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edenknox's review
4.0
This was a sweet read, definitely tugs on the heartstrings from the first chapter on, but still plenty of fluff and steam. I had a few moments where the timeline jumped and I had to back up a bit, so be prepared! There is a lot of time and detail telling you what is going on and world building. There’s definitely a fresh twist on the second chance trope. Was it a little heavy on the drama like I saw on other reviews? Sure, but it isn’t at the same consistently heavy level as like Colleen Hoover.
kdani36's review
4.0
I couldn't stop reading this one it's so good. An excellent storyline and characters. It hits you in the feels. In the beginning things are bleak but then turn into something else. A story of love and loss, family, and finding your way plus so much more.
joprotor's review
4.0
What a cute story, gives you everything! When starting this book I was not aware that it was part of a series, but it is totally a standalone as I was able to follow with no problems.
The story follows Single father Jaxson as he navigates raising his twin daughters and falling in love.
I was a little shocked at how they see the book was especially barely being six pages in and reading a very descriptive liaison. This book is not for the faint of heart, as there are many such scenes in the pages to follow.
Ms. Knight’s development of the main four characters
Is flawless, giving you all the feels for each of them in their turn. The supporting cast is depicted so well that you wanna know their stories too.
The story follows Single father Jaxson as he navigates raising his twin daughters and falling in love.
I was a little shocked at how they see the book was especially barely being six pages in and reading a very descriptive liaison. This book is not for the faint of heart, as there are many such scenes in the pages to follow.
Ms. Knight’s development of the main four characters
Is flawless, giving you all the feels for each of them in their turn. The supporting cast is depicted so well that you wanna know their stories too.
75_sweetestbook's review
5.0
wow what a amazing romatic read that will have you having heart melting throught out this book. this is a must read book if you have read the first book as it will pull you in through the words from the very start to the very ending
snaze6's review
3.0
I really struggled to finish this book, and that is so not me - I hate to give up on a book. The premise of this book intrigued me, but the actual reading experience was meh at best. I had multiple issues with the book and want to emphasize this is my personal opinion, and even though this was not a book I enjoyed, you may love it. Many other people have given this books glowing 5 star reviews.
The story is written in a narrative style which my least favorite writing styles which I think makes it hard to feel any connection to the characters. For most of the book the POV bounces between Jaxson and Kellie, but somewhere around the 75% mark random other characters are telling the story. For example, we get a chapter from the boyfriend of one of Jason’s daughters. To have characters who haven’t been around but in the background all of a sudden telling the story - was just weird and distracting.
The story takes place over 18 years. Initially my heart was broken for Jaxson, his brother’s and their children. The story skips ahead about 4 years and Jaxson meets Kellie at a main street fair. He goes from being a hermit and barely interacting with people outside of work, his family and children to a R rated event alongside the road with a woman he met just that night. When he gets home he then invites her to come over to his house for some adult playtime, before inviting her to spend the day with him and his 4 year old daughters. He goes from one extreme to the other with how he interacts with her when he slams the brakes on anything more than a platonic friendship for months. They have a best friends/lovers arrangement for years, and as the book skips ahead they eventually move in together around the 8 year mark. From here the story just loses me with the crazy events that take place with little explanation or storytelling and as the timeline keeps advancing ahead weeks and months and references events are brought up about past events that haven’t previously been mentioned or ‘discussed’ by the characters as if it was actually part of this story.
I’ve only read this book by the author, but from reading the blurbs for the other 3 brothers’ books and a guess, I believe the author has the 4 books focusing on each brother, but she the events happen in parallel timeframes so when you read the next brother’s book you get more details of what you’ve already read just from a different POV. So events and stories are referenced that seem out of the blue and have no connection to the story shared in this book. It gets ridiculously confusing and doesn’t improve the reading experience. If anything, it convinced me I don’t want to read the other books in the series because I have a pretty good idea what ends up happening but the why and how will be a convoluted mess that I just don’t want to take the time to read.
Lastly, I went from really feeling sympathy for Jaxson to almost despising him. Frankly how he treats Kellie for the last 1/3 of the book I kept hoping she’d end up with one of the other brothers!
