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Promise Me You by Marina Adair

12/5/2018

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​CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Publication date: 10/23/2018
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Cliffhanger: No

This was a tough book to rate. It’s so well-written and emotional that you can’t help but keep reading it (I never considered DNFing it), and you really do care about the characters when you’re done. But ultimately, it lacked...something that made me downgrade it from a 5 star read to a 4 star read.

But first, here’s what I loved:
  1. Hunter is a quintessential cocky, swaggering musician hero. His confidence and talent make him sexy as hell. But what I REALLY loved about him was that he wasn’t manwhore or an addict of any kind. Not at all. There weren’t endless accounts of how many groupies he’d banged, or countless tales of times he’d been out of his mind because he was so high. For all his fame, he was a pretty normal, well-adjusted guy, and I really enjoyed that.
  2. Mack is great heroine. She’s smart and talented and a resilient survivor. The way she overcomes disability and doesn’t let it define her is inspiring.
  3. This is a true slow-burn romance. I love slow-burn romance. It’s also a great friends-to-lovers read. Another favorite trope of mine.
  4. Muttley the dog. He’s awesome, and for those of you who can’t stand it when authors rip your heart out by killing a dog, I’ll say this to you so that you can relax: The dog lives happily ever after, just like Mack and Hunter.                    

As far as stuff I didn’t like, the list isn’t huge. My only real problem with the book is that it left me with too many questions. Did Hunter know that Mack was in love with him when he married another woman? Why didn’t Hunter try harder to find Mack when she disappeared? This is a pretty serious story--why does the cover make it look like a rom com? Why didn’t we get any snippets of lyrics from the songs they were writing together?

But, minor quibbles notwithstanding, this was still a sweet, emotional, slow-building romance between two interesting characters. You could do worse than this one, guys. It’s safely 1-clickable, in my opinion.  

Full disclosure: We received an ARC from NetGalley, free of charge.
 
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