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Guest Review: Under Mr. Nolan’s Bed Trilogy by Selena Kitt

Posted June 23, 2013 by Judith in Reviews | 1 Comment

Guest Review: Under Mr. Nolan’s Bed Trilogy by Selena KittReviewer: Judith
Nolan Trilogy: Temptation, Confession, Grace by Selena Kitt
Publisher: Self-Published
Publication Date: May 15th 2013
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 628
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four-half-stars

What happens when you fall in love with your best friend's father... in the 1950s... the perfect "innocent" backdrop for this wicked coming-of-age romance trilogy!

--------- FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING & AWARD WINNING AUTHOR SELENA KITT --------- "It's like Flowers in the Attic meets Eyes Wide Shut..."

"Lead us not into temptation..." ~Matthew 6:13

NOLAN TRILOGY COMPLETE SET This series has over 100 Amazon Reviews and an average 4.5 rating! Fans say, "This is the BEST trilogy I ever read!"

TEMPTATION CONFESSION GRACE

This edgy, page-turning saga isn't just a trilogy, it's an enthralling reading experience, a non-stop roller coaster ride of emotion that will keep you on the edge of your seat, giving you cliffhanger after cliffhanger until the final, jaw-dropping climax.

The mystery and secrets revealed in this new Selena Kitt Classic will have you praying for forgiveness before it's all over, but in the end, will restore your faith in the triumph of the human spirit and the overwhelming power of love.

TEMPTATION

What happens when you fall in love with your best friend's father?

Leah is a good, Catholic girl, and she and Erica have been best friends since their first communion. Sure, Erica's father is handsome and charming, but Leah spends so much time at the Nolan's--just Erica and her famous, photographer father now, since Erica's mother died--that she's practically part of the family.

Both girls have led privileged, sheltered lives and are on the "good girl" track at St. Mary Magdalene's Preparatory College, Leah pursuing her love of dance and Erica sating her endless curiosity as editor of the newspaper. Neither of them could have ever imagined that one fateful discovery will not only push the boundaries of their strict, repressive upbringing, but the bonds of their friendship as well.

Leah certainly never could have imagined finding herself torn between her best friend and her best friend's father. Sure, Leah's mother had always talked about Mr. Nolan as "a catch," but Leah herself had never thought of him as anything other than just Erica's dad--until the girls discover something darkly erotic under Mr. Nolan's bed, a deep, shameful secret that will not only lead them into temptation, but will deliver them into a far greater revelation than any of them could ever have imagined.

If you read the original Under Mr. Nolan's Bed, you will find this retelling a richer experience with deeper secrets to reveal.

CONFESSION

The shocking discovery best friends Leah and Erica have made under Mr. Nolan's bed has them down the wicked path of temptation, both girls veering far from the narrow path dictated by their strict Catholic upbringing, and their sexual transgressions have had unintended consequences.

Erica finds her life turned upside down when Leah falls for Erica's father, but just as Erica is beginning to accept their love for each other, Leah disappears. Bewildered and abandoned, Erica and Mr. Nolan are faced with sadness and confusion at their loss, but while Mr. Nolan spirals into mourning, Erica is determined to find her friend.

Erica can't possibly know why Leah has vanished, but when she enlists the help of Father Michael, her search and the real reason for Leah's disappearance intersect to uncover a multitude of shocking confessions and a secret that will shake not only the foundation of their faith, but the entire institution of the Catholic Church itself.

GRACE

Childhood friends Leah and Erica have been sacrificial lambs at the altar of a scandalous corruption within the Catholic Church, violated by those who have, in their lust for power, turned the sacred profane.

The mystery of Leah's disappearance results in a long-awaited reunion, but it is tainted by both their loss of innocence and a deep, unfathomable sorrow, which only leads to more secrets.

OMG!! I say it again: OMG, what an amazing set of novels. Just to have read one would have been mind boggling, but I sat down and read all three from start to finish. I literally galloped through but know that I will be going back and re-reading this trilogy in the near future.

