Damaged Goods by Talia Hibbert
Title: Damaged Goods (Ravenswood #1.5)
Author: Talia Hibbert
Publisher: Nixon House 2018
Genre: Romance
Pages: 181
Rating: 3/5 stars
Reading Challenges: COYER
Spice Meter: 5
Second chances shouldn’t feel so sinful.
Laura Burne‘s husband is a monster, her diamond ring is a trap, and her pregnancy is the push she needs to finally escape. She runs away seeking safety… and finds Samir Bianchi, her long-lost teenage sweetheart.
With his kind eyes and dirty smile, Samir’s still hot as hell—and he still treats Laura like a goddess, baby bump and all. The wild boy she spent one magical summer with is every inch a man, and he’s more than ready to care for her tiny family.
But Laura’s been keeping a secret Samir might never forgive. When she finally confesses, will he remain by her side? Or is this fairytale ending too good to be true?
CW: Domestic Violence (in past, but discussed on the page)
And here we get Laura’s story as touched on very briefly in the previous book. I really wanted to love this story of empowerment and opening up to love, but ultimate, I didn’t love it. Laura is a prickly character that I really wished had sought out therapy instead of solitude. And I must say that pregnancy storylines are really not my favorite. They’re fine, but I have lots of mixed feelings about them. Samir is great and I really fell for him over the course of the novella. But their pairing just didn’t work for me. Oh well. They can’t all be winners.
Ravenswood
#1 A Girl Like Her
#1.5 Damaged Goods
#2 Untouchable
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