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My Review:Title: Yours at Midnight
Author: Robin Bielman
Published by: Entangled: Lovestruck
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 140
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Holiday
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2019 AtoZ Reading Challenge, Lenoreo's 2019 Beat the Backlist Challenge, Lenoreo's COYER With Friends
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My rating:
Blurb:Lyric Whetsone only had eyes for Quinn Sobel's brother Oliver, until a car crash took Oliver's life on New Year's Eve. Then, a moment of shared grief between Quinn and Lyric became something more impassioned, something that frightened Quinn so much he ran from Lyric's bed and her life, disappearing for four long years.
Now Quinn's back for another New Year's Eve, struggling for closure, desperate to leave his grief in the past and make amends with the girl of his dreams.
But Lyric has a secret—one that could drive Quinn from her life forever. Will Quinn run away from the love and acceptance he's always wanted... or will he claim his New Year's kiss and make her his at midnight?
4 stars — This book was so easy to fall into and devour…though at times with the secrets, I would flip ahead because I became impatient for my guesses to be confirmed. Truthfully, the whole intentionally keeping the reader in the dark through misdirection thing isn’t actually my favourite, and probably contributed to this not being even higher rated…but that’s a personal taste thing.
In general I really enjoyed both Lyric and Quinn…even if I didn’t always understand them and their dynamic. I’m not huge on enemies to lovers, just because I have a hard time watching people be not nice to each other, so that was probably the other strike against this book. Lyric made a *very* selfish choice. But while I didn’t quite fully understand why, I appreciated that she eventually owned up to it and didn’t try to make excuses for herself. That was seriously admirable.
Quinn was dealing with a lot himself, and I appreciated the look into how the childhood dynamic with his twin brother helped to shape some of his less than ideal qualities. Honestly, I was happy with this final version of him — his teasing was more goodnatured, and he seemed to be really trying his hardest to make amends for sins of the past.
The two of them together actually had pretty great chemistry! OMG, some of the making out type scenes were just…woowee. Nice.
One of the other aspects of this story that made it stand out was the fun cast of secondary characters, basically entirely made up of Lyric’s large family. They really seemed to have fun together, the siblings teased each other and weren’t perfect, but you could feel the love. The kids were fairly adorable and hilarious. And Lyric’s Mom was astute, kind, and understanding. It made for a great atmosphere of post-holiday fun.
So yeah. Definitely a great novella to fill up my happiness cup and get me ready for the holidays!
I haven’t read this author yet, but I feel like I’ve been seeing her name everywhere lately. I like the sound of this one, and I like enemies to lovers. I’m going to write this one down as the one to give a try from her.