This beautifully written set of novels is, by the author’s own statement, on its third re-write, and now the story has been moved into the sexually oppressed 50’s with all it’s hiddenness about the human body, when school boards were at the core of community fights over sex education in the public schools, and when social mores and the influence of church and family was far stronger than it is today. I think it must be difficult for younger contemporary readers to even conceive of some of the worries teens had in those days, but as one who was a high school student during the 50’s, I well remember the was sex was discussed formally as well as the whispers and gossip in cloak rooms (they still existed in schools), beside hall lockers, and in gym locker rooms. (I don’t think athletic locker rooms, even in public clubs as well as connected to professional sports have changed all that much.) In this story there are two teenage girls who are on a journey of discovery. They have been best friends, sort of like the joined-at-the-hip kind of best friends, with one girl being the “educator” of the other as they discover and savor the sexual photographic treasures found under the bed and in locked caches of one girl’s father, the titular Mr. Nolan. He is a widower, a middle aged man who has made his fame and fortune as a photographic genius, world-reknown and the artist that many young photographic wannabees look to. Few if any individuals know that Mr. Nolan has a world-class cache of erotica, home-grown porn films and such that he thinks are safe from his daughter but said daughter is viewing said erotica freely and greatly adding to the information archives of her best friend. If that were all this story was about, it would be interesting. What has made it riveting is that as these girls grow in their awareness of sexuality in themselves and others, they are also gradually becoming aware that something is very “off” about this whole collection.

Be prepared: this story gets ugly and it is emotional and draining and the kind of shocker that is set in historical reality. That’s probably what makes it so raw and unyielding in its content as well as the way all that is going on in the context affects the lives of these girls and those around them. You have Leah’s mom, a single mom who has managed to make her way in the world, who is executive secretary to a prominent attorney who may or may not be her lover, and who is deeply committed to her Roman Catholic faith as are all the players in this story. She was best friends with Mr. Nolan’s now-dead wife, a woman who absolutely insisted that her daughter be given the best of a Catholic education as did Leah’s mom. You have two Catholic priests, one is the Monsignor and the other a parish priest, both of whom are highly visible in the story and who waft in and out of the lives of these two girls. The younger priest becomes focus of an infatuation by Mr. Nolan’s daughter, a longing that she knows can never be fulfilled but which brings this young girl and this frustrated priest into a very suspect relationship. This story may very well offend those who have been made very uncomfortable by the contemporary church sexual scandals, but this author has been bold to write about stuff that was deeply hidden and carefully protected until the ripple effect brought down the house of cards, so to speak. However, lives were terribly damaged and relationships ruined because of secrets–the dark and evil kind of secrets that gave power to the wrong kind of people.

I guess my sense with this trilogy was that we all need to visit the dark side from time to time. We all need to be reminded that none of us can ever allow ourselves to lose sight of the fact that there is a perverse and potentially hurtful part of all of us and that capacity to hurt can do unthinkable things when it is “let out to play.” That there is redemption for some of the people in this story is the “light at the end of the tunnel.” Be prepared, however, to be shocked and stunned at the way it all plays out because I really don’t think any reader will be able to predict what happens nor can anyone truly be prepared for how lives are changed because of the evil that is turned loose over several generations.

Let me emphasize again, that there is indeed redemption here. There are moments when the reader will be overwhelmed with the long-term effects of one individual’s actions; there will also be portions of the story that will restore the reader’s faith in the goodness of people. There is deep hurt here that the author has exposed with a sure hand, raw and open wounds that have not healed after many hears, deep sadness that just won’t go away. But all that is part of the mess these characters endure, some of which have been years in the making. There are some relationships that will be unwieldy to many readers, and Leah’s relationship with Mr. Nolan will both others. All in all, I just found it to be all of a piece, a look at lives that had been thrown out of whack long before these two girls had ever been born and which played out in very different ways.

Kudos to Ms Kitt for a gutsy piece of writing. I don’t know if I would have preferred to read these novels with distance and time between each one, or if I am glad to have been able to process them all together. Suffice it to say, they are overwhelming in their scope and in the emotional punch they deliver. Lots of sex–raw and sometimes dirty sex–but I never felt it was gratuitous outside the scope and dimensions of the story. Somehow it all fit.

So if you are up to a trilogy that will be some very serious, thought-provoking reading, then have at these three novels. They certainly gave me something to think about initially and the thoughts and feelings have continued on for many days.

I give this trilogy a rating of 4.75 out of 5.

