3.5 Stars

When Oliver Cody's life goes from easy and uncomplicated to him not knowing who he is anymore, he decides to go find himself. But while visiting every far away beach he can, a tragedy strikes at home... and a truth comes out in the aftermath that changes his life forever...

Holland O'Dell is working for her dream company... in her not such a dream position. When she comes up with an idea to prove herself, she runs across someone who offers to help her with her computer program she is working with...

This was a good read! Between the need for Holland to prove herself in her own way and Oliver's life being in such shambles, the two have a very complicated relationship. They have an almost instant attraction to one another... but when life and the workplace start to get in the way, will they be able to work past everything that is holding them back...

I received a complimentary copy of this book for my honest and unbiased review!

This was an interesting story. Holland was a girl with a plan to make it big in her company, but she needed a little outside help. What she didn't realize was that help came in the form of the CEO. Cody was lost after his parents died and the shocking news that was revealed after their death. Helping Holland helped him with the loss and to rediscover why he loved his company. Their friendship turned love helped both of them in different ways. I thought this was a cute story and give it 4 stars.

This was a good read for me. I liked the characters, although Oliver could be annoying at times. But the chemistry is good. The story has plenty of drama and the sex is steamy. An entertaining read.

This was a great read! I look forward to reading more from this author! It was sexy and steamy! I would love to see a book about Pamela.

I have mixed feelings about this title - it wasn't totally what I was expecting based on the description and the cover, but that was a good thing! When I started reading I was intrigued by Oliver/Hale, and that continued. He is a wild CEO and needed to find something or someone to ground him. That came in the form of his business and employee Holland. While I realize that not everyone will enjoy the technical bits of the story (they dragged in some parts)I actually enjoyed them - I felt like it kept the book from being a wham bam happy ending kind of novel. Three stars!

Mr Big by Delancey Stewart was an interesting read!!

When I first started reading, I realized that the novel was going to be like nothing I expected it to be. It was so much better!!

I completely fell in love with the cast of characters, and the entire plot line. It was sexy and sweet all at the same time. It was witty and humorous, while also maintaining elements of emotion and heartfelt sentiments.

4/5 Stars!!

** spoiler alert ** Received an ARC from NetGalley for an honest review.

Okay, this is gonna get a little spoilery because it actually features one of my most annoying moments ever which is why I docked a star.

I cannot stand it when men have to take some time before they can deal with the fact that they're going to be a father. I get that it wasn't planned, but I think it's super shitty for them to run away even if you know they're going to come back in the end. It's not like the woman can run away from the child growing inside of her.

Okay, rant over. I really liked Oliver and Holland together. They made sense to me. Even if Oliver was a super-whiney man child who couldn't get over the fact that his parents lied to him about being adopted. That said, Holland brought out the best in him. She actually made him face facts and grow up, something that he forgot how to do. Holland was taking no prisoners and I liked that about her.

It's funny, I kind of expected this to be much more sexy time heavy based on the cover. Overall, a good read, but it does have some annoying elements, so if those are issues for you, you've been warned.

Oliver Cody left everything he knew behind in search of himself, but after a devastating blow, he is more lost than ever.

Holland O’Dell has a plan. She has a list to check off and she needs to stick to it to feel in control of her life.

I thought this book was charming. The characters drew me in and I was hooked until the very last page. Did I want to junk punch Ollie at times? Yep. Did I want to slap some sense into Holland? Yep, I wanted to do that too. I loved that Holland, for the most part, was a strong, independent woman. She was in charge of her own destiny and she was going to take the world by storm. Ollie was a sad, lost man. He needed a kick to the head and Holland was just the girl to deliver that blow.

Overall, I thought the storyline was a great concept. Ms. Stewart put a smart, driven heroine together with a CEO with the need to feel like he makes a difference and it worked.

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When I first met Mr. Big, I thought it would be the typical super sexy story of an employee-boss romance. I was wrong…totally wrong. Delancey Stewart wrote SO MUCH MORE! Mr. Big is a love story of TRAGEDY and TENACITY, FEELS and FATE, and DREAMS and DESTINY. This romance wholeheartedly CAPTIVATED ME, calling to my heart and soul, CONSUMING ME from beginning to end. Mr. Big is a fierce fusion of smolder, sweetness, sass, sadness, strength, and swoon.

