A review by adammm
Always by RJ Scott

2.0

Having read this series over the course of twoish days, I find myself kind of disappointed. The strength of the first two books is that we are introduced to characters with children who suddenly find love. There is nothing crazy about their situations or really outrageous about what happens. Then we hit book 3 and now book 4 and there series has become non-stop trauma porn. In Always, Adam (introduced in an earlier book) suffer from chronic pain as a result of work (firefighter)-related injuries; Cameron is recovering from a bad, extremely public, breakup with a grifter of a husband. Trauma galore, right? Worst of all, the story doesn't really go anywhere after this. Despite getting along relatively well, Cameron's issues with trust and extraordinarily low self-esteem mess up any semblance of a relationship until so late into the book that I don't know why Adam would bother with him, frankly. They also really lack chemistry, which was a complaint I had in the third book in the series as well. Even when there were gestures toward growth, I never really cared enough for the characters to want to root for them. Overall, just a disappointing book.