Review: Giving It All by Christi Barth

17 January of 2017 by ButtonsMom2003

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

I couldn’t wait to read Logan’s story.

Giving It All By Christi Barth

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Released: January 17, 2017

Publisher: Loveswept

Series: Naked Men, Book 3

Synopsis

Christi Barth’s smoking-hot contemporary romance series continues as the five best friends who survived a tragedy as teenagers take to their Naked Men podcast to open up about women. In Giving It All, the group’s globe-trotting hunk discovers that you need to go home to find love.

Logan Marsh never stays in one place for long. Through his family’s foundation, Logan spends his days traveling to the world’s most dangerous places to deliver disaster relief, which really puts a damper on his sex life—until he reconnects with his high-school crush. Stranded together in the Caribbean, they enjoy a steamy fling that awakens feelings Logan has ignored for too long. But family drama calls him away from her sweet embrace . . . or so he thinks.

Brooke Gallagher loved being a home economics teacher and cheerleading coach. Then an unexpected tragedy forced her to take some time off. Now she’s back in D.C. and despite the intensity of her tropical encounter with Logan, she’s shocked to bump into him again. Logan’s dealing with his own issues (including a newly discovered half-sister) and he’s itching to get back on the road. More than anything, Brooke wants to be there for him. But first, he has to decide if love is enough to keep him in one place.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

I couldn’t wait to read Logan’s story.

Giving It All is book 3 in Christi Barth’s Naked Men series. It can read as a standalone and Ms. Barth does a great job of giving the reader information they need from the first two books, but I think you might enjoy it more if you read least book 2 (Risking It All) which kind of sets up Logan’s story.

I have enjoyed reading all of these books – it’s a great series – but after reading the first two I really couldn’t wait to read about Logan. In the first books we learned about the five guys who created the Naked Men blog but we never got to meet Logan Marsh. He’s the wanderer – always off helping at some disaster site but we didn’t really learn why until now. I can’t say anything more about that without giving too much away.

Brooke Gallagher is a teacher still trying to recover from a tragedy that affected her deeply. Her parents send her to a tropical resort where she runs into Logan, her high school friend and crush. Logan is on his way home to meet the half-sister he just found out about and is stranded on the island due to bad weather. He and Brooke decide to have a no-strings fling while he waits for a flight home.

Back in D.C. Logan is having a difficult time adjusting to his sister’s relationship with his best friend. Brooke finds him waiting outside of the house he shares with the other Naked Men. He hasn’t been able to make himself go in because of a fight he had with his best friend. Brooke decides to take him home with her to give him some badly needed TLC.

There’s a lot going on in this story besides Logan’s relationship with Brooke. He has to confront his father about the sister he just found out about from his best friend. He has to come to terms with that same best friend, and former man-whore, dating his sister. He has to apologize and forge a relationship with his sister after really screwing up their first meeting via phone.

It was great to finally find out why Logan can’t seem to stop going from one disaster site to another. I love that in each book we get to find out more about the Naked Men while still having the main story focus on the current couple.

Giving It All is another one of those stories that touched all of my emotions. There are some really funny spots – like when one of the guys tells the rest the proper number of times to shake after peeing – and there are some really tender spots like when Logan’s dad tells him the backstory about his “new” sister and when Logan presents Brooke with a gift she never expected to get (it’s not a ring and you’ll have to read the book to find out what it is and why it means so much).

This was just such a great book all the way around and I’m looking forward to reading the next one in the series.