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Not My Match
by Ilsa Madden-Mills
Iffy start...great middle...amazing ending!
I feel like that could be the entirety of my review, but I guess I'll expound. (Psssst...I'm a GIVER).
This book started like a fairly standard Innocent Buttoned-Up Virgin meets Sportsy Sexpert Bad-Boy. I was enjoying reading the beginning it just wasn't knocking my socks off. But OH MAN did this book just get better and better!
Giselle is the kind on heroine I ADORE. Super smart, quirky, hilarious, and real! She is so sweet and I really loved her back story.
Devon was just SWOONY! Yes, he is gruff and emotionally closed off to relationships, but the more I read the more complex he became. The reader gets to see exactly why he is closed off, but there's more nuance than we usually get in these characters. It wasn't the standard "hurt once so he's a total jerk to everyone" story. He is still kind, still loves his friends and family deeply. He still helps others and cares. He just has particular hurts that make him hesitate when it comes to emotional romantic relationships.
I loved the very real and not easily dismissed conflict in this story.
And WOWZA—did this book ever bring the HEAT! I loved every second of the steam in this book.
It was also very funny in parts. There was a laugh-out-loud scene centered on a lengthy dinner prayer that will have you snort-laughing!
I took off 1/2 star because it is clear this is a second book in the series. I had not read the first book and there were times when I felt a little lost when storylines from the previous book were mentioned.
RATING:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
STEAM LEVEL: Rated R
TRIGGERS: alcoholism, cheating in past relationships, parent abandonment, past attempted sexual assault (not overly graphic).
Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I feel like that could be the entirety of my review, but I guess I'll expound. (Psssst...I'm a GIVER).
This book started like a fairly standard Innocent Buttoned-Up Virgin meets Sportsy Sexpert Bad-Boy. I was enjoying reading the beginning it just wasn't knocking my socks off. But OH MAN did this book just get better and better!
Giselle is the kind on heroine I ADORE. Super smart, quirky, hilarious, and real! She is so sweet and I really loved her back story.
Devon was just SWOONY! Yes, he is gruff and emotionally closed off to relationships, but the more I read the more complex he became. The reader gets to see exactly why he is closed off, but there's more nuance than we usually get in these characters. It wasn't the standard "hurt once so he's a total jerk to everyone" story. He is still kind, still loves his friends and family deeply. He still helps others and cares. He just has particular hurts that make him hesitate when it comes to emotional romantic relationships.
I loved the very real and not easily dismissed conflict in this story.
And WOWZA—did this book ever bring the HEAT! I loved every second of the steam in this book.
It was also very funny in parts. There was a laugh-out-loud scene centered on a lengthy dinner prayer that will have you snort-laughing!
I took off 1/2 star because it is clear this is a second book in the series. I had not read the first book and there were times when I felt a little lost when storylines from the previous book were mentioned.
RATING:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
STEAM LEVEL: Rated R
TRIGGERS: alcoholism, cheating in past relationships, parent abandonment, past attempted sexual assault (not overly graphic).
Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.