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Stanton Shaw is a hotshot DC defense lawyer and a master in his domain. Things are going great at work, and his regular “encounters” with his co-worker Sofia Marinda Santos help relieve the everyday pressure. Stanton also has a family living tucked away in the quite town of Sunshine, Mississippi. He has a 10-year old daughter (Presley), and has some sort of long-distance relationship his daughter’s mother Jenny. Their relationship is going great too, but sometimes things are not what they seem because Stanton is about to lose it when he discovers an unexpected wedding invitation from Jenny in his mail.

Sofia Santos knows not to get emotionally involved with her colleague Stanton, but as Stanton asks her to accompany her on a trip to his hometown to prevent this unexpected marriage from happening, she can’t help but feel a twinge of jealousy. Yet, for the sake of her friend, she needs to put her feelings aside and support him in his decision to conquer back his childhood sweetheart.

What I loved about this book:

It is mainly set in the south

What I felt needed improvement:

The awful male main character
The unthinkable storyline the main character drives this book toward
The naiveté of the female main character

I am a huge fan of Emma Chase and of her Tangled Series featuring Drew Evans and his friends. It was only normal that Overruled would be on my auto-buy list, and I was quite eager to read it, even if it took me some time to get there. Overruled was not at all what I expected. I was expecting an office-romance, that’s for sure, but while the two main characters are colleagues, the book itself didn’t take place in their workplace at all. And I didn’t expect this book to sound so familiar to Tangled , which is neither a good nor a bad thing. It was definitely easy to get into the book because it had the standard Emma Chase style, and I was surprised to find that Drew Evans from Tangled also makes a little cameo appearance in this book.

However, I really can’t say I like it storywise. It’s actually not the storyline that bothered me, but what the main characters make of the given situation. I was actually mostly disappointed of Stanton because he was a despicable character. Well, he is made out to be handsome, fun, good in bed, and which a southern charm that makes me want to fan myself. He’s even quite cocky. And if it wasn’t for the southern charm, he would have been a carbon copy of Drew Evans. Only worse.

And that’s where I’ll get to the point. Stanton Shaw has had a baby with his childhood sweetheart when he was only 18. He ran off to college – leaving them behind – and then started his professional career in Washington, hours and hours away from Mississippi. Sure, the guy pays his baby momma on a monthly basis and he is very much involved in his daughter’s life doing daily Skype calls, and upholds a semblant of a long-distance relationship with the mother. But after 10 years (!!!) he still hasn’t asked his family to move over, or has thought about making the move to the south. And don’t talk about how “often” he comes to visit.

“How long’s it been since you’ve been home?”
“Fourteen months, twelve days.”

That’s not all: he and the mother have this “relationship” (although he never asked her to marry him in 10 years), but he still screws other women!!! And then, when he gets this unexpected wedding invitation from his childhood sweetheart, he thinks he can just storm down there and lay a claim on something and someone he practically dismissed and shoved into a proverbial compartmentalized box? Really?

Oh, but it gets better: so he does storm down to Mississippi and when he does, he asks his Fbuddy (sorry, Sofia) to come down with him and help him stand his ground. And while he is trying to conquer his old flame back, he still screws with his Fbuddy. Oh, and the reason why he took his Fbuddy with him to his hometown in the first place was also because he couldn’t stand someone else putting their hands on his her. Want to have your cake and eat it too, Stanton?

How sexy does that make this main character look? Not. Sexy. At. All. This guy is a total douchetard if I’ve ever seen one. It’s not even like he learned from his mistakes, no – he just carried on thinking all was right in the world. A little gut clenching here and a sour thought there, and he’s off thinking about something else. I can’t believe Emma Chase managed to write an even more despicable and disgusting character than Drew Evans. Stanton Chase is definitely where I draw the line. He ruined the book.

Sofia was great – at least in the start – and she helped bring things into perspective with Stanton. She’s another successful defence attorney working alongside him without any trace of rivalry, and has made it through an impressive parcours even though her family immigrated from Brazil with 2 other kids in tow. She’s the synonym of a self-made woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to go get it. She’s also got enough morals and loyalty to consider stepping back and helping Stanton through his “family crisis” even though it breaks her heart. And really, through the last part of the book, she started showing quite some doormat tendencies.

“Before anything else, Stanton is my friend. I wouldn’t say I’m self-sacrificing – but I’m loyal. And that’s what good friends do. They help each other.”

“For months, all I’ve heard is Jenny this and Jenny that. And now that she’s unavailable, you suddenly realize I’m the one you love?”

