Sweet ~ Entertaining ~ Unexpected

tl;dr: Love and friendship can be twin emotions, even when your twin betrays you.

Lexi Ryan is prolific and successful, partly thanks to her solid plotting skills. Ryan's stories are fast enough to keep you turning the pages, but with enough character development to make you care what happens in the story. While I have read a few Ryan stories,this is the first one where I felt interested in the characters. This story has strong underlying themes about mental and physical health. This book was very well done, and no fear its got enough spice to keep those who want that satisfied. Enjoyable, fast read. Perfect for those cold midwestern nights.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

When I read this book's description on Netgalley, I hit that request button so fast that I couldn’t get any sleep until I’d read Nicole’s story.

See, I like my romance served up sweet, hot, steamy, kinky, sizzling…anything but a touch of hot and cold and that’s what happened here. Ethan, aka Dr. Jackson, was as inconsiderate as he was trying to be sweet and that right there hit a sore spot.

For how do you go from wanting someone to wanting them gone in a breath? There were so many instances in the story where I felt that Nicole had been belittled all her life and wanted her to get up from being a doormat and just fly.

The up-side is that this book’s got dual points of view, so you get to hear from both Ethan and Nicole and that salvages the human aspect of it. It’s also got great characters who make up Jackson’s family right down to his adorable daughter-Lily.

I’m a sucker for romance and love and will say that it’s quite a read.

I really liked the description of this book and was excited to read this book. I have also heard a lot of good things about Lexi Ryan but had yet to read a book by her. The thing I liked was the dual POV. Sadly that was about the only thing I liked. I really hate when the main female character is a doormat and that’s exactly what Nicole was. I also thought Ethan was kind of a dick. Some of the things he said really made me mad. I had a hard time rooting for him. I’m also sick of single dads in contemporary romance novels not having an issue finding a woman to sleep with, but single moms are basically celibate. Sorry for the rant, I was just pretty disappointed.