“How can I push him away when all I want is to pull him toward me?” – 4.25/5 stars!

Attention! This book contains: food trucks, skateparks, delicious tacos, house parties, family drama, and personalized skateboards.

She belongs to my brother…

I’ve stood back for years watching Dax repeatedly screw things up with Kennedy, as if he doesn’t think anyone could ever swoop in and steal her away.

Breakup after breakup, they always end up back together, even though I’ve always had a thing for her. I’m tired of waiting. He had his chance.

I want mine.

When Dixie’s Alibi — her Grandmother’s bar — needs a new cook for the food truck, I jump at the opportunity, despite the fact that Kennedy Ward hates me. At least, she pretends she does. We both know she secretly wants me and always has.

One way or another, I will get her to finally admit it, even if it involves losing my brother. I plan to play dirty — real dirty — just like he did.

This time I’m going to beat him at his own game. I wanted her first, and he knew that, but our age kept us apart. Not anymore.

Now, I’m grown and ready to take what should’ve been mine to begin with.

Oh, this was exactly what I needed to get out of my reading slump! I liked this book a lot and I had a lot of fun reading it.

Let me start by saying this is my type of romance. I usually like enemies-to-lovers (I can do friends-to-lovers too, but the first is my favorite), but what I like the most are books with a ton of angst – mixed a little with the forbidden romance trope. And this book fits like a glove!

In this story, we follow a girl named Kennedy, who has a boyfriend named Dax. They are together for a very long time, but they have an on-and-off kind of relationship, and they fight a lot. The fun part is that his younger brother Colson always liked Kennedy and swore to steal her away from his brother Dax because he believed Dax stole her away from him first. They were destined to be together and Dax robbed him of the opportunity to be with her since Colson was younger than them. As you can imagine, they don’t get along very well! And surprise, surprise… Kennedy always liked him as well! It’s a really fun story full of angst and buried passion.

Now, is this the best romance I’ve ever read? Not even close. Was it good? Absolutely! There was something here (that I can’t pinpoint exactly what it is) that made me not give this a 5-star rating. Maybe the stuff with the older brother that seemed a little too over the top for me? And maybe some weird pacing at times. Still, it was very entertaining and I had a good time reading it.

I was surprised to find out this was my first time reading a book from this author. I’m a big romance reader, so I thought I picked up one of her books already, but apparently, this was my first time. If her other books are as good as this one is, I’m down to read them all!