Review by sami_leigh - Here With Me

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Here With Me by Brooke Montgomery

3.5

funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5

‘How could I ever be her friend when I want to be her everything?’

“Honey, I’d never seen a man look at a woman the way Fisher looks at you. I may be old, but I ain’t blind.”

“How does he look at me?”

“Like you’re his whole world and he’d rather die than not exist in yours.”

🧲 First person dual POV
🧲 First on a series
🧲 Ex’s dad
🧲 Age gap
🧲 Horse trainer / farrier
🧲 Tragic past
🧲 Nicknames
🧲 Insta-love
🧲 Workplace romance
🧲 Spicy 🥵 ‘Good girl’
🧲 Small town
🧲 Someone is sabotaging her training arena
🧲 Well established secondary characters: Magnolia, Tripp (Book2), Waylon, Wilder, Landon, Gramma.
🧲 MC growth: risking a relationship, overcoming past trauma, mending relationships.
🧲 Epilogue & bonus epilogue

⚠️ Injury/injury detail (explicit), fire (explicit), death of a child (past), parental abandonment (past), misogyny (not MC), physical/verbal abuse (not MC), toxic friendship, medical content/trauma (explicit).

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FMC’s ex (MMC’s son) gets in a physical altercation with her, then calls her a whore because she says she doesn’t want to date him — they’ve been broken up for two years and are supposedly friends. FMC’s mother invites the ex to family dinner — without FMC’s knowledge — and everyone is made to forgive him when he says “I shouldn’t have acted that way”. It felt uncomfortable that verbal and physical abuse were forgiven with a quick ‘soz’.

• It’s a trope where that can leave the entire book feeling pointless

if, when the ex finds out, they don’t even care. All the heartache in this book was pointless. And they were worried about the ex after he showed very clearly that he doesn’t care for either MC’s feelings. Weird.

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