When I first found out about this book, I was intrigued by the idea of an age gap ‘boyfriend’s dad’ type deal. Stuff like that is always fun to read in between High Fantasy books filled with Shadow-Daddies & Fae. I was quick to grab it and start it. At first things were going good.. then it started to slow down, then my enjoyment came to a complete halt. 

It’s not to say that the book is bad, I will start off by saying that much. It’s more.. the story wasn’t quite what I was expecting. I understand the age gap, and I understood Jordan having her teenage tantrums even if I did find them a bit over bratty at times. But what I didn’t understand was Pike having them too at his age, left me (who’s younger than Pike by only a few years) being like “Really, Dude?” 

As with most romance books, you always have one or two moments where  everyone’s problems would have been solved if someone just communicated with the other. This book had more than just two and it got to be a little bit predictable. The story had moments it was going by fast, and I didn’t want to stop reading, and then there was a big moment about 65% through I just wanted to stop and I did for about three days. But A friend said to finish reading it and I will admit I did sit and finish out the rest of the book in one sitting before writing this. 

It wasn’t a bad book, but it wasn’t a great book either, The ending did start to feel a little rushed but I did get enjoyments out of peeks into their lives. This was my first of Penelope’s books, and It will probably be my last. Not to say she’s a bad writer and no hate on her, this story just ended up not being my cuppa tea. 

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