Author: Gia De Cadenet
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Adult
Pages: 336
Publisher: Dell
Year Published: 2022
Format: Audiobook
"Khalil Sarda went through a rough patch last year, but now he's nearly back to his old self. All he has to do is keep his 'stuff' in the past. Real men don't have depression and go to therapy-- or, at least they don't admit it. He's ready to focus on his growing chain of barbershops, take care of his beloved Detroit community, and gets back to being the ladies man hisfamily and friends tease him for being. It'll be easy... until Vanessa throws him completely off his game.
Vanessa Noble is too busy building a multimillion-dollar tech career as a Black woman before age thriy to be distracted by a relationship. Not to mention, she's been burned before, still dealing with the lingering hurt of a past breakup. Besides, as her friends often remind her, she'll never find a man who checks all the boxes of her famous List. yet when she desperately needs a shape-up and happens upon one of Khalil's barbershops, the Fade, he makes her reconsider everything. Khalil is charming, intelligent, sexy, and definitely seems like he'd treat a woman right... but he's not Black.
Vanessa may be willing to take a chance on Khalil, but a part of him is frustratingly closed off, just out of her reach. Will old patterns emerge to keep them apart? Or have they both finally found a connection worth throwing away the playbook for?"
My Rating: 4/5
I really appreciated the way this book handled the mental health and social equality conversations. They were open conversations between our hero and heroine, while the reader listened in. They were realistic conversations (not forced feeling) and I feel these are subjects I would like to see in romance on a more regular basis. The romance between the characters was good, the smutty scenes were fun, Overall, a great romance! I would recommend.
Thanks for reading,
Sidny
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