At college, Rachel has a reputation
for being a sarcastic flirt with a thing for star athletes. No one at school
knows that she’d had her heart ripped to shreds by her high school sweetheart,
who’d driven them both off the side of the road on a borrowed motorcycle, and
then abandoned her. No one knows the real Rachel Mattson—except
one person…Ever since he helped nurse his sister’s feisty best friend back to health, pierced bass player Kai Nakos has been head over heels in love. But the supposed bad boy can’t risk letting Rachel know the truth—especially now that the two of them are back in their hometown for the summer, together for the first time since the months following that fateful night. Never mind that Rachel’s ex is back, groveling for her forgiveness.
Shaken by her ex’s return, Rachel finds herself turning to the one guy she knows she can trust. Kai is willing to hide his feelings for her, just to have Rachel touch him again. After all, this is only a temporary fling. Until it becomes something more. But maybe it had been more all along
So the first thing I should admit is that I did not know
this was part of a series. When I was
scrolling through the Net Galley titles, the blurb for this book was so good, I
had to take a shot at getting approved to read this. I love second chance love stories, or best
friend turned love stories and this seemed almost like that (minus the ex,
groveling for her forgiveness). I
started it as soon as I was approved for it.
This is where maybe reading the first two books might have
helped, I’m not sure. The beginning was
a little slow and confusing for me. I’m
not sure how much Rachel is in the first two books, but I just felt like I
couldn’t connect with her at first.
Kai on the other hand, I loved from the beginning…and that
is what kept me reading. I often feel
like something just isn’t quite right when I read male POV’s in stories. To be honest, I don’t typically love dual POV
books but in the beginning for me it was definitely the saving grace and what
kept me going.
About midway through, the story picked up for me and I
couldn’t wait to see how it would all unfold.
I felt her pain from her accident.
Her suffering through not understanding what happened with her ex and
the comfort she felt with her best friend Kai…well as long as her other best
friend, Kai’s sister, wasn’t there.
I truly enjoyed the secondary characters who made
appearances in this book (the characters from the previous two books) as well
as Kai’s best friend Shane. I can’t say
I loved Dakota…but that’s just my personal opinion.
So I’m sure you are wondering, why…if the books picked up
half way and I felt connected to it, I still only gave it 3.5 stars and that
would be the slow beginning combined with what I felt like was a rushed
ending. I needed a little more. I felt like I had been on this journey and I
needed something, one more chapter, an epilogue…something to let me know it had
all been worth it…
Maybe there will be another book?
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