Fries Before Guys gives us another SWAT 2.0 guy. Honestly though, this book belongs to Avery. Her SWAT hottie is just a support character.
Avery will bring tears to even the deadest of hearts. Her life is filled with more challenges than anyone her age should have to deal with. Her parents died, she had to take a year off from high school, and now she is a 19 year old senior who has to scrape by just to keep her a roof over her head. Then, she finds out some seriously messed up stuff about her parents that makes her question everything she thought she knew. Oh, and she has a seriously vindictive high school bully. I mean, this bitch is bat crap crazy!
I will admit I was a little put off by the relationship because Avery was still in HS. Yes, she is 19, but I think anytime you have a grown man dating a high school student, it feels kinda icky. However, Vale does a good job of showing Avery's maturity and if her life hadn't been one bad event after another, she would have already graduated. So, I got over that initial uncomfortableness pretty quick. Derek is 4 years older, which isn't HUGE. However, I hated him in the beginning. He was callous and hurtful. He wants to push her away because of who she is (daughter of cops, young, etc), but he is a bit harsh at times.
Fries Before Guys has a great love story, but like I said, this is really Avery's story. Derek provides the eye candy!
- POV: dual 1st
- Tears: yes (I cried for Avery a lot)
- Trope: forbidden romance, police
- Triggers: Avery's parents died and she is seriously bullied-physically
- Series/Standalone: standalone
- Cliffhanger: no
- HEA: yes
authors like Aurora Rose Reynolds, Layla Hagen, Adriana Locke...then you will probably like Fries Before Guys!
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