I resolved to let Devin go after years of living in limbo as his secret sidepiece, even though I was his original girlfriend. Appeasing my brother, his family, and everyone who would judge us for our six-year age difference. I was the older of the two of us and used to babysit him at one point.
Our lives were too messy and he fell for the woman who was supposed to be his beard, after he got her pregnant with his baby. Yeah, I was so ready for the new year and my resolution to leave Devin behind for good.
I’ve been in love with Victoria Mercer since I was twelve years old, and she babysat me for the first time. That was only one of the reasons we could never make it work. My best friend being her youngest brother was another. Then there was my wife, and the baby she was never supposed to be pregnant with. I let Victoria down while trying to hide our secrets, and now that everything came out, I had an uphill battle to try to right all those wrongs.
New Year. New Resolutions.
No more rumors and secrets.
Victoria would be mine and we wouldn’t be hiding it any longer.
*This book does contain CHEATING. It is a standalone story in the Loved for the Holidays Series. If you are not a fan of cheating by main characters, then you should NOT read this book! There are other potential reasons that you might want to see the author’s note by using the “look inside” feature.
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XO, Anne Storm
˚triggers may include: foul language, violence, cheating, sex between H and h, sex between H and others, h and others, and nudity described on the page. There may also be sexual situations involving chocolate sauce, and disturbing, dark humor. This is a general warning. Something not listed here, might be found inside a book too (some of the things listed might not be found in a particular book at all).
A bit of a mess only because I think reading the prior books is helpful. Which I did not. There are overlapping characters and stories here from the previous books. Obviously the h wasn't treated well by her family. And there were reasons. And because I didn't read Ghosted by Texas I think it's called you get a feeling Jordan, the best friend of the h's younger brother is good when she's not. So you'll probably feel like you're missing something without reading the other books in the series. Honestly what I got out of this is you should never date a younger man 😂. They're immature. h is 29 and H is 22. I usually don't do reverse age gap because it's not my thing, but decided to give it a try. Meh. I would never date anyone younger than me which is why I don't read books with the h being older. Just my preference. Initial plot is h is keeping her relationship with the younger H a secret from friends and family. They both were stupid to have him fake date the ow Justice so she can keep seeing her father's best friend. Which I just didn't get 🤷.
Safety: Fake dating, fake marriage, sexual assault of the H. I don't want to blame the victim, but he put himself in that position because he started getting too cozy with the ow who he was fake dating for a year. He acted immaturely and she hooked him.
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Oh my this book was everything I wanted and didn't know I needed. It had everything betrayal, misunderstandings, drama and more drama, heartache (I cried), angst, OW gets hers lol, and so much more.
Oh my this book starts out with a bang and doesn't let up. Devin he makes a huge mistake if thats what you want to call it and he totally crushes Victoria. Secrets are NOT the best policy! All I'm going to say is stick it out because they truly do get a HEA!
This has got to be THE MOST lacking-in-common-sense hero I’ve read in years. I found him on dictionary.com: “Stupid is the most general and most insulting term, and can describe someone lacking in intelligence, wisdom, prudence, or mental quickness.” Very un-pc but, well, this is him to the T, so….🤷♀️
“She's not a home wrecker." The fact that he jumped to her defense , and so quickly, pissed me off. "Right, because she's not carrying a married man's baby and she didn't marry my boyfriend behind my back after sleeping with him. No, she doesn't meet the definition of home wrecker at all.”
“I didn't even understand why I felt so compelled to stick up for Justice {ow} when I knew what she had been up to. In some warped sense of responsibility to the woman,”
“The marriage part was a panic response to finding out I might have cheated on you and gotten her pregnant as a result. The logistics of that being possible didn’t even set in until much, much later, Vic. ”
Just a fraction of the idiocy this man is capable of.
The heroine is a numskull as well. The worst whiny woe is me kind. Doesn’t seem like she’s matured since she was his 12 year old self’s baby-sitter They deserve each other. “I was truly on my own thanks to my inability to process all the bullshit in my life.”
