While these characters are from the Maggie Series world, this book can be read as a standalone without having read the first series.
Keely O’Mearáin’s an Irish girl in an American college; a brash but smart fourth-year student headed to a prestigious law school.
Maggie Becker is her new best friend; a certified genius from an ultra-wealthy family, she’s a star law student who served as Keely’s JD mentor last year and now they’re burgeoning besties.
Cole Cantarella is Maggie’s boyfriend, a drop-dead gorgeous law student with long blonde hair and dazzling blue eyes. Cole and Maggie look perfect together—two beautiful people playing house before they get hitched.
When bad news arrives about the fidelity of Keely’s boyfriend, it’s Maggie and Cole who are there to tell her she deserves better. In fact, they might know just the guy...
Max Milton is intriguing. He’s the dark sullen kind; a sombre man dressed in black. Black hair, black eyes, brooding. A man whose cynical demeanor tells you he’s suffered and come through the other side. Just Keely’s type.
Three years ago all three of them overlapped one year at a small private college in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
They all had secrets from Vermont they thought they could escape...
This series deals with poly relationships and contains bisexuality. Love is the central theme and the exploration of what one would do to please their partner once they’ve discovered what makes them tick.
KT Morrison writes stories about women who cheat and loving relationships that go too far—couples who open a mysterious door, then struggle to get it closed as trouble pushes through the threshold.
When Morrison first floated the idea of a Keely book on her blog, I was unimpressed. I'd been less then satisfied with the ending of the Maggie series, in which Keely felt like Max's consolation prize after being squeezed out of the Maggie-Cole-Max triangle. I was also certain--certain!--that Morrison would use a Keely book to soften the portrayal of Maggie. I was ready to be done with the lot of them. But, curiosity is what it is, and I begrudgingly snapped up the new mid-quel. (Sort of a sequel, but it also falls before the end of Maggie, so...) Happily, I was mistaken--at least for the moment. This is the first book of what looks to be another series (and who knows when Morrison will finish it....still waiting for an ending to Cayman Proxy), but Keely is an interesting woman in her own right, and her connection to Max feels solid enough that she may turn out to be a greater prize than Maggie. Also happily--and I confess that I'm just being mean and I'm OK with that--Maggie is (to me) even less likable than she was at the end of her series.
The challenge of a Keely series is that we already know how it turns out. Yet Morrison finds room in Max's well-established character to create interest and even suspense as he find his way into a new relationship while mourning the loss of what he'd had. At some point Keely will need to learn the back story, but I trust Morrison to find an engaging and plot-twisting way to make that happen. But that's for the (hopefully near) future.
If you haven't read the Maggie series, this book could stand on its own. But it would be like eating an Oreo without knowing how much more fulfilling it would be dunked in milk.
I thought this book would be about a helthy relationship between the people Instend the charecters lie to each other about the relationship. I thought it would het better but I read almost 70% and I had to stop. This book made it seem like the only relationship that could be serious is with 2 people. DO NOT RECOMEND!