Trusting Tanner by Lexi Lawton is emotional, sweet and will have you wanting to throw your eReader all at once. A little bit of everything.

Juliana Shea is getting over a very bad relationship. She is wrecked and broken. Her confidence was shaken to the core. As she gets ready to start the new school year, she is determined to stay away from relationships and concentrate on school. No more broken hearts for her. And then she meets Tanner Collins.

Tanner is gorgeous and sexy and just about perfect. He is sweet, caring and very determined. One look at Juliana and he vows to make her his. But as he gets to know Juliana and spends time with her, she effectively puts him in the friend zone. So, he sets out to show her he is not her ex.

Juliana and Tanner meet as lab partners, but the more time they spend together, the more they realize their chemistry is undeniable. But Juliana was hurt and left questioning herself as a girlfriend. Tanner knows her ex was full of crap, but he needs to show her he is different. They can be different. So, he slowly pushes her to see him and who he is.

They begin to spend time as friends and get to know each other. The more time they spend together, they more they realize they could really be good together. But it seems they are constantly tested. With her male best friend, his crazy stalker and the nutty roommate. Can they survive? And what happens when a night he cannot remember comes between them? Will she decide it is not worth the broken heart after all?

Trusting Tanner is a story about learning to let go of the hurt of the past and to trust again. But the journey to happiness may be hard and tainted. The story was good and the characters worth getting to know.

~ Liz

This was a quick read but was really good. Jules a girl who has lost everyone in her life and feels alone in the world, just got out of a horrible relationship last year at school which didn't help her self esteem any. Returning to start a new year her best friend trys to make her get out more and meet people and open her self up more for life. She trys to do that but is terrified of getting hurt again and guards her heart very carefully.
Tanner has noticed Jules on campus some and always wanted to know her more. When they end up sharing some classes together and end up lab partners he trys to take full advantage of that. They hit it off right away and regardless of how Jules fights her feeling they win out. Of course there is always troubles and trials and Jules own mind causing problems in the relationship. Well done book I was glad I choose to read!
Tanner's brother are the comic relief in the story and now I can't wait to see how Ms. Lawton does there books to follow this one.
Honest review in exchange of ARC.

This was a very enjoyable read. Tanner was perfection. Smart, funny, sexy and determined to get past Juliana's walls. Juliana was a bit harder to warm up to but with her history I could understand her hesitancy to get involved. Why the heck she continued to room with Rebecca was beyond me though. I was disappointed with Jules at how she handled things when the relationship with Tanner hits a rough spot. So although she finally grew on me I was frustrated with her character. The storyline was excellent though and overall it is a book I would recommend to others.

The moment Tanner waltzes into Juliana's world he shakes it up, she is attracted to him, and there is some serious chemistry there, but he is currently attached to her roommate Rebecca and so far out of her league. So, she reluctantly puts him in the friend zone and tries to go on about her business, but when there is trouble in paradise for him and Rebecca, and they split, he starts to make his interest in Juliana known. She knows dating him could only lead to trouble, so she continually pushes him back in the direction of the friend zone, and tries to be adamant that there is will he will be staying, but he fights her every step of the way!

The moment I met these two I knew they were meant for each other, but with Juliana's past heartbreak, and Tanner's meddling ex girlfriend I began to wonder if they'd ever find their way to one another. As with all relationships there is always something in the way, and if you truly want to be together, you will have to find a way to work around it, and I am happy to report these two found a way to conquer their demons, so to speak. Their touching story made me laugh, made me swoon, and left me with a happy heart...and a little book boyfriend crush too!! I highly recommend you give this one a try, the moment Tanner walks onto the page he will steal your heart, and keep you captivated until the last page is swiped!!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this title.

Well I did like Tanner, but Juliana got on my nerves. True she was heartbroken because her ex-boyfriend cheated on her, but she judging Tanner by him, and that wasn't fair. Also, she kept saying she did not want a relationship with him, but she did not keep her stance, she would flirt with him, so either you do or you don't. Then we have her slutty roommate Rachel who she has seen how nasty she is first hand, and she has also heard from others about her, even her best friend warned her and yet she believed her over Tanner, that was annoying. I did understand her being upset about the pictures, but that was probably the only thing that I would give her. Tanner should have gone for someone else..

hot, hot, hot! Definitely looking forward to future books in this series!

