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A review by yazthebookish
Love Unwritten by Lauren Asher
5.0
5 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“I wasn’t about to tell my son what I was really thinking, if that’s what you were wondering.”
She releases a shaky breath. “What was that?”
“That you looked so damn gorgeous, it physically hurt me to look at you because I knew you could never be mine.”
Love Unwritten was an unexpected whirlwind of emotions topped with a tentative yet passionate romance between two individuals who were scarred from their past, and what tied them together? A little boy with a heart of gold.
It's a Single Dad x Nanny romance but it truly gives each character their due, including the child.
I did not expect Ellie and Rafael's story to hit me in the gut as hard as it did. Although their relationship (not exactly in a romantic sense) kicks off early on in the book, I got to see how they changed as the story progressed and how they both worked hard to make their relationship work.
The star of the book was Rafael's sweet, sweet boy Nico! He was the matchmaker, the comic relief, all the cuteness and adorabless-ness wrapped in an eight-year-old. Biggest miss and traps for authors who write Nanny romances is making the child/children become background characters or used as a plot device for the romance, Nico had his own little arc going on and had an active role in pushing the story forward.
I will say that this isn't just a little cute romance with spice (and the spice is rewarding even if you had to wait *a bit for it), this book deals with some dark and potentially triggering themes so I advise you to look up the trigger warnings if you're a sensitive reader.
I was intimidated by the page number but honestly this felt like a 350-page book it's so easy to devour and fly through! Don't let the page number scare you.
Since I read Love Redesigned and met Raf and Ellie I was looking forward to their story and happy to say it did not disappoint and gave me much more than I expected in the best way!
Content warnings: PTSD, parental abuse and abandonment (past), self-harm (mention and brief on-page attempt), grief, anxiety.
“I wasn’t about to tell my son what I was really thinking, if that’s what you were wondering.”
She releases a shaky breath. “What was that?”
“That you looked so damn gorgeous, it physically hurt me to look at you because I knew you could never be mine.”
Love Unwritten was an unexpected whirlwind of emotions topped with a tentative yet passionate romance between two individuals who were scarred from their past, and what tied them together? A little boy with a heart of gold.
It's a Single Dad x Nanny romance but it truly gives each character their due, including the child.
I did not expect Ellie and Rafael's story to hit me in the gut as hard as it did. Although their relationship (not exactly in a romantic sense) kicks off early on in the book, I got to see how they changed as the story progressed and how they both worked hard to make their relationship work.
The star of the book was Rafael's sweet, sweet boy Nico! He was the matchmaker, the comic relief, all the cuteness and adorabless-ness wrapped in an eight-year-old. Biggest miss and traps for authors who write Nanny romances is making the child/children become background characters or used as a plot device for the romance, Nico had his own little arc going on and had an active role in pushing the story forward.
I will say that this isn't just a little cute romance with spice (and the spice is rewarding even if you had to wait *a bit for it), this book deals with some dark and potentially triggering themes so I advise you to look up the trigger warnings if you're a sensitive reader.
I was intimidated by the page number but honestly this felt like a 350-page book it's so easy to devour and fly through! Don't let the page number scare you.
Since I read Love Redesigned and met Raf and Ellie I was looking forward to their story and happy to say it did not disappoint and gave me much more than I expected in the best way!
Content warnings: PTSD, parental abuse and abandonment (past), self-harm (mention and brief on-page attempt), grief, anxiety.