A review by leni_02
Destructively Mine by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

dark emotional

4.0

"The way he stares so deeply into me, as if he's carving out chunks of my soul and inscribing himself there. If I weren't stubborn, maybe I'd be shy. Maybe I'd blush. But I want to intrude on his soul, too."

Phoebe and Rocky have such a special relationship and I love reading about them.

I also liked that we got a little more expansion of the family dynamics and the different relationships within these two families. However, the mystery behind all the kids' parentage wasn't that captivating to me and some aspects were pretty easily guessable. 

I also feel like Phoebe and Rocky were on the sidelines a lot, and the most interesting arcs, given to Haily and Trevor, were therefore only barely explored. And the ending also felt a little rushed to me and ended up being a little anticlimactic just due to pure luck on the families' part.

I'm still curious to see how the rest of the story plays out though, and the romance part is still really exciting to read about, so I'm looking forward to book 3.

"It's attractive - how much Rocky can read into my actions like I'm an open book, when I feel like I've always lived untouched and lost on a dusty shelf. How long has he held the pages of who I am? How long has he loved each messy line?"

"She's been everything to me for too many years. It's been a marriage of both convenience and inconvenience. Of pure love and pure hell, and I wouldn't give up one to have the other. They coexist unnaturally, but nothing about us has ever been normal. So you don’t need to scrounge around for a fucking term for what we are together because there isn't going to be one bone-deep enough that fits."

"Because loving you is a crime I'll keep committing. I don't know how to stop."

"There will never be a day, a night, a minute, a moment, a breath where you aren’t destructively mine."