Sharing You by Molly McAdams
Series: Sharing You #1
Published by William Morrow on July 1, 2014
Pages: 304
Format: eARC
Source: Edelweiss, Publisher
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Twenty-three year old, Kamryn Cunningham has left all she’s ever known and moved to a small town where no one knows her name, who her parents are, or her social status in the horseracing world. Months after opening her own bakery and evading attempts of being set up by her new best friend, she meets Brody. Kamryn fights the instant pull between them because there’s a detail she can’t dismiss. Brody’s married.

To say that twenty-six year old, Brody Saco has had a rough marriage would be an understatement. After marrying his pregnant girlfriend, he spends the next six years in a relationship filled with hatred, manipulation and guilt involving a tragedy that happened five years earlier. When he keeps running into his sister-in-law’s best friend, Kamryn, he can’t ignore that she makes him feel more with just one look than his wife ever has; and soon he can’t continue fight his feelings for her.

When staying apart proves to be too difficult, Brody and Kamryn enter a relationship full of stolen moments and nights that end too soon while they wait for Brody to file for divorce. But the guilt that comes with their relationship may prove to be too much for Kamryn, and Brody might not be strong enough to face the tragedy from his past in order to leave his conniving wife.

I don’t even know where to start with this book.  Sharing You was one of the worst books I have ever read.  I know a lot of people have a love/hate relationship with Molly McAdams’ books and after reading this one, I can certainly see why.

I knew going into this one that it was about cheating and that I have issues with cheating.  However, I had just finished another book about cheating that was done rather tastefully and didn’t feature any physical cheating.  I hoped for a similar type of story with Sharing You but that was so not the case.  Sharing You was completely tasteless when it came to the cheating aspect and it played a huge role in the story.  I kid you not, the two main characters were sleeping with each other within a few weeks of meeting each other, all while one of them was married.  I get that you can be unhappy in your relationship but that is no excuse for cheating.  How hard is it to get a freaking divorce before you start sleeping with some random chick you just met?

Also, let me tell you about the worst case of insta-love ever.  Yeah, it’s in this book.  Kamryn and Brody bump into each other in the hallway and are immediately drawn to each other and neither of them even know why!  They can’t explain it and they don’t even try to.  They just immediately decide they have to be together even though Brody is married.  I could not even understand why they were together.  As the book progressed I continued to wonder what it was they saw in each other.  It never became clear to me.

As for the whole horrible, manipulative wife situation; it got old really fast.  Molly McAdams painted Olivia as this horrible villain that nobody could possibly like and I guess she figured that that would help readers justify the fact that Brody cheated on her.  It didn’t.  Brody kept saying he was going to leave Olivia but that she was depressed and suicidal and he couldn’t leave her until he got her help.  Then he decided that she was just manipulative and he was going to leave her without getting her help.  Then he decided not to leave her because she really did need help.  This went on and on and on.  The book could have been so much shorter if Brody would have just made up his mind to leave Olivia.

Oh and don’t even get me started on Kamryn.  She was the whiniest, neediest, most annoying character ever.  All she did was cry.  Holy crap I have never read a book with more crying.  And it was always over the same things.  Brody had to go home to Olivia, she didn’t get to spend enough time with Brody, she couldn’t tell anyone about her and Brody, etc.  Maybe if you weren’t sleeping with a married man you wouldn’t have these problems.  I felt absolutely no sympathy for her.  She was just annoying to read about.

Overall, I’m amazed I even finished Sharing You.  I honestly can’t tell you why I kept reading.  There is nothing about this book to redeem it.  I wouldn’t recommend this even if you had nothing else to read.  Skip this one and try something else by Molly McAdams.

What others are saying about Sharing You:

Once Upon a Twilight’s review: “Everything within the pages I was able to handle and enjoy every page I turned.”

Reading Lark’s review: “All in all, I enjoyed Sharing You, but not as much as some of the other McAdam’s titles.”

Nocturne Reads’ review: “If you don’t mind insta-love or some angst, then you should give this story a go.”