I love the enemies to lovers trope...I didn’t realize how much I would enjoy the lovers, to enemies, to lovers trope. This book was SO sweet. Buttercup from Powerpuff girls sweet. Swedish Fish chewy candy sweet. Rot your teeth with one bite sweet. And not in a cheesy, unrealistic, all is bliss, rainbows and candy canes way either.
Angie and Preston are childhood friends turned lovers. They spent most of their time in high school wrapped up in each others space and lives, planning their future together, experiencing new things with each other, and living their fullest lives as teenagers on the cusp of adulthood and forever with one another. Until an unintentional betrayal causes their puppy love to end in firey flames. Turning their sweet dreams of forever together, into constant bickering, arguing, and fighting. Both in their personal lives since they all share the same friends, and in their professional lives since they also share the same occupation as lawyers, frequently fighting on opposite sides of the courtroom. Tired of their decade's long pettiness and fighting, their best friends Nate and Morgan, devise a last resort plan to push them into reconciliation by forcing them, as best man and maid of honor to plan their wedding. They didn’t really believe it would work and Preston and Angie just KNEW that it wouldn’t...but as they say. There's A Thin Line between love and hate.
DL White wrote her ASS off with this book. The amount of character development and exposition that went into this book is crazy. This is the first contemporary romance book I’ve read this year, that focused just on the relationship between two characters, that didn’t leave me feeling like I wanted and needed more. I’ve found that the romance books I’ve been reading this year have left me with wanting more substance. More information about the characters character, more insights into their day to day lives as individuals, just MORE. But with A Thin Line and the way it was written and executed, I was perfectly fine with just following Preston and Angie on their journey to rediscovering their love for one another. The amount of times I smiled throughout this book at just the sweet gestures they showed one another, or feelings and thoughts they had for one another is definitely unprecedented.
I loved how much attention and focus was put not only on Preston and Angie as characters but on their friends and family as well. The detail and regard that was given to the secondary and even tertiary characters really lent itself to given a full and robust picture of who Preston and Angie were which only made it easier to fall in love with and root for them.
This was just an overall SOLID book and I’ll definitely be reading more of DL White's work.