A review by friends2lovers
Unnatural by Joanna Chambers

emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.0

I was a little nervous to start this because it has the lowest average rating of all the books in the series.  Also, I don’t want to get burnt out on Joanna Chambers.  She tends to reuse the same tropes, story constructs, and conflicts.  Reconnecting after a years-long estrangement seems to be one of her go-to devices; it is utilized in all 4 of the romances featured in her Capital Wolves and Enlightenment series.  My concern was that the trope recycling would become too repetitive or formulaic, especially since I’ve been reading her books one right after the other.

I needn’t have worried, though.  There’s something about Chambers’ particular style of angst that appeals to me in my current mood and hasn’t grown tiresome, yet.  I got sucked into this and couldn’t put it down.  The flashbacks really worked and compelled me to keep reading to find out how they would reconcile and get their HEA.

Overall, an engrossing, angsty read that I would recommend to someone looking for a romance with lots of yearning and sexual tension.  Actually, the same could be said for all of Chambers’ books that I’ve read so far.

TAGS: M/M, historical romance, 1800s (Georgian era, Regency-adjacent), flashbacks, friends to lovers, second chances, scientist MC, soldier MC, secret/forbidden relationship, estrangement, opposites attract, house party, 3rd person dual POV, short novel (71k words), Heat Index: 3/5
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