A review by gabichatslit
Restore Me by J.L. Seegars
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
First book I’ve finished all month and it’s a Black love story… how fitting. Restore Me is hands down one of the best books I’ve ever read. I’m not sure I even have the words to articulate the experience that was reading Dom and Sloane’s love story but omg how I wish I could read it for the first time again. I started it late Wednesday night and haven’t been able to put it down until the moment I finished it (Friday morning).
The way Dom loves Sloane and sees/understands her!? Their intimacy?! How they can read each other in a way that comes with categorizing all the minute details of the other person… That is the way I wish to be loved. Also the way he never made her feel bad about the love she still carried with her for Eric. How reassuring he was during her moments of grief. How he was always her avenging angel. Dom just rewrote all my standards lol
All I can hear in my head rn is “To Be Loved” by Adele and honestly, I think that is such an accurate representation of their love.
This is easily in my top 5 of 2022 and idk if I’ll ever be over it. Not to mention he pulled a Derek Shepherd!?!!!!! I just really love them lol and I hope book 2 gives us Chris and Mal’s story bc the way he calls her princess makes me feel some kind of way lol
Fave Quotes (below)
- “Eric was my better half, but Dom is the mirror image of my soul.”
- “And he’d done it quietly, carefully, and at a great cost to himself because he knew there was no hope in finding the piece of my heart I’d lost four years ago… so he gave me pieces of his instead.”
Thank you @literarylomii for another mind blowing recommendation.
Started 02/09; Finished 02/11
The way Dom loves Sloane and sees/understands her!? Their intimacy?! How they can read each other in a way that comes with categorizing all the minute details of the other person… That is the way I wish to be loved. Also the way he never made her feel bad about the love she still carried with her for Eric. How reassuring he was during her moments of grief. How he was always her avenging angel. Dom just rewrote all my standards lol
All I can hear in my head rn is “To Be Loved” by Adele and honestly, I think that is such an accurate representation of their love.
This is easily in my top 5 of 2022 and idk if I’ll ever be over it. Not to mention he pulled a Derek Shepherd!?!!!!! I just really love them lol and I hope book 2 gives us Chris and Mal’s story bc the way he calls her princess makes me feel some kind of way lol
Fave Quotes (below)
- “Eric was my better half, but Dom is the mirror image of my soul.”
- “And he’d done it quietly, carefully, and at a great cost to himself because he knew there was no hope in finding the piece of my heart I’d lost four years ago… so he gave me pieces of his instead.”
Thank you @literarylomii for another mind blowing recommendation.
Started 02/09; Finished 02/11
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief
Moderate: Alcoholism
Minor: Car accident and Miscarriage