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This was my first
book by Willow Winters; it’s told in a dual POV with Emma and Derek and is a
second chance romance. Emma first walked away from Derek 5 years ago as he was
into bad things and she knew that he wouldn’t change. Flash forward to the
present where Emma is staying at her sister’s house whilst on holiday from University
and Derek & Emma’s paths cross again.
It had a good
premise and the story showed the struggle between choosing sexual attraction
and possibly love against morality and good judgement. Derek hasn’t changed
much and is still the bad boy he was before and has just increased in the ranks
and is now managing the drug business he was involved in before. He refused to
tell Emma anything about what he was doing which I personally found really
annoying! She’s an adult now and I understand wanting to protect her by not
letting her know too much about what he did but he literally told her nothing despite
her continually asking and claiming to love her. He got incredibly angry at
times and I just felt like it was unnecessary and I would have run a mile at
that point; especially since she’d although broke things of before because of
his business ventures. I did enjoy the sub-plot about Derek’s mum having cancer
and although I saw the plot twist coming, I did enjoy the execution of it.
I have no
problems with domineering men BUT there a difference between being domineering
in a good way and then just taking it too far and I hated how it was done in
this book. I highlighted a part in the book that says “I want her, so I’m
taking her. It’s that simple.” NO! You don’t get to just bloody take her! There
were comments like that scattered through the book and it really annoyed me. Unless
she’s said otherwise you can’t just take when you want and do what you want.
However, there is a great scene in this book where Emma gets high and then
starts doing sexual things with Derek; he stops and carries her to bed and
doesn’t even undress her which was great and could have obviously gone a very
different way.
Overall I gave it 2 stars; it was an OK
read but nothing impressive and I had issue with some of the writing.
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