Genre: New Adult Romance
Release Date: June 6th, 2023
Pages: 416
Publisher: Sourcebooks Bloom Books
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Publisher’s Synopsis:
“A delicious and angsty enemies-to-lovers romance in which Noah falls for her new stepbrother, the boy who’s leading a hidden double life under their family’s nose.
Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan lives a quiet, normal life with her mother in Toronto…until her mother meets and marries William Leister, a wealthy and enigmatic lawyer from California.
Noah finds herself moving to LA, leaving her volleyball team, her best friend, and her boyfriend behind. Upon arriving in her new life of private schools and pool parties, she meets her new brother, Nicholas–a college student, and seemingly the typical spoiled rich kid. Noah has no desire to get along with him, especially when she discovers Nick’s secret life of clandestine car racing and street fights. Not to mention, Noah has her own demons on her tail, and doesn’t want Nick’s nose in any of them.
But what the two don’t account for is the powerful physical attraction between them–enough to turn their world upside-down. Can love conquer the dark side of these LA streets, or will Nick and Noah be swallowed by the dark things between them?”
My Review:
I devoured this book in one day because I just couldn’t put it down. I’m officially obsessed and I need the rest of the series!
This is the kind of romance book that I can’t get enough of. This was truly my guilty pleasure and I’m not even ashamed to admit it. The forbidden love, enemies-to-lovers, heart-warming found family, AND with an equally developed, harrowing plot that kept me turning the pages. I loved every minute of it.
This is going to be the newest obsession in the BookTok community. I can’t wait for everyone to get their hands on this one and love it as much as I did. I can’t wait to hear everyone raving about this book and giving it the hype it truly deserves.
It is an emotional roller coaster. The characters’ grief and trauma bleeds off the pages. And their angsty banter is golden. As y’all know, the fierce, overprotective male is my aphrodisiac. Combine that with the equally independent and sassy female and I’m hooked. (When Noah lashes back at her bully … YAS girl!)
It’s gritty, it’s real, it’s raw – and I still couldn’t get enough of it. I don’t even have the words to describe to you why and how much I loved this book – except to tell you that you absolutely have to read this one!
PSA: This book does have some dark/taboo themes and moments, so if that’s not your thing you may want to move along – just don’t hate on the rest of us who eat that sh*t up 😉
Disclaimers:
Huge thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for gifting me an early copy of this amazing story! I voluntarily read and reviewed this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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