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four-half-stars

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Review: Mr. Real by Carolyn Crane

Posted November 15, 2012 by Tracy in Reviews | 4 Comments

Alix Gordon is a woman who doesn’t take life too seriously. What’s the fun in that? So when she stumbles across occult software that can bring any computer image to life, she conjures up lots of awesome outfits and accessories. And then, on one drunken, horny night, she conjures up Sir Kendall, the sexy TV ad spy . . . who looks exactly like Paul Reinhardt, the super-sexy martial arts teacher who kicked her out of class three years ago.

Fighter Paul Reinhardt has good reason to hate Sir Kendall, the character he brought to life to land a part in a TV ad; he’d do anything to forget him. A cross country road trip seems just the thing . . . until Paul finds himself inexplicably drawn to Minnesota and is shocked to discover Sir Kendall – in the flesh – with the girl he’d once loved from afar. He barges into Alix and Sir Kendall’s love nest, determined to stop the madness – somehow.

But is superspy Sir Kendall transforming into something more dangerous anyone can imagine? And what will Sir Kendall do when Paul and Alix finally give into their mad lust for each other?

Alix Gordon has inherited her aunt’s house but that’s not all she’s inherited. She apparently found an old floppy and while trying to discover what it contained she added a spell to her laptop that takes things from a picture and makes them real. She freaks at first but it’s kind of cool. After creating a ruby necklace – which started the whole thing – she makes some vinyl boots with matching belt and purse, a barrel – just to verify – and then…a man.

Four years prior she had taken a martial arts class and had practically fallen in love with the instructor but he kicked her out of class and she never saw him again. When she finds him in a commercial for a liqueur she’s thrilled. When she decides who to bring to life and be her sex toy she figures that Sir Kendall Nicholas the Third would be perfect. In the commercial’s he is a spy, an international man of mystery. He comes in to a bar, seduces the woman, has a drink of the liqueur, walks out the door and disappears. Alix thinks she can bring him to life, use him as her human sex toy and then he’ll walk out the door and disappear. Yeah, it didn’t exactly work out that way.

Sir Kendall thinks that Alix is working for his arch enemy and plans to kill her after he gets his information and has his way with her. Alix is completely in the dark but is enjoying Sir Kendall – mostly because he looks like her old MA instructor. When that MA instructor, Paul, comes barrelling through her door she’s shocked but not as shocked as Paul when he sees his clone in Alix’s living room.

Alix doesn’t come forth with info right away to Paul but eventually she does because he won’t leave. He was devastated almost immediately when he kicked Alix out of his class because it was nothing she did that forced him to do that. It was his own demons he was trying to fight because Alix was making him feel happy and apparently that was ruining his MA focus. Now he doesn’t want to leave Alix with his worst nightmare come to life. But can he save her from something from another dimension when all he wants to do is send it back or kill it and Alix wants to help it integrate into society?

I have to say, right up front, that this is one of the most strangely bizarre books I think I’ve read this year…maybe ever. The story was very frenetic and as I write this I’m not sure who to rate it.

This is a fantasy set in contemporary times and I actually enjoyed the appearance of Sir Kendall and his whole back story – and yes, there is one despite the fact that he’s a tv commercial. He was a little whack but I understood it to a point.

Then there was Paul. He had had a messed up childhood and his step brothers had bullied, picked on and tortured him nonstop. Despite that he had gotten away, made something of himself and was ok – except when it came to Sir Kendall. You would have to read the story to figure out all the nuances of the relationship between Sir Kendall and Paul and even after reading the story I’m not sure I understand them all. Suffice it to say that Paul hated Kendall with a passion. Paul had some issues, sure, but overall he was a really great guy and definitely the best part of the book for me.

Then there was Alix. Sigh What to make of her? She was always the black sheep of the family – not the conservative types the rest of her family was but they still loved her. She always felt, however, that they considered her stupid because she made some really bad and sometimes really crazy decisions and yes, from time to time, fucked up royally. At this time she would screw up and then fix it and then screw up and then fix it and on and on it would go. She would get her feelings hurt but bounce back and be happy again almost immediately. I found that it made her seem emotionally shallow and made me wonder, when she was falling for Paul again, if she could sustain the relationship because it seemed her emotions had ADD.

I’ve very much enjoyed Crane’s writing in the past and the Dissillusionist series was great. This story, however, was kind of all over the place and that certainly didn’t endear it to me. I see that this is book 1 in a series and for the life of me I can’t quite figure out where there is to go from here, but I guess I’ll have to wait and see.

