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My Review:Title: Wild Highway
Author: Devney Perry
Series: Runaway #2
Published by: Indie
Release Date: June 23, 2020
Format: Kobo Book
Pages: 268
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
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Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2023 Backlist Reader Challenge, Lenoreo's 2023 COYER Chapter 1, Lenoreo's 2023 January SIAM
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My rating:
Blurb:Gemma Lane built an empire. Not a small feat, considering her home as a teenager was a makeshift tent in a California junkyard. She’s dedicated her life to turning pennies into millions. She has power, fortune and prestige.
And she’s leaving it all behind.
Gemma is headed across the country in her best friend’s Cadillac when a detour in Montana reunites her with old acquaintances and a man who hasn’t changed. Easton Greer challenges her every word and tests her every limit because he doesn’t believe she’s really abandoned her riches. She ignores his snide remarks and muttered censure—until the day she’s ready to return to the wild highway, and Easton taunts her to stay.
She’ll prove to him she’s not just running back to her wealthy life, that she’s more than her money. She’ll unlock her guarded heart and hope that this time around, he’ll treasure the key.
4.5 stars — This one just settled in more strongly for me! There was definitely a lot of contention between the characters, but I wouldn’t call it enemies to lovers necessarily. I think I could just see how much Easton and Gemma wanted one another, so I was rooting for them.
At first I wasn’t sure I was going to connect with Gemma. She’s this self-made hard-working woman, which is admirable but obviously not something that we have in common. But I guess I could see that the drive came from her upbringing, and trying to find a safe place for herself, someplace she fit. It was a common theme in the story, and it made the ending really satisfying.
Easton could be a bit of a jerk to Gemma, but at least I got where that stemmed from especially in the present. And he was similarly very hardworking and self-motivated. I felt for what he was going through trying to balance his “retired” family, and feeling like they didn’t trust him. It was nice that he had his own growth path in this story.
I appreciated that we got time with these two together, because they really fit for me. While Easton frustrated me for not talking to Gemma, I loved what he was trying to do by showing her.
Yeah, I don’t know, this one just hit more strongly than book 1 for me. Can’t wait to read the next book!
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