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415 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 11, 2019
"But then I found you."HOLY CRAP! Be prepared to take a few hard slaps to the face if you decide to dive into this one. It's a no-holds barred, gut-wrenching, mind-churning look at cheating.
"I think there's every chance that you won't be so shiny in a couple of years, just like his wife."Yes, CHEATING. So if that's not your jam, please spare everyone your moral outrage and avoid this book like it's a feral raccoon on the verge of scratching your eyes out.
I'm just not very good with people. I'm awkward and jittery and after a while I start to irritate them.Being in her head was pretty awesome. Her inner monologues were a riot.
Oh man...I've always had a thing for priests. It's the whole chastity-until-death thing. Like all that pent-up sexual frustration and I get to be the one who relieves it. But only hot priests...if they exist.Rose and her best friend Laurie added some much needed comic relief . . . because my god, the author otherwise put Rose through the WRINGER.
To be honest, me wanting him alone could just be because I like how Mr. C and I move around each other. We don't demand each other's attention and he's always happy for me to do my own thing so long as I do my job.. . . to less than innocent . . .
"... it was a moment of weakness and cowardice and it'll never happen again.". . . to an all-out clusterfuck of epic proportions . . .
"You don't belong to me," I snap, my voice takes on a higher, desperate tone.WOW! Did the author ever do such a great job of raking her characters over the coals!
"No . . . but I want to."
"I'm nobody's second."She used the single POV to great effect; planting seeds of doubt, dropping hints, giving hope, and punching me in the gut. I love it when I'm left with my jaw on the floor!
"You're exploiting my feelings for you."These characters were so incredibly human and flawed. OMG, were they FLAWED! So much of the tit-for-tat, back-and-forth was well done. The jealousy, the anger, the pettiness, the guilt was all shown up against the backdrop of their hopes and dreams and vulnerabilities and most importantly their LOVE for each other.
"There are only so many times I can say no."I was worried that the author was going to drag things out - but she didn't!
"You broke me. And now you want weekly updates on how I'm doing? What the fuck is that? I never even want to see you again."
"You don't mean that... what we have is... it's real and you know it."
"No, your marriage is real. What we had were sprinkles on the top of your perfect world and TNT in the foundations of my already shit one."