By: L. Steele
Thank you to Hambright PR for the gifted copy of this book!
I really wanted to love this book, but unfortunately, it fell short for me. This book is Nathan and Skylar’s story. Nathan is Skylar’s older brother’s best friend. When she turned 18, she kissed him and hasn’t been able to think of anything else since. Now he’s back, in her failing bakery with a proposal – marry him and he’ll put money into her bakery. In return, he’ll be able to become CEO of the Davenports’ company, for which he needs to be married in order to get that position. Things get raunchy, they fall for each other, and there’s happy ending – though he is hiding something from her that causes her to take time away from him.
There were a number of things that I didn’t like about this book. I never felt the connection between Nate and Skylar. I knew that they shared a moment years ago, but the author never made me feel anything between them. I never felt a spark, a connection, that they belonged together – nothing. So I didn’t fall in love with them the way that I’ve fallen in love with other couples that I’ve read about in other romance novels.
Skylar is also a virgin, and he just was kind of gross with her for her first time. Yes, she consented, but he was so selfish and didn’t seem to care until after she showed pain. He didn’t care about her the way that he claimed to. I don’t care that he had a kinky side, I don’t care if an author writes kink, but this just felt wrong.
There’s so many mentions of tiktok, booktok. The spicy scenes were honestly just boring. They weren’t written well at all. I did like that Skylar was a plus size FMC, but she just put herself down SO much that it got annoying after a while. I did love how much she cared about Hugo.
The ending was weird, it went right into the start of the next book, or the set up of the next book, and that was equally as weird. Son leaves fiancé at the alter, so the dad asks her to marry him as he saw her once and knows she’s the one? No thanks. This book was a struggle to get through.
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