The hot and heartbreaking hero, Oliver Cody, is one you’ll both love and hate. Arrogant, brooding, kind, and temperamental, Oliver is a high-profile sports company CEO. This talented executive is battling demons in and out of the office. Oliver is one walking storm, a mix of dark and light.

Until light eclipsed his shade known as beautiful Holland O’Dell, a name and woman as stunning as the country….

Holland O’Dell was the first spot of color I’d seen in two months.

Beautiful Holland is out to prove she has what it takes to be a smart and powerful woman in a typical man’s world of sports. Though part of her plans don’t involve falling for her hot boss. I loved this heroine, admiring her drive and resilience.

“You saw me.” He stares into my eyes for a second. “Even when you hated me, you saw me.”

I MELTED from these sad and swoon-filled words where I FELT ALL THE FEELS!

This kiss wasn’t gentle and soft, it didn’t ask for permission. It felt like he was staking a claim, as if he sought to possess me.

This kiss POSSESSED ME, blazing and burning, lighting me on fire. I felt the passion and promise permeate the pages.

“No one ever chose me.” Her eyes shut and the tears squeezed past her lashes.

“I do,” I whispered into her hair. “I choose you.”

The excitement had me ON EDGE, biting my nails in both angst and anticipation. The push and pull was HEADY, a force that made my head spin. The torment was the perfect mix of sweet and sexy. The sexual tension lit me on fire. I wanted to shove this heroine and hero together so many times!

ENCHANTING and EMOTIONALLY-CHARGED, Mr. Big makes your head spin and soul soar in one heart-pounding whirlwind of an employee-boss romance. You’ll adore the heroine, and both love and loathe the hero in one spellbinding story of surprises. A slow burn of a romance, Mr. Big is PASSION MEETS PROMISE, a push-and-pull of angst-ridden goodness. Mr. Big is BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN, a tale that can’t help but twist around your heart.

“Sometimes we’re ready for things when we don’t think we are.”

💋💋💋💋 big and beautifully broken kisses

I found Mr. Big by Delancey Stewart to be a delightful and sexy story of two lost people who found something in each other. Their journey is not easy, but the story will intrigue you.

Holland O’Dell is ready to take on the world. The business world that is. She is determined to show everyone she can do this and get the job she wants. She may just need a little help to get there. What she does not know is the man that is helping her has a secret.

I loved Holland’s determination. She was strong and very driven. She had so little for so long in her life, but she never gave up. On the other side, Oliver Cody had it all. But he was unprepared for the changes in his life after he leaves to find himself, until he gets the urgent call to come home. But as we got to know him, I found him to be sexy, sweet and caring.

Even with so much contrast between them, they were also very similar in other ways. Both being a bit lost and trying to find their way. One driven and one ready to give up. There were many frustrating moments as well. Holland and Oliver had a lot of back and forth and issues they had to work through.

This story is nothing new, a CEO and the average girl, but overall it was a good story that will keep you drawn in. Holland and Oliver feel an instant attraction, but their journey is not an easy one.

There’s nothing quite like being in the right place at the wrong time. Delancey Stewart’s Mr. Big is a story about just that, a romance between two people who find each other at the absolutely wrong time in their lives and, while they fall in love easily, their journey to happily ever after is a difficult one.

Holland may be one of my favorite heroines this year. I loved her strength, the way she went after the things she wanted, and how she faced adversity head-on. Raised in foster care after being abandoned shortly after birth, she’s worked to shrug off her feelings of abandonment. With a carefully constructed plan, she finished graduate school and found her almost-dream job. Her life is about control after having none as a child, yet she’s not closed off. She just has a plan. While working on a project that she’s sure will help her move into a position she deserves in a male-dominated company, she falls in love with her boss. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to shake her for starting a relationship with Oliver or yell at her to quit second guessing herself professionally (though I understood why she would). Her situation was a perfect case of not being able to control what happens in life.

Oliver is probably one of my least favorite heroes this year, though I easily sympathized with him. He’s a guy who found success while still very young and suddenly found himself questioning what he was doing with his life while still in his mid-20s. He bails on his family and company to take a “sabbatical” and while gone his parents die suddenly, leaving him with the company and a secret he’s not prepared to handle. I wanted to shake Oliver. I wanted to kick Oliver. I wanted… clearly Oliver brought out some violent impulses in me. Without giving away too many spoilers, it was clear to me that becoming a successful person so young left him ill-equipped to handle anything that remotely shook his foundation. With his parents gone, he’s without any support and with the secret they kept from him, his anger at them masks his grief at their deaths. When he meets Holland, she shines a light into the darkness he’s been living in, but their relationship ends up being another way he puts off grieving.

