A review by bookoverbsjess
Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith

3.0

So it took me a LONG time and I mean over half the book to really get into this story. Breaking it down to things I loved vs. things I hated.

I loved the setting in Paris was so idyllic and picturesque the way it was described. I loved Loup, he was my favorite character that seemed the least drama through the whole book.

I hated hated hated the cheating aspect of this story and how it was supposed to be about a woman finding herself…by finding a lover? It made me feel like as woman we can’t find ourselves on our own. Vincent was such a strong character with her own business blowing up, traveling across the world trying to find herself only to find a lover. I hated that part. I didn’t like that it wasn’t about revenge - but yet she couldn’t be honest with Cillian, her husband, or with anyone else and got upset every time she thought of his book.

I get that she had two great loves…but I hated how it all fell into place by her cheating. She was so upset about the betrayl of her husband secret child from his college years, but here she is galavanting around Paris with a lover…