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Between commitment and betrayal by Shain Rose

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dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I have been wanting to read some of Shain Rose’s work for a while now and when I was out shopping earlier in the month, the first three books in this series were available in the 3 for £6 deal at The Works. So, I took it as a sign to start it and it was enjoyable, but I wanted to slap Declan. 

This book has two points of view. The first is Everly and her father’s business partner will do anything for the empire they’ve built together, even marry Everly. Declan Hardy is an all-American heartthrob and retired NFL billionaire and complete opposite to Everly. He is commanding where she is cooperative. He is spontaneous whilst she is deliberate. He is loud when she stays quiet. The only thing that they have in common is that both of their names is on her father’s will. Declan will inherit the fitness and hospitality empire, and she will keep the one thing she holds dear. If she marries him and it has conditions. It is one year of a fake marriage, one year of living together, one year of pretending she belongs in his luxury lifestyle. But the stipulations are never that simple. Especially when she can’t tell if his kisses are fake or if she is pretending when she kisses him back. And as more conditions arise, it’s clear there’s a fine line between commitment and betrayal and neither of them know where that line falls.  

I liked the storyline and how Everly grew as this person who wanted to hide from her past and make sure that no one knew who she was to this confident woman who will stand up for herself and for her family. I liked Clara and how she was the only member of Carl’s married family that actually had a soul and cared for the humans involved rather than the businesses. But I enjoyed the family aspect, how the Hardy family have zero privacy between them, and they all knew about the will and the pregnancy and everything else. I loved that Everly can take a grown ass man and wasn’t afraid to let anyone know from Dom to Declan and how that’s how she basically met Declan.  

Declan just drove me nuts, he wasn’t cute or adorable. He was annoying and gave me a headache. I was rooting for Dom and Everly than Declan and Everly. The third act conflict and miscommunication just weren’t needed. All he needed to do was tell Everly that he had a plan and this was what was going to happen and then once the plan was over he wanted to actually court her, but instead he straight up told her he didn’t love her after they’ve had sex at a gala in a garden (which I found weird). Then Everly could have been in on it and prepared for it but instead he destroyed her confidence and mental health because she trusted someone and got screwed over again. Everly forgave him way too quickly, I don’t care that he battered the piss out of her rapist, I would have told him to crawl to work to get forgiveness especially after the third act breakup and then accusing her of sleeping around that he didn’t believe Everly’s child was his. He didn’t deserve to be the father after that. His jealousy was actually driving me nuts, I don’t mind being possessive and, but it started affecting her work and he was just being too controlling, like I would have run for the hills. This is one of those couples where once the children have left the nest, they would get a divorce because they are too busy fighting now that they aren’t being nice because the children aren’t around. Carl seems like a horrible person, and he just needed to be honest with his daughter and business partner instead of blackmailing them. His wife doesn’t seem any better and she is a gold digger.  

I liked that all the siblings have been introduced and from the epilogue, you can tell that Clara and Dom’s story is next and hopefully Dom doesn’t give me the ick like Declan did. 

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All by My Elf by Olivia Dade

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lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

When Amazon announced this short series of books by some of my favourite authors, I was all for it. This is the third book that I've read out of the five and this is by an author I've not read before. This book was missing a lot of information and was too short and weird.  

This book is about Nina, and she has a secret crush on William, however she believes that William is hooking up with her best friend. Nina and William are underpaid adjunct professors at the same university, where winter break is no break at all: it’s the season to make extra money. When their holiday side hustle has them stranded by a blinding blizzard in the middle of nowhere, there’s nothing to do but cuddle up for warmth and play a game of Never Have I Ever to pass the time. But in the game of love, secrets never stay secrets for long.  

