Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family’s mansion. The next items?
- Enjoy a drunken night out.
- Ride a motorcycle.
- Go camping.
- Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.
- Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.
- And… do something bad.
But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.
Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.
But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. And why he never shows his art to anyone. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior…
My Review
I wanted to read this book since I found out it had chronic illness representation in it. I love the author’s note at the beginning of the book.
Not gonna lie, the chronically ill fmc in this book is totally relatable to some, and I’m enjoying every moment of her inner thoughts. Red the superintendent/maintenance guy at the apartment is a sweet golden retriever of a guy and also tatted and bad boy vibes, but his actions are anything but.
The author’s indication of the chronic illness and the effect of fibromyalgia in this story are spot on, and I think many can relate. So many things I’m highlighting in this story I can apply to my own life.
I love that red is making a bargain of sorts to help with Chloe’s list. This story is a slow-burning romance, and it is so sweet with the interracial characters and the friendly interactions.
This book gets steamy as they get intimate, and the interactions are hot but sweet. After a bit of happiness and contentment, her world breaks yet again as this book gets dramatic, the friend-to-lovers trope. Their being damaged MCs and her having a chronic illness is soul-shattering.
Even with some bumps in the road, this book ends sweetly, and I love the mature resolution to their overreaction. I loved that the chronic illness was rep in the story was so amazing, and the characters as well. This book has a great moral to the story, too, despite the super steamy scenes.
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