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April & Oliver by Tess Callahan
3.75
challenging reflective slow-paced

April and Oliver have an, interesting to say the least, relationship. They are possibly step cousins but I was a little confused on it.

April's brother Buddy dies (one thing that REALLY bugged me is not telling their Grandmother that Buddy died... They just made her think he was gone somewhere else during all the family times together) and that brings Oliver back into her orbit, him with a fiancee in tow. There has always been some kind of strong magnetism with these two MCs. Their world are about to get very tangled again and it's not always a great situation to be in.

April is assaulted at a young age and she keeps trying to be with the wrong type of man for her since then. I wish she felt more comfortable in her skin than she seemed to.