What makes Mr. Big such a wonderful book is how readers get to watch these two unsure and somewhat broken people learn to deal with all that life is throwing at them. It’s never an issue of whether they love each other, but whether or not it’s the right time for them to love each other. When something happens that links them together in a way they can’t ever forget, both have to make decisions, personally and professionally, about how they’ll live the rest of their lives. Holland steps up in a way that had me cheering her on. Oliver takes a little longer, and I’ll admit there were times I wanted Holland to have her own personal HEA without Oliver in it. But, like in real life and with real couples, things don’t always happen on a schedule.

While I thought the ending was a bit rushed and Holland a little too forgiving, Mr. Big is a truly entertaining read with lots of chemistry between the characters, but more importantly, true affection. There are great secondary characters, people who provide support and friendship for both Holland and Oliver. As a big sports fan, I really appreciated the business part of the book, especially as Holland and Oliver worked to land a big client. And, I liked how Stewart addressed the lack of equality in the business of professional sports without getting preachy.

4 stars for Mr. Big. Heat level: 4

I really enjoyed this instalove but wait story. Both Oliver and Holland have committing to a relationship problems, Holland stems from growing as a foster child and the feeling that no one choosing her while Oliver's comes from a big emotional upheaval following his parents death. All the push/pull of their relationship had me giving this book 4 out of 5 stars otherwise I found it to be a sweet story.

Mr. Big or Mr. Dick?

I'm not gonna lie, I requested this book because of the abs.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The cover is ridiculously hot, but the funny thing is that... it doesn't have anything to do with the book.

Also, that cover fooled me big time. It made me think I was going to get a cocky, arrogant hero, instead, I got a broken, lost one. I liked Oliver, till he fucked up. And right now, I just want to hunt him down and kick his ass.

I liked Holland, Powerpuff Girls notebook and all. She was a bit annoying with her tiny little list and that stuff but I like her better than Oliver. He didn't deserve her.

The first half was great but the second one fell flat and repetitive. The author did tie up all the loose ends at the end of the book, but still, I felt like something was missing. And that something kept me from fully enjoying the story. Also, I felt like the author was heavy on the corporative sport, leaving the romance to the side. So I wish she would have given the romance a little bit more.

Even though I didn't love this story, I can't say I completely dislike it. It had its moments, thus the reason why I gave it 3 stars. And as I have said before, just because I had these issues, doesn't mean you will. So if you want to give it a go, do it and judge for yourself.

I had difficulty getting into the story. It felt fragmented and disjointed. I could not connect with the characters not the story.

Mr. Big is a great book to read, Holland and Oliver have one thing in common the Oliver didn't find out until recently. Oliver was the CEO of his father's company but he resigned to find he self and Holland is working at the company. A must read book. I give this book 4 stars. I voluntarily reviewed this NetGallery Advanced Reader Copy of this book.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review.

You know it's not every day your parents pass away and every single thing about your life you thought turns out to be a lie.  Oliver was shaken to the core to find out his parents secret.  It affected him so much he couldn't deal with the ramifications of the news.  

Once he returned to the company him and his father built he pretty much lost it.  Oliver has lots of things to work on.  But first - he meets Holland O'Dell.  She doesn't recognize him as the company's CEO.  Which works in his favor to be able to talk to her and gain her insight on what she thinks about his company.

As the trust builds so do the romantic feelings.  They definitely have something going there.  Holland doesn't want to have anything to do with it though.  She wants to work hard to hit her career goals.  They're all that matters to her at the time.  It's time to let her hair down, though.  Holland's goals are important though and Oliver offers to help her complete the part of her task she's struggling with.  

This story was a joy to read.  I laughed and shook my head a lot.  Oliver is a really great character and Holland compliments him quite well.  This is the first book I've read by this author.  I will definitely be looking for more by her.

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3.5 Stars.

Holland O’Dell is an algorithms expert who’s hired in the only suitable position (for a woman) at her dream company Cody Tech: in sales. It’s disheartening, but Holland’s a fighter. She survived three foster homes after being abandoned shortly after birth and has cobbled together a small nucleus of friends that she considers family. She’s also got a great idea for restructuring one of Cody Tech’s earliest device designs, and an in with a contact at Major League Baseball. Id she can refine and sell the product, she might garner enough support to get hired into her dream position in project development.

