rosesandwords's review against another edition
5.0
This book was just the best feel good love story. Ugh I can’t get over it. It started with a taboo relationship, mixed in with heavy loss, an amazing love connection, some heartbreak and a redemption that just makes your heart soar!
The love in this story truly just made me feel good, it was pure and gave me every bit of butterflies.
Our main FMC is a complex woman with a difficult past and plenty of obstacles in her life, but her strength and growth are really inspiring.
And to top it off the spice is just delicious!
Trigger warnings: SA, substance abuse, loss of a parent and loss of a child.
Safe reading loves, your mental health matters
The love in this story truly just made me feel good, it was pure and gave me every bit of butterflies.
Our main FMC is a complex woman with a difficult past and plenty of obstacles in her life, but her strength and growth are really inspiring.
And to top it off the spice is just delicious!
Trigger warnings: SA, substance abuse, loss of a parent and loss of a child.
Safe reading loves, your mental health matters
all_bookedup19's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars
Thank you to the Smuthood and Laura Lee for letting me be a part of this tour.
I'll start off by saying I am confused. The blurb makes it seem that this book starts, things happen, and then suddenly it's 4 years later. But we don't get to 4 years later until we are 90% done.
Kat has been through a lot, in and out of foster care homes most of her life. Her mom is a heroin addict, she doesn't know who her father is. She went through something traumatic as a freshman in high school and now she uses alcohol and (mostly) sex to numb herself. On her 18th birthday, she meets Gavin in a bar. He is recently divorced. they go home, she sneaks out of his house. Fast forward to the first day of school, she realizes that he is her teacher.
Now, this is where I have an issue. Multiple times Kat mentions they live in a small town, and everyone knows everyone's business, yet Kat is constantly at his house, they are constantly in his classroom with the door shut, and no one notices? I believe once it was mentioned they went grocery shopping together (but I could be wrong). I just don't understand how they didn't get caught by anyone else. Also, Dylan was a little pushy throughout most of the book, practically begging, and almost forcing Kat to have sex. I did not like that at all!
Don't get me wrong this was a good book, I laughed at certain parts, and I got teary at certain parts, I felt so bad for Kat at certain parts. Watching the character growth of Kat was amazing. By the end of the book, I was her biggest cheerleader. This is still one that I will recommend.
Thank you to the Smuthood and Laura Lee for letting me be a part of this tour.
I'll start off by saying I am confused. The blurb makes it seem that this book starts, things happen, and then suddenly it's 4 years later. But we don't get to 4 years later until we are 90% done.
Kat has been through a lot, in and out of foster care homes most of her life. Her mom is a heroin addict, she doesn't know who her father is. She went through something traumatic as a freshman in high school and now she uses alcohol and (mostly) sex to numb herself. On her 18th birthday, she meets Gavin in a bar. He is recently divorced. they go home, she sneaks out of his house. Fast forward to the first day of school, she realizes that he is her teacher.
Now, this is where I have an issue. Multiple times Kat mentions they live in a small town, and everyone knows everyone's business, yet Kat is constantly at his house, they are constantly in his classroom with the door shut, and no one notices? I believe once it was mentioned they went grocery shopping together (but I could be wrong). I just don't understand how they didn't get caught by anyone else. Also, Dylan was a little pushy throughout most of the book, practically begging, and almost forcing Kat to have sex. I did not like that at all!
Don't get me wrong this was a good book, I laughed at certain parts, and I got teary at certain parts, I felt so bad for Kat at certain parts. Watching the character growth of Kat was amazing. By the end of the book, I was her biggest cheerleader. This is still one that I will recommend.
elizasbookshelf's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars
I enjoy watching Kat's growth with this story. She had a rough childhood in and out of the foster care system and still dealing with some of it in her final year of school. She doesn't play the victim and give up. She takes what happens to her and makes it to where that is not the only thing that defines who she is. She's determined to get a scholarship to college.
I wish we got more of the story 4 years after Kat and Gavin meet. The synopsis makes it seem like it would be 50/50 high school then 4 years later and it wasn't. I like the back story and seeing how they got to where they are now. But I also want more after the coffee shop.
I enjoy watching Kat's growth with this story. She had a rough childhood in and out of the foster care system and still dealing with some of it in her final year of school. She doesn't play the victim and give up. She takes what happens to her and makes it to where that is not the only thing that defines who she is. She's determined to get a scholarship to college.
I wish we got more of the story 4 years after Kat and Gavin meet. The synopsis makes it seem like it would be 50/50 high school then 4 years later and it wasn't. I like the back story and seeing how they got to where they are now. But I also want more after the coffee shop.
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