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Gray, Mila
3 Reviews
(4)
YA
Emerson was a happy tomboy until her middle-school hockey coach sexually assaulted her. Emerson pressed charges, was publically shamed, and her best friend Jake moved away without saying goodbye. Seven years later, Jake--now a NHL hopeful--returns to make amends. In alternating-perspective chapters (present-day and flashbacks), the two muddle through misunderstanding after misunderstanding. A straightforward, steamy romance with a textbook happy ending.
Reviewer: Jessica Tackett MacDonald
(4)
YA
Didi is a psychology intern at a military hospital. Walker is a patient--a wounded veteran with psychosomatic blindness. Their subsequent passionate relationship is clearly inappropriate but steamy. Neither character nor plot transcends tropes in this companion to Come Back to Me, but fans of slow romances that linger over every swoon, kiss, and (much) more may enjoy Didi and Walker's forbidden love.
Reviewer: Jessica Tackett MacDonald
(4)
YA
In this novel's opening pages, Jessa learns that either her boyfriend, Kit, or her brother has died in Afghanistan. Then the majority of the story focuses on how Kit and Jessa fell in love (and had a ton of sex). Contrasted with the Harlequin-style romance, the characters' grief at the end is startling, but it does give them some substance.
Reviewer: Rachel L. Smith
3 reviews
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