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All or Nothing at All

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Teenage sweethearts Tristan and Sydney are torn apart when Tristan decides to leave town and Sydney decides to stay. Unwilling to tie Tristan down to a life he would come to resent, Sydney does not tell him she is pregnant with his child when she leaves. That decision will come back to haunt her when Tristan comes back to town to help run his family's business after his father's death. Will this secret tear them apart, or bring them back together?

Probst delivers a satisfying end to the Billionaire Builders series. Her characterizations of Tristan and Sydney are well-written, and the reader can definitely relate to both of their frames of mind as they fall back in love and deal with the repercussions of youthful mistakes. Sydney's actions especially come off as more sympathetic given the mixed signals given by Tristan. Tristan, on the other hand, was at times a little too overbearing and heartless, even for the "typical" alpha hero. What saves Tristan from being a complete and utter ass is Probst's writing, and his inevitable come-to-Jesus moment.

Probst remains one of my favorite authors to read in contemporary romance. I can't wait for her next one!

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I've been addicted to the Pierce brothers since the first book. I was consumed by all of their drama and heartache - absolutely loving every minute of them overcoming their differences while falling in love with their soulmates.

All or Nothing at All, the final book gives us Tristan and Sydney's story. These two have been in one another's lives since they were children and they share a hella complicated history. However, the only reason they're back in each other's lives is because of his father's will not because they want to mend their differences.

These two - wow. The sexual tension between them is crazy hot. It's intense. And no matter how much they have tried to ignore one another for the last year, they finally can no longer do it. They need surrender to their lust and feelings for one another. It's unavoidable.

It's feels like their timing might finally be right but Sydney has one last truth that needs to be unleashed and it's one that will no only rock Tristan's world but also the foundation of Sydney's relationship with the entire Pierce family. It makes you feel like them getting a happily ever after together is almost unattainable.

I was on the edge of my seat reading. I ached every time these two desperately wanted more but were too scared to let go of their hurts. I anticipated the moments they needed one another more than they needed air to breathe. I desperately wanted them to forgive and heal because I believed in their love. Hell, I felt it down to my soul.

I devoured this highly emotional and entertaining story. I loved All or Nothing at All and I cannot recommend the Billionaire Builders series enough. If you haven't met the Pierce Brothers or experienced any of their angst and drama, you should start now.

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Jennifer Probst has hammered her way into my heart once again as she builds and nails the foundation of love in this sweet, charming and emotional second chance romance in All Or Nothing At All.

"Kissing her again was a primitive, animalistic leap into the unknown with no markers set up on the path. It was darkness and light, past and present, vicious hunger and aching tenderness. He couldn’t get enough.”

Sydney Greene has loved Tristan Pierce all her life. He was her first love and will always have a place in her heart but when Tristan left to go to New York, she let him go to pursue his career. She also didn’t inform him that he was the father of her child. It was her secret to bear until it was time to tell Tristan the truth.

After the death of his mother,Tristan Pierce was angry and lost. He needed to get away and wanted Sydney to go with him to New York but she said she couldn’t. So when Tristan left Sydney behind, he became a different man.

"She loved Tristan Pierce with her heart and soul. Somehow she needed to believe he felt the same way. She had to fight to make sure they got their second chance, even if it meant pushing past uncomfortable boundaries and forcing him to take a risk.”

Upon Tristan’s return back home, his relationship with Sydney have been a little tense. He’s stubborn and she’s headstrong and so when they have to work on a project together, old feelings begins to resurface. Tristan then realizes that Sydney has always been the one and so he makes it known to her that he will stop at nothing in winning back her heart.

As Sydney and Tristan’s relationship begins to get serious, Sydney knows that she must tell Tristan the truth in regards to her daughter. So what happens when Tristan discovers her secret? Will he be able to forgive Sydney for denying him seven years of getting to know her? With all on the line, will Sydney be able to earn back his trust?

"She never wanted to hurt him. Time would build trust. Forgiveness. Time would bring hope. Sydney dragged in a breath and set her shoulders for the biggest battle she ever waged. The battle for his heart. She couldn’t accept any less from him. It was all or nothing at all.”

All Or Nothing At All is a heart-tugging sweet and beautiful emotional second chance romance. Tristan and Sydney’s journey of finding their way back together will make any romance fan’s heart melt. Toss Becca into the mix, you can’t help but smile. Probst did a wonderful job bridging and tying the past and present as we see both sides to their story. The writing was fabulous. These characters will hold a special place in my heart. And the romance was palpable. So all there is left to say, go read this book and fall in love with Tristan and Sydney’s emotional journey as they risk it all for love or nothing at all.

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LOVE Jennifer Probst and her characters! The third book in The Billionaire Builders was sizzling with the heat between Sydney and Tristan emanating off the page! I've been waiting for their story and it did not disappoint. I'm sad to leave the quaint town of Harrington and the Pierce brothers but can't wait to see what Probst comes up with next!

