Tag: contemporary

Book Review, Fiction, Romance

This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune ~ Book Review

Morgan

My Rating: 🍪🍪 🍪🍪
Genre: Romance

I was immediately on board with the premise of This Summer Will Be Different when Lucy arrives for her vacation on Prince Edward Island (PEI) and sleeps with a hot bartender only to find out he’s her best friend Bridget’s brother. Her chemistry with Felix is palpable and when their tryst is cut short I wanted to scream knowing the heat between them was going to be put on hold.

First of all, I recently watched the Anne of Green Gables movie for the first time so I was delighted by all the references to it throughout the book (although there were some spoilers!). The PEI setting was so picturesque and I lived for the memories of Lucy’s annual visits (during which she tries in vain to stay away from Felix). The narrative is split between these past summers and the present, when Bridget has unexpectedly fled to PEI days before her wedding and demanded that Lucy join her and Felix there.

I really enjoyed Lucy – she was fun and felt distinct enough to be believable. Her friendship with Bridget was very special and I loved seeing their closeness.

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Book Review, Fiction, Romance

Twisted Love by Ana Huang ~ Book Review

Morgan

My Rating: 🍪🍪.5
Genre: Romance

I gotta stop getting excited about these super-hyped-on-social-media romance books. Alex Volkov has everything: brains, looks, inexplicable ability to sing, but he’s haunted by demons from his past. Ava Chen is his best friend’s little sister who’s just unreliable enough that her brother asks Alex to look out for her. Surprise, surprise, instead of doing that he sleeps with her.

Alex really did not seem appealing to me. He felt very flat and one dimensional and too possessive and focused on how kinky he is in bed. Both main characters have dark pasts but deal with it in completely opposite ways. I was interested to see how that would play out as the story went on. I will say I didn’t see the twist coming and it added a much needed level of depth and complexity to the story that I appreciated and was exciting and compelling and complicated.

Other than that, I didn’t really care about the characters and it felt like the story was trying too hard to be something it wasn’t (unclear quite what).

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