The only thing I really liked about this book though was the fact that 80% of it starred in Mississippi, and that most of the characters had the southern charm and fun banter that I love so much (especially in Abbi Glines books). But still, it is not enough to improve the rating of a book that features such a poor main character.

And in the end, the story ends on a quite uncommon epilogue which lasts over several months/years. That’s when I noticed that this would be a standalone book and that their story would not be continued (at least not as a main focus) because the next book in the series will be dealing with another character. Again, not sure whether it is a good or a bad thing, but I certainly could have used more closure.


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Overruled edition by Emma Chase Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

There's only 2 books I've ever not finished out of many, many books, I read 2-3 books daily for over 2 years now so you understand. Stanton, I could not stand at all, only for a nano second in the very beginning of the book when he was willing to do the right thing. I agree with another reviewer here, really he brought his friend/co-worker with benefits with him to win Jenny back?! That's just so wrong, his double standard, egotistical, arrogant attitude was a turnoff all the time, even the courtroom, always screamed sleeze to me. Had he ended up with Jenny, after groveling a lot for staying away for 14 months and declaring his undying love for her I would have loved him but I can't stand him. Sofia either, shame on her, sleeps with him knowing he stated Cleary his heart was spoken for to Jenny and Presley, I had no respect for her ever, who goes into a sexual encounter knowing that? Are there really women out there who do this and think it's okay? I got to 73% and that's where this book ended for me, once I saw that they wouldn't end up together, that he didn't fight for his first true love, the mother of his child. I'm a sucker for second chance romances. I never read the synopsis, this came recommended by another blogger that knows what I enjoy to read, so I downloaded no questions asked and it's the first time we didn't agree. Sorry even though I liked Jenny, even her, every time he blew into town, she would be there to sleep with him?! Dysfunctional the whole bunch. I like Emma Chase, I've read other books by her before and loved them and plan on reading book 2 in this series after I read the synopsis. I just didn't like this story or the characters, none of them.
I have no one to blame for this but myself. I hated Emma Chase's "Tangled", and so I just should have known that whatever Chase is selling, I don't want to buy. However, being a criminal lawyer myself, I'm kind of a sucker for romances involving prosecutors/defense attorneys (although, note to self, I rarely actually like these books as I find the legal plots rarely ring true), so I stupidly decided to check out this new series. Reading the blurb should have been all it took to warn me that this book would not be for me Defense attorney Stanton Shaw takes his big city, Latina friend-with-benefits back home to Hicksville, Mississippi, to try to break up the wedding of his high school sweetheart.

As I should have expected, stereotypes abound.

Also as I should have anticipated (because Drew of "Tangled" was such a jerk, and because the blurb basically tells us that Stanton brings his hoochie mama with him on a mission to win back his baby mama), the "hero" of "Overruled" was a total jackhole. What isn't clear from the blurb is that Jenny, the high school sweetheart, is not Stanton's ex of the distant past -- he got her knocked up in high school, and they agreed that he would go to college and support his family, and that while they're apart they can have an "open" relationship -- they have continued to sleep together. This has gone on for ten years, with Stanton catting around like a manwhore with anyone he likes, and paying only occasional booty calls on Jenny. This works fine for him, until Jenny falls in love with someone else, which Stanton gets all butthurt and betrayed about.

I didn't mind Jenny, but Sofia (the hoochie mama) was kind of a doormat. Like Stanton, she's supposed to be this brilliant lawyer, except that we never see her doing any actual lawyering. She spends the whole book talking about how she knows men because she's got three brothers, and she knows men don't like commitment or clingy women, so she's not going to make any demands on Stanton. That's all well and good, but have a little self-respect, please! No woman with any self-esteem or sanity would willingly accompany the guy they're sleeping with to help him win back someone else. Sofia keeps setting limits--I'll go with you, but no sex. Okay, once we get to Mississippi, no sex. Okay, absolutely no sex while we're staying with your parents--and then ignoring those limits, so she just came across as weak and ineffectual.

Stanton eventually sees the error of his ways and tries to make things right with both Jenny and Sofia, and readers who enjoy a good redemption story may be satisfied here. As for me, I solemnly vow NO MORE EMMA CHASE FOR ME!
Stanton Shaw is a hotshot DC defense lawyer and a master in his domain. Things are going great at work, and his regular “encounters” with his co-worker Sofia Marinda Santos help relieve the everyday pressure. Stanton also has a family living tucked away in the quite town of Sunshine, Mississippi. He has a 10-year old daughter (Presley), and has some sort of long-distance relationship his daughter’s mother Jenny. Their relationship is going great too, but sometimes things are not what they seem because Stanton is about to lose it when he discovers an unexpected wedding invitation from Jenny in his mail.

