Ahh, this was rushed, I think is the reason for my confusion.
It started ok, but then there were random things that just didn't make sense or need to be mentioned:
1. Willow talks about only having sex once in her life but never mentions this to Dodge or is never nervous about a 6 year gap.. I would think there would be some hesitation there if you only did it once years ago.
2. She mentions this whole part about loving gardening and how she used to do it to get out of her house when her parents were high and how dodges house needed work.. so obviously, I thought there would have been something down the track, but it never came up again.
3. Dodge had this horrible past with the only girl he dated who cheated on him with his step dad and best friend. Again, it never gets brought up again. He never speaks to Willow about it, and out of nowhere, he had a sister with kids?? 🫤
4. There is no conclusion to this story. The main story is Willow being sold to some guy by her cousin, and he is now hunting her. He never shows up in the story it is never resolved. There is a random hold up at a supermarket, which is over in like 2 paragraphs. No one mentions the tracking device and just goes home like nothing happened.. literally, the next page is an epilogue, and it's just a 2 page Christmas scene.
5. The author was a bit stereotypical. Out of nowhere, she started Willow saying "yes girl" way too much it wasn't needed.
6. I eye rolled so much as every single chapter from Dodge mentioned his penis.. is this guy 15 for crying out loud? You are a grown man. Control yourself.
Some things I did like were the kids. Rommy was a cutie. I wish we had gotten more of her. But i think there needed to be some truama there. These kids lost bith parents, a mother who verballyband physically abused them. And then a ransom uncle shows upnthey dont know and moves them to a new state. There just needed to be some sort of truama for them, especially texas being older and would have seen a lot more.
And I did like that Willow didn't just let Dodge order her around she pushed back a bit.
It was good to have the Ballarat group in it every now and then to link it.
Overall, was ok, but no conclusion and not a cliffhanger just didn't resolve anything except Dodge and Willow with the kids. There was no proposal, marriage, or pregnancy in the Epilogue, just a Christmas morning.