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Tempting the Bride
by Sherry Thomas
emotional
Helena is a stubborn, independent book publisher with catastrophically bad judgement who is in love with a married man and has no intention of moving on from that 5 years later. Hastings is a perpetual adolescent who cannot break the cycle of insulting and sexually harassing her as a form of affection, and Helena genuinely can't stand him. They are very difficult people. Enter: amnesia, an autistic illegitimate daughter, and a chance to connect without all the baggage.
I appreciate that neither of the characters were sanitized for this story; Helena is a bit of an iconoclast, and being true to her own desires creates a lot of problems for her family and society's norms. Hastings finally feels safe enough to be vulnerable and act like the decent human being his best friend knows he can be, and his redemption is really sweet, as is his dread that Helena will remember a decade of had behavior. His daughter is evidence that being a dissolute rake is not always without consequences, but he gives her the time he didn't get as a child, which is very sweet.
I wish Andrew's appeal to Helena had been a little more clear in this book (love letters from previous books did this better!), because he really was a wet blanket. I also wish this book had taken place a little later than the previous two.
As with the other books in this series, the angst was delicious. The narrator was solid, and I'm looking forward to descending further down the Sherry Thomas rabbit hole.
I appreciate that neither of the characters were sanitized for this story; Helena is a bit of an iconoclast, and being true to her own desires creates a lot of problems for her family and society's norms. Hastings finally feels safe enough to be vulnerable and act like the decent human being his best friend knows he can be, and his redemption is really sweet, as is his dread that Helena will remember a decade of had behavior. His daughter is evidence that being a dissolute rake is not always without consequences, but he gives her the time he didn't get as a child, which is very sweet.
I wish Andrew's appeal to Helena had been a little more clear in this book (love letters from previous books did this better!), because he really was a wet blanket. I also wish this book had taken place a little later than the previous two.
As with the other books in this series, the angst was delicious. The narrator was solid, and I'm looking forward to descending further down the Sherry Thomas rabbit hole.