My hopes for this book were dashed quickly, about the 2nd time Jules walked in on her roommate naked, the room trashed. The cover was very deceiving, it speaks steamy adult when it's barely YA, it's college juniors and reads like early high school.
Juliana was seriously dependant on Devon, Devon was a complete ass and possessive as hell and I didn't get that co-dependent relationship between those two. At all. Tanner actually was ok. Seemed like a stand up guy and genuinely interested in Jules and having a relationship with her. I liked when he told her, her wanted a relationship with her, not her, him and Devon. Tanner's brothers were kind of jerks. Especially the scene at the bowling alley where they ganged up on her to pressure her to see if she was after Tanner's money. What a joke. Turned out joke was on them. I'd have stormed off too. The crap Elizabeth pulled, Julianna's whore of a roommate was just so predictable and despite it didn't make sense to Tanner, he never tried to even figure it out. He knew it didn't make sense and he didn't remember but this pre-med student couldn't add 2 plus 2 here? Clarifying a couple things, Elizabeth did not have a prior relationship with Tanner. She slept with everyone else on campus, but not him.
I'm sorry I can't rate this book higher, the story was all too predictable, choppy and not well put together. If you do read the small type it is a New Adult book, but I still feel like that's pushing it.

**arc from NetGalley and Entangled in exchange for a fair review**

I wished I liked this more…at least as much as I liked the hero of the book. ‘Trusting Tanner’ sounded like a story I could get into, especially with a male protagonist who seemed unwaveringly classy and determined, for a change. But it all went downhill for me fast, when most of the characters (only Tanner seemed to be the shining gem in the mire) failed miserably at being the type of heroes or heroines I wanted to cheer for.

My sympathy for Juliana turned quickly to frustration when all she seemed to do was to hold everyone up to her past like a mirror after an ex did a number on her. Poor Tanner was held unerringly to these standards throughout, guilty until proven innocent despite trying his hardest, and I spent most of the book wondering what he actually saw in her when all Juliana seemed to do was to keep him on an uphill challenge to prove himself nothing but faithful. Her constant suspicions wore on me as a result, her jealousy unfounded when all she did at first was to insist that only friendship could come out of their school partnership.

I’d hoped more for Juliana in fact, but never quite got to see it - especially not at the end when it was most required of her. That her trust had to be earned was well and good, but it got impossible when all she seemed determined to do is to make people around her earn and prove themselves all the time.

The writing was, unfortunately rather naive (it also fell flat for me) and I couldn’t believe that this was happening at pre-med level when I thought I was reading about the activities of attention-seeking 14-16 year-olds. The high-school stereotypes were all in here, complete with the mean-but-pretty-girl who is also the roommate from hell and the petty jealousies that ping around the moment someone attractive steals someone else’s attention. It was difficult reconcile the behaviour of these characters with college-age students preparing for their careers, especially when you thought these juvenile tendencies had long had the door firmly shut on them.

I enjoyed this book. It wasn't exactly what I was expecting but I still really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to reading more by this author.

I got a copy of this book through netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Juliana and Rebecca are college roommates and not friends. They've been roommates for several years and can't stand each other? You'd think one would have moved out.

Tanner is dating Rebecca, but Juliana has the hots for him. So, she's excited when he breaks up with Rebecca and maybe she'll get a chance with him. After the break up Tanner admits he's got the hots for Juliana, as well. Match made in heaven, right? WRONG! Apparently, Rebecca isn't done with him quite yet and will stop at nothing to get him back.

This was just an okay book for me. Had potential but fell short.

Thanks to Entangled Publishing LLC via NetGalley for a copy of this book.

The cover is nothing like what you will get once you start reading. The cover shouts steamy and new adult. It does not remind me of anything that actually takes place in this book. This just fell really short for me.

This starts off with Julianna and Rebecca who are college roommates. Clearly, they have been roommates for several years, but they do not seem to be friends at all. Right from the start, they have a strained and almost hated relationship. It makes no sense why they would be living together. Anyways, Julianna is in love with Tanner who had been dating Rebecca. They break up and Tanner admits he has been just as in love with Julianna.

The plot had so much potential; however the writing was too stiff for my liking and I could not relate to the characters at all. They are supposed to college seniors, but act like they are in high school. There are too immature.
There is no building of the plot or the characters. Even a twist I would normally enjoy (Julianna was in foster care due to her parents dying when she was younger) held no emotions and was just thrown into the plot. It did not fit, and it did not make any sense.

Rebecca was crazy. I called her faking a pregnancy the moment Tanner woke up with her and did not know what happened. Even this was more juvenile, and had so much more potential to bring good drama to the plot.

Overall, I did not enjoy this at all. I did not like the writing, the characters, or the plot. I know others loved it, but it was not for me.