3☆ A story of inheritance, a battle of wills 

I'm not to sure where to start, i didn't dislike 'The Inheritance' but I also wasn't bowled over by it.

The concept of the story is a great idea, however it just lacked the finesse.

Ashley's father passes away. He leaves her their house on one condition... James moves in with her for one year.

Ashley's father gave James he's business. Instead of Ashley.
James is a pastry chef and more suited to the job.
 Ashley was angered by this and fell out with her father.
So when they are forced to live together it makes matters a whole lot worse.

Ashley grated on me. Ok I understand James is the last person she wanted to live with but her attitude and constant whining drove me crazy.

Instead of trying to make the best of a bad situation she just couldn't.

All the while this tension and anger is going on, Ashley and James have a romantic connection, a spark. Or should I say in my eyes, a love hate relationship.

Overall I feel this story has got the potential to be really good. I like the concept of the story. It just lacked character and enchantment. I think this could have a lot to do with how I felt about Ashley the main character.

Would I recommend this book....i would say give it a try.
 What is one person's taste isn't always another's, vice versa.

1.5 star rating.

This book was simply a fail. Honestly ... the synopsis sounded cute; Ashley's father owns a candy company, she thinks she's going to join the family business and he surprises her by bringing in someone else, Jamie (who's a pastry chef/candy maker). Skip forward three years later, Ashley has barely spoken to her father and he dies, leaving a condition in his will: Ashley will only inherit her beloved apartment (the one she lived in with her father prior to their estrangement) if she lives there with Jamie for one year. He will only inherit the company if he works with Ashley for one year. Decent plot right?

It could have gone so well - instead we are forced to listen to a juvenile narrator, Ashley as she spends her time: annoyed with Jamie for being nice to her, bemoaning the fact that she doesn't get to sit on "her favourite sofa" and enjoy "relaxing on a Sunday" -both of which are now impossible because Jamie is living in her space. He meanwhile makes her dinner and breakfast, demonstrates that he has feelings for her beyond a business-partner. There is absolutely NO sexual tension - which is what the author attempted to create. The story stays stagnant and the writing seems to be all over the place.

I dislike giving negative reviews because it takes guts to write book, much less write it and get it published and put it out there for the public at large. However I found this book tedious. Often I can find a redeeming quality, but this really fell flat.

I'm sorry.

Ashley Morgan has a crush on Jamie, the handsome pastry chef who works for her family company. But when her father chooses Jamie as his successor instead of her, not only does her relationship with her father change but also her feelings for Jamie. A few years later, her father dies, leaving the company to Jamie and his house to Ashley but on condition that they live and work together for a year. Ashley is not happy about the forced cohabitation and has to struggle with her confused feelings for Jamie. 
I found Ashley childish, spoiled and strangely obsessed with a sofa on which she doesn't want Jamie to sit. Although the story is repetitive and the main character is annoying, all in all the storyline could make for a cute rom-com movie.

The Inheritance is the new novel by Angie Coleman, published by Aria. I'll start by saying I'm not normally one for primarily romance-focused novels, but the premise of this one pulled me in.

Ashley Morgan has her life already planned out after graduation. She'll return to the family home and take the reins of the family business. However, things don't seem to go her way. Instead, her father hands over the management of Morgan & Hall to his protegee, Jamie Standley. Upset, Ashley storms out, tearing up a gift from her father in the process.

Three years later, after her father's death, Ashley is forced to return to the family home for the reading of his will. There, it's revealed that both Jamie and Ashley will receive a share in the business. That is, under one condition...that the pair work and live together for a year.

Faced with the prospect of losing to Jamie, Ashley reluctantly agrees. Even though it means she'll be forced to live under tha same roof as Jamie, the man who effectively ruined her future, for an entire year...

Ashley is convinced that Jamie has always had other motives. That he cannot be trusted. And now she's going to get her own back. If, of course, she can manage to ignore Jamie's charm...

