4.5 stars really!

Meghan Quinn knows how to start a book that has you laughing out loud from the very start and making it impossible to put down. Ryot we’d met in some of her other books, and of course as she always does, and I love that she does it, she includes people and places from her other stories and series. Like the fact that Ryot is from a small town near Port Snow, the town featured in the wonderful Getting Lucky series. And then he played for the Chicago Bobbies baseball team, home of so many of my favorite characters in the Brentwood Boys series. Myla was a character that had a really rough life growing up, and there were times she totally frustrated me. But it was real the way she behaved, and real in how she didn’t see it always, but her closest friend Nichole as well as Ryot did.

The way this story played out was different than most of Quinn’s stories. In a way it was told through flashbacks, but of course with the present woven in and out as we got to know the couple, their romance, their stories, and how much they really were meant to be together. There was so many emotional moments in this one, I had tears at several parts. Tears I had to hold back at one point because I was on my break at work with someone else sitting in the room where I was reading.

There was also, again as always with this author’s tales, so many humorous laugh out loud moments. One of my favorite things in any romance, or any story really, is snarky and/or clever banter. That started from the very beginning with what was a kind of not-so-meet-cute for our couple. And since this was one of her self published titles, lots of hot steamy scenes as we expect from Quinn. Some REALLY steamy and wild things these two got into.

The end was hard for me to read. So, a tiny spoiler alert here, someone close to the couple finds out they have liver cancer. It was just about 2 months ago we found out my stepdad had liver cancer, and that is not a great thing to have. While my family had a little good news in that it was metastasized prostate cancer, which is a little better than liver cancer, there are still not the best outlooks with that. So that hit a bit of a personal hard note for me.

Finally, my only complaint, is that the book was again really long. Not necessarily saying I can think of anything that could be left out, but it still did feel a little long.

Now I love the paperback cover that has Myla on it too, but I also am probably going to want the illustrated book too! I’m going to need a whole bookcase just for my Meghan Quinn books and the extra copies of each title soon, lol!