I’m struggling with how to rate this one 🫣 I think I’m sitting in 2.5 stars rounded down.
For me the story had too many plot holes that stopped the flow of the story. Add to that the need of a good edit, it just fell short for me. I really hate leaving bad reviews but when you pay good $$ for a book and come out frustrated because of lack of editing. It’s kind of disappointing. (And I have read all 3 in the series)
This was a good story. It took a bit to understand the main characters and the many secondary characters.
The plot of this book is a little bit in the fantasy world as it’s not something you would see outside a book or movie. It’s definitely not a fairy tale! The main characters were no Cinderella or Prince Charming but are portrayed as real people dreams, flaws and all.
This story is about their journey from the chaos they created to their HEA!
I never not like any book from this author you got me out of a little reading slump with his one read it I half a day.mloved his one it's a short book but there is nothing lacking in the script loved this one
Cheating = H woke up naked next to OW and OW later claims pregnancy, so H immediately marries OW. Not entirely clear on actual cheating, but we learn the H had video that should prove/disprove if he actually cheated. H also mentions in inner dialogue how he woke up with "stuff" coating his peen. H reviews the video and it's said that the H was only calling out h's name, soooooo I guess he did the deed truly with OW but was so black out drunk he was calling h's name thinking he was actually with the h?? I guess....like I said it was not clarified too much, but I will infer based upon video and peen coating that he did indeed do the deed....h made the point VERY clear that it should have never happened and the H was always knowingly putting himself in situations that gave OW many opportunities to take advantage of H and often did.
h sees H with OW = h is older than H who was bff's with h's younger brother. h and H were dating secretly, so H fake "dates" OW so that she can be a beard for H & h, but also OW is boinking her dad's bff, so it helps her cover as well....h has to repeatedly, like over an almost 2 year time period, watch the H and OW be all lovey lovey, holding hands, intimate looks, intimate gestures, intimate/romantic dates, etc.
OW drama = surprisingly (NOT) come to find out that OW had scheme to get the H and keep him. OW played the H like a fiddle and he was TSTL until the h finally had to read the riot act to the H to get hi to wake TF up. Comeuppance? OW gets called out for pinning pregnancy on H and the fake marriage. She ends up ostracized and struggling.
Grovel = both H and h had a grovel due to the other. h needed to get over the reverse age gap and fess up to her friends/family about her love for the H. Now the H?? He had waaaaay more to grovel for as he made many mistake (worst being sleeping with OW). The h and H struggled with communication but it all gets resolved.
This would have been 5 stars, but there were some continuity issues and more editing needed to errors in the books that distracted (like H throwing ring across the room, but a few sentences later he is still wearing the ring and throws it down on a table). Love this author and this was a juicy read.
I would have loved for the H to have to face more of the music for sleeping with the OW by the h, but it seems to have been piled under all the other issues they had and not truly hashed out with video being reviewed by h and confronting if OW was more sober, drugged H, etc.
Always an auto buy for this author and always anxiously waiting for the next!
This book was a mess of bad editing. Notes left in. Scenes that were repeated, but were slightly different. Did the guy have on two wedding rings because how did it get thrown twice?? I need to stop reading this authors books under all her pen names. I fall for the good reviews every time only to be let down. There is NO cheating even though the author tags it as such. The hero is RAPED. He was drunk, taken advantage of, and called the heroines name out. She needs to change the tag from cheating to sexual assault of the hero. The book is confusing because you’re supposed to know all this backstory, but it doesn’t say the book is not a standalone in this series. So you’re left trying to piece together the side characters and their stories to make what’s going on make sense. I’m mad I paid $4 for this mess since it wasn’t on Everand or KU.
