Review: Keeping 13

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Falling in love was the easy part. What comes next is the test . . .

Following a devastating injury that has left him sidelined and stripped of his beloved number 13 jersey, Johnny Kavanagh is struggling to hold onto his dreams. Lost, insecure, and desperately seeking comfort, he sets his sights on unravelling the mystery of the girl with the midnight-blue eyes, who haunts his every waking hour.

Keeping secrets has never been a problem for Shannon Lynch. The life she was born into demands nothing less. She knows that demons and evil men don't just exist in fairytales. They exist in her world, too. Traumatized beyond repair after her return from Dublin, and desperate to protect her little brothers, Shannon finds herself falling into the same old cover-up, barely keeping her head above water, as her future unravels before her eyes. Beaten and broken, her walls are up and her trust is shaken.

Only one boy has the ability to climb those walls. The boy who owns her heart. But secrets are about to be exposed and lives could be changed forever - can Johnny and Shannon's love survive?

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: May 2023

Mature content: yes

Review: Keeping 13 is the second book in the Boy of Tommen series and the second part of Shannon and Johnny's story. It closely follows book 1 (Binding 13) and should not be read as a stand alone.

While I loved their story unfolded in the end, both Shannon and Johnny have to endure so many personal problems to get to their happy ending that Keeping 13 is not (like the previous installment) an easy book to read. In particular, the domestic violence theme is pretty heavy across the plot.

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It is still an amazingly good book, but I felt the ending was a bit rushed, and I sorely missed a more spaced in time epilogue. I would have loved to know how Shannon and Johnny fared a couple of years later - and I'm still hoping we can read about it in some of the other books in the series. 

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