Ah!! This book is my new favourite book, in a favourite series! The pining! The longing!

This story was going along, feeling good. We had some hurt comfort backstory, a re-meeting, so many hand clenches and intense gazes… and then. AND THEN—

Literally the hottest and most emotional library scene ever. How was it so hot? And so emotional? I kept glancing down at the page number because I couldn’t believe a scene with that much intimacy was happening that early? And pulling it off?

These characters were just so unique! And their compatibility was so intense that it was squeezing my heart to bits!

Our heroine Necessity was a self-made business woman from the wrong side of town. She was ambitious, irreverent, intelligent, and she was hot and she knew it. She was just.. cool! I’ve never read a romance heroine like her.

And Oliver was more than just your average scarred and reclusive earl. He had this over-thinking and obsessive personality and I loved the way Necessity made him feel so off-kilter. He was pursuer-y but he also so solicitous? ..flexible? I can’t even find the word to describe it, it was just such a uniquely masculine approach to this relationship.

I love the way this author writes scenes, they’re so cinematic. I’m a sucker for characters who keep something that belongs to the other MC in their pocket (because they’re just so in looove 🥰). I loved the dynamic between Oliver and Xander from the previous book. Plus, this was just a god-tier social class difference trope.