I received a free ARC from the author and NetGalley; and I am leaving an unbiased review which is my own opinion. Just because this book wasn’t one I enjoyed, give it a chance because you may love
The story is written in a narrative style which my least favorite writing styles which I think makes it hard to feel any connection to the characters. For most of the book the POV bounces between Jaxson and Kellie, but somewhere around the 75% mark random other characters are telling the story. For example, we get a chapter from the boyfriend of one of Jason’s daughters. To have characters who haven’t been around but in the background all of a sudden telling the story - was just weird and distracting.
The story takes place over 18 years. Initially my heart was broken for Jaxson, his brother’s and their children. The story skips ahead about 4 years and Jaxson meets Kellie at a main street fair. He goes from being a hermit and barely interacting with people outside of work, his family and children to a R rated event alongside the road with a woman he met just that night. When he gets home he then invites her to come over to his house for some adult playtime, before inviting her to spend the day with him and his 4 year old daughters. He goes from one extreme to the other with how he interacts with her when he slams the brakes on anything more than a platonic friendship for months. They have a best friends/lovers arrangement for years, and as the book skips ahead they eventually move in together around the 8 year mark. From here the story just loses me with the crazy events that take place with little explanation or storytelling and as the timeline keeps advancing ahead weeks and months and references events are brought up about past events that haven’t previously been mentioned or ‘discussed’ by the characters as if it was actually part of this story.
I’ve only read this book by the author, but from reading the blurbs for the other 3 brothers’ books and a guess, I believe the author has the 4 books focusing on each brother, but she the events happen in parallel timeframes so when you read the next brother’s book you get more details of what you’ve already read just from a different POV. So events and stories are referenced that seem out of the blue and have no connection to the story shared in this book. It gets ridiculously confusing and doesn’t improve the reading experience. If anything, it convinced me I don’t want to read the other books in the series because I have a pretty good idea what ends up happening but the why and how will be a convoluted mess that I just don’t want to take the time to read.
Lastly, I went from really feeling sympathy for Jaxson to almost despising him. Frankly how he treats Kellie for the last 1/3 of the book I kept hoping she’d end up with one of the other brothers!
I received a free ARC from the author and NetGalley; and I am leaving an unbiased review which is my own opinion. Just because this book wasn’t one I enjoyed, give it a chance because you may love
lovelymisanthrope's review
dark
emotional
lighthearted
sad
tense
medium-paced
1.0
I was provided a copy of this book through Net Galley.
One of my favorite tropes in romance is second chance love, and I recently have been enjoying romances that highlight fathers, so I was very excited to dive into this story. However, I was massively disappointed. This story follows Jaxson Brentworth, a young, hot dad who last his wife, and high school sweetheart, in a fiery car accident when his twin daughters were only 6 months old. Also in the car with his wife were the wives of two of his brothers, who both also have sets of twins. All of the babies were born at almost the same time, and all of the wives were best friends in high school. A few years after the accident, Jaxson meets Kellie, a wild child free spirit who breaths life back into him.
I have a lot of issues with this book, and looking through other reviews, it makes me wonder if I got a bad copy? There is a lot wrong structurally with this story. There were too many times that a character would say a cliche to themselves in their mind or to another character, and then a paragraph later a different character would say the exact same line. I love cliches but having this happen so frequently made it feel like a forced writing choice, and it really harbored my enjoyment. Additionally, I continued to find plot holes especially with character knowledge and the general timeline of the story. There were a few times when a character would say something during a dialogue, and I was unsure how they actually knew it. The timeline is erratic; this 300-page book spans over almost 20 years. I just think it was too ambitious, and highly unnecessary. It was cool to see the babies grow up and graduate high school, but it really dragged out the romance unnecessarily. The characters obviously do not get their happy ever after until the end!
I think my biggest gripe with this story overall is that there felt like there was no character development, and characters continually made decisions that did not align with who they were. For example, Jaxson lost the love of his life, a girl who has been his best friend since kindergarten, and the first night he goes out on his own, he has a one-night stand and decides to invite her over to meet the girls the next morning. This seemed so rushed and out of character, and not in a believable way. He then proceeds to tell Kellie, after only a few months of hooking up (because they never officially said they were dating) that he loves her so much more than his deceased wife. Then, after 11 years of not-dating-but-living-together nonsense, Kellie gets a job opportunity and moves to Alaska and someone sends the whole Brentworth clan a doctored video that makes it look like Kellie is now engaged to another man. Without talking to Kellie or hearing her side Jaxson ghosts her...AFTER 11 YEARS TOGETHER.
