Wow, wow, wow!
I am falling more and
more in love with Tammara Webber's writing – one book at a time.
Her latest novel, Sweet, is an absolutely enthralling
page-turner; I read this on my flight from Frankfurt (Germany) to
Dallas (TX, USA) earlier this week, and despite several power naps
and LOTS of food (seriously, I had never had as much food on a
flight before!), I was done with the book before we ever got
close to touching down in Texas (I think we were about three hours
from Dallas when I turned the last page with a content little sigh).
And as much as I hate to admit it – though if you'd been one of the
people on my flight, you'd probably already know anyways – this
novel actually made me shed a Sweet tear or two, much
to the confusion of the man sitting behind me. This, however, was not
necessarily due to the scenes bearing tragic or sadness, but thanks
to the overwhelming cuteness overload that hit me in some of the most
unexpected moments.
Sweet
could have just as well been called “Sweet and Spicey“ – HOT,
Sweet & Spicey – because the book's like a bucket full of
chicken with a side of waffles: all tempting and delicious, sweet and
spicey, with Boyce being some serious competition for Lucas Maxfield
(the male protagonist of Easy and Breakable, the first
two installments in the Contours of the Heart series) in the
book-boyfriend department. It really comes as no surprise that Pearl
fell in love with Boyce. He is the perfect little (big? Wouldn't
wanna deliver an unintended inaccurate pun (-; ) package – a
hot bad boy on the outside, and a boy who raised himself right on the
inside. Boyce Wynn and Pearl Torres Frank are perfect for one another
– they are like two matching puzzle pieces, completing - and
bringing out the best in - each other.
This novel is a great example how one
moment, one fateful encounter – even if neither one of the two
protagonists believes in fate – can change the course of your
life forever.
You will meet people who will stay in
your life forever, and you will meet people who will only stay for a
short while. You will meet people who will care, who will love you,
and you will meet people who will inevitably hurt you. You will be
around people who will try to influence you to go down a certain path
in life, and you will meet those who will support you, your dreams
and decisions, no matter what. And you should never settle for less - never settle for the least, the minimum, because you deserve nothing but the best. This is where one of the sweetest
parts of the book comes in – the aknowledgements in the back of it.
While I absolutely loved the story, the last paragraph of said
aknowledgements makes me adore Tammara Webber as a person, and not
'just' a writer, even more than I already had. I'll save you a seat
at my 10 authors you'd love to have a teaparty with-table,
Tammara!
5/5!
He’s the love of her life, but he doesn’t know it.
She’s his one moment of sacrifice in a lifetime of survival.
He was damaged and wild, but resilient.
She’s always been obedient. Now she’s restless.
Home for the summer between college and med school, Pearl Torres Frank knows two things: Boyce Wynn is the embodiment of everything she should run from, and everything she wants to run to. Rebellious and loud. Unconcerned with society’s opinion of him. Passionate. Strong. Dangerous.
And one more trait he hides from everyone but her:
(This can be read as a stand-alone novel.)
Boyce Wynn hadn’t been one of them. A trailer that at the moment contained one bed. “I
guess I’ll just sleep—”
“In my bed.”
The hand gesturing toward the living room froze midair. I’ve heard people say My
heart stopped—which of course isn’t possible unless you’ve just died—but I now
understood where the perception might originate. “Uh.”
“I’ll take the sofa,” he said.
Embarrassment washed over me. He wasn’t propositioning me. He was being
courteous. I lowered my hand, half-convinced I’d fallen into an alternate universe where
my mother kicked me out of the house and Boyce Wynn was proper. “You don’t have to
do that.”
He arched a brow, his eyes glowing with mischief. “You want me to sleep with
Or not.
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. Before writing full-time, I was an undergraduate academic advisor, economics tutor, planetarium office manager, radiology call center rep, and the palest person to ever work at a tanning salon. I married my high school sweetheart, and I'm Mom to three adult kids and four very immature cats.