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This one was meh! I felt the h was juvenile in her thinking and reasoning to keep her relationship a secret. The h, Victoria is the oldest of the Mercer siblings and by far the most infuriating and childish. I didn't enjoy this one like I did with Cupid Broke My Heart. The writing is good, but the story frankly sucked. I give this one 2.5-2.75 ⭐️⭐️
I don’t understand how this author can write amazing books then the worst books I’ve ever read in my life. I wish I could go back in time, scrub my brain with bleach and get a refund for this pile of ick.
Every character is incredibly immature and idiotic. This follows the same family, the Mercers, as the first two books and all these siblings are TERRIBLE people. They supposedly have parents that have a wonderful marriage so why each one of them cheats, lies and emotionally abuse their partners is beyond me. It also goes BACK in time and talks about events that already happened in the first two books so that was annoying as well.
I hate paying for a book to only re-read entire chapters on scenarios that already happened in the first two books. This goes on the ENTIRE book.
We have Victoria (FMC) a 30-year-old woman in a secret relationship with a 22-year-old, Devin (MMC). They have been dating for two years but he chased her a year before that so it started as a 19-year-old and a 27-year-old.
I am sorry to yuk anyone else’s yum but EWWW.
What in the WORLD does a 27-year-old woman have in common with a teenager? Legal? Yes, but still gives me creeps. If it were a man, I would say the same damn thing. I like age gaps but when they are under 21 it just seems way too weird to me.
They date in secret because Devin’s best friend is Victoria’s little brother and because she’s embarrassed, she’s fucking a younger guy, I guess. While HIS family is super rich and would apparently cut him off and hate her.
Devin has a “in public” fake girlfriend Justice, also 22 years old and has for almost a year and a half. Honestly the fake girlfriend part makes NO SENSE the entire book. He’s not famous. He could have pretended to be a single young man from 20 -22 and absolutely no one would have batted an eye. So why have a girlfriend and a fake girlfriend almost the same length of time?
Justice (OW) is a nasty POS and is in this fake public relationship with Devin because in secret, she is fucking a 43-year-old married man, a friend of her fathers. Another EW.
Victoria finds out Devin lied about “nothing ever happening with Justice” because she walks in on them talking about how Justice is pregnant with his baby and Devin admits he married her the instant he found out she was pregnant. Like went and got married by a instant J.O.P the same hour.
After Victoria runs away, in which Devin does not come after her but gets comforted by his little nasty wifey, we learn it MAY NOT EVEN BE DEVIN’S BABY BUT HER MARRIED LOVERS. But she begged Devin to marry her to make it all look legit so she wouldn’t disappoint and get disowned by her parents. At 22 years old? Give me a break.
Even better Devin barely remembers sleeping with her and isn’t sure he did!
He was jealous that Victoria was out on a fake date her mother set up so got revenge by cheating. Justice (OW) of course causes all kind of problems and LOVES that Devin cheated on Victoria with her.
In fact, she set the whole thing up, apparently she's wanted Devin or his brother Dallas since high school so some how they thought a fake relationship with a homewrecker wouldn’t turn into this? Make it make sense author.
This was written in 2024 folks. Not the 1940s. So why do authors keep writing characters that HAVE to get married to their one-night stands (yup, they only fucked once bare) because they knocked them up? Give me a freaking break. These women also have ZERO self-esteem, no backbone and major BBS.
Even better, Devin blames Victoria for him cheating. The whole fucking book. If she wouldn’t have kept him a secret, he wouldn’t have cheated. If she hadn’t kept him a secret, he wouldn’t be married. If she didn’t keep him secret, he wouldn’t have a fake girlfriend. Nevermind that he didn't object and went through with it for a year and a half (or two if you count his entire relationship with Victoria).
He paraded Justice around on fake dates and in public acting loving on her for over a YEAR then when Victoria goes on ONE fake date to appease her mother he cheats on her (we learn she never went!). He took Justice to dinner, parties, movies, Farmer’s markets, art shows all in front of his “real” girlfriend who he supposedly loved. He even recounts how much Victoria would look pained or hurt or would leave early when he was busy flirting his ass off with Justice.
