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dermkat 's review for:
A Ballad of Betrayal and Beauty
by L.H. Blake
It's been a bit since I read the first two in this series but have vague recollections and know that they're always emotional and angsty. Well, the final book is no different and it was so good! It is MFM romance but not truly until later on because we get the story in the past when Key and Dusty grew up together and were in love, and then the present where Dusty and Joel meet multiple times and then fall in love. And this is all without her knowing the two men are best friends and bandmates and the guys not communicating either so no one knew. This is all happening while someone from the guys' past shows up making claims of theft whatever else saying he wrote the songs. The despair some of these people felt at times was palpable; the longing, the hope, the love, the hurt (some religious trauma and rough childhoods), all intense. But it is a romance so things work out. Also, I had forgotten until partway through chapter one that it's set in the late 80s. Excited to see what's next from the author cuz this whole series was intense but really good.
•Dyslexia rep
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