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emotional
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
3.0
I don’t know what to make of this book. As always, this author writes a great page-turning, emotional, funny, dramatic messy romance that you can’t put down and she’s rapidly becoming one of my favourites for that. The hero, KL, is fantastic in every way from his back story and the sacrifices he made for the love of his life to the life he’s creating for his daughter now that he’s free and able to do so. He has a great sense of self and self-worth that meant even though he was the “younger man,” he was confident and alpha AF. The “older woman” heroine on the other hand, Jordan…. was incredibly unlikeable and the backstory she was given of a past heartbreak made absolutely no sense in justifying or excusing her entitled, weirdly self-destructive while being selfish behaviour. She was a love rat for no absolute reason other than the fact she wanted a man to pay for the things she could easily afford for herself without having to contribute anything but sex- not time or emotion or care or mutual support or anything. All of which would be her perfectly valid if amoral choice, if not that she chose to be messy in her work place with people who were friends with her family where the repercussions would be huge and self-sabotaging if she was found. Moreover, she chose not to disengage from past ain’t ish lovers and would not set appropriate boundaries for the kind of relationships she claimed she was after. She just didn’t make sense. I just didn’t understand her as a heroine or think KL deserved someone like that. I think this is an author that knows how to walk the very fine line in romance between imperfect toxic mess and irredeemable toxic mess and she very much tightrope-walked that line in this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Classism
Minor: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Abandonment
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