Absolutely ZERO responsibility and emotional immaturity which I guess is about right for a 22-year-old.
Of course as the book goes on Devin lets himself be manipulated by Justice (OW) even more. She tells everyone they’re happily married, she’s pregnant with his baby and she even moves in saying her parents know she's married with a baby so now she's his responsibility. He BARELY fights back There's times when Devin tells Justice he doesn’t want this but in the end let’s her do whatever the fuck she wants anyways.
He gaslights Victoria the whole time saying his marriage means nothing so she should just ignore the fact that he’s married to another woman. He even wears his wedding ring. She gets mad and he throws it. The next time she sees him, he's wearing another ring. He won’t let her call Justice a homewrecker and defends her. Of course, Victoria keeps sleeping with him despite now being the OW since ya know.... he's married.
Justice (OW) also supposedly burns the prenuptial that Devin had her sign during their quicky marriage because in this stupid land of make believe, he never filed it with the courts or made a copy and she stole it out of his safe. She also steals $5k from him. Instead of having her arrested he threatens her with security cameras in her house then while negotiating with her, he agrees to more fake dates with her because she promises to have a fake fight and move back in with her parents and sign his annulment if he does this. ROLLING MY FUCKING EYES.
Of course, Victoria sees them acting all loved up on this date so ends up talking to another man a previous character (Jordan- OW from 2nd story) invites along. Devin gets jealous (despite the fact he’s let Justice eat off his fork, touch his lips and rub up on him) and Victoria breaks up with him. Again.
The next day, Devin’s on date with his pregnant wife. Again. This time with his parents. Devin chases her and accuses her of ignoring his calls and texts. Finds out Justice blocked Victoria’s number from his phone. He also tells her he told his parents the truth about Justice and his secret relationship with Victoria and that HIS parents blame HER and hate HER for putting DEVIN IN THIS SITUATION.
But as it turns out he didn’t tell them the baby is probably an older married man’s and Devin knows this because Justice is way further along than she would be if it were Devin's baby. Victoria points this out and of course Devin once again, sticks up for Justice and makes Victoria feel like dogshit.
Then they spend weeks apart while Devin is trying to solve his issues.
So what happens to resolve this? Almost nothing until the end. That’s right. ALL THIS SHIT KEEPS GOING UNTIL ALMOST 90% OF THE WAY THROUGH THE BOOK.
They both tell their families who surprise, surprise don’t care that they’re dating and tell them they should have been honest from the beginning.
Devin bribes a local news anchor to let him put articles in the paper (basically love letters) to Victoria all without saying her name.
Then he invites half the town and all their families to a bar and admits he loves Victoria and always has. He also says he was never really married to Justice because like the pre-nup they never filed the marriage certificate and he only JUST realized that. (WHAT?!) He also outs Justice for sleeping with a married man and tells the married man's wife that the baby is his. Devin also filed paperwork to kick her out of his house since the marriage wasn't valid.
The End.
To wrap up side stories-
Oh, and Devin finally remembered he has cameras in his house (despite threatening Justice with the cameras many, many, many times) and goes back to watch if he slept with Justice. He did. He was VERY drunk but slept with her while calling out Victoria’s name and slurring.
*** In addition, some reviews are calling that sexual assault but I’m not sure it is. He admits several times where he felt angry and resentful at Victoria that night and feels he slept with Justice out of revenge. He also willingly got drunk with Justice commiserating about their partners screwing them over. He woke up and had to wash P juice off his d*ck. When his attorney brings it up at one point saying there might be a case for assault, Devin says he highly doubts it. So it's up for readers interpretation.
Epilogue 22 years into the future, they're sitting on the porch, where they talk about how they might have grandkids soon with their college age son who they got pregnant with right away after they got back together and their high school daughter.
