sami_leigh's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
🌶️🌶️🌶️.5/5
“If you’ll let me, I’ll stand by your side and watch you f**king shine. Will you. Will you let me?”
🚗 Book 2 of 4
🚗 Third person limited (switches between MCs)
🚗 Insta love/fate
🚗 Politician who plans /Spontaneous free spirit
🚗 Boss’ daughter
🚗 Road trip with 3 siblings
🚗 Everyone has a secret/challenge to overcome
🚗 MC Growth; familial bonds/expectations, self worth, past trauma.
🚗 The FMC overcoming ridicule & negative reinforcement/conditioning for the way she communicates, experiences joy in life, & is her fullest self, is heartbreaking but beautiful 🙌🏻
🚗 Spicey 🥵 (the dirty talk 🔥)
🚗 Well established secondary characters; the siblings’ complex relationships & backstories are everything!
🚗 Epilogue
This book is available in ebook, audiobook, & paperback in stores & online.
⚠️ Death of a parent, grief, parental abandonment (in past), gaslighting, hostage situation (in past), gun violence (in past), death, childhood trauma.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Abandonment
Moderate: Child death, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, and Gun violence
thaliareads's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book was very good. I love Grace and Aaron together. The "forbidden love" aspect linked very well with their instant love connection. I love how confident and resolute Grace is in working towards and doing what she thinks is right. I also loved to see Aaron blossom throughout the book and turn into a more well rounded character than we saw in the first book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Mental illness, Violence, Suicide, Kidnapping, Abandonment, and Confinement
Minor: Alcohol and Death of parent
Grace has dealt with a very heavy past brought about by a parent who doesn't understand what she's capable of. Most of the content warnings deal with her relationship to her family and a traumatic experience at a leadership camp she attended growing up. Aaron is on this journey in part because of his mother's death.hellowildflower's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, and Murder
karenmsecrest's review against another edition
This was a dnf for me. The 2nd in the series about a family of dysfunctional siblings. I couldn't get into this one because Aaron is either distracted by his raging boner and his need to bang Grace, OR his desire to protect her because she's an infantilized manic-pixie wounded bird. She clearly has trauma in her background (they both do), and would benefit from therapy before getting down and dirty in the woods. (I assume they're going to bang in the woods... I quit reading before it happened.)
I enjoy Tessa Bailey's spicy sex scenes, but these two main characters had too much emotional baggage for me. I want them to keep their clothes on and find someone to talk to.
I enjoy Tessa Bailey's spicy sex scenes, but these two main characters had too much emotional baggage for me. I want them to keep their clothes on and find someone to talk to.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Abandonment
2nd in series
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