The main issues I had with this book is that it jumps right in straight in and just confused the crap out of me. What the hell is going on with the weenie business and why on earth were they out during a blizzard? The friendship between Nina and her best friend isn’t a friendship surely a quick text to her best friend asking if she was hooking up with William would have helped and let her know if he was single or not? It just didn’t make a lot of sense. Also having a sex in the Weenie car was obviously supposed to be ironic but it just came across as cringy. I didn’t like the fact that it was just one long chapter. It felt like one massive monologue from Nina.  

William was a decent MMC, would have liked it to be dual POV and more chapters to see what he was feeling and thinking and his plan of action before suggesting “cuddling” to converse body heat.  

There wasn’t a lot of Christmas vibes or anything besides the fact that they must get the car or van to the Christmas Eve parade.  

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London Bridges by James Patterson

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adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I have enjoyed this series so far. This book is a whole story with a beginning and an ending. However, there is a lot of reference to past characters in the first couple of books in the series. So I would recommend reading them first. 

This book still follows Alex Cross, he is working the biggest case of his career and it’s two guys he has already met, profiled and caught. Minutes after soldiers evacuate a Nevada town, a bomb completely destroys it. On holiday, Alex Cross gets the call: the blast was perpetrated by the Wolf. A supercriminal and Cross’s deadliest nemesis, the Wolf has threatened to obliterate major cities, including London, Paris, and New York. Then evidence reveals the involvement of a ruthless assassin known as the Weasel. Could these two dark geniuses be working together? Now with just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm, Cross is catapulted into an international chase of astonishing danger and toward the explosive truth about the Wolf’s identity, a revelation that Cross may not survive. 

My favourite chapters are the ones where Alex defeats the bad guy and usually whilst he is kicking ass. I love how he takes them down and the fact that he is always thinking about someone else – his family, his son, Jamilla. I liked how it showed the different agencies working together from the FBI, CIA, Homeland, Interpol and Scotland Yard. It sorts of gave hope that if the world is going bat shit crazy, political parties would stay out of it. I love the different points of view throughout the book, it made the book interesting and getting to know the victims and the killers and why they picked those people. I love seeing Sampson again and it made me miss their partnership. I still hate Christine, I understand her reasoning, but she knows that Alex is a good dad so why would you separate Damon and Jannie from their young brother. 

This book also ends with more questions that I would like answers to – especially around what happened with the Cross family after the hostage situation and baby Alex and how that is affecting Alex. The only thing that I would say is a weakness for me personally is the short chapters. I just prefer bigger chapters. However, as always, it works well with this style of books and writing. 
 
I enjoyed this book and managed to finish it pretty quickly. I cannot wait to read the next book and see who Alex is hunting for next and if he manages to fix the FBI. I gave this book four stars because I still have more questions than answers surrounding the Wolf and what happened towards the end of the book and would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of Chris Carter and tv shows like Law and Order and Criminal Minds. 

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If Only I Had Told Her by Laura Nowlin

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emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I wanted to read this book because I wanted to know how this series was going to carry on, I was worried that this book was just a money-grabbing thing because there isn’t a lot of questions that needed to be answers or more information that was needed. This book could have just been the first book if the author had added multiple POVs.  

This book has three points of view and three stories. The first is Finn and he has always loved Autumn, she’s not just the girl next door or his mother’s best friend’s daughter, she is his everything. But she’s not his girlfriend. That's Sylvie, and Finn would never hurt her, so there’s no way Autumn could know how he truly feels about her. The second story is about Jack, Finn’s best friend and he isn’t so sure. He has seen Finn and Autumn together. How could Autumn not know? And how is he supposed to support and protect Finn when headache seems inevitable? And the last point of view is Autumn, and she surrounds herself with books and wants to write her own destiny but one doesn’t always get a new chapter and fate can be cruel to those in love.  

This book wasn’t needed. If the author had done dual POV in the first book, then two out of three of these stories wouldn’t be needed. The first book was 393 pages. If it was another 100 pages for Finn’s point of view, then it would have been sorted. Autumn still drives me nuts, I understand that she went through hell and only her knows what she is going through, but I really didn’t care for her point of view. After one whole book of her, I just didn’t care. I ended up skimming most of her chapter. I would have liked Finn’s POV as an extra bit in the first book to see how he was feeling.  

