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In the Middle of Somewhere by Roan Parrish
5.0
Book safety, content warnings, and tropes & tags down below.
I’m really struggling with putting my thoughts in order, or in words that would make any sense. Roan Parrish is a master at creating complex characters, and whatever she writes always feels a little magical. The places in her books are always so vivid in my mind while reading, and the characters feel like *real* people. There wasn’t really a lot happening in terms of plot, but the MCs individual journeys (god that sounds corny) never stalled, so it didn’t feel slow, even though the book is lengthy.
It’s finally sinking in. I live here now. I live here in this tiny town. Everyone knows each other and I’m a stranger. They’ll want to know me. Know about me. And then maybe they’ll hate me.
I almost want to say Rex and Daniel had a hard fought HEA. There wasn’t anything overly dramatic happening, no awful breakup, but the way they both had so much to work through both individually and together to be able to have a good and healthy relationship was a lot. They were both flawed and made mistakes along the way, but thankfully they were able to communicate. Eventually.
It broke my heart to hear about and see how Daniel was treated by his family. It added that little something extra to the book that I appreciated, even though it was awful.
“Too good to be true?” Rex asks, stroking my hair away from my face. “No,” I tell him. “Just good.”
Rex is another one of those characters that I want to wrap up in a blanket and take care of forever. Such a sweet and kind man.
There’s no secret that I love external drama and action/suspense, but this book was beautiful no matter what. I listened to the audiobook, and it was fantastic. I might’ve thought the book was a bit too long if I read it, but it was perfectly narrated, so it flew by.
Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️
⚠️ Tropes & tags ⚠️
Small town, tattooed professor, lumberjack chic, size difference, city boy vs country boy, homophobic family, chance encounter, hurt/comfort
⚠️⚠️ Content warning ⚠️⚠️
Explicit sexual content
Homophobia
Verbally abusive family
Death of a parent
Mentions of beatings/hate crime
Death of a side character (past, recalled)
Past trauma
Learning disability
Injured animal
Car accident
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Book safety ⚠️⚠️⚠️
Cheating: No
OM drama: It can seem like there will be at a couple of points, but it never results in any trouble or drama.
Third-act breakup: No
POV: 1st person, single POV
Strict roles or versatile: Versatile
I’m really struggling with putting my thoughts in order, or in words that would make any sense. Roan Parrish is a master at creating complex characters, and whatever she writes always feels a little magical. The places in her books are always so vivid in my mind while reading, and the characters feel like *real* people. There wasn’t really a lot happening in terms of plot, but the MCs individual journeys (god that sounds corny) never stalled, so it didn’t feel slow, even though the book is lengthy.
It’s finally sinking in. I live here now. I live here in this tiny town. Everyone knows each other and I’m a stranger. They’ll want to know me. Know about me. And then maybe they’ll hate me.
I almost want to say Rex and Daniel had a hard fought HEA. There wasn’t anything overly dramatic happening, no awful breakup, but the way they both had so much to work through both individually and together to be able to have a good and healthy relationship was a lot. They were both flawed and made mistakes along the way, but thankfully they were able to communicate. Eventually.
It broke my heart to hear about and see how Daniel was treated by his family. It added that little something extra to the book that I appreciated, even though it was awful.
“Too good to be true?” Rex asks, stroking my hair away from my face. “No,” I tell him. “Just good.”
Rex is another one of those characters that I want to wrap up in a blanket and take care of forever. Such a sweet and kind man.
There’s no secret that I love external drama and action/suspense, but this book was beautiful no matter what. I listened to the audiobook, and it was fantastic. I might’ve thought the book was a bit too long if I read it, but it was perfectly narrated, so it flew by.
Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️
⚠️ Tropes & tags ⚠️
Small town, tattooed professor, lumberjack chic, size difference, city boy vs country boy, homophobic family, chance encounter, hurt/comfort
⚠️⚠️ Content warning ⚠️⚠️
Explicit sexual content
Homophobia
Verbally abusive family
Death of a parent
Mentions of beatings/hate crime
Death of a side character (past, recalled)
Past trauma
Learning disability
Injured animal
Car accident
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Book safety ⚠️⚠️⚠️
Cheating: No
OM drama: It can seem like there will be at a couple of points, but it never results in any trouble or drama.
Third-act breakup: No
POV: 1st person, single POV
Strict roles or versatile: Versatile