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Pretend You're Mine
by Lucy Score
I am astounded at how much Lucy Score's writing has improved since this was originally published. Her heroes now are worthy of the love and attention the heroines give them.
This was originally published in 2018 and I feel like the romance genre accepted different standards from their heroes back then. Luke meets Harper when she jumps in to defend a woman being attacked by her boyfriend in a bar parking lot. The vibe off the entire town who was seemingly in attendance was joyful that someone finally dealt with him. So they all knew this woman was being beaten and did nothing?
Luke went through an awful personal tragedy and takes it out on everyone still, years later. As we move through the book, we learn that Harper too has significant trauma but is somehow still sunshine and ready to love. He was so hot and cold that I wanted to shake him. He dumped her before his deployment, he immediately asked her to stay when he deployed, and within a day of coming back from deployment when she held his entire business/house/family together, dumps her again. Cruelly.
Again, Lucy's work has improved so much in the years since this book and I regularly recommend Things We Never Got Over and the Riley Thorn series. This particular book just didn't work for me.
Thank you to Netgalley and Bloom Books for a copy in exchange for an honest review. My opinions are my own.
This was originally published in 2018 and I feel like the romance genre accepted different standards from their heroes back then. Luke meets Harper when she jumps in to defend a woman being attacked by her boyfriend in a bar parking lot. The vibe off the entire town who was seemingly in attendance was joyful that someone finally dealt with him. So they all knew this woman was being beaten and did nothing?
Luke went through an awful personal tragedy and takes it out on everyone still, years later. As we move through the book, we learn that Harper too has significant trauma but is somehow still sunshine and ready to love. He was so hot and cold that I wanted to shake him. He dumped her before his deployment, he immediately asked her to stay when he deployed, and within a day of coming back from deployment when she held his entire business/house/family together, dumps her again. Cruelly.
Again, Lucy's work has improved so much in the years since this book and I regularly recommend Things We Never Got Over and the Riley Thorn series. This particular book just didn't work for me.
Thank you to Netgalley and Bloom Books for a copy in exchange for an honest review. My opinions are my own.