Series & Title: Gone with the Brides, Book 3: The Sweet Bride
Author: Ciara Knight
Publisher: Ciara Knight
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Book Version: eBook ARC
Reviewed For: HEA PR & More
Zoey Dixon grew up with her two sisters in a small, football-obsessed town. She managed to escape the Friday night lights and the turmoil of tutoring her high school jock crush by running into the arms of a college professor. A relationship that must remain secret to protect his advancing career in academia. A situation she doesn’t mind since her parents proved long ago that happily ever after only exists in stories. But when Zoey returns to her hometown for Christmas vacation, her high school crush confesses he’s always loved her. Between his confession and her college professor’s growing emotional distance, she’s questioning her entire view on life, her future, and more importantly her concept of love and being loved.
I liked this story. Really, really liked it.
It's a sweet tale of a second chance that came from left field yet at just the right time. It's a roller coaster ride of emotions that forces decisions that were maybe, just maybe, in desperate need of being made.
I can't say I agree with Zoey's decision to be complacent in her relationship with the professor. After all, this is the modern age. Why settle when you should't have to? Her parents' example of a relationship might have been a great excuse before but not now when the emotional distance between her and Edward seems to be growing with each passing day and her teenage crush admitting his feelings.
To stay where she is or take a leap into something new?
Something so unexpected yet needed?
The more Zoey and Kevin are together while she's home, the more she questions where she's at when she's not. And it's not just his declaration of love that has her re-examining her life. It's him, how he treats her, talks to her, involves her in his life. It's a far cry from how Edward is with her.
The depth of emotion and the natural flow of Zoey and Kevin's relationship took me by surprise. Not because Ms. Knight isn't a great writer but because, sometimes, the short length of a book doesn't allow for all of those things to develop at their own pace. How she managed to do that with this one, I'll never know but I'm thankful she did.
If what you want is short, sweet, light on the angst and complications, heartfelt, and heartwarming, this is right up your alley.
It's a sweet tale of a second chance that came from left field yet at just the right time. It's a roller coaster ride of emotions that forces decisions that were maybe, just maybe, in desperate need of being made.
I can't say I agree with Zoey's decision to be complacent in her relationship with the professor. After all, this is the modern age. Why settle when you should't have to? Her parents' example of a relationship might have been a great excuse before but not now when the emotional distance between her and Edward seems to be growing with each passing day and her teenage crush admitting his feelings.
To stay where she is or take a leap into something new?
Something so unexpected yet needed?
The more Zoey and Kevin are together while she's home, the more she questions where she's at when she's not. And it's not just his declaration of love that has her re-examining her life. It's him, how he treats her, talks to her, involves her in his life. It's a far cry from how Edward is with her.
The depth of emotion and the natural flow of Zoey and Kevin's relationship took me by surprise. Not because Ms. Knight isn't a great writer but because, sometimes, the short length of a book doesn't allow for all of those things to develop at their own pace. How she managed to do that with this one, I'll never know but I'm thankful she did.
If what you want is short, sweet, light on the angst and complications, heartfelt, and heartwarming, this is right up your alley.
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