Rating: 2.5/3 out of 5 

Carolyn Crane

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Review: Savage by Willow Rose

Posted August 16, 2012 by Tracy in Reviews | 0 Comments

The year is 1983. Christian is 22 years old when he leaves his home in Denmark to spend a year in Florida with a very wealthy family and go to med-school. A joyful night out with friends is shattered by an encounter with a savage predator that changes his life forever. Soon he faces challenges he had never expected. A supernatural gift he has no idea how to embrace. A haunting family in the house next door. A spirit-filled girl who seems to carry all the answers. An ancient secret hidden in the swamps of Florida. One life never the same. One love that becomes an obsession. Two destinies that will be forever entangled.

Christian is incredibly smart and is excited about being in Florida for a year to attend medical school. He doesn’t really want to be a doctor but that’s what his father told him he would be and therefore that’s what he’s doing. Not that he heeds everything his father says but it was just easier not to argue.

On the first night that Christian is in St. Augustine he hangs out with a group of people, including the daughter of the family he’s staying with, and ends up being viciously attacked by alligators. He’s saved and dragged to shore by a jaguar. During his recovery he hears voices and sees visions and thinks he’s going crazy. He’s looking at life in a whole new way and appreciating it that much more because he experienced his death and then rebirth. He’s also obsessed with jaguars and everything about them. It starts to take over his life and because of his new psychic strangeness his host family is getting more worried about him by the day.

He sees the family that lives next door and is pulled toward it. He’s been warned that they are druggies and that the father was part of a drug cartel before he died and that he should stay away from them. What he finds is several generations of women who are more than they seem from the outside. They are part of a Indian nation that is supposedly extinct but is not and they have differing psychic powers as well. Christian falls in love with a daughter, Aiyana, as she’s so beautiful and helps him with his new psychic powers – but fate has a different outcome of their relationship than either of them expect.

This was a very different type of read for me and one I wasn’t really expecting to like all that much. While I thought it was good it wasn’t the great paranormal read I was expecting.

Issues I had with the book:

The story starts off with Christian telling us the story in first person POV and then skips around a bit in the first chapter (and a few other times during the book) to being told to us by Christian from the future like he’s thinking back on his life. It just got to be confusing and I kept having to go back and figure it out. After a while I got used to the small interjections from the “older” Christian but it was still odd.

Because the author is from Denmark originally herself I think she wrote how she speaks. Because of this there were few to no contractions in the book and at first it made it very hard to follow. I guess I expected that from Christian as he was speaking a different language than his mother tongue but with the kids from Florida I just couldn’t see them as too realistic as they didn’t talk like they were in their early twenties.

I think my biggest issue with the book was that the writing would go off on explanations of a subject that Christian was thinking about and it was more information that you ever wanted to know. It really pulled me out of the story and I didn’t like that at all. I guess it was supposed to show us that Christian was thinking in-depth about things but to me all it did was add page count. At the beginning of the book it was an overabundance of info about the 80’s. I think the author was trying to set the stage for the story but other than that first part nothing else in the book screamed 1983 to me – it could have been 2012. Another time was when Christian was soaking up all he could about jaguars as one had saved his life. I understand why he was doing it and getting tidbits of info about the jaguar would have been fine but we got pages and pages of info that frankly seemed a bit superfluous. There was another bit about the Timucua Indians but I won’t get into that – just know it was long and contained an inordinate amount of information.

While Christian had been a complete bastard when it came to women when he first came to America (for reasons having to do with the death of his mother) he quickly changed he ways after he met the neighbor Aiyana. He knew almost immediately that she was the one for him and he loved her family to pieces. I thought it was great to see the change in him. He did however revert back to his shallow self at another time but it was due to a broken heart. He ends up trying to console himself for losing Aiyana by sleeping with his host family’s daughter, Heather. She’s been hot for him from day one but he basically uses her for sex. Their first time together had me raising my eyebrows and rolling my eyes a bit and not liking Christian all that much after that.

Aiyana and her family were strange and wonderful. They loved life, they saw people for who they truly were and they had an abundance of love to give. I know it sounds almost fantasy-like but it was great to think that there was a family out there like that and I enjoyed every part that I read about their family. Aiyana was definitely in love with Christian but knew her duty to her people and had to fulfill her part in the future. I didn’t care for that but I admired her strength in seeing that through.

