♡♡♡Pretend You're Mine, One of Lucy Score's Sweetest, Angstiest Romances I've Read!♡♡♡
🎧 Audible by Melissa Moran
Luke and Harper are one of the best, most rewarding love stories I've read by Lucy Score, even if it does take some serious tissues to get there!
They each bring so much baggage into the relationship, but both have such different ways of dealing with the tragedy they've been dealt throughout their lives.
Harper has never had a family so when Luke utters that one word, "Stay", Harper feels like she's finally found the family ad friends she's been so desperately searching for all her life. So what if she's a little out of her element? She'll just make Benevolence her home! She does just that, even befriending Cranky Frank and helping him (once he teaches her) drywall and do other parts of the labor intensive aspects of Garrison Construction.
Luke doesn't know what to do with Harper's brand of wild. All he did was offer her a place to stay for a month, and then suddenly it all got out of control. Once he got home from his six month deployment and found her hunkered down with Joni, inviting the foster kids down the street to stay every other weekend, it was all to much. He felt like his past was running into his present and he didn't have room for all of that. Once he told her it was over he could go back to his nice, quiet life.
I was devastated when Harper left, and ready right along with Sophie to scream his head off. He's running from things he should have dealt with years ago, and forcing his family to relive his grief with him over and over again. And his overgrown man fits every time he sees Harper with Lincoln Reed? I know he was hurting, but I was thrilled when Ty punched him and even more thrilled when Aldo told him how much of an idiot he was being.
The side characters of Benevolence are perfection, even the town itself with the description of Remo's and the Diner. I absolutely adored this sweet, small town romance, even if I did have to endure Luke's perennial head up his a$$ syndrome. I loved the friendships between Harper, Sophie, and Gloria - those are the kind of girlfriends I'd love to have in my own small town.
Five out of Five stars for the welcome to the lovely little town of Benevolence in Pretend You're Mine.
TW: DV on and off the page, CA off the page, talked about on the page. Death of a loved one talked about on the page, soldier wounded in action on the page
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