❤️‍🔥Simmer is a Slow Burn With A Sudden Boiling Point!!❤️‍🔥 

   Stephanie Rose's Simmer is sad, and sweet, and in the end so very uplifting.

Sarah is kicked out of her parents home very young when she's expecting because they're so very disappointed in her behavior. In that moment Sarah promises to give her daughter the love her parents never gave her when she was growing up. 

When Sarah is given an opportunity to go back to culinary school with the help of her daughter's father and stepmother, she really has no choice. She's been working two or three jobs and still not sometimes making rent, but she's still feeling so angry and hurt towards herself and Josh that he's been able to give Victoria everything while she's still struggling, that she enters school determined just to get through - no distractions, no hindrances, but life never counts for reality.

Drew falls for Sarah as soon as he sees her when bumps into her in the dorms when she moves in her first day. Sarah is at a loss for words, and then decides to be as grouchy as possible to push him off. I absolutely adored him, his sweetness, his determination to show Sarah that she was worth the love she didn't believe she deserved. 

Stephanie Rose's ability to take the damage that one person has been dealt their whole lives, and hold it up to the mirror of someone else's life. I swear I cried more for this book than I have in a while, the feelings I had for Sarah and her pain were just so strong. 

Simmer is a beautiful book filled with love, grief and healing, and deserves every star I can give it, which unfortunately is only five. Stephanie Rose deserves so many more here, her ability to crack my heart open and seal it tightly by the end is just breathtaking.

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