Try Me (Entangled Ever After, #1)

by Diane Alberts

[Angie]

Try Me was a very frustrating, but quick read. Despite not usually being into military romances, I was actually enjoying this one until the issues arrived. It was all very circular and repetitive, wasting a lot of this novella's few pages. Try Me starts with Jeremy on the side of the road, after coming out of the desert sunburned, dehydrated, and hung over. He's a Marine on leave, but his trip to Las Vegas isn't the relaxing vacation he had hoped for. Getting drunk and into a fight ends with him abandoned in the middle of nowhere, but luckily someone comes along and finds him. Coincidentally, it's Erica, the girl he's been in love with his whole life and whom he hasn't seen in seven years after he told her he loved her and she literally ran away from him. It looks like he's getting a second chance at love, if only she'd stop pushing him away.

Jeremy and Erica are both are incredibly stubborn people. He keeps pushing her to give their relationship a try, but she's adamant to keep him in the friend zone. It's obvious that he still loves her, and she actually does love him back, but she can't be with him because of...reasons! I absolutely cannot stand when people tell other people how they feel and use that as an excuse rather than owning up to their own issues. This is essentially the heart of Try Me, since Erica constantly tells Jeremy that they can't have a relationship but she won't tell him why. She has a secret, that I won't spoil, but she tries to convince Jeremy (and herself) that he can't possibly love her because of it, even though it's something totally out of her control and really nothing to be ashamed of. But of course, her secret comes out, Jeremy seems to love her even more because of it, they do the sexy thing, and live happily ever after.

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