tostita's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Alcoholism
Minor: Drug abuse
sami_leigh's review against another edition
- 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
🌶️🌶️.5/5
“Trust your struggle, Beau…If we’re struggling, we’re still in motion, yeah? Heading somewhere better.”
We sit on the riverbank, side by side. Both of us practising being okay with not being okay — together.
“I’m scared of you becoming something I can’t live without.”
“Still not letting my guard down. Not when I’ve got you to keep safe.”
This girl has brought me back to life without even trying.
“You’re not used to anyone showing up for you, Bailey. This is what that looks like.”
“You asked me who I wanted to be once, and it’s this. Me. Right here. Right now. With you.”
☕️ First person dual POV
☕️ Series (can be read stand alone)
☕️ Age gap
☕️ Fake engagement; he wants his family off his back, she needs a new last name around town
☕️ Ex-military / bartender
☕️ His family are well known & loved around town, hers are the opposite
☕️ Protective MMC who is a cinnamon roll for her
☕️ He falls first
☕️ Well established secondary characters; Harvey & Cordelia, Cade & Willa (Book 2), Rhett & Summer (Book 1), Sloane & Jasper (Book 3), Winter & Theo (Book 4), Gary, Grant (hoping for a book 🤞🏻)
☕️ MC growth; communication, risking a relationship, military trauma & childhood trauma, self-worth/being worthy of love.
☕️ Epilogue
☕️ My comfort read series (and author) 😍
☕️ Elsie Silver is an instant must-read author for me
⚠️ Parental abandonment (past), toxic relationship (family), childhood trauma/verbal abuse (minor), fire injury/injury detail (explicit, revisit injury on page), war/military (past, revisited on page), medical trauma (past, revisited on page), PTSD (Moderate), death of a parent (past), pregnancy (not MC), sexism/sexual harassment.
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexism, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, War, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Pregnancy and Death of parent
danicam's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
1.5
Graphic: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse
dianaschmidty's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Medical trauma, Sexual content, Mental illness, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: War, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Sexual harassment
abicaro17's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Pregnancy, War, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Alcoholism, Classism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content