Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn't changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi's car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected: the 11-year-old niece she didn't know she had. Now she's stuck in town with no job, no plan, no home and a whole lot of extra responsibility.
There's a reason local barber Knox doesn't do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. But since Naomi's life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam. And just as soon as she stops getting into trouble, he can leave her alone and get back to his peaceful, solitary life.
At least that's the plan, until their lives begin to entwine in ways they never imagined . .
Things we Never Got Over by Lucy Score has been staring at
me in every bookshop I go in and then I received a copy for Christmas so I
think the universe was telling me I needed to read this book!
This is book holds so many wonderful characters who each
play a perfect part in this book and they were all really well developed so I
never confused one character for another which can often happen with books like
this with so may characters.
The opening of the book kicked off to a quick start pulling
me into a surprising and intriguing start so I knew this was going to be a book
too keep me entertained and it sure did. Set in a small town called Knockemount
there is an incredibly tight knit community so everyone knows your business
before you do sometimes but the support they all show our newcomer Naomi is great
especially her girls in Honky Tonk.
Waylay who is Naomi’s niece was one of my favourite
characters, I loved to see her blossom as she began to settle down which isn’t
something she has had in life so far, structure, nurturing and support. She
provided a few laughs along the way too.
On the surface this book follows the path of Naomi in her
new start in life, an unexpected one with Waylay and there is also the burning
romance with Knox who is the core of the town but underneath there is a deeper
issue as we begin to peel back the layers of Knox and uncover his demons that
have held him back in life.
Knox is a complex character, on the one hand he is every
woman’s dream, protective, confident, loving and caring oh and incredibly good
in bed! On the other hand he has the biggest barrier up that as soon as it
begins to drop and he then ruins everything and makes that barrier even higher.
I found his character so unpredictable and he even had me feeling the way Naomi
probably felt in that he was letting me in and then dropping me out. There was
only one thing, yes just one, that I loathed about this book and that was Knox
and his love of using the word Baby all the time! That word makes me physically
cringe in a book when referring to a woman but hey this is probably just my own
gripe.
This book is spicy with a CAPITAL S so if you are not one
that feels comfortable with detailed sex scenes then be prepared to have to
skim read over a few pages here and there in this book but don’t let it put you
off reading because it isn’t all the storyline is about.
This was a really entertaining read and I am off into town
today to go and get the next book in the series.
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