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BOOKWORM REVIEW: Stay Here With Me by Carrie Ann Ryan

 

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
SPICE: 🔥🔥🔥

This served enemies-to-lovers so hard, and I love it.

East Wilder and Lark Thornbird have been dancing around each other. The loner brother of the Wilder family has had a somewhat flirty but mostly adversarial connection with the songwriter/musician who uses his family resort as a reprieve from the spotlight. Their relationship is made complicated when they agree to add "benefits" to it. It's alright -- these two guarded individuals are certain that there is no chance to catch feelings. Or so they thought..

This is probably my favorite book of the series. I have longed for East's story since Carrie Ann Ryan kept teasing it throughout the series. I do have a weakness for the broody types, and East -- the resort's handyman -- fits it to a T. I love that this was about guarding yourself against the world and finding that one person to help you open up, and that was the main theme for both main characters. Addressing East's PTSD from his time in the military and Lark's trust issues as a celebrity felt natural and well-integrated into the story.

The chemistry they deliver is fantastic. I love the banter and the flirting. The adversarial moments are equally sizzling. While East and Lark's story has been alluded to in previous reads, this can be read as a standalone. 

I am starting to feel a bit melancholy as we near the end of this series, but I cannot wait for the next Wilder Brother story!

** I am voluntarily reviewing an advance copy of this book. Thank you to Carrie Ann Ryan and Give Me Books Promotions for providing an ARC. **

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Wilder Brothers from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a secret romance that East and Lark never saw coming.

The world thinks I only write songs about my ex-boyfriends. 
They study each lyric to point a finger at which man broke my heart—even if I’ve never met him.
Only the man I refuse to write about is the one who is so tangled in my mind that I know I can never be with him.
I had one night with East Wilder, and I know that’s all there will ever be.
He broke my heart without even trying.
Yet now I can’t seem to write a single verse and I need a place to hide while I figure out who I am. The Wilder Retreat will have to be my refuge as the Wilders prepare for my best friend’s wedding.
And when I’m there, I refuse to fall for East again.
Even if the dark shadows in his eyes draw me in. And the dangers of his past might be the one thing that forces us to finally give in.

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MEET CARRIE ANN RYAN

Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance. Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Redwood Pack, Fractured Connections, and Elements of Five series, which have sold over 3.0 million books worldwide. She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over seventy-five novels and novellas with more in the works. When she’s not losing herself in her emotional and action-packed worlds, she’s reading as much as she can while wrangling her clowder of cats who have more followers than she does. 

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