romancingthebow 's review for:

Forbidden Hearts by Corinne Michaels

5.0

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I’ve read several of Corinne Michaels’s books over the years but Forbidden Hearts was on an entirely new level. It was filled with a number of my favorite tropes but what really endeared me to it and further brought me into the fan base of Miss Michaels was the use of No Third Act Breakup. I think it’s a rarity to find authors who can bring depth, emotion, and growth to their characters and their characters’ relationships without utilizing a breakup or miscommunication or finding some way to send them through hell for the sake of making them have a realization about how much they love each other.

This book is funny, spicy, romantic, but it’s also mature in a way many books lack. They don’t play games with each other, they don’t beat around the bush in communicating, they live a romance that glorifies healthy dynamics instead of the toxicity that is often found within the romance industry.