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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
For Matt and Julia love was their greatest gift but their worst obstacle. How can something that began so beautifully have ending in such a heartbreaking way? Manipulated by forces beyond their control and secrets too big to hide, things are about to explode. He's a ghost from her past.. She holds the key to his future. Both crave a second chance, but danger could be looming on the horizon. Forbidden Lovers is romance at it's most heartbreaking. A breathtaking beginning to a complicated series.
I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Forbidden Lovers by Kimberley Troutte is good book where main theme is second chance with love. And how love can begin so young. Well it is young when the main character (Julia) has loved her sweetheart since high school. There is some parts which made me so sad, because I know, how hard it is think that your love is die because war. There was so strong plot and whole story was awesome. I'm so happy that I read this book, maybe some day I feel again the same happiness than Julia feels. Who knows. So sometimes I think that I cry quite easy with books, but sometimes those feels are just like your own. But this book was sweet book and made me thinks happy memories.
Forbidden Lovers by Kimberley Troutte is good book where main theme is second chance with love. And how love can begin so young. Well it is young when the main character (Julia) has loved her sweetheart since high school. There is some parts which made me so sad, because I know, how hard it is think that your love is die because war. There was so strong plot and whole story was awesome. I'm so happy that I read this book, maybe some day I feel again the same happiness than Julia feels. Who knows. So sometimes I think that I cry quite easy with books, but sometimes those feels are just like your own. But this book was sweet book and made me thinks happy memories.
Matt and Julia were teenage lovers. Matt's life was rich but without his parent's love. Julia was poor with enough family love to sustain them both. Matt's father RW is abusive and a horrible person who makes Matt leave for the armed forces. 10 years later he comes home and Julia has a beautiful 10-year-old little boy and Julia is under the assumption that Matt is dead. Things are different at home now with RW but things never changed with his love for Julia. Matt has a lot to overcome but with Julia, he might just be able to do it. There is another subplot with this book that is not completely finished but the main story is completed. The book was a quick read, not a lot of substance and I felt more of a connection between RW and Angel than I did between Julia and Matt.
Received this book as an ARC for my honest review.
Received this book as an ARC for my honest review.
Forbidden Lovers by Kimberly Troutte is a 2018 Harlequin Desire publication.
Julia and Matt fell hard for one another as teens, but they were separated by forces beyond their control. Matt was forced to join the Airforce and thought Julia moved on with her life without him and Julia thought Matt was dead. When Matt returns home at the forceful request of his father, he meets up with Julia again. Reunited, however briefly, the couple take advantage of their time together. But, shocking revelations will either drive them apart forever or draw them closer to their long overdue happy ever after.
Matt and Julia’s story is a bittersweet second chance at love story. I really loved the diversity and culture in the story and found their history compelling. It was wonderful to watch them reconnect and finally have a chance to make a life together. However, the secondary story involving Matt’s father and the woman who was responsible for his new outlook on life, was rushed through so quickly, I was confused and felt lost. I thought maybe this was the second book in a series, which may have laid the foundation for RW’s story, but I didn’t see a prior installment for this one. However, I see RW and Angel’s story will be continued in the next book, and I’m just curious enough to see if how that thread in fleshed out. I'll definitely give this serial a chance to develop.
Overall, this is a very quick and easy read, very enjoyable with terrific characters and a lovely HEA for Matt and Julia.
3.5 stars
Julia and Matt fell hard for one another as teens, but they were separated by forces beyond their control. Matt was forced to join the Airforce and thought Julia moved on with her life without him and Julia thought Matt was dead. When Matt returns home at the forceful request of his father, he meets up with Julia again. Reunited, however briefly, the couple take advantage of their time together. But, shocking revelations will either drive them apart forever or draw them closer to their long overdue happy ever after.
Matt and Julia’s story is a bittersweet second chance at love story. I really loved the diversity and culture in the story and found their history compelling. It was wonderful to watch them reconnect and finally have a chance to make a life together. However, the secondary story involving Matt’s father and the woman who was responsible for his new outlook on life, was rushed through so quickly, I was confused and felt lost. I thought maybe this was the second book in a series, which may have laid the foundation for RW’s story, but I didn’t see a prior installment for this one. However, I see RW and Angel’s story will be continued in the next book, and I’m just curious enough to see if how that thread in fleshed out. I'll definitely give this serial a chance to develop.
Overall, this is a very quick and easy read, very enjoyable with terrific characters and a lovely HEA for Matt and Julia.
3.5 stars
Ugh, not a good start to this sibling trilogy - two brothers & one sister, called back to their hometown by their once abusive father who has had a 180-degree personality change on them.
Anyway, oldest brother, Matt, the male MC, was kicked out of his home by his father 10yrs ago and given an ultimatum - give up his girlfriend, Julia, enter the Air Force or his father would use secret info to spread nasty rumors.
Julia is our female MC, 10yrs later, with a !gasp! 10yr old son and not much going on in her head, though she is in a constant battle w/Matt's father over some rare species of birds his new business development will kill off.
Anyway, this supposed "mystery man" the summary tries to play off is paltry because it's not kept too secret whom Matt is, except that Julia has thought him DEAD for 10yrs.
There was so much to unpack, this story unfolded all-too rapidly for anyone - even ME as a reader - to wrap their head around stuff. Especially since all this dark, depressing drama & angst had no damn follow-through.
We learn of her "dark turn" when she found out she was pregnant and then Matt's "death" 10yrs ago, but the second she learns Matt's alive...swept under the rug for a mere weekend of non-stop sex, and the promise of 4 orgasms-at-a-time. Julia is willing to give Matt up again for his dream of being a pilot and owning his own airline, also NEVER TELLING HIM HE HAS A SON!
And then, Matt's past abuse from his parents is...swept under the rug, explained away easily by his father's mental "disorder" [not clear what he suffers from] and that his mother was simply a cruel woman who hated people of a lower, poor class...whatever.
Matt didn't even have much care that he'd been lied to by MANY people, not just his father but his mother and several people in town. Also letters he'd sent to Julia [and ones she had sent back] had been returned with no explanation.
Also, when Julia finally reveals he has a son...NOTHING! Just happy to know the boy he's grown to like and adore is HIS.
No anger, no drama, no angst...just blah!
What was there for me to even care about if everything just fixed itself?
Such a low-bar for angst but such gravity given to the dumb drama created 10yrs ago and everyone simply sweeps it under the rug for the LOVE of a cute couple and their final HEA.
Hopefully, the rest of the books in this trilogy take their damn time! We saw a little bit of the next 2 siblings so...fingers crossed!