This is my first book by this author and I have to say she immediately sucked me into the story! The characters were so good that I was feeling emotions right away, hate and sympathy, and more. The characters grew though, in what to me was a very realistic way, and the romance developed also in what I feel was a very realistic manner. While Hazel and Ian both had their moments of pushing the other away, even in those moments, and when they came together to try to argue with the other one to fight, it turned out in what I felt people would actually do. Normally some of the things that happened I feel are put in a story by authors to just add drama, and then the drama seems to last way behind how anyone would actually behave in real life. However this author kept those things, well I’m using this word a lot it seems, she kept it real.

The story still had some twists and turns and developments that I just didn’t see coming, and I really like when an author can do that! We even got some epilogues that added to what I wanted to know for after the main part of the story. I do kind of wish there’d been a bit more of the steamy times that I enjoy in a good romance, but for the most part I got what I wanted.

Definitely a good first book for me to read, and I hope to get to meet this author at Book Bonanza in 2021!

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.