Sunny Shelly’s Review: Letting Go at 40 by L.B. Dunbar

January 27, 2023 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Letting Go at 40 by L.B. Dunbar is now live!

She didn’t think it could ever happen again. Love that is. And it definitely shouldn’t be happening with him.

Anna Kulis has lost her husband. Their love was a perfect kind of love; a once in a lifetime experience. She never intended to fall for anyone again. Never expected to have this attraction stirring inside her. And she never thought her emotions would run wild for the one man she shouldn’t be attracted to – her late husband’s best friend.

Mason Becker has a secret. As a renowned ladies’ man, he’s been in love with his best friend’s wife for twenty-five years. After his friend’s untimely death, and a period of grief, Mason finds himself in a compromising position with the one woman he didn’t think he’d ever have. And that night leads to complications – namely, a desire for more.

Letting go can be one of the hardest tasks for the heart.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I have been waiting for Mason and Anna’s story since the first Lakeside Cottage book and it did not disappoint!

“Ben was one in a million, but you’re a million in one.”

Anna is Ben’s widow, and Mason was his best friend — who has been in love with Anna from Day One. During the year of Ben’s illness, and even after his death, Mason steps up to take care of Anna and her kids, even though it kills him to be so close to her. Meanwhile, Anna was always ambivalent about Mason. She didn’t understand why he was so tight with her husband, and didn’t like the guy much at all. But during the months he lives with her family, she begins to see a different side to Mason and really gets to know the guy as the fiercely loyal friend her husband had loved.

As Mason and Anna both work through their grief, they turn to each other for friendship and support. Sometimes the lines get blurred, and my heart broke for Mason as he wanted so much to really truly be there for Anna when she was at times just using him to ease her pain. When Anna started developing genuine feelings for Mason, she was tormented by guilt that it was too soon after her husband’s death to be moving on — with his best friend of all people.

I loved how even though these characters are both in their 40s, they are somewhat stunted when it comes to dating and relationships. Yes, Anna is a widow, but Ben was pretty much her only boyfriend and she met him when she was a teenager. And Mason has shoved down the pain of being in love with a woman he could never have by indulging in a series of short flings over the years, never making a commitment. So while they dance around each other for a long time before they finally get together, their relationship is full of miscommunication. He thinks he’s showing her with actions but doesn’t say the words. And by not hearing the words, she isn’t sure of his true feelings. I so enjoyed the journey these two went on and how they finally, finally came together.

Letting Go at 40 was a phenomenal story, but an intense one!

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Meet L.B. Dunbar

L.B. Dunbar loves sexy silver foxes, second chances, and small towns. If you enjoy older characters in your romance reads, including a hero with a little silver in his scruff and a heroine rediscovering her worth, then welcome to romance for those over 40. L.B. Dunbar’s signature works include women and men in their prime taking another turn at love and happily ever. Along with her #sexysilverfox collection, she’s made Amazon Top 10 in Later in Life Romance with her Lakeside Cottage and Road Trips & Romance series. She is also a USA Today Bestseller. L.B. lives in Chicago with her own sexy silver fox.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Make A Wish by Helena Hunting

January 25, 2023 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

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With her signature charm and sense of humor, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Helena Hunting creates a novel about love, family, and second chances in Make a Wish…

Ever have a defining life moment you wish you could do over? Harley Spark has one. The time she almost kissed the widowed father of the toddler she nannied for. It was so bad they moved across the state and she never saw them again.

Fast forward seven years and she’s totally over it. At least she thinks she is. Until Gavin Rhodes and his adorable now nine-year-old daughter, Peyton, reappear at a princess-themed birthday party hosted by Spark House, Harley’s family’s event hotel. Despite trying to avoid the awkwardness of the situation, she can’t help but notice how unbearably sexy he looks in a tutu. Add to that a spontaneous hives breakout, and it’s clear she’s not even remotely over the mortification of her egregious error all those years ago.

Except Gavin seems oblivious to her inner turmoil. So much so that he suggests they get together for lunch. For Peyton’s sake, of course. It’s the perfect opportunity to heal old wounds. Or it could just reopen them. This is one of those times Harley wishes she could see the future…

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Make A Wish is the third and final book in the Spark House series, and I loved the journey that youngest sister Harley went through with Gavin, the hot widowed dad she used to nanny for. This book had a heavier feel to it than the others did, simply because Gavin was kind of stuck in the past as far as grieving his late wife Marcie (who died the day their daughter Peyton was born) and his feelings about making a future with Harley.

