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4.42 AVERAGE
4.42 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I really liked this book at the beginning, but over time, it lost me. Maverick was a little too perfect in Hendrix’s eyes, and once they got together, the book was kind of a drag. It felt at least 75 pages too long. I know that Kennedy Ryan tried to combat this, but I felt the way that Mav insisted on financially providing for and spoiling Hendrix was too entrenched in traditional gender roles, which made me start to dislike Maverick for Hen. This was my least favorite of the Skyland books, but I remain a big Kennedy Ryan fan!
adventurous
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Kennedy Ryan does it again! Never just a "romance novel", always leaving you with thoughts and discussions about so much within life. Such respect for writing about a FMC who doesn't want child but still wants a partner, and doing it so well!! 💕
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent
Moderate: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I very much enjoyed this final book in the Skyland trilogy, finally getting Hendrix's story. She's always been the fun aunt, the badass childless-by-choice, hardworking, independent woman; I admired her and was interested in seeing how her romance would let her continue being all of these things. She's a talent manager, soon to be tv producer, and runs a venture capital firm with two other women to aid in Black women entrepreneurs. Then she meets Maverick, billionaire who sold an app, working on buying an NBA team, and recently out of a 3 year relationship with the woman Hen is going into TV business with. That complicated things and she tries to deny her attraction and then her feelings once she and Mac becomes friends and he starts to pursue her hard. She's also dealing with her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis, and going back and forth between Atlanta and her hometown near Charlotte to help at home, and as things worsen it becomes clear that what's happening now isn't sustainable. I think overall I enjoyed Hen and Mac's dynamic, their chemistry is great and they really see each other and support one another. I do think some of the things he said when she kept turning him down multiple times would be a bit of a red flag in real life vs in a romance novel, and there were also some things he did that were firmly in the 'this is why I don't like billionaire stories when it's in my face like this' camp (i.e. whyTF do $200,000 bottles of whisky even exist and why would one bring it over casually when trying to impress a woman? Ugh, captialism.) but then he'd go and say things like "I want my love to be the most extravagant gift I ever give you." and redeem himself. Aside from those things it was more of the same humor, heart and respectful and diverse representation (plus size MC, Black MCs, queer/fluid MC, and side characters with dementia, vitiligo, Autism) I've learned to expect from Kennedy Ryan in this series.
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes