I can’t recommend this book enough, but know that it will break you. What Iris went through with her boyfriend was nearly impossible to read without breaking down, but so well-written. Kennedy Ryan clearly did her research before writing this book. It’s a setup we’ve seen in dozens of romance books, but what Kennedy Ryan does with that setup is unlike anything I’ve seen in a romance novel. They’re both intrigued by the other, they both want to take it further than just conversation, but they don’t because Iris has a boyfriend. It took me apart and put me back together again, and I don’t even know how to talk about it.Īugust West and Iris DuPree meet at a bar the night before his college basketball championship game. I don’t even know where to start with this book. There are long stretches, both in page count, and in time, when the hero and heroine aren’t together at all. And even beyond the actual real-world triggers, I know that there are a lot of romance readers who aren’t going to be happy with how little of the book the hero and heroine are actually together. Violence, sexual assault, weapons, rape, cheating (if you go with a strict definition of it), every trigger you can think of. There is every trigger warning for this book.

But I’ve decided to go ahead and post the review, and other than a little fine-tuning, and moving the trigger warnings to the very top, I didn’t really mess with it very much.įirst – know this going in.

I’ve been sitting on it for a while because I didn’t really know how to talk about this book, and then I didn’t want to add to the cacophony surrounding it. *Certain aspects of this story may be sensitive for some readers.Įditing to add: I started writing this review before this book hit the general Twitter consciousness a few weeks ago.

But my past, my fraudulent prince, just won't let me go

Now there's a new player in the game, August West. I was a fool, and his love - fool's gold. I kissed the prince and he turned into a fraud. Think you know what it's like being a baller's girl? You don't. Published by Amazon Digital on March 22, 2018Ī FORBIDDEN LOVE SET IN THE EXPLOSIVE WORLD OF THE NBA.

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