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A Long Time Coming by Meghan Quinn

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gracelyn's review

5.0

⋆ ⁎ ★° ⁀ ➷ 3,75 steamy

“I want her to know exactly how happy she makes me, how I feel like my cup is always full when I’m with her. Nothing could ever hurt me because I have her in my arms.”

Ophelia “Lia” Fairweather-Fern is the best friend since college of Breaker Cane, and she just got engaged. Feeling abandoned by her soon-to-be husband when planning the wedding with her monster-in-law, Breaker steps up to be her main-in-waiting and helping her tackle The Beave.

Breaker Cane is the youngest Cane brother, and his best friend just got engaged to a douche. Breaker steps up to help Lia plan her wedding, but along the way Breaker starts to realize that he wants Lia in another way.

Usually not a super huge fan of Friends to Lovers, but I really like this book. I think it’s the fact that neither Lia nor Breaker have been pining for each other the last 10 years, this was realizing “oh, fuck! I like my best friend”, and I really loved it.

Tropes:

Friends to Lovers
It’s Always Been You
Billionaire romance
Inspired by My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

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emotional funny medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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adventurous challenging emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Thank you, Michael Joseph Penguin Publishing, for sending this book to rate on the spice-o-meter and to write an honest review. I decided to read the first and second book in this series because starting on this one. In both of my other reviews I said that Breaker would be my favourite Cane brother, and oh sweet Jesus I was right.

This book has two points of views. The first one is the youngest Cane brother named Breaker. He and his brothers own and run Cane Enterprises. Breaker does all the figures for the business and loves his job. When an ex-employee tries to sue Breaker for harassment in the workplace, Breaker is pissed, he was raised right and tries to make all his employees feel welcome. His brothers are dealing with the lawsuit and Breaker has been told to go home and not return to work until it’s all sorted. Luckily, his best friend since college is getting married and is struggling to put his foot down to her monster-in-law so Breaker decides to help her and be the man of honour. But as he is helping her getting ready for her big day, he realised she is the woman for him and that he has never settled down because he has been contempt knowing that Lia is next door and always there for him. But that’s all about to change once she moves in with her soon-to-be husband. The countdown for the wedding is on, four weeks and Breaker will let Lia walk out of his life . . . if she is happy with her marriage. The second point of view is Lia, she knows everything about Breaker and is used to having to humble him by kicking his ass at board games. When her boyfriend proposes and her mother wants them married within four weeks, Lia feels the pressure and she doesn’t know if she can handle this married life. Brian doesn’t seem to enjoy sex and doesn’t make her feel special. As the relationship is slowly breaking down, she notices that Breaker is paying extra attention to her and making her feel like the only girl in the world. Soon Lia realises that she might be wanting something more from Breaker but she doesn’t want to ruin the friendship.

This is the one book in the series that didn’t give me whiplash. It was like falling asleep slowly and having a cool pillow. There was no third act break up. It was such a slow burn that when the spice finally arrived, I was screaming and wanting to high five Breaker. That man knows how to swoon a woman. He was sweet, nerdy, romantic and caring, but then dominant and so damn hot. That man knows how to use his words. The chapter where Breaker sees Lia in her wedding dress and he finally realises his feelings had me screaming, I was hoping he would kiss her there, but was so glad he didn’t kiss her then. Breaker is the only one of the brothers who actually had a head on his shoulders because throughout the series he helped his brothers get the girl and even though he freaked out based on his feelings, he didn’t do anything stupid – he was just showing Lia what she could have, and DAMN that girl had some restraint because I would have been climbing Breaker like a tree when he did what he did to Lia. This storyline was adorable, the characters were developed and adored (except Brian and the Beaver, you two can do one).

In terms of the Spice-O-Meter, it was very spicy, but it was a slow-burn spice, but trust me – once we got the spicy chapters it was worth it. It was very open-door and the fact that there were several spicy chapters from both MCs made it much spicier. The spice in this book was 8/10. This was the last book in the series by Meghan Quinn and it has been a rollercoaster ride, but it ended on a high. I cannot wait to read more of Meghan’s work and my standard for men get even higher.

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emotional funny reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-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

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I’ll start by saying that I didn’t read the whole series, just this book.

The rest of this review contains spoilers.

Breaker Cane. Yes. A million times yes. A hot man who is genuinely sweet, somewhat nerdy, has incredible attention to detail/has a great memory, and has a DIRTY mouth? We love him.

Some things I appreciated:

Breaker didn’t lead Birdy on or use her to get over Lia.
Lia didn’t cheat on Brian.
Breaker and Lia didn’t have a third-act fight or breakup. I HATE those in romance books!
The spice was great!

Some critiques:

How did they not realize their feelings for each other sooner?!
The gender reveal party and talk of the other women being pregnant was unnecessary. Again, I didn’t read the whole series, so maybe I’d feel different if I were invested in those characters and their lives, but, like…they had their own book! Leave Breaker and Lia alone.
I wish Lia didn’t go to coffee with Brian. I’m glad he apologized, and I recognize/appreciate what it did for Lia and her openness, but couldn’t they have had this conversation in the store? Or Lia could’ve at least told Breaker about it!

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