Lots Of Moving Parts And Yet It All Works. This book has a *lot* of moving parts with a primary romance, a secondary romance setup, two different tragic female backstories to encounter and mostly resolve, and a primary mystery and a secondary one to boot. And yet Whisler somehow manages to make all of that work, though the fact that she has 400 or so pages to play with here probably plays into this working as well as it does. The story is well paced - if you don't mind a very slow burn primary romance. As in, not so slow that there is zero "piano playing" at all, but slow burn enough that this doesn't actually happen until the last 15% or so of the book. So for the clean/ sweet crowd... eh, *all* of these characters have enough rough edges you're likely not going to like this one. For those that *like* a bit more edginess... yep, this one is for you, particularly if you're closer to the clean/ sweet side but like to get brave occasionally. :) Overall a great tale that never overly feels like a "Book 2", even though it is explicitly noted that this tale is, in fact, a "Book 2". Very much recommended.
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