When your heart is warring with your head, there’s no time to Think Twice.
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Blurb
One couple risks it all, while the other may lose everything…
At eighteen, PJ was full of dreams. She was on her way to becoming a serious artist and moving across the country, away from the unrequited, tortured dream of her much older brother’s irresistible best friend, Dylan. But when she forced herself to let that dream go, she never expected it to bounce back and refuse to let her.
One fall may have cost Jack everything. After being severely injured while responding to a fire, he lost the girl, the use of his leg, and possibly the career he’s dreamed of all his life. While away at rehab, he connects with Danielle, his physical therapist and a girl from his past. She can heal him in more ways than one, but she’s nursing her own wounds.
When your heart is warring with your head, there’s no time to Think Twice.
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Review
4 stars!
I loved this book. A unique dual brother’s best friend romance with four main characters and two separate yet intertwined love stories, this book is full of swoon!
This is my first read by Stephanie Rose, and while this book is a standalone, it does follow on from one of her previous books. It’s not branded as such, but while reading I began to suspect that there were earlier stories, and a bit of investigation found that this book follows on from After You, and is the story of the children of the couple from that book (Nick & Ellie) – Jack and PJ.
Jack is a firefighter whose world came to a screeching halt after an accident on the job left him badly injured. His career is his life, it’s all he’s ever wanted and he doesn’t know who he is without it, so he is determined to push himself to the limit to get back to where he once was. He enters a live-in rehab facility, and the physical therapist assigned to him turns out to be the now very-grown-up younger sister of a high school friend. Danielle’s marriage ended after a devastating betrayal and it has left her emotionally damaged and reluctant to trust. To cope, she has thrown herself in to work and she is stunned to discover that her latest client is her old high school crush. She keeps things professional between them, but with inside jokes, soul-baring and late night vending machine runs, things slowly begin to change.
Meanwhile, Jack’s younger sister, PJ is making big life decisions. She’s been in love with her brother’s best friend, Dylan, for as long as she can remember and now that she’s turning 18 and about to start college she wants to try and move on from her impossible dreams of him. Dylan is 26 and he knows he’s too old for his best friend’s sister, but that means nothing when it comes to his feelings for her, and with her suddenly all grown up, he finds it impossible to hold back any longer.
These two love stories are both very different, but unfold right alongside each other, with the story told in four-way POV so we get to see everything that’s going on with everybody. The tie-in between them is done well, but the individual romances are very much separate, and I was all over Dylan and PJ’s story as they finally act on years of pent-up emotion. The feels are intense from the very beginning with them, however they are dealing with external pressures and influences on their relationship, especially with their age gap. But I got completely swept up in their story because they’re so freaking adorable and just so damn swoony!
“This is nuts, right?” She panted against my neck when we pulled apart. “For it to be this intense, this fast?”
“Maybe it is fast, but not for us, baby,” I took her face into my hands. “For us, it’s time.”
Jack and Danielle move at a slower pace, not just because of the forbidden therapist/client thing, but both of them have personal issues to overcome (and during all of that we get to see Jack reacting to Dylan and PJ’s hook up which I enjoyed). It’s a slow burn, but really sweet, and I loved watching it all build for them.
“Give us a chance, Danielle.” I inched closer. “Let me be the man you deserve.”
Both romances are functional and honest with nice emotion and a little bit of steam, and finish off beautifully with two fantastic epilogues which left me with a big grin on my face.
Fans of After You will no doubt love seeing Nick and Ellie in their roles as parents to two adults, and the relationships there are really beautiful. The dynamics between all of the characters are really well done, and I enjoyed this group and I’m looking forward to reading the earlier books so I can see how the original couples got together.
This is such a sweet read, and I really enjoyed it. 4 stars.
An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
About the Author
Stephanie Rose is a bad-ass New Yorker, a wife, a mother, a former blogger and lover of all things chocolate. Most days you’ll find her trying to avoid standing on discarded LEGO or deciding which book to read next. Her debut novel, Always You, released in 2015 and since then she’s written several more—some of which will never see completion—and has ideas for a hundred to come.
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