The only thing that kept this from being two stars is Jack’s point of view. I would have loved this book to be his POV throughout the whole book especially because Jack got forgotten after Finn died in the first book. I would have liked to see how he was getting on and felt like it was getting good before it changed to Autumn’s POV. I didn’t like that he ended up with Sylvie, I would have liked this to be like A Thousand Broken Pieces where he met someone who was going through the same thing as Jack and someone to help him through college instead of Sylvie who he was questioning if SHE HAD MURDERED FINN THROUGHOUT HIS CHAPTER! How does he ended up with her after questioning that?  

I don’t think this book was needed. It was a bit of a drag, but I liked Jack.  

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Tangled Hearts by Sophie Andrews

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I got the first book in this series during one of the Stuff Your Kindle Days and I didn’t mind the first book, and the second book was 10000% better because they spoke through their issues and there were no miscommunication issues. So, my expectations were quite high going into it and we were back to the issues that I had during the first book.  

This book has two points of view. The first is Mike and the last time he saw his little brother’s best friend was before he left for boot camp when she still had pigtails and braces. However, Samantha is all grown up and home for the summer and she has given him an offer he can’t refuse. Twelve weeks of casual fun. The only problem is that he has only ever had serious relationships and doesn’t know hot do no-strings-attached. But Sam has plans to go back to school and is moving out of state, so a future together is impossible. The second point of view is Sam and she has had a crush on Mike since she was a child, he has always been the hot, older brother of her best friend. But now she is back in her hometown to help her dad get her childhood home ready for sale and to help him with his knee surgery. When she makes an offer to Mike, to get it out of their system for twelve weeks before she moves to a new state to complete her PHD, she couldn’t believe he said yes. But she is determined to not catch feelings as she doesn’t do serious relationships. However, as the weeks go on, Mike is weaselling his way into her stone-cold heart and now she is going to leave and break both of their hearts. 

I loved the fact that all of them hate Laney’s boyfriend. Why on earth is Laney still with this dude? But I love that he doesn’t get the privilege to be in the group chat. I loved how all the guys that we’ve got to meet and like end up having a friendship and become close like the girls. I still love the friendship group between the girls and how they want to be there for each other even if they are struggling to make plans and to see each other regularly as they did in college. It sorts of made me feel less alone because me and my friends are like that – my friend ha a child and my other friend is travelling often so if we see each other once a month then we are lucky. I liked that it was discussed about marines coming home and struggling with the feelings and the physical aspect of an amputee. 

I didn’t really get Sam or Mike as separate characters or their chemistry. Both of them were on different paths – Mike was still living in his parents' house (that’s not the issue because I still live on my parents' house) but he was struggling and didn’t know what he wanted for the future and wanted the whole kids and marriage thing. Then you had Sam who was still struggling with her parents' divorce and didn’t want to go back to her childhood home because it was bringing her memories from a difficult time in her life. She knows what she wants from life and that she doesn’t want kids or marriage. Yet these two thought it would be a good idea to hook up because Mike thought Sam was gorgeous and Sam fancied Mike when she was thirteen. Like grow up. I didn’t feel the chemistry between them mainly because I knew it was going to explode because none of them were talking to each other. The miscommunication and the third-act break up wasn’t needed. The miscommunication annoyed me. Mike should have told Sam earlier that he was feeling more and then whatever Laney’s boyfriend said so they could have a conversation before they got home. Instead, he shit himself and kept his mouth shut. Sam needed to stop being wishy-washy with her words. One minute she was trying to stop it going further and then would feel bad because she hurt Mike’s feeling and then go yeah let’s see where it goes. Like make your mind up.  

