stephanie_inman's profile picture

stephanie_inman 's review for:

Keep by Cora Brent
3.0

TW: Death

Another great addition to Cora Brent's Gentry Generations/Gentry Boys world.

Our POVs in this book alternate between Cami Gentry's fiancé, Dalton and Cassie Gentry's live in boyfriend, Curtis. I thought having the focus be on the two Gentry-by-association characters was great. Honestly, if anything this book made me wish there had been more of these type of novellas, but written in the women's perspectives. One of my biggest (and honestly only) complaints about the Gentry novellas are that I miss hearing from Sayler, Truly, Stephanie, Evie and Roselyn.

This book definitely is full of real life ups and downs. We have a wedding, a death, characters dealing with guilt. It's a bit of a roller coaster, but isn't that what life is? I've always loved that Ms. Brent doesn't shy away from actual life circumstances. Not everyone is wealthy and just totally happy every second. The angst we see in these books is more of a realistic type of angst than we see in so many other contemporary or new adult romances.

And, as usual for this series, the Gentry family shows us just how strong they and that bond of family can be.