source: kindle unlimited
rating:★★★✩✩
from goodreads:
Rosie Belmont has been driving me wild for years. The good kind of wild. The bad kind of wild. But mostly the kind of wild that comes with wanting your best friend’s little sister and knowing you can’t have her.
After living in the city, she comes blasting back into Rose Hill like a storm. Beautiful, messy, and chaotic.
And one wide-eyed desperate plea for a job is all it takes for me to hire her.
Forbes may have labelled me the World’s Hottest Billionaire but all I care about is opening my new recording studio. Something that comes to a screeching halt when I end up face-to-face with a young girl who claims I’m her biological father.
Now I spend my days balancing business with parenting a sullen twelve-year-old all while trying desperately to keep my hands the hell off my best friend’s little sister.
I vow to keep Rosie at arm’s length. I try to stick to scowls and grumpy one-liners. But with her verbal sparring is merely foreplay—friction that turns to blistering heat.
I know damn well I shouldn’t cross that line.
But shouldn’t and can’t are two very different things.
And the only thing I truly can’t do is resist her.
my review:
After living in the city, she comes blasting back into Rose Hill like a storm. Beautiful, messy, and chaotic.
And one wide-eyed desperate plea for a job is all it takes for me to hire her.
Forbes may have labelled me the World’s Hottest Billionaire but all I care about is opening my new recording studio. Something that comes to a screeching halt when I end up face-to-face with a young girl who claims I’m her biological father.
Now I spend my days balancing business with parenting a sullen twelve-year-old all while trying desperately to keep my hands the hell off my best friend’s little sister.
I vow to keep Rosie at arm’s length. I try to stick to scowls and grumpy one-liners. But with her verbal sparring is merely foreplay—friction that turns to blistering heat.
I know damn well I shouldn’t cross that line.
But shouldn’t and can’t are two very different things.
And the only thing I truly can’t do is resist her.
my review:
wild love was a cute romance read. technically, it’s set in a small town, but i feel like ford kind of took the “small town” out of it.
i’m a total sucker for enemies to lovers, but honestly… i don’t really think they were enemies? it felt more like they were secretly in love their whole lives and just refused to admit it. rosie’s diary entries say it all. she read like the classic jealous girl who pretends she’s unbothered, but deep down she’s head over heels.
rosie was my favorite. she was a total badass and kind of reminded me of me tbh; always trying to do the right thing, never be a burden, never disappoint anyone, always there for everyone else. but what i loved most was that she always stood up for herself. she didn’t take anyone’s bs… except ford’s.
now ford… he wasn’t really “grumpy”, more like disheveled. his life got flipped upside down. he suddenly had a kid to take care of, a business to run (which… why didn’t we get more info about that if it was so important??), and a lifelong crush he never fully chased after until she basically landed in his lap. like sir, get it together.
but let’s be real, cora was the true star of this show. anytime i smiled or giggled, it was because of her. she was a “dark little storm cloud” in the best way and brought such lightheartedness to the story. her presence was everything.
overall, wild love was a good read. i saw a ton of hype around it, so i was excited going in. the beginning really pulled me in, but the middle kind of dragged and didn’t hit as hard as i hoped. the scenes with cora and the bowling nights were probably my favorite; light, funny, and sweet. i still enjoyed the book and appreciated the real-life themes like over-involved parents and your best friend being your forever ride-or-die.
favorite quotes:
“i’d call it direct and say other people get offended too easily.”
i’m a total sucker for enemies to lovers, but honestly… i don’t really think they were enemies? it felt more like they were secretly in love their whole lives and just refused to admit it. rosie’s diary entries say it all. she read like the classic jealous girl who pretends she’s unbothered, but deep down she’s head over heels.
rosie was my favorite. she was a total badass and kind of reminded me of me tbh; always trying to do the right thing, never be a burden, never disappoint anyone, always there for everyone else. but what i loved most was that she always stood up for herself. she didn’t take anyone’s bs… except ford’s.
now ford… he wasn’t really “grumpy”, more like disheveled. his life got flipped upside down. he suddenly had a kid to take care of, a business to run (which… why didn’t we get more info about that if it was so important??), and a lifelong crush he never fully chased after until she basically landed in his lap. like sir, get it together.
but let’s be real, cora was the true star of this show. anytime i smiled or giggled, it was because of her. she was a “dark little storm cloud” in the best way and brought such lightheartedness to the story. her presence was everything.
overall, wild love was a good read. i saw a ton of hype around it, so i was excited going in. the beginning really pulled me in, but the middle kind of dragged and didn’t hit as hard as i hoped. the scenes with cora and the bowling nights were probably my favorite; light, funny, and sweet. i still enjoyed the book and appreciated the real-life themes like over-involved parents and your best friend being your forever ride-or-die.
favorite quotes:
“i’d call it direct and say other people get offended too easily.”
“it’s funny how a moment that felt so low can eventually make you smile.”
“but me? i’m the good one. the one who flies under the radar and handles her shit by herself so that no one needs to worry.”
“it’s like she thinks her problems aren’t worthy of attention and solving because they might be inconvenient to other people.”
“you’ve spent too much time around men who talk a big game but don’t possess the will to follow through.”