ALL of the characters seem to go 0-60 and get angry during every discussion and I would be halfway through a monologue before I realized the character was angry. Towards the end of the book there continues to be more and more characters' perspectives thrown in, but only for one short chapter. I felt like all of these chapters were unnecessary and did not help in moving the plot along in a productive way.
I also really felt like the book was trying way to hard to emulate "50 Shades of Grey".
I wish this story was solely Jaxson's perspective, and the story only spanned maybe 5 years at most. This book was too much, and not enough.
One of my favorite tropes in romance is second chance love, and I recently have been enjoying romances that highlight fathers, so I was very excited to dive into this story. However, I was massively disappointed. This story follows Jaxson Brentworth, a young, hot dad who last his wife, and high school sweetheart, in a fiery car accident when his twin daughters were only 6 months old. Also in the car with his wife were the wives of two of his brothers, who both also have sets of twins. All of the babies were born at almost the same time, and all of the wives were best friends in high school. A few years after the accident, Jaxson meets Kellie, a wild child free spirit who breaths life back into him.
I have a lot of issues with this book, and looking through other reviews, it makes me wonder if I got a bad copy? There is a lot wrong structurally with this story. There were too many times that a character would say a cliche to themselves in their mind or to another character, and then a paragraph later a different character would say the exact same line. I love cliches but having this happen so frequently made it feel like a forced writing choice, and it really harbored my enjoyment. Additionally, I continued to find plot holes especially with character knowledge and the general timeline of the story. There were a few times when a character would say something during a dialogue, and I was unsure how they actually knew it. The timeline is erratic; this 300-page book spans over almost 20 years. I just think it was too ambitious, and highly unnecessary. It was cool to see the babies grow up and graduate high school, but it really dragged out the romance unnecessarily. The characters obviously do not get their happy ever after until the end!
I think my biggest gripe with this story overall is that there felt like there was no character development, and characters continually made decisions that did not align with who they were. For example, Jaxson lost the love of his life, a girl who has been his best friend since kindergarten, and the first night he goes out on his own, he has a one-night stand and decides to invite her over to meet the girls the next morning. This seemed so rushed and out of character, and not in a believable way. He then proceeds to tell Kellie, after only a few months of hooking up (because they never officially said they were dating) that he loves her so much more than his deceased wife. Then, after 11 years of not-dating-but-living-together nonsense, Kellie gets a job opportunity and moves to Alaska and someone sends the whole Brentworth clan a doctored video that makes it look like Kellie is now engaged to another man. Without talking to Kellie or hearing her side Jaxson ghosts her...AFTER 11 YEARS TOGETHER.
ALL of the characters seem to go 0-60 and get angry during every discussion and I would be halfway through a monologue before I realized the character was angry. Towards the end of the book there continues to be more and more characters' perspectives thrown in, but only for one short chapter. I felt like all of these chapters were unnecessary and did not help in moving the plot along in a productive way.
I also really felt like the book was trying way to hard to emulate "50 Shades of Grey".
I wish this story was solely Jaxson's perspective, and the story only spanned maybe 5 years at most. This book was too much, and not enough.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Death, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Abandonment
arhodes202's review
5.0
This is the second book in the "Finding Our Forever Series" and it didn't disappoint. It was a great read that kept you on your toes and gave you ALL THE FEELS! I adore the entire Brentwood family, they are a great bunch and you get bits and pieces of each member of the family and how they will all sacrifice for the others as well as give so much unconditional love, yet the focus doesn't stray from our main characters, Jaxson and Kellie (Peaches). I cried, I laughed, I even wanted to hurl my kindle a few times, but this story stole my heart. I love the twins Zinnia and Lily their personalities are the best. You will definitely swoon, especially during the steamy love scenes. There's heartache due to misunderstandings. My heart just broke for them. But through it all your heart will melt and expand with the true, undeniable love they share. It shines trough these two and you get a great HEA. I love all the brothers, but from book one Jaxson has held a special place in my heart and it still holds true. An amazing 5 star story you won't want to miss. I can't wait to see what Alandra gives us next!