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Review

4 sweet and swoony stars

I love the set up for this book, and after devouring the first two books in the series, I was more than ready to dive on into this one. While not as laugh-out-loud funny as its predecessors, Sadie and Liam’s story is super-cute with a (slightly) older woman/younger man romance, a set of adorable two-year-old twin girls and a 15 year old crush that is finally fulfilled.

Sadie is the third of three friends that make up this series. In the previous two books we have watched as her marriage fell apart and she is now a divorced mother of two-year-old twin girls. She is slowly getting her life back together, and it’s while dropping her girls off for the first day of day care that she runs into a blast from the past – Liam McAllister, looking all hot and gorgeous.

Liam fell hard for Sadie when he was only 14 and she was babysitting him and his younger siblings for the summer. Despite their age difference, they hung out and became good friends, and she became the fantasy of his ideal woman. 15 years later, and it appears nothing has changed. He’s still incredibly drawn to her, and he wants her, badly, and now he’s in a position to do something about.

It’s while getting to know each other once again that Sadie lets it slip that her sex life is lacking, and has been even before her marriage ended. Liam offers to help her out, because he’s a giver like that.

“This is happening,” I tell her.
“Wh-what is?”
“You and me. Naked on a bed. Or a kitchen counter, or in the shower.”
She says, “uungh.”
“I’ll let you pick the room of the house. Or the backyard. But this is happening … You’ve been a nun for two years. And I’ve been waiting half my life to get you naked. Our time is now.”

With Liam due to leave the country for study in just a few short months, they know their time together is limited so they enter into a no-strings arrangement. Liam wants more, but he doesn’t want to push Sadie and he’s happy with whatever he can have from her. But it never actually comes across as a no-strings thing. There’s a clear connection between them from the very beginning, and they don’t hold back from each other, and I just loved watching them together.

“She tastes like everything I ever wanted.”

But with their time together moving towards its end, will Sadie and Liam be able to hold on to everything that they’ve found together?

Sadie is a great heroine, but for me, this book was all about Liam, because OMG the man is just perfection! Of course he’s gorgeous, but he’s also an absolute sweetheart. He accepts Sadie and her girls with an open heart, and seeing him with little Kate and Amy just melted me. There’s something about a guy who follows his heart to study early childhood development and works with children and is passionate about it, flying in the face of his career-driven father, that is absolutely swoonworthy. He’s sweet, protective and funny with a huge heart, and I just loved him!

The characters from the previous book aren’t as present as I was expecting them to be, but they still make appearances, and I enjoyed catching up with them. But this is very much Sadie and Liam’s story, and I loved watching their romance unfold. It’s sweet, sexy, fun and functional, all finished off with a great epilogue, and I loved it.

And with several characters introduced that are begging to have their stories told, I’m definitely hoping for more from this series!

4 stars.

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