Things We Never Got Over

Cuidado, margaritas a la fuga

Todo comienza cuando Naomi, el día después de su boda, aparece con un vestido de novia en la parte trasera de su coche en un pueblo perdido de la mano de Dios. Obviamente, no era su mejor momento, sobretodo cuando un hombre sexy y gruñón, aparece en la cafetería donde se esta tomando un café para echarla del pueblo. Pero, no es a ella a quien quiere echar, sino a su hermana gemela. Pero él, como es un gruñón eso le da igual. Y si todo esto fuese poco, descubre que tiene una sobrina de 11 años que ha sido abandonada, la roban el coche, dinero...Bueno, lo que se dice un día desastroso.

Pero, tras la tormenta siempre llega la calma y Know Morgan es el héroe que toda heroína necesita.

Un libro en el que el amor y la pasión de los personajes se siente, son adorables y he amado mucho su dinámica.

Y tenemos que hablar, de los personajes secundarios. EL MEJOR AMIGO DE NAOMI, por favor, ese señor es maravilloso. Waylay es genial, una ricura. Y estoy deseando leer el libro del hermano de Knox.

Un libro perfecto, que ha amenzado con romperme en pedacitos y luego los ha vuelto a poner en su sitio, sobretodo gracias a ese maravilloso, genial, perfecto, supercalifragilisticoespialidoso epilogo extendido.

⋆˙⟡♡ pre-reading

I settled on a romance for my next book (to renew my faith in love) but after reading some of the reviews by my GR friends and others I'm sort of instantly regretting my decision.. it's so highly rated though? either way I've bought it so we're going to give it a go, I'm hoping to not add another DNF to this month!

Okay. I had such a love hate relationship with this book. Lets lay it out. Read with caution if you care about spoilers.


Love:
- Naomi is incredibly relatable in some ways. That really really helped me reading this. Examples:

“Sure, maybe I wasn't a ride-with-no-hands or a sneak-out-of-a-sleepover-to-go-kiss-boys fun, or a call-in-sick-to-go-to-a-concert fun kind of gal, but I didn't hate fun. There was usually just too much that needed doing before I could get to the fun.”

“I don't think I talk too much. I just have a lot of information that needs to be disseminated to the public.”

“He was a man with a lot of feelings locked up tight. Part of me wanted to crack him open. The other part wanted to just go back to bed and forget everything for a few hours.”

Please check my kindle notes and highlights for this book.

Five minutes into the episode, I heard a soft snore. Knox had his feet propped up on the coffee table and his head pitched back against the cushion. His eyes were closed, and his mouth was open. I looked at Waylay, and she grinned at me. Knox snored again, and we both giggled quietly.

“The woman might have been pixie-sized, but she certainly had big ideas about how to expand the library's services to the community. It was both exciting and interesting to be part of something that was so focused on helping people.”

lot

such an ass?

“hot, tight channel”

“tight, wet wonderland”

“I almost went cross-eyed trying to keep my release in my balls where it churned.”

Well I didn't hate it 😂

I love a small town romance so a lot of this worked for me - the family, the side characters in town, the kid, the animals, the suspense element, etc.

However Knox was a dick for a lot of this, not in a "grumpy alpha who softens when he falls for her" kinda way, but in the "has absolutely no idea how to speak to or think about humans way". I could list all his faults but there's so many other reviews with actual quotes which do that. Even on the very last page he pissed me off (in reference to pregnancy hormones) "I'd have handled her tears, but probably not well". Fuck off, if she's the love of your life you wipe her tears and hold her until she feels better, especially if she's growing your child or having fertility issues, dick.

It also had my most hated third act breakup reason - "I'm breaking up with her for her own good/to protect her/to keep her safe". Ugh 🙄

This book has all the tropes and ticks all the boxes of everything I tend to hate:
- Dependent girl
- Bossy, rude and controlling guy
- Adults who behave like children
- Break-up close to the end of the book
- Absolutely excessive amount of references to coffee and subsequent moaning about it
- Gay character fully based on stereotypes
- Everyone in the town is hot
- New parenthood
- Poorly written
- Excessively long
However, and almost embarrassingly, I ended up liking and was thoroughly entertained.

Naomi Witt meninggalkan calon suaminya di altar dan semua kehidupan yang dia tahu, untuk menemui Tina, saudara kembarnya di Knockemout, kota kecil di Virginia. Naomi berharap Tina sudah berubah, seiring waktu yang mereka habiskan hidup terpisah.
Namun Tina sama sekali belum berubah. Tina justru mencuri mobil dan semua harta benda Naomi. Bahkan Tina meninggalkan Waylay, anaknya yang berumur 11 tahun untuk diurus Naomi. Kini Naomi terjebak di Knockemout, tanpa mobil, tanpa uang, tanpa pekerjaan dan tanpa rencana hidup yang jelas.
Naomi bertemu Knox, saudara laki-laki kepala Polisi, yang awalnya mengira Naomi adalah Tina. Kesan pertama yang tidak begitu baik membuat Naomi jengkel pada Knox. Namun karena Naomi kini bertanggung jawab terhadap Waylay, mau tidak mau Knox membantu Naomi, setidaknya hingga kondisi keuangan Naomi lebih stabil. Setidaknya begitulah rencana Knox.
Aku tertarik pada buku ini karena cukup hype. Kebetulan ada fisiknya di Perpus Jakarta, karena ebook tidak tersedia di OverDrive/Libby. Seperti ciri khas buku romance akhir-akhir ini, aku ada disini hanya untuk bagian smut