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It was not so bad as I expected. The angst is good but I couldn’t actually feel it. The heroine has been dating secretly for two years the younger hero, who’s also her lil brother bff. He’s also fake dating another girl his same age so he will cover better their relationship and he helps him fake gf that is also having an affair with a married man who’s her dad bff. Yuck double yuck, this is a recipe for disaster. The hero is very young, barely 22 and the heroine is 29. The difference is not huge but at their age it is, even if reading the book I often thought the heroine was the more immature of the couple. He’s been asking her to come out because he wants to be free to date her publicly, but she doesn’t want it, she’s afraid her brother and her family won’t like it. So he’s basically her dirty little secret. Lol! The book opens when the hero tells the heroine he’s got his fake gf pregnant and married her because her parents threw her out when they knew she was pregnant. Ok, I admit I rolled my eyes more than once, he’s 22 but Jesus, who on earth nowadays marries a girl because she’s preggo anymore. Thank god in my country you need to wait 30 days since you file for a wedding. So, what happened here. The hero was jealous because the heroine was out on a date that her mother asked her to go, his fake gf went to his house and got him drunk, he woke up and didn’t remember anything. Weeks later she told him she was preggo and he married her basically the same day. Dude, she was having sex with a married man all the time. And he didn’t remember anything. There are a lot of angsty bar eye rolling moments when the hero and the heroine meet and he’s with his wife, wife he’s not having sex with, so the heroine is hurt, he follows her, they blame each other for what happened and so on. Basically he did have sex with ow once, because it was recorded on the home security cameras, but he was not conscious and there’s the suspicion that she drugged him to trap him. - ow is of course awful and trying to trap him because her lover wouldn’t leave his wife for her. She also tries to blackmail him more than once. She is liar, conniving bitch and even a thief. - the hero is dumb. He was young but he is unable to think clearly, since he didn’t even have a dna test done before marrying the bitch and he often goes along with her bs, hurting the heroine. - the heroine is not nice too. She kept him secret. She didn’t want any worries so she stringed him along. There was no reason why, after the first couple of months, she couldn’t tell her family she was dating the hero, he’s not a baby and her bother would have eventually accepted their relationship. She was also selfish and very nasty with one of their brother wife, because she trusted the wrong person. - the cheating happens, sadly, and imo it wasn’t necessary that it really happened. The hero has been drugged because he doesn’t remember anything , but refuses to have a test to see if something was in his blood. I understand he was traumatized but he should have done it anyway. Even if he was not drugged he was drunk out of his senses, and ow trapped him because she was already pregnant with om child. I don’t like that it could have actually been his child. - there’s a big gesture on his part with all the revelations of all the dirty secrets so everyone have their due. It was ok, but the heroine forgave him too easily, not only for the cheating, that was rape, but for the marriage, for going out with his wife more than once, for his lies to her. - there are many mistakes that made me think the book lacks editing. The heroine pov is first person, then it’s third, and then it goes back to first, all in one chapter. In another chapter there’s a note that the author never deleted. I paid for the book so I expect it is at least clear of mistakes. Two stars because I was able to finish it, I wasn’t too sorry for the heroine, she’s a selfish bitch and she treated the hero as a dirty little secret, and I didn’t like the hero because he accepted it for two years and was in a fake relationship with another girl to cover her affairs with a married man. They are all very dishonest and false, I couldn’t empathize. The cheating could have been avoided and turned into a perceived cheating, with ow trying to drug and rape the hero, and it would have been good enough, but sadly the author decided to make him cheat for real, even if there’s no consent on his part and to me it is clearly rape. I am always sorry when a man who’s been abused is underplayed, with some nasty comment such as he should have been more careful, because this is what has always happened for women in the past when they were raped. A victim is a victim and there’s no excuse for the abuser even if it’s a woman. Ow was clearly trying to trap him and she got him drunk and drugged and she abused him. There’s no way she should go unpunished. Many characters of this book are from previous books of this series, so it’s better to read the previous books to understand what happened in some parts, but it is a standalone so you can read it without the others.
