This review was originally posted on Addicted To Romance






Custom Love is the newest release of the week and is also the latest installment in her Fast & Furious series. I saw that this one was available at Hoopla, so I decided to pick it up and I am so happy that I was able to do so because of this BOOK. I honestly couldn't put this one down at all. It had so much goodness in this book and I am not sure if it was because it was the narrator or the book itself where I couldn't put this one down. I was completely hooked. Of course, it has a mix of all of some of my favorite elements in romance so it checked all of the books that I look for in a book like this so without further ado lets forge ahead about what was so glorious about this one here.

Custom Love is a story that features:

• Trade-single father, brother to MC President, running Fast and Fury

• Nadia-private investigator, best friend to Bronte

In Custom Love, Trade loses the woman he loved and the one that was the mother to his three kids. And now that the supposed murderer is behind bars, he is trying to move on with is life and helping his kids recover and heal from the loss they have been dealt. Nadia, was stunned when the mother of the one is said to have killed Trade's wife, might be innocent and to look into it. At first, Nadia, is hesitant because of how she is connected to the people involved in the case. But she is a searcher for the truth and has a sense of loyalty towards those involved in it. So she slowly investigates while at the same time has a pursuing interest in Trade and his family. But as clues start to appear that not everything is as it seems in the case, Trade and Nadia search for the real murderer, but what they find is not what they expect and will shoot a blow to all of those involved.



Custom Love was such an interesting book and I definitely wasn't expecting to find such a solid mystery to be solved in this one. It really is what gravitated me towards this story. I do love a good mystery, but honestly, I just wanted to see who the culprit was and it definitely wasn't who I expected at all. It is actually very rare for an author to surprise me like this with the identity of the villain, but Chantal Fernando definitely worked me good in this book and I am more than happy to admit that. There was so much goodness in this book that I just wanted to gobble it all up like it's a Thanksgiving feast. Custom Love has such a wonderful blend of romance and suspense and I was on board with it all. I fell so deeply in love with Trade's kids, and what adorable children they were and added just the right touch to the story. All their antics had me laughing so hard and really added the right flavor of humor and wit to the story to balance out so much of the serious adulting things going on :) I truly enjoyed my time getting to know these characters and all their unique adaptability in the circumstances which are handed to them. The romance between Trade and Nadia was perfect, there is some angst in the story, but it is low angst and it fit my mood to just what I wanted in this romance. Chantal Fernando definitely delivered such a solid, heartwarming story I couldn't get enough of.



Overall I found Custom Love to be a touching romance that balances out the mystery with friends falling in love with each other and building upon their connection. It has sparks of laughter, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and a love story that will evoke all sorts of emotions within you.