Okay, so the plot of The Inheritance is rather exciting. Guy takes over girl's dream, girl gets angry, they're forced to live together, she vows to get revenge. Even though the romantic aspect sounded (and was) entirely predictable, the rest of the premise was what interested me. However, I felt a bit let down by this book. 
The main issue? Ashley. Ashley comes across as a spoilt, immature teenager throughout this novel, constantly throwing tantrums. At the beginning of the novel I was starting to warm to her, until she tore up her father's gift and stomped out. Whilst cohabiting with Jamie, she is incredibly stubborn and often quite nasty. I was expecting more from the 'revenge' aspect of this book, but instead, all I seemed to read was Ashley throwing another tantrum, or doing something incredibly childish. (For example, texting Jamie's staff and arranging for the lab to be closed for three days, thus risking lack of pay for the employees and risking missing an important deadline.) And why? 

Because Jamie dared to sleep on her favourite sofa. 

Due to this, halfway through the book I could see her father's point. And Jamie's, for that matter. I wouldn't trust Ashley to run a business either. So I found it hard to sympathise with her.

She came across as friendly to Jamie one minute, mean the next, constantly holding a grudge even when he was trying to be friendly. Thus, there were quite a few arguments throughout the novel that really weren't needed. I could have forgiven this had the characters been teenagers, but they were not. Ashley is a twenty-four-year-old woman, but acts like a spoilt thirteen-year-old. Her behaviour was a huge distraction from the plot, which I felt had a lot more potential.

That said, this is my own personal opinion, and other readers could think differently. (And like I mentioned before, I'm not a huge reader of romance). Angie Coleman has a nice writing style, and I'd love to read more from her in future. I certainly wouldn't let this one put me off reading her future novels, but this particular book just wasn't for me.

(This review will be posted on Chick Lit Uncovered in May).

I was just overly irritated with the main character the whole time. She just always acted like she was 10 years old and throwing a hissy fit instead of an adult.

Found this book a quick and easy read, although was always hungry reading the book - all that food and chocolate! Ashley is a very stubborn character but makes me laugh. The ending is also really nice.

**** ARC kindly provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review ****

Warning: I am not a robot! I have feelings, thoughts, likes and dislikes and this review is based on that. You should read the book to form your own opinion/thoughts. Read on!

Rating: 2.5 Tried Stars!

The cover, is cute. It still needs a bit of editing, I know is an ARC, so just polish it.

The story, if you don’t like people complaining about a book, STOP , because I am going to complain, usually I love every book, it pains me to do this. I liked what the author was trying to do, two people have to live together in order to inherit, and I guess the deceased wanted them together, to fall in love, I get it, it’s cute, the problem was, I was annoyed 90% of the time with the characters. First, Ashley throws a temper tantrum when she doesn’t get the company, she destroys her father’s gift and runs out, we don’t know the reasoning behind her father’s decision, and we just know she didn’t like it, at all. Fast forward 3 years, her father is dead, and in order to get the apartment she has to live with Jamie, the guy who stole her company. Most of the time I felt that I was watching a pair of 12 year olds pretending to be adults. Throwing temper tantrums and not just from her, one minute he is the devil, the next he is the most amazing man in the world. I just couldn’t keep up and it annoyed me to no end. How did Jamie fell in love? They spent apart 3 years and before that she tells us that while she was in college she didn’t see him much and trust me, being roommate with her, I don’t think he could have fallen in love with her, she was extremely annoying. Oh, and her friend Elly, what a nosy little woman, I get that she wanted her friend to face her fears and more, but the way she did it, at some point I just had to yell at the book, “please shut up, just stop bothering her!”, she made me think of a 9 year old. No cliffhanger, thankfully.

The romance, pfff..i didn’t believe it. 

Ashley, 12 year old with temper tantrum syndrome and annoying.

Jamie, 12 year old, that’s it.

Overall, did I like the book? I wanted so much to like it, the idea was great, but it just wasn’t done well. Would I recommend the book? I don’t know, maybe, I guess you could try it and see for yourself.

I couldn't put the novel down! The story was unique and engaging! The characters were funny and relatable. At times Ashley, the main character, was so stubborn that the story line seemed to repeat the same pattern but over all the book was entertaining!

After 9% of this story, I couldn't stand anymore whining by Ashley Jewell Morgan who thinks she is the centre of the universe. Yup, I expect her to take a turn for the better, but I shall not get to it...