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My faith in contemporary romance has been renewed. I took a huge break from all things contemporary romance. For a month or so I have solely read historicals because I was completely over the mind numbing brainless drivel I'd been reading. Seriously, I almost gave up reading all together because I'd become so frustrated that every book seemed to be the same and the characters all fell in love in ten seconds within three words of speaking to each other. I felt like I was loosing my mind. Like maybe there were chapters missing to every book I read where the characters actually spoke to each, got to know each other, and were justified in their 'feelings'. So for the sake of my sanity, I took a break. But then I got equally frustrated at how hard it was to find a good historical romance that was clean, that I hadn't already read. I kept reading solid three star books and well, I don't like settling for good when I could have great, so again I began to feel book-frustrated.
Anyway, unto this book. I've had this on my Goodreads to-read list for like 3 months. However, the reviews were mixed as to whether or not it was clean and so I hesitated in reading. For some reason yesterday I decided to try it out and thank God I did! This was so freaking awesome. I can't even deal with the relief and satisfaction that I feel after reading this.
Thoughts:
The attraction and tension in this was so freaking delicious. Like, it was palpable, tangible, thick enough to bite. It. Was. Delicious. But this book was the full package because although the tension was delicious, so was the actual story. Like I've read so many books and combined with the fact that some authours are sort of just churning out the same story, I'm hardly ever surprised anymore. But Penny Reid didn't go with the formulaic, cookie cutter, this has worked before so I'll just repeat it story lines. It was original. Like I could never have seen who Jon cheated with coming. I was legit surprised. I loved that there were actual conversations in this book, where they legit talked lol. I loved Janie's stream of conciousness, and will we ever learn about the Japanese kids and eye contact?
I'm gonna wrap this up because I have part two waiting for me. But all in all this was awesome, it was obvious that time was spent with this, the angst is minimal, so is the drama, the characters are all reasonable. It was quirky without trying too hard. And my faith in the genre is restored.
Note: Clean: sex happens behind closed doors. Only kissing is described. 4.5 stars. I'm not sure if the other books in the series is clean, but I'll keep reading to find out.
ETA: Unfortunately for me the rest of the series isn't clean :(
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