Hey Bookies,
I am loaded up on audiobooks until I recover from my wrist surgery. The first book I listened to was Enemies by Tijan. It's a sports romance with a enemies to lovers trope. But I am thinking that the whole enemies thing was just in the main female character's head. But I can see where she was coming from. Stone's family did kind of ruin things for her family. Anyway our main female character is named Dusty. She was named after her uncle who passed too young. Anyway Dusty is trying to escape something but we don't know what yet. We have an idea due to the prologue but nothing is quite clear yet. But when she arrives to the location she found to rent online, the person who gave her the place ended up lying. Dusty shows up to the house in full party mode and she is dreading it. But she sucks it up and manages for a bit. Her stepmother likes to send her texts to encourage her to contact her childhood friend Stone, but Dusty doesn't want anything to do with him. Eventually Stone and Dusty fight over the phone that results in Dusty calling her stepmother to stop harassing Stone's family. Shortly after, Stone shows up at where Dusty lives with some news and Dusty reacts only to get into an accident. I'd give more details but that would ruin the story. Anyway Dusty is stuck living with Stone for a while because he promised her mom that he would take care of Dusty. Dusty at one point has a panic attack and for some reason that leads to her and Stone doing the dirty deed. They then somehow become enemies with benefits for a while until Dusty starts to get feelings. She breaks it off and works to earn her keep. Eventually her and Stone make amends after her secret gets out. And that is pretty much how it ends. Of course the epilogue has them happily married with a little one just to wrap up everything in s little bow. Now the book has an okay character growth with Dusty. She could have grown a little more, maybe got therapy or something that didn't involve sleeping with her childhood friend. The spicy scenes were pretty good too. Nothing to write home about. More mild than anything. If that is your vibe, this book is for you. This book gets a three out of five from me. It was okay and I did enjoy it, but I feel like there was room for improvement.
So until next time...
-Lys
