Title: Never Backing Off
Series: Never U, #2
Author: C.R. Lee
Release Date: March 2nd
Blurb:
Boys are kind of like dogs. They're hairy, have zero attention span and think they can metaphorically pee on anything and mark it as theirs. But it's my choice who I give my heart to, and I choose him.
Emma
What’s worse than crashing face-first into a super-hot guy with gray eyes and a killer smile? Spilling scalding hot coffee all over yourself and said hot guy, then babbling incoherently because your brain has short circuited from all the hotness (from the guy, not the coffee). Not my greatest moment, I admit. Fortunately, I eventually regain my ability to speak and we end up completely hitting it off.
My sister tells me not to get excited because he is way too good to be true.
I really hope she isn't right.
Dante
You know that feeling when you meet someone, and you just click? Then you find out she’s the same girl your brother’s been crushing on for a year and you, in a moment of panic pretend you don’t know her, completely infuriating her to the point she stops speaking to you?
No? Just me then.
I should leave things as they are and stay far away from her, for both our sakes, but I’m tired of always doing what everyone tells me I should do.
This time, I’m going after what I want.
Never Backing Off is a spicy forbidden lovers college romance with no cliffhanger an a guaranteed HEA. It is book two in the Never U series but can be read as a standalone.
Caroline's Review
🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2
"There's a gravity between us, a current that buzzes along our points of contact and sets my heart fluttering."
Emma Chase is a beautiful and sexy theatre major, which makes people think of her in a certain way. She yearns for someone who sees beyond her looks. When she bumps into Dante Douglas on the first day of psych class, there's no denying the spark between them.
"He makes me feel...like I fit. I ache to be with him and when I'm with him, I ache for him to be closer."
Dante, bless him, is every kind of awkward. When it comes to women, he's always been in his brother's shadow, but finally someone he likes is interested in him back. Until he finds out that his Emma is the same Emma that his brother has been crushing on. The brother that he's keen to have a better relationship with.
"My girl. That's what she is. Mine. Malcolm's just going to have to deal with it."
I really felt for Dante in this story. He was gorgeous and thoughtful, and wanted to please everyone and not hurt anyone's feelings. In the process, he only hurt himself. I loved that Emma was the catalyst for him to speak up and do something to please himself. And, can I just mention how hot Dante was?! 🔥🔥 I'll be honest and say I had mixed feelings about Emma. I wasn't 100% keen on her in the first book and, in this book, I think she could have also worked harder to deserve Dante. She had issues but I felt she was also somewhat selfish, and she could have had a bit more empathy for Dante's situation. She never put herself in his place or questioned what she would have done if that had been about her and her sister, Kat, who she was super close to. Relationships are two-way streets, and I felt like if it wasn't her way, then it was no way. Overall, a great read with plenty of spice and a gorgeous hero.
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