Helena Hunting infused this book with her signature charm and wit, and gracefully handled how Gavin came to terms with moving past the love he lost. I also felt that the issues Gavin had with his mother-in-law and her grief were handled wonderfully. Sure, Karen was mean and snippy, but once they really got into things, it was clear that she was consumed by grief herself. And Payton is a wonderful little girl and brought so much to the story.

I went back and forth between listening to this book on audio and reading it, and I adored how Jason Clarke and Stella Bloom brought these characters to life.

Make A Wish is a wonderful story about finding love after loss, and I think it was my favorite of the bunch. And I loved all three books! And the bonus epilogue was a fantastic wrap-up for this series!

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Keep This Promise by Corinne Michaels

January 24, 2023 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

I’m about to lose everything.

My home. My name. My future.

My husband was involved in something that could cost us our lives, and on his deathbed, he demands my daughter and I flee Britain.

I had no idea he found her biological father, Holden James, in Rose Canyon, and that’s where we’d start over.

The moment we see each other, feelings I’d long forgotten rush over me. Holden doesn’t hesitate to care for us. We find ourselves reaching for each other, even when we should hold back. His smile warms me, his arms protect me, and against my better judgment, I fall for him. All the possibilities of a future are threatened by a looming past.

I’m being hunted, and it’s just a matter of time before someone finds me guilty of crimes I didn’t commit. Whatever trouble my husband was involved in won’t evade me forever.

I am trying to keep my promise and stay for Holden, but I don’t know how long it’ll be before we have to run.

My name was Sophie Pearson, but I vanished, just like my hope to ever find love again.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

I’d kind of been hoping that Holden and Addie would end up together before she left Rose Canyon, but I think that Sophie was the perfect match for him!

When Sophie and Eden turn up on his doorstep, Holden is shocked; but immediately KNOWS that Eden is his daughter. He goes above and beyond to not only make their lives comfortable in Rose Canyon, but to protect them from the murky past of Sophie’s shady late husband, Theo.

I loved the crossover of characters on Sophie’s protection detail — especially Zach from Melanie Harlow’s latest book, Tempt!!

Keep This Promise was full of intrigue as the suspense story that started in the first book continued to play out — and eventually was wrapped up. Nice twist, Corinne! Didn’t expect that ending!

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Corinne Michaels is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of romance novels. Her stories are chock full of emotion, humor, and unrelenting love, and she enjoys putting her characters through intense heartbreak before finding a way to heal them through their struggles.

Corinne is a former Navy wife and happily married to the man of her dreams. She began her writing career after spending months away from her husband while he was deployed–reading and writing were her escapes from the loneliness. Corinne now lives in Virginia with her husband and is the emotional, witty, sarcastic, and fun-loving mom of two beautiful children.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Tasty Pickle by J.J. Knight

January 22, 2023 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Title: Tasty Pickle

Series: Everything Tasty #2

Author: JJ Knight

Genre: Standalone Romantic Comedy

Trope: Opposites Attract

Release Date: January 20, 2023

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Surely nobody has ever met their great love while using duct tape to pull cactus needles out of their girl parts on a mountain trail.

Except I just did.

Let me tell you about Axel Pickle.

He’s a bronzed god.

Totally outdoorsy.

Worth half a billion after selling his nature app.

And he hikes naked.

He showed up in nothing but his hiking boots when I ran shrieking onto his private property after peeing on a prickly pear and being unable to put my pants back on.

We’ve been staring at each other’s private parts from the moment we first laid eyes on each other.

But I can’t date him.

I shouldn’t even talk to him.

And why he’s showing up at the hotel deli where I work, volunteering to slice the salami is a mystery to me.

I’m running from a terrible situation, and I need to keep my head down and avoid the world.

But something about the way Axel looks at me gets under my skin.

And this time, no duct tape in the world can yank the hooks he’s set in my wary, introverted soul.

Tasty Pickle is a full-length standalone rom com about the most charming, witty, completely useless hunk of man-meat ever to nature walk au naturel, a skeptical, purposefully underachieving deli worker, and the ghost pepper pickle relish that brings them together with a kiss so fiery that it ends up requiring medicated lip gloss.

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First, I was forced on a hike by my employer.

Then, I got tired and slowed down for like fifteen seconds and somehow lost the group.

