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Steady Now by Liberty Stowe
4.0
⭐ 4
🌶️ 2
🥵 Spicy chapters: 11, 31, 33, 37, 39
📚 Tropes/Themes: small town, insta lust, forced proximity, single dad, slow burn, small town, starting over, city girl/country boy, lawyer X mechanic
👀 Dual POV 1st person
💔 Triggers: parental neglect, child abandonment, drug use
💬 Well this little book came out of nowhere! I thought it was going to be a cute little fun, easy read to finish out my July ARCs but apparently that was not the case. I mean it's definitely cute and fun and light- hearted but when you really get into the meat and bones of the story, there's a lot more there.
I read a similar book earlier this year and it relied more on being goofy and silly and I didn't really like it a whole lot but I really enjoyed this one. There was a lot more substance to it. The chemistry between Hudson and Wren initially was a little bit too instalusty for me but then it redeemed itself.
The side characters, especially Anderson and Martha were really fun and I loved the small Town vibes. And when the relationship between the MCs really got going. It was sweet, and swoony and everything I look for in a romance novel.
I also really love how you get to learn the meaning the phrase Steady Now holds for Hudson, and how he "gifts" it to Wren as well including all the little occurrences throughout the book.
My only complaint.... Is a wish that Hudson hadn't done the "she's obviously going to leave me no matter what and it's going to break my heart". Sigh. I guess I'm glad that it's the guy who's super insecure this time, but turns out I still hate it lol. Maybe because it's miscommunication trope lite? Either way, that's the only thing that really bugged me about the story. Everything else was enjoyable and I blazed through this book pretty quick.
Oh! And there wasn't an epilogue! I don't think I've read a romance novel that doesn't have an epilogue. It wasn't bad, just... surprising? But I did appreciate the little treat the author left us at the end 😏
🌶️ 2
🥵 Spicy chapters: 11, 31, 33, 37, 39
📚 Tropes/Themes: small town, insta lust, forced proximity, single dad, slow burn, small town, starting over, city girl/country boy, lawyer X mechanic
👀 Dual POV 1st person
💔 Triggers: parental neglect, child abandonment, drug use
💬 Well this little book came out of nowhere! I thought it was going to be a cute little fun, easy read to finish out my July ARCs but apparently that was not the case. I mean it's definitely cute and fun and light- hearted but when you really get into the meat and bones of the story, there's a lot more there.
I read a similar book earlier this year and it relied more on being goofy and silly and I didn't really like it a whole lot but I really enjoyed this one. There was a lot more substance to it. The chemistry between Hudson and Wren initially was a little bit too instalusty for me but then it redeemed itself.
The side characters, especially Anderson and Martha were really fun and I loved the small Town vibes. And when the relationship between the MCs really got going. It was sweet, and swoony and everything I look for in a romance novel.
I also really love how you get to learn the meaning the phrase Steady Now holds for Hudson, and how he "gifts" it to Wren as well including all the little occurrences throughout the book.
My only complaint.... Is a wish that Hudson hadn't done the "she's obviously going to leave me no matter what and it's going to break my heart". Sigh. I guess I'm glad that it's the guy who's super insecure this time, but turns out I still hate it lol. Maybe because it's miscommunication trope lite? Either way, that's the only thing that really bugged me about the story. Everything else was enjoyable and I blazed through this book pretty quick.
Oh! And there wasn't an epilogue! I don't think I've read a romance novel that doesn't have an epilogue. It wasn't bad, just... surprising? But I did appreciate the little treat the author left us at the end 😏