Take Me

Thank you to the author Jen Trinh for a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I plowed through this in a single evening, and I loved it.

You might guess from the title and the cover that TAKE ME is a love story. And it is. But what makes this book stand out is how love doesn't exist in a vacuum. It ebbs and flows, and many feelings can exist at once. The two main characters, Cassie and Tom, have to overcome work stress, living on different coasts, and perhaps the biggest unknown – Cassie's marriage, to another person.

What I love about Jen's characters (throughout all of her books) is that they're often going through personal growth in addition to their romantic journeys. They have emotional depth and range that make them, at times, infuriating, hilarious, willful, passive-aggressive, and obtuse. (In sum, human!) TAKE ME is more of a slow burn, but the steamy scenes are worth the wait