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Tony Sorrento.
Tall, dark and…mysterious. Football player.
Some random guy I flirted with while out of town visiting my father.
Turns out we go to the same college. Even weirder, we discover our fathers are business rivals. And when they find out we had a minor situation-ship, they forbid us from dating.
Easy enough to do. Our campus is huge. I can avoid him.
But I keep running into Mr. Tall, Dark and Mysterious everywhere I go. I mean, I’m not one to chase after a sexy jock but I start to realize he’s difficult to resist. And he’s just as into me as I’m into him.
Defying our fathers’ wishes means we need to keep whatever it is we’re doing secret. Totally fine. We can be just friends. Even if what we’re doing quickly switches to friends with benefits, and then turns into…something more.
We might be asking for trouble, but maybe being with Tony is worth the risk.
Genre: contemporary romance
Publication date: April 2021
Mature content: yes
Review: Sorry, but this book did't work for me. The first part, when Tony and Hayden meet, seems like a cross between a modern day retelling of Romeo and Juliet and a low budget mafia movie. Both main characters keep insisting they are adults and therefore do not have to follow their parents' "orders" (not that I agree with those "orders" anyway, but they are there as part of the feud between the two families that is never fully explained and left me with the impression they were both involved in illegal businesses), but they never really make a move to move on in life. Instead, they act as they want but still expect daddy's money to flow to their bank accounts and pay for all their expenses. They often sound like moody rich teenagers and not the adults they want to convince us they are.
The last part of the book improved a bit, but still not enough to make me like the plot or the characters in any way.
Happy readings otherwise!
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