I devoured this book in one day because I just couldn’t put it down. I’m officially obsessed and I need the rest of the series!

This is the kind of romance book that I can’t get enough of. This was truly my guilty pleasure and I’m not even ashamed to admit it. The forbidden love, enemies-to-lovers, heart-warming found family, AND with an equally developed, harrowing plot that kept me turning the pages. I loved every minute of it.

This is going to be the newest obsession in the BookTok community. I can’t wait for everyone to get their hands on this one and love it as much as I did. I can’t wait to hear everyone raving about this book and giving it the hype it truly deserves.

It is an emotional roller coaster. The characters’ grief and trauma bleeds off the pages. And their angsty banter is golden. As y’all know, the fierce, overprotective male is my aphrodisiac. Combine that with the equally independent and sassy female and I’m hooked. (When Noah lashes back at her bully … YAS girl!)

It's gritty, it's real, it's raw - and I still couldn’t get enough of it. I don’t even have the words to describe to you why and how much I loved this book - except to tell you that you absolutely have to read this one!

PSA: This book does have some dark/taboo themes and moments, so if that’s not your thing you may want to move along - just don’t hate on the rest of us who eat that sh*t up ;)

First off, I really thought I’d like this book. Usually I’m a fan of enemies to lovers trope but the age difference between the two main charters was just cringy. 17 and 22(by the end of the book) I really couldn’t get past that fact. And the main character Noah was literally someone that you wanted to smack cause she acted so dumb and Nick was just the typical I’m a a-hole but I have a light deep down inside. The side characters didn’t get any attention and were pretty two dimensional and very forgettable. And the book is very very repetitive, for example: let’s go get drunk and go to a party at sketchy as hell and then get hot and bothered over each other. And when you reach to the climax, it was very anti-climactic with how it was handled. Let’s just say there wasn’t really enough details to fill out the backstory. To be completely honest, I’ve seen that there’s a second book that’s coming out or has been released. And I have no interest in seeing what happens with these characters.
*Thanks NetGalley & Bloom Books for ARC*

Noah's life is upturned when her mother suddenly marries wealthy William Leister, and she is moved from Toronto to California. Not only does she have to leave her boyfriend, her friends, and her school in her senior year, but now she is living with William and her new step brother, Nicholas.

This book was an angst filled, darker enemies to lovers with a step brother/sister taboo romance, so make sure to read trigger warnings. Noah and Nick's chemistry is off the charts, and the double life that Nick leads between rich socialite and bad boy racer and fighter is incredibly enticing. Noah has a past that we don't get to fully learn about until the very end, but enough tidbits and clues were dropped throughout the book to keep me reading on the edge of my seat.

I've been thrilled to see the different authors added to Bloom's publishing, and Mercedes Ron seems like a great addition to their lineup of great and swoony authors.

Thank you to Bloom Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this book.

unfortunately this book was not for me. i didn’t click with the writing style or the characters as it felt very young. this book was all over the place and the characters were so hot and cold. he “hated” her and then was going on about how he thought he was in love in the next paragraph

it’s my fault for not reading the description before i started this book, but it is a step-sibling romance. she is 17 and he is in his 20s. just not my thing, and i found it quite off putting.

I wanted to like this story but I just couldn’t get into it. This story might be popular with other readers. It just wasn’t my cup of tea.

I love how the author jump straight into the story. but I would say this book was just not for me. however I did like how the book started. thankyou NetGally and SOURCEBOOKS Bloom Books for allowing me to read this book.

I was going to give this book 4 stars however, I was thinking back on some stuff in the book. It was honestly not the best. There are moments where the characters are just really bad people. While I would say this is a book to read for teens. This is not one of those. The idea is there, however the way it plays out is not the way to go.

dnf

This one just wasn't for me. It read very young, which made it hard for me to connect to the FMC. Also, Noah's personality was irritating. She gave me "I'm not like other girls energy" and I just didn't vibe with her as a character. Same with Nick. He gave off more unnecessarily mean than dark MMC. Finally, I don't mind a good age gap. But, Noah being seventeen put me off.

*Thank you to Netgalley and Bloom Books*

Quando comecei a ler este livro já ia a pensar que me iria dar nostalgia ao pensar nos meus tempos de leituras de fanfic no wattpad. Aqui encontramos o típico badboy. Faz-me lembrar imenso dos livros da saga "Já te disse que te amo?" da Estelle Maskame, que é uma das minhas sagas favoritas de sempre!

A história do Nick e da Noah é tão intensa e envolvente que nos é difícil parar de ler. Este foi o primeiro livro que li da autora, e, embora inicialmente me tenha feito lembrar outros livros com histórias semelhantes (já te disse que te amo?), com o desenrolar da história, as personagens tornaram-se únicas e os acontecimentos também.

Aqui temos uma história com diferentes tropes tais como: enemies to lovers, steph-brothers, forced proximity, forbidden love.

Conhemos a Noah e o Nick, que são agora colegas de casa e meios-irmãos. Muito contra a vontade dela, vemos uma relação atípica a ser formada entre os dois. Muito ódio e muita tensão sexual!

Aguardo com expectativas altas pelo segundo volume desta série porque este final fez-me chorar por mais! Preciso de saber o que aconteceu!

If I’m being honest it wasn’t my favorite read. I really wasn’t Vibing with the characters. I wanted to DNF; but I pushed through for the ending. Which I wasn’t surprised by at all. I would give this read a 2/5. I would have loved a plot twist; or even a different ending that wasn’t so easily predicted.

If you can put yourself in a mental place where you can withstand the poor writing style, whinny self obsessed narrators then this book may be for you. While I knew going into the book it was based on a Wattpad story I figured the story would have underwent some editing before it took it's final form as a novel. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the case here. The two main characters Noah (seventeen/female), and Nick (twenty-two/male) have inner monologues and behave as though they are thirteen instead of adults.

⤷‧₊˚ 1⭑ || dnf @30%

“I couldn’t go home; I didn’t know how I’d act. One part of me, the perverted one, the one that clearly didn’t need my head to think, wanted to grab that girl with her blond hair and honey-colored eyes and do it all to her, make her pay for losing my most treasured possession; the other wanted to make her afraid to even be near me, to even breathe too loudly when I was in the room.”

I also think I should read the description of the book before I read it because then I would have known that this is a step sibling romance not only that but I can't with this book Nick is such a huge piece of shit and Noah is so annoying.

I really wish they didn't have a happy ending because no matter how much I hate Noah, Nick doesn't deserve her or better, they don't deserve each other