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So someone in a facebook group I’m in asked for a book with other woman drama, but no cheating and this book got recommended. It’s actually a duet, but the person recommending it mentioned that the other woman angst was in book 2 so I went straight to this one and skipped the first.
I actually loved reading it – I could definitely feel the angst, which was exactly what I was looking for. The characters are messy, have trouble communicating with each other and have a lot of miscommunications but it’s not done in a silly, completely unbelievable way. It’s very realistically written. I have not a clue exactly what took place in the first book, but in this one Emily has left her fiance at the altar because she is pregnant with Jackson, her fiance’s “brother” baby. Emily is in love with him, but Jackson has issues with the idea of love and feelings, but wants to commit to her and the baby. They get married and move to base to make a life together. It’s a little more complicated than this though. The bulk of the story is them finding their way through this situation together.
This is really well written and I loved how the characters are written, but there was also some real flaws with this story. There were so many loose ends and things that never truly get resolved. For instance there is an issue with her ex-fiance at one point, and we never truly get a resolution to exactly what happened in that scenario – we just never see or hear of him again. Then there is the other woman angst. This woman has been harassing Emily, and it’s even strongly hinted that she might be behind someone trying poison Emily’s dog, but the whole thing just completely disappears at some point with no resolution. This was a HUGE issue for me, I prefer authors to leave things out if they don’t fully resolve them because it just leaves things feeling very unfinished or as though something went wrong in the editing. Had the overall story not been so compelling, I probably would have rated it lower, but seriously once I started this book I really couldn’t put it down until I finished it, so it still deserved a fairly high rating!