Now the story itself IS told by an older Christian and it doesn’t really tell us everything. The lives of Christian, Aiyana, her family and what happens to them all is pseudo-summarized near the end of the book so we’re definitely left hanging when the author gives us this:

More than ten years would pass before Aiyana’s prophecy would come true and our paths crossed again.

The book leaves things very open to the next book in the Daughters of the Jaguar series. While I was pretty disappointed that I didn’t get more from the romance between Aiyana and Christian I knew that there was more to this story – I just wanted it THEN and was annoyed & frustrated that the book was so long (about 440 pages) and yet I didn’t get the entire story. It’s not a fast read at all and I have to admit I did skim at times (mostly when Christian went off on his information finding quests) which was unfortunate. Although part of me wants to know what happens I don’t think I’ll have the patience to read the next two books. Sad but true.

Despite the many issues I had with the book I did like it to a point. The book is very character driven but does have a few action scenes that get the old heart pumping. If that’s the kind of book you like then you might like this one.

Rating: 3 out of 5

Willow Rose

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Guest Review: Dirty Little Secrets by Liliana Hart

Posted February 13, 2012 by Book Binge Guest Blogger in Reviews | 3 Comments

Judith’s review of Dirty Little Secrets by Liliana Hart.

 

J.J. Graves has seen a lot of dead bodies in her line of work… She’s not only in the mortuary business, but she’s also the coroner for King George County, Virginia. When a grisly murder is discovered in the small town of Bloody Mary, it’s up to J.J. and her best friend, Detective Jack Lawson, to bring the victim justice. The murders are piling up… The residents of Bloody Mary are dropping like flies, and when a popular mystery writer shows up on J.J.’s doorstep with plans of writing his new book about the Bloody Mary Serial Killer, J.J. has to decide if he might be going above and beyond the call of duty to create the spine tinglers he’s so well known for. It only clouds the issue and puts her reputation on the line when the attraction between them spirals out of control. And passions are rising… J.J and Jack are in a race against time. They discover each victim had a shocking secret, and the very foundation of J.J.’s life is in danger of crumbling when it turns out she’s harboring secrets of her own—secrets that make her the perfect victim in a deadly game.

As much as I love romance fiction, I think I especially like books that pair romance with mystery. Add in an author’s sense of humor expressed in the repartee between the main characters, and you have a read that is a treat for the brain and one that tickles the funny bone. Liliana Hart is relatively new to me and after enjoying this book and one or two others she has published, I can’t imagine not continuing to enjoy her writing. I believe that this book is the first in a series and so will be awaiting the next episode in the life and times of J. J. Graves, M.D.

Jaye (it’s really her middle name; only about three people alive know her first name) is newly returned to Bloody Mary after the tragic deaths of her parents. They left her with a business in financial trouble, an old Victorian mansion that is falling down around itself, and a ton of school loans to repay. Add to all that the fact that Bloody Mary is a small community and her mortuary business doesn’t get many “stiffs.” That’s about to change. Jaye has come from a medical background that is primarily centered in emergency medicine, but in order to make ends meet she has agreed to serve as the county coroner. Thus, along with the sheriff who is her best friend, Jaye is now committed to being involved in and helping to solve the rash of murders that is now plaguing Bloody Mary.

Jaye is also a woman whose personal life is nearly as dead as the bodies in her cooler. There is an awareness on the part of the reader that her relationship with the sheriff is deeper than even that of best friends–a fact that neither Jaye or Jack seem to be aware of, or if they are, are choosing to live in denial. Jaye is delighted to welcome the amorous advances of Brody, a well-known mystery writer who is hoping to use Jaye’s experiences as background for his current writing project. Her love life has been totally dead for four years, so the affair brings some joie de vivre into a very lonely and dull lifestyle. The banter between J. J. and Jack is absolutely a delight. As is true of so many best friends, they have few if any secrets or “sacred cows” that they steer clear of, so just about anything is fair game. The sexual tension ramps up when Jack recognizes that Jaye and Brody have indeed “gotten it on” and he doesn’t like it one bit. The reader is not really privy to Jack’s inner thoughts about the affair, but his actions certainly speak loud and clear.

This is truly a mystery and the identity of the killer won’t be obvious to anyone until the very last few pages. I know my jaw hit the floor when I found out who was killing lots of people, not just those in Bloody Mary. The story is full of suspense, friendship, good dialogue and the kind of fun gossip and open exchange that is usual in small towns, especially those that have a well-oiled informational “grapevine.” Amidst the personal stuff and trying to puzzle out the killer’s identity is the sense of belonging that is present. No matter how lonely or sade J. J. may be she is still a part of Bloody Mary. It is her home, where she began her education, and now it is most definitely her future.

