Book Review📖
(ARC)The Bastard and the Heir by Eden Finely & Saxon James
Release Jan 18, 2024
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A (Fake)half-siblings forbidden love story that you didn’t know you needed.
Wren sees Darcy as the guy who stole everything he could have had, kinda like Neville Bottom and Harry Potter.
“The rational part of my brain knows Darcy has no say in the choices our parents made back then, but that doesn’t stop the irrational part that asks why him and not me.” (Pg 39)
Meanwhile Darcy is struggling to keep his attraction to Wren, his half-sibling, under wraps, but the truth is Darcy is a Ritcherson only in name, not blood.
“All my life, I’ve tried harder. Be the perfect son, the perfect heir, accept all the shit life’s thrown at me, understand my parents are flawed people, but I need to be perfect. Always. No exceptions. Because the consequences of me screwing up are far more severe than anyone else’s.” (Pg 57)
What follows is their journey in self discovery of what they want in life.
I laughed, I cried and my heart twinged, even though I knew a HEA was guaranteed, I didn’t know how it was going to get there even at the third act break-up point. It didn’t seem possible at all. Everything was against them. I mean we got there in the end, but it was a tough hill to climb to get there. I think that’s what I liked most, nothing about this book was typical and I was unable to guess what was going to happen next all the way to the end. It just continued to surprise me. If I could read it again brand new, I would!!
This story works perfectly as a standalone, but I promise you will want to read the story where the two MCs first show up if you haven’t already. You can find Wren as Remy’s cousin in Up in Flames by Eden Finely & Saxon James, and Darcy as the arranged prospect of Émile in The Husband Hoax (Accidental Love Series Book 1) by Saxon James.
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I was so lucky to have been gifted an ARC of the book, but that just means I got to read it earlier, not that I wasn’t going to pick up this book on release date and read it right away. Anything by the two authors are an automatic read for me.
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