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A review by amyreadsandsails
Steadfast by Sarina Bowen
5.0
MF - contemporary romance - moderate steam - pov first dual - white MCs - child free - class gap - mental health rep (addiction) - found family (MMC) - opposites attract - good girl/bad boy - second chance - small town - virgin (FMC, in flashback when she's 18) - 5 stars.
After reading Bittersweet, which is fairly low-angst, this was a sucker punch. There is so much going on here -crooked cops, abusive parents, past death of a sibling, drug addiction, alcoholic parent - but also I was SO HOOKED.
It was great to see the Shipley family and watch Jude learn to lean on them and trust himself more. The way Sarina Bowen wrote his addiction felt very real.
After reading Bittersweet, which is fairly low-angst, this was a sucker punch. There is so much going on here -
It was great to see the Shipley family and watch Jude learn to lean on them and trust himself more. The way Sarina Bowen wrote his addiction felt very real.
The ONLY thing I didn't like about this book: frequent use of the word crazy and one instance of use of the word slave (in a trivializing manner ie sex slave)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse