➸ 3 stars

“And I broke every speed limit to get to you.”

Ngl this was super disappointing especially because I LOVE Elsie Silver. This book truly had no plot and what little plot it did have wasn’t very top tier which was a super duper let down. Then you have to consider how slow this book was – if I didn’t have a physical copy of this I probably would’ve DNFed it. For one I wish we could’ve gotten more moments with Cora – I mean I know this is a single dad romance book but God the girl is still your daughter. We really missed out on a lot of scenes with Cora in them in my opinion. Then you have the fact that Ford is DEFINITELY nothing compared to RHETT who is indeed a top tier man!

Now moving on I just wanna say if a book is supposed to be a billionaire romance book the male main character has to at least buy his love interest something or at least support a cause that she cares about because if not it's really lame – reading is supposed to be fictional and not have too much realism in some cases – especially with romance books. Wild Love really went above and beyond with expressing the fictional ideal of how Ford ended up being a single dad though. What Cora did does not really happen literally anywhere even in fictional romance books when it comes to finding out who your dad is. Like this child is 12 and this is not Once Upon a Time when Henry shows up at Emma’s door telling her that she’s his mom. It was just too over the top for me and didn’t truly make any sense.

“Because when you love someone, and you share the mistakes they’ve made with people who don’t love them the way you do, you can’t expect those same people to forgive them the way you do either. You can’t unsay those things or undo that damage.”

Another major thing that bothered me was how many times Ford had to be reassured throughout the book, like dude I get that you’re scared of being a father but go to therapy instead of telling ME! After a while I couldn’t care less about him being afraid about raising Cora – I mean in chapter 30 while he’s spending the weekend with his DAUGHTER he’s literally majorly thinking about Rosie and then immediately goes to Rosie when he gets back. I feel like the reason he’s so scared of being a father is because he is more focused on Rosie. ALSO I don’t like the fact that Cora was going to Rosie more than her own dad. I mean she knew both for the same amount of time so why wouldn’t she go to her dad. Then what's super funny to me is that I reached the halfway mark of this book, well more than half way mark and Cora still hadn’t even met her grandparents yet after wanting to meet them in the beginning of the book. How does that actually happen???!! Let me tell you – IT DOESN’T! How can a book be considered a single parent romance book if the parents don't even spend time with their child!? Is it literally just a freaking romance book at that point. I’ll leave this review with one good thing to say and it's the use of the emails between Ford and Rosie – I thought they were really creative and entertaining.

Small character review:

- Ford: basic but alright and too overprotective at times like your in your 30s CALM DOWN!
- Rosie: annoying at times and nothing too special about her character but when she talked about how much she HATED Ford throughout the years she made my skin crawl because SHUT UP PLS!
- Cora: just downright funny and should’ve been included MORE!
- West & other side characters: I wish they were in more of the book because they were entertaining to read about. I honestly enjoyed West’s character and Cora more than I actually enjoyed Ford and Rosie – LIKE IMAGINE THAT!

P.S. I FREAKING HATE BROTHERS BEST FRIEND AND I WENT INTO THIS NOT KNOWING THIS WAS BROTHERS BEST FRIEND AND I WILL HATE MYSELF FOR THIS FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS!

P.S.S. The more I wrote out this review the more pissed off I actually got at how bad this was!