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68 reviews

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I was so excited for some dad theo content but sadly it swindled like halfway through the book. They're a sweet couple but the other relationships with winter felt a bit rushed, like shes super mean and like frigid in the begining and other books but this book she all of a sudden atones for all her mistakes and is nice and friendly like yes maybe it was like some sort of cover but still you don't see the most content of her and summer. All i really want to say is either elsie silver pumped these books out too quickly (i still love them) or her ghost writers are trash. Anyway almost 5 stars!!

Not reading the next book because 40yr old war hero x 22yr old girl is not a book I want to read but will be reading her other series!

Powerless by Elsie Silver

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challenging emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Not my favorite of the series:(

Between the whole not related by blood and don't think of each other that way the family tree is freaking me out, I feel like its the same way authors write men calling each other "brother" when they have a big fat crush on each other. Also, the age gap is stressing me out, like silvers explained it away but anything over three years when you've known each other since you were kids is kind of freaky. It all felt a little high school but i think that may just have been because theyre both 10 years younger than the previous couples it felt weird putting a younger couple in a completely different setting in the middle of the series.

BESIDES that, they are a sweet couple, and its a pretty classic hallmark situation and Elsie did it well like all her other books I'm praying we get a beau book.......

Heartless by Elsie Silver

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Elsie Silvers you are really getting up there in my favorite authors list,,,,

cade and willa are so sweet and yet again i love good ol communication and healthy relationships!! Not much to say except im speeding through this series on accident

Flawless by Elsie Silver

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-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

I shed some tears, like honest to god crying at this book oh my goodness. The ending is so sweet I am so excited for the next in the series. It gets tiring reading about men being forgiven for stupid stuff constantly and being taken back but to be honest I would too in this case. impecible relationship building, pretty writing, well set up for other characters' books to come after this one.

Great for fans of Lauren Ashers later series!!

Love Unwritten by Lauren Asher

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emotional hopeful relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Lauren Asher has quickly become my favorite romance author because of this universe. I don't find myself skimming because it's boring, needlessly explicit, cringy, or unrealistically written; it takes me about 2x as long to read her books not just because of their size (I love a good giant romance book) but because I reread paragraphs constantly. She has a way with her words that's borderline poetic without sounding pretentious. She treats her characters as people with thoughts, ideas, and feelings that can be affected and affect other people, I find many romance authors shove characters in for the plot like Disney villains with no regard to fleshing out their motives beyond "disliking" the MC. In Love Unwritten the "bad guys" are appropriately dealt with (as one can with a billionaire for a boyfriend) *(SPOILERS AHEAD)**like Rafael's ex-wife not just going away when she becomes a problem she is still in the story and I appreciate that because sometimes there isn't an easy way to deal with that even if you have a billion dollars. And Ava-Ellie's ex-best friend-does get dealt with in the most realistic way (and again her boyfriend is a billionaire with connections and this is fiction) but obviously it is still a fictional romance book so of course these problems are going to be dealt with somehow and with the resources at her disposal her winning the court case made perfect sense. I see in a lot of books centered around romance authors forget to add a plot either not centered around romance or a plot relevant to the character's romance, and a lot of times authors even forget to resolve the other plotlines until the next book that's not centered around the main couple. this leads to random inconsistencies at the end of the book and an unsatisfying ending (this does not go for multiple book series surrounding the same couple).

Needless to say, Lauren asher has made great progress in her Dirty Air series, and I'm glad to see it, i had problems with the views of the author herself represented in the book and the characters but she has developed since then and im glad I gave these books a try. Her women are better represented, the men are more than broody and sexist, and the fact that she changed from the end of that series to the first of this series is encouraging, and can only hope she continues writing for this series and others in this similar style.

5/5 with many hearts for Love Unwritten (i will be rereading soon with new viewpoints)

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