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Contemporary romance, brothers best friend, OW drama. Reverse age gap, 7 years, and I’m only mentioning it because it plays a role in how the events played out. This story follows Austin and Victoria. His best friend is Dallas, Victoria’s brother. He’s had a crush on her for forever. With the age gap and brother thing, she was hesitant to go public with their relationship so she proposed he fake date a friend of his (the manipulative and conniving OW in the story) and then behind closed doors they would be together. She believed this would work because the MMC told her the OW was involved with a married man so she was also looking for a relationship that would hide who she is really dating. They did this set up for two years, the FMC falling madly in love with the MMC during this time, when everything went to absolute shit.
Our book starts at the point it all goes to hell in a very messy way. The OW is pregnant, it’s revealed her and the MMC had slept together even though he has no memory whatsoever of that, and instead of coming clean to the FMC about the fact that this may have happened and she’s pregnant, he marries the OW.
And it’s nothing but drama until the end when all is resolved, and they get their HEA.
Listen, I get fiction and storytelling and all that good stuff, but this was so ridiculous. I loved the OW drama but the MMC was the biggest idiot on the planet. None of his decisions made sense and of course after the fact for literally everything, he was like oh I wish I had done this or wish I had done that.
This dragged so bad and was so repetitive. Literally the same conversations were had over and over again. I started by liking the FMC then even her actions got to be utterly ridiculous and annoying and so I didn’t like her. Not sure there was one character in the book I did like to be honest.
The OW getting her comeuppance was the reason the book got two stars instead of one. This review is crazy for me to write considering this book is part of a series containing Ghosted by Texas which was a 5⭐️ read for me and was the book that started my love of reading OW drama. In fact, the OW from that story is in this book and we see some things from her perspective. That alone should have made this book a shoe in for me but it just didn’t work.
We’re off to an amazing start with this convoluted mess 🤦🏽♀️
Their reason for hiding the relationship was stupid. Very much so. There. I said it 🥱
For someone that 29 going on 30, Victoria is very immature
My thoughts 💭 on highlighted parts of the book 👇🏽
“I should have known if she didn't have any issues carrying on a clandestine relationship with a married man, especially one so close to her own family, that she would have zero qualms about sleeping with her fake boyfriend – my man.” Why would you think this would be a good idea? 😒
“I'd been in love with Victoria Mercer since the day I met her when I was 12-years-old. My chest cracked wide open thinking that today would be the last time I saw her.” What a way to show her you love her 👏🏽
“Our child will always be a reminder of how she didn’t mean that much to you.” The bitch isn’t lying ����🏽♀️
“If you two get back together, you'll have to hide that until after the marriage has officially ended or everyone will think you were the other woman who broke a marriage up." Why would she want to get back together with him anyway 😤
"No, actually, that just means I need to up my game and fight harder!" Why would you fight for a man that you shouldn’t have to fight for? One that isn’t even fighting for you 😕
“I needed you to be mine 100%. Out in the open. In private. Just mine.” And because of that you thought a good idea would be to fuck someone else?
“She flounced back out of the room as if my whole world being shattered at my feet didn’t fucking matter.” Shouldn’t have put yourself in a position where you fucked her or get in a compromising position to begin with 🤷🏽♀️
“Not only had she burned our prenup, stolen money from my safe, but she had blocked and rerouted my calls to and from Victoria. Her crimes had been adding up, and I’m sure she was careful to avoid swiping my phone in range of the cameras, so there was no proof of that shit.” And you continue to defend her
This was a long monotonous story with two very immature people. They ended up together and thank the fates because they deserve each other!