Sofia Santos knows not to get emotionally involved with her colleague Stanton, but as Stanton asks her to accompany her on a trip to his hometown to prevent this unexpected marriage from happening, she can’t help but feel a twinge of jealousy. Yet, for the sake of her friend, she needs to put her feelings aside and support him in his decision to conquer back his childhood sweetheart.

What I loved about this book

It is mainly set in the south

What I felt needed improvement

The awful male main character
The unthinkable storyline the main character drives this book toward
The naiveté of the female main character

I am a huge fan of Emma Chase and of her Tangled Series featuring Drew Evans and his friends. It was only normal that Overruled would be on my auto-buy list, and I was quite eager to read it, even if it took me some time to get there. Overruled was not at all what I expected. I was expecting an office-romance, that’s for sure, but while the two main characters are colleagues, the book itself didn’t take place in their workplace at all. And I didn’t expect this book to sound so familiar to Tangled , which is neither a good nor a bad thing. It was definitely easy to get into the book because it had the standard Emma Chase style, and I was surprised to find that Drew Evans from Tangled also makes a little cameo appearance in this book.

However, I really can’t say I like it storywise. It’s actually not the storyline that bothered me, but what the main characters make of the given situation. I was actually mostly disappointed of Stanton because he was a despicable character. Well, he is made out to be handsome, fun, good in bed, and which a southern charm that makes me want to fan myself. He’s even quite cocky. And if it wasn’t for the southern charm, he would have been a carbon copy of Drew Evans. Only worse.

And that’s where I’ll get to the point. Stanton Shaw has had a baby with his childhood sweetheart when he was only 18. He ran off to college – leaving them behind – and then started his professional career in Washington, hours and hours away from Mississippi. Sure, the guy pays his baby momma on a monthly basis and he is very much involved in his daughter’s life doing daily Skype calls, and upholds a semblant of a long-distance relationship with the mother. But after 10 years (!!!) he still hasn’t asked his family to move over, or has thought about making the move to the south. And don’t talk about how “often” he comes to visit.

“How long’s it been since you’ve been home?”
“Fourteen months, twelve days.”

That’s not all he and the mother have this “relationship” (although he never asked her to marry him in 10 years), but he still screws other women!!! And then, when he gets this unexpected wedding invitation from his childhood sweetheart, he thinks he can just storm down there and lay a claim on something and someone he practically dismissed and shoved into a proverbial compartmentalized box? Really?

Oh, but it gets better so he does storm down to Mississippi and when he does, he asks his Fbuddy (sorry, Sofia) to come down with him and help him stand his ground. And while he is trying to conquer his old flame back, he still screws with his Fbuddy. Oh, and the reason why he took his Fbuddy with him to his hometown in the first place was also because he couldn’t stand someone else putting their hands on his her. Want to have your cake and eat it too, Stanton?

How sexy does that make this main character look? Not. Sexy. At. All. This guy is a total douchetard if I’ve ever seen one. It’s not even like he learned from his mistakes, no – he just carried on thinking all was right in the world. A little gut clenching here and a sour thought there, and he’s off thinking about something else. I can’t believe Emma Chase managed to write an even more despicable and disgusting character than Drew Evans. Stanton Chase is definitely where I draw the line. He ruined the book.

Sofia was great – at least in the start – and she helped bring things into perspective with Stanton. She’s another successful defence attorney working alongside him without any trace of rivalry, and has made it through an impressive parcours even though her family immigrated from Brazil with 2 other kids in tow. She’s the synonym of a self-made woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to go get it. She’s also got enough morals and loyalty to consider stepping back and helping Stanton through his “family crisis” even though it breaks her heart. And really, through the last part of the book, she started showing quite some doormat tendencies.

“Before anything else, Stanton is my friend. I wouldn’t say I’m self-sacrificing – but I’m loyal. And that’s what good friends do. They help each other.”

“For months, all I’ve heard is Jenny this and Jenny that. And now that she’s unavailable, you suddenly realize I’m the one you love?”

The only thing I really liked about this book though was the fact that 80% of it starred in Mississippi, and that most of the characters had the southern charm and fun banter that I love so much (especially in Abbi Glines books). But still, it is not enough to improve the rating of a book that features such a poor main character.

And in the end, the story ends on a quite uncommon epilogue which lasts over several months/years. That’s when I noticed that this would be a standalone book and that their story would not be continued (at least not as a main focus) because the next book in the series will be dealing with another character. Again, not sure whether it is a good or a bad thing, but I certainly could have used more closure.