by Lucy Score
Grumpy loner meets a bedraggled lady with flowers in her hair. This would be enough of a plot for me, but lucky for us all that’s only the beginning. Can coffee, beards, fist fights, and biker gangs along with a crazy twin, failed wedding, and an abandoned kid somehow make the perfect romance?
Let’s find out! (SPOILER: IT CAN!!!) 😉
Read if you like: fresh and spicy contemporary romance; grumpy/sunshine; enemies-to-lovers; evil twins; family drama; starting over; second chances; real, actual emotional growth; gritty alpha males who are secretly cinnamon rolls; and leading ladies who need to love themselves as much as they love everyone else.
Naomi Witt just had the worst day of her life and it’s about to get worse. She’s a runaway bride on a rescue mission to help her evil twin sister, Tina. But it turns out that her sister didn’t need her help, just her cash and car and clothes. But Tina didn’t leave Naomi empty handed. She left her 11-year-old daughter in the care of her goody-two-shoes aunt. Naomi is left picking up the pieces of her shattered life while trying to figure out how to care for her ‘new’ niece.
Knox Morgan is a man with a past but his future is bright… and lonely. He manages to be simultaneously dangerous and protective, which works in a town like Knockemout. So named by its reputation of handling disputes fists forward. When Naomi “Not Tina” Witt shows up in his town he finds himself in a mess that he can’t refuse to try and clean up. Problem is Naomi’s mess just won’t quit and before they know it our leading duo finds themselves unable to extricate each other from their increasingly complicated lives.
I loved this book. LOVED. I want to move to Knockemout and insert myself in their lives. (Naomi and I graduated high school the same year, and I can’t pass up a project person. We’d be BFFs fo’ sure.) I’m a sucker for a small town, especially if you give me a creek. The leading duo is dynamic and layered. I honestly care about every single side character. They are not just plot devices in people suits. And the plot just keeps going. This book is big and its thanks to all the delicious storyline, character growth, and action. Both kinds of action. ::wink, wink::
This book is beautiful, hilarious, heartfelt, and gut-wrenchingly messy at times. Plus, the romance is straight fire. You will go through all the feels as you sink into this heart-achingly real story of people growing into themselves and learning to lean on the people who love them.
An instant favorite in my least read genre. If I can find more books like Things We Never Got Over then it wouldn’t be my least read any longer.
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