Review: Saving 6

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He's a boy who's lost. She's girl who might just be the home he's never had.

The second born son in a broken marriage, Joey Lynch has spent a lifetime picking up the pieces of a family unravelling. When his older brother Darren skips town, twelve-year-old Joey finds himself thrown into the role of protector to his younger siblings and mother. Plagued by self-loathing, and furious with the world, he grapples with teenage life and his unwavering sense of duty to his family, while balancing precariously close to a life of addiction that threatens to swallow him whole. The only light in his sea of darkness is his boss's firecracker of a daughter who refuses to back down. A girl who just so happens to be his classmate.

Aoife Molloy has never been backwards in coming forward. Her bubbly and self-assured nature has never led her astray. Until her first day of secondary school when she collides with a hot-headed boy who sparks a burning curiosity inside of her that only grows stronger by the day.

Falling into a complicated friendship with her father's apprentice, Aoife works to unravel the secrets around Joey Lynch's life - while he desperately fights to keep her out.

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: May 2023

Mature content: yes

Review: Saving 6 is the third book in the Boy of Tommen series and the first installment of Joey and Aoife's story. In theory, it can be read as a stand alone, but a lot of the story is parallel to what we read in the first two books, although obviously seen from a different perspective and with different main characters.

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While I admire Joey and Aoife's against-all-odds love story, Saving 6 is not my favorite book in the series so far. It's very well written but their relationship often felt too toxic for me to fully enjoy. 

In any case, after finishing Saving 6 you obviously need to move on to Redeeming 6, the following book in the series, to find out if and how Joey and Aoife get their much deserved happy ending.

Happy readings!

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