BOOK REVIEW: The Truth About Heartbreak by B. Celeste

(The Truth 1)

Author: B. Celeste

Released Date: June 3rd, 2019

Source: GR

Forbidden Romance - Check.
Cheating - Check.
Brother's Best Friend - Check.
Angst - Check.

BLURB

I fell in love with him when I was thirteen years old.

He was older, mysterious, and unattainable. The guy I could never touch.

Then one night changed everything for us. But there was one huge problem.

He belonged to her.

REVIEW

This is the story of River and Everett. When River was 12 she was adopted into this family. This family has a son - Oliver. Ollie and Rhett are bestfriends. The timeline started when River's 12 and Everett's 17 then from their we get to see how their friendship progresses and eventually turns into forbidden love. We get to know the reason why he stays in a relationship and honestly I did not support his decisions, I mean ya it's about expectations but he's a grown up man who can decide what is right and wrong. But ya the dilemma was also the main plot of the story (just sayin) “Our story is just beginning.” No,” she whispers, fingers stroking what little hair rests on my chest. “It started ten years ago. I wouldn’t have it any other way.” - I'm excited for Ollie and Charlie's story ❤️ RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

 BOOK REVIEW: Sweet Dandelion by Micalea Smeltzer

(Standalone Student-Teacher Forbidden Romance)

by: Micalea Smeltzer

Released Date: March 25th, 2020

Source: Goodreads

Dandelion Meadows is cursed.
Horrible name.
Horrible luck.

At eighteen she should be headed off to college, all smiles and naivety.
Instead, a victim of a school shooting, she’s starting her senior year in a new city and living with her brother.
Nightmares of that terrible day haunt her, affecting her daily life and the relationships around her.
Forced to meet with the school counselor, Dani finds him chipping away at the walls she’s built around herself, and even her heart.

Lachlan Taylor doesn’t know what to make at first of the broken student he’s tasked with helping. She’s survived a trauma he’s not sure he can save her from, but he knows he has to try.

The more time they spend together, the more they learn about what it really means to live.

Some things are forbidden.
Some things are necessary for survival.

Their love is both.

REVIEW

I’m very lucky to be on my own two feet, but sometimes I feel like a bird with a broken wing, destined to never fly and it hurts all over again. Such an emotional and heavy heart story. Learning to breathe and be brave again. Losing someone you loved was never easy. Dani's journey of finding oneself and unexpected love with a someone though its forbidden and unconventional was still a great inspiration and hard lesson at the same time, but that was life. We can't really choose who we might fell in love. Life is messy and beautiful. You can only fight gravity for so long, and the two of us have been falling together from the start. Lachlan and I are inevitable. An ocean could separate us and I know deep down we’d still find our way back to each other. This story has more depth to it, than what you are thinkin'. It contains sensitive matter that might offend some readers but I can assure you Micalea handled those meticulously. IMO it helps the book not be bland instead more engrossing. “Wrong doesn’t always mean bad, Mr. Taylor.” “You’re loving me in the light.” RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 BOOK REVIEW: Hush, Hush by Lucia Franco

(Hush, Hush 1)

by: Lucia Franco

Released Date: August 14th, 2019

Source: Goodreads

A new, seductive forbidden romance that caters to Manhattan's elite...

I knew the rules:

Never reveal my true identity.
Play the game, give the illusion.
Don’t get close to the clients.

The dark and glamorous lifestyle of the rich and shameless open my eyes to a lavish world of sin and wealth, and a man I can’t have.

A man I desperately want—James Riviera.

We're treading a fine line as we live the ultimate double life until we make a startling discovery that tests both our loyalties.

I only had to follow the rules, but rules are meant to be broken.

REVIEW

He's the flame on the tip of the arrow that's aimed right at my heart. I want to burn alive with him.

This book gets me out of my slump, I loved a good age gap forbidden romance its my go to genre and this book goes as above so below expectations. I wished I read this sooner than later because its sooo good, the writing style is very descriptive that even the tiniest detail are written yet I don't mind. You just can't help to be allure in this decadent world that Lucia created not only on her characters but for her readers as well.

To give an overview of the plotline, this is about a 21 yrs old Aubrey Abrams who works as an Escort to this high end Manhattan elite and fell in love with his 52 yrs old client James Riviera, and this is their romance. The plot twist in here, I kinda forecasted it as soon as it was foreshadowed. Regardless I still loved the storyline, her style of writing was fit to convey the most intricate and sensational words to comprehend with the utmost clarity. it evokes a detailed and realistic conundrum of what real life mirrors in the fictional world. This right here was epic.

"We met by a cruel chance of fate. Becoming your lover was part of the job, but falling for you… I had no control. I didn't stand a chance."

RATING:⭐⭐⭐⭐