Too Beautiful to Break

by Tessa Bailey

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I've been reading Tessa Bailey's books for so many years and this is the book that I always felt like she was destined to write.

I fell in love with her dirty talking, alpha heroes and I've watched those kinds of characters evolve and I've wanted that. I've also wanted her to write books with a larger word count so she would have more room to stretch her "writing wings". I wished for this years ago and here we are, with Belmont, one of Bailey's most (if not the most so far) complex characters that she has ever created.

There is a danger in saving a character like Belmont for last. Will he live up to the build up? The short answer for me is YES. Is it an easy journey? No, not at all. There are so many layers to Belmont and why he is the way he is and the reader needs to be patient with him.

As for Sage, she has her own journey to take and I wasn't exactly prepared for the depth of that journey either and how it influences her relationship with Belmont.

The relationship between Sage and Belmont has also been built up. Readers always knew that their relationship was super intense and their connection runs deep. But how would that relationship be impacted when it finally reached a physical connection? Personally, I enjoyed the exploration into the physical part of their relationship and how it created another level of connection and depth. It was extremely intense and SEXY. Good lord.

Too Beautiful to Break is the bookend to the Clarkson's New Year's Day journey to the Polar Plunge that was laid at their feet by their mother, Miriam. While it was hard for her children to understand on a deeper level why she sent them on this pilgrimage, at first, when you look at it as a whole and with Belmont's role in it, it makes sense.

TBtB highlights just how much Bailey's writing has developed and how far she has come since those first Line of Duty books.