First and Forever - Eve Dangerfield

💖 First and Forever is book three in the Rebirth series. We follow Sloane Willow Williams a football player. And Eden Jade Cartwright. A party girl DJ who is on the cusp of being famous.

💜 Eve is 25 years old, focusing on her career, and trying to have what she thinks is fun.
💙 Willow is 33 years old , sweet and charming. He knows what he wants and he's not afraid to get it. I really liked him as a character.

✨ Willow and Eden’s chemistry was off the charts and smoking hot. They fit together perfectly. This is probably my favorite book of the series.

🖊 Eve is an incredible author with an excellent pen, she digs into the psychology of all her characters.

⭐️ This book is one of those famous reads that will thrill you in the best way. The more I turned the pages, the more my tension soared. I simply loved it.
Do not ask yourself any questions. Just read it.

Fake dating.
Guy falls first.
Role play.
Age gap.

Thanks to NetGalley & Xpresso Book Tours for the ARC.
First and forever will be released May 4th. 2022

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I love an Eve Dangerfield book - they always bring the heat and the heart. This one is absolutely no exception. I immediately loved Willow - he is a hero with zero chill and absolutely no qualms about being deeply in love with Eden from the first moment. He is happy to let her get to her feelings in her own time - and I loved that he was sensitive enough to both of their feelings to be very up front with this. Eden I look longer to warm too - but ugh - when I did?! I loved her honest look at her sobriety and relationship with alcohol, I loved her trying to find her place in the world, and I loved her honesty with Willow. Even when she wasn’t ready to be at the same level he was - she had no issue being honest about what she needed from their relationship.

Now let’s talk what Dangerfield is amazing at? Her heroes are so over the top and amazing - that no one and I mean NO ONE can do a role play like they can. Willow is absolutely amazing as a stern, Victorian doctor to fulfill all of Eden’s needs! But from the first moment - Willow is there to help Eden fulfill her erotic needs and it is perfection.

Oh all the things I loved about this book! This story is definitely a sleeper hit, as the full impact didn’t really hit me until I was done it and it percolated. All I knew reading it was that I could not put it down and needed to know how the story ended. Willow and Eden are an unlikely match to the eye, but as their story lets us know in so many subtle, and not so subtle, ways, we are attracted with our hearts not our sight. Ying and yang explain these two perfectly, where one has a void, the other fills it. Where one can fall down, the other supports them. Where there are holes in their being, the other makes them whole. And all around this wonderful soul satisfying is some extremely hot and heavy smexy times! These two crack and sizzle off the pages so much, that even when all else may be in doubt, it carries them through. Willow and Eden fit together so perfectly that by the end of their story, you wonder why you ever had any doubts 😊

This is an instant love/fake dating story about football star Willow and DJ Eden. It's a bit spicy and sweet. It's nice to see the growth that Willow and Eden both go through. They both have some issues to work on. They are really great together and are perfect for each other. Really enjoyed the book.

Thanks to the publisher for the arc.

Big thanks to Eve Dangerfield and Xpresso Book Toura for the e-ARC of this book via NetGalley. This review is being given honestly and all thoughts and opinions are my own.

I’ve been waiting for this book ever since I finished Return All, Book 2 in the Rebirth series by Eve Dangerfield. This is a love at first sight, fake dating to more romance featuring Willow a friend of Byron and Derek from book 1 & 2, and a rising DJ named Eden.

Willow first sees Eden at a show of hers and immediately falls head over heels for her but no one believes him or thinks it will last since he is a very care-free guy. Eden is a rising DJ who is on the verge of making it big when she sees the dorky ginger and decides she wants to hook up for the night. This book was so much fun and it was so sweet and spicy with some great emotional moments and growth for both characters. I’m really excited to see the next couples story and hope we’ll get it soon!

Literally can’t recommend this series enough and y’all better go preorder it RN

This is the third book in the Rebirth series and follows DJ Eden and pro-soccer player Willow. Willow falls in love with Eden pretty much at first sight but she's focused on her upcoming international tour so Willow suggests they have a short, fake relationship. The relationship should boost Eden's online profile (and Spotify listens) as well as give him the time with her that he wants. As they grow closer, sharing parts of themselves they normally keep hidden, they need to figure out where the line is in this fake relationship and if they've already crossed it. I really enjoyed this read and absolutely adored Willow and Eden as a couple. I loved how different they were at first glance but they really worked well together. I loved the role play aspect in this (even if the specific roles/kinks were not exactly my jam) and how both of them completely embraced the other's fantasy. I thought the conflict between them was very realistic and I really liked how they both had to figure out what they wanted in their lives before they could come together fully. The fake dating aspect didn't entirely work for me. There are a couple mentions of how many followers Eden gained or how many more streams her songs were getting, but I felt like we pretty quickly abandoned the whole reason for fake dating (or, at least, pretty quickly abandoned mentioning it). We don't get a whole lot of stakes from the fake dating aspect of the relationship which I think is what made it fall a little flat for me. This ended up feeling more like a friends with benefits to lovers book which is all well and good, but just wasn't what I was expecting from a fake dating plot.

TW/CW: alcohol abuse, drug use, humiliation/degradation kink, mentions of past grooming behavior (not by MCs)

Thanks to NetGalley and the author for the ARC. Expected publication date is May 4, 2022