Oliver “Hale” Cody is a young man adrift. He’d struggled with his posh life for just over a year, and went on an adventure to “find himself” when he thought the need for him at his own company was overblown. Cody Tech was started by his father, and everyone assumed he’d just take the reins once he finished schooling, but Oliver didn’t feel like he’d earned his position as CEO. While on his journey towards himself, Oliver’s parents were killed in a car wreck, and Oliver’s idyll was at an end. The truth of his adoption was revealed by the attorneys of the estate, and Oliver’s reeling from a sense of complete loss. Who was his true family? Not only didn’t he know this big secret about himself, how could he trust his parents’ decisions? His shenanigans and drunken rages have destabilized the company, and caused a major shake-up. While Oliver is mostly too distraught to care, he notices a woman, Holland, working late at the company, and admires how she doesn’t take his crap. Seeing that she’s working on a product he’d developed with his dad, he’s intrigued, and wants to help her fine-tune it.

Through his repeated attempts at connecting with Holland, Oliver learns a lot about himself and his company. He learns about her childhood and feels a kinship for lost familial connections. He learns his company has a long way to go to overcome the ingrained misogyny and sexism. His attraction to Holland is a welcome advent into his broken emotional state, and Holland returns his interest–until she learns he’s the CEO. By then, however, they’ve already gotten physical, and hooked MLB for the project Holland developed and Oliver tweaked.

Then, there’s drama. It’s all really rational and reasonable: Holland not wanting people to believe she climbed the corporate ladder using sex with Oliver, not her creativity and hard work. Oh, and there’s a couple break ups/make ups that cause each of them to really consider the meaning of family, and merit-based rewards, and feminism, and equality. I don’t want to give too much away, but the plot has a few turns I wasn’t expecting. That said, I think I mostly didn’t expect them because they were 99.9% unlikely to happen anywhere in real life, and I’m not an unrealistic person when reading realistic fiction. So, yeah, I kind of rolled my eyes on those things, and kept reading on anyway. The relationship-building between Oliver and Holland is hard work, they are young people for all their career accomplishments: both 26. Yeah, that was unrealistic, too. And, Oliver came off as sullen and spoiled for a good part of the book. Granted, I liked when he was happy, but a lot of the time he felt whiny to me. I liked Holland a lot, and wanted to assure her–like her good friends did–that she didn’t have to be so very independent. It’s really not how the corporate world works, but I could appreciate that level of naivete because of her age.

There’s a happy ending for all, and some steamy bits, too. It’s not a terribly long book, and will likely appeal to people who enjoy romances featuring smart-pants gals and a CEO that’s not too pushy. I received a review copy via NetGalley.

4 The Stats Don't Lie Stars!!

This was my first book by this author and I loved reading the story of Oliver and Holland. This truly is the story of opposites attract. Oliver had what he thought was the perfect life, being raised by parents that loved him, starting a business that does gangbusters and being richer beyond his wildest dreams until it all comes crashing down one day and his life turns on a dime and it's left him very angry and belligerent Holland on the other hand grew up in the system and has had to work for everything she's ever wanted.

You'd think these two wouldn't have any opportunity to meet, but that's where this story becomes so interesting. Holland wants to move up in Cody Technology and she's onto an idea that could change the sports world, and this is where Oliver comes to the rescue so to speak.

I absolutely love how Holland doesn't let Oliver get away with anything. She stands up to him and pushes back when necessary even to her detriment. But once these two hit the sheets, the heat they generate is truly combustible! He truly can sweep her off her feet with his smooth moves. Because if there's one thing about Oliver that stuck with me, when he sets his eyes on the prize, he doesn't give up until he has what he wants.

Holland has lived her entire life with a plan and a list and at times I really wanted to just give up the freaking list already and look at what's right in front of you. I can't say as I blame her though given how she grew up. I so admire her tenacity, strength and moxie! She's had a goal on her list and she won't stop until she gets what she wants...but there's a road block in the form of Oliver Cody and together they can be stronger than each of them individually.

There's some secrets that are the source of some angst for Oliver and I was both hurt for him but also angry at him for how he was dealing with it. Trust me you'll understand when you read this book.

Overall, I'm so happy I took the chance on this book because it delivered in giving me a great love story, with a strong woman but an even stronger alpha male, a few lessons about life thrown in, some sizzling chemistry and love scenes and a HEA that left me with a smile on my face.