I think the next book is about Laney and I hope she drops her boyfriend in the ocean and finds herself again.  

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Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

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emotional lighthearted 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

3.0

I wanted to read more festive reads this Christmas that my festive TBR is now as long as my normal TBR. I decided to start with this one because it is the most talked about one and the one that has been on my festive TBR for the longest time. I was disappointed with it, it was kind of festive but with all the hype, it didn’t live up to it.  

This book is about Stella and in an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she’s loved since she was a child, she enters a contest with insta-famous influencer Evelyn St. James. With the added publicity and the huge cash prize, she might just be able to save the farm from its financial woes. There's just one problem. To make the farm seem like a romantic destination for the holidays, she lied on the application and said that she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. Only . . . she doesn’t have a boyfriend. Enter her best friend, Luka. He has come home for some hot chocolate, and somehow got a farm and a serious relationship in the process. Will their fake love affair save Lovelight Farms in time for Christmas?  

I loved the small-town vibes and how everyone was worried about Stella and how they were willing to help her to save the farm, they could have done it without calling the influencer, but you know. I loved the side characters more than the main characters in this book – Beckett, Dane, Layla, Luka’s mum. I love them. They were so funny and caring but at the same would hard hitting with the truth when it was needed – like when the farm was in financial trouble, but she didn’t say anything. I liked the tough conversations especially about grief with Stella losing her mum and Luka losing his dad when they were younger. They both dealt with their grief differently – Stella, bought the farm that she had happy memories with her mum, Luka, didn’t talk to anyone about his dad ever. I was more interested in Beckett’s relationship with Evelyn and if that’s going to carry on and who was messing with the farm and I know it wasn’t for a sinister reason, but I would have loved for it to be for a sinister reason.  

Stella is so stupid and drove me nuts. With friends to lovers, it’s usually banter and the conversation, Luka was practically declaring his love and she’s just like “hahahaha, yeah nice joke.” Are you kidding me? She needed glasses. Like everyone’s reactions should have been a clear indication of how Luka was feeling. It shouldn’t have taken a video from an influencer to tell you that you are both staring at each other with heart eyes to realise this. The third act breakup in one chapter and then fixed within the next two annoyed me. I was so buzzed that this was going to finish without a third act breakup and then he confessed everything, slept together, making plans about the future and she is going on about not wanting a friends with benefits, like girl are you serious right now? I wanted to tell Luka to run for the hills, but he’s wasted nine years of his life trying to get the girl.  

I have no clue who is the main character in the next book, but I pray it’s either Beckett, Dane or Layla. But I'm worried about going into this book and it’s not going to be a priority for me to carry on with it. 

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The Bitterroot Inn by Devney Perry

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emotional lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I have been wanting to read this series for a while and my sister gifted the first book for my birthday year. This first book was a struggle, and I had been enjoying the series so far, but this book was like the first book just a struggle and a lot was going on but at the same time nothing was going on. 

This book has two points of view. The first is Maisy and she is happily content with the life she’s built for herself and her young son in the small town of Prescott, Montana. Her child is thriving, her business is growing, and her family is as close as they’ve ever been. But when a handsome stranger walks into the lobby of her motel, her simple life is swept up in a wave of affection for his gentle heart. None of those feelings can be trusted, though. She made that mistake before with another man. The man she murdered. The second point of view is Hunter, and he was a different man when he saw Maisy Holt from afar. He took one look at her and ran in the opposite direction. But years later, he’s back in Montana and unable to keep his distance. He shouldn’t have tried to find her, but he never was good at rejecting temptation. The promise of the good she could bring into his life is too hard to resist. Maybe if he can disguise the lies and hide the deceit, he can keep her from learning the truth. Because his only chance at a future with her is by burying his past. 

