Enchanting, wonderful, and the start of what promises to be an epic romance between two people who are devoted to one another as friends hoping to be more in the future, I loved Before That Promise. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
If anyone can make Drew Lawson actually want to utter the ‘C’ word–let alone precede it with anything remotely merry–of course the universe would pick the addictively sweet, mind-wreckingly beautiful Skylar Sullivan to try.
She’s only the girl-next-door of his dreams he’d classified as completely off-limits two years ago…the same one now standing on his doorstep on Christmas eve.
Between a crazy hotel mishap, one giant secret hanging over their heads instead of mistletoe, and a little holiday road trip, the pair help each other rediscover the memories from their pasts that count, and start making new ones to look forward to remembering in the years to come.
This is Book One of Two of the Drew & Skylar duet–starring Skylar Sullivan from the Can’t Resist series, all grown up, and Drew Lawson from the Cactus Creek series, as swoonworthy as ever. Happy holidays, everyone!
Review copy provided with no expectations
Anyone who has read and loved author Violet Duke’s Cactus Creek series has been waiting for this
story and although this is the first book in their duology and I can’t wait until book two releases in February Before that Promise was everything I hoped for and more. They met as teens; she was sixteen and he was nineteen and though they both wanted each other with every fiber of their being he walked away because he knew he couldn’t break her heart and that if he gave in to his desire he wouldn’t be able to leave and do the things he was destined to do. Their story is really one of sacrifice, longing, and a desire so deep that waiting to be together was the only thing that made sense. Two years later, they find one another again in a hotel in Las Vegas; the time still isn’t quite right, but the time they spend together over the Christmas holidays in memorable in more ways than one.
I loved everything little thing about this book and the fact that Drew and Skylar finally spent some quality time together and really began to know one another. They shared so much about their lives, their hopes and their dreams and they also shared the feelings they had for one another despite the fact that they know in their hearts the time isn’t right for them to be together. This book was heartbreaking beautiful in that they both feel they are meant to be together, but they both still have some growing up to do and some dreams to fulfill before they get there. I love that they didn’t move to a physical relationship, that they strengthened their friendship, but also let one another know exactly who had their heart.
I’m not one for books that leave things unsettled, but in the case of this series I’m okay with it because they leave the story where both parties are okay, they simply have things to finish before they can be together.
Enchanting, wonderful, and the start of what promises to be an epic romance between two people who are devoted to one another as friends hoping to be more in the future, I loved Before That Promise.
Sounds really good. Thanks for the review Slick