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puddleshoes's review against another edition
emotional
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
2.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy and Sexual content
Moderate: Medical content
maggies's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
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
3.0
It took a long while for me to warm up to the characters and the tone of the story, and there were several details that took me out of it. Also, my evergreen complaint: everyone needs therapy. Overall though it was a fine steamy second-chance romance, just not my fave.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Blood, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Infidelity
corrieroe's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
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
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Infidelity
erin_robbins19's review against another edition
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
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Pregnancy
greatestheights's review
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy
2blueshoes's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Cute romance with mostly lovable characters. If you don’t love insecure heroines, this book maybe isn’t for you. If you love reading about big messy, loving families or sexy nerdy firefighters who are really into public safety, this book is for you.
The writing in this book was surprisingly poetic, and it made for an enjoyable read. Definitely a story context that I hadn’t seen done before (*applause*), even if the story itself went exactly as expected. There are more than a couple steamy scenes but everything verged more on the side of romantic rather than truly spicy (IMO).
I have to give this book a negative a quarter-of-a-star for its unbelievably atrocious representation of fantasy/romance dialogue. I get that it was probably for comedic effect… but a writer who writes SO beautifully about human emotion literally made a few lines of fantasy/romance writing sound like what I imagine a 1980’s low budget porno would be. I CANNOT.
I also felt a bit weird about the end: for a modern romance it felt a bit old fashioned. But it was definitely a HEA.
Despite these grumbles, I’d read another by this author.
The writing in this book was surprisingly poetic, and it made for an enjoyable read. Definitely a story context that I hadn’t seen done before (*applause*), even if the story itself went exactly as expected. There are more than a couple steamy scenes but everything verged more on the side of romantic rather than truly spicy (IMO).
I have to give this book a negative a quarter-of-a-star for its unbelievably atrocious representation of fantasy/romance dialogue. I get that it was probably for comedic effect… but a writer who writes SO beautifully about human emotion literally made a few lines of fantasy/romance writing sound like what I imagine a 1980’s low budget porno would be. I CANNOT.
I also felt a bit weird about the end: for a modern romance it felt a bit old fashioned. But it was definitely a HEA.
Despite these grumbles, I’d read another by this author.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma
juffnstuff's review against another edition
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, and Pregnancy
asparagusisreading's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
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
5.0
Two exes, Piper and Sam narrate a steamy adult fantasy romance book while pretending to hate each other and trying to not fall in love... for the second time. Sam is a firefighter with plans to use his experience and knowledge as a mayor and better the town. In the process of doing so, he has started remedying some broken relationships and building connections with others that have experiences in the political world. Those people happen to be the Bellinis, a family that Sam was once close with for years of his life when he was dating Piper and best friends with her brother. Enter Piper, a struggling voice actress that has returned home to help her mother through the end of her pregnancy. At first, she's confused about why Sam is here and not the most excited to see him but eventually gets comfortable with his presence and starts working with him on the career opportunity of the lifetime: a multi-book series deal.
My reading at the beginning of August was not looking very good due to giving out multiple 2-star ratings and DNFing a book. I was certain that all of my reading before the next semester was doomed. But then I picked up Talk Flirty to Me and flew through it. (The read dates show it took me almost a month to read. I read a chapter in July and came back to it again in August.) I intended to read about a 100 pages a day before bed but ended up reading like the last 300-400 pages at 2am... I was addicted. I would like to thank Brittany from Brittany & Books on YouTube for recommending this book on YouTube and TikTok because this book is incredible!! I enjoyed reading about Piper and Sam individually and together. They were both working on their career goals and their relationships with other people. There were a wide variety of side characters due to Piper's larger family and who Sam works with but I didn't mind. It was refreshing to get their personality and dialogue with them. I was laughing, sometimes having to do so in silence because I stayed up reading, almost every chapter because of the humor and sassiness of the characters. I'm still not sure how I feel about Sam trying to be a mayor. Even though it made sense for how certain events played out, I think I would've enjoyed the story even more if he was only a firefighter and had more scenes at the station.
Romance books that have a higher page count tend to be a hit or miss for me because they'll feel too long like 50 pages could've been cut or too much is going on. The longer length of this book was a great choice because I wanted everything with Piper and Sam together. Livy Hart paced the story well for it to make sense for the longer book and didn't feel too rushed or too long. Some chapters it felt slow, like I was reading months of interactions and other chapters felt like things happened quickly. I think the pacing helped the story, especially with the gradual, mutual realization between Piper and Sam that maybe they didn't hate each other as much as they originally thought and those feelings they had in high school haven't completely gone away.
