Wild Love

TW: Alcoholism, grief

It all started with Connor and the blonde. Connor and that stupid blonde! And she changed everything for him! Going off the grid into the mountains of the Adirondacks is the only option. Shutting herself off in the quietness of her mother's old bookstore is exactly what Sydney needs Walsh. A place to lay low.

Enter a hunky mountain man Sam Kirkland and his grumpy attitude. Throw in an alcoholic ex-girlfriend, a quick fender bender, a failing bookstore, and a forbidden romance, and you get Sydney's failed attempt at a quiet change of pace at life.

Sam and Sydney's animal-like attraction is hard to hide, although they know that with his situation with Liv and Jay, it has to be on the back burner. They can't be more than friends, but their feelings are electric. Sydney would love nothing more than to just forget Liv but Sam made a promise, and he will stick by it. Will Sydney be able to become the woman that she was before Connor? Can Sam finally learn to put himself first for his own happiness for once?

This story is about grief, pain, and learning that sometimes you need to be a little bit selfish. It's about learning to give in love and not feel guilty about it. It's about learning that you can't always fix people, sometimes it's something they need to do on their own.

This book was good, but not great. The liked the characters and the love story, but again it wasn't my favorite. I appreciated the mentions of grief and the journey into the topic of alcoholism, though I would have some notes for her on it. I enjoyed the male character more than the female character, she kind of seemed a bit stuck up at some points in the story.

I've waited a while to write this review because I kept forgetting to do it, so that kind of shows you how much of an impact it made. It's not super memorable. However, I still will read more of Lauren Accardo, she's a great writer and descriptor.