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4⭐️

Tropes: childhood friends to enemies to lovers, Hollywood star hero, small town

I really enjoyed these two and their story! This was my first book by Samantha and it for sure won’t be my last. Monroe and Brodan have A LOT of tension, drama, hurt & oh it was a wild ride. While there are some things that you discover about this couple in previous books, I haven’t read those and was able to pick up their story without issues. I am looking forward to going back and reading the rest of this series!

shayalayareads's review

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emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

isntbelle's review against another edition

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4.0

Update: okay it’s getting fucking ridiculous. Every character in this series has been kidnapped, attempted to be murdered, or through some other unfathomable trauma. It’s getting unhinged.

This one’s pretty good. Childhood best friends. Mutual pining. Abusive ex. Trauma. Hollywood star and teacher. Jealousy. He tries to get better to win her back.

fireading's review

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emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This might be my fav in the series. There's less drama caused by outer influences than the others in the series but there's still so much anger between the two main characters that it evens out.

caffeinatedromancereader's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Oof this one was sad for a while! Brodan and Monroe were childhood best friends and then everything changed when he left to college. Roe has always been in love with Bro and while he feels the same, loss won't allow him to cross those lines with her in fear that he'll lose her too. After a drunken mistake with his brother, Roe left town. Its been 18 years since they've seen each other. And every time he sees her, he's just awful. I don't think I've ever wanted to punch an MMC more than him! 👊🏼 They both realize that all their time lossed was based off a misunderstanding. Bro definitely had his work cut out for him to get her to forgive the way he treated her. They both had a lot of emotional healing to do with their past trauma as well. Such a great ending to this series.

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4.0

I wasn't sure if I would like this story at all, considering who the main characters are and the event mentioned in the previous books. I wondered how the author would manage to bring their characters closer to us so that we could love them and manage the whole situation between them, but I should not have doubted that Samantha Young knows what she is doing very well, as always. A great ending to the series. I'm going to miss all the characters and this world, and I'm happy to hear this series is going to have a spin-off.

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