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A review by stephanie_inman
Draw by Cora Brent
4.0
TW/CW: violence, abuse, sexual assault, rape
Full disclosure: this review is being written after reading this book at least once a year since it’s publication date in 2014. This is THE book that got me back into reading the romance genre. I hadn’t read romance in years. Maybe some light chic-lit style, but nothing that we know of as today’s contemporary or new adult romance.
This book introduces us to the Gentry Boys. Triplets who grew up rough, and lived the same way. In their quest to make themselves feel better, as teenagers they hurt our heroine, Saylor.
Here’s why I love this book. Saylor isn’t anyone’s victim. Yeah, she stays longer than she should in an abusive relationship, but once she decides she’s done, she fights. She also has the capacity to forgive. Circumstances bring her back into the lives of the Gentry Boys and she falls hard and fast for Cord Gentry. Cord is the one who hurt Saylor the most. He made her think he liked her, so she would sleep with him in high school. She later found out he and his brothers had a bet on which one of them would be the one to take Saylor’s virginity (yes, I do have issues here. And I hate the phrase “take Saylor’s virginity”. There’s all sorts of misogyny around that, but I’ll move on for the sake of this review)
I also love that the brothers struggle. And I don’t mean with just their demons growing up. No, money, jobs, just living. I am so over books where everyone is a billionaire and real life never gets in the way. Here Cord and Saylor actually have jobs. It’s just refreshing to read due to the incredibly overdone nature of the billionaire/virgin trope that is rampant in romance.
All in all, this is just a solid romance book. While not my favorite of the series, it’s absolutely worth the read.
Full disclosure: this review is being written after reading this book at least once a year since it’s publication date in 2014. This is THE book that got me back into reading the romance genre. I hadn’t read romance in years. Maybe some light chic-lit style, but nothing that we know of as today’s contemporary or new adult romance.
This book introduces us to the Gentry Boys. Triplets who grew up rough, and lived the same way. In their quest to make themselves feel better, as teenagers they hurt our heroine, Saylor.
Here’s why I love this book. Saylor isn’t anyone’s victim. Yeah, she stays longer than she should in an abusive relationship, but once she decides she’s done, she fights. She also has the capacity to forgive. Circumstances bring her back into the lives of the Gentry Boys and she falls hard and fast for Cord Gentry. Cord is the one who hurt Saylor the most. He made her think he liked her, so she would sleep with him in high school. She later found out he and his brothers had a bet on which one of them would be the one to take Saylor’s virginity (yes, I do have issues here. And I hate the phrase “take Saylor’s virginity”. There’s all sorts of misogyny around that, but I’ll move on for the sake of this review)
I also love that the brothers struggle. And I don’t mean with just their demons growing up. No, money, jobs, just living. I am so over books where everyone is a billionaire and real life never gets in the way. Here Cord and Saylor actually have jobs. It’s just refreshing to read due to the incredibly overdone nature of the billionaire/virgin trope that is rampant in romance.
All in all, this is just a solid romance book. While not my favorite of the series, it’s absolutely worth the read.