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Such a huge fan of this author. Love the HGTV feel of the series! This is the last of the brothers to get his HEA. Tristan and Sydney have been dancing around each other through the previous books. It appears as though it's a love/hate kind of thing. Sydney has some secrets and Tristan is just befuddled by her.

In this book, we finally get the history between the two. Great second chance romance. Love all the feels between these two even if they are protesting loudly that there is nothing there. A bit of drama once the secret is revealed. Ahh...but love is love. Eventually the heart chooses and helps everyone's pain to heal.

I will be sad to see these guys go. Hopefully we can get a short novella or two in the future for a follow up. Loved all the books in this series!

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A great addition to the series. It's nice to spend time with the hero and heroine who we've seen in other stories in the series but haven't had the chance to really get to know.

Secret Baby plots are always a bit tricky but Probst does it justice here. She was able to capture the different problems that form around this type of situation. There is a wrong party and a wronged party from the past, but there are also new problems from how both parties relate to each other and the child more recently and of course the intentions and the idea of protection involved in the initial decision.

This story has several layers. It's a great summer read that is an excellent addition to the series or a great stand alone. Happy reading!

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I recommend this series a lot at work. All of them are quick, fun reads without being overly dirrty.

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Tristan doesn't mind laying his expectations on the table, “you heard me. I refuse to be used and abused without getting fed properly and treated like more than a body. I’m a person.” He grabbed his shirt..." Tristan likes knowing his woman is well satisfied, "she grunted. “Between horseback riding and you, I’ll be hobbling around today.” Satisfaction curled in his gut. Good. A man had done his job if his woman couldn’t walk the next day." I liked this book out of this series this one has more angst in it and I enjoyed every second of it. Tristan is a stubborn man and Sydney is a stubborn woman it was fun watching the sparks fly.

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I'm really sad to see this series end. These books were so great. Jennifer really has a talent for making you fall in love with her characters.

This particular book out of this series had a few of my favorite tropes all wrapped into one book. I'm not really going to go into more detail because I feel that it may spoil the story for you. It was fun and well done and I love that Jennifer did this.

Jennifer is a wonderful writer and I can't wait to see what she puts out next. Great job with this book! Don't miss this series and this book!

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I have loved this author for a while and this book just reaffirms my love for her words. This book touched my heart and I’m really glad I read it! I look forward to more from this author!

Seriously completely adore this author!

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Jennifer Probst delivers a solid third installment to her Billionaire Builders Series with Tristan and Sydney's story. Finally, with a lot of conflict built in, they find their HEA. Probst continues to deliver strong, readable stories with characters most of us can relate to. Cheers for this book and these characters!

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I don’t think I advertised this enough, but All or Nothing at All by Jennifer Probst was actually one of my most anticipated releases of 2017. At one point, I thought it was my #1 most anticipated, although after devouring all 705 pages of A Court of Wings and Ruin the same day it came out, I realized maybe not. Either way, I was ecstatic when I got the chance to read this, and unsurprisingly, it was just as amazing as all of the other books in the series.

All or Nothing at All is the third book in Jennifer Probst’s Billionaire Builders series, sort of inspired by the Property Brothers. This book features Tristan Pierce and Sydney Greene. They were childhood friends turned lovers, until Tristan took off to New York and Sydney stayed in her hometown. Three years later, he’s back and shocked/betrayed when he finds that Sydney has a kid. He gives her the cold shoulder, unaware that the kid is actually his. So basically, the perfect, most potentially swoony contemporary romance plot ever – it’s why I thought this book would be my favorite in the series. Now having read the book, it’s a hard call. I’m stuck between the second book Any Time, Any Place and this one. The former was perfect in every way, and while I did love this one as well, there was one thing this book didn’t quite hit.

Let’s go through the checklist:
The selfless heroine. CHECK.
The adorable, lovable kid. CHECK.
The relationship between father & daughter and mother & daughter. CHECK.
The drama and pain after the big reveal. CHECK.
The perfect, angsty relationship between Sydney and Tristan. Umm, not so much.

While I loved so much about this book and had a great time reading it – minus the tears at the painful bits – one thing that really got under my skin while I was reading was Sydney and Tristan’s relationship. Too much of their relationship was founded on sex. It was clear that they both loved each other’s personalities and who they were to one another, but for most of the novel, this rarely came through in the way they interacted with each other. It was brought up at the end of the novel, but the apology wasn’t big enough, and my cold heart apparently isn’t as easy to please as the characters in the novel.

There’s also this thing that happens about three-quarters of the way into the novel. I won’t spoil it, but one character is taken advantage of and literally no one stands up for this character. They let all of what’s happening happen to the character, and all the males and females we’ve come to know and love from the last two books stick up for the other character without even bothering to know more about the situation. Sure, they have the sad character’s back later in the novel, but they weren’t there for the character when the character so could have used them. Again, the character forgave them, but I still hold a grudge. And I’m not even done yet.