Then, I got pelted with nuts by maniac squirrels with a grudge.

I ran in the direction where I thought the group was headed and lost the trail completely.

Of course, I had no cell signal.

Of course.

Just like a horror movie.

I started stress-drinking Gatorade.

Then, I had to pee.

So, I popped a squat.

Apparently on a cactus hidden in the brush.

Tiny spines attached to my girl parts.

And now, I’m on my back, my cactus-impaled vajajay flashing in the sun, my yellow daisy underwear caught on my ankle.

I would like very much to be eaten by a mountain lion.

I can think of nothing else to do, so I close my eyes, lay my head in the dirt, and wish for death.

Then something nudges my shoe.

Uggh.

I ignore it.

Nudge.

No. I’m dead. Death has become me.

Nudge.

“Hey.”

Someone is here. Great.

I open one eye in a squint. A man stands over me like a bronzed god, wearing a backpack, a neckerchief, and hiking boots. And nothing else.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

I have loved the Pickle family right from the beginning, and I’m so glad that JJ Knight has found ways to continue telling stories with the extended family members. Now we have Axel Montgomery, who is a first cousin of OG Pickle Anthony.

The meet-cute between Axel and Calypso Ash is while he’s hiking — naked — and she’s just fallen on a cactus, getting needles in her hoo-ha. Yep. It’s hilarious and awkward, yet these two somehow manage to move past all that and develop a sweet friendship as she’s working at Havannah’s castle hotel opening a Tasty Pickle deli. But Calypso is a former debutante running from her oppressive past, and when she finds out that Axel is a self-made (half) billionaire, she freaks out because of how wealth has controlled her life in the past.

Axel is so sweet in his dedication to not giving up on Calypso. While Calypso hates how restrictive her old life was because of her family’s societal status, Axel can never trust if someone likes him for him or for his money. Their very vulnerable first encounter kind of put them on a level playing field, and they got to know each other for who they are, not the money in their bank account.

This sweet story is infused with all the zaniness that comes with the Pickle family, and I loved seeing Uncle Sherman and John Boudreaux and the rest of the bunch when it came to getting Tasty Pickle up and running. There are a few cameos from Indigo (aka Lilli from Royal Escape), as part of this story overlaps a bit with hers.

Tasty Pickle delivers a sweet bite of romance, steam, and family drama, and I loved how Axel supported Calypso and gave her the confidence to stand up for what she wanted — and didn’t want — from her past.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Zane by Kat Baxter

January 22, 2023 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Title: Zane

Series: The Bad Boys of Saddle Creek #1

Author: Kat Baxter

Genre: Steamy Romantic Comedy

Release Date: January 18, 2023

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Emmy

I am a walking nerdy girl cliche. Smart? Check! On the spectrum? Check! Awkward? Check! Virgin? Check! The only nerdy-girl box I don’t check is “friendless.” That’s because I have the coolest best friend ever—Zane. Everyone in town thinks Zane is just a hot, bad boy inkslinger, but I know better. With me, he’s kind, sensitive and thoughtful. I know he doesn’t see me as anything more than a friend, but when I decide it’s time to lose my virginity so I can finally date and find love, he’s the only man I can imagine asking for help.

Zane

Emmy thinks we’re just friends, but I know better. I’ve been in love with her for damn near half my life. Until now, I could be satisfied being just her best friend. But now that I know she’s ready for a physical relationship with a man, all bets are off. She wants help losing her virginity so she‘ll be comfortable dating some super geek she works with? Fine. I will take her V-card, but I plan on ruining her for other men.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Zane is a quick, no-drama romance between a quirky, curvy heroine and her tattoo-artist best friend, who has been in love with her for years. At only 11 chapters, I read this book in a little under an hour, and it was the right amount of sweet and sexy.

I thought the character of Zane was a little underdeveloped and not as well-rounded as Emmie’s. But oh, I loved how patient, sweet, and kind he was with Emmaline. Emmie is on the autism spectrum, and I thought that Kat Baxter did a great job of incorporating those quirks into the character development and the romance that unfolded between the two.

This book is from a “bad boys” series, but I didn’t really think Zane is a “bad boy” aside from his physical appearance of tattoos and piercings. He was actually a pretty great, nice, sweet, guy, who is utterly devoted to Emmie.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: How to Lose at Love, by Sara Ney

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Release Date: January 19

I needed a good girl to save my bad reputation.