I liked the small-town vibes and how the town always come together for each other. I liked seeing the updates from the characters we’ve come to know and love – Silas, Sabrina, Gigi, Beau, Felicity. I liked Maisy’s family and how they were all close and it was one of the most positive family dynamics I've ever read about. The only reason why this didn’t get two stars was because of the dual POV. I would have loved the extra POVs from Jess and Nell especially after Nell kidnapped Coby, I would have loved the POV from Nell or Coby. 

Hunter never grew on me; I didn’t trust him from chapter one. He was just lying and hiding and then miscommunicating and wondering why Maisy wasn’t as forgiving. Maisy was just as bad, for someone who had gone through something so traumatic, you think you would ask your best friend’s husband who is the sheriff to do background checks or just to ask if he knew him and if you could trust him. I understand wanting to keep it private, but I would rather my best friend knows and sees if the guy is decent. This would have saved about 100 pages of Maisy finding out things she didn’t know because Hunter was keeping it quiet – like he was a doctor and her dead ex’s stepbrother and that his stepmother is after the child. Maisy gave in way to easily. These two are the type that stayed together because they went through something traumatic, and Coby wanted to have sleepovers with Hunter and Hunter bought him a dog and other presents. This was one of those books as well where Hunter got attached to Coby before he fully fell in love with Maisy. This felt like a carbon copy of The Coppersmith Farmhouse. The ending felt rushed, after all the kidnapping and being found, we didn’t even get the reunion, it just jumped to two weeks later.  

I’ve seen that the next book is about Milo and Sara. I was sorting hoping it was about Michael and Aliana. But let’s hope this series ends on high because this was disappointing.  

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Promise Me Not by Meagan Brandy

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emotional hopeful sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I wanted to read this book because I didn’t mind the first book in the series. I didn’t mind Mason in the first book, he was sort of annoying, but I just took that as the annoying protective brother. However, in this book, he was a walking, talking ick and Payton is the reason this book isn’t a 1 star read. 

This book has two points of view. The first is Mason, for as long as he can remember, he had one dream. Go to the same college as his friends, becoming the starting quarterback of a division one team, and hear his name announced to the world come draft day. The path is clear, and things were falling place perfectly. And then she came along. Now he is in love with a girl who heart was buried alongside the boy she gave it to. The ghost he can’t compete with. The father of her son. She wants him to walk away, to focus on football, but he can’t, because he has a new dream. The second point of view is Payton, and she has had a rough few years – running away from her abusive mother, becoming a young mum without finishing school and then losing her boyfriend to a car accident. She doesn’t know how to carry on, but she is determined to make the best life for her son and that means she isn’t interested in boys. However, Mason is persistent and wiggling his way into her heart, but Mason will only be here temporarily with his goal of being drafted. She is not letting herself or her son getting attached to any temporarily comfort.  

Payton had the most character development ever, the girl had been through so much trauma and yet was still so trusting. If I was in her shoes, I would have clocked off and gone off the grid to avoided getting hurt ever again. I think she was allowed to feel confused and all the emotions, I liked the way the grief and her trauma was betrayed, and I would have liked this book to have been more about Payton’s grief journey.  

Mason ruined this book. He was more interested in her kid and being a dad than Payton, he proved that when he screamed at Alistair that Dayton was his kid. Like they weren’t even together and yet he is claiming her kid, if I heard that I would be running for the hills. He was just a walking red flag. She is doing her job being a photographer and yet Mason is jealous and wanted to shave anyone’s heads that keep talking about her hair like what? The timeline going back and forth made me things more confusing. Like just show what had happened last year during the first book and then bring it to the present, the time jumps back and forth weren’t needed and also ruined the book. This author really doesn’t like Chase, does she? Like he screwed up massively during Say You Swear, and I understand that Mason can still be pissed but then to make Chase a bad guy AGAIN? Like that storyline had happened – move on. The miscommunication and the whiplash between the two characters made me think they were in high school and not young adults, but again, I'm blaming Mason for that entirely. I think another thing was this could have been resolved if Mason and Payton had a conversation throughout the book instead of relaying messages between Chase, Noah, Cameron and Ari. You want to play house? Then talk and discuss issues instead of acting like five years old. You could tell that this author only wanted to put Mason in the for front and make him the star but there wasn’t really a lot of football or him being a star and I didn’t like him before the book but with no epilogue, I would hope that Payton comes to her sense and runs for the hills.  

