Review: Boy in Luv

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Langley Vaughn knows she's never going to make the same mistake again.

Who falls head over heels in love in a week? Langley did, and she's regretted it every day since she handed her heart to a boy with too many secrets and too much baggage. Iker doesn't fit into Langley's world, and he made it clear he doesn't want to. He left before she even got a chance to try and change his mind or to prove to him how good they could be together. Langley's spent the last nine months healing her heart and making big plans for the future. Plans that absolutely don't include Iker… even though he's back, looking better than ever, and saying all the right things.

Iker Alvarez knows he made the biggest mistake of his life.

At first, the pretty blonde in the red dress was nothing more than a means to an end. But, she quickly became so much more. As soon as Iker walked away from Langley, claiming it was for her own good, he knew he screwed up. He left her so she wouldn't worry about him when he deployed, so she wouldn't waste her time waiting around for a guy who was never going to be good enough for her. Only, nine months and a deployment later, Iker still can't get Langley out of his head… and he totally underestimated the hold she has on his hardened heart. He's a guy who's not sure how love should work, or how to go about winning his girl back…he's about to get a crash course in both.

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: October 2019

Mature content: yes

Review: Boy in Luv is part 2 of the In Luv Duet and closely follows Girl in Luv. It's not a stand alone book, as you need the context and background on the characters.

While I found book 1 one a bit cheesy but ok, I had some issues with this second installment - mostly because I had some trouble understanding Iker's sudden change of heart. At the end of book 2 he was the one that decided to leave, and his reasons were pretty clear. And at the beginning of book 2 he's ready to go back to a relationship with Langley. Which, of course, is great, but the thing is - nothing changed from book 1, so why is he suddenly pursuing Langley? Somehow I failed to believe he could move forward without a plausible explanation of why he thinks now he can make it work when he didn't less than a year before...