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Melissa Brayden is easily amongst our top five favourite
lesfic authors. Her books are always well-paced, chemistry between MCs is
crackling and romance is tingly. Her MCs are sweet and their friends and
families usually fun. Sometimes the angst is forced, but if there has to
be a formula to be followed, this is inevitable. Sadly, this book falls a
little short of the usual.
This book is no exception to the happy, uplifting romances
that Brayden writes. Emory and Sarah are likeable women. The struggles for
these two as a couple are a little more than the usual Brayden: Sarah has
always been straight, she has a daughter, she is not out and doesn’t know when
she will be; Emory is emotionally arrested, has an intrusive and insensitive
ex-turned-best friend and quite a ridiculous sibling.
There are some really cringe-worthy scenes in the book,
though. Like the unnecessary underlining of their financial differences in a
scene with a glass of wine, the scene where Lisa (the ex-turned-best-friend)
throws a surprise birthday party for Emory without bothering to inform Sarah
despite knowing about their relationship followed by Emory trying to hide Sarah’s
nature of work with her friends, the one where Emory dictates Sarah that she
should no longer do the work that she has been doing and most definitely the
scene where Emory cruelly breaks off without any really valid reason.
Despite these, Brayden somehow makes this book a sweet
enough romance. Plus, the sex scenes, as always are hot. Definitely not our top
pick of Brayden’s work (that would be Sparks Like Ours), but Sarah is so
sweet that we recommend it just for her.
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