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A review by dinoqueenreads
The Truth of Our Past by Heather Leighson
5.0
please note that the trigger warnings and topes/themes may contain spoilers
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
HEA: yes
POV: dual 1st person POV
spice: several open-door spicy scenes
TWs: anxiety, cheating, death of a child (recounted), depression, drug addiction, grief, mentions of homeless youth, homophobia, mentions of overdose and rehab, parental abandonment, religious trauma, mentions of suicide, toxic masculinity, troubled pasts, vomit
Kink CWs: 69, breeding kink, dirty talk, docking, Dom/sub dynamics, oral, lingerie, mirror sex, praise, rimming, snowballing, spanking, switching
standalone: book 2 of Unframed Arts series (can be read as interconnected standalone)
final thoughts: What. A. Ride. After running from their past and present, they give into their mutual attraction Von and Alec fight hard for their HEA, but itβs well deserved. I never knew where the story was going to go- were they going to heal separately, together, or not at all? - and was left feeling every emotion as I was reading.
This book was such a rollercoaster and hot everything I love in a hurt/comfort contemporary novel. There is a 3rd act breakup which had a grand gesture and groveling- YAY! I feel like there is never enough groveling in novels, but this book did the characters and the situation justice
read this book if you love
π¬ angst
π§βπ¨ blue collar MMC (artist)
πΏ celebrity
π₯΅ dirty talk
π fake dating
ποΈ forced proximity (same living arrangements)
π¨βπ©βπ§βπ¦ found family
π§βπ€βπ§ great side characters
π‘ grumpy/sunshine
π€« hidden secrets
π©Ή hurt/comfort
π kinky
π LGBT+ representation
π mutual pining
π₯° nicknames
π€ nightmare comfort
π opposites attract
π jealous, possessive MMC
π praise
π€ rivals-to-lovers
π slowburn
β½ sports romance (soccer)
π third act breakup
π world building
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
HEA: yes
POV: dual 1st person POV
spice: several open-door spicy scenes
TWs: anxiety, cheating, death of a child (recounted), depression, drug addiction, grief, mentions of homeless youth, homophobia, mentions of overdose and rehab, parental abandonment, religious trauma, mentions of suicide, toxic masculinity, troubled pasts, vomit
Kink CWs: 69, breeding kink, dirty talk, docking, Dom/sub dynamics, oral, lingerie, mirror sex, praise, rimming, snowballing, spanking, switching
standalone: book 2 of Unframed Arts series (can be read as interconnected standalone)
final thoughts: What. A. Ride. After running from their past and present, they give into their mutual attraction Von and Alec fight hard for their HEA, but itβs well deserved. I never knew where the story was going to go- were they going to heal separately, together, or not at all? - and was left feeling every emotion as I was reading.
This book was such a rollercoaster and hot everything I love in a hurt/comfort contemporary novel. There is a 3rd act breakup which had a grand gesture and groveling- YAY! I feel like there is never enough groveling in novels, but this book did the characters and the situation justice
read this book if you love
π¬ angst
π§βπ¨ blue collar MMC (artist)
πΏ celebrity
π₯΅ dirty talk
π fake dating
ποΈ forced proximity (same living arrangements)
π¨βπ©βπ§βπ¦ found family
π§βπ€βπ§ great side characters
π‘ grumpy/sunshine
π€« hidden secrets
π©Ή hurt/comfort
π kinky
π LGBT+ representation
π mutual pining
π₯° nicknames
π€ nightmare comfort
π opposites attract
π jealous, possessive MMC
π praise
π€ rivals-to-lovers
π slowburn
β½ sports romance (soccer)
π third act breakup
π world building