With too much on my plate, the very last thing on my mind was a relationship—the football draft was looming and dating got in the way. I never understood why my teammates bothered with girlfriends. None of us had the time.

When my sports agent suggested that being seen in public with a respectable girl would begoodfor mybadreputation, I couldn’t think of a single person to help me out. The only girls I knew weren’t wifey material, and the ones who were? Might catch feelings.

Except Ryann Winters.

Responsible. Sarcastic. Smart. Ryann was perfect but there wasoneclincher: she was my teammates ex-girlfriend and I had recently beenpaidby him to dump her.

Not the best start to a fake relationship…

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Duke’s brothers (The Secret Roommate) have their own series! Yay! I loved that rowdy bunch when Duke and Posey helped them move into their house at college, and now we get to spend a whole series there and watch the three younger Colter brothers fall in love! First up is Dallas…

Man, Dallas and Ryann really get off on the wrong foot when he’s paid by her boyfriend, one of his teammates, to dump her. That sets up a hilarious hate-to-love situation when she reluctantly agrees to be his fake girlfriend to rehab his reputation. (That idea is Elias Cohen’s, from The Makeout Artist.)

The witty banter between Dallas and Ryann reminded me so much of how Duke and Posey started out. There are some hilarious barbs exchanged between them, and Ryann doesn’t take his crap. That makes this book a whole lot of fun. It’s flirty and sexy, and I love a good story when a guy who has zero desire for a relationship falls hard and fast. I appreciated how Ryann didn’t drag it out when she realized she had feelings for Dallas, and they had an honest conversation about becoming official.

How to Lose at Love is a charming, low-angst college sports romance that I devoured in a day, and I can’t wait to see what comes next for the other Colter brothers!

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Sara Ney is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the How to Date a Douchebag series, and is best known for her sexy, laugh-out-loud New Adult romances.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: La Vie en Rose by Lydia Michaels

January 19, 2023 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

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Emma Sanders has always dreamt of being a bride, wearing fancy gowns, pretty pearls, and—of course—falling madly in love. Then life happened. Finding herself one fiancé short of her happily ever after, she leaves the fairytales behind. Some days are simply too perilous for pink gowns and pearls.

Riley Lockhart is the sort of man who can make a woman lower her gaze with only a smile. That he doesn’t realize his charm makes him all the more enchanting. Determined to save Emma the pain of her breakup, he steps in as a friend, but soon finds himself wanting more.

She was just a girl, but she somehow winds up being the strongest woman he’s ever known. Losing her is not an option and when life can’t be tied neatly in a pretty little bow, he holds tight to all that he loves—his Emma. His hero.

Sometimes the greatest scars are worn on the inside.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

This book has a beautiful cover, but the inside is a raw, messy, emotional, yet beautiful, story about love and life that will hit you hard. It’s been on my TBR list for a while and I’m glad that I was able to listen to narrator Brian Callanan bring this story to life.

Riley and Emma’s story starts out as the typical friends-to-lovers trope. He is her best friend’s brother, and the three of them share an apartment in NYC. After Emma is unceremoniously dumped by her fiancé, she and Riley grow a lot closer while Rarity is out of town. It’s not long before Riley begins looking at Emma in a different light. Has she always been this beautiful? He is in awe of her courage and strength, and they soon grow closer and take their friendship to the next level.

And then comes the news that will change their lives forever.

The second half of this book is gut-wrenching. I hadn’t read many reviews, so I wasn’t expecting the cancer twist in the story. As light-hearted as the first part was, the second half of this book made me shed so many tears. I thought Lydia Michaels handled it wonderfully, and as hard as it was to read that part of the book, it was well done and I related to the journey and trials that these characters were going through.

Just Breathe.

After some time passes, I will return to this book again.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Blind Pass by Teagan Hunter

January 17, 2023 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

✯ 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗔𝗩𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 ✯

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘝𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦…

𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗦 by Teagan Hunter

𝘈 𝘊𝘈𝘙𝘖𝘓𝘐𝘕𝘈 𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘌𝘛𝘚 𝘕𝘖𝘝𝘌𝘓 #2

I would know.

I’m coming home with a brand-new ring on my finger.

My wife? Ryan Bell.

We’re polar opposites.

She’s sunshine and happiness.

I’m grumpy and scarred – literally.

We could get it annulled and no one would be the wiser.

Only problem?

We posted about it online,

And it’s already making headlines.

