This is a great emotional read. Another awesome book from Molly McAdams! ~ Gabi, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
Twenty-three year old, Kamryn Cunningham has left all she’s ever known and moved to a small town where no one knows her name, who her parents are, or her social status in the horseracing world. Months after opening her own bakery and evading attempts of being set up by her new best friend, she meets Brody. Kamryn fights the instant pull between them because there’s a detail she can’t dismiss. Brody’s married.
To say that twenty-six year old, Brody Saco has had a rough marriage would be an understatement. After marrying his pregnant girlfriend, he spends the next six years in a relationship filled with hatred, manipulation and guilt involving a tragedy that happened five years earlier. When he keeps running into his sister-in-law’s best friend, Kamryn, he can’t ignore that she makes him feel more with just one look than his wife ever has; and soon he can’t continue fight his feelings for her.
When staying apart proves to be too difficult, Brody and Kamryn enter a relationship full of stolen moments and nights that end too soon while they wait for Brody to file for divorce. But the guilt that comes with their relationship may prove to be too much for Kamryn, and Brody might not be strong enough to face the tragedy from his past in order to leave his conniving wife.
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I was skeptical going into it because I loved Capturing Peace that I felt Brody’s story would pale in comparison to Coen’s. But seriously from page one I did not put my kindle down. We all know Molly McAdams loves her some love triangles. But this was a love triangle that includes adultery and marriage, a very touchy subject for many people. But somehow Molly wrote the story out so that I didn’t feel the guilt for pulling for the “mistress” or the anger towards the husband. She wrote the story so that you couldn’t help but root for Kamryn and Brody despite the flaws of how they came together. I did find that the story was a little fast paced and the relationship moved fast. Although on the other hand I wonder if it were to drag out longer if I would have felt more angst towards the characters. So I’m assuming the pace of the relationship may have helped me feel the pull towards loving Kamryn and Brody.
Kamryn loves Brody and finds herself struggling to do the right thing when all she wants is love. Poor Brody is living in his own self inflicted prison that he feels he deserves. He tries time and time again to do the right thing and be the right person to both women. I felt as if I had no choice but to hope they could somehow make it work. The book also showed the dirty secret parts of an affair and it put the whole situation into perspective from both sides. It was tough to see the dirty parts or shameful parts but would make the hope for happiness grow even bigger for the reader.
Thanks Gabi