Review: Just This Once by Lena Hendrix

Just This Once by Lena Hendrix
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This story was okay. Overall I enjoyed it and it was a nice read. I think my biggest problem was that both characters just kept saying the same things over and over and over to the point I got annoyed about it. Forbidden romances are a hit or a miss depending on how well the author writes it and i think this was just a miss for me. 

Also the whole everyone has a nickname in this small town, while depicting a very true statement, got confusing when people had multiple names with no leadway into explaining them...

Whip is a complicated character. He's so confident and demanding one minute then becomes paranoid and self doubting the next. I know this is due to his parents but it makes for a rocky story with Emily and his feelings along the way. 

Emily is also a character who's trying to find her path and has doubts about her choices. And when you put Whip and Emily together it causes a lot of pretending they don't care about each other to not getting enough of each other and back and forth. Of course they finally figure out their issues, but the journey to get there it very very rocky. 

So overall i enjoyed it. I don't need to read it again or anything but it was okay. I liked the Bluebird group and liked the resolution that happened for Emily job wise. 

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