Overflow: The Carpino Series

Overflow is the first book in the Carpino series by Brynne Asher. This is Gabby and Jude’s book.Gabby is a sweetheart. She’s so full of life and beautiful. She’s the kind of girl you want as your best friend since it’s obvious she is loyal and someone you can depend on.Jude is hot! That man is bossy and protective. I loved watching him realize just how special Gabby was while also realizing he was going to have a hard time ever telling her no.Their relationship is pretty smooth for the most part. There are a couple of bumps between them, but the issues they have are mostly from outside forces because of the danger Gabby accidentally ended up in. However, this danger is what brings Jude and Gabby together in the first place so there is that.Tony is a great cousin and I’m looking forward to reading his book next. I really like all the secondary characters of friends and family, especially since we’ll get to see them throughout the series.Overflow is an easy to read great book told from both POVs with a sweet happy ending. I only recently discovered this author and I am seriously loving her books. Each one I have read so far I have thoroughly enjoyed.

It’s definitely worth reading. I just love the whole story. It’s funny and heartwarming, has some tense moments and surprises. The characters are well developed and you understand their motivations. However, there are many grammatical and spelling and word usage errors. Simple things like “your” instead of “you’re” or plural tense used instead of singular tense in a sentence. The book, the story, the drama, etc is 5 stars. Such a great story. However it distracts the reader, at least this reader, when editing misses easy mistakes. “To” instead of “too”. It’s just plain sloppy. At $6.oo per book, they (whomever they are be it the editor, publisher or writer) are making enough money to fix it. So fix them. Issue a revised edition so future readers get the quality they deserve.

Overflow is the debut novel of Brynne Asher, and after having heard about it from a group on Goodreads, I decided to give it a shot. I'm so glad I did because this was a great debut. With hints of Kristen Ashley, Ms. Asher drew me into a story of love, loss, family, crime, and even a dash of humor.Summary:Gabrielle Carpino has a large loving family, good friends, and a job she enjoys, but none of that seems to touch the sadness and grief she carries in her heart. When tragedy struck her family, Gabby decided to close herself off from actually living life, and now just goes through the motions. Looking at the future brings to mind all she's lost in her past, so living a mundane day to day life with only mild happiness is her norm. Mundane becomes a thing of the past when Gabby is unknowingly thrown into the middle of a whole mess of craziness. The beginning of her excitement begins when she innocently drops by a clients home for finishing touches, but quickly becomes embroiled in a situation that includes her being cuffed and patted down for weapons. It doesn't help that the agent doing the patting is Jude Ortiz. Jude is tall, dark, and handsome with a commanding presence and an air of mystery that Gabby finds herself being drawn to. For Jude, Gabby is a woman unlike any he's ever met, and the first woman to gain his undivided attention in a very long time. Thinking he'd like to get to know her better, Jude gets his chance when Gabby's put in some danger resulting from the previous situation. As Jude's protective nature rises to the surface, he finds himself feeling things he hasn't in years, and moves in to keep watch over Gabrielle. Keeping her safe becomes an experience what with her crazy family butting in, desperate criminals on the loose, marathon shopping trips, flooded basements, and fantasy football. Just as Jude and Gabby start seeing happiness in a future together, demons from both their pasts come back and threaten to rip apart what they have before it really even begins. While Jude determinedly fights those demons back, Gabby is surprised to learn about events in Jude's past that may prevent her from getting the happy she so desperately yearns for.I really enjoyed Gabby. Experiencing the loss that she did could have changed her in bad ways, but she was very loving, loyal, and hard working. She was funny, smart, beautiful, and talented. I loved her relationship with her family, and found the Carpinos to be a blast. Jude was amazing. I love a good alpha, and Jude was definitely one I'll remember. His bossy nature was sweet instead of annoying, and his protectiveness of Gabby made me swoon. I found myself listening to Nickleback several times to get a feel for his voice. Lol. Supporting cast was wonderful, especially the Carpino clan and Gabby's friends. I only wish we had gotten some expansion on the situation with Conner since we didn't get to see it play out. How did Jude handle that then and well into the future? Also, the meeting with Gabby and Rick Ortiz was a bit intense, now I think for obvious reasons, but I kind of wish we had seen a bit more interaction with Jude's family. Overall, I really liked the story. For a debut, it was very well put together. I think I might have wanted a tie to Pope thrown in a bit sooner, but it wasn't horrible without it. I'm looking forward to Tony's story next, and getting to see Ms. Asher grow in her talent. <3

This book had a lot of action and love within its pages.I am happy to recommend this soulful book.

It's a sweet story where everything from the main to the side characters are nice and perfect. The story is predictable. While the H starts off with the alpha vibes he tames down pretty soon. Overall a nice read.

Great characters and story line. This book was hard to put down. Falwell paced with a great balance of action and romance.

The plot developed a bit slowly but was still good enough to keep reading. The characters are lovely and I liked the way their story unfolded, drama and all. Enjoyable

An action packed romantic suspense with a HEA.The story is steamy from the beginning with a very unexpected and unique meet-cute.The couple are not without baggage to overcome and a few bad guys to overturn.If you love big burly strong protective but sensitive hero’s and independent heroines and a big proud and protective family, then this is for you.