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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
It felt a bit too dragged out.. still really liked the story and characters
I loved this story, personally I could relate to Harper.
Harper doesn’t have a plan, she’s a little bit out there. She is kind flying through life. She finds trouble or trouble finds her. She’s smart, reckless, and caring.
She was a great heroine. She lost her parents young, and she was in and out of foster care. She doesn’t really have a home. When she finds out her boyfriend was cheating on her she just gets in her car and drives. She was planning on going to her friend’s house, but ends up in a small town about 4 hours opposite of where she was heading. That is where she meets Luke.
Luke is in control. Everything has a place. He doesn’t have room in his life for a reckless girl like Harper. He is about to deploy in a month. Something tragic happened to Luke and his loving parents are trying to hook him up with someone. Harper needs a place to stay until her friend comes back.
So Luke’s sister comes up with an idea. Harper should pose has his girlfriend until he leaves. I was wondering why the book was so long, I assumed it would end when their month ended. The story goes deeper.
Luke deploys and Harper decides to stay, and this little town becomes her home. She has a family now. She turns Luke’s life around, and it scares him. This story has some great steam and romance but it’s more than that. It’s about friendship and family.
Harper doesn’t have a plan, she’s a little bit out there. She is kind flying through life. She finds trouble or trouble finds her. She’s smart, reckless, and caring.
She was a great heroine. She lost her parents young, and she was in and out of foster care. She doesn’t really have a home. When she finds out her boyfriend was cheating on her she just gets in her car and drives. She was planning on going to her friend’s house, but ends up in a small town about 4 hours opposite of where she was heading. That is where she meets Luke.
Luke is in control. Everything has a place. He doesn’t have room in his life for a reckless girl like Harper. He is about to deploy in a month. Something tragic happened to Luke and his loving parents are trying to hook him up with someone. Harper needs a place to stay until her friend comes back.
So Luke’s sister comes up with an idea. Harper should pose has his girlfriend until he leaves. I was wondering why the book was so long, I assumed it would end when their month ended. The story goes deeper.
Luke deploys and Harper decides to stay, and this little town becomes her home. She has a family now. She turns Luke’s life around, and it scares him. This story has some great steam and romance but it’s more than that. It’s about friendship and family.
Harper has been on her own for a long time. She's got a huge heart and it's second nature for her to reach out and help anyone who needs it. When she rolls into Benevolence lost, low on gas, low on $$, she just wants to find a place to stay for a day or two. She sees Gloria's soon-to-be ex beating her up in the parking lot of Remo's, she acts first and thinks later. Luke is there to help her up and bring her into the bar - where his sister Sophie convinces him to hire Harper for a while to help organize his construction company's office and also pretend to be his girlfriend until his next deployment comes up in a month, to get the rest of the family off his back and stop trying to set him up on dates since he lost his wife a few years prior.
Harper is chaos and fun and has so much love in her heart, it's no wonder the entire town falls in love with her. Luke denies his feelings because he feels a lot of undeserved guilt for his wife's death and rather than fess up, he breaks things off with Harper.
Harper is in danger from someone in her past. But Luke won't let anything hurt her again - not even himself.
Harper is chaos and fun and has so much love in her heart, it's no wonder the entire town falls in love with her. Luke denies his feelings because he feels a lot of undeserved guilt for his wife's death and rather than fess up, he breaks things off with Harper.
Harper is in danger from someone in her past. But Luke won't let anything hurt her again - not even himself.
This book was pretty awful. There were so many things that were huge red flags that it was painful to read at times. There was one redeeming storyline so I went with 2 stars.
Harper's life is a mess. After finding her boyfriend cheating on her, Harper jets out of there with nothing. No wallet, no clothes, no plans. She arrives in Benevolence and immediately gets into a skirmish with the town abuser. She also meets Luke, our hero (using that word loosely), and he offers her a place to stay. His sister comes up with a truly ridiculous fake dating scheme and they move in together. Fake turns real but Luke is determined not to have feelings for Harper, while Harper has all the feelings for Luke. They both have past trauma and present conflict. Can their relationship last?
