Member Review

I wasn't very far into this book before I realized it would turn me into a snot bucket. This book plays with the idea of pain vs. a happy ending, how it often looks like the one can preclude the other. I don't read romance as a whole. I find them sappy and unrealistic as most I've read in the genre don't factor in real human pain and how a happy ending can often seem unattainable or just plain stupid when in the depth of suffering.

This book did not shy away from pain. Does that mean it isn't a romance? It has two very deep love stories at its heart. Barbara Davis really plays with that happy ending trope, stands it in its head. Pushes us deep into human suffering and makes us cry.

And I'm good with that. Because these are the kind of books I love. Books that are real. That make us face what we are suffering or feeling and perhaps put it into perspective a little.