Tropes: a second chance, brother's best friend, found family, one bed, close proximity, miscommunication/misunderstanding,
Representation:
Content and Trigger Warnings: toxic relationship, possible infidelity, medical content, pregnancy, car accident,
My content featuring this book:
-When You Listen to a Friend's Recommendations https://www.tiktok.com/@asparagusisreading/video/7130309595544833326?_r=1&_t=8VNsmWaVRxm&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7130309595544833326
-August TBR https://youtu.be/nVPYzsM5Zfk
My reading at the beginning of August was not looking very good due to giving out multiple 2-star ratings and DNFing a book. I was certain that all of my reading before the next semester was doomed. But then I picked up Talk Flirty to Me and flew through it. (The read dates show it took me almost a month to read. I read a chapter in July and came back to it again in August.) I intended to read about a 100 pages a day before bed but ended up reading like the last 300-400 pages at 2am... I was addicted. I would like to thank Brittany from Brittany & Books on YouTube for recommending this book on YouTube and TikTok because this book is incredible!! I enjoyed reading about Piper and Sam individually and together. They were both working on their career goals and their relationships with other people. There were a wide variety of side characters due to Piper's larger family and who Sam works with but I didn't mind. It was refreshing to get their personality and dialogue with them. I was laughing, sometimes having to do so in silence because I stayed up reading, almost every chapter because of the humor and sassiness of the characters. I'm still not sure how I feel about Sam trying to be a mayor. Even though it made sense for how certain events played out, I think I would've enjoyed the story even more if he was only a firefighter and had more scenes at the station.
Romance books that have a higher page count tend to be a hit or miss for me because they'll feel too long like 50 pages could've been cut or too much is going on. The longer length of this book was a great choice because I wanted everything with Piper and Sam together. Livy Hart paced the story well for it to make sense for the longer book and didn't feel too rushed or too long. Some chapters it felt slow, like I was reading months of interactions and other chapters felt like things happened quickly. I think the pacing helped the story, especially with the gradual, mutual realization between Piper and Sam that maybe they didn't hate each other as much as they originally thought and those feelings they had in high school haven't completely gone away.
Tropes: a second chance, brother's best friend, found family, one bed, close proximity, miscommunication/misunderstanding,
Representation:
Content and Trigger Warnings: toxic relationship, possible infidelity, medical content, pregnancy, car accident,
My content featuring this book:
-When You Listen to a Friend's Recommendations https://www.tiktok.com/@asparagusisreading/video/7130309595544833326?_r=1&_t=8VNsmWaVRxm&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7130309595544833326
-August TBR https://youtu.be/nVPYzsM5Zfk
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy
Moderate: Infidelity and Sexual content
Minor: Car accident, Cursing, and Medical content
ratetheromance's review against another edition
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
2nd Chance meets Romance Audio narration with a freaking firefighter? HOT DAAAAMMMNN.
The first half of 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗘 was good, but really slow for me. I loved these main characters! Piper is funny and likable and caring! I loved her ambition. And Sam is SO FREAKING SWOONY. He is so busy serving others and trying to be a good man!
Besides the slow first half, I had a really hard time with the dynamic between Piper and her mother. Piper's mom has NINE children and Piper drops everything to move home and care for all the kids, something it is mentioned often that she also did the entire time she was growing up. I am in no way opposed to people having lots of kids. I am very much opposed to those people forcing their older kids to raise the younger ones. This aspect of the story really bothered me.
However, 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗘 had all of the best parts of Second Chance Romance I love. Glimpses at the couple's past relationship, that old spark bursting into sexual chemistry, the feeling that these two were MEANT to be together. This book excelled at all of that.
𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗘 also had lovable side characters, serious steam, and...drum roll....there was only one bed. Seriously so good!
𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟: Rated R / 1-4 descriptive sex scenes, may have harsh language.
𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗥𝗦: pregnancy complication (side character)
𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗦: 2/5 - A bit of drama, but still a pretty light read.
The first half of 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗘 was good, but really slow for me. I loved these main characters! Piper is funny and likable and caring! I loved her ambition. And Sam is SO FREAKING SWOONY. He is so busy serving others and trying to be a good man!
Besides the slow first half, I had a really hard time with the dynamic between Piper and her mother. Piper's mom has NINE children and Piper drops everything to move home and care for all the kids, something it is mentioned often that she also did the entire time she was growing up. I am in no way opposed to people having lots of kids. I am very much opposed to those people forcing their older kids to raise the younger ones. This aspect of the story really bothered me.
However, 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗘 had all of the best parts of Second Chance Romance I love. Glimpses at the couple's past relationship, that old spark bursting into sexual chemistry, the feeling that these two were MEANT to be together. This book excelled at all of that.
𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗘 also had lovable side characters, serious steam, and...drum roll....there was only one bed. Seriously so good!
𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟: Rated R / 1-4 descriptive sex scenes, may have harsh language.
𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗥𝗦: pregnancy complication (side character)
𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗦: 2/5 - A bit of drama, but still a pretty light read.
Content Warnings
Minor: Pregnancy
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