The happily ever after bit usually occurs after one of the characters realizes that he/she is in the wrong, and makes a grand apology (re: two paragraphs above where I complain about the apology not being grand enough). I’m not sure if this is even a big deal, but the fact that one character absolutely refused to believe the other character until there was absolute proof right in front of that character’s face that the other character wasn’t lying really bothered me. And that both characters were totally okay with this turn of events and that one of them didn’t demand a bigger apology (yes, I’m back to that) just made me feel confused things. I don’t even know.

BUT

Despite all of that, I really enjoyed reading this book. This series is absolutely perfect, and honestly, the fact that this book made me feel so many things means that it’s that good. Obviously these characters are very different from me and have less cold hearts – except maybe Tristan – but the plot was stunningly written, even despite my complaints. I suppose I wanted Sydney to stand up for herself more and Tristan to come to conclusions a bit faster and both to not make stupid mistakes, but hey, c’est la vie.

If you still don’t believe how much I enjoyed the book, I gave it five stars (★★★★★). If I hadn’t read the other two books in the series, maybe it would have been four stars, but the interactions between all these characters that now feel like family makes everything okay. Everyone’s story was different, and I applaud Probst on being able to write unique romances year after year. This is why she’s my go-to Contemporary Romance author, folks.

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While I have read several books by Jennifer Probst, I have to say this one is my favorite so far. While this is a second chance romance with a secret child thrown into the mix, the romance between Tristan and Sydney is so much more than that. Sydney has always loved Tristan since she was a little girl but Tristan has for most of his life taken Sydney for granted. So when Tristan left Sydney to make a life for his own in New York, Sydney did what she needed to do both for herself and for their daughter. Years later, Tristan is forced to work with Sydney at the same company and realizes she is definitely not the girl he left behind. What I particularly liked was how strong of a character Sydney became after Tristan left. Even after Tristan returned, she held her own at the family business and had earned everyone's respect, even Tristan's. Strong without being too strong if that makes sense. This is the third book in the series but it can easily be read on its own. I did, but now I want to go back and read the first two just because I want more of the Billionaire Builders.

I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this novel.

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I loved this second chance read with Tristan and Sydney. This was a hot love affair. I definitely enjoyed and will be reading the first two book in the Billionaire Builders series.

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Tristan and Sydney.

This book is the third, and final, book in the Billionaire Builders series. Jennifer Probst always creates a cast of characters that are so well developed. She always builds worlds I want to live in. I love second chance romances and the added twist that was thrown into this book...loved it more. The characters had to work for it; love and HEA didn't come easily for two stubborn characters that have loved each other since they were kids. Betrayal and lies make finding their way back to each other that much sweeter in the end. Well done!

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All or Nothing at All, Jennifer Probst

Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews

Genre:  Romance, 

I've enjoyed a few of Jennifer's stories now but this one didn't really work for me. 
I understood the background issues, the need Tristan felt to get away, as well as the reasons why Sydney wouldn't leave with him.
He acted like a spoiled child growing up, a thwarted teen when he left for the city, and now he's back eight years later he's still acting like a kid, holding old grudges, never once looking at his own decisions or questioning them. 

The romance side is pretty generic, secrets revealed, heartbreak just when the characters had finally got together...but as usual for a book by Jennifer its well written, and plays out nicely.

What I had major issues with was the way Sydney managed to get away with no one, not one person, questioning who's Becca's father.
Its a small town, and as we see in the book, like most its one where everyone knows, or think they know or suspect, every little thing that happens, so how she managed to keep this a secret isn't believable. 
Then Tristan returns home and never once suspects? Nor do his family, who Sydney works for, who are very close to her? Even when they're organising Becca's 7th birthday party is still way over Tristan's head.....
That was a huge issue for me to get past.
When finally he finds out his reaction at first is understandable, but they way he acts after didn't make me like him.

He'd been a pretty cold jerk to Sydney for the past year and he reverted to, went past even, that same icy behaviour. I just wanted to say "grow up man! Look at who you were and think honestly how you would have reacted, if things could have worked out!!"
Sorry, a well written read that many will love, just not me.

Stars: Two, a good read for some, but which didn't work for me.

ARC supplied for review purposes by Netgalley and Publishers

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Great read

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a very nice light romance read, to make you feel all gooey inside

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Ms Probst had brought to life an intense passion with Tristan and Sydney...it is celebrated and all consuming. As with all her stories, this author leaves you wanting more. There is a certain sadness in the end of this series, yet a true joy in the brothers each reaching for and achieving their HEA.

The heat created between Tristan and Syd was explosive, leaping off the page and grabbing your heart in the finest way possible. Add Becca to the mixture and your heartstrings run wild. This story is riddled with warmth, heartbreak, and humor...each appearing in a carefully orchestrated gift to the reader. Ms Probst is a genius in creating memorable characters that live in your heart long after the last page is read.

I look forward to what is ahead in the future from this author, knowing full well it will be well received.

This ARC book was provided as a complimentary copy by the Publisher and Netgally, I am voluntarily providing my honest review.

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This book is so special. Second chance books are one of my favorites, especially when they're done right. This one made me swoon, cry, laugh, want to slap someone, and just simply fall in love with it. A great book in a great series!

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