Man! This story's themes checked all of the boxes to become a perfect read for me, but the story itself had some issues. I got the typo fixed version, so I'm not even talking about that. It pains me to say this, because I love this author, and her trigger worthy stories are usually 5 star reads for me. But this story had quite a few ridiculous plot holes. This story has one of the dumbest Heroes I've ever read before in my life. What a sucker. There are definitely DNA tests that can be done while pregnant (they even talk about it in this story), so deciding to wait for the baby to be born first before getting that DNA test is stupid. The whole reason for the Hero and heroine to lie to all their friends and family to keep their relationship a secret was stupid (to me) too. So was fake dating other people to keep that lie running. I'm so bummed. This author usually knocks it out of the park for me, but this time, well....
The angst is there, but it's difficult to appreciate it for several reasons. First, both MCs are just flat out dumb and unlikable. They both made a bunch of stupid choices that caused them a whole bunch of unnecessary drama. The FMC was an absolute brat when it came to her family. She did not act like someone who was nearly 30 years old and the oldest 🥴 of her siblings.
Mainly, my problem with this is the hero being a victim of sexual assault, yet still somehow a cheater in everyone's eyes, including his own? Absolutely not. He is 100% responsible for his dumb choices prior to the book starting and the ones he continued to make as the story progressed. What he did not do was cheat. He was flat out raped. If you are so blackout drunk that you are incoherent, don't know who you are engaging in sexual activities with, and can't remember anything after the fact, you cannot give consent. Period. That right there is the reason my rating is low. I would have returned this book and dnf'd if I could have. Unfortunately, I paid for it and read too far into the book before I realized he was taking the blame for his assault and skimmed the rest to see if he ever got justice. He didn't, really. He still believed he cheated and agreed when others called him a cheater. All of the "your choices put you in that position" is some gross victim blaming bullshit.
I really don't know what to say about this book. I didn't love it but I didn't hate it either. Parts of it was really good and then parts kind of drug on. I gave it four stars because it was more enjoyable than not. I do have an opinion though, if reviewers are going to leave 1 and 2 stars please at least say why. I don't think its helpful to slap a low review and not say why. Just don't leave a rating one if you can't give a basis for if. This is just my opinion. I read about 3 books a day some bad some good but you know what? I can't write a book so I don't judge too harshly those that do. Give this book a try. Like I said I liked the biggest part of the book. The angst was on point. Thank you.
Esperé mucho tiempo este libro y cumplió con todo lo que me prometió. Angustia, un héroe imbecil, una anti-heroina incomprendida y solitaria. Le doy las 4 estrellas porque a diferencias de otros libros lanzados estos días se nota que en este hubo trabajo.
(*) En este libro pese a los errores del protagonista sí le creí su amor por Victoria. Esto no me pasó en el libro de Austin, donde hasta el final fue un imbecil.
Anne Storm delivers another masterpiece with Resolving Rumors! Victoria and Devin’s journey is raw, heartfelt, and filled with emotional depth. The story tackles complex themes with authenticity, keeping me hooked from start to finish. A perfect blend of romance, redemption, and second chances. Highly recommend!
This was one dramatic emotional rollercoaster and I ate up every word! I loved getting to see behind the mask Victoria wore to protect herself. I loathed her after Ghosted by Texas but my heart hurt for the pain that she was enduring in isolation. I can’t wait to see how Katy and Dallas’ subsequent stories pan out.
He was definitely immature and never thought how his actions would hurt the people he loved. What bothered me most was the fact he was sexually assaulted (drugged) and it was only mentioned once or twice. I wanted for him to explain it to Victoria and to have a resolution. He did step out of his relationship in the end... 😕
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I wasn't expecting to like her story since I disliked her so much in Becs story. It explained why she acted the way she did. You definitely need to read Ghosted by Texas (my favorite of the series) before you read this one. Looking forward to the next two books in the series!
Age gap storey (woman older). I liked the concept of the story however the MFC was an idiot and did not come across as having any brains. 29 vs 22; where as the MMC thoughts and actions seemed to reflect someone of his age (generalising) this MFC was so lameo and gave spinster vibes.
Now that was seriously crazy drama. Fake relationships, family craziness, pregnancy, and cheating. Wow wow wow. It was a great read. Just be ready for it all. Loved it.