Wow. This book. First, I hated Luke. He's garbage. I get that he's hurt because of a past situation, but his behavior borderlines on abusive. He treats Harper like crap for most of the book and she takes it like a doormat. Harper was desperately looking for love and family, and she most definitely settles for crumbs when it comes to her relationship with Luke. I liked her more than Luke, but she also was annoying. Besides being walked all over by Luke, she makes the most harebrained decisions that make me lose all respect for her. The one redeeming quality of this book was the town/found family. I thought that part was well done, if a little too long. It says a lot that my favorite part of the book was when Luke was deployed and totally off the page.
I'm in a bit of dilemma because the second book in this series (which I've already purchased) happens concurrently with the first. I don't know if I can revisit this town and these people during this time frame. I am interested in the 3rd book because Linc was the most compelling character in the whole book.
I'm sad this book was a huge miss for me because I devoured the Knockemout series by Lucy Score. Hopefully the books get better as they go.
Harper's life is a mess. After finding her boyfriend cheating on her, Harper jets out of there with nothing. No wallet, no clothes, no plans. She arrives in Benevolence and immediately gets into a skirmish with the town abuser. She also meets Luke, our hero (using that word loosely), and he offers her a place to stay. His sister comes up with a truly ridiculous fake dating scheme and they move in together. Fake turns real but Luke is determined not to have feelings for Harper, while Harper has all the feelings for Luke. They both have past trauma and present conflict. Can their relationship last?
Wow. This book. First, I hated Luke. He's garbage. I get that he's hurt because of a past situation, but his behavior borderlines on abusive. He treats Harper like crap for most of the book and she takes it like a doormat. Harper was desperately looking for love and family, and she most definitely settles for crumbs when it comes to her relationship with Luke. I liked her more than Luke, but she also was annoying. Besides being walked all over by Luke, she makes the most harebrained decisions that make me lose all respect for her. The one redeeming quality of this book was the town/found family. I thought that part was well done, if a little too long. It says a lot that my favorite part of the book was when Luke was deployed and totally off the page.
I'm in a bit of dilemma because the second book in this series (which I've already purchased) happens concurrently with the first. I don't know if I can revisit this town and these people during this time frame. I am interested in the 3rd book because Linc was the most compelling character in the whole book.
I'm sad this book was a huge miss for me because I devoured the Knockemout series by Lucy Score. Hopefully the books get better as they go.
Overall? I loved this story, that said, Luke hurt my feelings and I’m not quite over it yet. This novel was the kind where my gut was clenching in heartache, and I would have to put my kindle down and walk away for a few minutes, but in the end I think that goes in the “positives” column. Lucy really pulled the emotion out of me. Both characters had their own immense grief to deal with, the likes of which I am not familiar with and thus probably can’t judge on how they dealt with it, but Luke was definitely a little bit of a D at points.
I loved the found family aspects, I love Harper’s positive nature, the hero puppers, and Lucy’s signature “touch of suspense”. This is 3rd party pov so beware of that if that’s something that matters to you.
Thank you to @netgalley & @read_bloom for the ARC of this re-release title. All opinions are my own.
I loved the found family aspects, I love Harper’s positive nature, the hero puppers, and Lucy’s signature “touch of suspense”. This is 3rd party pov so beware of that if that’s something that matters to you.
Thank you to @netgalley & @read_bloom for the ARC of this re-release title. All opinions are my own.
3 1/2 I enjoyed this book.it was as easy read. I liked the h but the H wasn't as easy to like.
Rating: 1⭐️
*the book is too long for no reason
*i wanted to kick the fmc for being so dump , how can u be in love with a guy u met three weeks ago and a guy who keeps pushing you away and tells you he doesnt want a relationship!!!
*i usually dont mind the dead wife trope but it really bothered me here
*one of the most stupidest fmc i have ever read abt , she told him she loved him(again only after 3 weeks knowinghim) , he didnt say it back, they were supposed to part ways after a month cause he was going to deploy but he told her to stay and wait for him and she just said ok. Idiot.