I can’t afford to get that kind of attention and tank my career,

And Ryan needs my help too.

We make a plan:

Stay married for one year,

Play our roles,

And divorce amicably at the end.

No harm, no foul.

Besides, there’s no way the beauty is going to fall for the beast…

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

This is the first book I’ve read by Tegaan Hunter in a while, and I enjoyed this fake marriage romance. Ryan and Rhodes accidentally drunkenly get married while in Las Vegas with their best friends. But because their photo has gone viral on social media, it will help his rep in the NHL for them to stay married. And Ryan is caught between a financial rock and a hard place, so there’s a benefit for her as well to stay married to Rhodes for a year. Then they part ways, easy peasy.

But then…. Lines begin to blur between the two. They both catch feelings, and the fake marriage suddenly feels all too real. This grumpy/sunshine story is loosely based on Beauty & The Beast: There are some really sweet moments between the two, and I appreciated how the scar on Rhodes’ face was a non-issue for Ryan. Narrators Tim Page and Callie Dalton did a great job with Rhodes and Ryan.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Wait For Always by K.A. Linde

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Release Date: January 17

A stand alone brother’s best friend romance about Ash Talmadge & Amelia Ballentine by USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde…

Ash Talmadge is everything I shouldn’t want.

My brother’s best friend. A too charismatic, too attractive Southern gentleman. And obsessed with someone else.

But she’s finally out of the picture. I put two years between their break up just to be sure. This is finally my chance.

His focus is all on me. Exactly where I wanted it to be since high school when he saved me from humiliation. And after college when he finally realized I was more than just his best friend’s little sister.

There’s only one person who could ruin this for me.

I’ve waited this long.

I’m willing to wait for always.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Wait For Always was so worth the wait!

Ash Talmadge finally gets his HEA with Derek’s little sister, Amelia, and it was everything I’d hoped it would be! I have to be honest, when this series started, I really didn’t like Ash much after I’d finished reading Hold The Forevers. I ultimately thought that Lila was better suited with Cole. And that’s because KA Linde was saving Amelia for Ash! The aftermath of all those breakups between Lila and Ash didn’t just affect Ash — it seriously impacted Amelia as well, and it was such an awesome payoff to see that play out in this book.

I have loved how these books overlap in some years, and seeing some of the same scenes from another character’s POV was wonderful. In this book, for instance, we see the yacht scene where Ash overhears Josie and Amelia talking about Lila’s engagement. A great scene!

Ash and Amelia’s story is bumpy as hell. If you’ve read the other Coastal Chronicles books, there have been hints of that. But I think that these two were so worth the wait. Amelia is vulnerable, so vulnerable, at times, and really wavers on whether or not to give Ash yet another chance. He’s broken her heart over and over again. Can she trust him to not break her heart yet again? The Ash we meet in the present-day timeline of this book is a more mature man than the guy from HTF, and he is swoony and sweet and sexy. He’s a hot mess in the flashback chapters, but those all contribute to the delicious happy ending that Ash and Amelia finally, finally get.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Almost Us by S.M. Shade

January 13, 2023 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

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Almost Us #2

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Blurb:

“Strip everything away from us and love is what’s left. It’s what we get to keep.”

We thought things couldn’t get worse but the passing days proved us wrong.

I could handle the public backlash and the cops at my door.

I could handle the doubt and disbelief of our friends. As long as we were together, I thought I could handle anything.

As the threats loomed closer, our days together dwindled away. After losing everything that mattered to me, I had to ask myself how much sacrifice was too much?

How far would I go for him?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Ella gets her happily ever after in Almost Us, the conclusion to the Almost Duet — but there are some twists that this story takes along the way. Just when I thought I knew where things were headed, the story took a turn that left me a little flabbergasted, to be honest.

There’s so much I want to say about this book, but don’t want to ruin the experience of reading it for others! Almost Us is angsty and emotional. I didn’t cry the way I did reading Almost Him, but it still pulled at my emotions. It’s full of grief, love, loss, wanting, and guilt, and is a sweeping, epic love story in the end.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

ABOUT S.M. SHADE

I’m a full time author who is hopelessly addicted to iced coffee, love stories, sunshine, and men with full sexy lips, though not necessarily in that order. A voracious reader since I sounded out my first word, I started writing as a teenager and rediscovered my love of writing as an adult. Originally from Indianapolis, I now live in a small Kentucky town.

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