This type of story structure takes skill and finesse that this author does not possess. The author wanted to slowly reveal to the reader what happened between them two years prior in small little chunks. The reader is thrown into Fallon and Madoc’s present circumstances, knowing very little of their past, which is obviously intentional. The way the story was structured made it really difficult for me to get into the romance aspect of the book. « Hide Spoiler Between the stepbrother/stepsister romance, overly vindictive mother, the bouncing boobs, and the mobster father, I just didn’t like this book. View Spoiler » Secret baby, caricature-like villainesque mother, mom comes on to hero, hero’s father cheating on his estranged wife with son’s best friend’s mother, and everyone has tattoos (but it’s cool because they hold deep meaning). This book was fraught with too much of everything. If the rest of her books are anything like this, then she’s not the author for me.

This is the first book by Penelope Douglas that I’ve read. I wanted a good hate-to-love story, but I didn’t get it.

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