Release date: April 1st, 2021
Series: / standalone
Pages: 551
Genre: Romance
Losing people you love is hard.
Aurora De La Torre knows moving back to a place that was once home isn’t going to be easy.
Starting your whole life over probably isn’t supposed to be.
But a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart.
Checking out her landlord across the driveway just might cure it too.
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❝I don't know how anybody would let you walk away, and it isn't going to be me. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever. Are we clear?❞
I have to admit that, maybe, I was a little too excited for this book, especially when I recently read Under Locke and fell completely in love.
I absolutely adore Mariana Zapata, but the lost two books of her didn't really give me what I wanted.
I loved the idea of this book and I had high expectations because, hello, going to live in the middle of nowhere, meeting a single dad who's tall and muscled and broody? Sign me the hell up!
But the issue I had with this book is that I really missed the romance. This is a long book and, while I usually love slow-burns, the thing was ... for almost the whole half of this book it wasn't a slow-burn, it was basically a no-burn because nothing really happened. We didn't get to see much of Rhodes, couldn't really meet him and their interactions were limited and there just weren't many. So, yeah, getting 270 pages of absolutely no romance really threw me off a little.
It was all about Aurora moving on from her previous bad relationship, trying to build a new life, reconnect with an old friend and going on hikes. That was it and it made me frustrated. I couldn't help but compare this book to Under Locke where that sweet, sweet burn was always present, we could read about their interactions and we could feel the connection.
We got little of that here.
And, so, at around 80 % when they finally get together, it all felt rushed and like they didn't really know each other that much because the first half of the book we got almost nothing out of them.
There was also this weird thing about Rhodes calling Aurora Buddy as an endearment word and ... it was weird. And Rhodes calling Aurora angel and her thinking he's getting her name wrong? That's just way too dumb to be believable.
I did not like the fight Rhodes and Aurora had at the end because it made absolutely no sense and Rhodes overreacted. It really wasn't that big of a deal.
I still liked this book, it was beautifully written, but I just didn't love it as much as the others.
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