Tenleigh and Kyland are two teens that live very difficult lives. They live in a town that never quite recovered from tragedy, where they struggled to stay warm and have enough food. Their stories mesh together throughout this book in a captivating way.

There’s always something special about books that allow characters to rise up from tragedy. Mia Sheridan does a great job of putting you into their shoes to enjoy the entire story.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. These opinions are 100% my own.

Kyland
Mia Sheridan

Genre: Romance
Rating: 5/5 ⭐️
Recommended: Yes!

Amazing. From start to finish this book took me on so many emotional rollercoasters and it was amazing. I think after Most of All You, this is my second favorite Mia Sheridan book. I love how strong the female main character was in this.

Read if you like…
* Small Town
* Hurt/Comfort
* Insta-Love
* Plot Twists
* ANGST

This is fairly typical Mia Sheridan. Definitely over the top soap opera, but I have a soft spot for a hard luck story, so I was satisfied!

Lovely coming-of-age story with genuinely kindhearted characters. There’s just this little more I expected and found missing, something that would have glued it more together or made it less predictable. Of course, the love story was, as always with Mia Sheridan, beautiful, yet with all that grime and soot, it felt—to me anyway—a little “too good to be true.”

Beautiful. Heartbreaking. Tender. Hopeful. Inspirational. Romantic.
This story has made me fall so in love with love.

Mia Sheridan has done it yet again and further cemented her place on my favourite authors list.

I was ready to gatekeep my love for this book forever but I guess I'll let my secret out. I read this in 8 hours. That’s all, that’s the review.

Just kidding. I don’t typically race to read romances that have high schoolers as main characters but this book checks so many other boxes that I didn’t care. There are two timelines (we see the characters around age 18 and then 4 years later) and it’s dual POV which always keeps things interesting. The setting is in the hills of Appalachia and the story presents themes of poverty, classism, drugs, and mental health.

Also don’t let the awful cover with a male model on the front scare you away (I prefer the alternative cover for sure) and the book is being rereleased in May 2023. I swear it’s amazing writing, the storyline twisted and I ran through it so fast. Could not put it down.

I adore Mia Sheridan, I love her writing and how she just grabs you and keeps you involved in this book until the end. The character’s in this book and the story of how they became is soo wonderful, chef’s kiss! I cannot wait to read more of Mia Sheridan’s books.

Seeing this book on my shelf made my day!! Thank you Netgalley for the chance to read this ARC.