The Takeover (The Miles High Club Book 2)

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The book starts out with Claire Anderson expressing her disdain for Tristan Miles and his reputation in the industry. While how she describes him would typically make me hate the character from the start I couldn’t!

While I enjoyed the first book in the Miles High Club Series I LOVED reading this one. The Takeover is hilarious, like laughing so hard I can’t even see the words funny! This is the story told in dual POV's by Claire and Tristan. Tristan loves to help companies out when they are in trouble and take them over. Claire is a widow and she clings to her husbands memory, his love, his kids and his media company. Claire was refreshing in her perspective in love. There were many times I laughed and genuinely enjoyed the humor. And there were moments I treasured as well as mourned with Claire, her children and Tristan because I fell in love with them as a family unit as well as a couple. A widowed mother caught in the past finds herself in a tug of war between what was and what could be when Tristan Miles struts into her life. Strong-willed, when he sees what he wants, he goes after it. And when Claire sits across from him, he wants her. Run in after run in bring them together, but her life keeps pulling them apart. Can Claire find it in herself to let her dead husband go and move on?The story follows the ups and downs of their interactions and eventually their relationship. Tristan's dealings with Claire's children is at times laugh out loud funny, and at others so poignant it brought tears to my eyes.

months later she goes to a conference on business and he is a speaker there. When he pursues her again, they have a few night stands, which leads to a long weekend in Paris, which leads to a sad goodbye when Monica has to tell Tristan that they can't be anything more than a weekend fling. You see, Monica has 3 boys, and she doesn't think 34 year-old Tristan wants to take on a ready made family. This is the story of Triston, the 2nd oldest Miles brother. We were introduced to a charismatic Tristan in the first book and he appeared to be the jovial playboy that everyone liked. In The Takeover, the book begins with Tristan meeting with Anderson Media to discuss a friendly takeover. The owner of Anderson Media did not want to sell - she is the widowed mom of three boys ranging from 9ish to 18. Her husband founded the company and died in a tragic accident five years prior. She feels she will be letting down her dead husband if she sells out. Oh my gosh!!! This has been one of the most entertaining books I’ve read in ages!!! I absolutely loved everything about this and I hated to see it end.

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Yet, Tristan soon finds falling for a woman whose widowed and has three kids isn't all plain sailing or anything like he imagined, particularly when they turn out to be nothing like he imagined. And when Claire despite her declarations starts to find it harder and harder to let go of her late husbands memory things become even more difficult. And even though Claire's actions and comments at times frustrated me. I understood where she was coming from and for me it just made the whole story more enjoyable and realistic. Plus, it made me so much happier when fate sneakily intervened and gave Tristan, Claire and her boys the happy ending and second chance they truly deserved. What a roller-coaster ride! Claire and Tristan can hate each other like I've never read before! This book is utter perfection from start to finish.

I also thought the friction with Harry's character was not well handled. It was a solid idea, but having Tristan call him a psycho, and their interactions in general until discovering the true reason for him acting out were juvenile on Tristan's part and if I were a mother I would be alarmed and not want that man in my child's life. It wasn't until later in the book, that Tristan's attempts to befriend Claire's sons felt more reasonable/realistic. The Takeover is the second book in The Miles High Club and is even better than The Stopover. While to book is on the longer side, it does not read like a slow burn book and offer a well-developed, detailed plot line. Claire is older (this is different from many books I have read recently, and it was refreshing) than Tristan and has 3 boys, while raising them on her own since her husband’s passing. I loved both Claire’s and Tristan's character development throughout the story. Their banter and chemistry were amazing. What I particularly enjoyed was Tristan's relationship with Claire’s sons, and how much detail and emotion went into their interactions. The story was a bit of an emotional roller coaster towards the end, but as I finished the last chapter it left me grinning. The only thing stopping me from giving this book four stars, there were a few scenario’s that were too unrealistic for me and her boys seemed to be a little out of control for me. Seriously, the man is perfect: rich, handsome and fit–par for the course–but also talented in bed, quite romantic, loyal, dependable, smart, nice… Who wants to take Claire’s place, raise your hand. Even with three difficult boys, a dead husband and a failing business. So though some of the elements in the story felt unrealistic and a bit too much, I just wanted to keep reading about this beautiful human being.An absolutely awesome story and I loved that they only want each other. Aside from the dead husband their are no exes or messy afffairs or exes getting in the way of this story. The first book in "The Miles High Club" series was simply fantastic, so when I saw "The Takeover", I knew I had to read it. The second book is a bit different from the first one in a good way. I loved it so much. I had my first concerns when Tristan asked Claire if she had "Taken her Bitch Pills", I'm not a prude (honestly the sex scenes in this book were some of the better parts) but calling a woman you are interested in a "bitch" even in jest felt unnecessary and honestly dated in 2020. Also just not what I am looking for in this genre.