Honestly, I am not even sure why I was so desperate to get my grabby hands on this. I've not read anything else from this author and I had no idea it was part of a series. I just saw some teasers, got all hot and bothered and had to read it. Then it landed on my kindle, and I realised it was the third book in the series. So, I went off to GoodReads to see if it could be read as a standalone and couldn't find anything to help my dilemma. So, I'll start with yes it can be read as a standalone, but I think it potentially has spoilers for the previous books. Plus, all of those characters are all through this along with parts of their stories so if you plan to read the others maybe do it in order.

 

Now as mentioned I started this one semi convinced, I shouldn't be reading it so it took me a bit to get over myself and enjoy this. But by about the 30% mark I was invested. Brynn had started to settle into her new life and Colton was a massive, self-centred jerk.

 

I could completely sympathise with Brynn, and I felt her loneliness despite being surrounded by friends who were all busy with their own things. Colton was a whole other story. I loved to hate him. He was such a self-fulfilling prophecy I just wanted to slap him and scream at him to get over himself. 

 

Then the chemistry kicked in between these two and damn did it get hot fast. And I need to admit that at least 50% of this book was pure smut and I was so here for it. With that said there was also a pretty good story spread through this and we got some great character growth from both of them. And once Colton did pull his head out, he was pretty swoony.

 

I don't think I'll be adding the first two books onto my TBR but this was a solid read and I'll be keeping an eye out for the author in the future.

 

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