Book 1 : SLIP OF THE TONGUE
I turn over. I admit, I couldn’t give a damn how he takes me as long as it’s without mercy. I don’t deserve mercy tonight, and I don’t want it.
You know when we read books to escape? To leave our mundane lives to travel Paris, or find ourselves in Sicily? Well, this book is not it.
This book is more real than any other book, honestly. It captures the essence of what a marriage is, what relationships are, how the daily lives of people are. It's not "travel the world exciting with my millionaire boyfriend" or "being kidnapped by a don". Instead, it is the story of the romance of daily life, the little things we experience living: working, cooking dinner, guys nights, girls nights, relationships with friends and siblings, etc. This story is what housewives imagine, what temptation can bring....
It's heartbreaking to read but so relatable in its realness that you can't put it down.
This is the story of love.
Of how a marriage can crumble.
Of how misunderstandings can arise.
Sadie, Nathan, and Finn can be either one of us. Their story is too real, too believable to only be a tale.
My only regret is that we did not get to see much of Nathan's POV.
Their story is beautiful in its growth that it's hard too stay angry.
At the unfairness.
At all the uglies.
Their tale is one of love.
Book 2: Andrew and Amelia THE FIRST TASTE
Their story is honestly just as great. It's conflicted but more because this is the story of two very independent adults with such a striking connection forged from loneliness. I loved their story, I loved the setting, the conflicts they each faced already having been established in their own rights.
The merging of two very independent people was an amazing thing to witness. Fear and insecurities and their pasts haunt these two amazing people.
I loved witnessing both Andrew and Amelias growth, I really did.
Book 3: Finn and Halston YOURS TO BARE
This, I honestly wasn't sure how to handle. I've been waiting for Finn's story since I met him in book 1. I wanted to see how this romantic guy who still believed in fate finds his story.
I just didn't know how to handle both of them. Halston, for me (though I know it's her character) was lacking a backbone. I think that got to me, a lot. I didn't know how their story would pan out but I felt like it dragged a lot.
The thing that got to me is that their story lacked that peak. It really did. The characters didn't speak to me, not Halston, nor her father or Rich. I think Finn was honestly the only one I could still connect with while reading their story. This is probably due to the fact that in Book 1, we do see a lot of him, his past, his story and I felt for him there.
Just not sure the way Halston and he eventually told their story wasn't lacking. I felt it was. Still a good read, specially if you read the first two.