From the author’s note, it looks like there is a third book coming within this series and before Mason’s book, I would have been excited, now I'm lowkey worried that the next book is going to be as bad as this book. 

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Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

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emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I’ve enjoyed Elizabeth previously work and wanted to read more. I went into this book blind having no clue what it was about as it was on Kindle Unlimited. This book was a difficult but sweet read.  

This book is based on Camino Rios, and she lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the way when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance and Papi’s secrets, the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead, and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.  

This book was a difficult read due to the nature of separate lives, separate economies and the grief surrounding these young girls. I enjoyed the style of writing and how it wasn’t a lot of paragraphs and with the different point of views. It made the grief journey more real with the short paragraphs and the wording and how some of them were slow and some of them were longer. I liked the dual POV and how it shows both Camino and Yahaira finding out about each other and how they processed it. I liked how the storyline showed that the grief was different, one was angry, one was in shock. With the way this is written, it is a very easy read, and you don’t really need to think only feel during this book. 

I would have liked more from the relationship before their dad died, I know it was broken with Camino because she found out about the other family before he died, and Yahaira only found out after her father died. I would have loved maybe some prequel chapters about how Camino and Yahaira’s mum met and fell in love with the same man considering they were friends! I was so gobsmacked about that and yet it was just brushed over. It also took me a while to realise it was dual POV, reading this from my kindle, I didn’t notice that the names were bold when it was their POV, and I was getting confused at the start. 

I would love a sequel maybe with a third family or how the sisters are getting on now that Camino is in the states.  

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Merriment and Mayhem by Alexandria Bellefleur

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funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

When Amazon announced this short series of books by some of my favourite authors, I was all for it. This is the second book that I've read out of the five and this is by an author I've not read before. This is how a short festive story is supposed to be, all about Christmas and ends with smut and an ending that could be left alone or could be extended if the author wants to.  

This book is based on Everleigh Dangerfield, and she has had a baking disaster which resolves in her neighbour calling 9-1-1. Firefighter Griffin Brantley comes to save the day and douses the flames in the kitchen, but the ones he stokes in Everleigh are an entirely different story. Unfortunately, Everleigh’s only visiting and doesn’t do casual hookups, no matter how smoldering the temptation. But Everleigh’s holiday mishaps have just begun. And Griffin is seemingly always on call. If Everleigh is game for a change of plans, he can give her the merriest Christmas of her life.  

I liked that this one was surrounding Christmas, it started with a disaster from cooking and then she gets stuck trying to put up Christmas lights, all whilst dealing with her own grief at Christmas. It just reminded me of an episode of 9-1-1 and yes, I was thinking that Oliver Stark was Griffin Brantley. Just because it would be a season 1 Evan Buckley thing to do, fall in love with a woman on a case, not getting her details and then calling her trouble and then seeing her multiple times and calling it fate. I just loved that there was some chemistry then and it wasn't just all smut. 

Even though it was a short story, and I knew what I was getting into, I wanted more. This could have been a whole 200–300-page book and I probably would have devoured it. I wanted the background of the town. I wanted dual POV, I wanted to know more about Brantley and why he became a firefighter. I wanted to see more of the firehouse and Everleigh being there more often, maybe even learning how to cook so she brings more treats over. 

As stated, I liked that it could be left alone or that the author could carry this on. I am hoping that the author carries it on, even if it’s a case of the small-town and different members of the fire department because I would love to see Miller get his happy ending. This was my first time reading this author and I am going to make sure, it’s not the last time I read this author.  

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