivia)
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On Dublin Street: The Bonus Material 
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Samantha Young also has a series of On Dublin Street bonus scenes on her website.  A must-read for fans!!!

 

Check out our Contemporary Romance Recommendations page for more awesome reads.

 

 

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