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A review by itssarahc
Finley Embraces Heart & Home by Anyta Sunday
5.0
Anyta Sunday has once again hit it out of the park with the latest in her Love Austen series.
This is the story of Finley and Ethan, starting when they are fifteen and spanning into their early twenties. They meet when Finley and his mom move into Mansfield, the estate Ethan and his father share. Their parents are engaged and looking forward to them all being one big happy family. Finley is determined to not get along with Tom (Ethan's dad) or Ethan himself, but Ethan is simply too kind for that to happen.
He wavers within a week.
From there, we have a story spanning years as these two boys go from strangers to friends and then fluctuating between friends and lovers in a will-they-won't-they slow burn that leaves you thirsting for more. This book is moderately high angst, but the angst is very well deserved and amazingly well written. There are several scenes that made me tear up and one scene in particular that had me actually crying - which is not an easy thing to do for me with books.
The book also had a bit more steam than some of the other Love Austen books, with their relationship turning physical a bit sooner than I would have thought while still managing the will-they-won't-they aspects. The side characters of this book were good, though I kind of found some of them to be a bit annoying at times. The most grounding part of this book though, aside from our lovely main characters and their relationship, was the redefinition of family over the course of the book.
This book was amazing and I definitely recommend.
** ARC PROVIDED BY GRR FOR UNBIASED REVIEW **
This is the story of Finley and Ethan, starting when they are fifteen and spanning into their early twenties. They meet when Finley and his mom move into Mansfield, the estate Ethan and his father share. Their parents are engaged and looking forward to them all being one big happy family. Finley is determined to not get along with Tom (Ethan's dad) or Ethan himself, but Ethan is simply too kind for that to happen.
He wavers within a week.
From there, we have a story spanning years as these two boys go from strangers to friends and then fluctuating between friends and lovers in a will-they-won't-they slow burn that leaves you thirsting for more. This book is moderately high angst, but the angst is very well deserved and amazingly well written. There are several scenes that made me tear up and one scene in particular that had me actually crying - which is not an easy thing to do for me with books.
The book also had a bit more steam than some of the other Love Austen books, with their relationship turning physical a bit sooner than I would have thought while still managing the will-they-won't-they aspects. The side characters of this book were good, though I kind of found some of them to be a bit annoying at times. The most grounding part of this book though, aside from our lovely main characters and their relationship, was the redefinition of family over the course of the book.
This book was amazing and I definitely recommend.
** ARC PROVIDED BY GRR FOR UNBIASED REVIEW **