BLOG TOUR STOP~ALL GOOD THINGS By Jodie Beau

By Megan - Scandalous Book Blog - February 22, 2014

Title: All Good Things (The Good Life #0.5 - Standalone prequel to The Good Life)

Author: Jodie Beau

Genre: New Adult Contemporary

Published on 31st January 2014

Blog Tour Organised By: Kelly @ Have Book Will Read

All Good Things…

are wild and free.

This is going to be the best summer ever! Bonfires, pool parties, trips to the beach, throwing her arms in the air while riding down the open road in a convertible – she’s going to do it all.

Roxie has plans. It’s the last summer before college graduation. By this time next year she’ll be living in the “real” world; ie: paying bills, searching for a job that doesn’t require an apron, and maybe even sleeping on a bed that doesn’t turn into a couch. If there’s ever a time to be fun, irresponsible and reckless, it’s now.

But things don’t always go as planned.

Before the summer has even started, Roxie makes a discovery that breaks her heart and shatters her confidence. Her hopes of having the Best Summer Ever go straight in the trash. Forget the beach. Forget the bonfires. Forget summer altogether.

If only her childhood friend, Jake, would let her be. His contagious smile keeps popping up and dragging her to every social event in Ann Arbor. Reluctant at first, his happy-go-lucky attitude becomes an addiction. It isn’t long before Roxie starts to wonder if her longtime friend might be the perfect cure for her heartbreak. This summer might be good after all.

But All Good Things…

must come to an end.

**All Good Things is an NA prequel to the contemporary 2013 release The Good Life. The books can be read in either order, or as stand-alones.**

Roxie is home for the summer,after finding her boyfriend is not what he seemed. All she wants to do is hide in her room until she goes back to college. Jake, her brothers best friend, has other ideas. Roxie and Jake have grown up together, he gets her a job at the bar he works in to keep her busy. He tells her she needs to have a summer fling,after a awful date Roxie realises she likes Jake. OMG this book is amazing!!!!! I cried reading the prologue I cried reading the epilogue. I laughed out loud, I loved the lists- I do this and now realise how screwed up it is lol. Jake is one hot guy, Roxie is one great girl. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this book, I read it in 2 hours without moving from the sofa. This is well written a great read I am downloading the next book tonight!

5 Stars

I was a bad drunk. Everyone had that one friend that needed a babysitter when drinking. That was me. I was that friend. Embarrassing, but true.

I didn’t drink often, but when I did, I didn’t know when to stop. It wasn’t because I was a total lush – but I got so uncomfortable around crowds and used the alcohol to loosen up. Sometimes (okay, fine, most times) I got a little too loosened up. On bad nights I ended up fondled by strangers, passed out on a bathroom floor, or carried out of a bar by bouncers. On better nights you’d find me telling a whole group of complete strangers my theory that oral sex was the answer to World Peace. And on no morning-after had I ever woken up and thought to myself, Wow, what a respectable young woman I was last night. Nope. Never.

I’d embarrassed myself on too many occasions to count, and I was hoping not to add another at my own ‘Welcome Home’ party.

“Can you do me a favor?” I asked Jake after my second martini. It was approaching nine, not even dark yet and I was already buzzing.

“What’s up?” he asked from behind the bar.

“Can you please start making my drinks a little weaker? Or a lot weaker? It’s still early, and I’d like to have some of my dignity left in the morning.”

“That’s not going to be very fun for the rest of us,” he said with a straight face. “These people didn’t come here tonight to welcome back their prim and proper weak-drink-drinking friend. They came for the show they’ve learned to expect.”

It wasn’t very nice, but it was funny. I was buzzed enough to laugh at my own expense. “I don’t want to pull out all my tricks on the first night,” I replied. “I need to save some for the next party.”

“No shit, you’ve got tricks now? I should have charged a cover.”

I laughed and shook my head at him. “Can you please just have my back tonight?”

He slid another martini over to me. I took a sip of the noticeably weaker drink and smiled. “Thank you.”

“No problem. I’ve got my money on you keeping your bikini top on until at least midnight. If we work on it together, we can split the pot.”

I sipped my martini and hoped he was kidding.

JODIE BEAU

I'm a wife, mom, waitress, book nerd, Chapstick addict, and a really bad driver who still believes in happy endings and can't walk in high heels. Writing is what I do when I'm avoiding other things...like cleaning.

I once had big dreams of being a Hollywood screenwriter.

But then I met a boy and got distracted.

Three years later we met another boy, this one even cuter.

The three of us are now living happily ever after in the Detroit area. All Good Things is my second novel. And our house is kind of a mess :)