Title: Bitter Sweet Love
Author: R C Stephens
Genre: NA Romance
Reviewer: Aly
Book Blurb:
After enduring an abusive childhood and having her heart broken by the only boy she trusts, Alexis White vows to never let anyone hurt her again. She's left her troubled past behind and starts a new life at college. For the past seven years, her social calendar has been filled with frat parties, drinking, and meaningless sexual hook-ups. Until one night she unexpectedly gets saved by a tall, dark, and handsome French foreigner, Luc Blanchard. He's charming, sophisticated, and very interested in Lexi, who has presented herself as a challenge when she tells him relationships aren't her thing.
She finds herself sucked in by his own intriguing past. But everything changes when Dylan Priestley, the gorgeous boy who broke her heart and shattered her faith in friendship and love, suddenly shows up in her life again while back home on a visit. Dylan doesn't hide his feelings for Lexi, but she can't forgive or forget being betrayed by the one person she ever truly loved.
Despite the pain Dylan's caused her, Lexi is once again drawn to the blue-eyed-boy-next-door. Will Lexi choose the man who seems perfect but hides a dark side or the boy who smashed her heart into pieces so many years ago?
Review:
Just a heads up I do have a bit of a bias going on but I tried my best not to let it affect my review.
While I didn’t enjoy the first person perspective(I’m just not a huge fan of that perspective, honestly), the prologue really draws the reader in. It’s exciting and eye catching. Which makes it easier to get into the book. There was at least one mistake that I noticed, but it was a simple mistake so I mean it wasn’t that bad.
The characters were different. And thus they were intriguing. Lexi was far from the typical girl and that was a good thing. It makes her stand out. The plot line itself was a good one. It was easy to get drawn into.
The going back and forth between past and present especially in the way it’s done where the past almost seems to mirror the present was a choice that I felt was a good one. Especially with what Lexi’s past and present are holding in stock for her.
Bitter Sweet Love isn’t told entirely from Lexi’s point of view. We do get Dylan’s point of view. Which helps make him less of a character that it’s easy to be annoyed with or something like that and instead turns him into a character that is 3 dimensional and lifelike.
This was a good book and I think ended on the right note to continue writing that plot line. So that’s always a good thing.
Bitter Sweet Love was a good book with few strikes against it. .
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