Series: Standalone
Release Date: November 15th, 2014
All I want is to love him.
I just wish he knew it. ~ Londyn Harper
She makes me want to open my heart. Ask her to love me. Tell her my secrets. She makes me want to try again. When she’s near, my heart begins to heal, my body yearns to touch her, the darkness disappears.
All I want is to love her. I just need to tell her. ~ Luca Di Roma
Londyn thinks she could never get a man like him. Luca fears if she learns his secret, she will run. Does he have what it takes to love her? Could she love him back?
• BIPOC characters
• LGBTQIA+ characters
• characters with a disability
And doesn’t address fatphobia
• Grief
• Does have OW drama
– The Hero for a majority of the book is still hung up on his dead fiancée/wife
• No descriptive sex scene with OW/OM
• Does have the Hero and Heroine pushing away
• Does not have a separation between the Hero and Heroine
• See Ending for HEA status.
• See Possible Triggers for Abuse and OTT sad parts.
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
I really wanted to like Londyn Falls, mainly because the reviews were right, this book is terribly romantic. But I found the writing and dialogue between characters to be too stilted to give this book the 5-star review that it’s repetitively received.
It’s incredibly rare that I come across books that can become a ‘sweeping romance.’ There are so many books in the romance genre that also cross into erotica. However, most of these books turn the book more into an erotica novel rather than a romance novel. I think that to be a real romance, there needs to be a big problem or hurdle that tests the relationship and of course, there needs to be sweet words and actions made.
Londyn Falls, although it did have the romantic themes, seemed to have an orchestrated rather than a natural relationship between the hero and heroine. For example, the hero was set up on a blind date by his best friend’s wife, his date ended up being a hot, tanned, blonde, blue-eyed woman who was a nurse–so she was also smart. But during the dinner, she acted utterly inappropriate, making lewd jokes and basically coming off as if she was raised in a cave. Another was that during the interview that Luca had to find an assistant, Londyn was hired, but her interview begs why. Luca asked a series of questions, one of them being why she personally wants the job and another being where she sees herself in the future. Her answers were all stilted, awkward and not one of a woman who was fluent in five languages and possessed two master’s degrees. I was shocked, and many stated that the interview reminded them of the interview in Fifty Shades of Grey, which is a rather sad comparison.
Luckily Londyn Falls got better as it went, although slowly better is more accurate. Also, I think Luca’s traumatic past was horrible. This is probably the first time in the history of shady sucky pasts that protagonists have that I was shocked (not in a good way, and not even in a ‘that’s so sad’ way), and it wasn’t because it was new, it was really how this accident occurred (and how it was dealt with).
Overall, even though the relationship between Luca and Londyn seemed a bit forced, their relationship really grew on me, especially when they finally got together.
