All I did was agree to be there for my best friend during a routine surgery. How could I have known his first words when he woke up would change our friendship forever?ย
To everyone else on campus, Lorenzo Rossi is the star football player with the promising future. To me, he’s the other half of my heart. My source of strength since I was a kid. Oh yeah, and the only man I’ve ever loved.
But he doesn’t need to know that.
Because Lorenzo isn’t just tall, dark and covered in hot tattoos, he’s perfection. Totally unattainable for a girl whose biggest accomplishment is landing a job cleaning aquariums.
Until the day Lorenzo goes into surgeryโฆ and comes out saying the words Iโve spent a lifetime longing to hear.
Suddenly I have everything I’ve ever wanted and one long, steamy summer to enjoy itโwarm days under the sun with Lorenzo, hot nights in his bed, and scorching games of truth or dare.
But as sultry kisses give way to heartfelt words, a secret slips outโฆ and suddenly our more-than-friends experiment is a game of all-or-nothing. Either I fight for the one thing Iโve always wanted, or I lose my best friendโand with him, everything I love.
Ava Decker has hated me for just as many years as Iโve spent loving her.
I made a mistake pretending our night together never happened. For pretending I forgot. But we were young and I was getting ready to leave for college with big plans for the future.
I had no plans to return to our small town in Colorado anytime soon and Ava never wanted to leave. That alone was enough to keep me away from her while we both grew up.
And yet, I never forgot about her and what she means to me.
Now eight years later, imagine my surprise, when I come home and find Sleeping Beauty asleep on my couch, thinking I wouldnโt be back home from my off-season vacation for a few weeks.
As a professional football player, I know all about grabbing an opportunity and running with it. This is my chance to finally convince the girl of my dreams to stay and to tell her the truth about that fateful night years ago.
But getting Ava Decker to not only forgive me but to give me another chance comes with a whole new set of plays Iโm not used to.
Iโve got all the time in the world to convince her. Iโm committed to showing to her that she is my endgame. I let her go once before and Iโll stop at nothing to prove to her that my love for her is real and an unstoppable force.
**Warning: Readers should be mindful that Unstoppable Love contains multiple descriptive scenes of attempted assault that may be sensitive and triggering to some.**
I don’t listen to a lot of audio books – I was put off of them in the 90s when I listened to a romance set in Minnesota and the narrator tried an accent (Swedish, Norwegian, something northern european) and it was so hard to listen to. Decades later and I can’t describe to you how bad it seemed to me. But things are different now and I’m trying again.
I enjoyed the narrators for this one. I appreciate the his and hers, dual perspective and I feel like these two are good at their job. They have great voices, good cadence, and read at a pleasant listening speed. If this had been my experience before …. ๐
The story, on the other hand, I’m a little torn on. Early on I felt like both of them were pretty immature. I can’t imagine the pain that Ava experienced thanks to Cam and the fact that he keeps poking at that wound would be beyond rage inducing. I also felt like maybe she let it all go a little too soon. The man really, really screwed up and I don’t know how willing I would have been to forgive him.
Things were better in the last third to half. For being such a jerk for so long, Cam does know how to step up and be a good partner. The ending tho is another place where I’m not sure how I feel. Parts seem a little rushed, others a little predictable, and some made sense for who they are as people. I just don’t know … I guess I’m going to have to sit with this story for a bit *shrug*
(Also, please read the content warning. I feel like it is very important and for some it could be even more impactful hearing it than just reading it.)
Romantic Reads and Such 