New Review! Doubleshot (The Rock Bottom Series #2) by Holly Renee 3 Cranky Stars

Double Shot by Holly Renee
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3 Cranky Stars


There are very few series and authors that can build up a series with each book better than the last. I was hoping that double shot was as thrilling, emotional, and relatable as the first book in this series. The first book blew me away and sucked me in so much that I felt everything the characters did. Sadly, this book disappointed me. It didn’t hold its own. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed the authors writing and ability to story tell, but this one just didn’t draw me in and make me fall in love quite like the other book did. Honestly, I think the author should leave Bottoms Up as a stand alone and leave all the other characters alone. It was amazing just as it was. Double Shot will get lost in the shadow of the first book in the series because it doesn’t compare in the least bit.


Sophie, Tucker’s sister from the first book, was hardly mentioned. We weren’t able to really get to know her or fall in love with her in the first book so I was confused why she even got her own book. She was a blip in the series world until suddenly she was the leading role. She has a lot of issues that I don’t really get where it stems from. She’s emotional and a brat really. She’s spoiled and throws a fit when she’s not getting her way. She’s verging on bipolar. There a lot of confusing time lapse and plot errors that the author didn’t pay enough attention to, which makes the setting and use of these characters random and confusing.


Jase is portrayed, poorly I might add, as a ladies man, and yet he doesn’t have ladies at his beck and call? It’s unrealistic, honestly. For me, it was just the authors attempt at creating an alpha male that is drop dead sexy to play out some sexual fantasy and that’s it. I wasn’t impressed with him in his own booked like I had hoped to be when he made his appearance in Bottoms Up.


I was disappointed with the way the story played out and the lack of development with the characters. I had hoped there would be a deeper connection that was highly relatable to the real world like the first book. There was no morals or values inserted into the storyline, there was no emotional struggle or conflict that people deal with in the real world. It was nothing but a sexual fantasy turned into word pornography. It definitely is a book that bored me and lost my interest as another one of the authors looking to be the next fifty shades commodity. The lack of plot and meaning to the whole story was depressing and honestly I skipped a lot. You can only read a sex scene so many times before it gets boring and it takes away from emotion and connection behind the actions. Without a reason for the action, without a purpose for the characters to be doing it, then it’s nothing but porn and I’d rather go watch it on the Internet than read it with the lack of descriptive details. I’m reading books to relate to the characters, to live their life in another alternate universe and get away from the troubles of the real world, not find some boring porn collection from someone who has an obsession with office sex.


Sadly, I was disappointed in the direction this went. The first book held up better than this one. I give this book 3 cranky stars. The cover, like the first, doesn’t impress me either. It’s cliche like all the rest of the authors turned porn experts so will fit right in the crowd of authors that aren’t unique with their writing or imagination, lost in a sea of sameness without ever being noticed as a front runner. It’s a shame too, I had higher expectations after reading the first book.



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