Review: Where I Belong (Alabama Summer #1) by J. Daniels

by Sarah Reads - 7:00 PM

Author: J. Daniels
Title: Where I Belong
Genre: Romance | Contemporary |
Release Date: June 27, 2014

hen Mia Corelli returns to Alabama for a summer of fun with her childhood best friend, Tessa, there's only one thing keeping her on edge. One person that she’d do anything to avoid.

Benjamin Kelly. World’s biggest dickhead.

Mia hates him with a fury and has no desire to ever see him again. When she decides to start her summer off with a bang and finally give away her v-card, she unknowingly hands it over to the one guy that excelled at making her life miserable, learning a valuable lesson in the process.

Always get the name of the guy you’re going home with.

Ben can’t get the girl he spent one night with out of his head. When she leaves him the next morning, he thinks he’ll never see her again. Until he sees her lounging by the pool with his sister.

Mia is determined to hate Ben, even though she can’t forget him.

Ben is determined to prove he’s not the same guy he used to be.

What happens when the one person you wish never existed becomes the one person you can’t imagine being without?

This story is amazing! It gets five out of five hearts from me!!

I Love, love, love this book! It is absolutely amazing! Author J. Daniels tells such an amazing story that you cannot help but fall in love with. This book is Sizzling, fun, and had a few moments I was sniffling like a baby or clutching my heart. Her characters are realistic, fun, and hot as hell! J. Daniels packs this story full of romance, humor, and erotica.

This book starts off with Mia Corelli heading back to Alabama to spend the summer with her best friend Tessa Kelly. She needs a break and wants to let loose over the summer. Mia decides the best way to start her summer is to finally cash in her v-card. She meets a smoking hot guy at the first bar she finds back in her home town and seduces him into taking her home… Well I think that Ben would have followed her anywhere personally. This girl was oozing the sex appeal that most books have guys doing!

Fast forward past the sizzling sex these two have to the next day when Mia realizes the hot guy she cannot get off her mind is Benjamin Kelly “Ben.” This poor girl was mortified when she realized the boy she despises more than anyone in the universe is the man she cannot stop fantasizing about. She has tried to get over how Ben Kelly treated her growing up for years.

Mia Corelli is one of those girls you just have to love. Her personality is addictive and fun. Most women can relate to her. She has gone through a lot over the past few years. Falling for a guy is not on her agenda. Especially when the guy is Ben Kelly.

Ben Kelly is a guy who knows what he wants and he wants the girl what rocked his world. He felt a connection with here he’s never felt with anyone before. He will do anything to have her realize he isn’t the evil boy she knew growing up. He knows he has his worked cut out for him and owns it. He makes it his mission to prove to Mia that he is a changed man. And let me tell you ladies, Ben will have you swooning and rooting for him all the way. I LOVE BEN!

Ben also has a son that I absolutely adored in this story named Nolan. This kid stole the show a few times. Saying he’s adorable is an understatement. And Ben with Nolan made my heart turn to a pile of mush!

This book gave me a serious book hangover. I could not put the book down and when I was finished I wanted to cry because I needed more of Ben and Mia.

I praise Author J. Daniels for not making this book a cliché. She kept her characters true to who they were!

J. Daniels was born and raised in Maryland.

She is the NY Times and USA Today Bestselling author of the Sweet Addiction series and the Alabama Summer series.

After putting her kids to bed, she escapes into her cheeky world where some of her characters kiss, and some of them do a lot more than kiss.

She is an avid reader and a lover of cupcakes and sarcasm.