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A review by rjordan19
No Regrets by Andrea Janelle
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡ (I felt like they gave in to each other pretty easily each time and there wasn’t a lot of tension build up)
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑 (hard to tell on audio for me!)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes, a bit
Perspective: first person from both the hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: almost immediately in the prologue
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: No
Format: listened to the audiobook (won in a giveaway from the author – thank you!!!!)
Should I read in order?
This is book 1 of Jenelle’s Willow Creek series.
Basic plot:
Taren finds out her brother sold his half of the business to her enemy and prior high school tormentor...
Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- small town setting – Willow Creek
- childhood friends
- enemies to lovers
- brother’s best friend
- workplace romance-ish – the hero buys out half her business and they must work together
- second chance
- heroine runs an orchard and makes cider
- celibate heroine
- skinny dipping
- higher steam – 5-ish scenes
Ages:
- heroine is about 33, hero is 35
First line: Taken from audio – probably butchered 😅
He was a praying mantis, all gangly awkward arms and legs and pointing elbows, a lean, supple wolfish shadow of a boy.
My thoughts:
This is my first book by Jenelle and I definitely am eager to try more! I liked the small town romance here and really enjoyed the steamy scenes – they had some great banter and an emotional pull I liked.
But I did have a few issues with this one – I struggled with their initial relationship a bit. They were childhood friends, but then in high school, the hero turns pure jerk. I didn’t really get why he was SO mean to her in high school. It’s kind of addressed and acknowledged, I guess I just wanted to feel the reason more? Because we walk in on the story at this point, I didn’t get the build up for it.
And after our initial set up, I really didn’t understand why he left without telling her. I still feel unsettled about that. It just felt like I was getting a bit of whiplash from the hero in the beginning and it was hard for me to recover from. They were best friends, then he was a jerk in high school, then he loved her, then he left. And when he returns, he works the whole book to prove to her he would do the right thing, but I was just left with this niggling doubt in their relationship that maybe I wouldn’t have forgiven him like she did.
Still, very excited to read more from Jenelle! She definitely has a writing style I like. These tropes weren’t my favorite and that’s just a me thing :)
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This was my first!
Average rating: 4 stars
Favorite book: This is my first by Jenelle, so this one 😄
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- alzheimers is a plot point for the hero’s grandmother and there are scenes showcasing her symptoms
- fire resulting in death
- parental loss
Author content warnings are given but I didn’t note them.
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Safe sex: condoms used
Hows the consent? It’s good
Pregnancy/children in story? No, no children side characters or main characters and no talk of pregnancy or pregnancy plot that I recall
- chapter 1 - kiss
- chapter 2 - 🔥 dry humping (hero comes in his pants)
(Note that the above two happen in high school and the heroine is 16, hero is 18. They are in high school together. The following scenes are 17 years later)
- chapter 6 – touches and groping that’s interrupted
- chapter 13 - kisses
- chapter 21 – 🔥phone sex
- chapter 22 – 🔥oral for her on the desk
- chapter 26 – 🔥bj, oral for her, sex
- chapter 33 – 🔥sex with crackers in the bed
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡ (I felt like they gave in to each other pretty easily each time and there wasn’t a lot of tension build up)
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑 (hard to tell on audio for me!)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes, a bit
Perspective: first person from both the hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: almost immediately in the prologue
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: No
Format: listened to the audiobook (won in a giveaway from the author – thank you!!!!)
Should I read in order?
This is book 1 of Jenelle’s Willow Creek series.
Basic plot:
Taren finds out her brother sold his half of the business to her enemy and prior high school tormentor...
Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- small town setting – Willow Creek
- childhood friends
- enemies to lovers
- brother’s best friend
- workplace romance-ish – the hero buys out half her business and they must work together
- second chance
- heroine runs an orchard and makes cider
- celibate heroine
- skinny dipping
- higher steam – 5-ish scenes
Ages:
- heroine is about 33, hero is 35
First line: Taken from audio – probably butchered 😅
He was a praying mantis, all gangly awkward arms and legs and pointing elbows, a lean, supple wolfish shadow of a boy.
My thoughts:
This is my first book by Jenelle and I definitely am eager to try more! I liked the small town romance here and really enjoyed the steamy scenes – they had some great banter and an emotional pull I liked.
But I did have a few issues with this one – I struggled with their initial relationship a bit. They were childhood friends, but then in high school, the hero turns pure jerk. I didn’t really get why he was SO mean to her in high school. It’s kind of addressed and acknowledged, I guess I just wanted to feel the reason more? Because we walk in on the story at this point, I didn’t get the build up for it.
And after our initial set up, I really didn’t understand why he left without telling her. I still feel unsettled about that. It just felt like I was getting a bit of whiplash from the hero in the beginning and it was hard for me to recover from. They were best friends, then he was a jerk in high school, then he loved her, then he left. And when he returns, he works the whole book to prove to her he would do the right thing, but I was just left with this niggling doubt in their relationship that maybe I wouldn’t have forgiven him like she did.
Still, very excited to read more from Jenelle! She definitely has a writing style I like. These tropes weren’t my favorite and that’s just a me thing :)
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This was my first!
Average rating: 4 stars
Favorite book: This is my first by Jenelle, so this one 😄
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- alzheimers is a plot point for the hero’s grandmother and there are scenes showcasing her symptoms
- fire resulting in death
- parental loss
Author content warnings are given but I didn’t note them.
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Safe sex:
Hows the consent?
Pregnancy/children in story?
- chapter 1 - kiss
- chapter 2 - 🔥 dry humping (hero comes in his pants)
(Note that the above two happen in high school and the heroine is 16, hero is 18. They are in high school together. The following scenes are 17 years later)
- chapter 6 – touches and groping that’s interrupted
- chapter 13 - kisses
- chapter 21 – 🔥phone sex
- chapter 22 – 🔥oral for her on the desk
- chapter 26 – 🔥bj, oral for her, sex
- chapter 33 – 🔥sex with crackers in the bed