I simply couldn’t s top reading this novel. While chortling through some of the dialogue I ended reading some of it out loud to my hubby who laughed right along with me. I have already put it on my favorites list and plan to go back and re-read it in the near future. Yet there is also a sense that J. J. and Jack’s story isn’t really finished and I can’t wait until the next part of that story becomes available. I think readers will love the open and upfront heroine, even though it turns out that she has a secret or two, just like everyone else in Bloody Mary, Virginia.

I give this novel a 4.5 rating out of 5

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Guest Review: Blank Slate Kate by Heather Wardell

Posted February 3, 2012 by Tracy in Reviews | 3 Comments

Tracy’s review of Blank Slate Kate by Heather Wardell

Waking up with a strange man is scary. Realizing you lost fifteen years of your life overnight? That’s terrifying. With her memories from seventeen to thirty-two gone, Kate has no idea who she is and where she belongs. As she begins to fall for the man who found her, she wonders if she forgot those years for a reason. Should she keep trying to retrieve her original self, or start a new life?

Kate wakes up with a man who looks really old to her. She can’t understand why she’s not in her room in her parents house. When the man finally starts talking to her she realizes that it’s 2011 and not 1996. She’s not 17 years old but 32 and she can’t remember anything about in the 15 years that she’s lost. Jake, the “old” man that she woke up with who’s really only 30, takes her to the doctor who then calls the police. Once Jake and Kate finally get everyone to believe that Kate has really lost her memories her prints and pictures are taken to try to identify who she is.

Kate and Jake fall into a semi-routine while she stays with him. She helps him with getting his sculptures sold and she also helps his friend Hannah start to get her fashion consulting business off the ground. She’s not sure how she knows how to do certain things, they just come to her – like putting together a sensible business plan for Hannah. During this time Jake and Kate start getting closer and closer and Kate finds herself almost falling in love with the man. After a few months Kate is contacted by the police and she’s told that someone finally knows who she is – and that person is her husband. Yikes. Now how to deal with Jake and Ryan, her husband.

Ryan is more than happy to try to help her with her memories but still Kate feels like the man is holding back. Ryan isn’t sure how to deal with the fact that Kate can’t remember anything about their relationship…oh, and her real name is Donna, not Kate.

Kate/Donna and Ryan start to spend time together but there’s still an odd connection to Jake that confuses her. She’s determined to try and get her memories back and find out what Ryan’s hiding but she’s not sure she’ll ever know. It appears that she ended up running from Ryan but why and if she ran, does she really want to go back? And if she’s married and had once been so happy with her husband how can she even consider being with Jake? And when she does start to get information will she be happy she forgot it or not?

I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect when I started reading this book but after reading an excerpt of it I had to keep reading. I’m such a sucker for amnesia stories! The story ended up being compelling and interesting and you just root for Kate the entire time you’re reading. You really want her to get her memories back – and yes, there’s a perfectly logical reason she lost them in the first place (not a bump on the head) – but as you read further into the book you realize that that just may never happen.

Jake is such a strong support for Kate when they are first together and frankly I really rooted for him for part of the book but it just wasn’t to be. He was a pretty good guy at heart but he was a bit clueless when it came to Kate and the things she needed in life.

That left Kate with Ryan. I frankly wasn’t sure what to think about Ryan. Because the story is told in the first person pov present tense we never got to see anything but Ryan from Kate’s pov. I would have loved to have seen some of the things that were going on in Ryan’s mind at some points but having the pov that we had really made us wonder what would happen next.

The story is one of love and how that love can be broken with indifference, betrayal and secrets. Most of the time those things can’t be overcome but in Ryan and Kate’s case it could. That being said, I just didn’t feel it. I loved the story and where it went and how it came to be and all the secrets and discoveries but I think I was supposed to feel more from Ryan and Kate and their predicament and I just didn’t. It was very sweet and when I got to the last page I was happy for the HEA but I wasn’t emotionally involved as I thought I should be.
In the end, as I said, I really liked the story, all of the characters and the whole premise but the romance was just a little too dry for me.

Rating: 4 out of 5

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