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africreole's review
4.0
It takes time to heal!
Both Houston and Liv suffered the most devastating and humiliating event to happen to anyone. The only thing that saved them is helping to raise the triplets together when their exes Tony and Rain ran away with each other on Houston and Rain's wedding day. Now that the kids are older and going to school and have questions about mothers and family was like a whole reality happened. When Phoenix/said they have someone better than a mother, they have a Liv, that made Houston and Liv realize that they are not just best friends, but they love each other and are in love with each other . They just needed to wait for the right time to seal the deal.
Shyla wrote a sweet and interesting love story about two hurt people healing together, with each other and coming into the revelation that they mean more to each other than friends. Their mutual love of the triplets Phoenix, Echo and Deja is what seals their HEA with all threats to their happiness is eliminated.
Both Houston and Liv suffered the most devastating and humiliating event to happen to anyone. The only thing that saved them is helping to raise the triplets together when their exes Tony and Rain ran away with each other on Houston and Rain's wedding day. Now that the kids are older and going to school and have questions about mothers and family was like a whole reality happened. When Phoenix/said they have someone better than a mother, they have a Liv, that made Houston and Liv realize that they are not just best friends, but they love each other and are in love with each other . They just needed to wait for the right time to seal the deal.
Shyla wrote a sweet and interesting love story about two hurt people healing together, with each other and coming into the revelation that they mean more to each other than friends. Their mutual love of the triplets Phoenix, Echo and Deja is what seals their HEA with all threats to their happiness is eliminated.
tita_noir's review
2.0
This book could have been been miles better than it actually was.
The set up and conflict was really quite good. Houston was madly in love with his girlfriend Rain. She gets pregnant and he wants to get married. They have triplets and eight months after the kids' birth, on what should have been his wedding day Rain deserts him at the altar. She actually runs away with her best friend's boyfriend. That best friend, Liv, also happens to be the kids' godmother.
Fast forward to five years just as the kids are starting kindergarten we learn that Liv and Houston have been pretty much raising the kids together, she stays at their house a lot of the time. But it is all platonic as Liv and Houston are just best friends.
A chance remark by one of the kids get both Liv and Houston beginning to consider each other in a less than (or more than) platonic light.
This really could have been a really great romance. Except the story is too short to really explore the promising set up. Instead of using an opportunity to really flesh out the friends to lovers story and deal realistically with the sudden reappearance of Rain so many years later in a more thoughtful manner. Instead the book relies on sex and a disappointingly shallow resolution to the abandonment issue. Instead of going into why Rain left, she is just painted as a flake. Even worse we are given no real insight as to why she has come back. We never hear from her or get any of her POV. It all feels like ab "oh by the way and this is what happens with that issue..."
But outside of my disappointment with the story, the editing is really quite atrocious. There are misused words, names are spelled wrong on several occasions, at one point Liv is written as 'live' (lowercase), case disagreements abound. Also the book kept referring to Rain having been gone for three years. But the math doesn't add up if she left when the kids were eight months old and now they are five. Just shoddy work.
The set up and conflict was really quite good. Houston was madly in love with his girlfriend Rain. She gets pregnant and he wants to get married. They have triplets and eight months after the kids' birth, on what should have been his wedding day Rain deserts him at the altar. She actually runs away with her best friend's boyfriend. That best friend, Liv, also happens to be the kids' godmother.
Fast forward to five years just as the kids are starting kindergarten we learn that Liv and Houston have been pretty much raising the kids together, she stays at their house a lot of the time. But it is all platonic as Liv and Houston are just best friends.
A chance remark by one of the kids get both Liv and Houston beginning to consider each other in a less than (or more than) platonic light.
This really could have been a really great romance. Except the story is too short to really explore the promising set up. Instead of using an opportunity to really flesh out the friends to lovers story and deal realistically with the sudden reappearance of Rain so many years later in a more thoughtful manner. Instead the book relies on sex and a disappointingly shallow resolution to the abandonment issue. Instead of going into why Rain left, she is just painted as a flake. Even worse we are given no real insight as to why she has come back. We never hear from her or get any of her POV. It all feels like ab "oh by the way and this is what happens with that issue..."
But outside of my disappointment with the story, the editing is really quite atrocious. There are misused words, names are spelled wrong on several occasions, at one point Liv is written as 'live' (lowercase), case disagreements abound. Also the book kept referring to Rain having been gone for three years. But the math doesn't add up if she left when the kids were eight months old and now they are five. Just shoddy work.
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