*i dont know how she stayed even after knowing he was still in love with his deceased wife. I mean he literally told her:
“Baby. I’m so fucking selfish. You deserve someone who’s going to fall head over heels in love with you. Marry you and spend the rest of his life giving you everything you’ve ever wanted. I can’t love you. I can’t love anyone again. But I want you. I want you so bad that it feels like any moment without you is empty.”
And she still told him she loved him and it was fine. This happens 75% in.
*i hate blaming her , but i hate it when the fmc let the mmc walk all over them, stand up for your self goddamit , you dont need him. Its one think if he didnt what to move on from his wife but why tell her to say?.He is selfish, a coward, manhandled her, let her know that its his how and she had no say in anything, broke up with her and kicked her out like a dog, and she still took him back. And all he did is ask her to forgive him, nothing else. nada. No groveling Pathetic.
*it was painful to finished this book tbh, i only did to reach my 2022 goal
* no cheating
* Some om drama
* No ow drama( but there is mentions of his dead wife and he didnt move on until around %)
* HEA
* Epilogue
*the book is too long for no reason
*i wanted to kick the fmc for being so dump , how can u be in love with a guy u met three weeks ago and a guy who keeps pushing you away and tells you he doesnt want a relationship!!!
*i usually dont mind the dead wife trope but it really bothered me here
*one of the most stupidest fmc i have ever read abt , she told him she loved him(again only after 3 weeks knowinghim) , he didnt say it back, they were supposed to part ways after a month cause he was going to deploy but he told her to stay and wait for him and she just said ok. Idiot.
*i dont know how she stayed even after knowing he was still in love with his deceased wife. I mean he literally told her:
“Baby. I’m so fucking selfish. You deserve someone who’s going to fall head over heels in love with you. Marry you and spend the rest of his life giving you everything you’ve ever wanted. I can’t love you. I can’t love anyone again. But I want you. I want you so bad that it feels like any moment without you is empty.”
And she still told him she loved him and it was fine. This happens 75% in.
*i hate blaming her , but i hate it when the fmc let the mmc walk all over them, stand up for your self goddamit , you dont need him. Its one think if he didnt what to move on from his wife but why tell her to say?.He is selfish, a coward, manhandled her, let her know that its his how and she had no say in anything, broke up with her and kicked her out like a dog, and she still took him back. And all he did is ask her to forgive him, nothing else. nada. No groveling Pathetic.
*it was painful to finished this book tbh, i only did to reach my 2022 goal
* no cheating
* Some om drama
* No ow drama( but there is mentions of his dead wife and he didnt move on until around %)
* HEA
* Epilogue
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
tense
medium-paced
Lucy Score does it again!! Love her small town romance series, gosh it makes me wanna take my man to a small town like Benovelence or Blue Moon!! Sweet, Spicy, & Suspenseful.
2.5 stars
I don’t know what to say. Fake romances are a dime a dozen right now and this one wasn’t anywhere near as heartwarming as I expected it to be. Harper is down on her luck and Luke gives her a job and a place to live. They’ve both got a backstory they’re keeping from each other. I gave this one the benefit of the doubt because I thought that it was going to be a soldier with PTSD, not ready to commit to love kind of story. Instead, Luke was a widower who verbally insulted and borderline physically abused her, while repeatedly telling her he’ll never love her. And she stayed. I guess there’s a romance by the end, but my stomach was still churning from events in the middle of the book so it never crawled out of that hole for me.
*Thanks to Bloom Books and NetGalley for this advance copy for review a of republished title.
I don’t know what to say. Fake romances are a dime a dozen right now and this one wasn’t anywhere near as heartwarming as I expected it to be. Harper is down on her luck and Luke gives her a job and a place to live. They’ve both got a backstory they’re keeping from each other. I gave this one the benefit of the doubt because I thought that it was going to be a soldier with PTSD, not ready to commit to love kind of story. Instead, Luke was a widower who verbally insulted and borderline physically abused her, while repeatedly telling her he’ll never love her. And she stayed. I guess there’s a romance by the end, but my stomach was still churning from events in the middle of the book so it never crawled out of that hole for me.
*Thanks to Bloom Books and NetGalley for this advance copy for review a of republished title.