Review: Reason to Believe

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“I’ll take them!”

That’s what I tell the social worker when my pre-k student and his baby brother need an emergency foster placement. I’ll do anything to keep the brothers from being split up. But my apartment’s flooded and there’s only one house I can take them to on such short notice…his.

Knox Daniels, my older brother’s best friend, offers his new place without hesitation. He’s not moving back to our tiny town until next month—that’s when all our hotshot firefighters are returning for their one and only chance to rebuild our fathers’ fallen, iconic crew.

It doesn’t matter that I’ve been silently in love with Knox since we were kids.

It can’t matter that we pretend that reckless prom night kiss never happened.

It won’t matter that my feelings for him could destroy his lifelong friendship with my brother and threaten the certification of their hotshot crew.

Because I’ll be out of his house long before he gets back.

Except Knox just walked in…a month early.

And the icing on this awkward cake?

He’s gorgeous as always and I’m covered in baby puke.

He takes one look at the boys and tells me we can make this work—

We can temporarily fake a relationship to keep them from being separated by the system.

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: April 2022

Mature content: yes

Review: I loved the story and the characters, but Reason to Believe is not the best book I've read by Rebecca Yarros, 

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First, I felt like I had landed in the middle of an ongoing secondary plot (the Legacy hotshots story). I didn't read the prequel novellas - mostly because, as per Amazon, it was not necessary to read them, and also because I'm not a huge fan of novellas - and I realize now I should have read those first. 

Also, the fact that Harper and Knox wasted seven years because of a promise he made to her brother was a bit over the top - especially because the promise, in the end, turned out to be totally irrelevant.

I did love the two boys they almost adopted and I loved the happy ending, but I still felt the rest of the story was just nice but not amazing. 

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